Chul Choi

Chul-Hoon Choi is a senior investment executive at Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC), the Korean government-backed manager of the Korea Fund of Funds. KVIC was formed in 2005 to manage Korea’s mother fund structure; its official site says the government supplies venture-investment resources while investment decisions are handled by KVIC as the specialist institution.

Choi’s public career record at KVIC includes angel and regional investment leadership. In October 2018, he was identified as Head of Angel Investment Division at a UNIST/Ulsan University technology-startup demo day. In November 2019, he appeared at the 2019 Startup Mentoring Conference, speaking on the angel investment market, its growth, and investment methods used by early-stage players such as individual angels, professional angels, and private investment associations.

In January 2025, Korean venture-capital trade press reported that KVIC changed its General Head role from Yoon Hyo-hwan to Choi, then Head of Regional Innovation, with the role covering Fund Management Divisions 1 and 2, Fund Management/Administration, and Regional Innovation. In January 2026, reports said Choi became Head of Fund Management Division 1 while retaining the fund-operations general role; the same article described him as KVIC’s longest-serving employee and effectively its CIO, although KVIC does not appear to publish a formal CIO title for him.

Public sources reviewed did not disclose Choi’s education.

• KVIC is not primarily a direct angel investor in the normal individual-investor sense; it is a public fund-of-funds manager. Its core model is to commit capital to venture funds, which then invest into SMEs, venture companies, and startups.
• KVIC’s Korea Fund of Funds is designed to provide a stable venture-investment capital supply by recycling returns, rather than relying only on annual budget allocations.
• KVIC’s official Korea Fund of Funds page states that policy efficiency is improved by having the government supply investment resources while the specialist institution, KVIC, handles investment decisions.
• The Angel Mother Fund, established in November 2015, is a fund-of-funds dedicated to private investment associations; KVIC says associations receiving capital from it invest in early-stage startups.
• Choi’s focus has shifted over time from angel investment to regional innovation and then core mother-fund operations. Reports in 2025 said KVIC’s reorganization under Choi was intended to emphasize regional venture ecosystem development.
• Sector focus is broad and policy-led rather than a narrow personal thesis: KVIC and its LinkedIn profile cite technology-oriented venture companies including ICT, display, and bio, while also pursuing green energy and life science.