Partners
David Kim
Servant / Mobilizer / Co-Founder
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David is forever indebted to Jesus and to the Western missionaries who followed the call to Korea in the 1880s. In keeping with his family legacy, David committed his life to business and missions at the Urbana Mission Conference.
David has a corporate finance and corporate law background and has been advising and investing in startups globally for over a decade. David’s experiences include Wall Street with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, corporate law with Hogan Lovells, co-founding Mulix and Total Ventures in Silicon Valley.
David attends Menlo Church Mountain View with his wife, Yulie and two elementary school aged children, Theo and Joelle. David is an elder at his church and active in the world of global missions serving on the boards of Asian Access, OMF (US), Taekwondo Alliance for Mission Foundation and Total IDEAS.
David holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Eric Quan
Servant / Disciple-Maker / Co-Founder
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Eric co-founded Telos after being called by God to find a way to integrate his business and pastoral experiences. After starting his career at Accenture, Eric increasingly pursued entrepreneurial opportunities including Advertising.com, Quintessential Realty, and The Quan Group.
Eric’s most recent role prior to founding Telos was as the Campus Director of Menlo Church San Mateo where he lead the staff team and congregation with a combination of pastoral and executive responsibilities. Eric lives in San Mateo, CA with his wife Jennifer and their four little princesses: Jordan, Chloe, Riley and Emma. Eric is a board member of Freely In Hope and the Peninsula Youth Soccer Club.
Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley.
Vision
Telos Ventures seeks to see the Holy Spirit unleash the entrepreneurial spirit.
Mission
Telos Ventures makes disciples through building God-glorifying Gospel-centered ventures.
“Christ is the culmination (telos) of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.”
Jesus was sent to redeem and renew the world. At Telos, we believe that our lives and our work must reflect this purpose.
Telos Ventures is a global gospel-centered venture community and advisory group. Telos encourages and equips entrepreneurs and investors who are building the next great startups to be on mission with God and make an impact in the world.
Gospel-centered ventures put Christ at the center to serve the world, foster innovation, shape organizational culture, and embrace a broad stakeholder perspective (definition borrowed with thanksgiving from our friends at Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Center for Faith and Work).
We believe that bringing a community of entrepreneurs, investors ,and partners together around Gospel-centered ventures to discern and be obedient to God’s will is an effective vehicle for discipleship.
We want to see entrepreneurs and investors grow strongly in their faith through what are some of the most formative experiences in their lives.
Furthermore, we believe that business is a great platform through which to share the Gospel. Creativity, innovation, and other aspects of work provide opportunities to show how the Holy Spirit works in and through us. Through excellence, God is glorified.
As followers of Jesus, we are commissioned to make disciples who then go out to make more disciples. At Telos we seek to fulfill this mission by loving and working with our community to build these Gospel-centered ventures that glorify God.
Core Values
Developmental
“So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”
Relational
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Collaborative
“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.”