Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in South Korea (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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KDB Capital
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, Mexico | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $500k–$54M |
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | $115k–$7.6M |
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AI Angel Club
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Health Care, E-Commerce, Automotive | $76k–$5M |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps | $200k–$8M |
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Hyundai Motor Company
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Automotive, Software, Transportation | $100k–$75M |
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Atinum Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $3M–$47M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $809k–$34M |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $229k–$6.3M |
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Hyundai Motor Group
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing | $1.5M–$8.4M |
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Halla Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Apps, Analytics, Automotive | $5.3M–$9.9M |
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IDG Ventures Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | iOS, Local, Mobile | |
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce | $458k–$3.2M |
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Series Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage | $76k–$3.4M |
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $2.3M–$47M |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $229k–$10M |
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SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Apps, Software, Food and Beverage | $2.5M–$40M |
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BDC Laboratories
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Fitness, Shipping, Logistics | ||
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Finland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $229k–$7.6M |
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KB Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Series B | Health Care, Big Data, Biotechnology | $1.7M–$21M |
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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive | $1M–$24M |
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Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Germany, Iceland | Series A, Series B | Gaming, Online Games, Software | $1.5M–$13M |
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Mando Coperation
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Drones, Sensor, Automotive | |
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Shinhan Financial Group
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia | Series A, Series C, Series D | E-Commerce, Automotive, Apps | $1.8M–$100M |
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Central
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore | Series A, Series B | Blockchain, IT Infrastructure, Information Technology | $5M–$6.1M |
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Artesian VC
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $70k–$12M |
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STIC Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Vietnam, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Apps, Software, Automotive | $2M–$26M |
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CKD Venture Capital Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Apps, Agriculture, Information Technology | $1.8M–$4.6M |
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MYSC
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, China, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce | $76k–$3.7M |
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Small Business Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A | Apps, Automotive, Customer Service | $382k–$9.9M |
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Chonnam National University Technology Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Automotive, E-Commerce, Information Technology | |
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Automotive, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $23k–$1.3M |
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Pusan National University
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Craft Beer, Food and Beverage | $306k–$1.1M |
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SparkLabs Global Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, FinTech | $229k–$8.6M |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software | $153k–$18M |
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Naver
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series C, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $38k–$107M |
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Korea Angel Investment Association
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Solar, Energy, Manufacturing | |
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Company K Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series B, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.3M–$25M |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $764k–$50M |
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TBT
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Information Services, B2B | $1.8M–$9.5M |
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Shinhan Asset Management
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series C | Energy, Gaming, Mobile | |
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SK Networks
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, The Netherlands | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Blockchain, Agriculture | $2.3M–$60M |
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, France, United States | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Therapeutics | $2.7M–$25M |
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Daum Communications
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Comics, Mobile, Content | |
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$26M |
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TS Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Singapore | Series B, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical | $2.8M–$15M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $1M–$45M |
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care | $860k–$25M |
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Hemi Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Automotive | $500k–$31M |
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K and Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A | Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles | |
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Online Portals, Information Technology | $76k–$12M |
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KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.3M; Series A $2.7M–$7.6M; Series B $5.9M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
- Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $115k–$3M; Series A $2.1M–$7.6M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
- Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $76k–$840k; Angel $76k–$107k; Series A $1.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
- ONES Global — ONES Global provides global healthcare solutions and databases for the healthcare market.
- MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 207
- Round size: Seed $229k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M; Series A $1.1M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pillyze — mobile health care startup
- InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
- Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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- Industry: Automotive, Software, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.1M; Series A $4.2M–$16M; Series B $6.1M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
- Gbike — Gbike is a mobility sharing startup in Korea, innovating green urban mobility in Korea where currently car-centric environment. Our service includes bike and scooter sharing with IT services specialized for Korean market with 50MM population.
- BOS Semiconductors — BOS Semiconductors develops semiconductor technology for the automotive industry.
