Company
The people who wrote the physics run the company.
The framework the platform runs on was written in Suwon starting in 2006, we hold the exclusive license to it, and its author is our scientific founder.
The team
Three founders: the physics, the platform, and the business.
Two of them rebuilt the physics and wrote the platform that searches it. The third has spent twenty five years getting hardware made and sold, in Seoul, Shenzhen and San Jose. New rigor at one end and a long operating career at the other.
James Kim, Ph.D.
Scientific Founder · MEL Theory
James invented the physics SuperMatics runs on and co-built the platform that searches it, and he appears as J. Kim on both MEL papers. He did his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The framework was developed at Hyunsung TNC, the materials-science company in Suwon, and it is patent pending internationally.
- Ph.D. Chemistry · KIT
- Author of the MEL framework
- Co-built the platform
- Patent pending internationally
- CTO, Hyunsung TNC
Davis Rens
Co-founder · Platform
Davis co-founded SuperMatics and built the platform with James. He took dual degrees in Chemistry and Physics at UC Berkeley in three years, with a 4.0 and Highest Honors from both of his colleges and both of his departments. He came here from Rigetti Computing, where he designed cryogenic cabling and rebuilt the thermal-management software, and both are still in production. He is a co-author on both MEL papers, arXiv 2512.03368 and 2601.14500.
- 4.0 · two degrees · three years
- Highest Honors, both colleges
- Shipped at Rigetti Computing
- Co-built the platform
- Co-author, both MEL papers
Charlie Moon
Co-founder · Chief Strategy Officer
Charlie co-founded SuperMatics and owns the commercial side: IP architecture, licensing structure, strategic alliances, and the U.S. to Korea pipeline across SuperMatics and Hyunsung TNC. He ran companies for twenty-five years before this. A decade of IT ODM/OEM manufacturing out of Seoul and Shenzhen, then fifteen years as chief executive of KOPEX USA in San Jose. KOPEX is the cable-protection line ABB carries in its electrification portfolio: getting electrical hardware specified, certified and installed is the half of this business that does not happen in software.
- Chief executive, 25 years
- CEO, KOPEX USA · San Jose
- Manufacturing · Seoul, Shenzhen
- ICT · healthcare · deep tech
- KDI School of Public Policy
Ownership
One estate, one exclusive license, one balance sheet.
01
Hyunsung TNC
Suwon, South Korea
Where the framework was written, starting in 2006. It owns the estate, 20+ patents issued and pending.
02
The license
Exclusive, to SuperMatics
We can build on the framework and commercialize everything the platform finds with it.
03
SuperMatics, Inc.
Berkeley, California
Runs the platform, the partner labs and the commercial pipeline, on its own balance sheet.
Entity
Delaware C-Corporation
Headquarters
Berkeley, California
Published
Two papers on arXiv, both citable
IP position
Exclusive license · 20+ patents issued and pending
Counsel
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Stage
Seed · by invitation
A tip over the crystal, before a run. Photographed at Georgia Tech, one of our partner benches.
Careers
Two seats, both with real ownership.
We publish the band and the equity because a senior candidate should not have to ask.
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