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 🤔
Work Experience
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
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.
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.
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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
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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
American Hedge Fund (FoFs) with ~$19B AUM.
- Was responsible for IR for Korean institutional LPs
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
(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
The Bank of Korea is the central bank of the Republic of Korea.
- Collected data for the 2015 Q4 Business Survey Index (SMEs) report
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
Part of the CBDC exploration
An Introduction to Central Bank Digital Currencies
The importance of properly managing DAO treasuries and methods of risk diversification
Book review of Homo Deus using tech, Web3 and the metaverse analogies/references.
A light-weight introduction to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Limited Partner in Buy-side TradFi funds vs. Liquidity Provider in DeFi
EdTech writing series Pt.2
Historic background and the macro market trends of the EdTech sector in Korea
Speaking
Guest Lecturer for Korea University Business School's 'Entrepreneurial Finance' course
v-ETHOS Program is sponsored by the World Bank and operated by SUNY Korea
Monthly:Find hosted by Shinhan Financial Group
Monthly Startup Meetup hosted by Shinhan Financial Group. Invited as a panelist for their very first event.
Korea University Business School startup station's bi-annual Demo Day
Business School Lausanne (BSL)'s virtual Business Innovation Week
Guest Lecturer for Korea University Business School's 'Entrepreneurial Finance' course
Interviewed by the Entrepreneurship Society in the Peking University HSBC Business School International Student Union
Features
Niche SaaS market in the Korean startup ecosystem
Education
- International Baccalaureate
- Cum Laude
- National Honor Society President
- Volley Ball Varsity
- HKUST Business School
- Summa Cum Laude
- Korea University Female Soccer Team, ShARE Finance Club, Golf Team