Atinum Investment Co., Ltd. is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in the information technology and communication, materials for Information technology, renewable energy, metal and non-metal, distribution, media and contents, materials and components, and biotechnology and life science industries
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $5M–$34M; Series C $9.9M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Doodlin — Doodlin creates and operates Greeting and also manages Application registration, resume verification, applicant management, interview schedule adjustments, and recruitment evaluations
- POSTYPE — POSTYPE is a content open market where anyone can sell and buy digital content.
- Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 1.4 Billion of asset under management as of December 2013. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Seed $809k–$5M; Series A $2M–$10M; Series B $5.7M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
- Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
- Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $229k–$2.7M; Series A $764k–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
- Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.
Hyundai Motor Group is an automotive company that also affiliates in other industries such as construction, steel, and finance. They have developed a value chain focused on vehicles, steel, and construction, as well as logistics, finance, information technology, and service.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.7M; Series A $1.9M–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ANGELSWING — ANGELSWING provides web-based platform which turns drone captured images into actionable business and social insights.
- Korea Zinc — Korea Zinc operates as a general non-ferrous metal smelting company primarily in South Korea. It offers zinc slab ingots, alloy jumbo blocks, anode ingots, and die cast ingots for use in galvanized steel plates, steel pipes and wires, color steel plates, automobile parts, machine/electronic parts, anti-corrosion paints, etc. Korea Zinc alsoprovides lead and lead alloy ingots used in automobile and industrial batteries, electric wire coatings, radiation shielders for batteries, anti-corrosion paints, etc.; and copper for use in copper plates, pipes, wires, as well as bronze, etc. Moreover, it offers gold used in semiconductors, PCBs, electrically conducting materials, jewelries, coins, etc.; and silver for use in electronic products, cameras, X-ray films, jewelries, etc. Further, Korea Zinc provides other rare metals, including indium, bismuth, antimony, antimony trioxide, cadmium, tellurium, cobalt, cadmium sticks, gallium, selenium, etc.; sulfuric acid used in inorganic chemicals, metal refining, steel making, and spinning and weaving, as well as in chemical and fertilizer, fiber, and paper manufacturing industries; electronic grade sulfuric acid used for cleaning and etching in semiconductor manufacturing process; and oleum used in nitro compounds, dye stuffs, chloro sulfonic acid, blasting powder, and oxidation. It began operation in 1974, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
- Tenstorrent — At Tenstorrent, we build AI processors for machine learning workloads of today and tomorrow.
Halla Holdings is engaged in the auto parts distribution and logistics business.
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- Industry: Apps, Analytics, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ourbox — Ourbox is a logistics agency that provides total logistics solutions and fulfillment services for online sellers.
- Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
- Gomi Corporation — Gomi Corporation is a Overseas market.
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Browse database — It's Free!IDG Ventures Korea manages a US$100 million venture capital fund focused on growing companies whose innovative products and services can succeed in both the local and the global market. Korea is a global IT powerhouse that has a history of launching new technologies ahead of other markets.
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- Industry: iOS, Local, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cardoc — Cardoc is a location-based mobile automotive repair estimate service. By uploading photos of their car's exterior damage, users can get free repair estimates and text-consultation from selected car body shops.During the 15 month of service period, Cardoc processed $3.5M worth of transactions and registered stores of Cardoc experienced agrowth rate of 30-100% per month. Each user can get their first estimate within an average of 7 minutes and compare at least 3 estimates without having to register personal information. The founding team consists of five automative enthusiasts. They received the support of Daum NIS (Next Incubation Studio), a startup incubation organization proposed by Daum Communications and spun off in January 2014.
- Mykoon co.,ltd. — Plugger solves the dead phone problem.Plugger offers battery swapping & portable chargers at local convenience stores. For only $3, costumers can have their dead battery swapped for a newly charged one. For Apple devices (non-removable batteries), we provide a portable-battery sharing membership. Costumers join our service by purchasing ourbranded portable batteries, which can be swapped out for $3.Plugger currently has over 100 service locations in Seoul, Korea. By the end of 2015, Plugger will be in over 600 locations in Korea. Our partner stores continue to request the expansion of our service to their storefronts.Our goal for 2016 is to expand into new Asian markets, which will help us reach $10M in sales. We will continue to develop and roll-out new services, including Plugger branded smartphone accessories. We will use our established partner-store relationships as our distribution channel for new product launches.We're fundraising! Please contact us to meet.
