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Ethan Kyuntae Kim is a Partner at Hashed. He focuses primarily on investments in Decentralized Applications (DApps) and blockchain games. Ethan began his career as a software engineer at Electronic Arts. He was also the lead engineer at TicToc (Korean mobile messenger with over 20 million users, later acquired by SK Planet). Ethan graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Seoul National University.
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S.Y. Lee
S.Y. Lee is the Co-founder & CEO at Story Protocol. He also is the Venture Partner at Hashed. Presively, he was CEO & Co-founder at Radish(Exited to Kakao Entertainmentl).
Jinwoo Park
Jinwoo Park is the Founder & CEO at MYTY. Presively he was Cofounder, Principal at Hashed.
Ryan Sungho Kim
Ryan Sungho Kim is a Partner at Hashed. He assesses deals from Asia and focuses on applications, corporate finance, and enterprise. Previously, Ryan successfully exited his company LOOKET, a mobile solution for SMEs, to Recobell (a Big Data company). Ryan realized that the data space has many vulnerabilities, which led him to blockchain and ultimately made him co-found Hashed. Ryan graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology).
Joseph Young
Joseph Young is a financial analyst and journalist based in Hong Kong. He is well-known in the crypto community for his regular contributions to Cointelegraph, Cryptocoinsnews, Hacked, Merkle, and other publications. He is also the Managing Director at NewsCrypto and B21M, focusing mainly on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news.
Edward Tan
Edward Tan is a Hashed Fellow and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
Sean Sungwook Hong
Sean Sungwook Hong is Hashed's Chief Financial Officer and Partner. He is an experienced investment professional with a strong background in biotechnology. Prior to joining Paratus Investment, he held a Senior Manager position at KIS Pricing, where he gained extensive experience in the valuation of illiquid securities. He has a Bachelor's degree from POSTECH and a Master's degree from KAIST.
Baek Kim
Baek Kyoum Kim is Hashed's General Partner, Principal, and Senior Associate; AllianceDAO's Limited Partner; and Syndicate Protocol's DAO Founding Investor. Kim is a skilled software engineer with extensive experience in IoT and robotics. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services and was a founding member of a last-mile logistics startup. Furthermore, Kim is a former Bank of America and Google Lunar XPrize alumnus and holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Wooster Sangwoo Han
Wooster Sangwoo Han is the Community Lead at Hashed and a co-founder of a communications advisory firm with expertise in both domestic and international markets. Prior to this role, he was the Business Development Manager at global startup accelerator SparkLabs and a Coordination Officer in Strategy and Planning for the Republic of Korea Air Force.
Seung Yoon Lee
S.Y. (Seung Yoon) Lee is the CEO and Founder of Story Protocol. He was previously the CEO and Founder of mobile storytelling platform Radish, backed by Softbank, UTA, and Bertelsmann. The platform got acquired for $440M in 2021 by South Korean tech giant Kakao. He subsequently served as Kakao's Global Strategy Officer in charge of its investemnt and M & A activities globally. In that role, he made the acquisition of Wuxiaworld, the largest English-language Asia fantasy platform. Lee also actively invests and advises web3 companies as a Venture Partner at Hashed.
Daejun Park
Daejun Park is a Senior Blockchain Security Engineer at a16z crypto, developing formal methods and tools for web3 security to help portfolio companies in particular and the web3 community in general to raise their security bar. Prior to joining a16z crypto, he was a Director of Formal Verification at Runtime Verification.Early in his career, he was a founding member of another tech startup Sparrow. Daejun received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University. His work on language-parametric program verification received the Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA’16.