# Josh Lee

> Josh Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Swit Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based enterprise Work OS that unifies team chat and task management into a single platform. A former English teacher from Korea who turned his frustration with fragmented collaboration tools into a $20M ARR business, Lee launched Swit in March 2019 with co-founder Max Lim. Today, over 40,000 teams across 184 countries use Swit, which has raised $85.8M in total funding including a $32.7M Series B in 2022. Lee has pioneered the 'Super Work' framework for AI-era collaboration and unveiled Swit Snap, an AI co-pilot, at Google Next 24 in April 2024.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Swit Technologies Inc.
- **Organizations:** Swit Technologies Inc., Google for Startups (alumni)
- **From:** South Korea
- **Nationality:** Korean-American
- **Education:** Bachelor's in English Linguistics and Literature, Seoul National University, Certification in Design Thinking, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Grew Swit to $20M ARR by 2024, a 62.8% year-over-year increase from $12.3M in 2023., Raised $85.8M in total funding including a $32.7M Series B in September 2022., Built a platform used by over 40,000 teams across 184 countries.

## Career timeline

- **pre-2018** — Worked as an English teacher in Korea; built a custom web app to create personalized teaching materials, sparking an interest in software development.
- **2017-2018** — Worked at another startup, splitting time between the Bay Area and Seoul with co-founder Max Lim; experienced firsthand the pain of managing context across Slack, Trello, Asana and other tools.
- **2018** — Co-founded Swit Technologies Inc. with Max Lim; received $1.3M seed funding; accepted into Google for Startups Cloud Program.
- **2019** — Launched Swit publicly in March 2019; raised $6M seed round; migrated infrastructure to Google Kubernetes Engine (84 workloads, 252 microservices, 99.9999% uptime).
- **2020** — Raised $5M seed round; won Growth Startup of the Year at Startup Grind Global Conference; recognized by CIO Review as one of 'Most Promising Remote Work Tech Solution Providers'.
- **2022** — Raised $32.7M Series B (September 2022); SK Telecom and SK Broadband adopted Swit as their collaboration platform; named to G2 Best Software List in project management for second consecutive year.
- **2023** — Launched Swit 2.0 with SaaS Integration Platform (SIP), enabling no-code configuration, custom developer environments, public marketplace, and automation features; revenue reached $12.3M.
- **2024** — Unveiled Swit Snap (AI co-pilot) at Google Next 24 in April; pioneered 'Super Work' framework for AI-era work; revenue crossed $20M ARR; launched the first shared workspace for human-AI agent collaboration.

## Achievements

- Grew Swit to $20M ARR by 2024, a 62.8% year-over-year increase from $12.3M in 2023.
- Raised $85.8M in total funding including a $32.7M Series B in September 2022.
- Built a platform used by over 40,000 teams across 184 countries.
- Won Growth Startup of the Year at the 2020 Startup Grind Global Conference.
- Recognized by CIO Review as one of the 'Most Promising Remote Work Tech Solution Providers'.
- Named to G2's Best Software List in project management for two consecutive years.
- Secured SK Telecom and SK Broadband as enterprise clients.
- Launched Swit Snap AI co-pilot at Google Next 24 (April 2024).
- Achieved Google for Startups Cloud Program alumni status after scaling 30x on a single engineer.
- Pioneered 'Super Work' framework redefining collaboration in the AI era.
- Scaled monthly recurring revenue 135% and acquired 7,000 new clients through Google for Startups program.

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Swit reaches $20M ARR milestone with 144-person team.
- **2024-04** — Josh Lee unveils Swit Snap, an AI co-pilot leveraging Google Vertex AI, at Google Next 24 in Las Vegas. The tool converts conversations into tasks, summarizes content, and supports 19 languages.
- **2024-02** — Josh Lee speaks at DXAF AI Summit (Session II: Enterprise, B2E and Consumer AI) in ASEAN region on commercial strategies for enterprise AI.
- **2023-09** — USA Today covers Swit 2.0 and the evolution of next-gen SaaS startups.
- **2023-01** — Swit launches Swit 2.0 with SaaS Integration Platform featuring no-code automation, custom developer environments, and a public marketplace.
- **2022-09** — Swit closes $32.7M Series B funding round. SK Telecom and SK Broadband announce adoption of Swit as enterprise collaboration platform.

## Links

- Website: https://swit.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-lee-76b99833
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/josh_swit
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoshatSwit

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Last updated: 2026-05-26