Inha Seo

Investor relations · strategic finance · corporate development

I turn complex businesses into decisions that capital can act on.

My work has moved between a listed automotive-cybersecurity company, a startup-support foundation's open-innovation and investment team, technology education, and early mobility. I have worked with the numbers, the documents, the people, and the deadline.

Start with the capital workSee the role fit
≈$155Mmarket value at the IPO price
≈$22.7Mgross IPO proceeds
Series B bridge · IPOcapital markets experience
Target screeningpost-IPO acquisition review
01 / Capital markets

My center of experience is company-side capital markets.

At AUTOCRYPT, I worked across financing stages, investor communication, IPO execution, and corporate development: what the business could prove, how investors would understand it, and what had to be true before a public-market milestone.

AUTOCRYPT ↗

Seoul · Sep 2022–Dec 2025

Investor Relations Manager

  • Coordinated the company-side KOSDAQ IPO process across the lead underwriter, counsel, the Korea Exchange and Financial Supervisory Service, company leadership, and investors. The offering priced at the top of the range, raising KRW 30.8B (≈$22.7M) at a KRW 210.5B (≈$155M) market value at the offer price; listed July 15, 2025.
  • Prepared the technology special-listing filings: the IPO peer-group benchmarking book, technology-evaluation diligence materials, the preliminary listing review, and registration-statement amendments.
  • One of a two-person IR team reporting to the CSO. For the KRW 19.5B (≈$14.5M) Series B bridge round: Korean- and English-language investor decks, data-room documents, and investor Q&A; joined 100+ investor meetings across the bridge round and IPO, reported regularly to the CSO and CEO, and prepared post-investment reports for Series B investors.
  • Presented the company to prospective US and Middle East investors, including the Seoul Startup Showcase at Dubai FinTech Summit 2024 (first place).
  • Prepared the IPO roadshow and joined 1:1 institutional investor meetings; after listing, distributed the first quarterly IR deck to institutional investors.
  • After the IPO, screened an acquisition target: reviewed the information memorandum, coordinated NDA execution, and drafted parts of the non-binding MOU.
Evidence I can discussIPO timeline · registration-statement amendments · investor materials · roadshow preparation · post-IPO IR · acquisition-target screening
02 / Open innovation and fund formation

Before the public markets, I learned how opportunity gets screened, funded, and operated.

At GCCEI, I worked on the institutional layer between startups, corporates, government programs, and capital. The work was not only “looking at startups”; it was building the processes around them.

GCCEI ↗

Seongnam · Apr–Sep 2022

Senior Assistant, Open Innovation and Investment

  • Screened and sourced 12+ Series A–B technology startups for corporate open-innovation programs run with KT, LG Display, and Innocean (Hyundai Motor Group), including on-site diligence visits and partner matching. For scale, LG Display’s Dream Play program supported 60 startups, 5 of which reached a PoC.
  • Built corporate–startup engagement from sourcing and screening through partner matching, demo days, proof-of-concept funding, and follow-through with corporate partners.
  • Prepared LP materials, drafted fund regulations, and processed the first capital call for the Antler–GCCEI early-stage fund (KRW 30B target).
  • Evaluated opportunities across AI/ML, mobility, and SaaS and prepared market and investment analyses for internal decisions.
What this provesInvestment judgment · partner management · program design · fund operations · cross-functional execution
03 / Programs and operating systems

I know how to make a complex program legible enough to run.

Those operating instincts started before finance: in education, events, and business development. They are useful in IR because a good narrative is also an operating system—owners, inputs, proof, timing, and a clear next action.

NAVER Connect Foundation ↗

Seoul · 2020

Boostcamp and software-education programs

  • Managed applicant information sessions, learning and challenge guides, reviewer operations, and cohort communications for NAVER Connect Foundation’s AI and software bootcamp.
  • Researched AI-talent needs with engineering leaders at Naver Labs, Naver Clova, AITRICS, and VoyagerX, translating hiring signals into curriculum and program decisions.
  • Turned accelerator and technical-education research into practical operating documents for learners, reviewers, and industry partners.

VCNC / TADA ↗

Seoul · Nov 2019–Feb 2020

Business Development Intern

  • Worked on B2B partnerships and business development for TADA, an early Korean mobility platform.
  • Learned to follow a commercial relationship from proposition and partner conversation into the operational handoffs that make the service work.
B2B partnerships · operations · mobility market
04 / The technical bridge

I can read the technical layer and still keep the decision in view.

At Chonnam National University’s AI Lab, I became first author of the ACM paper KERC 2019: The 1st Korean Emotion Recognition Challenge, a global Korean emotion-recognition challenge conducted on Kaggle.

Today I use that same translation habit in public-source research on AI infrastructure: capital, contracts, power, delivery, access, and governance. The writing is here.

Read the ACM paper ↗
05 / Role fit

What the market asks for—and where I have done it.

The roles I am targeting need a hybrid operator: someone who can make the model, prepare the executive, manage the investor relationship, and keep every claim accurate.

What roles ask forEvidence from my work
Quarterly / public-market communication, earnings materials, investor narrativeAUTOCRYPT IR materials, IPO process coordination, first post-IPO quarterly IR deck
Financial models, forecasts, scenarios, benchmarking, capital allocationRevenue, capacity, and pricing analyses; investment and market evaluation at GCCEI; IPO and Corp Dev work
CFO / CEO / Board materials and cross-functional executionCoordinated underwriters, counsel, regulators, leadership, and investors under a fixed listing timeline
Fundraising, diligence, partnerships, M&A, strategic projectsSeries B bridge round and KOSDAQ IPO; Antler–GCCEI fund formation (LP materials, fund regulations, first capital call); startup diligence; post-IPO acquisition-target screening
Technical fluency and clear writingAutomotive cybersecurity and V2X research; software-engineering minor; ACM first-author paper; current AI infrastructure research
Work samples / modeling and US investor relations

The same disclosure discipline, applied to a US earnings cycle.

I coordinated the company-side process for a KOSDAQ IPO. These practice samples apply that discipline to a US-listed foreign private issuer: one set of numbers, one public source for each, and no selective color. They are built only from public releases, shareholder letters, and SEC filings, and are not affiliated with or reviewed by the company.

Model memo · Oct 2026Nebius: funding the capex curve (bear / base / bull)PDF, 1 page ↗ Financial modelNebius three-statement model, scenarios, DCFExcel, public sources ↗ Earnings kit · Oct 2026Nebius Q3 2026: remarks, 12-question Q&A, KPIs, T-30 to T+2PDF, 7 pages ↗ Q&A prep · Oct 2026Nebius Q2 2026: six analyst questions and three KPIsPDF, 1 page ↗ SummaryIR work samples on one pagePDF ↗
Selected public work
RésuméOne page, capital markets firstDownload the current version ↗ WritingCapital to ComputePublic research and source-led notes ↗ ResearchSovereign Compute Delivery ObservatoryMethod, codebook, and evidence rules ↗