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Top 50 Finance VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Finance startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Finance startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps $200k–$8M
KB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $809k–$34M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Finland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $229k–$7.6M
Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Mobile, Music, FinTech
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $500k–$20M
D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $153k–$4.6M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Softbank Ventures Asia
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.9M–$100M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $76k–$15M
Third Prime
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1M–$35M
Shinhan Bank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, India Series B, Series A, Seed Blockchain, Information Technology, FinTech $1.5M–$23M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $382k–$17M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce $458k–$3.2M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $800k–$30M
DAYLI Financial Group
VC Fund
2
IMM Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care $3.1M–$61M
Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Hong Kong Series A, Seed, Series B Finance, Software, Mobile Apps $764k–$11M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $150k–$7.7M
Qualcomm Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.5M–$130M
PlayDapp
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Finance, Virtual Currency
NAVER Z
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Denmark, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, 3D Technology, Gaming $5M–$9.9M
Krust
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Finance, Blockchain
Block Dream Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Taiwan Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services $1.5M–$12M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services $860k–$25M
SK Planet
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Mobile, Mobile Apps, Software $35k–$750k
BAM Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $600k–$10M
Launch Tennessee
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Italy Grant, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Medical $48k–$5.5M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $764k–$15M
Hanwha Investment Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B Software, Big Data, Internet of Things $1.5M–$6.1M
Kyros Ventures
VC Fund
1 Vietnam, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Internet $50k–$5M
TheVentures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Vietnam, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $50k–$4.8M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $382k–$53M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A Software, Retail, Health Care $306k–$11M
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $76k–$3.7M
Hanwha Investment and Securities
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore Series A, Series B Finance, Payments, Gaming $2.7M–$3.1M
Korea Social Investment Foundation
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Grant Pet, FinTech, Information Technology
Friends Games
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Finance, Virtual Currency
SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Hong Kong Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical $382k–$14M
CTK Investments
VC Fund
1 Malaysia Seed Finance, Payments, Financial Services
One & Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Analytics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Spark Labs
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Software, Network Security, Apps
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series B, Series A Information Technology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$26M
LG CNS
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Israel, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $611k–$19M
Jiranjigyo Security
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Finance, Cryptocurrency
Root Impact
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
SkyVision Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.2M–$60M
CJ Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Apps, Information Technology $382k–$20M
SK Square Americas
VC Fund
1 South Korea Corporate Round Gaming, Video Games
Cognitive Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Apps, FinTech, Finance
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 8 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 36 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 10 in the past 12 months

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.3M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
  • AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
  • Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 185
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.3M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
  • Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
  • Maverick Protocol — Trade. Earn. Any Asset. Stop paying for price discovery. Enjoy higher capital efficiency.
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Softbank Ventures Asia
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Third Prime
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Third Prime is a venture firm focused primarily on Financial and Industrial Technology. We invest in world-class entrepreneurs at the earliest stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $15M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Verisoul — Verisoul helps ensure your users are real, unique, and trusted.
  • Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
  • Twentyeight Health — Your birth control. Delivered to your door. Get a new or re-up existing prescriptions, free & fast deliveries and follow up messaging with doctors. $0 with insurance and starting at $16/pack without.
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Shinhan Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$3.4M; Series B $6.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mildang PT — Mildang PT is an ed-tech platform that provides lectures, management, evaluation, and content through online mode.
  • onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
  • 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.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$10M; Series B $4.6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CLOP — CLOP is an ophthalmology medical company that provides services to prevent blindness in patients through AI-based eye disease management.
  • Cashwalk — Cashwalk is an app that motivates to walk by providing financial incentives.
  • GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 24 in the past 12 months

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 266
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$17M; Series B $3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $230M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Opolis — Opolis is next-gen Digital Employment Platform for Freelancers providing payroll, benefits and other services for independent workers and freelancers.
  • GAST Clearwater — GAST Clearwater is a US-based, next-generation water treatment company with a mission to provide Water for Mankind one drop at a time. Operating in various industries and markets from Real Estate, Wastewater Treatment, Municipal Potable Water, and various others in particular focusing on the recovering and recycling of different waters in acentralized or decentralized way. The company also does artificial beaches, urban lagoons, wave pools, surf parks, aquatics to sewerage treatment, wastewater, and drinking water.
  • Alef Aeronautics — Armada operates in a stealth mode
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DAYLI Financial Group
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