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $458k–$2.3M; Series A $2.3M–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
- Inertia — Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology.
- Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $76k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fxip — FXIP has the capacity to quickly complete a number of processes, including product planning, design, and manufacturing. Through the introduction of various IP brands in the food & life sector, it has already demonstrated the potential of the business.
- Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
- Simply Care Bio — Simply Care Bio is a care food company that manufactures functional foods based on ingredient composition and amplification technology through water-solubilization of fatty acids and immunity-building technology through cell activation.
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$24M; Series B $3.8M–$25M; Series C $17M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
- Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
- Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 198
- Round size: Seed $229k–$4.2M; Series A $840k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Dremo — Dreamo is a leading game developer making great games for friends, family, and people around the world.
- Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
- Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.
SBI Investment Co., Ltd. has established itself as a true partner of the Republic of Korea venture business development in the past 28 years as a venture capital concept introduced first in Korea in 1986 was even unfamiliar concept of 'venture'. SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a direct excavation domestic / other promising venturesinvestment as well as domestic / external funding attracted through cooperation with institutional investors and technology, marketing, public offering (IPO), the law, adhere to the role which has been providing comprehensive services such as Value-up tax.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$13M; Series B $4.6M–$40M; Series C $7.8M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NO Search — NO Search is an online marketplace for home and kitchen appliances.
- Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
- Medi Whale — We believe that early detection is the best prevention. Our innovative diagnostic technology helps you take action before symptoms appear.
BDC Laboratories provides Comprehensive Testing Services and Test Equipment for Stents, Stent Grafts, Heart Valves, Vascular Grafts and Catheters.
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- Industry: Fitness, Shipping, Logistics
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baree — Baree is an automobile company that offers domestic motorcycle maintenance and second-hand trading of bikes.
- BRLab — BRLab is a healthcare company in the sleep tech area. We serve sleep tracking and enhancing platform but also ai-based life coaching services. BRLab's platform allows you to use top notching sleep technologies to any type of related applications.
- SeaVantage — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $229k–$2.9M; Series A $344k–$6.1M; Series B $611k–$7.6M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
- Pillyze — mobile health care startup
- Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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- Industry: Health Care, Big Data, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $4.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BRLab — BRLab is a healthcare company in the sleep tech area. We serve sleep tracking and enhancing platform but also ai-based life coaching services. BRLab's platform allows you to use top notching sleep technologies to any type of related applications.
- Solum — Stay on track with the newest technology with a digital price tag for your merchandise. SOLUM ESL is the leading company in electronic shelf labels.
- Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.
SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $1.6M–$24M; Series B $4.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
- CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
- Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
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- Industry: Gaming, Online Games, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Germany, Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $3.6M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Manufacturing of automotive parts
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- Industry: Drones, Sensor, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SOS LAB — SOSLAB, the leading LiDAR expert team for upcoming era of Smart Mobility and Infrastructure. As a LiDAR supplier, we focus our effort on cooperation with market partners from Automotive, Robotics, Surveillance fields.
- bitsensing — bitsensing designs and develops cutting-edge imaging radar technology solutions for the ultimate smart cities and connected experience
Shinhan Bank, is a bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Automotive, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Series C, Series D
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$79M; Series C $8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tiki — Tiki.vn is the an e-commerce company that specializes in the end-to-end supply chain and partnering with brands. Tiki.vn is the fastest-growing retail company in Vietnam and is well-positioned to be an industry winner. It is also the Vietnam’s most favorite B2C e-commerce company.Tiki.vn features more than 300,000 products in 12 categories ofelectronics, lifestyle, and books. The company achieves the highest customer satisfaction rate and the lowest return rate among all e-commerce players in Vietnam due to its capability to control the end-to-end supply chain, from partnering with brands to deliver high-quality merchandise to managing warehouse and logistics to processing payments and providing superior customer service.Tiki.vn has a fun, dynamic, and innovative work culture and is currently 500+ team members strong. Investors in the company include Seedcom, CyberAgents Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation, and VNG Corporation.
