Media kit k_cubeventures

1. K CUBE
VENTURES
2014.08 MEDIA KIT
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2. K Cube
Fact
Sheet

3. Portfolio
Companies
28
Service
18
Game
10
Total
Investment
Amt.*
$12.6M
2014
$4.3M
2013
$4.5M
* To date
2012
$3.8M
Content
Investment
Areas
Beauty
Kids Product SNS
Finance
Commerce
Health
Search
Game
K Cube
Venture Fund
$11.5M
Funds
Kakao
Venture Fund
$30M
Currency Rate: 1,000 KRW = 1 USD
Shopping

4. K Cube
Family
Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Startup
Game Startup

5. Service Start-Up

6. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Frograms
Watcha!
About
Frograms’ 19 award-winning engineers and data scientists are
recognized globally.
• Tae Hoon Park, CEO: Attended KAIST (“Korea’s MIT”); developed
new services at Korean game developer Nexon
• Kyung Yoon Oh, CTO: KAIST graduate; International Olympiad
in Informatics Gold Medal; ACM-ICPC World Finalist
• Choong Jae Lee: Computer Engineering Ph.D from POSTECH;
Korea Olympiad in Informatics Bronze Medal
• Ha Neul Choi: POSTECH graduate; DEF CON CTF 3rd Place
‘Watcha!’
• Watcha! has 100 million stars in ratings; Korea’s #1 internet
portal Naver’s movie section has 5 million stars in ratings
• Reaching one million users as of July 2014
• Frograms won the 2nd Place Prize in the Google K-Startup
Competition 2012 for Watcha!
• Pursuing global expansion and new content categories in
personalized recommendation

7. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
WishLink, Inc.
About
WishLink, Inc. was founded by two of Korea’s leading experts
in online shopping.
• Minuk Kim, CEO: Head of Sales Unit of NHN Shopping;
recognized by peers as the “most networked person” in
Korea’s online shopping industry
• Cheonju Seo, CTO: Team leader of the mobile platform
development for Korea’s #3 shopping site, 11street
Less than 1 year since its service launch, monthly revenue
reached nearly $1 million.
‘KakaoStyle’
‘KakaoStyle’ functions as a mobile fashion ad platform to
retailers and an information service on trends to fashion-forward
consumers.
• 100+ top class Korean retailers such as StyleNanda and
Naning9 are registered on KakaoStyle
• Available to Kakao’s 35 million users and as an app
(The number of the total users of Kakao is 130 million in
global. )
• Currently being launched in China
KakaoStyle

8. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Mverse
About
The Mverse team:
Surprise
• Shi Hyun Joo, CEO: KAIST graduate; Consultant at Bain &
Company; Co-Founder of Silicon Valley startup ‘Style Says’
• Tae Eun Kim, Executive: KAIST graduate; Winner of the
Red Dot Award: Design Concept
‘Surprise’
The ‘Surprise’ app aggregates the latest announcements
about sales at major stores like Nike, Lacoste and Zara for
easy viewing.
Mverse plans to add location services to Surprise that will
recognize when a user is nearby or has entered a retailer and
automatically send coupons and new product info via mobile.
Achieved 0.3+million Download just for 2 months , and
the rate of revisiting approaches to 90%

9. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Vingle
Vingle
About
Vingle was founded by serial entrepreneurs Changseong Ho and
Jiwon Moon, famous husband and wife entrepreneurs who
successfully founded the Silicon Valley startup, Viki, which in
2013 was acquired by Rakuten.
• Jiwon Moon, CEO: M.A. in Education from Harvard University
• Changseong Ho, COO: M.B.A. from Stanford University
‘Vingle’
‘Vingle,’ an interest-based community platform that allows people
to connect via their shared interest, already has 2 million monthly
visitors coming from over 105 nations, including the U.S., Japan,
Indonesia, and Mexico.
Accomplished 100 million page views as of May 2014
More Info: Website
Availability: Global (105 countries)
iTunes
Google Play

10. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Kids Note
Kids Note
About
Two long-time colleagues at Korea’s largest antivirus software
firm, AhnLab, Inc., combined their technical & business
expertise to found Kids Note. Both are second-time
entrepreneurs.
• Jang Wook Choi, CEO: Technology Team of AhnLab;
Founder of Vault Micro Software
• Joon Yong Kim, CEO: Security Division of AhnLab;
Founder of The First Penguin
The ‘Kids Note’ app, a smart notification service, is the first of
its kind and a clear market leader in its category.
‘Kids Note’
Kids Note is a closed SNS service for real-time
communication between parents and nursery schools.
• 25% of all Korean nursery and preschools (12,000 out of
50,000) use Kids Note
• The second-place app in this category has less than 10%
of the number of downloads compared to Kids Note
• Inquiry for usage is constantly coming from abroad.

11. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Dunamu
Stocks Plus
for Kakao
About
Dunamu Founder & CEO Chi Hyung Song is a nationally recognized
top-tier engineer. He was designated to teach Korea’s most talented
engineers as a Mentor in the Korea Software Maestro Program, a
prestigious training system operated by South Korea’s Ministry of
Trade, Industry & Energy. Only 100 of the best software engineers
are chosen annually to participate.
Dunamu CSO Hyung Nyun Kim is the former CEO of Futurewiz, a
mobile finance information and solution company based in Korea.
• Chi Hyung Song, CEO: B.S. in Computer Science & M.A. in
Economics from Seoul National University
• Hyung Nyun Kim, CSO: CEO, Futurewiz
‘Stocks Plus for Kakao’
‘Stocks Plus for Kakao’ allows users to easily check their stock
quotes in real-time through Kakao, Korea’s top mobile platform with
35million users. It has a social feature through which users can see
which stocks their friends are keeping track of.
Dunamu seeks to offer a one-stop mobile service for conducting all
stock-related activities.
Recently achieved +0.1 million downloads for 2 months
The partnership with Kiwoom and Mi-rae asset made it possible to
adopt the function to trade stocks directly, and discussion for more
partnership with other major stock company is still ongoing.

12. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
WIV Labs
Qaster
About
The WIV Labs team is made up of Korea’s definitive experts
in search engines. Its programmers developed Korea’s #2
search engine, Daum, end-to-end from scratch.
WIV Labs aims to become a leader in the social Q&A field by
providing a service capable of collecting and analyzing the
large-scale amounts of data produced by SNS.
Social Q&A Service, ‘Qaster’
Right now, a huge scope of significant information is produced
by users’ questions and answers on SNS, but it is difficult to
search and find the specific information that you want.
WIV Labs’ new service ‘Qaster’ solves this problem by
collecting and analyzing data from SNS and extracting the
meaningful information found in users’ questions and answers.
The beta version of Qaster was launched at the end of March
2014.

13. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Seedpaper
Self Beauty
About
Seedpaper offers practical, mobile-based content that helps
regular women enhance their lifestyle. Its newly launched
content brand ‘Self Beauty’ offers easy-to-follow videos &
guides featuring renowned makeup & hair experts.
‘Self Beauty’
Self Beauty’s content is available on Kakao’s ‘Plus Friend’
feature, which allows users to receive special content from
artists, brands and publications. With content from prominent
experts such as hair designer Cha Hong and makeup artist
Jung Saem Mool, the response to Self Beauty has been
positive.
‘Kakao Page’ is an online marketplace for digital content and
Self Beauty’s ‘Kakao Page’ has also been popular with users.
• Self Beauty became available in Plus Friend in July 2012
and gained 250,000 subscribers within 2 months
• Current number of Plus Friend subscribers is 320,000
• 0.9 Million readers on Self Beauty’s Kakao Page

14. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
HealthWave
HiChart
About
HealthWave creates animations that make it easy for patients
and caretakers to understand complicated medical
procedures such as breast cancer surgery by watching them
on their smartphones.
• Dr. Hee Doo Chung, M.D., CEO: A general surgeon at Seoul
National University Hospital.
‘HiChart’
In 2011, HealthWave launched the world’s first information
prescription service called ‘HiChart.’ HiChart has hundreds of
animations that explain how complicated medical procedures
are performed as well as the risks & side effects.
In the past, it may have taken an hour for a doctor to explain
to a patient about a complex surgery with diagrams and
printed materials. In addition to the time this required, there
was often a gap between the understanding that the doctor
wanted to convey and the patient’s actual understanding of
the procedure.
Now when a doctor prescribes a HiChart animation for the
patient to watch on a smartphone, this not only helps the
patient to fully understand the procedure, closing the gap in
understanding, but it also saves time.
• HealthWave has created 900 animations (with exclusive
rights) and about 3,000 more subjects for animations exist
• HiChart is expanding globally through open beta services
in the U.S., Japan and Singapore

15. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
byBox byBox
About
One of Korea’s most recognized icons in fashion design and an
industry expert in digital content have teamed up to found byBox, the
curation commerce service for fashion.
• Se Woon Jurn, CEO: Producer at Cheil Worldwide Inc., where he
was recognized for his successful execution of IPTV content
services
• Ho Sub Kan, Chief Curator: Professor of Fashion Design at
Hongik University (Korea’s top arts school); Mentor on television
program ‘Project Runway Korea’
‘byBox’
byBox is a curation commerce service for boxes of jewelry and
accessories created by Korean designers and curated by major
celebrities and experts such as renowned fashion stylists.
Up-and-coming local designers collaborate with these influential
figures to introduce their products on byBox’s platform. This enables
customers to obtain unique fashion items that are not available
anywhere else, at reasonable prices.
From fashion, living to kids, byBox provides theme products
throughout life-style products.
‘byBox season2’ is opened with new contents and services of the
brand after large renewal of its online pages at August 2014.

16. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Vius Korea Mr. Koon
About
Vius Korea is the creator of Mr. Koon, the curation commerce
service that sells high-tech digital & design products from around the
world to early adopter tech-lovers faster and at lower prices than any
other online commerce site.
The Mr. Koon team includes two Co-Founders of TicketMonster, the
online ticketing platform, and the CFO of Reebonz, the online luxury
goods retailer.
‘Mr. Koon’
Mr. Koon scours the globe for colorful and distinctive IT, design and
household items with high-tech features in categories ranging from
IT, camping, leisure and household. Mr. Koon has established a
unique market position in Korea by targeting male early tech
adopters (+70% of customers are male).
Mr. Koon’s reasonable prices, made possible by cutting out the
middleman and streamlining the buying process, have led to
significant customer growth.
• Monthly revenue has reached nearly $1 million (average amount
of each customer order is about $150 USD)
• +60,000 registered users (250% increase since September 2013)
• Its new distribution system delivers orders within 7 days
(domestically)

17. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Qurion
Under
Development
About
Qurion creates Semantic Vertical Search Engine focused on
Summarization and Personalization of User-Generated Content
• Syung Lee, CEO: 20 years work experience in Sillicon Valley.
Joined Google at pre-IPO stage. Held various positions including an
experience as a technical account manager for ecommerce sites
(TripAdvisor, Shopping.com, Nextag)
• Woojoo Lee, CTO: Vast experience including semanti search at
Naver, #1 Search Engine at Korea.
•Sam Fung, Senior Engineer: Senior Web Solutions and
Applications Engineer at Google. Has 9+ years experience at
Google.
Problem Qurion tries to solve is as follows
• Existing search services for User-Generated Services and
Products Review Content still stuck at Search 1.0 technology that is
based on basic information retrieval technologies such as string
match and link analysis.
• User has to read too many reviews to get useful information.
• Wide variety of opinions expressed in the reviews makes it
confusing and hard to remember.
• Lacking next-generation search technology with semantics-based
relevancy models and analysis, clustering, summarization, and
personalization.

18. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
cldi
Under
Development
About
Cldi is a startup that uses image recognition technology and
machine learning to make visual browsing more easier for everyone.
The company aims to improve beyond current existing technologies
and make information searching from images more efficient.
• Anthony S. Baek, CEO : PhD at KAIST. Has various experience
(hardware – designing multi media processors, software – Samsung
Electronics, Gretech)
• Jungin Lee, CTO : participated in large-scaled image recognition
researches at KAIST and improving handwriting recognition
algorithms at ETRI. Devloped mobile games such as Mini Game
Paradise 5 and Homerun Battle 3D at Com2uS.
Focusing on Image Recognition Technology
Cldi is a technology-based venture that concentrates in image
recognition technology. By using neural network models for the
recognition process, Cldi claims to have the highest accuracy in
recognizing images.

19. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Zai Seoul Zai Seoul
About
Zai Seoul has a team of which 35% of the employees are
Chinese. The company currently operates a traveling service
platform that targets Chinese tourists interested in visiting Korea.
Starting in 2010 by first creating coupon books, Zai Seoul got
into serious business by making monthly magazines in March of
2011. As the number of total prints reached a million in 2014, Zai
Seoul truly became the best Korean magazine for Chinese
tourists.
Backed with these unique experiences, Zai Seoul opened its
own portal website for Chinese tourists and is being well
received up to this day.
Zai Seoul: Chinese Tourist’s Gateway to Korea
The service accommodates traveling information that have been
produced in-house along with hotel related products. It also
cooperates with China’s largest OTA Qunar to provide a guide
matching service called ‘Ttainawal’.
By conveniently providing all services that a tourist might need
through an online medium, Zai Seoul’s ultimate goal is to
become the de facto online-to-offline platform for Chinese
tourists who wish to visit Korea.

20. Consumer/Mobile/Commerce
Company Service
Dining Code Dining Code
About
Dining Code is a startup that utilizes big data technologies,
which it has been building up for several years. The company
uses this technology to provide a reasonable restaurant ranking
system and restaurant reviews.
• Hyosup Shin, the founder and CTO : PhD in computer
engineering from Seoul National University. Has been
researching the fields of database, data search and data mining
for the past 20 years while holding numerous patents and
published papers.
Dining Code: Offering You the Real Data
The service analyzes millions of restaurant related blog entries
to bring out the best result for the user. With the companies own
big data analyzing system, advertisement and spams are filtered
from the search so that the result only contains genuine info.
With Dining Code, people no longer have to go back to a search
engine and check if a highly ranked blog entry is indeed telling
the truth. The link provided from Dining Code will direct you to a
blog post that contains real data about the restaurant that you’ve
been looking for.
Since the launch at December 2013, it grows consistently based
on the customers’ feedback, it’s planning to release an mobile
application with good response from the websites.

21. Game Start-Up

22. Game
Company Service
Fincon
Hello Hero
About
The heads of each department, including development, animation
and strategy, that created the hit online MMORPG ‘C9’ (which took
the Grand Prize at the 2009 Korea Game Awards) formed Fincon
together to make mobile RPGs.
• Choong Kil Yoo: Producer & Head of Strategy for C9
• Jung Hyun Kim: Head of Client Services for C9
• Jay Young Kim: Head of Servers for C9
• Sung Hwan Kim: Head of Characters for C9
• Ki Young Nam: Head of New Business at Webzen Games
• Fincon grew from 11 to 40 employees
• Tens of millions of dollars in revenue
‘Hello Hero’
Fincon’s first mobile RPG ‘Hello Hero’ was once ranked the #1 free
game in the iTunes App Store and #3 popular app in Google Play. It
also rose to the #5 game in the global Google Play ranking at one
point.
• 280+ diverse collectible characters
• Available in about 160 countries including the U.S., U.K. and
Brazil. (Excepting only 5 countries, it’s doing direct managing.)
• Once ranked as the #1 paid app in 18 countries including China.
• Achieved 11million downloads at August 2014.
Availability: Global (160 countries)
iTunes Google Play Facebook(PC ver.)

