Kyang Yung
General Partner at Coalition Capital
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2025 - Current
Co-Founder and General Partner
2022
Coalition Capital is a new VC firm that represents a spin-out team from Inkef Capital, the top-quartile VC arm of APG/ABP (managing a substantial early-stage Tech & Healthcare fund with Euro 550m in committed capital), and former executives from Prosus, one of the world’s largest investors with a market cap of c. USD 100bn. Over the last 15 years, as a team, we have backed 17 unicorns, 8 IPOs and have built 3 institutional investment firms along the way. At Inkef, over the last 10 years, we achieved an IRR of 30% and already a 2.9x DPI on our first 2015 vintage. Coalition has already made 4 investments to date (Sikoia, MyEdSpace, Hawk AI and Monite) and will be focusing on companies at the early stage (Seed to Series B) in Europe. Coalition founders have previously backed iconic companies such as GitLab, Remote, PPRO, Similarweb, iFood, PayU, Remitly, Creditas, Skillsoft, GoodHabitz and Udemy.
Senior Advisor
2023
Docklab is a technology lab and venture studio, rooted in the Port of Rotterdam. We take pride in balancing an impact agenda, technological wanderlust and entrepreneurial grit.
Angel Investor and Member of the Advisory Board
2022
Female-founded Enfuce is the leading next-level card issuing and payment processing platform of Europe. In addition it offers open banking and sustainability services to banks, fintechs, mobility-as-a-service providers and merchants. Customers like Pleo, Swile, Rocker, Qred, St1 rely on Enfuce for the management of their credit and debit card programs. Early 2022, Enfuce raised its Series C round led by Vitruvian, with participation from existing investors Tencent and Maki.vc
Partner
2016 - 2022
Inkef is a leading European Technology & Healthcare venture capital firm headquartered in Amsterdam currently investing out of its first Euro 550m fund. Inkef is backed by ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund and has backed companies like ChannelEngine, Gitlab, Remote, Silverflow, Urban Sports Club, Robin Radar, Sentinels and Bloomon, among many others. Served as a Partner and IC member. Led 9 investments generating 30% IRR (realized and unrealized). Focus areas included Future of Commerce, Payments & FinTech, Future of Work, TravelTech and Marketplaces.
Board Member
2021 - 2022
ChannelEngine has built the most complete, high-end marketplace integration platform to power distributed commerce for the world’s leading brands. Led the Series A round in 2021. ChannelEngine went on to raise a USD 50m Series B in February 2022 led by Atomico with participation from General Catalyst.
Investor and Board Observer
2020 - 2022
Silverflow’s cloud-based acquiring processing platform provides a state-of-the-art upgrade for payment-providers. With Silverflow, PSPs can now directly access card networks, instantly add new functionality, have real-time insight into transaction fees and get smart data direct from the networks – all to better serve their merchants. Led the Series Seed investment on behalf of Inkef and doubled down in the recent Series A led by Coatue.
Board Member
2020 - 2022
Happeo is the community-powered employee communications platform that Internal Communications, HR and leaders use to align and engage talent. Inkef led the Series A in 2020. Happeo went on to raise a USD 26m Series B round led by Endeit Capital and SmartFin, with participation from Evli Growth Partners.
Board Member
2019 - 2022
Urban Sports Club is a dual B2B and B2C business and the European leader in offering a flexible sports flat rate. The aim is to encourage people to lead a healthier and more active lifestyle through the largest and most varied range of sports offers. From fitness, yoga, swimming and climbing to team sports and wellness offers - members can choose from over 50 sports to create their own unique training plan and discover new activities to feel passionate about. Inkef is a key shareholder and, over the years, the company raised more than EUR 150m from HV Capital, RTP Global, Partech, ProSiebenSat1, Global Founders Capital and Verdane.
Board Member
2018 - 2019
OneFit is a dual B2B and B2C business and the European leader in offering a flexible sports flat rate. Led the Series A in 2018. OneFit was bought by Urban Sports Club in 2019 and Inkef rolled over its stake.
Board Member
2021 - 2022
Sentinels is reinventing the world of AML compliance. Customers like Mollie, PPRO and Terrapay rely on Sentinels for AML surveillance. Inkef led the Seed round in 2021, alongside ex Adyen execs / high-profile Fintech business angels. Helped the company secure a strategic investment from payments unicorn PPRO as a seed extension. Having grown 4.0x yoy over 2021, the company was bought by RegTech unicorn Fenergo, within 12 months of our investment, realizing a 200% IRR.