Josh Jung is a principal investor at Z Venture Capital based in Seoul who combines a technical education from KAIST with a decade of venture capital experience across both global and Asia-focused platforms, including prior roles at Vertex Growth before joining Z Venture Capital in 2025. He publicly uses AI tools like Carrie AI for executive workflows and serves as one of the Korea-focused representatives for the Japan-headquartered corporate VC platform while maintaining cross-border networks between Seoul and Silicon Valley.
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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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