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K CubeFact Sheet

PortfolioCompanies

28

Service18

Game

10

TotalInvestmentAmt.*

$12.6M

2014$4.3M

2013$4.5M

2012$3.8M

* To date

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InvestmentAreas

Commerce

SNSKids Product

Finance

Health

Search

Beauty

Game

K Cube Ven-ture Fund$11.5M

FundsKakao Ven-ture Fund

$30M

Currency Rate: 1,000 KRW = 1 USD

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

Frograms

AboutFrograms’ 19 award-winning engineers and data scientists are recognized globally.

• Tae Hoon Park, CEO: Attended KAIST (“Korea’s MIT”); de-veloped 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 inter-net 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

Watcha!

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

WishLink, Inc.

AboutWishLink, Inc. was founded by two of Korea’s leading experts in online shopping.

• Minuk Kim, CEO: Head of Sales Unit of NHN Shop-ping; recognized by peers as the “most networked person” in Korea’s online shopping industry

• Cheonju Seo, CTO: Team leader of the mobile plat-form 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

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

Mverse

AboutThe Mverse team:

• 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 announce-ments 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%

Surprise

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

Vingle

AboutVingle was founded by serial entrepreneurs Changseong Ho and Jiwon Moon, famous husband and wife en-trepreneurs who successfully founded the Silicon Valley startup, Viki, which in 2013 was acquired by Rakuten.

• Jiwon Moon, CEO: M.A. in Education from Harvard Uni-versity

• Changseong Ho, COO: M.B.A. from Stanford University

‘Vingle’‘Vingle,’ an interest-based community platform that al-lows people to connect via their shared interest, already has 2 million monthly visitors coming from over 105 na-tions, including the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, and Mexico.

Accomplished 100 million page views as of May 2014

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Availability:Global (105 countries)

iTunes

More Info: Website

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

Kids Note

AboutTwo 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 com-munication 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.

Kids Note

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

Dunamu

AboutDunamu Founder & CEO Chi Hyung Song is a nationally rec-ognized top-tier engineer. He was designated to teach Ko-rea’s most talented engineers as a Mentor in the Korea Software Maestro Program, a prestigious training sys-tem 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 Fu-turewiz, 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 con-ducting all stock-related activities.

Recently achieved +0.1 million downloads for 2 months

The partnership with Kiwoom and Mi-rae asset made it pos-sible to adopt the function to trade stocks directly, and dis-cussion for more partnership with other major stock com-pany is still ongoing.

Stocks Plus for Kakao

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

WIV Labs

AboutThe 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 infor-mation 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.

Qaster

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

Seedpaper

AboutSeedpaper 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 re-sponse to Self Beauty has been positive.

‘Kakao Page’ is an online marketplace for digital con-tent 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

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

HealthWave

AboutHealthWave 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 infor-mation prescription service called ‘HiChart.’ HiChart has hundreds of animations that explain how compli-cated 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 dia-grams and printed materials. In addition to the time this required, there was often a gap between the un-derstanding 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.

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• HealthWave has created 900 animations (with exclu-sive rights) and about 3,000 more subjects for animations exist

• HiChart is expanding globally through open beta ser-vices in the U.S., Japan and Singapore

Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

AboutOne 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.

byBox byBox

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AboutVius 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)

Vius Korea Mr. Koon

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AboutQurion creates Semantic Vertical Search Engine fo-cused onSummarization and Personalization of User-Gener-ated Content

• Syung Lee, CEO: 20 years work experience in Sillicon Valley. Joined Google at pre-IPO stage. Held various positions in-cluding 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 technol-ogy that is based on basic information retrieval technolo-gies such as string match and link analysis.

• User has to read too many reviews to get useful informa-tion.

• Wide variety of opinions expressed in the reviews makes it confusing and hard to remember.

• Lacking next-generation search technology with seman-tics-based relevancy models and analysis, clustering, sum-marization, and personalization.

Qurion Under De-velopment

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

AboutCldi 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 ex-isting 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 TechnologyCldi 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.

cldi Under De-velopment

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Consumer/Mobile/Commerce

AboutZai Seoul has a team of which 35% of the employees are Chinese. The company currently operates a traveling service platform that targets Chinese tourists in-terested 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 KoreaThe 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.

