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Simon Kim

Senior New Venture Consultant at Natural History Museum

London, England

Overview

Work Experience

  • Senior New Venture Consultant

    2024 - Current

    Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) to spin out a #dualuse #venture that developed #AirSeq, a rapid #DNA #airsequencing technology for agnostic biological threat detection. The technology was developed by the Natural History Museum & Earlham Institute, culminating 10+ years of R&D. The AirSeq technology, a combination of novel molecular biology sequencing methods and bespoke bioinformatics, enables the sequencing of DNA from any organism found in the air. The technology is capable of highly accurate, near real-time identification of bacteria, viruses, fungi, pollen or any other biological material, with a low false positive rate of <1 in 10 million. Possible use cases are found in biosecurity, vertical farming and green houses, public & clinical health and environmental monitoring.

  • Venture Advisor

    2023 - 2023

    Venture Capital fund for Seed and Series A investments in Germany.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2022 - 2022

    AI venture with a fully automated forecasting platform for users without technical know-how.

  • Principal

    2021 - 2022

    NewSpace technology VC fund.

  • Founding Partner

    2014 - 2021

    FAST LP is a technology investment platform.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2018 - 2021

    FAST Venture Builder is a technology venture builder platform.

  • Mentor

    2020 - 2021

    SparkLabs Connex is a Singapore based IoT, Smart City & Prop Tech ecosystem accelerator.

  • Mentor

    2019 - 2021

    Digimaps is a cloud-based indoor map data management and collaboration platform.

  • Founder and CEO

    2017 - 2019

    FASTx is a Tokyo-based technology and innovation hub. It runs quarterly startup competitions, innovation events, design thinking workshops and offers seed funding, mentorship and office space.

  • Senior Vice President

    2012 - 2014

    Family office. Private equity and private debt investments.

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