Yunha Kim
Yunha Kim
Yunha Kim
Yuhna Kim is an American entrepreneur who founded Locket and Simple Habit. She is based in San Francisco. [12]
Education and Early Career
For high school, Kim went to the Oregon Episcopal School and later attended Duke University where she graduated Magna cum laude in 2011. Kim had a few prominent internships at organizations such as the United Nations and McKinsey & Co. [12]
Startup Ventures
Yunha Kim
Kim left her Investment Analyst job in 2013 to start Locket, an app that lets people customize their lock screens.
The app was named Google's best apps of 2014 and raised $3.2M from Turner Broadcasting, Great Oaks and Tyra Banks.
Locket was subsequently acquired by Wish in 2015.
Burnt out from the stress of running a startup, Kim turned to meditation to help her unwind.
Dismayed at the lack of options available from other meditation apps, Kim decided to build her own meditation platform, [14] Simple Habit, in 2016. [15]The company offers a wide selection of meditation guides for all aspects of life and offers a subscription based service for customers. [14]In 2017, Simple Habit was part of Y Combinator's Winter Batch. [15]
Medium Post
Yunha Kim
In 2014, Kim published a Medium post about the pros and cons of being a woman CEO in the Tech industry. [11]In it, she says although she was in a position of power, she still received inappropriate sexual advances for subordinate men engineers. Salon, Forbes, and other media outlets picked up the story for a follow-up. [16] [14]She concludes the piece by saying that what matters most is the perspective one brings to the situation. [11]