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David Lee          

Head of Samsung Next; Executive Vice President at Samsung Electronics

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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SV Angel’s David Lee Is In A New York State Of Mind
SV Angel founding partner David Lee joined us backstage today for an informal discussion about a range of topics. Lee recently began writing on the new blogging platform Svbtle, sharing wisdom from his vantage point as a leader of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful early-stage funds. In this talk, Lee shares his motivations for blogging more, how he uses Foursquare as a search tool, and why Skillshare is important to the NYC tech community and could be a major platform. Toward the end of the video clip, he candidly reveals the most effective ways to get in touch with him and his partners at SV Angel, encouraging founders to send links to their products. With roughly a quarter of their portfolio in the NYC area, Lee and his partners are undoubtedly bullish about all the new companies sprouting up in the Big Apple.

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