Lee Seung-gun

$1.07B
as of 10/04/24

About Lee Seung-gun

Lee Seung-gun is the founder and CEO of Viva Republica, which operates the Korean finance app Toss.

In June 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 Korea

Source of wealth

fintech

Residence

Seoul, South Korea

Birth date

01/30/82 (age 42)

Education

Bachelor of Science, Seoul National University; Doctorate, Seoul National University

Self-made

self-made

Lee Seung-gun’s fortune is worth

18K

troy ounces of gold

17K

median U.S. household

11K

median U.S. income

0.021%

U.S. credit card volume

0.004%

GDP of the United States

0.003%

United States debt

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