Jung Seok Kang (CEO) is an experienced banking professional with a strong passion for AI. He worked at Citibank and the National Assembly of Korea under the former Minister of Finance and was an early investor of a wireless charging tech firm WiPower, which was later acquired by Qualcomm in 2010. He is now designing AI banking operating system with a vision for "Autonomous driving" Finance. He received B.S. and M.S. at Seoul National University, and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Plenary Stage
Invite-Only
- How do you navigate raising investment in an uncertain policy environment
- What is more difficult - raising capital? Or navigating policy
- How has change in policy direction impacted what / how you build
- If you had one ask from investors, what would that be
- If you had one ask from policy makers what would that be
Hall 6 F&B Zone
Invite-Only
Few weeks apart, Bessemer Venture Partners and Balderton Capital, two of the largest Venture Capital Funds representing over $25bn of Asset Under Management, opened the discussion to improve the mental fitness of their portfolio companies.
Why?
According to Suranga Chandratillake, General Partner at Balderton Capital The firm hopes that attending to its founders’ wellbeing will help it win more deals, as well as improve its portfolio’s chances of success.
- “We are being quite selfish long term,” he says. “We think it’s in their interest but it’s also in our interest — it’s how we make money.”
This session led by Janos Barberis of Founders Taboo and moderated by founders that have raised over $30million over their careers, will help investors understand:
- Why having empathy towards founders is a competitive advantage for their fund and how it will improve their deal flow?
- What is the size of the problem - how many founders struggle with the taboo of their mental health and why does it affect their performance?
- Where is the opportunity for investors to be an early mover in promoting a new investment thesis where healthier founders generate healthier returns - what is the return of a founder-friendly fund?
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