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Softbank Ventures
Dongseok Kang(Senior Partner)
Internet&Mobile Service, SW, HW
November 17th (Wednesday) 13:00~14:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Mr. Kang joined SoftBank Ventures Asia in year 2000 and is focusing his investment activities for early to growth stage startups in TMT sector. Following the vision of SoftBank group to make people happy through IT revolution, he is trying to be a strong supporter of innovative entrepreneurs. He started venture capitalist career from KTB networks before SoftBank. -
KB Investment
Jong Pill Kim(CEO)
Bio,Healthcare, eCommerce, ICT
November 17th (Wednesday) 13:00-14:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Jong Pil Kim is a veteran venture capitalist who served as chief investment officer and VP in Korea Investment Partners after his experience in KTB networks and Mirae Asset Venture Investment.
In 2018, he was the first CEO to be nominated with industry professional background in the history of KB Investment. Based on his 20 years of investment experience, he has led the KB Investment for 4 years and is leading the innovation growth based on the management philosophy of fundamental and principles. -
Stonebridge Ventures
Sung Woon Yu(CEO)
Various field
November 17th (Wednesday) 13:00-14:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Sung Woon Yu joined Stonebridge Ventures in Jan 2019. He is a dynamic and experienced investment professional with more than fifteen years in venture capital investing for technology and media companies and also with five years in private equity and financial advisory industry. Before joining Stonebridge Ventures, he was the CEO of Kakao Ventures, a venture investment arm for Kakao Corp. for four years. Previously, he worked at SOFTBANK Ventures Asia for seven years, participating in investing venture companies in early to mid stage. -
Kakao ventures
Shina Jung(CEO)
Technician, Game / Contents
November 17th (Wednesday) 13:00~14:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
CEO Shina Jung joined as the first partner in December of 2013, sympathizing with the vision of K Cube Ventures (current Kakao Ventures) in properly establishing initial VCs with the intent of investing in Korean startups who innovate with technology and software. Since then, she has been leading in the area of service, which is the wave of technology for solving the problems of the world with technology. After being appointed as CEO in March of 2018, she has been leading Kakao Ventures to become a VC who advances the future and a co-pilot of early startups. Before joining Kakao Ventures, CEO Jung started her career at the Boston Consulting Group, then was in charge of new business development for eBay Asia Pacific, venturing into regions not yet secured by the eBay platform through localized service launchings. Later she was also in charge of new services at Naver Shopping. -
FuturePlay
Junghee Ryu(CEO/ FOUNDER)
Various field
November 17th (Wednesday) 13:00~14:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Jung-hee Ryu founded Olaworks Inc. in 2006 and worked as CEO and CSO until Intel’s acquisition in 2012. He worked as Strategic Planner in Intel Corp after the acquisition until 2014. Now he is Partner and CEO of FuturePlay Inc., which builds and invests deep-tech and innovative startups. He got his Ph.D from EECS in KAIST and was adjunct professor at Graduate Schools in KAIST. -
DSC Investment
Kyungho Lee(Director)
Various field
November 17th (Wednesday) 17:00~18:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Director Kyungho Lee graduated from Yonsei University majoring in electrical and electronic engineering. He is the only one who has been with DSC Investment since its establishment. Being part of the IPO department for the brokerage companies, he oversaw many venture companies, including Silicon Works. Afterward, he began with the establishment of DSC Investment from the beginning of the growth-stage to the 'Pre-IPO' and was well known as an all-rounder. After accumulating his portfolio in consumers, core materials, and parts, he has recently changed his attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies. -
SIGNITE Partners
Jeffrey Lim(Managing Partner)
Work, Healthcare, Education
November 17th (Wed) 17:00-18:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Jeffrey Lim is the Managing Partner of Signite Partners, a venture capital firm of Shinsegae Group. Prior to Signite Partners, he was a general partner at 500 Startups, where he oversaw early stage investment in Korea. Before 500 Startups, he was the Head of Campus Seoul, Google's global network to support entrepreneurs. Jeffrey holds a M.S in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and a M.S in Industrial Engineering from U.C. Berkeley. He earned his B.S in Industrial Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. -
Timewise investment
Dohan Kim(CEO)
Contents, Bio, ICT
November 17th (Wednesday) 17:00~18:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
CEO Dohan Kim was in charge of strategic planning at CJ, and also served as a CSO and CFO for major affiliates (such as CGV, OnStyle, ENM, etc.). In particular, he created and led the Digital Commerce Headquarters which
merged commerce and media business in digital business. When CJ O Shopiing(current OnStyle) merged with CJ
E&M to launch as CJ ENM, and he was the head of DIA TV, an influencer business for CJ E&M before he was
promoted as the CEO of Timewise Investment. Before creating the news business areas and joining the CJ group,
