Sung M. Cho

Founder & CEO, Chartmetric / Board Member, SM Entertainment

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023
VC🌍 United States
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Jan 2023
Entrepreneurship & Opportunity Global startup media enabling the next generation of builders through exceptional content
Investor
Oct 2022
Collaborative sales management and CRM software for startups and SMBs.
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
We have developed Quabble to make mental wellness practices joyful, engaging, and a natural part of everyone’s daily life, so that they are better equipped to handle life’s daily challenges. Quabble’s wide range of unique and easy mental wellness routines, along with specialized community connect features are designed to ensure consistent mental well-being. With Quabble, you don’t have to juggle between multiple apps for sleep, meditation, emotional well-being, anxiety management, journaling, virtual pet care etc. You can now maintain daily mental wellness with JUST ONE joyful app, effortlessly! Our current statistics: - 98% of regular users reported that our mind workouts have helped them manage their mental health - 184k+ mind workouts have been completed on Quabble so far
Seed Investor
Mar 2015
Liner is an AI search engine for students and researchers. Liner AI Search helps users find reliable knowledge in seconds based on reliable references using AI technology. Reliable AI comes from a source of reliable knowledge. Liner selects reliable sources based on highlighting data accumulated since 2015 and provides accurate answers. Liner empowers students by combining the power of Large Language Models (LLM) with a unique database of trusted sources, enabling faster and more relevant information discovery. Over 10,000,000 users globally love Liner and it was recognized by a16z as the 4th most used Generative AI product on the web. We want to help more students and researchers access high-quality information easily, thus saving time during research.
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Feb 2015
Riiid is a leading AI solutions provider delivering creative disruption to the education market through its cutting-edge technology. The company aims to empower global education players to rethink the traditional ways of learning via extending Riiids AI competency. We partner with global leaders in education, skills training, and technology to create better learning experiences. We help learners realize their goals in the fastest, most efficient way. Riiid Labs is the global arm of parent company Riiid and has been established in Silicon Valley to build upon Riiids success in Asia and to expand its business across the U.S., South America, Middle East, and beyond. With a strong belief in equal opportunity in education, Riiid launched Santa for TOEIC in 2017, the company’s first commercialized AI tutor solution based on deep-learning algorithm, attracting more than a million users in South Korea. Riiid’s AI tutor solution replaces textbooks and traditional lectures with a personalized AI tutor outpacing human tutors at a fraction of the cost. Based on highly scalable and proven AI technology, Riiid is aggressively expanding its business to new test areas and geographical markets.
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Feb 2012
Opensurvey has transformed the way companies understand customers experiences and convert them into data assets - the building blocks of customer communication and satisfaction. We have revolutionized consumer research by making surveys ubiquitous on consumers mobile. Our main strengths include the ability to swiftly mobilize a large and qualified pool of proprietary panels as well as the ability to handle surveys in 19 languages. Our clients have access to near real time survey results and advanced analytics on our in-house developed platform called OPENANAYTICS. OPENSURVEY has conducted more than 13,000 projects with more than 1,800 clients around the world. We strive to empower our clients uncover consumer-centric, actionable data.
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Dec 2010
Noom is the worlds leading behavior change company, disrupting the weight loss and healthcare industries. By combining the power of artificial intelligence, mobile tech, and psychology with the empathy of personal coaches, Noom helps people live healthier lives by changing their long-term habits. More than 50 million people have benefited from Noom’s behavior change courses, including its virtual diabetes prevention program, which was the first of its kind to be recognized by the CDC. The Noom platform is already being used by leading healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to improve treatment outcomes for patients worldwide. The company is headquartered in New York City with employees living and working worldwide. To learn more about careers with Noom, visit https://www.noom.com/careers **Disclaimer: Noom, Inc. job offers will only come from @noom.com personnel. Do not believe fraudulent Recruiters or similar domain names. @noomteam.com and similar [noomjobname]@gmail are not affiliated whatsoever with Noom, Inc.**
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2023
Board Member
Apr 2023
SM Entertainment is a South Korean multinational entertainment agency. Since its establishment in 1995, SM Entertainment has pioneered the entertainment industry in Korea and is a total entertainment group leading the global Korean Wave and K-POP sensation. SM Group manages over 400 artists combined, including our own trained and cultivated musicians and other casted talents such as MCs, entertainers, actors, models, and influencers. It is the largest entertainment company in Korea and has been responsible for fostering and popularizing the careers of many K-pop starts garnering huge global fanbases. Our recent business strategy and development plan : "SM 3.0," focusing on integrating various aspects of the companys operations, including music production, content creation, and global distribution, into a cohesive system will lead to the expansion of the companys market presence and enhance its offerings to provide a more comprehensive experience for our fans.
Investor
Jan 2023
Entrepreneurship & Opportunity Global startup media enabling the next generation of builders through exceptional content
2022
Investor
Oct 2022
Collaborative sales management and CRM software for startups and SMBs.
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
We have developed Quabble to make mental wellness practices joyful, engaging, and a natural part of everyone’s daily life, so that they are better equipped to handle life’s daily challenges. Quabble’s wide range of unique and easy mental wellness routines, along with specialized community connect features are designed to ensure consistent mental well-being. With Quabble, you don’t have to juggle between multiple apps for sleep, meditation, emotional well-being, anxiety management, journaling, virtual pet care etc. You can now maintain daily mental wellness with JUST ONE joyful app, effortlessly! Our current statistics: - 98% of regular users reported that our mind workouts have helped them manage their mental health - 184k+ mind workouts have been completed on Quabble so far
2015
Founder and CEO
Sep 2015
Chartmetric helps the music industry make smarter and faster music business decisions by providing reliable data, beautiful visuals, in-depth insights, innovative features, and rockstar customer support. Access market-level data from more than 20 music streaming and social media sources — plus, the power of data science … all in one place. We are the music industrys leading data analytics platform, and we cant wait to see what you create.
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