Jiho Kang
Partner, Korea at Antler
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJiho Kang is a Seoul-based partner at Antler and a 2x exited serial entrepreneur with 10+ years building products, marketplaces, and crypto infrastructure across Korea and global markets. He co-founded KRWb, the world’s first Korean Won-backed stablecoin (acquired by Binance), and led the launch of Binance.KR as Country Manager, blending product leadership with deep technical fluency. Earlier roles include CPO at YC-backed Soomgo, product ownership at Coupang where he shipped a Prime-like loyalty MVP, and multiple founder/CTO positions that span front-end, backend and mobile engineering. His developer toolkit emphasizes TypeScript, React, modern .NET, DDD and metaprogramming, reflecting a hands-on approach to complex systems and platform design. A former adjunct lecturer in entrepreneurship and participant in 500 Startups and Y Combinator programs, he pairs founder grit with venture and operator experience across consumer and crypto spaces. An avid builder and “wanderer,” he combines product intuition with rare on-the-ground execution in both startup and VC roles.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Global Management, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Global Management at Kyung Hee UniversityW17, Soomgo, W17, Soomgo at Y CombinatorWinter ‘11 Batch, Wander(aka Yongopal), Winter ‘11 Batch, Wander(aka Yongopal) at 500 StartupsMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at SKK GSB Sungkyunkwan University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (51)
graph10
react-native9
javascript9
ios9
diagram9
django-database9
android9
flowchart9
react9
react-library9
cross-platform8
react-flow8
typescript8
svelte8
mongoose8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
peanut-lover/store-5
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:41 PRs, 158 pushes, 28 branches in 20 days
peanudge/peanut-lover.github.io
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:60 commits, 119 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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