# Kiha Lee

> Kiha Lee is a seed investor at Primer (San Jose) backing Apps, Sales and Customer Service. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Primer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/primer)
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiha-lee
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kiha516

Kiha Lee is a seed investor at Primer in San Jose focused on Apps and Sales. Kiha Lee is the Founding Partner of Primer Sazze Partners. He previously worked at Sazze Partners as a Managing Partner. Kiha Lee attended the University of California Berkeley.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $156k–$3.6M |
| Series A | $4.5M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 3 | 18% |
| Sales | 2 | 12% |
| Customer Service | 2 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 12% |
| CRM | 1 | 6% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 47% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 8 | 47% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BIGC | BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services. | $3.6M | Convertible Note | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| BIGC | BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services. | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Solvook | Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services. | $4.5M | Series A | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| phoneGO | phoneGO is a mobile repair cost comparison estimate platform. | $763.7K | Seed | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Paywork | PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services. Paywork platform offers features with the ability to provide various templates that are customizable and can be personalized by adding the company logo, name, and other information while also providing invoice draftingservices, enabling companies to generate invoices without any hassle. | $155.8K | Seed | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| Exosphere Labs | Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services. | $904.7K | Seed | Nov 24, 2022 |  |
| MakeDashy | MakeDashy AI based business tools analyzes customer lifecycle values, retention rates to increase customer loyalty. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Retentics | Retentics is a customer retention marketing solution. It is a solution that enables hyper-personalized marketing based on client behavior by utilizing advanced artificial intelligence technology that can be simply used without the need for a separate installation process. Its primary customers are a variety of local and international e-commerceenterprises, and it has been established that it has witnessed impacts such as a 1.8-fold increase in customer relationship management (CRM) message conversion rate and a 4-fold increase in customer lifetime value (LTV). | $1.2M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Solvook | Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services. | $304.1K | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| SWING | SWING is a micro-mobility service provider. | $6.7M | Series A | Jan 31, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Daesung Private Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daesung-private-equity) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pearl Abyss Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pearl-abyss-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Balon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balon-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D·CAMP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banks-foundation-for-young-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Laboratories](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-laboratories) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Big Basin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-basin-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Primer

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.

2 contacts available at Primer.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Douglas Guen | CEO & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-guen |
| Kiha Lee | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiha-lee |

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## FAQ

### What does Kiha Lee invest in?

Kiha Lee invests primarily in Apps, Sales and Customer Service startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kiha Lee's check size?

Kiha Lee typically joins rounds of $156k–$3.6M at Seed and $4.5M–$26M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kiha Lee participates in.

### When did Kiha Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kiha Lee closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 17 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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