Cool Technology is Not a Hot Company

Chris Kim, the co-founder and managing partner at Union Labs, talks about supporting deeptech entrepreneurs with empathy. Chris shares his journey as a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist. He explains, with real-life examples, why the founder’s character ultimately matters and shares his thoughts on high-speed fundraising deals.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

[4:56] VCs who can share their operator experience empathetically can be of great value to deeptech founders.

[8:17] The founder’s character ultimately matters.

[13:52] Cool technology is great, but can you present a well thought out process to the vision?

[16:21] Brilliant founders are total nerds on their topics, and they influence everyone they meet with their passion.

[19:37] How high-speed fundraising can undermine founder/investor relationship building

The non-profit organization Chris is passionate about: Korean American Community Foundation

About Guest Speaker

Chris Kim is the co-founder and managing partner at Union Labs. Chris has been a serial entrepreneur and angel investor before starting Union Labs. Previously, he was the CTO for smart home security company August Home (acquired by Assa Abloy) and prior to that he managed cybersecurity and consumer e-commerce products at Bank of America, eBay and various other startups.

About Union Labs

Union Labs is a Silicon Valley-based deeptech seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders from diverse backgrounds who are applying deep technologies to solve hard problems in the physical world. Union’s core focus areas include: Industrial IoT, Consumer IoT, Health, Climate Tech, Insurtech, Cyber Security, AI/Machine Learning, Autonomous Technology and Manufacturing. Union labs portfolio companies include: Urban Machine, Rendered AI, EncircleLabs, camect, butlr., zerofy, Antimatter among others.

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