Top 50 Community Startup Investors in South Korea (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps | $200k–$8M |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, United States, Finland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $229k–$7.6M |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $229k–$10M |
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce | $458k–$3.2M |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $229k–$6.3M |
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MYSC
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, China, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce | $76k–$3.7M |
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $153k–$4.6M |
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TheVentures
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, Vietnam, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $50k–$4.8M |
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DSC Investment
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing | $382k–$53M |
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care | $860k–$25M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $809k–$34M |
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Softbank Ventures Asia
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $1.9M–$100M |
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Newborn Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile Apps, DIY, Smart Home | |
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S Cubic Angels
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Apps, Education | $31k–$92k |
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $382k–$7M |
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AI Angel Club
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Health Care, E-Commerce, Automotive | $76k–$5M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $1M–$45M |
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Base Investments
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software | |
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ID ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Vietnam | Series A, Seed, Series B | Fashion, Media and Entertainment, Health Care | $764k–$200M |
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Tekton Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.3M–$27M |
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Korea Social Investment Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Grant | Pet, FinTech, Information Technology | |
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Capital One
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, China | Debt Financing, Series B, Series A | Software, Real Estate, Information Technology | $5.8M–$980M |
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Insight Equity Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Series B | Health Care, Q&A, Fitness | |
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Base Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B | |
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Woori Bank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, China, Hong Kong | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $153k–$13M |
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Lee Seung Ho
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Social, Sports, Travel | ||
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Mobile, Music, FinTech | |
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TBT
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Information Services, B2B | $1.8M–$9.5M |
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Samsung Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $3.7M–$74M |
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series C | Payments, FinTech, Manufacturing | $764k–$40M |
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Hardware | $2.3M–$28M |
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IMM Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care | $3.1M–$61M |
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Content, TV | $578k–$764k |
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Japan, Malaysia | Seed, Series A | Software, Retail, Health Care | $306k–$11M |
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YG Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Russian Federation | Seed, Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile | $229k–$51M |
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Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $229k–$1.1M |
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Daewon
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Apps, Fitness, Women's | |
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile Apps, Software, Manufacturing | $229k–$11M |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software | $153k–$18M |
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JB Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Series B | Apps, Mobile Apps, Pet | $38k–$16M |
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, South Korea, Thailand | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Video Games, FinTech | $2M–$275M |
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POSCO Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $306k–$27M |
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GS Shop
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing | $336k–$24M |
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We Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Software, Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence | $1.7M–$4.6M |
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Gaming | $2.7M–$4.6M |
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Hashed
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$60M |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $76k–$15M |
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NH Investment & Securities
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, India, Indonesia | Series C, Series B, Seed | Therapeutics, Medical, Financial Services | $6.5M–$38M |
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Union Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B | Fashion, FinTech, Publishing | $4.2M–$8.6M |
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Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $153k–$1.5M |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $153k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
- RTBP ALLIANCE — RTBP ALLIANCE focuses on creating co-working spaces and modernize old places for local communities.
- Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.2M; Series A $3.1M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- slowave — Slowwave discovered that the current sleep test is performed in a foreign hospital setting with numerous sensors attached to the head, making it impossible to test and identify sensitive insomnia patients effectively. As a result, a microprocessor and low-power measuring algorithm were integrated into an ultra-light patch, allowing patients withinsomnia to easily perform sleep EEG at home while eliminating factors that interfere with the examination and boosting measurement precision.
- Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
- Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring
DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $382k–$8.3M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $4.6M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bionsight — We are pioneering a new era of AI to facilitate the long journey from a laboratory to the patients in drug discovery
- Superblock — Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core.
- Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$24M; Series B $5.2M–$52M; Series C $9.2M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Artue — Explore a diverse collection of artwork by new and emerging artists on Artue.io. Buy and sell original paintings, sculptures, photography, and more.
- B GARAGE — B GARAGE is an autonomous drone and service company for warehouse inventory management. B GARAGE is an homage to Willow Garage, a widely respected robotics research company that developed an open-source robotics software platform.
- ZUZU Hospitality — ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers.
Newborn Ventures is an investment consulting firm that provides professional training courses and initial startup funding.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, DIY, Smart Home
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kidsning — Kidsning is a mobile shopping app that provides kids clothing and toy shopping services.
- Il Conus — Il Conus is a sensor bases IoT company that offers smart sterilization system toilets and smart tunnel lighting control systems.
- CoinTravIT — CoinTravIT provides international currency exchange services with mobile support.
S Cubic Angels is an investment firm that helps to discover startups and prospective entrepreneurship teams.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $31k–$92k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inabooth — Inabooth is a character licensing platform that connects character IP owners and character IP users.
- Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
- Junction Med — Junction Med develops and operates CareBom, a child-based senior healthcare communication service.
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $382k–$2.9M; Series A $458k–$7M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
- Brandi — Brandi sells clothes, cosmetics, and home interior products.
- Village Baby — Village Baby is an online marketplace that provides childbirth and parenting products and information.
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.
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.
Base Investments operates as an investment firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 33
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
- 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.
ID ventures is an IP based venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Fashion, Media and Entertainment, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $764k–$200M; Series A $1.5M–$8.6M; Series B $5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
- Aminolab — Aminolab specializes in the development of blood resource recycling technology, aimed at addressing concerns associated with the environmental impact of waste blood treatment. Aminolab identifies the environmental burden of waste blood processing worldwide and prepares for improvement.Since 2013, the company has developed amino acid extractiontechnology through hydrolysis of slaughter blood using natural enzymes, and completed the construction of a factory for mass production in April 2022.
- infoplus — InfoPlus provides financial software solutions and services that are developed in accordance with the most recent technological trends.
TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stageinvestments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world.Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India).Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus.We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.3M; Series A $1.3M–$16M; Series B $7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
- 10 Minute Squad — GoPuff for Korea. We deliver groceries in 10 minutes in Seoul through a networks ‘dark stores’.
- Nano Technologies — VUI provides Flexible Payroll (EWA) solutions, income statistics, and employee financial management education through a technology platform.
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- Industry: Pet, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hubriz — Hubriz is a babysitter hiring company.
- Hubris.io — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Capital One can help you find the right credit cards; checking or savings accounts; auto loans; and other banking services for you or your business
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- Industry: Software, Real Estate, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series B $8.5M–$18M; Debt Financing $5.8M–$980M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
- EquipmentShare — Get the newest equipment, track your entire fleet and put your assets to work when you aren't using them, all with EquipmentShare.
- Monochrome Technology — Monochrome Technology focuses on extraordinarily lightning-fast laser processing equipment in the area of advanced manufacturing.
Insight Equity is an equity firm that makes control investments in middle-market and asset-intensive companies. It is partnering with corporate divestitures, bankruptcies, restructurings, and family-owned liquidity events. Insight Equity has the ability to execute circumstances where speed is a priority. It is headquartered in Southlake, Texas.
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- Industry: Health Care, Q&A, Fitness
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
- MiNDCAFE — MiNDCAFE is an online psychological counseling platform.
- MotionLabs — MotionLabs develops women's digital healthcare services.
Base Investment connects private equity, strategic buyers, and private individuals with opportunities to invest. The company works with well-known, enormous national firms that are looking to acquire a business that will help them extend their brand or make better use of their current facilities.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
- Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.
- Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.
Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea's wealth and economy.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, China, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $153k–$7.6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.6M; Series B $1.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
- Lotte Group — Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sellsconfectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.
- Green Dot — Green Dot runs an E-MaaS (Energy-Mobiliy as a Service) platform, which integrates mobility and energy. Since its inception, the service has drawn attention due to its rapid construction of Green Dot Zones, which provide energy and transportation All-in-One services in the heart of Seoul and the metropolitan area.
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- Industry: Social, Sports, Travel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
- Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
- Frientrip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.
Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.
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- Industry: Mobile, Music, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NRISE — NRISE is develops MOCI and WIPPY services. NRISE research and develops social media services to bring people the joy of communication.
- Goodoc — Goodoc (굿닥) is a Korean smartphone application that helps users with a variety of medical services. The app allows users to access reliable information on doctors, hospitals, and other medical services. It also provides users with information on doctors' fees, hospital fees, contact numbers, and more.
- Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
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: 11
- 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.
The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPOcompanies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Series A $3.7M–$26M; Series B $4.8M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- BKT — BKT is the creator of Tomorrow Water Process (TWP) that minimizes the environmental impacts maximizing the benefits from wastewater.
- d-Matrix — d-Matrix takes a clean-slate approach to AI compute efficiency, solving some of the most teething problems for the largest datacenter customers in the world.
- GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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- Industry: Payments, FinTech, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
- Geography: United States, Singapore, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $764k–$3.2M; Series A $1.5M–$40M; Series C $21M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nium — Global Real-Time Payments
- Pace — Pace is an online payment platform that allows users to shop for more with no interest or hidden fees. Pace lets shoppers take charge of their spending without giving up on the things they need or deserve. Pace allows consumers to split their purchases into three equal interest-free payments over 60 days through an omnichannel experience that helpsthem spend sustainably.
- ZUZU Hospitality — ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Hardware
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$28M; Series B $6.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Verdagy — Verdagy is driving down the investment and energy needed to generate hydrogen for industry using electrolysis. We engineer and manufacture innovative electrolyzers that scale to gigawatt production facilities.
- Membrion — Remove Problematic Ions to Expand Capacity, Ensure Compliance, and Eliminate Costs with Electro-Ceramic Desalination
- Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
Korean alternative asset investment firm
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Series A $3.1M–$47M; Series B $6.9M–$61M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Munto — Munto is a community platform that enables individuals to connect better online and offline depending on their interests.
- N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
- d'strict — World-Class Digital Media Design Company
Taekkyung Lee - Representative Partner @ MashUp Angels
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- Industry: Software, Content, TV
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $578k–$764k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
- 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
- DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Software, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $306k–$7.6M; Series A $2.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- S-Alpha Therapeutics — Digital approach for unmet medical needs. We embody technology that understands and cares for humans.
- Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
YG Investment is an investment firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $229k–$1.9M; Series B $7.6M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AdForUs — AdForUs specializes in strategic online and mobile advertising.
- Webling — Weebling is concentrating on infrastructure investment for service differentiation in addition to introducing high-end DTG (Direct to Garment) printing technology from Cornit, Israel for the first time in the domestic POD sector to increase the printing quality of its key product, apparel.
- READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $229k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
- Order Hero — Order Hero is an application for food service management.
- DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.
Daewon engages domestic and overseas housing construction, infrastructure, urban development, and platform businesses. It manages land and water with technology for humans and the environment, and provides in-depth benefits with customized designs to the inclination.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Women's
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
- MonthlyThing — MonthlyThing is an app for women's health.
- THEFAMILYLAB — THEFAMILYLAB provides digital healthcare solutions for women.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $229k–$764k; Series A $917k–$6.5M; Series B $7.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
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- Somsidang Company — Somsidang Company is an online learning platform that offers baking and pottery painting training services.
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: 29
- Round size: Seed $153k–$1.8M; Series A $3.8M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
- Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
- Fairy — Capture the high intent moments to persuade users outside of your app. Accompany your customers outside of your app and engage at an intent-rich moment in real time.
JB Ventures is a venture capital investment firm and startup accelerator that aims to support startups in the Chungcheongnam-do region.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Pet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $38k–$1.5M; Series A $3.1M–$5M; Series B $12M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rubit — Rubit is an online mobile application with the provisions for individuals to take care of their pets.
- Cre Planet — Cre Planet creates technologies for analyzing advertising performance and provides staffing services.
- Wise Convey — Wise Convey is innovating smart logistics, starting with task automation.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Video Games, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Series A $2M–$275M; Series B $3.1M–$247M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Munto — Munto is a community platform that enables individuals to connect better online and offline depending on their interests.
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.