DAYLI Financial Group(DFG) is a leading Fintech company in Asia. The company provides data tech solutions, digital wealth management, and lead-generation services mainly through its three core divisions – DAYLI Intelligence(DI), Quarterback, and DAYLI Marketplace(DMP). DFG also has strategic investments that create synergies with the corebusinesses. Founded in February 2015, the company is headquartered in Seoul with offices in Tokyo.

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PeopleFund — Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr.
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IMM Investment
VC Fund · Kangnam, Cholla-namdo, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Korean alternative asset investment firm

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$1.5M; Series A $1.5M–$4M; Series B $9.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
  • Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
  • 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.
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Qualcomm Ventures
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 10 in the past 12 months

As the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, we help connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $5M–$43M; Series C $9.9M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
  • Ethernovia — Embrace the future of vehicle networks with Ethernovia's new Ethernet approach. Explore our cutting-edge technology today.
  • Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
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PlayDapp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Web3-based service that everyone can enjoy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Virtual Currency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
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NAVER Z
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

The official corporate website of NAVER Z Corporation

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, 3D Technology, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Denmark, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Rokoko — Rokoko | Affordable high-end motion capture and animation tools for body, hand, and face capture + software with native integrations for all major animation software and game engines
  • Cinamon — Cinamon provides a visual story platform designed for casual games. In 2018, the company began as a joint venture with Naver Webtoon. Since our first project, an interactive stories app called "Maybe," the company has continued to broaden its scope in the field of visual storytelling. The company is currently working on two projects: a 2Dand a 3D UGC story platform.
  • Line — LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.
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Krust
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Krust incubates innovative startups that are building the next generation of groundbreaking technology applications. They lead kakao's global business with a focus on innovative technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Finance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
  • Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
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Block Dream Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $5.1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
  • LiveArtX — LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.
  • Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $860k–$2.5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
  • 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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SK Planet
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

SK planet, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK telecom, was established in October 1, 2011 with an aspiration to become a global platform innovator.As the lynchpin of SK telecom's future growth, the company was spun off with the industry-leading platform businesses including T-Store, T-map, MelOn, and Cyworld, Korea's biggest mobile appstore, mobile navigation, online music service and SNS respectively. The company also pioneers in new media with hoppin, Korea's first multi-screen premium video service, and continues to build momentum in its online commerce leadership with 11th Street. SK planet aspires to develop a wide scope of global partnerships such as TMK, a media joint venture with Disney. Through collaborations with partners, SK planet is committed to building global platform business in Asia and other strategic markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Mobile Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bertis — Bertis is a proteomics-based molecular diagnostics service company.
  • Gimbal — Gimbal develops and delivers mobile contextual awareness platform and solutions to enhance mobile engagement. Using its own hardware and software, Gimbal enables brands, media agencies, and marketers to improve their campaigns with personalized messaging and drive measurable business outcomes. The company offers Gimbal, a geofencing and analyticsplatform; AdSynergy, AdKit, AdCast, AdScore, AudienceArchitect, for mobile media campaigns; people and proximity platform, such as Gimbal Manager, GeoFences, and Location SDK, for cloud-based location management; and Bluetooth smart beacons with iBeacon technology.
  • Melephant — Melephant Inc. is a Korea based startup established in October 2013.
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BAM Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 6 in the past 12 months

BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • bodo — Instant delivery for eCommerce brands. bodo enables brands to offer 30 minute and same day delivery, while allowing brands to own the customer experience and data.
  • Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
  • Train Fitness — Train Fitness focuses on automatic exercise detection and rep counting using Artificial Intelligence and the Apple watch.
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Launch Tennessee
VC Fund · Nashville, Tennessee, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Launch Tennessee provides startup resources to entrepreneurs, including capital sources, mentorship, accelerators, entrepreneurship training and more