- BlockOdyssey — Best Enterprise Blockchain Enabler, Block Odyssey
- ABLY Corporation — ABLY Corporation is a fashion platform and application.
Central is an auto parts manufacturer.
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- Industry: Blockchain, IT Infrastructure, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $5M–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RCE — RCE specializes in the sales of construction machines.
- Getcha — Getcha is a car purchase, long-term rental, lease, test ride, and car consulting company.
- MVL Chain — MVL is a new incentive-based blockchain mobility ecosystem.MVL records key data such as transactions, movements, accidents, and maintenance of people and vehicles in many fields, connecting them together in a single.
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Seed $96k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $70k–$1.5M; Series A $3.3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
- Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
- Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.
STIC Ventures invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Automotive
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Series A $2M–$22M; Series B $5.3M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
CKD Venture Capital Corporation is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm. Founded in 1997, CKD Venture Capital Corporation considers seed, early stage, late stage and mezzanine investments.
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- Industry: Apps, Agriculture, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$3.1M; Series A $1.8M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Geekble — Geekble is a media startup that produces new media content on science and technology to bridge the gap between geeks and the world. With revenue from workshops and branded content, Geekble is building its own "maker space" for geeks to experiment. Teachers and professors are using Geekble's content for educational purposes, andGeekble videos have been used for public TV.
- New Vessel — New Vessel is to navigate the sea of e-commerce. We utilize our e-commerce and consumer branding experience and partner with world-class e-commerce experts.
- Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, China, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $76k–$1.5M; Series A $917k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VPP — Providing clean energy to wherever it is needed
- JeCLEAN — Jacqueline, an ESG startup, draws attention to the vast amounts of abandoned and burnt hotel bedding waste on Jeju Island and provides industrial solutions through upcycling solutions that recycle it into cotton-based raw materials, yarns, and fabrics.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
SBC is a non-profit government-funded organization that provides health and success solutions for small & medium enterprises. It also operates financial and non-financial programs and provides financing for SMEs. SBC offers technology consulting, comprehensive diagnosis, SME training support, SME start-up, promotion fund management &operation, and domestic export marketing & international cooperation support.SBC was founded on January 30, 1979, and is based in Jinju, Korea.
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- Industry: Apps, Automotive, Customer Service
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $382k–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ziovision — Ziovision is a data analysis firm that uses artificial intelligence. advancement of social safety AI solution solutions, as well as licensing AI software and medical devices.
- Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
- Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
Chonnam National University Technology Holdings is a financial service company that specializes in investment and funding services.
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- Industry: Automotive, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The Trive — The Trive is a car subscription service platform through which users can pay a monthly subscription fee to drive the car they most desire.
- malang honey (So soft) — malang honey is an e-commerce platform for childcare products.
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- Industry: Automotive, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $23k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
- Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
- Growing Sales — Growing Sales is a mobile application that handles payment methods of customers.
Pusan National University is a school in Busan.
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- Industry: Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $306k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dailyshot — Dailyshot provides craft beers and cocktails.
- The Trive — The Trive is a car subscription service platform through which users can pay a monthly subscription fee to drive the car they most desire.
SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $229k–$2.7M; Series A $3M–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.2M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Splab — Splab creates and operates a calendar-based scheduling automation tool. Splab is located in Seoul, South Korea.
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- Tella — Service
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $153k–$1.8M; Series A $3.8M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fairy — Capture the perfect moment to persuade users outside of your app. Accompany your customers outside of your app and engage at an intent-rich moment in real time.
- Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.
- Securenet — SecureNet offers a platform service that unifies and manages the complete process, including KC certification, various product tests, certification curation, and certificate and report management.
Korea Angel Investment Association is a small and medium-sized enterprise that supports startups and angel investors.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Quotabook — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
- Binding — Binding is an-energy related manufacturing company that produces solar power generation devices.
- Korea Mobility — Korea Mobility develops refrigerated vehicles, trailers, van racking systems, and welfare vehicle for the disabled.
