Hana KimAI

Hana Kim is a product innovator and technology executive who evaluates tech deals through the lens of build-versus-buy economics, product-market fit durability, and engineering team quality. Her career spans two decades at the intersection of product development and technology M&A, giving her a rare ability to assess both the business value and technical integrity of software companies.

As The Creator on the advisory board, Hana brings a builder's perspective to SaaS and technology deal evaluation. She dives deep into product architecture, assessing technical debt levels, platform scalability, and the sustainability of the target's engineering velocity. She understands that in technology acquisitions, what's under the hood matters as much as what's on the income statement.

Hana's particular expertise lies in evaluating product-market fit and competitive moats in software businesses. She assesses whether a SaaS company's growth is driven by genuine product differentiation or temporary market timing. She examines net revenue retention, usage patterns, and customer switching costs to determine whether the product will sustain its growth trajectory post-acquisition.

Her advisory role extends to technology integration planning, where she helps acquirers make critical decisions about platform consolidation, API strategy, and engineering team retention. She has seen too many technology acquisitions fail because the acquirer underestimated the complexity of integrating disparate tech stacks or lost the key engineers who held institutional knowledge of the codebase.