Tim Chae

Tim is a Partner at 500 Startups and is the head of 500's Korea fund and operations, making 15-20 seed stage tech startup investments a year. Tim splits time between San Francisco and Seoul. Some of his investments include OP.GG, PeopleFund, 82 Labs (Morning Recovery Drink), Lottery.com, Rachio, Dano, and Hush. In 2016, he was named to the Forbes Asia's inaugural "30 Under 30" in Finance and Venture Capital. Prior to 500S, Tim founded several bootstrapped and venture backed startups, and most recently, PostRocket which provided Facebook newsfeed optimization for brands. As an entrepreneur, Tim was named one of the top Youth Entrepreneurs in US by NFIB and McKelvey Foundation, and almost simultaneously, also became one of the youngest VCs at the age of 19, as an Associate at a seed stage micro-VC firm in Boston. Continuing his career in VC, Tim became one of the youngest GPs at the age of 23 in 2015 with the closing of 500 Kimchi, L.P.