Introduction to SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea, and an overview of its first class and program, which ended on March 7, 2013.

1. Premier Startup Accelerator
for Korea’s Entrepreneurs

2. Our Vision
Founded by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs
All
of
our
founders
are
entrepreneurs
who
have
built
companies
in
Korea
and
the
U.S.
We
have
endured
the
ups
and
downs
of
entrepreneurship,
successes
and
failures,
and
have
developed
a
strong
desire
to
help
out
the
next
genera>on
of
Korea’s
entrepreneurs.
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3. Our Program
Mentorship-driven Startup Accelerator
SparkLabs
is
providing
a
3-­‐month
long
program
for
seed
to
early-­‐stage
entrepreneurs
who
have
a
vision
beyond
Korea’s
borders.
Entrepreneurs
who
want
to
build
global
companies
and
have
a
vision
to
expand
to
the
U.S.,
China,
Japan
and
elsewhere.
SparkLabs
uniquely
provides
a
world-­‐class
team
of
mentors
to
accelerate
and
guide
each
of
our
companies.
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4. Our Program
Program Elements
• 4
to
8
startups
chosen
for
each
class.
Two
classes
per
year.
• Investment
of
$25,000
(typically
6%
of
the
company)
• Over
$215,000
in
free
perks
(i.e.
office
space,
hos>ng,
access
to
Silicon
Valley’s
top
law
firm,
Wilson
Sonsini)
• Assignment
of
at
least
5
world-­‐class
mentors
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5. Our Team
Bernard Moon, Co-founder & General Partner
Bernard
is
Co-­‐founder
&
CEO
of
Vidquik,
a
new
web
conferencing
&
sales
solu>ons
plaorm.
He
was
previously
a
Managing
Director
at
the
Lunsford
Group,
which
is
a
private
investment
firm
with
holdings
in
real
estate,
healthcare
and
other
industries.
Bernard
was
Co-­‐founder
&
VP
of
Business
Development
of
GoingOn
Networks,
a
social
media
plaorm
for
companies,
and
also
led
their
product
development
where
BusinessWeek
recognized
them
in
their
"Best
of
the
Web"
list.
Bernard
co-­‐founded
a
couple
other
startups,
raised
over
$50
million
in
venture
capital,
and
enjoys
helping
other
entrepreneurs
as
much
as
possible.
He
serves
as
a
mentor
to
Mucker
Lab,
a
startup
accelerator
in
LA,
and
a
mentor
at
KoFounder
Labs,
an
ini>a>ve
of
the
Korean
govt/KISED
run
by
YouNoodle
in
Silicon
Valley.
He
is
a
frequent
guest
writer
to
various
technology
journals,
such
as
VentureBeat
and
Mashable.
Bernard
has
spoke
and
lectured
about
startups
and
entrepreneurship
at
Stanford
University,
American
Chamber
of
Commerce
in
Korea
and
other
organiza>ons
James Kim, Co-founder & General Partner
Jimmy
is
Chairman
of
Inno>ve,
an
interac>ve
soiware
company
that
mixes
passion,
crea>vity
and
technology
to
create
new
interac>ve
user
experiences
and
innova>ve
presenta>on
solu>ons.
Inno>ve’s
client
lists
include
BMW,
Infini>,
Nike
Golf,
Dentsu,
Korea
Telecom
and
other
leading
worldwide
companies.
Previously,
Jimmy
was
CEO
of
Nexonova,
a
game
development
studio
of
Nexon
Corp
that
specializes
in
Social
Network
Games,
and
served
on
Nexon's
Board
of
Directors.
Prior
to
Nexonova,
Jimmy
served
Execu>ve
Vice
President
of
Nexon
Corp,
and
Head
of
Nexon’s
Portal
(www.nexon.com)
and
Web
Services.
Nexon
is
one
of
the
most
successful
online
gaming
provider,
with
games
such
as
Maple
Story,
Dungeon
and
Fighter,
Combat
Arms,
and
Kart
Rider.
Nexon
services
over
20
games
across
60
countries
to
an
audience
of
300
million.
Jimmy
received
his
B.S.
in
Engineering
from
Northwestern
University,
and
also
a
M.S.
in
Engineering
from
Korea
Advanced
Ins>tute
of
Science
and
Technology
(KAIST).
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6. Our Team
John Lee, Co-founder & General Partner
John
Lee
is
a
co-­‐founder
&
EVP
of
Corporate
Development
and
Strategy
of
Hostway.
