Liam Hwang

CTO & Co-founder at Runbear (Techstars ‘24).

Building AI agents that actually work in real team workflows — Slack, Teams, and beyond.

Based in San Francisco. Originally from South Korea.

Previously

  • Buzzvil — Engineering Manager. Led the ad engine team, scaling ad serving to 200M+ daily requests. Later acquired demand-side systems that drove 10x traffic growth. 4 years total.
  • 42 Company — Co-founder. Built Slide, a lockscreen app that hit 8M downloads in India & Pakistan and raised $4.5M. Acquired by Buzzvil.
  • Ultra Caption — Co-founder. Shipped multiple consumer apps including Klassmate. Acquired by Kakao.

Education

  • Seoul National University — B.S. Computer Science & Engineering