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Daniel Sangyoon Kim

Investor, Software Engineer

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Advisor

    2023

  • COO & Software Engineer

    2022 - 2023

    Co-founded Nest Wallet (www.nestwallet.xyz), the most user-friendly multisig crypto wallet. Raised $3.7M from the founders of Youtube, Twitch and other founder friends and angels, as well as backing from Coinbase, Stripe and Safe Protocol. Responsibilities included daily scrums in product and engineering while leading BD and fundraising.

2019 - 2021

  • Early Stage Investor

    2019 - 2021

    Generalist, head of crypto investments reporting to Tim Draper. Sourced early investments in Arkham, Polymarket, Polygon, Stacks, MakerDAO. Others: Coinbase, Ledger, Etherscan, Gemini, Unstoppable Domains, Ripio, Thesis, Lemon Cash and more. Draper is a seed investor in companies like Baidu, Bitcoin, Carta, Coinbase, Robinhood, Hotmail, SpaceX, Tesla and Twitch.

2017 - 2018

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2017 - 2018

    Worked on deals including Coupang, Xiaomi and others. On the side, I bootstrapped a 7-figure crypto arbitrage business and made a wikipedia for crypto. This was in the early days when crypto markets were very inefficient.

2016 - 2016

  • Summer Analyst

    2016 - 2016

    Long short equity. Previous: L/S equity at Mercer Partners (2015) Activism at Clinton Group (2015)