# Top 20 Enterprise Angel Investors in South Korea in October 2023 ## Taekkyung Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Content, TV Taekkyung Lee - Representative Partner @ MashUp Angels ## Aviram Jenik - Type: Angel - Location: Cupertino, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies ## Daniel Shin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. ## Jay Eum - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures. ## S Cubic Angels - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, Apps, EdTech S Cubic Angels ## Jung-hee Ryu - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Fashion, Health Care Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. ## Kiha Lee - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Apps, Sales, Artificial Intelligence Kiha Lee ## Douglas Guen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder at PrimerSerial. Entrepreneur and the friend of Startups. He is a Founder and CEO of Primer (2010-now), Founder and CEO of INICIS, INITECH others (1997-2008). Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University. ## Chaehyun Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH NASA Ames Research Center Research Intern LG Uplus Next Browser Dev. Naver Search Engine Crawler Dev. SK planet RecoPick founder & Team Leader ## Jimmy Kim - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Media and Entertainment, iOS, Apps Jimmy Kim is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. Jimmy is co- founder and Chairman of the board of N3N, an interactive software company that mixes passion, creativity and technology to create new interactive user experiences and innovativepresentation solutions. N3N’s client lists include BMW, Infiniti, Nike Golf, Dentsu, Korea Telecom and other leading worldwide companies. He previously served as N3N’s CEO. Jimmy is sought-after speaker on online gaming and technology and has spoke at various conference such as LeWeb, Ad:Tech, and Web 2.0 Expo.Previously, Jimmy was CEO of Nexonova, a game development studio of Nexon Corp that specializes in Social Network Games. Prior to Nexonova, Jimmy served Executive Vice President of Nexon Corp, and Head of Nexon’s Portal (www.nexon.com, market cap: $5 billion) and Web Services. Nexon is one of the most successful online gaming providers, with games such as Maple Story, Dungeon and Fighter, Combat Arms, and Kart Rider. Nexon services over 20 games across 60 countries to an audience of 300 million.Jimmy was the founding investor and active deal adviser of Studio Ex, an online gaming studio that was acquired by Disney in 2012.Jimmy received his B.S. in Engineering from Northwestern University, and also a M.S. in Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Jimmy also completed the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business’s Executive Management Program. ## Richard Seongho Choi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Trading Platform, Virtual Currency Richard Seongho Choi ## Kevin Baek - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology Korea University, BSc KAIST, MSc U. of Maryland, Entrepreneurship A.T Kearney Research Assistant LOTTE HQ In-house-consultant SK planet RecoPick Biz. Development ## Sujay Tyle - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, B2B Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018. ## eve Christine - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Marketing, Consulting, Non Profit eve Christine ## Matthew Papakipos - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Music, Apps, Video Matthew Papakipos ## Sung Cho - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed Founder and CEO of Chartmetric.io, a data analytics company dedicated to serve the music industry, by solving the complex problem by tracking a large amount of data and meeting the industry needs around playlist marketing.Most recently he worked as Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was first employee/engineerat Gamevil (KQ:063080, Market Cap: $400MM), where he initiated mobile game development and eventually positioned the company as a leading mobile game developer. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. ## Alexander Schill - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Hardware, Wearables, Health Care Alexander Schill ## Shrishti Sahu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Apps, Financial Services entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health) ## Sanghee Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning Sanghee Lee ## Kim Won-tae - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order Kim Won-tae # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co