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Jay Eum

Founding Managing Partner at GFT Ventures

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founding Managing Partner

    2021

2020

  • Senior Advisor

    2020

  • 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).

  • 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