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Jimmy Jihoon Rim

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Jimmy Rim is a founder & CEO of K Cube Ventures, an early stage VC based in Seoul. He founded the firm with Brian Kim, founder and chairman of KaKao who also was a co-founder & CEO of the biggest internet portal NHN.

Jimmy founded K Cube Ventures because he believed Korean startup ecosystem has great talent and infrastructure but lack early stage investors. He is passionate about fostering entrepreneurship in Korea and building a healthy ecosystem. Also, he is very eager to bring Korean startups global. He is usually called as “Startup’s best friend” in Korea.

K Cube Ventures normally invests $100K-$500K at seed stage. (See http://kcubeventures.co.kr/family for portfolio companies)

Before founding K Cube Ventures, Jimmy was a VC at Softbank Ventures Korea, an investment arm of Japanese Telco Softbank. At Softbank, he had a number of successful investments including:

*KINX (IPOed at KOSDAQ market) *Hantec Engineering (IPOed at KOSDAQ market) *Cheum & C (IPOed at KOSDAQ market) *Lotiple (Acquired by Kakao) *SundayToz (the hottest mobile, social gaming company in Korea)

Jimmy also worked at The Boston Consulting Group as management consultant and developed corporate strategies at NHN.

Recent Milestones

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  Jimmy Jihoon Rim added a position as VC at Softbank Ventures Korea.
  Posted 2/21/13 at 9:19am
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  Jimmy Jihoon Rim added a position as Founder & CEO at K Cube Ventures.
  Posted 2/13/13 at 4:10pm
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  Jimmy Jihoon Rim added a position as CEO staff at NHN Corp. (Naver).
  Posted 9/19/12 at 3:46pm
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  Jimmy Jihoon Rim added a position as Consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
  Posted 9/19/12 at 3:46pm

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