Jimmy Kim (Korean name: Ho min Kim) is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. Previously, Jimmy was CEO of Nexonova, a game development studio of Nexon Corp that specializes in Social Network Games.

While at Nexonova, Jimmy also served as Executive Vice President of Nexon Corp, and Head of Nexon’s Portal and Web Services (www.nexon.com, Nexon is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange:TYO: 3659) In 2012, Jimmy also co-founded gaming company StudioEx which was acquired by Disney. (https://venturebeat.com/games/disney-pushes-into-asia-with-purchase-of-south-koreas-studio-ex/)

In 2016, Jimmy was named Fintech Asia 100 which was compiled by Next Money, in partnership with EY and supported by Visa. (https://fintechnews.sg/6818/fintech/fintechasia100-best-fintech-talents-leaders-community-builders/)

In 2020, Business Insider named Jimmy to their annual list of 10 leaders transforming investing in Asia. (https://www.businessinsider.com/cofounder-of-accelerator-spark-labs-attributes-success-of-korean-startups-to-global-mindset-2020-11)

Jimmy received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University, and also a M.S. in Bio-medical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Jimmy also completed the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business’s Executive Management Program.