Taejoon Park

Taejoon has over fifteen years of experience as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and has played a pivotal role in building the AI investment portfolio at LG Technology Ventures since joining as one of its founding members in 2018. His portfolio includes Anthropic, Inworld AI, Moloco, Figure AI, ElevenLabs, poolside, Cresta, and DataFleets (acquired by LiveRamp), among others. Prior to LG Technology Ventures, Taejoon spent seven years at Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, a leading semiconductor equipment company. As a senior member of the investment team, he was responsible for investments in semiconductors, semiconductor equipment, process technologies, advanced materials, and cleantech. Taejoon led and managed investments in DMO Systems (acquired by Applied Materials), Digital Specialty Chemicals (acquired by Entegris), Inpria (acquired by JSR), Voltaix (acquired by Air Liquide), and Enki Technology (acquired by First Solar). Earlier in his career, Taejoon was a senior consultant at Monitor Group’s Seoul office, where he worked on a wide range of strategy projects for major Korean conglomerates across the electronics, chemicals, automotive, oil & gas, cleantech, and mobile sectors. Taejoon holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. Taejoon enjoys hiking, wine tasting, and spending time with his two cats, Cosette and Marius.