Joining NANRO Next as a mentor, Kim Hye-Jin came up through venture diligence at Samsung Electronics and Samsung Venture Investment before joining IMM Investment as a lead investment officer in its venture division, where she has driven growth-stage outcomes at companies including Korea Credit Data and the AI-semiconductor startup MangoBoost.
She sees an unmistakable resemblance between the founder's arc and a chef's: both are building something from the first stone. She joins NANRO Next as a mentor to lay the investor's language of numbers alongside the chef's language of craft, and to help clear the path for the next leap.