Zai Seoul Zai Seoul

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AboutDining Code is a startup that utilizes big data technolo-gies, 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 DataThe 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.

Dining Code Dining Code

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Game Start-Up

Game

Fincon

AboutThe heads of each department, including development, an-imation 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 manag-ing.)

• Once ranked as the #1 paid app in 18 countries including China.

• Achieved 11million downloads at August 2014.

Hello Hero

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Availability:Global (160 countries)

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Neptune

AboutNeptune’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 simula-tion 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, vari-ous 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 in-formation including batting average, earned run, and etc.

Nexon Pro Baseball Master

2014

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Dryad

AboutDryad 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 combined TCG/RPG.

Dryad plans to develop a TCG that reflects Korean gamers’ preferences 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 fo-cusing on card collecting, and also existing PC uses can enjoy the game just like online via mobile phone.

Legions

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O’ol Blue

AboutO’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 com-bines the fun of RPG and puzzles to a character collec-tion game.

O’ol blue has a great development experience through ‘Mighty Quest’ and is preparing for a new mobile action RPG for next year.

Company ServiceMighty Quest

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Game

Dubaki Soft

AboutDubaki means ‘two wheels’ in Korean, which repre-sents the founders’ philosophy that ‘performance’ and ‘the ability to work well with others’ are the two ele-ments 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 show-cased 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 de-fense elements.

It provides 6 types of playing manners by each 6 dif-ferent 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.

Monster Doors

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Valcon

AboutThe 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 & moneti-zation at ArcheAge and Nexon Live Game

• Hee Young Kim, Executive: Part Leader for Game De-sign 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.

To Be Re-leased

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Game

Cherry Bugs

AboutThe Cherry Bugs team consists of six experienced de-velopers who worked together at WeMade Entertain-ment, 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 Enter-tainment’s graphics department with 120 graphic de-signers.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.

To Be Re-leased

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Game

AboutRed 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.

Red Sahara Immortal Warrior

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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 re-minding 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.

Howling Soft Sand Storm

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Game

AboutCoCoon 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.

CoCoon GamesSongs of

War(To Be Released)

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WHAT WE DO

K Cube Family CEO Day

WE SHARE WHAT WE LEARN & GROW TOGETHER

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

K Cube family companies have access to an innova-tive online & mobile platform where they can:

• Share their best practices and past experiences

• Make more efficient and effective executive deci-sions through opinion sharing

Knowledge Shar-ing Platform

HANDS-ON & PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE

K Cube Ventures provides our family with diverse opportunities for business collaboration through our wide network of industry experts including in-vestors, incubators, startups and media outlets. We also:

• Provide advice for expansion in Asia and over-seas networking

• Assist with HR, PR and management issues such as tax, legal and accounting matters

Business Devel-opment

& Mgmt. Support

K Cube Confer-ences

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

WHOWE ARE

OUR VISION & FOUNDERS

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.

@profound

Current: Chairman, K Cube VenturesChairman, KakaoPrevious: CEO, NHN CorporationFounder, HangameB.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University

Brian Kim

@jimmyrim

Current: CEO, K Cube VenturesPrevious: Principal, Softbank VenturesConsultant, Boston Consulting GroupStrategy Manager, NHN CorporationB.S. in Industrial Engineering from KAIST

Jimmy Rim

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TEAM

Investment Team

• General Manager, Naver Business Platform• Manager of Strategy and Business Development, eBay Inc.• Consultant, Boston Consultant Group

Shina Chung, Partner• Co-Founder & Executive, Idea Works (mobile service startup)• Associate, VirtualTek• Manager, SK Communication• Manager, CJ Corporation

Jun Kim, Partner

FAQ

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.

1. Where 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.

2. At which stage do you invest?

Between $100 thousand and $1 million per startup on average.

3. How much do you invest?

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.

4. What are your investment crite-ria?

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.

5. How do you support startups?

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.

6. What are your exit criteria?

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.

7. What are your operational goals?