John Kim
John Kim is Chairman and President of Corporate Development at Lila Sciences, a Cambridge-based technology company building a scientific superintelligence platform. He previously served as Chief Client Officer at General Catalyst and held roles at J.P. Morgan, Court Square Capital Partners, and Kelso & Company. He is best known for having raised over $70 billion across venture capital and private equity over a three-decade career, and is the author of The Tao of Fundraising, published in Spring 2026.
“Today, he's chairman and president of corporate development at Lila Sciences, a company building scientific superintelligence, which has raised over $500 million.”
Source→“General Catalyst created a consensus. And so that was the whole goal. But you had to do it fun by fun by fun. But it was very intentional.”
Source→“The logic actually is an output of a successful sales pitch, not the input.”
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