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Translink Capital

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Translink Capital: Palo Alto VC firm supporting US entrepreneurs in Northeast Asia.

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01.01.2007

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With $1B under management, Translink Capital leverages its proprietary insights and connections to strategic Asian partners, such as Foxconn and SoftBank, to add value to its portfolio companies. Led by experienced investors and operators, the firm focuses on investing in startups in the Advertising and Software sectors. Translink Capital typically invests in startups that are 4-5 years old and has a track record of investing in rounds with 4-5 participants.
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Sung Park
Sung Park

Sung Park

Sung Park is a co-founder of TransLink Capital. Sung is responsible for TransLink's investments in Silent Music Band and Xsigo. He supports TransLink portfolio companies with their customers and partners in Korea and Japan. He is also the CEO of SPKorea. Prior to TransLink, seeing well-known Silicon Valley start-ups such as Juniper and Alteon achieving early success in the Korean market, Sung founded SPKorea in 2003 to provide U.S. start-ups with an access to the Korean market and the Korean market with an access to technology and financial institutions in the U.S. Prior to SPKorea, Sung founded Soundpipe Inc. in 1999. Soundpipe developed small to medium office IP PBX and Wi-Fi IP phones. Soundpipe achieved the price point of key telephone systems with the features and functions of PBXs, fully utilizing the standards based technology in the Internet world. Soundpipe also developed one of the world's first Wi-Fi phones based on the UMS client technology. In 2003, the company was acquired by Comdial Inc., a major PBX vendor in the U.S. Early in his professional career, Sung worked for 3Com as a router product manager, for Mitsubishi in Tokyo, and for McKinsey in Seoul. Sung holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves on the board of Indochina Capital and the board of trustees of The Hill School.

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Toshi Otani
Toshi Otani

Toshi Otani

Toshi Otani is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at TransLink Capital.

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Toshi Otani

Jay Eum
Jay Eum

Jay Eum

Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.

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GFT Ventures

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Jay Eum

Jackie Yang
Jackie Yang

Jackie Yang

Jackie Yang is a co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. He brought over 10 years of venture investment experience to the team and was one of the most active investors in the semiconductor industry during that period. Jackie is responsible for TransLink's investments in Adwo, Memoright, Montage, SandForce (acquired by LSI), Tango, and Winking Entertainment. Before starting TransLink, Jackie was the Senior Vice President at UMC Capital and was responsible for UMC's investment activities in the United States and China. During his tenure at UMC Capital, he was the founding investor in Maxlinear (NYSE: MXL), Montage Technology Group, and Parade Technologies, and served on the boards of Aicent, Aurora Systems, ForteMedia, Praesagus (acquired by CDNS), Triscend (acquired by XLNX), and WisChip (acquired by Micronas). Jackie started his venture career at InveStar Capital in 1996, where he specialized in semiconductor and telecommunication companies. He was actively involved in InveStar U.S. portfolio companies including Advanced Analogic Technologies (NASDAQ: AATI), AltiGen Communications (NASDAQ: ATGN), Centillium Communications (NASDAQ: CTLM), Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL), and Sage (NASDAQ: SAGI, merged with Genesis Microchip). Jackie received his MBA degree from University of Missouri, Columbia and BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Tsinghua University, Taiwan.

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Tiffany Huang

Tiffany Huang

Senior Associate

Tomohiro Uchida

Tomohiro Uchida

Partner

Steve Carlin

Steve Carlin

Venture Partner & Executive in Residence

Tyler Tanaka

Tyler Tanaka

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Kaz Kikuchi

Kaz Kikuchi

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Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Yamamoto

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Helen Fieler

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