# Brian Kim

> Brian Kim is a Series B investor at NewSpring backing Software and SaaS. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NewSpring](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newspring-capital)
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhoonkim/en

Brian Kim is a Partner of NewSpring and the Firm’s dedicated growth funds. Brian joined the Firm in 2014 and prior to NewSpring, he was with Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco-based equity firm focused on middle-market buyout investments where he was responsible for all stages of the investment lifecycle, including sourcing, diligence, execution,and portfolio value creation.Previously, Brian focused on growth equity investments with LLR Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity firm investing across a broad set of industries, including information technology, business services, and consumer services. He began his career as a strategy consultant with First Manhattan Consulting Group, where he focused on the firm’s private equity practice and advised clients targeting the payments and bank technology sectors.Brian received a BSE and BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| SaaS | 4 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| PaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Audio | 1 | 8% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 33% |
| Series C | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cordial | Creating engaging, tailored customers experiences is difficult with rigid legacy architecture and fragmented data. Cordial enables you to collect, normalize, and activate real-time data from anywhere in your technology stack to create and deliver tailored messages that flex and adapt to changing customer signals. Over 200 brands, including 1-800Contacts, La Quinta and Revolve, use Cordial to consolidate redundant technology, eliminate data silos, remove internal friction, and create brand experiences that drive bottom-line impact. | $50M | Series C | Jul 26, 2022 | http://www.cordial.com |
| Symphonic Distribution | Symphonic Distribution is a 100% independent music distribution and marketing company founded by music producer Jorge Brea in 2006. Headquartered in Tampa, FL with offices in major music markets throughout the world, Symphonic provides thousands of new and established record labels, managers and individual artists with global digital musicdistribution to hundreds of retail and streaming platforms, as well as playlist pitching, release promotion, and a comprehensive suite of label services.Artists and Record Labels that have had their content distributed through Symphonic Distribution include: Bassnectar, deadmau5, Waka Flocka Flame, Datsik, The Movement, Tommie Sunshine, Richie Hawtin, Play Me Records, Moody Recordings (Bad Boy Bill), and many more of various genres and music focuses. | $37M | Series B | Jan 03, 2022 | http://symphonicdistribution.com |
| Celigo | Celigo is the leading AI-driven integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS). At Celigo, we understand the evolving market and believe integration should be accessible to everyone in your organization. Our platform is built for both the line-of-business user and technical teams, promoting automation at every level of the business and enabling growthand innovation at scale. For more information, visit www.celigo.com. | $48M | Series C | Dec 08, 2021 | http://www.celigo.com |
| Circonus | Circonus is the monitoring and analytics platform built for the modern-day enterprise. Circonus delivers crystal-clear, real-time visibility of the behavior, health, trends, and performance of traditional infrastructure and cloud-based technologies in one powerful, unified platform. Led by experts in large-scale distributed systems and datascience, Circonus is pioneering the way that telemetry data at scale is leveraged throughout the enterprise to drive smarter operations, deploy faster, make better decisions, and deliver mission-critical services with confidence.The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered near Philadelphia, PA. | $10M | Series B | Nov 16, 2021 | http://circonus.com |
| ExecOnline | ExecOnline delivers transformational learning experiences to corporate leaders.Through partnerships with business schools such as Berkeley Haas, Chicago Booth, Columbia, Tuck at Dartmouth, Duke CE, IMD, Ivey, MIT-Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton, and Yale, the e-learning company provides leadership courses. As a Forbes “Technology Company to Watch,”its proprietary online ecosystem combines the engagement of on-campus study with the convenience of online education, through dynamic, high-impact experiences tailored to the unique strategic, innovation, and operation concerns of corporate executives.In 2012, Stephen Bailey, Mark Ozer, Barry Goldberg, and Julia Alexander co-founded the company in New York, New York. | $45M | Series D | Apr 21, 2021 | https://www.execonline.com/ |
| Circonus | Circonus is the monitoring and analytics platform built for the modern-day enterprise. Circonus delivers crystal-clear, real-time visibility of the behavior, health, trends, and performance of traditional infrastructure and cloud-based technologies in one powerful, unified platform. Led by experts in large-scale distributed systems and datascience, Circonus is pioneering the way that telemetry data at scale is leveraged throughout the enterprise to drive smarter operations, deploy faster, make better decisions, and deliver mission-critical services with confidence.The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered near Philadelphia, PA. | $6.8M | Series A | Jan 21, 2020 | http://circonus.com |
| Celigo | Celigo is the leading AI-driven integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS). At Celigo, we understand the evolving market and believe integration should be accessible to everyone in your organization. Our platform is built for both the line-of-business user and technical teams, promoting automation at every level of the business and enabling growthand innovation at scale. For more information, visit www.celigo.com. | $20M | Series B | Oct 07, 2019 | http://www.celigo.com |
| Messagepoint | Messagepoint is a powerful hybrid cloud-based content management platform serving the customer communications management needs of large enterprise customers. It provides an intuitive and secure environment for business users to directly own and control touchpoint messaging content and business rules driving the pace of change for customer-facingprint and digital communications. Messagepoint was recently named the 2016 CODiE Award winner for Best Multi-channel Publishing Platform. | $5M | Private Equity | Nov 06, 2018 | http://www.messagepoint.com/ |
| ExecOnline | ExecOnline delivers transformational learning experiences to corporate leaders.Through partnerships with business schools such as Berkeley Haas, Chicago Booth, Columbia, Tuck at Dartmouth, Duke CE, IMD, Ivey, MIT-Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton, and Yale, the e-learning company provides leadership courses. As a Forbes “Technology Company to Watch,”its proprietary online ecosystem combines the engagement of on-campus study with the convenience of online education, through dynamic, high-impact experiences tailored to the unique strategic, innovation, and operation concerns of corporate executives.In 2012, Stephen Bailey, Mark Ozer, Barry Goldberg, and Julia Alexander co-founded the company in New York, New York. | $18M | Series C | Oct 02, 2018 | https://www.execonline.com/ |
| TenFour | TenFour designs, deploys, and operates global IT infrastructure. TenFour delivers IT just like power or water utilities, where the customer pays only for what is used. It is a less complicated model for IT that positions IT leaders to redefine their resources and drive business priorities. TenFour creates a fearless and honor-driven environmentthat empowers their employees, customers, and partners to reimagine IT to ignite innovation in the Digital Age. | $18M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 20, 2017 | http://www.tenfour.com |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Osage Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/osage-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [ABS Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abs-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blossom Street Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blossom-street-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kaplan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaplan) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bull City Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bull-city-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About NewSpring

VC Fund · Radnor, United States

NewSpring Capital is a private equity firm that seeks to invest in business services, enterprise and infrastructure technology, security, and business intelligence sectors.

5 contacts available at NewSpring.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anne Vazquez | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-vazquez |
| Brian Kim | Growth Equity Investor & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-kim-5 |
| Glenn Rieger | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-t-rieger |
| Hart Callahan | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hart-callahan |
| Kapila Ratnam | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapila-ratnam |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Kim invest in?

Brian Kim invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Brian Kim?

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### When did Brian Kim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Kim closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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