The First Annual K2G Night Silicon Valley event held ahead of holidays

Saturday, December 3, 2022, 5:00 PM

The much anticipated K2G Fund’s Annual LP Meeting and the last K2G Night event of the year took place on December 2nd through 3rd, 2022 in Silicon Valley. The first day of the event was on a Friday evening, again at the Y2E2 Building at Stanford University where the General Partners gave an annual update presentation to the Limited Partners in the first half of the event while other attendees of the event also gave a series of insightful presentations. The Fund team would like to specially thank Professor Michael Lepech once again for allowing us to hold the event at Stanford campus.

Professor Michael Lepech at Stanford graciously gave a warm welcoming speech to the K2G Fund community as we began the event at the Y2E2 Building.

In the first session, Archi Kong, Managing Partner of K2G Fund shared the progress of the Fund to the Limited Partners as well as detailed updates on each of the portfolio companies.

After dinner, we had the 2nd session with speakers from our LP community sharing insights for our portfolio companies for another 2 hours. 

First, Kevin Kluge, K2G Fund’s Limited Partner and Operating Partner gave a presentation on building global engineering teams, based on his experience at Elastic as Senior Vice President of Engineering. As a seasoned tech executive and manager of engineering teams across multiple continents, Mr. Kluge shared important insights in building global teams.

Then, another Limited Partner and Operating Partner, Andrew Jeon, Chief Technology Officer at Yogiyo, shared the cultural differences between S. Korea and the US and their impact on software engineering teams based on his 33+ years experiences from Google, Uber, Coupang as well as from his experiences with Korean startups. Mr. Jeon further suggested a way to combine and incorporate the best aspects of both Korean and American cultures for global teams.

Next, Mr. Ken Kim, General Partner of K2G Fund and Senior Vice President at Kong, gave an inspiring presentation on his story as a serial entrepreneur and technology executive that finally led to his co-founding of the Fund. He shared his life story and career history, re-igniting the inspiration and core values shared by the entire K2G Fund community of investors and portfolio companies.

After a short break, Mr. Brian Pak, Co-founder and CEO of K2G Fund’s proud portfolio company Theori, gave a presentation about his company. Theori is an exceptional cyber security company that truly has potential to be the best in the industry. The Fund team as well as our Limited Partners are eager to help the company grow and reach its true potential.

Next, K2G Fund’s potential investment candidate, Pebblous’s co-founder and CEO Dr. Joohaeng Lee introduced his company which is uniquely approaching and solving an important problem with data. Pebblous aims to build an entire ecosystem of synthetic data through a series of platforms and services that ultimately sets up a standard for data preparation. 

K2G Night event sponsor Kohl, Inc. was next to present and introduce themselves to the K2G community. We would like to thank Chaewu Moon, CEO of Kohl, Inc for providing Kohl yogurt and other delicious and healthy product samples for everyone to enjoy. 

Lastly, another K2G Night sponsor, The Miilk introduced themselves and gave a presentation on the company’s exciting plans for upcoming services. Mr. Jaekwon Son, founder and CEO of The Miilk shared his mission to connect Korea and the US as a cross-border media company in Silicon Valley.

With this, the first day of the event came to an end, and everyone looked forward to seeing each other the next day at La Honda Winery to get a chance to further bond with each other.

The K2G Fund community met again the very next day to wine, dine, and mingle with each other at the cozy La Honda Winery tucked in Redwood City on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

After a tour of the barrel rooms at the winery, the entire K2G Fund community enjoyed the company of each other throughout the afternoon. 

All in all, the two-day annual event was a special one that marked the Fund’s first annual event. We would like to thank everyone for joining us, many of whom had to fly thousands of miles from across the Pacific to get together right before the holiday season. We hope the K2G community enjoyed their time and we look forward to seeing everyone again soon in the New Year!