He
serves
addi>onal
responsibili>es
as
CEO
of
Hostway
India
and
Hostway
Korea.
John
and
his
fellow
co-­‐founders
bootstrapped
Hostway
into
a
top
5
web
hos>ng
company
in
the
world
with
over
700
employees.
Hostway
is
a
mul>na>onal
web
hos>ng
company
headquartered
in
Chicago,
and
serves
more
than
600,000
customers
worldwide.
He
is
currently
responsible
for
overall
corporate
strategy,
strategic
alliances,
and
mergers
and
acquisi>ons.
Previously,
he
has
held
posi>ons
in
every
department
of
the
company,
including
leading
global
marke>ng
and
sales
and
overall
P&L
for
North
America.
Mr.
Lee
was
born
and
raised
in
Korea
and
immigrated
to
the
United
States
at
age
13.
He
holds
a
BA
in
Biology
from
the
University
of
Chicago.
Jay McCarthy, General Partner
Jay
has
more
than
22
years’
experience
in
Asia.
Currently,
as
a
Managing
Partner
of
Pacific
Advisers,
he
has
advised,
financed
and
invested
in
a
number
of
deals
across
industries,
principally
mining
&
energy,
technology
and
property.
In
recent
years,
Jay
has
focused
on
origina>ng
investment
mandates
for
PA
to
invest
its
own
capital
in
both
publicly
listed
and
private
vehicles.
Such
origina>on
leads
to
co-­‐investment
opportuni>es
selec>vely
with
the
hedge
fund
and
ins>tu>onal
investor
communi>es.
Jay
has
significant
experience
with
structuring
deals
and
working
with
their
investor,
industry
and
service
(legal
and
advisory)
counterparts.
Previously,
Jay
served
as
an
Execu>ve
Director
in
the
Equity
Division
at
Morgan
Stanley
and
worked
in
the
Tokyo,
HK,
Beijing
and
Singapore
offices
over
a
16-­‐year
period.
Within
this
>me,
Jay
served
2
years
as
Morgan
Stanley’s
“secondee”
to
China
Interna>onal
Capital
Corpora>on,
their
JV
Chinese
Investment
Bank,
as
the
Director
in
charge
of
the
Equity
Division
and
Capital
Markets
in
HK
(&
Beijing).
Prior
to
that,
Jay
worked
at
Coopers
&
Lybrand
in
New
York
(USA).
Jay
graduated
from
Boston
College
in
Newton,
MA,
USA
and
has
basic
speaking
skills
in
Japanese.
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7. Our Team
Awy Julianto, General Partner
Awy
is
a
General
Partner
of
Pacific
Advisers.
He
has
extensive
experience
in
technology,
media,
consumer
products
and
telecom
industries
in
Asia
Pacific
over
the
past
18
years.
Awy’s
key
exper>se
is
in
the
technology,
gaming,
e–
commerce,
and
consumer
retail
sectors.
His
current
areas
of
geographical
focus
are
China,
Korea
and
SEA
-­‐
Indonesia.
In
2012,
two
recent
financial
deals
that
Awy
executed
on
were
capital
raising
assignments
for
360Buy
and
Ganji
in
China.
Awy
has
served
as
Senior
Vice
President
and
Managing
Director
of
Fox
Digital
Group
at
News
Corp
where
he
was
in
charge
of
the
company's
expansion
into
the
Asia
Pacific
region
including
Australia
and
India.
Awy
has
also
previously
held
senior
management
posi>on
with
Viacom
Brand
Solu>on
and
MTV
Networks
Interna>onal,
where
he
launched
MTV
Japan,
MTV
India,
MTV
Australia,
and
MTV
Indonesia.
Awy
was
selected
as
one
of
the
ten
MTV
Networks
Interna>onal
Leaders
to
par>cipate
in
World
Class
Management
Ini>a>ve
in
London
and
Cannes.
Awy
was
also
in>mately
involved
in
the
expansion
of
Truphone,
a
global
Vodafone
UK
MVNO
partner
into
the
Asia
Pacific
and
Middle
East
region.
Awy
graduated
from
the
University
of
Parahyangan,
Indonesia.
He
speaks
English,
Bahasa
and
proficient
Mandarin.
