About FuturePlay

INVESTBUILD

Hire entrepreneurs/inventors

Incubate idea and innovation

Build tech-centric startups

We focus on doing 2 things well.

Invest in early tech-startups

Accelerate the growth

Grow our network

About FuturePlay

• We are a company that builds tech-centric startups

Startups that, when combined together, will form a strong network

• Over 200 years of combined experiences among partners, specialists, inventors and advisors

Specialty in software, HCI/UX, internet, mobile, invention and startup incubating/investment field

• We are working to become the highway connecting two startup hotspots (Asia↔U.S.)

Entrepreneurial

Inventors

Patents Funding

Startup R&D

Human

Resource

Business

Development

Marketing

Our mission is to help “Inventors”

with strong entrepreneurship to build and lead

high-tech startups.

To do this, FuturePlay builds a portfolio of our own

intellectual property. With 50+ relevant patents.

We also invests in startups that will help our

network grow: mainly in U.S. and Korea

About FuturePlay

Target Technology Overview

HCI/UX

software

Service

platform

Hardware

platform

Big Data

analysis

FuturePlay’s early focus will be in technologies that

innovate human-computer interactions and UX for smart devices

Innovating

users’ interactions

with smart devices

Expanding

the scope of computing

from body to external

environments

Enabling

optimized data exchanges

between users and clouds

Finding

users’ unmet needs in real-time

via analyzing data from

multiple devices

Core Philosophy

Why These Technologies?

• A center of competition: Apple vs. Samsung

• Future smart devices must-have HCI/UX features:

See iOS7 and Samsung Galaxy series

• Already big potential market: with smartphones,

tablets, and new devices and eco-systems rising –

including wearable computing and big data

• Huge M&A/IPO opportunities: 2,277 acquisitions

made by big players in 2012 and growing; $20.6M

average value of acquired companies in 2012 (Total

$46.8B)

Why Inventors?

• Ideas and intellectual properties are essential for any

successful startups in our target sector - major inventors

dictate the success of a company; two Steves in Apple, and

Larry & Sergey in Google

• Problematic and complicated processes (registering IP,

finding co-founders, funds, prototyping, managing product,

and PR) are required when building one’s own company,

particularly in high-tech. FuturePlay manages these

processes on inventor’s behalf, allowing them to focus on

technology development

• By attracting high-quality candidates with developed ideas

in universities, research centres, and big companies, we can

help them build their own IPs and startups

Company Structure

Investors invest directly in FuturePlay

• Proceeds are used to fund FuturePlay investment activities as well

as to support FuturePlay central cost base

FuturePlay Co. makes investments via:

1. Inventors Program (Invetors-In-Residence + Boosting)

2. Company Investment

– For the Inventors Program, FuturePlay provides hands-on support,

including engineering, prototyping, product management,

patent, legal, finance, and marketing

FuturePlay Portfolio Companies:

1. Internally Boosted Portfolio (from the Inventors Program)

– Boosting Company spin-off from FuturePlay

2. External Investment Portfolio

– Simple equity investment

– No previous boosting within FuturePlay

Investor

FuturePlay

Internally

Boosted

Portfolio

PartnersAdvisors

Inventors in Residence

External

Investment

Portfolio

Boosting

Companies

Specialists

Inventors Program

‘Spin-off’ can be made between A-B

• Constantly interview and admit new inventors

• Inventor-in-Residence (IIR) can stay up to

1 year with a competitive salary

• Inventors Program provides hands-on support

in product development, patent registration,

engineering, marketing

FuturePlay owns IPR at this stage

Inventor-in-Residence

Program Ends.

‘Spin-off’ from FuturePlay.

Max. 1 Yr

• At the end of the program, FP

decides on company spin-off

• FP gets a seat at the board and

transfers IP to the company

A B

Boosting

Max. 1 Yr

• IIR applies for boosting

— If no Boosting Co. is formed, IIR leaves

• FuturePlay invests up to ₩100M in 1~2 rounds

— min. 20% equity, up to 35% max.

• Boosting Co. continues to receive hands-on

support from FuturePlay

FuturePlay equity in Boosting Co. = 20-35%

Inventors in Residence

Sungjae Hwang • Ph.D at KAIST

• 150+ patents in US / KR.

