Comcast Ventures has hired Kai Bond from Samsung Accelerator as principal, a role in which he will also head its Catalyst Fund.

Kai Bond has joined Comcast Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of US-based mass media group Comcast, as a principal and will lead its Catalyst Fund, which targets investments in underrepresented minority entrepreneurs.

Bond joined Comcast Ventures last month according to LinkedIn, and comes to the firm from electronics producer Samsung. He was general manager of the New York-based Samsung Accelerator initiative for about a year, after spending roughly a year as a director in its Samsung Extra division.

Comcast launched…