# Joyce Kim

> Joyce Kim is a seed investor at SparkChain Capital (San Francisco) backing Mobile and Travel. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SparkChain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparkchain-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joycekim
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/joyce
- Website: https://joycekim.wordpress.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joycekim

Joyce Kim is a seed investor at SparkChain Capital in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Travel. Joyce Kim - Managing Partner @ SparkChain Capital

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |
| Travel | 1 | 33% |
| Banking | 1 | 33% |
| Tourism | 1 | 33% |
| Computer | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| fortú | fortú is the personal finance platform for Latinos and Hispanics | $5M | Seed | May 03, 2021 |  |
| UXPin | UXPin is a product design platform that allows product and design teams to easily design, collaborate on, and present both high- and low-fidelity, fully-interactive wireframes and prototypes. Say goodbye to old-school wireframing and prototyping tools that only do one step of the product design process and don't allow you to use yourexisting design work, whether it was produced in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or elsewhere. UXPin let's you take products from concept to beautiful, pixel-perfect prototypes without any compromise. And you can share your work with anyone involved in product -- the design team, developers, clients, etc. -- and even run live usability tests with end-users. | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 05, 2014 |  |
| SimpleHoney | simplehoney's mobile product, I Want Wish Lists, is the evolution of wish list shopping.Everyone has a wish list, whether it is places you want to go or things you want to buy. But none of our lists ever help make our dreams come true.simplehoney's goal is to make your wish lists help you. With I Want Wish Lists, you simply createa list of the products you want to buy and they let you know when it is the right time to buy and where. simplehoney was founded by simplehoney is funded by several successful entrepreneurs-turned-angels: Tim Young (Socialcast and about.me), Jameson Hsu and Bob Ippolito (Mochi Media), Ryan Scott (Causecast and NetCreations), Ed Roman (The Middleware Company), Dave McClure (500 Startups) and its own founders, Joyce Kim and Eric Nakagawa. Hiten Shah, Daniel Burka and Jason Hoffman are advisors to the company. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2011 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innovation Nest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-nest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MPGI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mpgi-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Presight Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/presight-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Valar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valar-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SparkChain Capital

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

SparkChain Capital is launched by SparkLabs Group. SparkChain Capital is an early-stage fund that focuses on backing blockchain and cryptocurrency-related companies.

3 contacts available at SparkChain Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joyce Kim | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joyce-kim |
| Jay McCarthy | Co-founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-mccarthy |
| William Chu | Co-founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-chu-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Joyce Kim invest in?

Joyce Kim invests primarily in Mobile, Travel and Banking startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 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 Joyce Kim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joyce Kim closed in May 2021. 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?

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