Lee Seung-gun
$1B
as of 10/10/25
About Lee Seung-gun
Lee Seung-gun is the founder and CEO of Viva Republica, which operates the Korean finance app Toss.
In 2021, Viva Republica raised more than $400 million in a financing round that valued the company at over $7 billion.
Viva Republica's investors include PayPal, Singapore sovereign-wealth fund GIC and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
Before starting Viva Republica in 2013, Lee was a dentist at a hospital affiliated with the Samsung Group.
Personal stats
Citizenship
South KoreaSource of wealth
FintechResidence
Seoul, South KoreaBirth date
01/30/82 (age 44)Education
Bachelor of Science, Seoul National University; Doctorate, Seoul National UniversitySelf-made
self-madeLee Seung-gun’s fortune is worth
17K
troy ounces of gold
15K
median U.S. household
10K
median U.S. income
0.02%
U.S. credit card volume
0.004%
GDP of the United States
0.003%
United States debt
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