Areas of Interest
Tae Hea Nahm focuses on investments in wireless, SaaS/B2B software and Korea. Having invested in the entire wireless stack from chips to games, he is interested primarily in enterprise mobility solutions and select consumer mobile services. He is interested in SaaS solutions that are easy to use, easy to implement and easy to cost justify. After living and working in Korea, he has invested in several startups with Korean founders.
Wireless. Com2us (mobile games and IPO), Mobile Iron (enterprise smartphone platforms) and CellFire (mobile coupons). Prior: AireSpace/founding CEO (enterprise WLAN platforms and acq by Cisco), Berkana Wireless/co-Chairman (cellular RF silicon and acq by Qualcomm), McubeWorks (mobile video and acq by CoreLogic), JetCell (inbuilding cellular and acq by Cisco) and Netro (fixed wireless and IPO).
SaaS/B2B Software. Affinity Circles (professional social networks), EchoSign (eSignature SaaS) and Marketo (marketing automation SaaS). Prior: OSA Technologies (embedded management and acq by Avocent), AtRoad (fleet management and IPO) and Access360 (identity management and acq by IBM).
Korean. Com2us, IML, Silego and VitaminMD (Korean health internet). Prior: Berkana Wireless, McubeWorks, Novera Optics and Xylan.
Tae Hea is interested in certain semiconductor and infrastructure investments that leverage his prior investment experience. For example, he is interested in semiconductor startups with very strong technical teams targeting important problems for Asian major customers.
Semiconductors. Silego (analog), IML (analog) and SMI (analog). Prior: Berkana Wireless, ESS Technology (IPO), IC Works (acq by Cypress), Marvell Technology (IPO) and Quality Semiconductor (IPO).
Infrastructure. Asoka (powerline networking). Prior: Novera Optics (acq by LG Nortel), Ramp Networks (IPO), StrataCom (IPO), Telera (acq by Alcatel), Transmedia (acq by Cisco) and Xylan (IPO).
Investments
Affinity Circles empowers organizations to leverage their trusted brand and enable interactive, engaging features to create a dynamic user community.
Com2uS is one of the world’s premier software publishers of mobile games and entertainment.
EchoSign is a web enabled service for getting documents signed, tracked and filed.
Marketo provides sophisticated yet easy on-demand marketing automation software that helps marketing and sales at large and mid-sized companies work together to drive revenue and improve marketing accountability.
MobileIron makes smartphones enterprise-ready by solving the new problems CIOs face as enterprise data moves to the smartphone.
Silego delivers signal distribution and power management semiconductor products.
