Changwhan Yea

Co-founder & CEO

Kasa Corp

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Yea Changwhan comes from Korea, but moved to the States when just four years old, as his father worked then in Los Angeles. He spent his earlier childhood there, before returning to Seoul for high school. He then studied at the prestigious Stanford College in the US, where he majored in Computer Science. After he graduated from Stanford in 2014, he returned to Korea and co-founded Tumblebug, which he says is similar to Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform, but for Korea, focusing on providing capital from the public for new start-ups. He and his partners sold the company a few years later, and he then had a short stint in venture capital in Korea, focusing on early-stage start-ups. “I then had the idea for Kasa, founded it in 2018 and here we are today. I am not a real estate expert, or a finance person, I am a technology guy, and I see Kasa as a FinTech platform first and foremost,” he explains. Only 32 years old and remarkably busy, he says he is not yet ready to settle down and marry. “This is my fourth year running a start-up company, and it is hard work and pressured. So, I have been spending my spare time hiking and keeping fit. I actually have a lovely mountain right near our house, and am often up and down there, sometimes even with my parents as well.”

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