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.