Want to understand how Korea’s most powerful VC ecosystem backs early-stage founders? Don’t miss this AMA session “AMA with VCs Featuring Woohyun Nahm (Korea Investment Accelerator)” with Woohyun Nahm from Korea Investment Accelerator (KIAC), where he will break down how Korea Investment Holdings, one of Korea’s largest financial groups, operates.
Backed by Korea Investment Holdings’ massive financial network, KIAC operates as a premium early-stage platform connecting founders to investment banking, VC, PE, asset management, securities, and global partners in one place. They deploy about ₩9.6B annually across 25 investments, with an average check of ₩390M, supporting founders from Seed to global scale.
Focused on AI, Deep Tech, and next-gen industries, KIAC delivers what they call Fast & Last growth, fast decisions, long-term capital, and strategic support to help startups go from idea to global impact.
Bring your toughest questions on early-stage fundraising, entering Korea, corporate venture partnerships, or scaling deep tech startups — Woohyun will share real, actionable guidance drawn from Korea’s most comprehensive investment ecosystem.
This AMA is a rare chance for founders to learn how Korean VCs think, evaluate opportunities, and partner with startups to build globally competitive companies.
Featured Speaker:
- Woohyun Nahm – Early Stage Investor, Korea Investment Accelerator (KIAC) - Woohyun invests in cutting-edge founders across AI, Deep Tech, and future industries. Backed by Korea Investment Holdings’ massive financial infrastructure, KIAC provides fast investment decisions, long-term capital, and strategic support that helps startups scale from idea to global impact.
Moderator:
📌 Who Should Attend
- Founders building AI, Deep Tech, or emerging tech startups
- Early-stage entrepreneurs exploring fundraising in Korea or Asia
- Innovators seeking cross-border growth, partnerships, or corporate VC insights
- Startup teams preparing for Seed to Series A fundraising
- Anyone curious about Korea’s venture ecosystem and full-cycle investment model
📌 What You Will Learn
- How Korean VCs identify and evaluate promising early-stage startups
- What KIAC looks for in AI, Deep Tech, and frontier tech founders
- How Korea’s full-cycle investment infrastructure supports startups from Seed to IPO
- How to position your startup for fast growth and strategic capital
- What makes Korea a rising hub for innovation and global scaling
- How to build investor relationships across Asia’s top financial groups
About Founder Institute:
Founder Institute: Founder Institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with its Founder Capital, backs the best performing FI alumni as early as the angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.
FI’s sister program, called
VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.
Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and a collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.
Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focuses on hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with the GTM expert network and the venture partner network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC networks who are willing to co-back our founders!