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Hyuk-jeen Suh

General Partner at SkyRiver Ventures

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overview 

Hyuk-Jeen Suh is a Venture Capitalist and Startup Advisor based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, currently serving as a General Partner at SkyRiver Ventures. With a background in financial modeling, due diligence, and corporate finance, he has made significant investments in companies like Geminus and Nanophotonica, contributing to their growth and success in the DeepTech and FinTech sectors. Highlights of Suh's career include serving as a Founding Member at ven^x and providing strategic guidance as a Board Member at Z-Polymers, showcasing his expertise in business development and investment decision-making within the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

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ven^x

  • Founding Member

    2024 - Current

    Boston’s first collaborative deep tech VC hub to foster cooperation, syndication, and knowledge sharing.

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Phoenix Tailings

  • Investor

    2023

    Phoenix Tailings (Techstars Boston 2020) was founded to be the world's first fully clean mining and metals production company that extracts rare earth metals, iron, PGMs, and pigments from mining waste while creating zero carbon emission.

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Z-Polymers

  • Board Member

    2023

    Z-Polymers makes a superpolymer that is effectively a metal-processable Kevlar. It is a PFAS-free, recyclable, waterproof, and high-performance material that is ideal for applications where strength-to-weight ratio matters such as lightweighting, 3D printing, hydrogen electrolyzers, sports equipment and more.

Z-Polymers is a clean-tech materials science company solving fundamental problems in mission-critical industries.

Raised $300,000.00 from MassVentures.

z-polymers.com
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Geminus

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Computational physics-based AI company making digital twins for industrial optimization and automation.

Geminus is pioneering AI for engineering and science, delivering new, disruptive AI approaches based on physics.

Raised $22,900,000.00 from SLB.

geminus.ai
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SkyRiver Ventures

  • General Partner

    2020

    SkyRiver Ventures is a deeptech and digital health focused early stage VC fund dedicated to supporting incredible entrepreneurs build world-class companies.

SkyRiver Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage cutting edge technologies between North America and Asia.

skyriverventures.com
YU

Yale University

  • Investor Advisor

    2020

    Investor Advisor for Yale University Office of Cooperative Research to advise, assist, and formulate capital raise strategy for startup companies out of Yale University.

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Cornell University

  • Blackstone LaunchPad Mentor

    2020

    Mentor for the Blackstone LaunchPad at Cornell to advise companies and assist in connecting with corporate venture capital.

NU

Northeastern University

  • Venture Mentor

    2020

    Venture mentor to advise the spin out of cutting edge technologies developed at Northeastern University. Advisor to startups participating in the National Science Foundation's i-Corps program at Northeastern University.

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Creative Destruction Lab

  • Mentor

    2020

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Magisto (Acquired by Vimeo)

  • Investor

    2015 - 2019

Education 

Investments 

Geminus

Seed

Total funding: $10M

Nanophotonica

Series A

Total funding: $5.8M

Noom

Series C

Total funding: $640M

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