Charles Michael Yim is a seasoned 3x serial entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, that is passionate about pioneering, inventing and building innovative consumer focused technologies - currently cryptocurrency Fintech and previously in crowdfunding, Medical Devices, Hardware and SMB. Charles is best known for being a Reality TV Star on ABC's Emmy Award winning show Shark Tank where he convinced all 5 celebrity investors including Mark Cuban to invest $1M together into Breathometer. Charles then placed 1st out of 10,000 startups in Sir Richard Branson’s Xtreme Tech Challenge earning a direct investment. Beforehand, Charles was Founder and CEO of Chatterfly - a mobile loyalty rewards platform, from inception, to acquisition by Plum District, a Kleiner Perkins company. Prior to Chatterfly, Charles was the Founder of ProBuddy, where he teamed up with a senior engineer at Facebook to develop a local service provider recommendation engine. Prior to that, Charles played an integral role in business development at Fortify Software - enterprise application security platform, later acquired by HP for $250M.



Charles has appeared on ABC's hit show Shark Tank and has been interviewed by CNBC’s Squawk Box, Dr. Oz, GMA, ABC News, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, Inc. Magazine, 500 Startups, TechCrunch, Mashable, Venture Beat, Techstars, Buzzfeed, USA Today, NY Times, Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal, prolific tech blogger Robert Scoble, etc. Charles was nominated for Forbes' top 30under30 under Technology and a Champion of Change for Crowd-funding Entrepreneurs at the White House in 2013 where he met with President Obama. Charles is the Managing Director of cMy Ventures and mentor at Stanford University's StartX Accelerator Program. Charles has authored multiple patents in design and utility for breath analysis and is currently writing his first book. Charles graduated with a B.S. in Business Economics from UC Riverside and from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Executive Program.