Brian Kang
Founder at Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC
Profile
Brian Yoon-Seok Kang was the founder of Pangalore, Inc. (founded in 2011) and Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC (founded in 2015), where he holds the titles of Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director respectively.
Mr. Kang is also the founder of SparkLabs Ventures.
Currently, Mr. Kang holds multiple director positions at Gravity Entertainment, Inc., Neo Cyon, Inc., Gravity Interactive, Inc., Hiya, Inc., and board member positions at Qeexo Co., Myolex, Inc., AIRY3D, Inc., and Point2 Technology, Inc.Mr. Kang has previously worked as a director at picoChip, Inc., Pivot3, Inc., Synosis Therapeutics, Inc., and held the position of Managing Director at Samsung Catalyst from 2004 to 2012.
He also served as a director at Maluuba Inc. from 2015 to 2017 and as a manager at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
from 2000 to 2003.
Additionally, Mr. Kang was a board member at Edison Software, Inc. from 2016 to 2021.
In terms of education, Mr. Kang holds a graduate degree from the University of Washington, an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin, and an undergraduate degree from The State University of New York.
Brian Kang active positions
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Neo Cyon, Inc.
 Neo Cyon, Inc. Wireless TelecommunicationsCommunications Part of GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc., Neo Cyon, Inc. provides mobile content services. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea. The South Korean company was founded in 2004. Yoshinori Kitamura has been the CEO of the company since 2008. Neo Cyon was acquired by Gravity Co. Ltd., part of GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc. from February 14, 2008 on November 15, 2005. | Director/Board Member | 05/04/2010 |
Gravity Interactive, Inc.
 Gravity Interactive, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Gravity Interactive, Inc. is a game publisher that is best known for their popular game, Ragnarok Online. The private company is based in Marina Del Rey, CA. The company also offers other PC and mobile games. Yoshinori Kitamura has been the CEO of the company since 2008. | Director/Board Member | 05/04/2010 |
| Gravity Entertainment, Inc. | Director/Board Member | 25/04/2011 |
Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC
 Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC Investment ManagersFinance Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC (Nautilus Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Connie Sheng and Brian Yoon-Seok Kang. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Founder | 31/01/2015 |
SparkLabs Ventures
 SparkLabs Ventures Investment ManagersFinance SparkLabs Ventures (Sparklabs Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Sparklabs Co Ltd. founded in 2017 by Brian Yoon-Seok Kang and Jae-Woo Koh. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, Korea. | Founder | - |
Hiya, Inc.
 Hiya, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Hiya, Inc. develops mobile applications for security call block. The company was founded by Alex Algard in 2016 and id headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Director/Board Member | 31/12/2016 |
Point2 Technology, Inc.
 Point2 Technology, Inc. Electronic ComponentsElectronic Technology Point2 Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures low-power, high-speed, point-to-point interconnect and range enhancement solutions for cloud-based data centers and 5G infrastructure. The American company's purpose-built SOC technology consumes 40% less power and cable volume, making data centers more energy-efficient and sustainable. The CEO of the company is Jin Ho Park. | Director/Board Member | 31/12/2016 |
AIRY3D, Inc.
 AIRY3D, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology AIRY3D, Inc provides three-dimensional (3D) machine vision. Its technology can be used in consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and security and surveillance. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. | Director/Board Member | 31/12/2015 |
Myolex, Inc.
 Myolex, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Myolex, Inc. fitness tracker provider. It develops hardware and software to accurately measure total body composition, as well as the fat content and muscle quality for specific body parts. The company was founded in 2009 by Seward Rutkove and Jose Bohorquez and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | 30/09/2015 |
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Training of Brian Kang
| University of Washington | Graduate Degree |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Masters Business Admin |
| The State University of New York | Undergraduate Degree |
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| Listed companies | 1 |
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| SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | Electronic Technology |
| Private companies | 17 |
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picoChip, Inc.
 picoChip, Inc. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology picoChip, Inc. provides signal processing products for wireless communications. The company's products scale from femtocell access points to picocells and sophisticated multi-sector carrier macrocells. It supplies femtocell silicon with solutions for all of the world's major wireless standards, including WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and cdma2000. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Pivot3, Inc.
