Anna Kim

Making infrastructure last a lifetime

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Anna's career has followed a meandering path from a degree in Hotel Administration at Cornell to real estate private equity, a brief stint at an Italian cooking school, product/biz ops at construction tech and robotics startups, and most recently climate tech. She loves working at early stage startups as a self-described swiss army knife, gap filler, and wearer of many hats. When she's not in the office, you can find her riding her motorcycle down the coast, dirt biking, SCUBA diving, enjoying the great outdoors, planning her next travel adventure, or learning a new skill or hobby.

Experience

  • Head of Commercial Operations at Allium Engineering
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Increasing the lifetime of critical infrastructure and reducing critical minerals usage via an innovative process for metallurgically bonding paper thin stainless onto carbon steel.

  • Advisor at Domatic
    Aug 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Chief of Staff at Charm Industrial
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    At Charm we're working to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂, by putting oil back underground. We convert farm and forest biomass residues into bio-oil and biochar for permanent storage

  • Canvas (5 yrs 7 mos)
    • VP of Product Strategy
      Feb 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Joined at Series A as 10th employee and held a variety of leadership roles during Canvas' journey from R&D through commercialization and geographic expansion. Wore multiple hats including building and running a union signatory robot-enabled drywall subcontractor; tracking construction productivity at an unprecedented level of granularity; transitioning to a RaaS business; and creating business cases for next gen materials. Learned how to be a better human, leader/manager, and that I shouldn't be allowed to park 26' box trucks. Acquired by JLG Industries.

    • VP of Construction Operations
      Nov 2018 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Director of Business Development
      Jan 2018 - Nov 2018 · 11 mos

      Canvas is a construction robotics startup whose mission is to enable people to build in bold new ways. The Canvas system provides a flexible approach to drywall finishing, combining the skills and expertise of trained union workers with technology that together enable Canvas to consistently deliver Level 4 and 5 finishes; unlock unprecedented control over schedules by reducing typical finishing cycle times from 7 to 2 days; and provide better working conditions for all. https://www.canvas.build

  • Principal, Business Operations and Strategy at Katerra Inc.
    Mar 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Vertically integrated technology company transforming construction. First prefab construction hire at Softbank-backed startup that grew from 75 -> 7,500 employees in <2 years and raised over $2Bn -> $0. It was a wild ride and incredible learning experience for myself and the entire AEC industry at large.