23. Game
Company Service
Neptune
Nexon Pro
Baseball Master
2014
About
Neptune’s CEO Wook Jung built his team with several
recognized leaders in Korea’s gaming industry.
• Wook Jung, CEO: CEO of NHN Entertainment
• Sang Hoon Kwon, CTO: CTO of NHN Japan
• Han Sang Cho, COO: COO of NHN Entertainment
Neptune released its first game ‘Nexon Pro Baseball Master’
in 2013 and launched its upgraded version in April 2014.
‘Nexon Pro Baseball Master 2014’
Nexon Pro Baseball Master 2014 is a strategic simulation
game for smartphones. Users become directors and make
tactic and strategy.
Renewal of ‘single mode’ and ‘player card’, various user
opinions are reflected in from former version adding perfection
of this game.
General graphic has been improved, as well as, various
movements of the players and even the colors of their
complexion have been applied. It also enhances the
convenience for the users, showing 10 kinds of information
including batting average, earned run, and etc.

24. Game
Company Service
Dryad
Legions
About
Dryad stands out among game startups for its strong team.
• Young Seo, CEO: Producer at Daum Mobile Games
• Jungdae Lee, Producer: Producer at Daum Mobile Games
• Hongmo Kim, CTO: Engineer at NC Soft and Daum
• Dohyung Ban, Art Director: M.F.A. in Computer Art from
the School of Visual Art
Dryad was founded in May 2012 with the aim of
developing mobile RPGs to introduce a brand new genre of c
ombined TCG/RPG.
Dryad plans to develop a TCG that reflects Korean gamers’ pr
eferences and is focused on creating one that’s unique
from the TCGs popular in Japan.
‘Legions’
‘Legions’ is a mobile strategic simulation game based on the
middle age fantasy being a lord of one city to grow the city by
nurturing heroes.
This mobile strategic game is a combination of trade card game
and RPG, getting attention from FGT even before its launching.
Especially it overcomes the flaw of TCG which is only focusing
on card collecting, and also existing PC uses can enjoy the
game just like online via mobile phone.

25. Game
Company Service
O’ol Blue
Mighty Quest
To Be
Released
About
O’ol Blue was started by CEO Nam Suk Kim and the key
developers who brought the award-winning MMORPG ‘C9’ to
Korean gamers in 2009.
O’ol Blue released ‘Mighty Quest,’ a game that combines the
fun of RPG and puzzles to a character collection game.
O’ol blue has a great development experience through ‘Mighty
Quest’ and is preparing for a new mobile action RPG for next
year.

26. Game
Company Service
Dubaki Soft
Monster
Doors
About
Dubaki means ‘two wheels’ in Korean, which represents the
founders’ philosophy that ‘performance’ and ‘the ability to
work well with others’ are the two elements that are essential
to a great team.
Dubaki was founded by the team behind successes including
the mobile 3D MMORPG ‘Dragon Mist’ and the large-scale
mobile shooting game ‘Air Hunter,’ which won praise when
WeMade Entertainment showcased it at the E3 Expo and the
G-Star Global Game Exhibition.
Dubaki released a casual shooting game, ‘Monstor Doors’ in
August 2014.
‘Monster Doors’
‘Monster Doors’ is a new type of shooting defense game
combining intuitive arcade shooting and defense elements.
It provides 6 types of playing manners by each 6 different
characters with an enjoyable graphic visual like an animation
movie.
Also depending on the growing strategy of each pet, weapon
and relic, the playing manner changes so that users can enjoy
new fun every time by it.

27. Game
Company Service
Valcon
To Be
Released
About
The Valcon team is made up of six game developers who
spent many years working together to develop MMORPG
titles at Nexon and XL Games.
• Woo Jun Jung, CEO: In charge of strategy & monetization
at ArcheAge and Nexon Live Game
• Hee Young Kim, Executive: Part Leader for Game Design
at XL Games
Valcon is set to release a new type of defense
game that combines social feedback and an online game
narrative in the autumn of 2014.

