David Park

Regional Managing Partner at Kairos Ventures

David Park is a successful serial entrepreneur, investor, board member, and adviser that currently serves as L. Partner at BBG Ventures, L. Partner at Mucker Capital, L. Partner at DSC Investments (Korea/USA), L. Partner at Hawke Ventures, Managing Partner at Principia Holdings Group and an advisory board member to several tech startups that have been acquired. Some of the investment portfolios include unicorns Bumble (NYSE: BMBL), TaskRabbit (acquired by IKEA), FastDetect (funded by Kairos Ventures, Wavemaker360, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Squad (acquired by Twitter; NYSE: TWTR), Yaguara, FabFitFun, TapCart, Chromatik (Acquired by TakeLessons), Wonder (acquired by Atari), The Sill, BeautyCon, Rebelmail (acquired by Salesforce), Trunk Club (Acquired by Nordstrom), Honey (acquired by PayPal), Wall.by Financials (Acquired by NYSE: RATE), Modus (Acquired by Compass), Eloxx Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: ELOX): , Neofect (Kosdaq:A290660), and Zola to name a few.

David is a former advisory member to early-stage startups from UCLA & USC Ventures, and was interim CEO of a healthcare IoT company that led to a successful acquisition by Samsung Health. He is a proud UCLA alumni, a Draper Fellow, an active supporter of K12 education initiatives, a philanthropist focused on technology and conservation, founder of The Innovation Foundation, and an honorary member of Variety Magazine’s Top 100 Young Entrepreneurs of Silicon Beach.

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  • Regional Managing Partner

    January 1, 2018 - present