POSTECH Venture Capital Corporation(POSTECH VC) was founded and financed by POSCO to participate in SME(small and medium enterprise) Revitalization Policy in 1997 for the National Economy Restoration.We seek investment opportunities in diverse markets including Information Technologies, Advanced Materials, Bio Technologies, Renewable Energy,and Life Sciences.And we are to accelerate the commercialization of the valuable technologies from POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), RIST(Research institute of Industrial Science and Technology), and other institutes in Korea. More than 200 professors in POSTECH help POSTECH VC evaluate the technologiesPOSTECH VC is comprised of a team consisted of experienced venture capitalists who has previous experiences in successful startups, consulting firms, and executive management.We are currently investing from our several funds and manage over 60 billion Won.Our recent primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in renewable energy such as bio-diesel and photovoltaic technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series A $306k–$6.3M; Series B $2.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OKHOME — OKHOME adalah penyedia jasa kebersihan terbaik untuk rumah, apartemen dan berbagai tempat yang membutuhkan pembersih profesional.
- Hexlant — Hexlant - Blockchain Laboratory. Build Blockchain Security Environment in just few days. With Simple Installation, Expand your Business onto Blockchain.
- Deepbrain AI — Deepbrain AI has proven its world-class conversational artificial intelligence technology to be highly utilizing in many areas, including broadcasting, education, and in service industry. State-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology, analogous to real people say, can be applied in a wide variety of areas. Also, it is expected that demandwill increase significantly with differentiated technology in the age of diversification.In recognition of its competitiveness and value, the company has received $2M investment from IDG Capital in 2019, and up to date, it has accumulated $9.5M. In addition, the company is currently growing in partnership with major companies such as Microsoft, Kakao Partner, and SK Telecom. It is expected to accelerate its external growth and profit expansion in the new market as it is set to make inroads into the global market based on its performance so far.
GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $336k–$4M; Series A $917k–$7.5M; Series B $2.1M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
- Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
- Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
We Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in bio-health, digital content, AI data, and deep tech.
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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Umag — Umag is a music content company that provides brand channel, concerts, and advertisment services.
- Ineeji — Ineeji is an industrial AI solutions company that provides AI prediction services based on the machine learning technology.
- Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
Stone Bridge Ventures
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- Industry: Gaming
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hanvit — Hanvit provides bespoke solutions.
- Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
- RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $5.3M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
- Connext Labs — Connext is the most secure interoperability protocol, allowing users to bridge funds and developers to build asynchronous Solidity for the first time!
- Decentralised Gaming Ventures — Decentralised Gaming Ventures is a web3 game developer committed to assisting the area's top up-and-coming game designers.
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $76k–$8.3M; Series A $1.5M–$8M; Series B $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
- Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
- Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses in South Korea and internationally. It operates through Sales, Investment Bank, and Trading segments. The Sales segment offers asset management services, such as brokerage consignment, financial instrument sales, etc. toindividuals, and domestic or foreign institutional investors. The Investment Bank segment provides corporate finance services, including corporate finance, M&A, PF, PEF operation, etc. The Trading segment is involved in stocks and bonds operations, product operations, the supply of derivatives, and capital investment activities. Woori Investment & Securities that began operation in 1969 became NH Investment & Securities in December 2014, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
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- Industry: Therapeutics, Medical, Financial Services
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series B $6.5M–$18M; Series C $11M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
- Sharetreats — Share Treats Innovation introduces a 'Casual O2O Commerce' dedicated to South East Asia. It has a vision to create a cultural movement whereby anyone can interact more through casual treats.
- Treasurer — Treasurer is an online e-commerce and credit platform that offers retail sales and financial services namely personal loans and credit.
“Union Investment Partners” since its founding in 2000, has been the leading venture capital firm in Korea specializing in contents investment that includes successful investment portfolios of films, animations, games, TV dramas, and live concerts. Union Investment Partners will maintain its role as a major investment partner of venture businessesand contents industry that seeks growth and advancement to the global market.
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- Industry: Fashion, FinTech, Publishing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $4.2M–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kigle — KIGLE, KIDS' FIRST PLAYGROUND
- Wavebridge — Wavebridge is a top institutional digital asset company with traditional financial knowhows and crypto finance technology. The company was established in November 2018 to provide a comprehensive suite of investment solutions utilizing its data processing and AI technology.
- Fassker — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $153k–$1.1M; Series A $535k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
- Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.
- Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
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