Booga Ventures

Booga Ventures is a global private investment, advisory, and mentoring firm based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2009 by Young Song. The firm invests in early-stage technology startups across the United States and Asia at the prototyping stage, deploying working capital and equity investment from $30,000 to $250,000 — with over $3 million invested from its corporate capital fund across 13 portfolio companies. Focus sectors include SaaS, education, productivity tools, cloud computing, and AI. The portfolio includes two notable public market outcomes: Box (NYSE IPO at a $1.63 billion market cap) and Mobi Days (listed on Korea Exchange in February 2021). Two portfolio companies have been acquired: VoiceBox Technologies and Clickable (acquired by Brand Networks in May 2019). Chartmetric, the music analytics platform, is among active holdings. Young Song brings 25-plus years of technology leadership as co-founder and CEO of NComputing, a desktop virtualization company ranked as the world's third-largest thin client vendor by IDC with 70,000-plus enterprise customers across 140 countries. Booga operates at the earliest stage of company formation, where founder mentorship and strategic introduction carry as much weight as capital. Song's background in enterprise technology and cross-border US-Asia markets gives portfolio founders access to distribution relationships and corporate buyer networks that are difficult to replicate through traditional VC channels.