Hyung Cheol Lim

General Partner (for Fund 5)

2022 - Current

True Global Ventures is licensed under Monetary Authorities of Singapore and is actively deploying in Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Blockchain companies. TGV GPs are investing their own money between 20%-35% of the total AUM. TGV Opportunity Fund (TGV 5), launched in June 2022, a 166M USD fund investing in external opportunities mainly in late stage AI companies, as well as selected portfolio companies of TGV 4 Plus Base Fund, investing from Series B onwards. Our most recent 6 investments in 2024 in AI-First companies include: - Obligo: Risk/Financial Services AI company pricing risk to remove the need for Rental Deposit distributing through property software companies. - Prezent: AI-powered business communication and presentation productivity platform. - Validation Cloud: Staking, Node APIs and providing data insights for Web3 enterprises, applications and protocols. - Jus Mundi: Leading legal tech company leveraging AI to enhance international arbitration and legal research. - Coding Giants: Using AI to co-pilot teachers in ensuring repeatable quality in coding courses. - Tookitaki: Providing anti-fraud and anti-money laundering solutions for financial institutions TGV 5 is also invested in 3 global market leaders namely Ledger, Animoca Brands, The Sandbox.

Founding Partner

2018

TGV 4 Plus Base Fund (TGV4) is a 113M USD early-stage fund that has deployed into 16 portfolio companies to date including: - Ledger: Global market leader in self-custody, cold storage hardware wallet solution with 20% of the world’s crypto assets secured, services supporting trading, buying, spending, earning, staking, etc. - The Sandbox: Global market leader in gaming metaverse empowering artists, creators, players to play, build, own, monetise virtual experiences on blockchain. - Animoca Brands: Unicorn global market leader leveraging gamification & blockchain to develop and publish a portfolio of games. Our other portfolio companies include: Forge Global (NYSE: FRGE), Coinhouse, GCEX, SATO Technologies Corp (TSXV: SATO), Chronicled, Quantumrock, Printler, Bookit N Go, Forza Football, Bus Up, Iomob. I am also supporting Business Development for: Chromaway: Creator of relational blockchain protocol Chromia ($CHR), powering Metaverse game My Neighbor Alice ($ALICE), Mines of Dalarnia ($DAR), etc Enjinstarter: Empowers innovation by giving exclusive access for investors to the next big names in Gaming, AI, DePin, Sustainability and the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Founder

2018

Blocore is a web3 focused VC in Korea and Singapore, early investor of leading web3 projects including The Sandbox, Animoca Brands, Wemix, Klaytn(Kaia) and Pixels.

Founder / CEO

2011

AIMED Inc. is an Enterprising Business Creator

Employee

2010 - 2010