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Daniel Sangyoon Kim

Columbia MBA Candidate | VC & Public Equity

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2021 - 2024

  • Co-Founder & Software Engineer

    2021 - 2024

    Co-founded a crypto wallet that attracted a $3.7m seed round valued at $30 million. Processing $60 million / year in trading volume. Built and tested three different software products, and led fundraising. Advisor from 2023 - 2024.

2019 - 2021

  • Associate, Head of Blockchain

    2019 - 2021

    Reported to Tim Draper. Sourced early investments in Arkham, Polymarket, and Stacks with a 14x aggregate return. Other crypto: Ledger, Etherscan, Maker DAO, Polygon, Unstoppable Domains, etc. Draper is a seed investor in companies like Baidu, Bitcoin, Coinbase, Carta, Robinhood, Hotmail, SpaceX, Tesla and more.

2017 - 2018

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2017 - 2018

    Ran a 7-figure crypto arbitrage operation on the side. Moved to California and wrote a book explaining crypto and the blockchain.

2016 - 2016

  • Summer Analyst

    2016 - 2016

    Long short equity hedge fund managing $30B; internship in consumer team. Previous: Activism at Clinton Group (2015) Long short equity at Mercer Partners (2015)