Kyle Jung
Partner at Akaris Global Partners
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - 2024
Akaris employs a fundamental, research-focused strategy to build a concentrated portfolio of structural winners: resilient and growing businesses with attractive reinvestment opportunities that are led by top-tier operating teams. We aim to be disciplined and patient capital in public markets, underwriting a step-function change in value over a three- to five-year period. Akaris maintains a concentrated portfolio of public equities (~12 positions) in the technology, consumer, and industrial sectors. Manage ~$500m of AUM for sovereign wealth fund, endowment and high net worth partners.
Akaris Global Partners invests in publicly-traded companies in major developed markets.
Investment Analyst
2021 - 2022
Concentrated, global internet public equity and venture fund.
Investment Analyst
2020 - 2021
Concentrated, global public and private equity fund.
ShawSpring Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology, the internet, and the consumer sectors.
Founder
2019 - 2020
Custom sneaker marketplace.
Private Equity Associate
2017 - 2019
Secondary private equity.
Investment Banking Analyst
2015 - 2017
Consumer & Retail M&A.