he worked as an IT sector analyst at Samsung Securities Co., Ltd., analyzing major Korean tech companies such as Samsung Electronics, Hynix, LG Electronics, and Samsung Electro-Mechanics. Immediately before that, he was in
charge of planning and IR in General Management Support at Samsung Electronics. -
Hashed
Simon Kim(CEO & Managing Partner)
Blockchain
November 17th (Wednesday) 17:00~18:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Simon Kim is CEO & Partner at Hashed. He is one of the leading blockchain evangelists in Korea. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur co-founding and successfully exiting numerous companies. Most recently, Simon served as Chief Product Officer of an ed-tech startup called Knowre, named one of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company. Simon is also a Venture Partner at Softbank Ventures Asia and serves as Blockchain Advisor to the South Korean Parliament. Simon studied Computer Science from Pohang Science University. -
TBT
Jungwook Lim(Managing Partner)
Various field
November 17th (Wed) 17:00-18:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Jungwook Lim is the managing partner of TBT, venture capital which focuses on early stage startup investment. Prior to joining TBT, he worked as a managing director of Startup Alliance Korea, a non-profit organization founded in 2013 to foster Korean startup ecosystem by connecting entrepreneurs, startups, tech companies, and the government. He also served as a committee member of Presidential Committee on the 4th Industrial Revolution (2018) and board director of SBA(Seoul Business Agency 2016-2018). Jungwook spent time working in Silicon Valley and Boston where he was the head of global business for Daum and the CEO of Lycos Inc.
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Bluepoint Partners
YoungKwan Lee(CEO)
Various field
November 17th (Wednesday) 17:00~18:00
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Youngkwan Lee founded Bluepoint Partners in 2014 with interests in growing and investing in Deep Tech startups. Lee has successfully exited his tech startup, Plasmart, in an M&A deal in the past, through which he gained insights necessary to develop tech startup-curated accelerating programs. Based on his expertise and experience in finding Technology(Product)-Market Fit, Lee has built foundations for Bluepoint Partners to accelerate and invest in over 190 startups. -
Goodwater Capital
Eric Kim(Managing Partner)
Social&Education, Healthcare
November 18th (Thursday) 12:30-13:30
United States of America
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Eric J. Kim is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital, a global venture capital firm focused on consumer technology. Eric has led investments into leading consumer internet companies such as Kakao (IPO – KOSDAQ:035720), Musical.ly (acquired by Bytedance / Tik Tok), Coupang (CPNG), Xendit, Viva Republica (Toss), Danggeun Market (Karrot), MoMo, and Everlywell.
Prior to co-founding Goodwater, Eric was a Managing Director at Maverick Capital where he helped to build Maverick’s private investments and venture capital business. Eric was also a startup member of two technology companies spun out of Stanford University. Eric began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
Eric first learned to code as an undergrad at Yale University where he majored in Cognitive Science (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) and was a member of the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos. Eric also received an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Eric serves on the advisory board of the Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology and the board of St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale University.
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Northern Light Venture Capital
Jeffrey Lee(Co-founder and Managing Director)
Healthcare, Advanced Technology, TMT
November 18th (Thursday) 12:30~13:30
Northern Light Venture Capital
United States of America
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Jeff is a founding partner of Northern Light, a global technology venture capital firm focusing on early-stage opportunities with a fundamental nexus in Asia, particularly China or Korea. Prior to Northern Light Jeff oversaw business development for Wavics, a leading wireless semiconductor firm based in Korea, now the Wireless Semiconductor Division of Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO). Jeff has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard. -
Amino Capital
Sue Xu(Managing Partner)
Big Data, Machine Learning
November 18th, 12:30~13:30
United States of America
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Dr. Sue Xu is a Managing Partner at Amino Capital, and her focus areas of investment include data-driven solutions. She was interim CEO of CandyHouse and CyteSi. Since 2012, she has been involved with more than 200 investments mostly in seed and Series A, with 11 unicorns, including Chime Bank, Webflow, Rippling, Weee, Headspin, Grail (acquired by Illumina), OmiseGo and DFINITY (launched with $45B market cap), Mobike (acquired by Maituan), and industry leading fast growing startups, such as Wyze, Avail MedSystems,, Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), GrokStyle(acquired by Facebook), Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou), Dataform (acquired by Google), Voyage (acquired by Cruise), and et al.
