MinChi Park

MinChi Park

She/Her

About

Ex-VC who fell into the crypto rabbit hole. Bridging the East and West. Pondering how she can bridge the normies and degens πŸ€”

Work Experience

2022 β€” 2022
πŸ—Ί

Venture studio for the largest investment DAO in the world, BitDAO.

  • In charge of the EIR/ builder ecosystem for Windranger Labs and the overall BitDAO ecosystem, including the sub-DAOs of BitDAO such as Game7 and zkDAO
2019 β€” 2022
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

Covered primarily the Korean market with some overarching deals with our SEA fund.

  • Was in charge of deal sourcing & investments, building the founder ecosystem, and running the Seed Accelerator Program for portfolio companies
  • Founded a network of Young Founders called YFC. Helped young founders find mentor founders/ advisors/ investors leveraging the 500 portfolio network. Every quarter 10+ new founders were invited to join the community.
2019 β€” 2019
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

SK Telecom is South Korea's leading wireless telecommunications operation with roughly 41% of the market share. It became the first telco in the world to launch 5G connectivity in 2019.

  • Was part of the Service Innovation Enablement team that managed global partnership accounts, including but not limited to Facebook, Oculus, Microsoft, and Intel. I had the opportunity to manage the partnership account of Magic Leap, which is a Florida-based Spatial Computing startup that is backed by AT&T, Google, Alibaba Group, and Disney

  • Managed the operations of the TEAC (Telecom Infra Project Ecosystem Acceleration Center) Accelerator Program for SKT. Startups related to telecommunications (MEC, laser wifi, last-mile connectivity, etc.) received mentorship from Telco experts and SK Telecom internal R&D engineers. This program was fully funded by Meta

2018 β€” 2018
Hong Kong, πŸ‡­πŸ‡°

American Hedge Fund (FoFs) with ~$19B AUM.

  • Was responsible for IR for Korean institutional LPs
2016 β€” 2016
Research Assistant at AndTheCore Consulting
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

A boutique consulting firm founded by ex-partner-level consultants from A.T Kearney and The Monitor Group. It usually focuses on IT strategy consulting.

  • Staffed into a global strategy expansion project for Korea's leading last-mile smart logistics startup called Mesh Korea
2015 β€” 2016
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

(Acquired by Rakuten Mobile on October 25, 2021) South Korean startup Estmob is the brain behind the p2p file-transferring software called Send Anywhere.

  • As their 9th member and first hire to lead BD, I worked directly under the Chief Strategy Officer and co-managed global expansions to Europe and the Americas (increasing the overall CUM by 20%). I also managed API partnerships with Samsung's Smart Printing Solution division and KakaoTalk, which is Korea's #1 mobile instant messaging app
  • Pitched in front of an audience of 200+ people at the 'Tech in Asia Road to Singapore 2015' competition and won first place
2015 β€” 2015
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

The Bank of Korea is the central bank of the Republic of Korea.

  • Collected data for the 2015 Q4 Business Survey Index (SMEs) report
2015 β€” 2015
Project Intern at World Bank
Songdo, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

In 2015, World Bank Korea launched an entrepreneurship acceleration program called ETHOS, which was co-sponsored by the National IT Promotion Agency of South Korea (NIPA) and the State University of New York Korea. 25 entrepreneurs from Bangladesh and Vietnam were invited to Korea for the program.

  • Assisted with the day-to-day program operations

Writing

2023

An Introduction to Central Bank Digital Currencies

2023

The importance of properly managing DAO treasuries and methods of risk diversification

2022

Book review of Homo Deus using tech, Web3 and the metaverse analogies/references.

2022

A light-weight introduction to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

2022

Limited Partner in Buy-side TradFi funds vs. Liquidity Provider in DeFi

2022

Historic background and the macro market trends of the EdTech sector in Korea

Speaking

2022
Be The Outlier You Always Wished You Were

Guest Lecturer for Korea University Business School's 'Entrepreneurial Finance' course

2022
Invited Expert Panel at v-ETHOS 2021

v-ETHOS Program is sponsored by the World Bank and operated by SUNY Korea

2021
If You Can't Track, You Can't Improve It at Monthly:Find

Monthly:Find hosted by Shinhan Financial Group

2021
New Opportunities Unlocked by COVID-19 at Monthly:Find
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

Monthly Startup Meetup hosted by Shinhan Financial Group. Invited as a panelist for their very first event.

2021

Korea University Business School startup station's bi-annual Demo Day

2021
Venture Capital Investment at Business Innovation Week

Business School Lausanne (BSL)'s virtual Business Innovation Week

2020
Developing an Investment Thesis as a VC

Guest Lecturer for Korea University Business School's 'Entrepreneurial Finance' course

2019
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

Interviewed by the Entrepreneurship Society in the Peking University HSBC Business School International Student Union

Education

Leysin American School in Switzerland
Leysin, πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­
  • International Baccalaureate
  • Cum Laude
  • National Honor Society President
  • Volley Ball Varsity
Exchange Student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong, πŸ‡­πŸ‡°
  • HKUST Business School
Bachelor of Business Administration at Korea University
Seoul, πŸ‡°πŸ‡·
  • Summa Cum Laude
  • Korea University Female Soccer Team, ShARE Finance Club, Golf Team

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