Jayden Kim

Managing Partner

Jayden focuses on assessing investment opportunities with unique angles of value creation through corporate development and operational levers, including global expansion, restructuring, and strategic M&A and partnerships.

Prior to APL Ventures, he spent about a decade in finance, which include experiences from both an investment and operations perspective. He started his career with Goldman Sachs IBD, and worked at Morgan Stanley Private Equity. While serving as CFO at Blank Corporation, he successfully led the turnaround & restructuring of the business, closed a funding round from two Korean conglomerates, and executed six M&A transactions.

Jayden holds a BS in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.