Jimmy Rim

JimmyRim is the CEO of K Cube Ventures, an early stage fund founded in April 2012. At 32, Jimmy is perhaps the youngest CEO at a venture capital firm in Korea. He first started working at NHN in 2003, seeing the company grow from 800 to 2500 people by 2005. To gain more experience, Jimmy joined Boston Consulting Group for a year from 2005 to 2006. Following that, he had a five-year stint at Softbank Ventures where Jimmy made a name for himself in Korea venture capital world. At Softbank Ventures, Jimmy made around 15 investments that resulted in three IPOs, one M&A, and some companies raising funds with much higher valuations. One of the 15 companies he picked is SundayToz, the maker of Anipang, a mobile game that was hugely popular in Korea. Perhaps the deal that got Jimmy connected with Kakao and eventual tech luminary Brian Kim was Lotiple. Lotiple (made up of the words: location, time, and people) was a startup that did real-time coupon service and Jimmy invested $1 million even before the product was out in the market.