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8. Advisors & Mentors
Advisors
Mark
Cuban,
Owner
of
the
Dallas
Mavericks
Michael
Crow,
President
of
Arizona
State
University
&
Chairman
of
In-­‐Q-­‐Tel
Ray
Ozzie,
CEO
of
Talko
&
Former
Chief
Soiware
Architect
at
Microsoi
Vint
Cerf,
Vice
President
&
Chief
Internet
Evangelist
for
Google
Tom
Peters,
Management
Guru
&
Author
of
In
Search
of
Excellence
Mentors (selected from over 90)
Charles
Huang,
Co-­‐Founder
of
RedOctane
(Guitar
Hero)
David
Lee,
Managing
Partner
of
SV
Angel
Douglas
Glen,
Former
GM
of
LucasGames
&
CSO
of
Maqel
Erik
Moreno,
SVP
of
Corp.
Development
at
Fox
Mike
Joo,
COO
of
Global
Markets
at
BofA
Merrill
Lynch
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9. Partners
Hostway Korea (free hosting)
DEMO (fast track application process / discount if accepted)
DEMO China (fast track application process / discount if accepted)
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (legal counsel / $5,000 deferred fees)
Ginger Software (free English tutoring)
Global Accelerator Network (Techstars network, over $100,000 in perks)
F6S (Accelerator platform, over $40,000 in perks)
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10. First Class of Companies
NFLabs (Big Data) Funding to date: $500,000
A big data company that built Peloton, a service that provides a full end-to-end solution to store, manage, process, and analyze large
amounts of data. The plug-and-play solution brings together Hadoop, real-time search technology and enterprise grade connectors.
The company has already scored partnership deals with Korea’s Hyosung Information Systems and Hortonworks in the US.
KnowRe (Educational Tech) Funding to date: $400,000
An educational technology company that provides learning experiences tailored to individual students. The system assesses students
strengths and weaknesses before drawing up a personalized plan based on their needs. Closed $1.4 million from Softbank Korea after
the start of the program.
Ablar Company (App Development) Funding to date: $3 million
Ablar has launched a range of mobile applications and products, including Craigslist-for-Korea ‘Bulletin’ and restaurant reservation
app ‘Reservation King, Poing’. The company has two products in the pipeline for this year, and was started by the founder of
Tatter&Company, a blogging software system bought by Google in 2008.
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11. First Class of Companies
Merrywind (Gaming) Funding to date: $400,000
The core of online gaming studio Merrywind comes from Korean gaming giant Nexon. The one-year-old company’s first product
was the recently released Facebook gambling game Hotel Casino.
WePlanet (Mobile Social Service) Funding to date: Bootstrapped
A mobile social service that tracks activities and details of a user’s life through icon-based check-ins and the aggregation of data
from services like Facebook.
Memebox (Ecommerce/Beauty) Funding to date: $200,000 (Self-funded)
A Korean online beauty store that opened in February 2012. It claims to have overtaken Rocket Internet-backed GlossyBox within
just two months of launch. The team says it is focused on building its presence on mobile and expanding into other countries in
Asia.
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12. Seminars for First Class
Hae-min Lee, Chairman of Amotech and former CEO of Samsung Electronics (LCD
Digital Appliances Group)
Taught and discussed about his experiences as CEO of a large corporation and a startup. What it takes to succeed
in business and overcoming impossible challenges. Managing rapid growth at Samsung Electronics and his
experience of taking a startup to IPO in Korea.
Charles Huang, Co-founder & CEO, GreenThrottle / Creator of Guitar Hero
Charles' entrepreneurial journey in building one of the handful of billion dollar video game franchises and his
latest effort to disrupt the video game industry.
Hyunki Moon, Former GM of Fleishman-Hillard Korea
Marketing & PR strategies for startups.
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13. Seminars for First Class
Jun-yong Hyun, VP of Enterprise Solutions at LGU+
"Open Innovation: What Are Large Corporations Looking For?” Discussed corporate partnerships and how best to
prepare for and approach large enterprise.
Eric Kim, Managing Director of Maverick Capital
Eric led investments into Kakao and Coupang. He discussed his approach towards looking for the next big
investment opportunities in Korea.
Sirgoo Lee, Co-CEO of Kakao
“Managing rapid growth." Since he managed rapid growth both at NHN and Kakao, Sirgoo discussed his
experiences and thoughts on preserving startup culture through rapid growth.
* This is a sample of the sessions given and not a complete list.
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14. Demo Day
Demo Day is “graduation day” for each class. Our first class experienced a
successful Demo Day on March7th, 2013 that was attended by over 120
investors, corporate/business development professionals and journalists.
The event created a lot of buzz with coverage from the major dailies in
Korea, KBS News (major TV network), Forbes Korea and others.
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