• 15+ patents acquired by leading

tech companies (Samsung, Apple)

• Presented at conferences such as

ACM CHI, UIST, MobileHCI, and IDC

• WYNC: Sensor input method using

movement of your hand and fingers

Sugon Kim• Ph.D candidate at Yonsei Institute of

Convergence Technology, Yonsei Uni

• M.S. at GSCT, KAIST

PhantomFinger Invention:

Typing with finger detection

Yongwook Chae• M.S at KAIST

• Founder/CEO at Ybrain, wearable

device detecting brain signals

• Developed the world’s first ever

wearable brain modulation

• 4 patents in US/KR, 6 patents in KR

sEMG-based control: humanoid

robot control by wrist movement

Soo Kim• B.A Industrial Design at KAIST

• Interaction Designer at Google

• Designed/contributed Google global

products, including commerce,

Image Search, Geo, IME.

• Senior Interaction Designer at NHN

Specialties: designing rich interaction

to enhance user experience /

Statistical approaches to design.

Inventors in Residence

Youngseok Ahn• M.S at Konkuk University

• Senior Engineer at Peratech Korea

and SensibleUI:

• 2 patents granted in US / KS

• Winner of the Best Consumer

Electronics Paper Award by the

Korean Ministry of Education.

Flexible Force Sensor: flexible

sensor band module SDK based on

pressure and multi-touch system

Jihwan Kim• M.S. of Culture Technology at KAIST

• UI Designer/Research Engineer at

LG Electronics User Experience Lab

• UI Designer at NHN

• Voted as the Top Researcher and

Best Inventor for HCI/UI Patent at LG

• Winner of the “International

Communication Design Award”

• 309 HCI/UX Patents (108 US / 105

PCT / 96 Korean) filed and issued

Kyunghwan Jung • BS at Jung-Ang University

• Member of the Future Product Dev.

Research Lab at Jung-Ang University

• Various awards from Panasonic, PR,

3M, Olleh.com invention competitions

HCI / UX / UI Technology: Mobile UI

technology to crop photo using the

edge of a touch screen

Podo is the world’s first ‘Stick-and-Shoot' camera.

You can stick this 3cm x 3cm camera anywhere and control it wirelessly with your phone.

Found by 3 UC Berkley graduates, this Silicon Valley-based company won

the 1st place in Plug And Play 2013 with their 7 member team.

‘Keukey’ is working to provide the best text-input experience for any smart devices.

As a first solution, Keukey is developing easy typo correction solution that

doesn’t require backspaces in smart devices.

Found by 3 friends, all KAIST graduates, with over 10 years of experience.

‘Sentence’ builds solutions that allow easy interaction between multiple devices.

SKIP, Sentence’s first product, allows users to your smartphone,

instantly Copy+Paste between any smart devices – copy a text from PC and paste it in

Found by CMU and UC Berkeley graduates,‘Qeexo’ is building innovative and powerful solutions to

bring today's touch-enabled devices into the next generation of touch.

Qeexo is currently working on FingerSense – next generation touch interaction platform that detects

not only where a touch event is occurring on screen, but also what is touching the screen.

‘HUiNNO’ is working to disrupt the healthcare industry through wearable technology .

Currently working on a new smart-watch project, HUiNNO is building a device that can instantaneously

detect blood pressure, heart rate, ECG, and other vitals for people with blood pressure problems.

Bitfinder is working to give users heightened awareness of their surroundings

and better control of their life.

WAVE, bitfinder’s new Climate Tracker, monitors and tracks personal climate surroundings such as

the UV, dryness, temperature, air quality. Helping users to lead healthier lifestyle based on the data.

Partners

Partner/ CEO: Jung-hee Ryu, Ph.D

Founder and CEO of Olaworks (acquired by Intel)

Founder and CTO of Iconlab

Adjunct professor at GSCT, KAIST

Ph.D, MS and BS at EECS, KAIST

100+ inventions including US and KR patents

Partner/ CTO: Jason Han, Ph.D

Founder and CEO of NexR (acquired by Korea Telecom)