Dr. Sue Xu began her early-stage entrepreneurship when she was the founding scientist of GlycoMira (also involved in undergrad and PhD laboratory spin-offs). She has three patents and over 20 journal publications, and previously was a Postdoc fellow at Stanford University. -
Partech Ventures
Jai Choi(General Partner)
Food, HR/Training, B2C Service
November 18th (Thurs) 12:30~13:30pm
United States of America
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Jai Choi is a founder of Tekton Ventures, a global seed stage venture firm he started in 2010. In addition, Jai has been a partner with Partner Partners since 2007, a global venture firm that invests across all stages in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Jai has spent over 18 years in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and early stage investor. Jai has invested in over 100+ early stage companies internationally including Coupang, Toss, Outdoorsy, Frontier Car Group, Signifyd, MyRealTrip, and Kyash. Jai was a partner with Ignite Ventures, a venture fund and advisory group with limited partners from major Asia-based technology conglomerates. Jai was an early employee at OnePage Software, a content personalization platform acquired by Sybase in 2001. Jai previously co-founded On-Air Networks in 1997, an online radio company acquired by Loudeye (Nokia). Jai started his career in management consulting at PA Consulting Group, working for major telecom and energy companies. -
Golden Gate Ventures
Jeffrey Paine(Founding Partner)
Marketplaces, Fintech, B2B
November 18th (Thurs) 12:30~13:30
Singapore
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Jeffrey Paine is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage technology venture capital fund based in Singapore investing in Southeast Asia with over US$175 million under management investing in over 45 companies since 2012.
Jeff started and manages the Founder Institute in Singapore where he is currently overseeing its expansion in Southeast Asia, and Japan. Since 2010 the Founder Institute in Singapore has graduated over 100 companies. He is a recipient of the Founder Institute Director Award 2012 for “Greatest Ecosystem Impact” Worldwide (Singapore).
He is a Singapore native and graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. -
IMM
Yeo Jung Moon(Managing Director)
Health
November 18th (Thursday) 16:30-17:30pm.
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Managing Director Yeo Jung Moon of IMM Investment is the first Korean medical doctor to become an investment principal. After graduating from Yonsei University School of Medicine and receiving a doctorate in OBGY and pharmacology, she has been actively investing in bio and healthcare since 2016. Her major portfolios include Lunit, Orum Therapeutics, Curocell, Hutom, Huraypositive, and Medibloc. She is currently the chief fund manager for IMM Salus Venture Fund. -
NAVER D2
Sanghwan Yang (Leader)
Various field
November 18th (Thursday) 16:30-17:30
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Currently supporting technology startups grow as Naver's D2 Startup Factory leader. In the early 2000s, he led the mobile content business team at mobile startup Mbiznetworks (now, Celltrion Pharm). After joined NHN, he led the core game publishing team at Hangame and experienced the whole process of finding, nurturing and commercializing game IPs. Before D2SF, He led ecosystem projects for corporate sustainability at Naver. -
DHP
Yoonsup Choi(Managing Partner)
Health
November 18th (Thursday) 16:30~17:30
Digital Healthcare Partners (DHP)
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Yoonsup Choi is a representative expert in the Korean digital healthcare field, and he is the one who first introduced this field to Korea through active research, writing, investment, consulting, and lectures. He double-majored in Computer Science and Biology at POSTECH and obtained a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from POSTECH. He served as a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University and a Research Assistant Professor at the Biomedical Institute of Seoul National University Hospital. He published more than 10 research articles in major scientific journals including 『Science』. Yoonsup Choi is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Digital Healthcare Partners (DHP), the only investment firm dedicated to digital healthcare startups in Korea. He is an expert advisor to the regulatory bodies in Korea including the MFDS and HIRA and is the author of best-selling books including 『Healthcare Innovation』, 『Medical Artificial Intelligence』, and 『Digital Healthcare: The Future of Medicine』. -
D.Camp
Youngduk Kim(CEO)
Various field
November 18th (Thursday) 16:30~17:30
Republic of Korea
"Participating as an official judge at COMEUP 2021"
Before joining D.Camp, CEO Young-duk Kim worked as the general manager of Lotte Ventures. He played a role as a CVC in discovering and investing in early startups and collaborating with large companies. Prior to his previous experience, he exited as a co-founder of Gmarket and was listed on the NASDAQ. He started as a CTO at Interpark, the first internet shopping mall in Korea, and worked as a CMO and CSO, innovating the marketing method with digital marketing. I have experienced a variety of necessary work in
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