Jay Kim
Investor @ Black Jays | consumer, healthcare, fintech, edtech & AI
New York, New York
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Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$1,000,000.00Target Investment:
$500,000.00
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Work Experience
2024
Investor
2024
Joined at the launch of Fund II, investing across pre-seed/seed (always exceptions) in consumer, healthcare, fintech, edtech, and AI. Sourced and/or led the diligence in (by order): - Lotus Health AI (Pre-seed, US) - Accomplish Health (Seed+, US) - Level Zero Health (Pre-seed, US/UK) - CLEO Skin + Laser (Seed, US) - Birches Health (Series A, US)
Private Investor
2021
Backing exceptional early-stage founders/fund managers over the past few years. Some include: - Airplane (Series A, US) - Caldo (Pre-seed, US) - Comma Capital (Fund I, US) - Dream Capital (Fund I, US) - Formation (Fund I, US) - Nitra (Seed, US) - OneSchema (Seed, US) - Orion Sleep (Seed, US) - Parafin (Series C, US) - Snout (Pre-seed, US) - Swish Robotics (Pre-seed, US) - TravelMoney (Pre-seed, US) - Unbound (Pre-seed, UK) - Vega (Pre-seed, US)
2025
Advisory Council Member
2025
Supporting Brown's entrepreneurial initiatives by the Nelson Center of Entrepreneurship
2017 - 2023
Growth
2017 - 2023
Spent my early days as an operator, wearing many hats across finance, product, data, and growth
2016 - 2016
Equity Research
2016 - 2016
Dipped my toes in finance
2015 - 2015
Research
2015 - 2015
Helped research on neurological development impairment in children
2014 - 2014
Audit
2014 - 2014
Learned how to read BS/PL