Daniel Song is a venture capital investor at Z Venture Capital who brings an unusually diverse geographic and cultural perspective, having been born in the U.S., raised in Korea, and lived across multiple countries before building deep Southeast Asia expertise through operating roles, founding a startup in Indonesia, and managing investments across the region. As a founder-turned-VC who co-founded Lookal in Indonesia and went through the full startup experience of raising capital and finding product-market fit, he combines hands-on entrepreneurial scar tissue with a background in business development and growth at companies like CloudKitchens and Tapjoy.
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Z Venture Capital is the merged CVC arm of Yahoo Japan's YJ Capital and LINE Ventures, giving it direct strategic access to the combined LY Corporation ecosystem rather than a single-parent corporate backer, which is unusual among CVCs. The firm operates as one of the few Japan-headquartered CVCs that invests as a single platform across Japan, Korea, the US, and Southeast Asia from offices in Tokyo, Seoul, and San Francisco, with over 60% of investments at seed stage despite managing multi-hundred-million-dollar funds.
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