Summary
Jae Kim is a Co-CEO and two-time founder who builds AI-powered language technology to bridge communication gaps in highly specialized domains. With over a decade in translation and localization and nine years of hands-on tech experience, he leads Bering Lab in developing neural machine translation engines and cloud translation tools backed by major investors like SoftBank Ventures and Naver. His background spans investment banking and private equity as well as founding a leading e-commerce platform (Althea) in Southeast Asia, giving him uncommon fluency in both financial discipline and startup execution. Based in Seoul and trained in accounting, finance, and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, he combines product-focused engineering sensibilities with operator-level business strategy.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS, Accounting and Finance at University of Pennsylvania