Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- SU
- SN
Investments
Bria
Total Funding: $24M
boam.ai
Total Funding: $2M
Opaper
Total Funding: $1M
Quantstamp
Total Funding: $3.1M
Penrose Studios
Total Funding: $19M
nWay
Total Funding: $20M
SquareTwo
Total Funding: $4M
Epic
Total Funding: $51M
SoundHound
Total Funding: $230M
Merit
Total Funding: $54M
Teforia Company
Total Funding: $17M
Korea Credit Data
Total Funding: $100K
The Daebak Company
Total Funding: $85K
RushOrder
Total Funding:
SimplyCircle
Total Funding: $2.1M
Korbit
Total Funding: $6.4M
Noom
Total Funding: $640M
Quixey
Total Funding: $130M
Peel
Total Funding: $42M
Chartboost
Total Funding: $21M
Livescribe
Total Funding: $91M
YuMe
Total Funding: $73M
OPENSURVEY Incorporated
Total Funding:
EDB
Total Funding: $8M
Work Experience
2021
Founding Managing Partner
2021
2020
Senior Advisor
2020
2007
Co-Founder
2007
Jay Eum is Co-Founder of TransLink Capital. Jay is responsible for TransLink's investments in Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB), Chartboost, Enterprise DB (acquired by Peak Equity Partners), Epic!, Gamevice, nWay, Peel, Penrose, Singular, SoundHound, SquareTwo and YuMe (NYSE: YUME). He is also responsible for supporting TransLink's portfolio companies with their customers and partners primarily in Korea.
2003 - 2007
Managing Director
2003 - 2007
Jay was the head of Samsung Ventures America. He was responsible for starting up the U.S. operations for Samsung Venture Investment Corp., the venture investment arm of Samsung, and leading their U.S.-based investments and portfolio management. Jay directly led several successful Samsung Ventures' investments including AnalogTech (NASDAQ: AATI), Continuous Computing (acquired by RadiSyS), DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX), InPhi (NASDAQ: IPHI), Intellon (NASDAQ: ITLN), MontaVista (acquired by Cavium), Pure Digital (acquired by Cisco), Techwell (NASDAQ: TWLL) and Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom).
2003 - 2003
General Manager, North Asia
2003 - 2003
Vertex Management Portfolio company. Mobile data roaming service provider spun-off from GRIC Communications, Inc., (NASDAQ: GRIC). Responsible for business development and sales in Korea and Japan. Directly reported to CEO.
1999 - 2002
Vice President
1999 - 2002
Jay was an investment officer with the Silicon Valley office of Vertex Management, a global VC firm headquartered in Singapore. At Vertex, Jay focused on investments in communications, mobile, and Internet including GRIC Communications (NASDAQ: GRIC). He also represented Vertex at several portfolio companies including Aicent (acquired by Syniverse), Mobile 365 (acquired by Sybase), and PayPal (acquired by eBay).
2000 - 2001
Sr. Director
2000 - 2001
Jay was Senior Director of business development at Dialpad Communications (acquired by Yahoo), where he closed strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Cisco, and Earthlink.
1999 - 2000
Associate
1999 - 2000
1998 - 1999
Summer Associate
1998 - 1999