# Kim Ji-hoon

> Kim Ji-hoon is a seed investor at LG Uplus (Seoul) backing Artificial Intelligence and B2B. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LG Uplus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lg-uplus)
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jihoon-kim-0214b3346/

Kim Ji-hoon is a seed investor at LG Uplus in Seoul focused on Artificial Intelligence and B2B. Kim Ji-hoon is the Chief Strategy Officer at LG Uplus,

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 67% |
| B2B | 1 | 33% |
| CRM | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Content | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LeMong | LeMong automates comments on content assistants using AI technology. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Fairy | Fairy is a B2B SaaS firm that helps organizations engage with their customers more effectively by providing solutions that improve knowledge of the user context. Fairy's solution protects sensitive user privacy and features a developer-friendly framework that elegantly adapts to the needs of individual users. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| TechnoMetrics | TechnoMetrics is a machine learning company that specializes in optimizing AI model operations and solutions. | $72.8K | Seed |  |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## About LG Uplus

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

LG Uplus Corp is a South Korean telecommunications and Mobile phone operator controlled by the LG Group, one of the country's largest chaebol. It was formerly known as LG Telecom.LG Telecom became one of the first companies to launch a commercial 3G service using PCS technology. In 1997, this was followed up by launching the second PCSnetwork, offering greatly increased data transmission speeds.LG Telecom also offers a variety of mobile services. BankOn is one of the most popular Mobile banking services in South Korea and MusicOn is an on-line music store.In July 2006, the South Korean government has cancelled LG Telecom's business license for a W-CDMA wireless communications system after the company opted not to develop the technology. LG Telecom will instead continue investing and upgrading in its CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A network.In January 2010, LG Telecom merged with LG Dacom and LG Powercom.As of 1 July 2010, LG Telecom changed its name to "LG U+".On July 17th 2013 LG Uplus launched LTE-A service and introduced Galaxy S4 LTE-A, the world’s first "100% LTE" smart mobile phone that can utilize data, voice and text with LTE and not fall back to CDMA. Starting from 2014 LG Uplus plans to release only "100% LTE" phones.

3 contacts available at LG Uplus.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hyeon-hoe Ha | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyeon-hoe-ha |
| Kim Ji-hoon | Chief Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jihoon-kim-f5e0 |
| Kwon Yong-hyun | CSO, General Manager, and Head of the Corporate Division. | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kwon-yong-hyun |

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## FAQ

### What does Kim Ji-hoon invest in?

Kim Ji-hoon invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, B2B and CRM startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Kim Ji-hoon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kim Ji-hoon closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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