# Jaeshin Lee

> Jaeshin Lee is a seed investor at SK Telecom (Seoul) backing eSports and Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SK Telecom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sktelecom)
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaeshinleeskt/

Jaeshin Lee is a seed investor at SK Telecom in Seoul focused on eSports and Software. Jaeshin Lee is the VP and Head of Global Business Development at SK Telecom.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| eSports | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Generative AI | 1 | 50% |
| Visual Search | 1 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Twelve Labs | TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | $30M | Series A | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| T1 Entertainment & Sports | T1 Entertainment & Sports is a global esports joint venture that owns and operates the ultra-successful T1 League of Legends (LoL) Champions Korea (LCK) team, along with teams in competitive gaming segments that include Fortnite, Dota 2, PUBG, Super Smash Bros., Hearthstone and Apex Legends. Building upon the rich legacy of SKT T1, T1 willexpand its teams globally, celebrate new victories, and create even more opportunities for fans to embrace T1’s gaming culture, content, and players in every corner of the world. |  | Seed | Dec 07, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Comcast](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Databricks Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/databricks-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Han River Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/han-river-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HubSpot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hubspot-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Korea Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SK Telecom

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseastelecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.

5 contacts available at SK Telecom.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jong Ho Lee | Senior Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jong-ho-lee |
| Shashi Kumar | Entrepreneur In Residence - Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shashi-kumar |
| Hyung Kyu Lim | Vice-Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyung-kyu-lim |
| Jaeshin Lee | VP and Head of Global Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaeshin-lee |
| Jaeyoo Cho | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaeyoo-cho |

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## FAQ

### What does Jaeshin Lee invest in?

Jaeshin Lee invests primarily in eSports, Software and Generative AI startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jaeshin Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jaeshin Lee closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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