 Pivot3, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Pivot3, Inc. provides data storage solutions. It offers failover-protected virtual machines, including vBank, a scale-out SSD/disk storage appliance and multiple VM that delivers compute and storage resources, and supports various virtual servers and solid state disk drives to extend storage performance across general business applications and bundles; VDI startup bundle to help organizations deploy virtual desktop environments; and vSTAC unified storage and compute appliances. The firm also provides Storage And Compute Stack for capacity-intensive environments that provide Direct Drive Access for virtual machines and federate hardware resources across Pivot3 appliances; CloudBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance and single VM; and DataBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance. The company was founded by William C. Galloway, Alan Skidmore, Ryan Callison and Lee Caswell in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. | Technology Services |
| Synosis Therapeutics, Inc. | |
| Gravity Entertainment, Inc. | |
Neo Cyon, Inc.
Neo Cyon, Inc. Wireless TelecommunicationsCommunications Part of GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc., Neo Cyon, Inc. provides mobile content services. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea. The South Korean company was founded in 2004. Yoshinori Kitamura has been the CEO of the company since 2008. Neo Cyon was acquired by Gravity Co. Ltd., part of GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc. from February 14, 2008 on November 15, 2005. | Communications |
Samsung Catalyst
 Samsung Catalyst Investment ManagersFinance Samsung Catalyst (Samsung Catalyst) is a venture capital subsidiary of Samsung Venture Investment Corp founded in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
Gravity Interactive, Inc.
Gravity Interactive, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Gravity Interactive, Inc. is a game publisher that is best known for their popular game, Ragnarok Online. The private company is based in Marina Del Rey, CA. The company also offers other PC and mobile games. Yoshinori Kitamura has been the CEO of the company since 2008. | Technology Services |
Edison Software, Inc.
 Edison Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Edison Software, Inc. provides software applications for iPhones. It offers a free social productivity app that finds important tasks and gets things done on the spot. The company was founded by Mikael Berner and Hetal Pandya in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Technology Services |
Qeexo Co.
 Qeexo Co. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Qeexo Co. develops machine learning solutions that generates insights from sensor data. Its products include fingersense, touchtools, earsense, and fingerangle. The company was founded by Sang Won Lee, Julia Schwarz, and Chris Harrison in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC
Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC Investment ManagersFinance Nautilus Ventures Management Company US LLC (Nautilus Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Connie Sheng and Brian Yoon-Seok Kang. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Finance |
Myolex, Inc.
Myolex, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Myolex, Inc. fitness tracker provider. It develops hardware and software to accurately measure total body composition, as well as the fat content and muscle quality for specific body parts. The company was founded in 2009 by Seward Rutkove and Jose Bohorquez and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Commercial Services |
Maluuba Inc.
 Maluuba Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Maluuba Inc. provides learning networks and machine learning systems. Its applications to search for weather, events, and stores, organize alarms, calendar events and connect with friends. The company was founded by Kaheer Suleman, Sam Pasupalak, Joshua Pantony and G Wu in 2011 and is headquartered in Ontario, Canada. | Commercial Services |
Hiya, Inc.
Hiya, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Hiya, Inc. develops mobile applications for security call block. The company was founded by Alex Algard in 2016 and id headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Technology Services |
AIRY3D, Inc.
AIRY3D, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology AIRY3D, Inc provides three-dimensional (3D) machine vision. Its technology can be used in consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and security and surveillance. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. | Electronic Technology |
SparkLabs Ventures
SparkLabs Ventures Investment ManagersFinance SparkLabs Ventures (Sparklabs Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Sparklabs Co Ltd. founded in 2017 by Brian Yoon-Seok Kang and Jae-Woo Koh. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, Korea. | Finance |
Point2 Technology, Inc.
Point2 Technology, Inc. Electronic ComponentsElectronic Technology Point2 Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures low-power, high-speed, point-to-point interconnect and range enhancement solutions for cloud-based data centers and 5G infrastructure. The American company's purpose-built SOC technology consumes 40% less power and cable volume, making data centers more energy-efficient and sustainable. The CEO of the company is Jin Ho Park. | Electronic Technology |
Pangalore, Inc.
 Pangalore, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Pangalore, Inc. develops social games. It builds titles using HTML5, enabling their use on computers and devices that don’t support Adobe Flash, such as iPhone and iPad. The firm reads two puzzle games, Bubble Prince and Pop the Candy, based on its HTML5-based technology. The company was founded by Doyon Kim and Brian Yoon-Seok Kang in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Technology Services |
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