Viki Mafia: The team that keeps building more startups

ABOUT

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Viki was founded in 2007 by Razmig Hovaghimian, Changseong Ho, and Jiwon Moon and was acquired by Rakuten for a reported US$200 million in 2013. Back in the day, it was one of the most successful exits in Southeast Asia, even at a time when M&As were hard to come by in the region.

Under Rakuten’s umbrella, Viki continues to grow. It now has more than 15 million subscribers globally and has one of the largest libraries of Korean video content. It’s alumni, both founders and team members, have gone on to contribute back to the startup community – either by investing or building startups or spreading their knowledge and know-how across Asia’s startup ecosystem.

In the network graph above, we’ve curated a list of new startups founded by the former members of Viki and the key positions for the rest of the members in the ecosystem. If you prefer to read about it, here are a few articles you can refer to:

📕 500 Startups-backed edtech firm Lingokids raises $4m in new funding
🐳 This startup just raised $1.2m to improve its automated sales assistant
🛋 Danny Tan, formerly of Found, unwraps new e-commerce startup HipVan

SOURCES

Data: Tech in Asia
Infographics: Susi Susanti
Analysis: Susi Susanti
Editing: Jaclyn Teng