AI Semiconductor startup HyperAccel said on the 27th that it hired Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Joonyeon Kim, formerly a director at the capital markets division of Samsung Securities. As it proceeds with a Series B funding round, the company said it aims to strengthen its financial capabilities to secure overseas investors and expand its global business.
CFO Kim joined Samsung Securities in 2019 and handled equity capital markets (ECM) work, including initial public offerings (IPOs), paid-in capital increases, and private equity. Recently, Kim handled IPO advisory and investments for major domestic AI Semiconductor corporations. Before that, Kim worked on new business development at Amazon and led overseas business development and marketing in nonferrous metals and ore at POSCO International. In 2018, Kim received an MBA from INSEAD in France.
HyperAccel is a fabless (semiconductor design specialist) corporations founded in 2023 by KAIST Professor Joo-Young Kim. It is developing the LPU, a semiconductor specialized for large language model (LLM) inference. It focuses on reducing inference expense and power consumption by using LPDDR5X memory instead of high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
Its main products are the Bertha data center and enterprise AI accelerator and the Bertha-Edge for On-device AI. It is expanding application areas beyond data centers to the edge and physical AI. According to the company, cumulative funding raised is 210 billion won, and it is pursuing overseas business based on its Seoul headquarters and a Silicon Valley foothold in the United States.
CEO Joo-Young Kim said that, in line with growth in the AI inference market, the ability to link technological competitiveness to sustainable growth and corporate value has become important, and said the company will prepare the next growth stage with CFO Kim.
CFO Kim said HyperAccel will establish a financial strategy so that its technological prowess can be properly valued by the market and will support entry into global markets.
By Choi Hyo-jung
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