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $517k–$1.7M; Grant $48k–$200k; Series A $400k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • DAXOR — DAXOR Corporation is an innovative medical instrumentation and biotechnology company. DAXOR designed and developed the BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer. It is the first instrument approved by the FDA to provide rapid direct measurement of a patient's true blood volume. We believe that the BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer has the potential totransform therapy in a broad range of surgical and medical conditions. It is our goal, working in conjunction with hospitals and clinics, to achieve that possibility.The BVA-100 is a semi-automated Blood Volume Analyzer. It is used in conjunction with a single use diagnostic kit. It is the first FDA-approved instrument to provide rapid direct measurement of a patient's blood volume.
  • Preteckt — Preteckt offers cloud-based vehicle prognostics powered by AI to support all fleet vehicle types while delivering the world's highest precision repair plans. Get to the root cause 40% faster.
  • Branch Technology — Patented 3D-printed fabrication technology combining additive manufacturing, prefabrication, and digital technology at construction scale, with true design freedom.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Series A $764k–$7.6M; Series B $764k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
  • onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
  • OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.
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Hanwha Investment Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Hanwha Investment Trust Management is an asset manager applying advanced Hanwha Venture Capital was established in 2000 to nurture startup small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with promising business models and advanced technology but lack capital and management capabilities. The comprehensive support packages include capital, managementexpertise and technology that cover from establishment through initial public offering. In addition, the firm plays a leading role in the Korean venture capital industry. The company utilizes various domestic and overseas networks to secure advanced investment methods and gather information on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the future. Hanwha Venture Capital invests for future value and serves as a trustworthy partner for invested companies, creating venture investment funds that provide stable financing sources and making investment decisions after careful study. The firm also acts as a trusted asset manager for limited partners of the investment funds and helps to strengthen the competitive edge of domestic SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
  • Element AI — Fundamental and applied research transformed into AI products for your enterprise needs.
  • StradVision — Vision AI for all
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Kyros Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

We are the gateway of accessibility to Vietnam, the fastest-growing crypto market in the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Vietnam, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elumia — Legend of Elumia is a massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.The game feature a social hub, arena and dungeon runs. Feature rich with world owned assets.
  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
  • Dank Bank — Dank Bank is a NFT trading platform for memes and viral videos.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 15 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • 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 — Bionsight is a drug discovery company that uses Chemoproteomics interweaved with AI to speed up the drug development process.
  • 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.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$3.2M; Series A $917k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
  • UCI Therapeutics — UCI Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company.
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Hanwha Investment and Securities
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Hanwha Investment and Securities is a trusted financial investment partner dedicated to providing sources for stable

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Payments, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.
  • RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
  • Stoic Entertainment — Stoic Entertainment is a VR game developer with core technologies related to VR content and will develop blockchain games later.
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Korea Social Investment Foundation
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Korea Social Investment Foundation is a business finance and business consulting service firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Friends Games
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Friends Games aim to become Global Multi Platform through Game and Blockchain.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Virtual Currency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$2.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.6M; Series B $3.8M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GenKOre — GenKOre operates as a biotech company, specializing in genetic scissors.
  • GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
  • Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.
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CTK Investments
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

CTK Investments is an early stage and growth investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • poled — TOMORROW BEGINS HERE
  • Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
  • Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.
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One & Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

One & Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.
  • Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.
  • Brite Energy Partners — Brite Energy Partners develops a clean energy platform that offers a solar income plan for landowners, project owners, and building owners.
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Spark Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Spark Labs is a co-working community and venture incubator dedicated to digital start-up companies in NYC.____Located in the heart of the Silicon Alley, Spark Labs hosts a multitude of digital businesses under its roof. Unlike most traditional office rentals we can have your business up and running within 24 hours. When you join our lab youwill be immediately plugged in with the best of the NYC Tech community through our monthly networking events and our 40+ mentors. We charge $550/desk/month which includes internet, utilities, amenities and cleaning so we always have a sparkling office!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Network Security, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Fasket — Fasket is a shopping app, it deliver products sold in neighborhood and famous products across the country at once.
  • 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.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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LG CNS
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

