Will Kim

Will Kim, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Karat Financial

Will Kim is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Karat Financial, a fintech startup that provides banking services to digital creators and influencers. He co-founded the company in 2019 with Eric Wei, and they have an equal partnership with shared equity and decision-making power.12

Early Career

• Worked as a Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs in 20142
• Joined Palantir Technologies as Echo in 20162
• Became an Investor at Lucky Capital in 2016, raising a $5 million seed fund2

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University2
• Master of Science in Computer Science at Stanford University (on leave)2

Karat Financial

• Co-founded Karat Financial in 2019 with Eric Wei to build better financial products for digital creators and influencers12
• Karat has raised over $100 million from top investors like SignalFire, USV, and GGV3
• Kim and Wei have an equal co-CEO relationship and prioritize their partnership through regular "co-founder therapy" sessions16

Will Kim and Eric Wei are building Karat to serve the growing creator economy, as they believe all businesses will need to become creators in the future.5 Kim's LinkedIn username is wdkim.4