5x founder

Taehoon Kim

Tech Founder & Investor | 5x Entrepreneur | a16z speedrun scout

Founder

Spekter Games· Speedrun 004 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025Advisor· Atom Real Tokens

Founder · since 2002

Company

Atom Real Tokens

Role

Advisor

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Spekter Games

The Future of Gaming is on Super Apps. Spekter Games is a next-gen game publisher on Telegram blending Web2 and Web3 features to supercharge monetization and retention at massive scale.

Speedrun 004

Experience

Career

Spekter Games
Founder
CEO, Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Atom Real Tokens
Advisor · 2025 – Present
2025
Angel Investor
Angel Investor · 2020 – Present
2020
Space Nation Inc.
Advisor · 2023 – 2026
2023
Random Games Company Inc.
Advisor · 2024 – 2025
2024
Animoca Brands
Advisor · 2023 – 2024
2023
Animoca Brands
CEO, nWay · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – 2023
2020
nWay Inc.
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO (acquired by Animoca Brands) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2011 – 2023
2011
Ronday
Board Member · 2022 – 2023
2022
Coffee Meets Bagel
Advisor · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – 2019
2013
Cloudgine
Advisor (acquired by Epic Games) · Edinburgh, United Kingdom · 2016 – 2017
2016
SUNDAYTOZ (IPO - 2013)
Advisor · 2010 – 2014
2010
Pixelberry Inc. (acquired)
Founder
Founder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2010 – 2011
2010
Nurien Software (acquired by Netmarble CJ E&M)
Co-founder
Co-founder, President · 2005 – 2010
2005
IvyConnection (acquired)
Founder
Founder · 2002 – 2009
2002
Realtime Worlds (acquired by GamersFirst)
President, Realtime Worlds Korea · 2005 – 2008
2005
Samsung Electronics
Product manager · 2002 – 2005
2002

Bio

Taehoon Kim (TK) is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years in the gaming industry. TK has raised over $100M in capital from top-tier VCs, and successfully founded and exited multiple companies, including nWay, Pixelberry, and Nurien. At nWay, he led the development of real-time, cross-play multiplayer hits like Power Rangers: Legacy Wars and Battle for the Grid, which surpassed 100 million downloads. After nWay’s acquisition by Animoca Brands in 2020, TK stayed on for three years, driving Web3 gaming initiatives and gaining firsthand exposure to hundreds of Web3 projects. With deep expertise in both Web2 and Web3 game development, he is uniquely positioned to create games that seamlessly blend the two for mainstream adoption.