# Chang Kim

> Chang Kim is a pre-seed investor at Tapas Media (San Francisco) backing Gaming and Ad Network. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tapas Media](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tapas-media)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/changkim
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chang1
- Website: http://www.planetchang.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chang.w.kim

Chang Kim is a pre-seed investor at Tapas Media in San Francisco focused on Gaming and Ad Network. Chang Kim is the CEO of Tapas Media.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$2.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 1 | 25% |
| Ad Network | 1 | 25% |
| Loyalty Programs | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile Advertising | 1 | 25% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noah's Farm | Noah's Farm is an AI-based flavor factor developer that leverages advanced machine learning algorithms and data-driven sensory analysis to discover, design, and optimize novel flavor compounds, enabling food and beverage companies to create unique, consistent, and consumer-preferred taste experiences more efficiently and sustainably. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| The Data Foundation | Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos | $25M | Series A | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| Luckmon | Luckmon is a gaming loyalty platform targeting gamers. Our strength is launching campaigns without the need for API integration or SDK installation, and rewards are based on gamer playtime, providing high retention rates. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| Luckmon | Luckmon is a gaming loyalty platform targeting gamers. Our strength is launching campaigns without the need for API integration or SDK installation, and rewards are based on gamer playtime, providing high retention rates. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 11, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sazze Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sazzepartners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Asia2G Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k2g-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [11:11 Media](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1111media) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Company K Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-k) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [dao5](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dao-5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tapas Media

VC Fund · Burlingame, United States

Tapas is the “Youtube for story tellers” -- a platform and community for over 50,000 creators, who publish original stories in the form of serialized webcomics and novels. Tapas has over 2 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend 70 million minutes per month on the platform with stories on Tapas having been read over 5 billion timesto date. We co-produce original IPs with our top creators that can be shopped and brokered into the next hit TV series/movies/games/physical books. About 70% of Tapas’s audience are female millennials primarily located in the US. The Tapas app has been downloaded over 2 million times and is one of the top grossing comics apps on iOS and Android. Check out some of the latest news articles about Tapas here: https://tapas.io/site/about

5 contacts available at Tapas Media.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chang Kim | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chang-kim |
| Adrienne Horsley | VP of Content | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrienne-horsley |
| Hugh Lee | Software Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hugh-lee |
| Josh Bakken | Sr. Director of Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-bakken |
| Michael Son | VP of Content | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-son |

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## FAQ

### What does Chang Kim invest in?

Chang Kim invests primarily in Gaming, Ad Network and Loyalty Programs startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chang Kim's check size?

Chang Kim typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$2.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chang Kim participates in.

### When did Chang Kim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chang Kim closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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