Kihong Bae is a former founder turned VC at Strong Ventures who splits his time between Seoul and Los Angeles to help Korean entrepreneurs expand globally, drawing from his experience building Musicshake, an early user-generated music platform. He's also a bestselling author of startup guides for Korean founders and maintains his personal mantra of Steadiness is Greatness, focusing on founders' character and execution over grand rhetoric.
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Strong Ventures operates from Los Angeles and Seoul to systematically help US startups enter Asia and Korean startups go global, with roughly 75% of their 270+ portfolio companies being Korean or Korean-diaspora founders who are globalizing Korean products, concepts, and trends into scalable businesses. The fund backs everything from indie consumer goods to spacecraft rockets while focusing on founders who demonstrate resilience and can survive with limited resources, treating "Korean-ness" as an investable cultural export thesis rather than just a geographic investment angle.
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