DHP Recruits Three, Including VUNO Co-Founder Kim Hyunjun, as Venture Partners
Digital Healthcare Partners (DHP), a specialized investment firm for digital healthcare startups, announced on the 14th that three new venture partners will be joining: Kim Hyun-jun, co-founder of VUNO and current CEO of Byte; Jeong Kyu-hwan, former CTO of VUNO and current professor at Sungkyunkwan University; and Shin Jae-myung, CEO and founder of Delightroom.
![Digital Healthcare Partners (DHP) announced on the 14th that it has recruited three venture partners: Kim Hyun-jun, co-founder of VUNO and current CEO of Byte; Jung Kyu-hwan, former CTO of VUNO and current professor at Sungkyunkwan University; and Shin Jae-myung, CEO and founder of Delightroom. <br>[Photo by DHP]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2023071308211295863_1689204072.jpg)
Digital Healthcare Partners (DHP) announced on the 14th that it has recruited three venture partners: Kim Hyun-jun, co-founder of VUNO and current CEO of Byte; Jung Kyu-hwan, former CTO of VUNO and current professor at Sungkyunkwan University; and Shin Jae-myung, CEO and founder of Delightroom.
[Photo by DHP]
DHP is a healthcare startup-focused investment firm primarily composed of medical and healthcare experts. Since its co-founding in 2016 by CEO Choi Yoon-seop, partners include specialists in internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, and obstetrics and gynecology, as well as regulatory experts from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, legal professionals, and user experience (UX) experts. Additionally, senior founders from major companies participate as venture partners, providing investment, mentoring, and networking opportunities to early-stage healthcare startups. Since its inception, DHP has invested in over 40 healthcare startups, including Three Billion, Doctor Diary, MediHere, Gangnam Unnie, Happy Monday, and Blue Signum.
The newly joined venture partners are described as founders who have achieved notable success in the digital healthcare industry. CEO Kim Hyun-jun co-founded the medical artificial intelligence (AI) startup VUNO in 2014, served as CEO from 2020, and led VUNO’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2021. Recently, he also became a serial entrepreneur by co-founding the eye disease management startup Clop.
Professor Jeong Kyu-hwan, also a co-founder of VUNO, served as CTO and led VUNO’s IPO alongside CEO Kim. He is regarded as one of the top experts in the medical AI field in Korea and currently serves as a professor at the Samsung Convergence Medical Science Institute at Sungkyunkwan University.
CEO Shin Jae-myung is the founder and CEO of Delightroom, a morning wellness startup well known for the ‘Alrami’ application. Alrami is an alarm app with 75 million users worldwide. Since its establishment in 2013, Delightroom has grown into a company generating annual sales of 20 billion KRW without external investment over 10 years, attracting significant attention.
DHP has previously included senior founders such as Kim Young-in, CEO of Gajilab (former CEO of Noom Korea), Ban Ho-young, CEO of Neofact, and Choi Doo-ah, CEO of Huray Positive, as venture partners. With the addition of the new venture partners, DHP has created a structure that allows senior founders with management know-how across medical deep tech, medical devices, and B2C wellness to pass on their expertise to junior founders throughout the healthcare sector.
CEO Kim Hyun-jun stated, “After VUNO’s listing, I have shared many concerns with healthcare startups. Digital healthcare may require patience, but I am confident that if the problems to be solved are clear and founders do not give up, significant achievements can be made. Based on this experience, I joined DHP as a venture partner to help more startups.” Professor Jeong Kyu-hwan also said, “I am pleased to join DHP, which has played a pioneering role in the digital healthcare field, as a partner. I will strive to contribute to the growth and development of the domestic digital healthcare market together with many experts at DHP.” CEO Shin Jae-myung added, “Based on my experience in Delightroom of changing global users’ behavior and monetizing it, I will support DHP’s B2C wellness portfolio.”
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DHP CEO Choi Yoon-seop said, “We are very pleased to welcome these representative successful founders in the industry as venture partners at DHP. With the experience and know-how of these three, we expect DHP to grow not only as a leading healthcare investment firm in Korea but also to reach a global level.”
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