# Sungmoon Cho

> Sungmoon Cho is a seed investor at Chartmetric backing Digital Entertainment and Audio. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Chartmetric](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chartmetric)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sungmoon
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sungmoon
- Website: https://x.com/sungmoon

Sungmoon Cho is a seed investor at Chartmetric in San Francisco focused on Digital Entertainment and Audio. Sungmoon Cho is based out of San Mateo, California, and is the Founder and CEO of Chartmetric. Sungmoon previously worked at Oracle as a Principal Product Manager. Sungmoon Cho attended Seoul National University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $275k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Entertainment | 2 | 50% |
| Audio | 1 | 25% |
| Music | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| South Korea | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Saarey | Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 15, 2022 |  |
| MoxieJam | MoxieJam will be a consumer app targeted to fans of entertainment. During this time of exploding choice in media content, there is a good news / bad news situation for consumers. They have access to an incredible supply of music, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books, but that also brings a significant source of frustration. There is just nogood way to help fans organize their own playlists and watchlists, to share their interests with other fans and to discover new things that they might enjoy. MoxieJam will help fans do just that. | $275K | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2020 |  |
| Kurvv | Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2019 |  |
| OPENSURVEY Incorporated | • Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2012 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Black Mountain Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-mountain-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BonAngels Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bon-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hot Capital Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hot-capital-global) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Penske Media Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/penske-media-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Translink Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sema-translink-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Chartmetric

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

A modern approach to tracking,measuring, and analyzing music data.ChartMetric uses algorithms and natural language processing to gather, organize, and derive insights on musics.

3 contacts available at Chartmetric.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sungmoon Cho | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sungmoon-cho |
| Aviram Jenik | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aviram-jenik |
| Kevin King | Director Of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-king |

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## FAQ

### What does Sungmoon Cho invest in?

Sungmoon Cho invests primarily in Digital Entertainment, Audio and Music startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sungmoon Cho's check size?

Sungmoon Cho typically joins rounds of $275k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sungmoon Cho participates in.

### When did Sungmoon Cho last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sungmoon Cho closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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