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David Lee is the Head of Samsung Next and Executive Vice President at Samsung Electronics. Samsung Next invests in the boldest and most ambitious founders in the artificial intelligence, blockchain, fintech, new media, healthtech and infrastructure spaces, including companies such as MosaicML, Empirical Health, LayerZero Labs, and Mitiga, among others.
Prior to Samsung, Lee co-founded and served as Chairman of Refactor Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups in health and biology. He was the founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel, an angel fund which invested in companies such as Twitter, Foursquare, Flipboard, Instacart, Dropbox and Airbnb. Prior to SV Angel, Lee was at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage venture firm, and a founding member of Google’s New Business Development team. He also was a corporate attorney.
Lee has an Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow; a JD from New York University; and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.
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