Luke Kim
InvestorFounderTechnical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures · Founder at Spice AI
Bellevue, Washington, United States
FoundedSpice AI
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About
Luke Kim is founder and CEO of Spice AI, a company focused on making AI accessible for developers to integrate into products and services. Previously, he served as founding manager and co-creator of Azure Incubations at Microsoft, where he led engineering teams developing technologies including Dapr. Over 15 years, he has worked with engineering teams globally on developer-focused tools and technologies.
Founder at Spice AI
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Spice AI's investors · 10
AsymmetricMiami · $10K – $1M checksBasis Set VenturesMenlo Park · $1M – $3M checksBlackbird VenturesSydney · $149K – $60M checksCardinia Venturessince 2021Elysium Venture CapitalPalo Alto · since 2021Geek VenturesNew York · $200K – $800K checksMadrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checks · since 2021PICUS CAPITALMunich · $100K – $300M checks · since 2021TA VenturesFrankfurt am Main · $100K – $1M checks · since 2021Utiliti GroupSydney
Co-founders at Spice AI
LH
Lane HarrisCo-Founder & VP of Engineering
PL
Phillip LeBlancCo-Founder & CTO
Experience
- Spice AIFounder and CEOcurrent2021 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- Basis SetTechnical Advisorcurrent2022 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- MicrosoftAzure CTO Incubations Manager2019 — 2021Redmond, WA
- MicrosoftPrincipal Group Software Engineering Manager2010 — 2019Redmond, Washington
- TidesoftIT Consultant & Software Engineer2001 — 2010Perth, Western Australia
- MicrosoftAustralian Microsoft Student Partner Lead2008 — 2009Australia
- MicrosoftSoftware Design Engineer Intern2008 — 2009Redmond, Washington
- Baines Pendal & CoTax Accountant2006 — 2009Perth, Australia
- Telstra Licensed Shop Midland GateIT Consultant2005 — 2007Perth, Australia
- eye4you Pty LtdDirector, Sales Manager & Software Engineer2003 — 2005Perth, Australia
- Harvey NormanComputer & Communications Sales Consultant2002 — 2003Australia
Skills & more
C#18Visual Studio29.NET13C++4Git1TFS1iPhone1Powershell1XML1HTML + CSS1Windows3Ruby on Rails1
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Windows AzureJavaScriptjQueryMicrosoft TechnologiesHadoopCObjective-CSQLSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentSoftware DesignDebugging- Applied Conformal Prediction — Maven
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Colleagues at Basis Set Ventures
Catherine Stewart
Venture Partner at Basis Set Ventures
Chang Xu
Partner at Basis Set Ventures
Darrell Langlois
Board Chair; Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana at Blue Venture Funds
Ding Zhou
Head of Content Engineering at Snap, Inc. at SignalFire
Dr. Lan Xuezhao
Founder & Partner at Basis Set Ventures
Eduardo Fonseca
Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures
Fahad Noor
Staff Engineer at Basis Set Ventures
Ian Wong
Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Luke Kim?
- Luke Kim is founder and CEO of Spice AI, a company focused on making AI accessible for developers to integrate into products and services. Previously, he served as founding manager and co-creator of Azure Incubations at Microsoft, where he led engineering teams developing technologies including Dapr. Over 15 years, he has worked with engineering teams globally on developer-focused tools and technologies.
- Where does Luke Kim work?
- Luke Kim is Founder of Spice AI and Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures.
- What companies did Luke Kim found?
- Luke Kim founded Spice AI.
- Where did Luke Kim go to school?
- Luke Kim studied at The University of Western Australia (Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science); The University of Western Australia (Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting).
Founder mafias
The University of Western Australia mafia24
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Basis Set Ventures mafia7
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Basis Set mafia4
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Same school
Also attended The University of Western Australia114
Melanie PerkinsCo-founder & CEO of CanvaCliff ObrechtCo-founder & COO of CanvaClare McCartney BeerCOO & Managing Director at Burda Principal InvestmentsShane ChessonFounding Partner at Openspace VenturesMyers DupuyFounder, Scratch Advisors at Tribes VenturesDan CoughlanPrincipal at AirTree Ventures
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Shared employers
Also worked at Spice AI4
Also worked at Microsoft1,848
Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorNat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGKai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AIBill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft; Chair of the Gates FoundationMike KriegerCo-founder of Instagram; Chief Product Officer at Anthropic
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Also worked at Telstra Licensed Shop Midland Gate47
Matthew KoertgeManaging Director at Titanium VenturesSteve SchmidtGeneral Partner at Titanium VenturesMarcus BartramGeneral Partner at Titanium VenturesPhil MorlePartner at Main Sequence VenturesSol TrujilloManaging Partner at L'ATTITUDE VenturesLorenzo ManesHead of Operations at Rialto Ventures
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