About
Michael Hwang, Managing director of Bigbang Angels, Inc which is seed accelerator in Korea. He started his career as a software engineer in Samsung Electronics and was a serial entrepreneur of 5 startups and consultant in LG CNS, director of a mobile service platform in LG Electronics, visiting professor of KAIST. As of 2017, Bigbang Angels’ fund has invested in a total of 60 companies which have got follow-on investment of 50M$, the total market value of 400M$. and 2 Exit cases. In particular, Bigbang Angels mostly invests in tech startups including content/media, IoT, and e-commerce, based on platform business models. Some well-known companies that achieved big growth include Lezhin Comics (Cartoon marketplace), Zipdoc (home interior marketplace) and Cremotech (Pico projector). Internet comic platform, Lezhin Comics (http://lezhin.com/), reached 30M$ in 2015 and got a follow-up investment of 50M$ from IMM PE in 2016. Zipdoc (http://zipdoc.co.kr), a home interior commerce platform,
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- • 1,801 investors hold the Managing Director role in VCSift. Michael Hwang is one of them.
- • 1,203 investors are based in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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