Dong-Su Kim
GM and Vice President, America @ Samsung Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Dong-Su Kim is a Series B investor at Samsung Ventures in San Francisco focused on Electronics and Semiconductor. Dong-Su Kim, Ph.D. is a Director of Investment at Samsung Ventures America. He covers semiconductors, displays, renewable energy and "emerging" businesses, which includes healthcare and biotech. He has over thirteen years of investment, strategy, planning, and technology experience. Prior to joining Samsung Ventures, he was a director ofAsia Evolution, an investment bank in Korea covering mid-market financing, private placement, and M&As. Before joining Asia Evolution he was a Senior Manager at Technology Strategy Office in Samsung Electronics. As the CTO's staff, he was responsible for strategic venture investments and technology alliance. He also worked in technology planning for Samsung's Telecom R&D center, responsible for discovering new research topics. Prior to that, he was a Technical Leader at Samsung Fiber Optics Business in charge of development of fiber optic components and also managed a technical sales team.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 70%
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Industries Dong-Su Kim invests in
Stages Dong-Su Kim invests in
Countries Dong-Su Kim invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Electronics 3 (30%)
- Semiconductor 3 (30%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- Manufacturing 2 (20%)
- Film 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (30%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (20%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 5 (50%)
- Canada 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Light Field Lab is a breakthrough technology startup that builds an innovative holographic ecosystem. It re-creates what optical physics calls a real image for off-screen projected objects by generating a massive number of viewing angles that correctly change with the point of view and location just like in the real world. They enable entirely newbusiness opportunities across consumer and enterprise markets.The company was founded in 2017 by Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and Ed Ibe, with the single mission to enable a holographic future by building upon the founders’ collective expertise of light field technology innovation. Based in San Jose, CA, Light Field Lab is backed by top-tier venture firms including Khosla Ventures. | $50M / Series B / Feb 08, 2023 | ||
| SeeQC is a semiconductor company developing commercially viable application-specific quantum computing systems for global businesses. The company combines classical and quantum technologies to address the efficiency, stability, and cost issues endemic to quantum computing systems. It integrates superconducting qubit chips, proprietary Single FluxQuantum (SFQ), SFQ-based 10-40 GHz superconductive classical co-processors, and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).SeeQC delivers a commercially scalable and cost-effective quantum computing solution, classical readout, control, error correction, and data processing functions must be integrated with a quantum processor. It applies classical and quantum technology through digital readout and control technology and through a unique chip-scale architecture. The company's quantum system provides the energy- and cost-efficiency, speed, and digital control required to make quantum computing useful and bring the first commercially-scalable, problem-specific quantum computing applications to market.SeeQC was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Elmsford, N.Y, USA, and also has facilities in London, UK, and Naples, Italy. | $22.4M / Series A / Sep 16, 2020 | ||
| Reno Sub-Systems, to our longtime semiconductor friends, colleagues and customers around the world. The founding of Reno has been a very gratifying challenge which has brought together many of the best and brightest minds in the field of Semiconductor Process Equipment Instrumentation. At a time when industry consolidation and the tightening ofventure capital poses a serious threat to new business formation, the founders of Reno have demonstrated the incredible power of inventing world-class technologies to enable next generation processes. With three brand new and highly disruptive technologies, we are creating a paradigm shift in the industry. At Reno, we believe there is unlimited potential for new discoveries and innovative thinking. As we move forward into the 450mm era, Reno stands at the summit of semiconductor process control equipment technology, ready to set the standards for product performance, worldwide customer support and customer satisfaction. | $11.2M / Series C / Sep 27, 2017 | ||
| Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metaloxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing. | $23.5M / Series B / Jul 10, 2017 | ||
| Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metaloxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 01, 2016 | ||
| Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metaloxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing. | $7.3M / Jun 19, 2014 | ||
| Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metaloxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing. | $4.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 20, 2014 | ||
| Astute is a provider of performance storage appliances for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. It is the developer of VMware Ready Certified ViSX branded Networked Performance Flash solutions for accelerating virtualized server, desktop, and cloud computing environments. The company’s patented DataPump Engine delivers a high levelof best-in-class iSCSI IOPS with 100% sustained random I/O performance to eliminate performance-robbing I/O bottlenecks that degrade virtual machine and application performance and limits user productivity. ViSX is available through an established network of solution providers. | $12M / Series B / Jun 18, 2012 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Samsung Ventures
The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPOcompanies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
Samsung Ventures Contacts
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Jong Choi
Head of Samsung Ventures Europe
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Seon-Jong Lee
President, CEO
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Thomas Jueng
Senior Manager
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Hyuk-Jeen Suh
Head of Samsung Ventures East Coast
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Jihong Kim
Senior Manager
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What does Dong-Su Kim invest in?
Dong-Su Kim invests primarily in Electronics, Semiconductor and Software startups, most often at Series B and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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