Brendon Kim led venture investing at Samsung NEXT, where Samsung NEXT's own blog identifies him as Samsung NEXT Ventures managing director and a 2018 conference interview gives his title as VP, MD, Global Head of Ventures. Before Samsung he was a co-founding general partner at Altos Ventures and worked as a strategy consultant at CSC Index and SMS Coopers & Lybrand, and he earlier ran early-stage venture investing at Samsung Electronics' Open Innovation Center as a Senior Director. He holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and an A.B. from Princeton University. He is not listed on the current Samsung NEXT team page.
Education
MBA, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
A.B., Princeton University
Previous Experience
Co-Founding General Partner, Altos Ventures
Senior Director, Samsung Electronics Open Innovation Center
Spoke at TechSparks in India as VP, MD, Global Head of Ventures at Samsung NEXT, describing an active portfolio of more than 55 companies.
2019
Argued at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference, as Samsung NEXT Ventures managing director, that the next wave of AI would run at the edge rather than in the cloud.
2025
Listed as Managing Director and Head of Next Ventures at Samsung Next on the SparkLabs and Nex AI Startup Forum speaker page.