28. Game
Company Service
Cherry Bugs
To Be
Released
About
The Cherry Bugs team consists of six experienced developers
who worked together at WeMade Entertainment, one of Korea’s
top game companies, for many years and produced award-winning
games.
Team Member
• Chul Ho Jung, CEO : Section Chief of WeMade
Entertainment’s graphics department with 120 graphic designers.
His PC game ‘The Boss’ won the Grand Prize at the 2003 Korea
Game Awards
• Hyun Jin Jang, Producer : Globally recognized animator. Won
4th Place at Dominance War, the international game art
competition
• Min Soo Kang, developer : Over 10 years of experience in
creating large-scale MMORPGs, and other top-rated developers
round out the Cherry Bugs team.

29. Game
Company Service
Red Sahara
Immortal
Warrior
About
Red Sahara was founded by key members who formerly worked
together at Webzen Games, building a strong sense of
teamwork and creating successful large-scale games over the
course of 4 years.
‘Immortal Warrior’
Red Sahara launched a mobile strategy RPG game titled
‘Immortal Warrior’ in April 2014.
The game became instant success - Immortal Warrior was once
ranked the #8 top grossing game in the Kakao Game
Platform and the #6 top grossing app in the Google Play Store.
It is a remarkable feat considering that it released the game
without the help of a publisher and little in the way of marketing.
Korean gamers are giving Immortal Warrior high marks for
capturing the fun, immersive experience of a traditional RPG in a
mobile game. Players can collect and cultivate diverse 3-D
characters and employ differentiated fighting strategies with 4-
character groups. The growing popularity of Immortal Warrior
has also begun attracting attention from game publishers in the
neighboring Chinese market.

30. Game
Company Service
Howling Soft Sand Storm
About
Howling Soft was founded by key members who formerly
worked together at Game High, building a strong sense
of teamwork and creating successful #1 FPS Game in
Korea called ‘Sudden Attack”. Howling Soft is currently
recognized as the best FPS Game startup.
Howling Soft launched a mobile FPS game titled ‘Sand
Storm’ in August 2014.
‘Sand Storm’
Sand Storm is military defense FPS game based on 3D, and
has fascinating graphic created based on real weapon like
AKM, FAMAS, AWEM and great sound reminding of actual
warfare.
It maximizes convenience by using the mobile-optimized
interface and serves the same sense of immersion as online
FPS. So that users can enjoy the hitting sense and tension of
FPS by mobile phone which was formerly delivered only by
PC.

31. Game
Company Service
CoCoon Games Songs of War
(To Be Released)
About
CoCoon Games was founded by key members who formerly
worked together at Paprika Lab, acquired by GREE
• JeongWook Lee, CEO: former Paprika Lab COO
• Kimun Song, CTO : Former Paprika Lab CTO,
Lead Programmer at Nexon
• SangYub Lee, CPO : Former Liveops Manager at Kabam.
Paprika Lab Graphic Designer
CoCoon Games is slated to launch a mobile strategy RPG
(tribal wars) game titled ‘Songs of War’ at the second half of
this year .
‘Songs of War’
The Tribal war game, ‘Songs of war’ is a strategic fantasy
game with the concept of the middle age offering dynamic fun
of a hero system and tribe wars via mobile phone.
It’s setting a goal to be a representative tribe-war-type mobile
game nationally with the enforcement on the element
encouraging group competition of guilds satisfying national
users.