Company K Partners Limited is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in culture content, electronic components, computer, machinery, broadcasting, arts, sports, and leisure industries. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeongnam, and Gyeonggi. Company K Partners Limited was established in 2006 and isbased in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$6.9M; Series B $6.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Imagoworks Inc — Imagoworks Inc. offers a Web-based Dental CAD solution using AI, streamlining the digital workflow for dental professionals. Together with world-class technology, we are setting new standards for digital dentistry in the global market. Our mission is to <Making the future of digital medicine for everyone>.While we have accumulatedtechnological expertise in the medical field for over 10 years, specializing in AI-based automation, 3D geometric modeling and mesh processing, and software as a service (SaaS), we now turn our focus to commercializing our innovative technologies and transforming the field of digital dentistry. By cooperating with and licensing to leading global dental companies, we are seeing great success as we find ourselves in the industry spotlight.Imagoworks currently offers Dentbird Crown which automatically generates optimal crown designs with a single click and without any software installation required. As we continue to expand our services, Imagoworks aims to be recognized as a chairside design solution for dentists worldwide.
- Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
- Databank — Databank is an AI-based EdTech Startup that provides online test preparation services with instant scoring through TestGlider.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 220
- Round size: Seed $764k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Camfit — Camfit is a travel and leisure company that provides real-time camping site reservations and also offers community, and commerce services.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
TBT is an Adventure Capital.We are more than your average VC investor; we are always up for an adventure. Investment means more than just transfer of capital for us. We want to be a discussion partner that discovers possibilities beyond risk and aligns growth with progress. We want to share decades of industry knowledge and experience in internetand mobile services to build services and products that can make the world a better place.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Information Services, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $3M–$4.7M; Series A $1.8M–$6.1M; Series B $6.1M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dot Inc — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
- Kokoji — Kokoji is a kids' audio tech platform. Kokoji redesigns childrens content consumption journeys based on audio content. Kokoji provides services for children, such as language, brain, and emotional development, through auditory stimulation.
- FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.
Shinhan Asset Management is an asset management company.
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- Industry: Energy, Gaming, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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- GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
- sendy Korea — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
- mangrove — mangrove is a real estate and rental services provider.
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Browse database — It's Free!SK Networks has created customer values in various business areas.(ICT Marketing) SK is the Korea’s No.1 mobile phone distributor based on the largest sales network and nationwide distribution system in the domestic market. We also have launched various ICT products to ease customers’ digital life and established the ecosystem of used phonerecycling.(Home appliance) SK magic (subsidiary of SK Networks) is a premium kitchen appliance company by introducing the gas oven to the Korean market in 1985, and it is expanding its business area to gas/electric ranges, electric ovens, dishwashers, water purifiers, air purifiers and bidets. (Rent-a-car) SK rent-a-car (subsidiary of SK Networks) is an automotive company that leads the total automotive after market and runs about 170 nationwide network points and consumes about 20.7% market share. (Trading) With 28 global out posts, our trading business is expanded all over the world. Through international experience amassed over more than 50 years, we have secured outstanding global sourcing ability, market intelligence and strategic networking on steel/chemical/automotive industries around the world that gives us a distinct competitive edge and stable profit structure.(Hotel) Walkerhill Hotels & Resorts is a pioneer of the Korean hotel industry that provides the best experience in the overall lifestyle including leisure, culture, and food, as well as comfortable rest in the nature.(Investments) SK Networks is looking for investment opportunities that can bring disruptive innovation to its existing businesses. Since 2018, SK Networks has been actively investing in Venture Capitals/Start-ups mostly in Silicon Valley and in Korea as well.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Agriculture
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Series A $7.6M–$27M; Series B $2.3M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- sTraffic — sTraffic provides fast and safe transportation system solutions.
- Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
- Source.ag — Our AI supports both experienced and new growers to produce more fruit and vegetables anywhere in the world, increasing business results while reducing risks
Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Therapeutics
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$13M; Series B $5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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- Nuvilab — We lead innovation of the Food-tech through AI technology that is helpful for both human and the environment.
