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Susan Choe
Managing Partner at Katalyst.Ventures Management LLC
San Francisco, California
Overview
Susan Choe is a highly accomplished entrepreneur and investor, currently serving as the Founder & Managing Partner of Katalyst.Ventures Management LLC and Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Visionnaire Ventures. With a background that includes leadership roles at companies like Outspark.com and NHN USA, she has successfully invested in a diverse range of tech startups, such as Zipline, Carta Healthcare, and Helpshift, demonstrating a strong track record of supporting innovative ventures and promoting diversity in the venture capital space.
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Partnering with mission driven founders & teams creating global solutions across Digital Health, Fintech, & Enterprise Software Platforms. Advisors and partners across international markets provide funding, GTM advice and BD connections for commercial growth.
Katalyst Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the digital health and fintech sectors.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2013
Choe brings more than 20 years of experience in Internet, Interactive Entertainment and Finance leading companies in North America and Asia to her position of Partner at Visionnaire Ventures. She partners with a select, global investment team, with extensive global reach and operational experience, to identify and support forward-looking tech teams impacting the world through technology in the areas of Consumer Internet, Mobile and IoT.
Investor & Entrepreneur
2011 - 2013
Advisor
2012 - 2013
Working with a cross functional team of senior executives from Softbank, Sprint and Movida to define new online content & services business to evolve relationships with hundreds of millions of mobile billing customers across Softbank's global network.
CEO/Founder
2007 - 2011
Founded Outspark & successfully combined game content and metrics driven media publishing platform serving millions of gamers in 2+ yrs. Proving out Freemium business model in North America and European online game publishing ecosystem. Leveraging online gamer behavior analytics, game design and data driven marketing campaigns, designed and drove strategic technical platform development - e.g. real-time gamer acquisition and monetization dash boards to optimize resource allocation, and web touch points for cross marketing gamers to discover various games and social communities among gamers. Successfully raising three venture rounds from firms like DCM, Altos, Syncom & Softbank. Adding strategic investors (Tencent/QQ) to build a successful online game publishing destination.
C.O.O.
2005 - 2006
As the N.American C.O.O. of a Korean public company, in search and online games, lead operational set-up of NHN's US operations. Defined market segment focus, game genre and business models, and set-up operational team.
Director, Yahoo Games International
2004 - 2005
Lead strategic assessment of transforming Yahoo's international games business from flash based, asynchronous games to Freemium or F2P MMO games destination globally. Nearly completed an acquistion deal of Neople (now part of Nexon & was the developer of Dungeon and Fighter), to provide MMO publishing platform and game developers with global hit games.
Director, International Operations & Corporate Development
2000 - 2004
Began in Corp Dev team, then transitioned to Yahoo's international operations management. Defined operational performance goals across business units and regions, working with regional MDs to keep day to day businesses funded/moving in line with corporate goals. Reviewed discreet investment plans for strategic growth areas like mobile, China, India and Games businesses created and presented to management for investment or change in direction. Created process for first coordinated international annual budget planning based on performance datas.
Director, Global Corporate Development
2000 - 2002
As part of global investments and acquisitions team at Yahoo, reviewed and invested into Internet content and technologies companies like Hot Jobs, Rock Music and start-ups in streaming mobile content companies across U.S., Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere to help Yahoo's global presence become "sticky."
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
VP of Business Development
2002 - 2003
Working with a market leading language acquisition product development and business team, consisting of academic authorities of language acquisition from Stanford, Harvard and Oxbridge schools, was responsible for expanding B2C distribution partnerships internationally. Lead market distribution assessments and operational set-up for Global English Kid's online service in S.Korea, Japan and U.K. As, learning as an online, interactive service was early for consumer's to accept "value" in buying non-text book language service, so found partners to alleviate market education & distribution efforts in largest English education markets, resulting in profitable product line.
VP, Global Corporate Development
1998 - 2000
As part of the Global Corp Dev team, responsible for international expansion of DLJdirect's online operations in Asia. Lead strategic assessment and operational set-up of prioritized consumer investment markets. Executed joint venture deal and operational set-up in H.K. with Hutchison Whampoa, managing international product and technical teams in New York and Hong Kong. Also assisted international operations in U.K. and Japanese partnership with Sumitomo & Nomura.
Research Analyst
1996 - 1998
Worked with Merrill's private equity and tech banking teams to research IT market companies for investment or banking deal pitches.
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.
Education
MBA/MIF
1993 - 1995