LG CNS is a global IT service provider.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nota AI — Hardware-aware AI optimization and edge AI solutions
  • LOVO — Your Voice for Metaverse. Capture the most realistic AI voices on the web.
  • bithumb META — bithumb META is a metaverse platform for the development of NFT marketplaces.
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $611k–$4.7M; Series A $3M–$6.3M; Series B $2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
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Jiranjigyo Security
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Jiranjigyo Security is a security software company providing solutions and services for corporate information security and data management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • D'CENT — D'CENT provides cryptocurrency hardware wallet for keeping crypto assets secure.
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Root Impact
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Root Impact is a social service and non-profit organization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • THECHEAT — THECHEAT provides financial fraud prevention services.
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SkyVision Capital
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

SkyVision Capital (SVC) promotes new, open decentralized technology and its development. We are a Crypto Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Initial Coin Offering $1.2M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
  • GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
  • Optix — Optix is ​​a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
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CJ Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 21 in the past 12 months

CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$6.9M; Series A $2.3M–$9.9M; Series B $5.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
  • Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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SK Square Americas
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

SK Square is an investment company spun off from South Korean telecoms provider SK Telecom. SK Square plans to invest in promising future technologies such as quantum cryptography, digital healthcare and future media content.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games
  • Stage:Corporate Round
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
  • bithumb META — bithumb META is a metaverse platform for the development of NFT marketplaces.
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Cognitive Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Venture Capital based in Seoul, South Korea

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Watcha — WATCHA - Launched in AUG 2012, it quickly became Korea’s favorite movie review app - Its core competency lies in personalized recommendation technology - once users rate movie, WATCHA predicts how they will like movies they haven’t yet seen - Now provides the widest and most accurate movie, TV show and book reviews - Launched in Japan in 2015WATCHA PLAY - Launched in JAN 2016 - Subscription VOD service for movie and TV series available on multiple devices including Web, iOS/Android mobile and tablet, Samsung/LG Smart TV, Google Chromecast, Android TV - Provides extremely accurate personalized content recommendation, powered by WATCHA - 75% of content consumed based on recommendationsComment by Apple, App Store Editor Team “Thanks to its large volume of reliable review data collected from users, WATCHA PLAY can recommend contents that perfectly satisfy my taste. Please don’t waste your time in choosing what to watch. Trust WATCHA PLAY and Enjoy tonight”
  • Tevaluewise — Tevaluewise is the Korea's No.1 instructor evaluation platform. Civil servant exam, How long do you want to listen to your friend, school, and pick a teacher? starteacher.co.kr Korean government officials lecturer evaluation all together! No.1 civil servant teacher evaluation platform in Korea, different teacher
  • Quantec — Quantec was founded in 2016 with the goal of ‘making easy and convenient asset management a daily possibility for everyone’.Through Quantec’s own technology called ‘Q-Engine’, users can analyze their actual assets and receive recommendation of variety of products suitable for their investment environment, or they can modify their own assets toconstruct a customized asset management portfolio.Based on ‘Q-Engine’, we are planning to launch the platform ‘Quantec (B2C Application)’ for general customers. In recognition of ‘Q-Engine’, Quantec has led to the selection of the fourth ‘Shinhan Future’s Lab’ by Shinhan Financial Group, the fourth ‘Dreamplus’ by Hanhwa Life Insurance, 'KB Starters' by KB Innovation HUB, the fourth 'NH Digital Challenge+' by NH Bank, and has attracted a Series A and Series B investments of total KRW 11 billion from Industrial Bank of Korea, Wonik Investment Partners, AG Investment, and Shinhan Capital.Via QUANTEC's asset management platform Quantec (App) and among other solutions, you will be able to meet your own private banker at any time, from anywhere!
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Finance VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 103 deals from 177 investors.

177
investors
in South Korea Finance startups
103
deals
in South Korea Finance startups
$5.8M
median round
in South Korea Finance startups
23%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage

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