Adjunct professor in KSIM, KAIST

Ph.D at CIST, KAIST

CEO of KT NexR which delivers a big data analytics platform

Partner/CCO: Sungjae Hwang

Ph.D from School of Culture Technology at KAIST

Main Speaker at ACM CHI, UIST, MobileHCI, and IDC

150+ patents granted in US and KR

15+ patents acquired by World’s Top Tech Companies

Partner/ CPO: Hyolin Kim

Head of department of UI/UX at LG Electronics

M.S. at Interactive Telecommunications Program from NYU

Over 16 years of UX/HCI experience from Samsung SDS,

IDS, Adobe, and LG Electronics

Partner/CLO: Hoseok Jung

Korean Lawyer, CEO of Seum Law Firm

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University

Shin & Kim (2009 ~ 2012)

Advisory lawyer of Primer, Bon Angels partners, Fast Track Asia

Partner/CIPO: Kyungmin Yoon

Korean Patent Attorny, Partner of Su Patent

B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University

Kim & Chang (2003 ~ 2006)

Career in Electronic and software patent 13+ years

Specialists

CFO: Jae Shin

Founder and CEO, Spreddit (London, UK)

Investment manager in Bridgepoint (PEF, London)

M&A Associate at Morgan Stanley (London)

Dir. of Development: Jaewon Song

Leader, Open-Source Tech team in KT NexR

Developer in KTNET, Naver, Korean Click

MS of Graduate School of Software at KAIST

BS of CS at KAIST

Director of Operations: Young Cho

Founder/COO, Streetdev (Germany; acquired by Rambus)

Hoffmann Eitle Search Department for intellectual property

M.S. in Physics at É cole normale supérieure de Cachan

Director of Marketing: Steven Baek

VP of International Business Development at IUM

Senior Marketing Manager at Timberland Co. GoLite

Marketing Associate at Zipcar, Inc.

AAE at EuroRSCG Australia

Director of Investment: Ian Suh

Senior Associate of Investment team at SoftBank

Ventures Korea

Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics

Research Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

Director of Product: Sang-su “Sam” Kim

Chief UX designer at LG Electronics

Ph.D candidate of IE from KAIST

BS of CS from KAIST

Specialists

Lead Prototyper: Junghyeon Gim

M.S. of HCI from Culture Technology at KAIST

Directed multiple international media/interactive events

Lead Engineer at PapyLooks – an Eye-tracking E-Book

Exhibited at Sapporo International Art Festival 2014

Software Developer: Hyungook Yoon

MS in Computer Engineering at CAU

Founder and developer of 도서관좌석정보

Lead iOS developer of Hey at IUM

Software Engineer at Pantech

Changseong Ho

Founder and COO of Vingle

Founder and ex-COO of Viki (acquired by Rakuten)

Jiwon Moon

Founder and CEO of Vingle

Founder and ex-CEO of Viki (acquired by Rakuten)

Taekkyung Lee

Founder of Primer

Founder and ex-CTO of Daum communications

(Korean #2 web portal company, IPO in KOSDAQ)

Jiyoung Park

Founder and ex-CEO of Com2us

(Korean #2 mobile gaming company, IPO in KOSDAQ)

Investors/Advisors

Investors/Advisors

Jack Kim

Founder and CEO of Enswers (acquired by Korea Telecom)

Founder and ex-CTO of SL2

Sangbeom Kim

Founder and ex-CCO of Nexon

(Korean #1 online gaming company, IPO in Tokyo

Stock Exchange)

Junghyun Kim

Founder and ex-CEO of Delight

(acquired by Daewon Pharm)

Jason Mitura

Founder and ex-CEO of Viewdle, Inc.

(in Silicon Valley, US; acquired by

Motorola, a Google company)

Chris Harrison, Ph.D

Founder and CTO of Qeexo, Inc.

MIT Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators under 35

Forbes’ Top 30 Scientists under 30 (30 Under 30)

Smithsonian’s Six Innovators to Watch ‘13

Google and Microsoft 3 Best Paper Awards,

Ph.D at HCI, Carnegie Mellon University

MS and BS at CS, New York University

Advisors

Sang Lee

Founder and CEO of Qeexo, Inc.

New technolgy finding in Samsung Electronics,

SK Telecom, HTC

Young Song

Founder of Primer, Booga Ventures

and Ncomputing (in Silicon Valley, US)

Founder of K-Group

Contact

Steven Baek

Specialist | Marketing Director

steven.baek@futureplay.co