Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Goodwater Capital · Joined 2014
View Live Interactive Profile →Eric Kim is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital, which he started with Chi-Hua Chien in 2014. Before Goodwater he served as a Managing Director at Maverick Capital. Goodwater's team page lists Kakao, Musical.ly, Zenefits and Upsight among his investments, without stating which were made at Goodwater and which earlier. He majored in Cognitive Science at Yale University and holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of the Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology and on the non-profit board of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. The firm's press release of 25 July 2023 also refers to him as Eric J. Kim.