Yeogirl Yun

Mr. Yeogirl Yun is an entrepreneur and technologist who is passionate about developing technologies that improve people's lives. Yeogirl has founded five companies for the past 20 years in the Internet search engine, e-commerce industry in the US, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Yeogirl holds 4 US patents and 1 Korea patent to date.

Yeogirl founded mySimon.com in 1998 and served as CTO. Yeogirl raised about $30M in venture capital and was responsible for architecting and developing the mySimon website. The site scaled to support thousands of e-commerce merchants and set a new standard in comprehensiveness. Yeogirl is the creator of the VLA (Virtual Learning Agent) technology that powered mySimon.com. It was acquired by CNET in February of 2000, for $700M.

In 1999, Yeogirl also founded the Wisenut.com search engine company and served as CTO. Yeogirl raised about $10M in venture capital and built it into one of two search engines that indexed over 1 billion web pages. Wisenut.com was selected by TIME as one of 50 best tech websites in 2002. Wisenut was acquired by LookSmart in April of 2002.

In 2000, Yeogirl also founded Wisenut, Inc. in Korea (formerly Korea WISEnut) and served as Chairman. Yeogirl raised about $12M in venture capital. Wisenut is a leading AI and enterprise search technology provider in Korea with over 3,000 corporate and institutional clients. In 2005, Wisenut was selected as one of the 500 fastest growing companies in Asia Pacific by Deloitte Technology.

In 2004, Yeogirl also founded Become.com and served as Chairman and CTO until March of 2007. Yeogirl raised about $12M in venture capital and led its technology development to create Become.com website. In 2005, Yeogirl also successfully led the founding and development of Become Japan Corporation, raised $7M in venture capital, and created its website for Japanese consumers.

Since 2007, Yeogirl has been building a global cross-border e-commerce platform at Gshopper.com.