Co-Founder

Michael ByungSun Hwang

CEO of Bigbang Angels

Michael Hwang, Managing director of Bigbang Angels, Inc which is seed accelerator in Korea. He started his career as a software engineer in Samsung Electronics and was a serial entrepreneur and consultant in LG CNS, director of a mobile service platform in LG Electronics, visiting professor of KAIST. Since 2018, he has founded Across Asia Alliance, a start-up community with more than 40 global accelerators and VCs and large corporations. He is also a Board member with SOSV, Chinaccelerator, 01Booster and Invention Lab.

David Jinyoung Kim

CEO of The Invention Labs

David Kim is a manaing partner of bigbang angels and founder of The Invention lab. He started working with SoftBank Media from 1997 to 2004, founded ROA Consulting, an IT technology strategy consulting organization in 2005, and then established The Invention Lab in February 2017. The Invention Lab has made initial seed investments intensively in more than 80 service platform startups. Kim led the discovery and seed investment of the following Vertical Sector Platform Startups.
ZipDoc (exit complete), Petdoc (exit complete), yamtable (series B complete), HomeMaster (acquisition and merger with JB Gas Company), Jaranda (series A2 complete), Voicethru (series A complete), Giguin Company (series A2 complete) , Store Camera (Series A complete), OKXE (Series A complete), Go2Joy (Series A2 complete), GOMI (Series A complete), SSK (Pre-Series A complete), etc.
From 2020, Kim has formed a project fund with KOSDAQ-listed companies Daewon-Kukbo Design-Boryeong Pharmaceuticals and is actively making strategic seed investment.

Jihoon Jeong

CEO of EMWorks

Dr. Jihoon Jeong received his MD from Hanyang University and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering. His main interests are intersections of technology and society by serving in various roles including general physician, research scientist, book writer, professor, startup advisor and angel investor.