- Right Route — Right Route is an e-commerce company for clothes.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
The Daum is a popular web portal in South Korea, with its rival Naver. Daum offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news.The popularity of Daum is a reflection of the high level of internet use in South Korea. The country has the highest level of broadbandusers, and one of the most widespread levels of computer and Internet access.The popularity of Daum stems from the range of services it offers, but also from the fact that it was the first Korean web portal of significant size. Its popularity started when it merged with the then most popular e-mail service, daum.net or hanmail.net. After the merging, Daum started the forum service DaumCafe which brought its firm status in the market. The term cafe is now used as the synonym for "Internet forum" in Korean.On August 2, 2004 Daum announced the purchase of Lycos for $95.4 million, and closed the transaction on October 6
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- Industry: Comics, Mobile, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Cardoc — Cardoc is a location-based mobile automotive repair estimate service. By uploading photos of their car's exterior damage, users can get free repair estimates and text-consultation from selected car body shops.During the 15 month of service period, Cardoc processed $3.5M worth of transactions and registered stores of Cardoc experienced agrowth rate of 30-100% per month. Each user can get their first estimate within an average of 7 minutes and compare at least 3 estimates without having to register personal information. The founding team consists of five automative enthusiasts. They received the support of Daum NIS (Next Incubation Studio), a startup incubation organization proposed by Daum Communications and spun off in January 2014.
- Tapas Media — Tapas is the “Youtube for story tellers” -- a platform and community for over 50,000 creators, who publish original stories in the form of serialized webcomics and novels. Tapas has over 2 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend 70 million minutes per month on the platform with stories on Tapas having been read over 5 billion timesto date. We co-produce original IPs with our top creators that can be shopped and brokered into the next hit TV series/movies/games/physical books. About 70% of Tapas’s audience are female millennials primarily located in the US. The Tapas app has been downloaded over 2 million times and is one of the top grossing comics apps on iOS and Android. Check out some of the latest news articles about Tapas here: https://tapas.io/site/about
Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm
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- Industry: Information Technology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Series A $2M–$7.6M; Series B $6.5M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BRLab — BRLab is a healthcare company in the sleep tech area. We serve sleep tracking and enhancing platform but also ai-based life coaching services. BRLab's platform allows you to use top notching sleep technologies to any type of related applications.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
- Select Star — Select Star is a data platform for AI technology that offers dataset building, storage, and analysis services.
TS Investment is an investment company.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$11M; Series B $4.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- growV — growV offers educational services by using learning technology.
- mangrove — mangrove is a real estate and rental services provider.
- Xingxing Mobility — Xingxing Mobility is an app that offers an electric kickboard sharing service.
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that has been growing remarkably alongside our many invested companies. From our initial venture capital funding in 2000, we have since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds, and have invested in morethan 200 companies with promising growth potential.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Series A $1M–$36M; Series B $6.1M–$34M; Series C $12M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
- Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $860k–$2.5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M; Series B $3.8M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Hemi ventures is an early stage venture fund to invest in smart things.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $2M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Novauto — Novauto develops an intelligent computing platform for smart driving.
- Phase Genomics — Phase Genomics: Fueling Genomic Discovery with Hi-C Kits & Services. Proximo: Genome Phasing & Scaffolding. ProxiMeta: Complete Genomes from the Microbiome.
- Ravel Biotechnology — Ravel Biotechnology markets an analytic technology platform capable of early detection of disease from cell-free DNA.The technology platform enables the accelerated development and validation of screening tests for a wide range of diseases from a single analyte, cell-free DNA. Thus providing the opportunity to screen for a multitude of diseasesfrom a single blood draw.The company was co-founded by Erik Gafni and Nathan Boley in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
K and Investment Partners is a venture capital company that offers venture investment, funding, and consulting services.
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- Industry: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- S.LAB Asia — S.LAB is a platform for supply chain logistics for an efficient and cost-saving end to end transportation service. Through its cold chain technology, the company significantly reduces the cost during the first mile and middle mile delivery. Real-time tracking service will collect all the data to actively respond to the incident and keep thecustomer satisfied. With the data, S.LAB optimizes the temperature, packaging, and routing to increase the efficiency in cold chain delivery per country.
- Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
- earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Industry: Software, Online Portals, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $76k–$3.2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.4M; Series B $5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
- H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
- Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
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