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Christine Kim

Christine invests in the next generation of vertical software companies and marketplaces.

Christine Kim
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I’m interested in tech that promises to fundamentally transform how people live and work and play.

Leaping into the unknown

I grew up in the Bay Area but entered the tech world somewhat unexpectedly. I took my first computer science class when I was most of the way through my undergraduate degree at Dartmouth. I’d always thought of computer science as a formulaic skill but was surprised by how creative it was. I was captivated by the thrill you get in finding new ways to solve problems and decided to go deeper. I reconfigured my major to study it. After graduation, I became a software engineer, and then, a product lead at Uber. Five years later, I joined Greylock. With each transition, from student to engineer to operator to investor, I was leaping into the unknown.

For a long time, there was a sense that tech investing was something you did towards the twilight of your career. Firms like Greylock changed that. They realized that younger investors brought fresh points of view and often had a better grasp of how the world is changing. As an investor with a technical background who is from the same generation as many founders, I can relate to them on a deeper level and help them look toward our shared future.

A culture of velocity

Uber’s culture was one of grit and hunger. Our team was encouraged to move at a light speed and ship early and often. We would start iterating on a product immediately after it went live. When our team decided to go after food delivery, we turned around Uber Eats in a matter of weeks, by launching it in the existing ride hailing app. People forget this but we weren’t the first in our market — we just moved the fastest.

That experience has stayed with me. Today, I try to identify founders who have that same hunger, grit, and velocity.

Vertical software 2.0

I am fully dedicated to vertical software and marketplaces. There are still too many industries where the bulk of the workflows has yet to be digitized. Whether it’s manufacturing, healthcare, education, real estate, supply chain, restaurants, legal, insurance, energy and utilities, there’s a huge opportunity to build tools that simplify outdated processes and increase labor productivity. These verticals can also benefit from technologies like embedded payments and new services and marketplaces. And the overall opportunity in vertical software is only going to grow with the rapid adoption of AI.

 

Portfolio Companies

magic eden logo

Home to the next generation of digital creators.

Domain

Fintech & Crypto, Marketplace & Commerce

FIRST PARTNERED

Series A

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Mike Duboe, Christine Kim

LEADERSHIP

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Mountain View, CA | USA

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pinata logo

Your Home for NFT Media.

Domain

Fintech & Crypto, SaaS

FIRST PARTNERED

Seed

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Mike Duboe, Christine Kim

LEADERSHIP

HQ

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portals logo

A browser-based metaverse built for everyone.

Domain

Consumer, Fintech & Crypto

FIRST PARTNERED

Seed

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Mike Duboe, Christine Kim

LEADERSHIP

HQ

Metaverse

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magic eden logo

Home to the next generation of digital creators.

Magic Eden is the #1 NFT marketplace on Solana. Our mission is to be the destination for discovering, trading, and creating NFTs. In its first two months since launch, Magic Eden has done ~$200M in trading volume to become the dominant NFT platform on Solana.

DOMAIN

Fintech & Crypto, Marketplace & Commerce

FIRST PARTNERED

Series A

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Mike Duboe, Christine Kim

LEADERSHIP

Zhouxun Yin, Co-Founder

Jack Lu, Co-Founder

HQ

Mountain View, CA | USA

pinata logo

Your Home for NFT Media.

Pinata’s mission is to help creators provide an experience worth paying for.

DOMAIN

Fintech & Crypto, SaaS

FIRST PARTNERED

Seed

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Mike Duboe, Christine Kim

LEADERSHIP

Kyle Tut, CEO

Matt Ober, CTO

portals logo

A browser-based metaverse built for everyone.

A web-based metaverse built on the Solana blockchain. With a focus on a dense city center and zero-friction UX, Portals is an immersive social space where you can explore, build, and gather with others. With easy build tools and built-in communication features, players can customize immersive virtual spaces and experiences—such as residences, offices, or storefronts—in a downtown metropolitan area. Players gather, collect, build, explore, participate in economic activities, form communities, play user-built games in the arcade, and work towards building the best city in the metaverse.

DOMAIN

Consumer, Fintech & Crypto

FIRST PARTNERED

Seed

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Mike Duboe, Christine Kim

LEADERSHIP

Adam Gomez, CEO

Jacquie Chang, CPO

Chris Lund, CMO

HQ

Metaverse

Insights

Vertical AI
Greymatter // Christine Kim

Vertical AI

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Greymatter // Christine Kim

Strategy at Scale

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The New Computing Paradigm
Greymatter // Christine Kim

The New Computing Paradigm

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Bringing Web3 to the World
Greymatter // Christine Kim

Bringing Web3 to the World

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The Metaverse In Your Browser

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Building Blocks for Tokenized Media

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