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Altos Ventures
Altos Ventures is a private venture capital firm that is based on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. They invest in early-stage companies involved in software, digital media, services, and infrastructure. Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 by partners Brendon Kim, Han Kim, and Hodong Nam. Partner Anthony Lee joined the firm in 2001.

Han Kim
Han Kim is a General Partner and co-founder of Altos Ventures. His work with Altos Ventures focuses on the areas of software and business services. He also concentrates on companies with business in Asia, leveraging the firm's substantial contacts in the region, particularly in Korea. Han currently serves on the board of companies Altos Ventures is involved with, namely Bluehole Studios/En Masse, CalmSea, Lohika, OutSpark, Pandora TV, Provade, Nable Communications, Spicus and TVU Networks, and works closely with Blogcocktail, Coupang, I-um, SeeControl and Vesta Corporation. He also led the firm’s prior investments in DemandTec, Instill (acquired by iTradeNetwork), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), Evant (acquired by Manhattan Associates), iOwn (acquired by Citigroup), and Provade (acquired by Pinnacle).

Before founding Altos Ventures in 1996, Han worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton solving strategic and operational issues for global media, retail and distribution companies. Previously, he was at Procter & Gamble. Han also served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Han served two years in Korea, commanding both U.S. and Korean soldiers.

Han received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Anthony Lee
Anthony Lee Anthony Lee is a General Partner of Altos Ventures, at Altos Ventures he focuses on software and digital media investments. Anthony currently serves as a director of BrightEdge, Demandbase, Hooked Media Group, Kontagent, Koofers, MyERP, Netbase Solutions, Roblox, and Xignite. He was also a director of GuardianEdge, which was acquired in 2010 by Symantec.

Before joining Altos Ventures, Anthony led marketing efforts for three start-up companies including Evolve Software (later acquired by Oracle corporation). Anthony began his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and has published a national magazine.

Anthony serves as Chairman of TechSoup Global, a non-profit distributor of computer software and hardware. He co-founded and co-chairs the C100, a network of top Canadian technology leaders dedicated to supporting Canadian entrepreneurs. Anthony is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a charter member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He is a founding member of the Full Circle Fund, a venture philanthropy group based in San Francisco. Anthony received his MBA from Stanford University and earned a BA in Politics and Economics from Princeton University.

Hodong (Ho) Nam
Hodong Nam is a General Partner of Altos Ventures, his work with Altos Ventures focuses on software, digital media, and infrastructure technologies. He currently serves as a director of many companies Altos Ventures is involved with, namely Accolo, Billeo, Echo, Trilibis Mobile, and White hat (computer security). Ho led the firm's prior investments in Axis Systems (Cadence), Enwisen (Infor), Evolve (Oracle corporation), Immunet (Sourcefire), Listen.com (Real Networks), Nishan Systems (Brocade), Pixo (Sun), Provato (I-Many), SayNow (Google), Soundpipe (Comdial) and Yosemite Technologies (Barracuda Networks).

In 1990 Hodong began his VC career at Trinity Ventures and began his professional career at Bain & Company where he advised clients in technology and consumer products industries. Before joining Altos Ventures in 1996, Ho worked at Silicon Graphics and Octel Communications.

Hodong received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.

Alan Beringsmith
Alan Beringsmith is the CFO of Altos Ventures and works with Altos portfolio companies to develop the infrastructure, financial and operating systems required for rapid growth.

Before joining Altos Ventures in 2002, Alan was an investor, co-founder or officer in more than a dozen venture backed technology companies including RadioMail, where he served as COO and CFO and Inquisit, backed by Altos Ventures and Doll Capital Management.

Before joining Altos Ventures, Alan held a number of positions in finance and corporate planning at PG&E where he became the first executive of PG&E Enterprises, and served as VP Corporate Development and CFO as well as CEO of PG&E Properties. Alan also represented the gas and electric utility industries on advisory panels to the government on energy policy.

Alan holds BA and MA degrees from California State University, Sacramento and has completed all of the work except the dissertation for a Ph.D at Washington State University. He has also completed the Senior Executive Financial Management programs at Stanford University and MIT.

Current portfolio
Altos Ventures' current portfolio consists of:
 * Accolo cloud recruiting, Baedal applications,
 * Billeo online billing,
 * Blogcocktail,
 * Branders.com,
 * Brightedge marketing software,
 * CalmSea analytics software,
 * coupang,
 * Crownpeak web marketing solutions,
 * Demandbase B2B marketing,
 * Digitalpath,
 * Echo software,
 * Enmasse digital media,
 * hooked media group,
 * I-um,
 * Kontagent digital media,
 * Koofers digital media,
 * Lohika services,
 * myERP.com,
 * Nable communications,
 * NetBase social media analytics,
 * Outspark,
 * Pandora TV digital media,
 * Roblox user generated gaming,
 * Seecontrol software,
 * Spicus online english tutoring,
 * Trilibus Mobile,
 * TVU networks,
 * Vapro Electronic thermal management,
 * Vesta services,
 * White hat (computer security),
 * Xignite cloud finance,