32. WHAT
WE DO

33. WE SHARE WHAT WE LEARN & GROW TOGETHER
K Cube Family
CEO Day
Family CEO Day is a monthly networking event for K Cube
Ventures’ family companies.
• Executives share advice & discuss opportunities for
cooperation
• Contributes to Korea’s startup ecosystem as a forum for
knowledge sharing & networking
Knowledge Sharing
Platform
K Cube family companies have access to an innovative
online & mobile platform where they can:
• Share their best practices and past experiences
• Make more efficient and effective executive decisions
through opinion sharing

34. HANDS-ON & PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE
Business
Development
& Mgmt. Support
K Cube Ventures provides our family with diverse
opportunities for business collaboration through our
wide network of industry experts including investors,
incubators, startups and media outlets. We also:
• Provide advice for expansion in Asia and overseas
networking
• Assist with HR, PR and management issues such as
tax, legal and accounting matters
K Cube
Conferences
K Cube Ventures regularly holds conferences to contribute to
the Korean startup ecosystem. Other events include:
• Shina Chung, Partner, gives one-on-one mentoring
sessions to entrepreneurs on a monthly basis at Korea’s
#1 co-working space for entrepreneurs, D.Camp
• We offer numerous lectures at universities such as KAIST
and Seoul National University as well as prominent
startup and IT events

35. WHO
WE ARE

36. OUR VISION & FOUNDERS
Startup’s Best Friend – We Help Extraordinary Talents Take a Leap of Faith
K Cube Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm
founded in April 2012 with the vision of harnessing the
power of startups to change our world.
Brian Kim, the creator of Korea’s icon of innovation,
Kakao, founded K Cube Ventures together with Jimmy
Rim, known for his investments in internet, mobile and
gaming startups including SundayToz, the maker of
Anipang.
K Cube Ventures believes that early stage startups not
only need financial support, but also experienced
mentors. To this end, K Cube Ventures assists startups
in the areas of business development, networking, team
building, strategy consulting, investment & financial
affairs, HR & PR and management.
Thus far, K Cube has invested in 20 companies and will
continue to invest in early stage startups in categories
such as data analysis technology, social and commerce.
(Between $100 thousand to $1 million per startup on
average.)
In addition, K Cube is committed to sustaining the active
networking and knowledge sharing that exist among our
startups through our unique family culture and
contributing to the development of Korea’s startup
ecosystem.
Brian Kim
@profound
Current: Chairman, K Cube Ventures
Chairman, Kakao
Previous: CEO, NHN Corporation
Founder, Hangame
B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from
Seoul National University
Jimmy Rim
@jimmyrim
Current: CEO, K Cube Ventures
Previous: Principal, Softbank Ventures
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Strategy Manager, NHN Corporation
B.S. in Industrial Engineering from KAIST
Founders

37. TEAM
Investment Team
Shina Chung, Partner
• General Manager, Naver Business
Platform
• Manager of Strategy and Business
Development, eBay Inc.
• Consultant, Boston Consultant Group
Jun Kim, Partner
• Co-Founder & Executive, Idea Works
(mobile service startup)
• Associate, VirtualTek
• Manager, SK Communication
• Manager, CJ Corporation

38. FAQ
1. Where do you invest?
K Cube Ventures invests in internet, mobile, game
and tech startups. We believe that we can provide
our best support to startups that are in our field of
expertise.
2. At which stage do you invest?
The seed stage to the growth stage. We also
invest in startups that do not have products or
services yet and those in the process of
assembling their teams.
3. How much do you invest?
Between $100 thousand and $1 million per startup
on average.
4. What are your investment criteria?
K Cube believes that people are the most
important element of startup success. We look for
entrepreneurs with a strong sense of mission and
startups that act like ‘painkillers’ that solve life’s
problems.
5. How do you support startups?
We not only provide financial investment, but also
give startups access to K Cube’s network and
business insights. We give assistance for needs
such as recruitment, entry into global markets,
creating partnerships with large companies and
public relations.
6. What are your exit criteria?
K Cube Ventures takes a minority stake in the
company without securities or guarantees. We
invest with the goal of a venture exit through an
IPO or M&A within 7-9 years.
7. What are your operational goals?
K Cube Ventures aims to become a startup’s best
friend. We want to be the first people that a gifted
entrepreneur or team will call when they consider
doing a startup. We also want to help cultivate the
Korean startup ecosystem through our active early
stage investment and our ultimate goal is to assist
startups that will create innovation on a global
scale.