equity founded 2011 founder joe lonsdale brian koo jim kim headquarters 501 2nd street san francisco california products venture capital total assets 448 000 000 website www.formation8.com formation 8 is an american venture capital firm founded in 2011 by joe lonsdale jim kim and brian koo . 1 the company is headquartered in san francisco california . contents 1 general partners 1.1 jim kim 1.2 brian bonwoong koo 1.3 joe lonsdale 2 founding 3 mission 4 portfolio companies 5 references 6 external links general partners edit jim kim edit kim used to be a partner at khosla ventures and before that was a senior partner at cmea . 2 kim began his career at general electric where he worked in the structured finance and energy financial services division founding the energy technology ventures group . 3 kim serves as an adjunct professor at the ucla anderson school of management teaching courses on green energy and entrepreneurship . 3 kim has an mba from columbia university and holds undergraduate degrees in computer science electrical engineering and political science from massachusetts institute of technology . 3 brian bonwoong koo edit koo founded innovationhub which helped his family business ls group source investment opportunities . 4 koo also co founded harbor pacific capital a venture capital fund which was focused on helping young technology companies navigate business development in asia . 5 koo holds an mba from stanford s graduate school of business and an undergraduate degree in economics from stanford university where he was classmates with lonsdale . 4 joe lonsdale edit lonsdale is a prominent entrepreneur investor and adviser in silicon valley . lonsdale founded anduin ventures a seed fund focused on helping technology teams in silicon valley build information technology companies across a variety of industries . 6 lonsdale serves as the chairman of addepar which he co founded in 2009 . lonsdale co founded palantir technologies in 2004 with thiel alex karp stephen cohen and nathan gettings . lonsdale graduated from stanford university in 2003 with a degree in computer science . founding edit in 2012 formation 8 intended to close its first round fund with 200 million but decided to push back its launch to 2013 in order to accommodate the increasing number of limited partners who expressed interest . 1 lonsdale revealed the limited partners of formation 8 includes founders of paypal palantir yahoo and yammer plus asian conglomerates and some new york institutions . 1 the team was later joined by james zhang of softbank china venture capital and biodiscovery and tom baruch founder of cmea capital and director of intermolecular . the firm added gideon yu the former facebook chief financial officer who is now president of the san francisco 49ers as a special adviser to the firm . 7 fortune magazine described the firm as the hottest venture capital since andreessen . 8 in april 2013 it closed its first round fund with 448 million and was looking to launch the next round fund shortly after . 9 mission edit according to formation 8 s website the firm s investment philosophy is centered on large growing and global markets with hard problems that can be solved through technology and partnership . it wants companies with a strong technology culture that offer long term equity incentives make data driven decisions dream big stress discipline and have the humility to accept advice . formation 8 provides financial and strategic capital to early growth smart enterprise and energy technology companies with a heavy focus on government finance healthcare energy and logistics . 10 specifically formation 8 says that they are looking for smart enterprise startups that can help enormous companies like those that define asia to make sense of the vast seas of data now available . government finance healthcare and business services can all fall within this net . formation 8 also focuses on energy companies that can transform the global energy value chain . the company has local branches in south korea china and singapore for business development and localized deployment purposes . portfolio companies edit aka study blend labs context relevant buildzoom wish contextlogic opengov foro energy hyperdyadic learnsprout relateiq revinate references edit a b c formation 8 raises its first fund of 448m to plug silicon valley startups into asian conglomerates http www.crunchbase.com person james kim a b c http formation8.com team jim kim a b http formation8.com team brian bonwoong koo http www.harborpac.com about us http anduinventures.com new vc fund formation 8 has 450m star partners the hottest vcs since andreessen http edgar.sec.gov archives edgar data 1543731 000154373112000002 xslformdx01 primary doc.xml joe lonsdale of formation 8 sees government finance healthcare energy and logistics as ripe areas for disruption external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 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