Albert Kim

EVP Head of Samsung Ventures America

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021
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Board Observer
Oct 2021
SAM is the leading provider of cloud-native security and intelligence services for unmanaged networks and IoTs, covering upwards of 500 million connected devices globally. With its powerful and intuitive AI technology, SAM addresses the challenges of our hyperconnected world, in which an explosion of IoT devices exposes potential attack surfaces for companies and consumers alike. SAMs device-agnostic software provides deep ​network visibility to not only protect against sophisticated cyber-attacks in real-time, but also to prevent the spread of zero-day attacks. SAMs solutions have been designed to study the behavior of a single network of fragmented devices. By using its unique cloud-based device and threat intelligence, SAM identifies every connected device and creates customized protection for all home and SMB users, forming a bulletproof network. SAMs solution is proven to provide telcos with new revenue streams, reduced churn, and minimized support costs through value-added services that strengthen their market positioning and create more value for their customers.
Board Observer
Sep 2021
The largest enterprises rely on TrueFort to secure their data center and cloud environments. After decades seeing disparate tools fail to protect our businesses, we decided to build what we could never buy: a platform with continuous behavior analytics, application intelligence, and automated enforcement for the application runtime environment. We believe in aligning security, operations, and development teams around a single truth for the optimal resources for each application to take control of lateral movement in the most critical environments.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
RapidDeploy was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2025, and is now part of its ecosystem of safety and security technologies. RapidDeploy’s Next Generation 911 (NG911) product suite accelerates emergency response and enhances decision-making. About Motorola Solutions: Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com
late stagePublic Safety
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Sitetracker empowers owners, operators, contractors, and other stakeholders to streamline and optimize the complete asset lifecycle of critical infrastructure. As the leading global complete Asset Lifecycle Management platform, Sitetracker helps innovative companies like Vodafone, Ericsson, ENGIE, Telefonica, Cypress Creek Renewables, Cox, Iberdrola, EVgo, Vantage Towers, Southern Company, Zayo, Tilson, Nextera, EDOTCO, E.On, Axione, and TEP efficiently plan, build, operate, and maintain millions of projects, sites, and assets. Sitetracker delivers operational excellence and creates full transparency across industries such as digital infrastructure, renewables, EV charging, utilities, and real estate by driving safe, efficient teams, ensuring healthy projects, and enabling organizations to manage scale, growth, and complexity. Trusted by hundreds of industry leaders, Sitetracker advances a more connected and sustainable future across the world. Manage What’s Critical, with Sitetracker.
Board Observer
May 2019
Juvo was founded with an overarching mission: to empower the billions of unbanked people around the world to create financial identities and access financial services - all through their everyday interactions with their mobile phone. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-based relationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Since emerging from stealth in September 2016, Juvo has increased its global reach more than five times over, from 100 million to over 500 million, and has steadily grown its operations and employee base worldwide with 55 employees today. To date, Juvo has enabled over 250M transactions in 25 countries and 4 continents, with 1M active users per day. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Juvo just completed a US$40 million Series B funding round with funding from by top-tier VCs including NEA, Wing Venture, and Freestyle Capital. Early investors in the company, including the former CEOs of AT&T Wireless, NYSE, Sprint, Telefonica International and Vodafone Group, have each taken part in the latest B round. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
Mode transforms physically discrete service provider underlays into efficient, unified networks that combine cloud scale and flexibility with guaranteed QoS and SLAs. Mode Autonomous Fabric is a distributed, autonomous control system that turns commodity hardware into mathematically optimal software routers. Our solution simplifies operations, drives profitability, and accelerates business innovation and growth. Networks crafted from Mode Fabric, like the Mode SD-CORE NaaS for Enterprises and SaaS providers, deliver ideal performance at every moment — for any application, cloud, device, location, identity, and SLA. Mode Autonomous Fabric has been embraced by Ericsson, global service providers, and the National Science Foundation. Mode is backed by GV and NEA, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA.
Board Observer
May 2007
Magnum Semiconductor is a leading provider of silicon, modules, software and IP for the professional broadcast infrastructure market. Magnum provides top of the line products, tools and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, Satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. Magnum Semiconductor is headquartered in Milpitas, California, with sales and engineering offices in Canada, Europe, China, Japan and Korea.
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May 2007
Cisco has acquired Navini Networks, Inc.. Please continue to follow Cisco on our company page on LinkedIn.http://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the companys inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 65,225 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the companys core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as:
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2021
Board Observer
Oct 2021
SAM is the leading provider of cloud-native security and intelligence services for unmanaged networks and IoTs, covering upwards of 500 million connected devices globally. With its powerful and intuitive AI technology, SAM addresses the challenges of our hyperconnected world, in which an explosion of IoT devices exposes potential attack surfaces for companies and consumers alike. SAMs device-agnostic software provides deep ​network visibility to not only protect against sophisticated cyber-attacks in real-time, but also to prevent the spread of zero-day attacks. SAMs solutions have been designed to study the behavior of a single network of fragmented devices. By using its unique cloud-based device and threat intelligence, SAM identifies every connected device and creates customized protection for all home and SMB users, forming a bulletproof network. SAMs solution is proven to provide telcos with new revenue streams, reduced churn, and minimized support costs through value-added services that strengthen their market positioning and create more value for their customers.
Board Observer
Sep 2021
The largest enterprises rely on TrueFort to secure their data center and cloud environments. After decades seeing disparate tools fail to protect our businesses, we decided to build what we could never buy: a platform with continuous behavior analytics, application intelligence, and automated enforcement for the application runtime environment. We believe in aligning security, operations, and development teams around a single truth for the optimal resources for each application to take control of lateral movement in the most critical environments.
2020
Board Observer
Aug 2020
RapidDeploy was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2025, and is now part of its ecosystem of safety and security technologies. RapidDeploy’s Next Generation 911 (NG911) product suite accelerates emergency response and enhances decision-making. About Motorola Solutions: Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com
late stagePublic Safety
2019
Board Observer
Sep 2019
Sitetracker empowers owners, operators, contractors, and other stakeholders to streamline and optimize the complete asset lifecycle of critical infrastructure. As the leading global complete Asset Lifecycle Management platform, Sitetracker helps innovative companies like Vodafone, Ericsson, ENGIE, Telefonica, Cypress Creek Renewables, Cox, Iberdrola, EVgo, Vantage Towers, Southern Company, Zayo, Tilson, Nextera, EDOTCO, E.On, Axione, and TEP efficiently plan, build, operate, and maintain millions of projects, sites, and assets. Sitetracker delivers operational excellence and creates full transparency across industries such as digital infrastructure, renewables, EV charging, utilities, and real estate by driving safe, efficient teams, ensuring healthy projects, and enabling organizations to manage scale, growth, and complexity. Trusted by hundreds of industry leaders, Sitetracker advances a more connected and sustainable future across the world. Manage What’s Critical, with Sitetracker.
Board Observer
May 2019
Juvo was founded with an overarching mission: to empower the billions of unbanked people around the world to create financial identities and access financial services - all through their everyday interactions with their mobile phone. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-based relationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Since emerging from stealth in September 2016, Juvo has increased its global reach more than five times over, from 100 million to over 500 million, and has steadily grown its operations and employee base worldwide with 55 employees today. To date, Juvo has enabled over 250M transactions in 25 countries and 4 continents, with 1M active users per day. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Juvo just completed a US$40 million Series B funding round with funding from by top-tier VCs including NEA, Wing Venture, and Freestyle Capital. Early investors in the company, including the former CEOs of AT&T Wireless, NYSE, Sprint, Telefonica International and Vodafone Group, have each taken part in the latest B round. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.
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