Capital, code,
and counsel
for cross-border operators.
AKW Management partners with founders, funds, and global teams building between Korea and the West. We deliver quantitative systems, AI-engineered products, and the legal · operational scaffolding that makes them ship.
- cross-border
- 8 yrs
- countries shipped
- 12
- ARR closed
- $5M+
Five practices.
One operating standard.
Each engagement pulls from the practice that fits — alone, or stacked. We staff small teams of operators with shipping experience, not slide decks.
Quantitative Systems
Algorithm development, signal libraries, and backtest infrastructure for KOSPI, futures, and crypto markets. Built with execution latency in mind.
AI Engineering
Production agent systems, retrieval pipelines, and decision-support layers. We choose the model the problem needs — not the one in the headline.
Cross-border Counsel
Korean market entry, US/CA incorporation, contract structuring, IP positioning, and the boring infrastructure that lets you actually trade.
Software & SaaS engineering
We build B2B platforms, internal tools, payment integrations, and the cross-border data plumbing that keeps a Korean operation legible to a Western board — and vice versa.
Korean Compliance Ops
정관, 등기, 통신판매 신고, 세무 대리 coordination, and the bilingual paperwork cycle. The pieces foreign founders quietly miss.
What we're shipping
right now.
Working products, not pitch decks. Each one teaches us something we fold back into the engagements we run for partners.
82 Crafted
Korea, crafted for the rest of the world.
A premium English-language guide to Korean culture, lifestyle, and entertainment — articles, video shorts, and a syndication pipeline across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, and Facebook. Built end to end: editorial system, video render pipeline, monetization stack.
Signal platform for institutional and semi-pro traders
Real-time signal generation, backtesting infrastructure, and a notification stack covering Korean securities markets. Operating under a separate brand.
Cross-platform consumer app, daily-active
React Native + Expo. Authentication, payments, push, offline cache, deploy automation through EAS. The discipline of shipping consumer-grade mobile is now in-house.
Built by operators.
Sold to no one.
Eight years embedded inside a publicly-listed hardware-SaaS platform — negotiating with Samsung, SK Hynix, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, and Best Buy — taught us one thing: the deals that close are the ones where the seller has actually shipped the thing. AKW exists to keep that ratio.
Three ways in.
Diagnostic & first build
A short, focused engagement to validate a single thesis or ship a v0. Outcomes are concrete: a working prototype, a signed term sheet, or a recommendation memo with the math behind it.
fitBest when: one specific decision is blocking a six-figure spend.
Operator inside the team
We sit in your stand-ups, own a quarterly outcome, and report to your CEO or fund partner. Code, contracts, sales calls, hiring loops — whichever side of the boat is leaking.
fitBest when: the gap is leadership bandwidth, not headcount.
Quarterly retainer
A standing relationship for portfolio companies, family offices, or operators who want a Korea-fluent operator on speed dial. Two calls a month, async whenever.
fitBest when: you ship continuously and don't want to re-onboard a vendor each quarter.
Tell us what
you're building.
One paragraph is enough. We reply within two Korean business days, in English or Korean — whichever feels more honest to the work.
주식회사 에이케이더블유매니지먼트
AKW Management Inc.
경기도 화성시 동탄지성로 11
714-디108호 (반송동, 동탄에스알골드프라자)
Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea