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

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Gaming startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Gaming startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
26 South Korea, United States, Finland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $229k–$7.6M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
13 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps $200k–$8M
MYSC
VC Fund
11 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce $76k–$3.7M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing $229k–$6.3M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $229k–$10M
Softbank Ventures Asia
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.9M–$100M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $150k–$7.7M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $764k–$50M
Series Ventures
VC Fund
6 South Korea Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage $76k–$3.4M
Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
6 South Korea Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $229k–$1.1M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $764k–$15M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $76k–$15M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Internet $2M–$50M
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
6 South Korea Series B, Series A Information Technology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$26M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Gaming, Health Care, B2B $2.3M–$21M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $450k–$76M
KDB Capital
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $500k–$54M
Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $157k–$15M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $860k–$25M
Seoul National University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
4 South Korea Seed, Series B Apps, Food Processing, Information Technology
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.3M–$24M
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $115k–$7.6M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A Software, Retail, Health Care $306k–$11M
Donghoon Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Health Care $382k–$9.5M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $1M–$45M
JB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea Series B, Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
GS Retail
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Food Processing $191k–$15M
Base Investments
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce $458k–$3.2M
LB Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, China, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Mobile, Health Care $4.5M–$61M
BNK Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, India, Kuwait Series B, Seed, Series A E-Commerce, AgTech, Retail
CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund
3 South Korea, Israel, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Nutrition, Food Processing, Sales $1.5M–$105M
Stonebridge Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series D Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Biotechnology $3.1M–$371M
Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea Series A Gaming, Hardware, Software
UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
3 South Korea, France, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Information Technology, Therapeutics $2.7M–$25M
CJ Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Apps, Information Technology $382k–$20M
KB Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $809k–$34M
NongHyup Financial Group
VC Fund
3 South Korea Series B SaaS, Internet, Software
Signite Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series B, Series A, Seed Information Technology, Health Care, Media and Entertainment
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Seed, Series B Information Technology, Blockchain, Software $382k–$20M
Pathfinder H
VC Fund
3 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $764k–$21M
HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund
3 South Korea, Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Agriculture, E-Commerce, Farming $153k–$1.5M
Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund
3 South Korea, India Series B, Series A Mobile, Apps, Machine Learning $611k–$15M
Timewise Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Information Services $3.1M–$29M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $382k–$53M
Philosophia Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea Series A Apps, Retail, Grocery
Premier Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Therapeutics $3.2M–$46M
HG Initiative
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps $306k–$7.7M
Aju IB Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $3.1M–$55M
IMM Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care $3.1M–$61M
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 26 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 13 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 14 in the past 12 months

MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 33 in the past 12 months

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Softbank Ventures Asia
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
  • Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
  • Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
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Series Ventures
VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fxip — FXIP has the capacity to quickly complete a number of processes, including product planning, design, and manufacturing. Through the introduction of various IP brands in the food & life sector, it has already demonstrated the potential of the business.
  • Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
  • Simply Care Bio — Simply Care Bio is a care food company that manufactures functional foods based on ingredient composition and amplification technology through water-solubilization of fatty acids and immunity-building technology through cell activation.
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Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 7 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: 131
  • 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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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$24M; Series C $4.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
  • MathFLAT — MathFLAT is a B2B mobile solution for mathematics education.
  • PlayList — PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Health Care, B2B
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$8.2M; Series B $6.1M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5.7M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
  • Onthelook — Onthelook provides a fashion app for creating fashion. The fashion creator and commerce platform of the company assist the fashion market in using fashion items that can expose brands and products in a variety of ways.
  • Naurobotics — Naurobotics is a robot automation company that offers robot automation systems and grip systems.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$76M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • 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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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.3M; Series A $2.7M–$7.6M; Series B $5.9M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
  • Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
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Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $157k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.3M; Series A $179k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
  • Solvook — Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services.
  • Paraform — Get paid to recruit for the most exciting startups on your own terms. Recruiting has never been so accessible.
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 6 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, 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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Seoul National University of Science and Technology
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Seoul National University of Science and Technology is a school in Seoul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Food Processing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
  • JeCLEAN — JeCLEAN is a washing company that provides bedding, laundry and delivery service.
  • Shared fishery — Shared fishery is a fishery firm that specializes in collecting, storing and selling fresh sea fishes.
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$4.6M; Series A $2.3M–$8.8M; Series B $6.1M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RSN — RSN provides solutions that analyze changes in social awareness and trends in the flow of digital information and suggest their meaning.
  • Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
  • 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.
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 21 in the past 12 months

Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $115k–$3M; Series A $2.1M–$7.6M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
  • Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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Donghoon Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Dooghoon Investment is an investment firm that invests in biotechnology and information technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$1.8M; Series A $1.5M–$6.3M; Series B $3.8M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
  • NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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JB Investment
VC Fund · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Investment Firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
  • 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.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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GS Retail
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

GS Retail sells beauty and skincare products, candles, gifts, perfumes, bathroom accessories and other products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Food Processing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $191k–$1.1M; Series A $2.2M–$3.8M; Series B $3.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dayoff — Dayoff wants to be a sensual content and product-curating platform for travel media commerce. It promotes taste-based domestic and international unknown travel products and provides differentiating services in the current travel market, where well-known products and information centered on the lowest price are the main focus. In addition tosupplying limited direct contract products, it intends to expand the current accommodation service to include excursions and activities in the market.
  • Robros — Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life.
  • Snackfor — Snackfor is a B2B company that curates and delivers snacks to offices.
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Base Investments
VC Fund · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Base Investments operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • 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.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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LB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

LB Investment is one of the top VCs in Korea. LB invests in diverse industries ranging from Technology and Contents to Bio and healthcare

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$36M; Series B $5.3M–$50M; Series C $11M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NRISE — NRISE is develops MOCI and WIPPY services. NRISE research and develops social media services to bring people the joy of communication.
  • 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.
  • Imagoworks Inc — Imagoworks Inc. offers a Web-based Dental CAD solution using AI, streamlining the digital workflow for dental professionals. Together with world-class technology, we are setting new standards for digital dentistry in the global market. Our mission is to <Making the future of digital medicine for everyone>.While we have accumulatedtechnological expertise in the medical field for over 10 years, specializing in AI-based automation, 3D geometric modeling and mesh processing, and software as a service (SaaS), we now turn our focus to commercializing our innovative technologies and transforming the field of digital dentistry. By cooperating with and licensing to leading global dental companies, we are seeing great success as we find ourselves in the industry spotlight.Imagoworks currently offers Dentbird Crown which automatically generates optimal crown designs with a single click and without any software installation required. As we continue to expand our services, Imagoworks aims to be recognized as a chairside design solution for dentists worldwide.
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BNK Ventures
VC Fund · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

BNK Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, AgTech, Retail
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, India, Kuwait

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
  • CellMEAT — Cultured meat
  • Floward — Send fresh flowers and a variety of gifts online with Floward. Browse through our numerous products and get same-day flowers delivery
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CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

A global lifestyle company that creates health, happiness and convenience

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Nutrition, Food Processing, Sales
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Israel, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$3.1M; Series B $18M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
  • Daily Protein — Daily Protein specializes in the sales of protein bars and diet snacks.
  • Aqua Cultured Foods — Whole muscle-cut sustainable seafood alternatives made using biomass fermentation. Our product looks and tastes just like traditional seafood.
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Stonebridge Ventures
VC Fund · Thika, Central, Kenya · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Stonebridge Ventures was founded in 2008

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Series A $6.1M–$14M; Series B $3.1M–$20M; Series D $23M–$371M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ENEREVER — Enerever Battery Solution is the only comprehensive separator company in Korea that manufactures fabric coating, slitting, and battery cans
  • TissenBioFarm — TissenBioFarm is a food technology company that can mass-produce cultured meat with real texture and marbling.
  • Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.
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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Lighthouse Combined Investment Homepage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Hardware, Software
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Algorigo — Algorigo is a sensor data analytics company.
  • Mad Made — Mad Made is a mobile application that supplies pet food.
  • Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$13M; Series B $5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuvilab — We lead innovation of the Food-tech through AI technology that is helpful for both human and the environment.
  • Right Route — Right Route is an e-commerce company for clothes.
  • Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
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CJ Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming 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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NongHyup Financial Group
VC Fund · Okdong, Ulsan-gwangyoksi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

NongHyup Financial Group offers property & casualty insurance, investment & securities, asset management, and banking services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vegestar — Vegestar is a domestic fresh-cut company that provides purchase, process, and manufacturing solutions for the food and agriculture industry.
  • JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN suggests sustainable and reliable desserts and ingredients.
  • We Hudling — White Delight is a food production and distribution company.
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Signite Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Signite Partners is a venture capital arm of Shinsegae Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
  • QANDA(Mathpresso) — Providing the most effective education for all - We build QANDA, the world's leading personalized learning platform.
  • Sweet Spot — Sweet Spot is a platform for companies and retailers who need space for marketing and sales.
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 44 in the past 12 months

The Road Not Taken

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$12M; Series B $611k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
  • KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
  • Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
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Pathfinder H
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$3.2M; Series A $3.4M–$13M; Series B $2.1M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gapzone — Gapzone sells air-purifying plants, garden seedings, flower seedlings, pots, soil, and materials.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
  • Nature Mobility — Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform.
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HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Going global beyond number one in KOREA, HITEJINRO is grateful for your support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $153k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
  • TIDEPOOL — Tidepool(500 Global selected) DBA Fishscope, powerful AI Fish & Feed Monitoring solution that solves periodic sampling and fish health diagnosis that requires human labor through Computor vision tech for BioMass Measurement, Fish Healthcare, and Feeding Optimization. - 10+ partnerships including GS E&C(Fortune 500 GS Group Subsidiary) andmany major government arms based in APAC - 90% or more accuracy for weight estimation of live fish in water - Demo: http://fishscope.tidepool.kr/
  • Unique Good Company — Unique Good Company develops entertaining mobile apps.
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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Apps, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$9.2M; Series B $611k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
  • TCMS — TCMS provides lithium secondary battery separator film equipment and parts manufacturing solutions.
  • Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
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Timewise Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

TIMEWISE INVESTMENT, formerly known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in video broadcasting, animation, movies, culture contents, games, communications equipment, arts, sports, leisure, manufacturing and service, mobile devices and solutions, information technology, SI, web agency, cell therapy andbiotechnology sectors. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeju. CJ Venture Investment was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Series A $3.1M–$7.6M; Series B $7.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Genesis lab — Genesis lab is a authentic machine to human communication to improve the way human and machine communicate.
  • Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 13 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: 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.
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Philosophia Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

We are thesis-driven investors that back bold entrepreneurs who are building legendary companies and protocols reshaping the future of human life. Contact us Our Firm Philosophia Ventures is a Seoul-based investment firm founded in June 2022, by a team of Web3 enthusiasts who have been on the scene since 2017. We invest in early-stage startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Retail, Grocery
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chaf — Chaf is a subscription-based gaming platform that offers a variety of games at a reasonable price. We are currently focusing on PC indie games.
  • Consalad — Consalad creates a platform to communicate with everyone through games.
  • KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.
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Premier Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Premier Partners (프리미어 파트너스) is a Korean domestic funds management company. It provides investment services for individuals and businesses. Premier Partners was established in September 2005 in Seoul, Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $6.9M–$20M; Series C $11M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Superb AI — Automate data preparation, label and manage images and videos, and find annotation services with one training data platform. Fast, precise, and easy to use.
  • CODIT — At CODIT, we believe that access to government data should be made easy. Companies need to find out about risks and opportunities related to legal and regulatory changes that impact their business in order to take timely action. In response, CODIT has developed a data-monitoring platform that enables our clients to quickly find, monitor, andanalyze critical changes in local legislature, regulation and policy.Our mission is to assist Policy Managers in their day-to-day legal and regulatory research, including monitoring relevant news, tracking legislative bills, policy, and regulations as well as engaging with relevant government stakeholders. Through the use of AI, CODIT gathers scattered data across hundreds of government or ministerial sites and systematically makes the data available to you via a smart database, helping to reduce time and cost. CODIT can also turn long documents and papers into synthesized, easily digestible information.The CODIT platform has attracted significant coverage by mainstream news & media, with a growing number of users. CODIT is paving its way to going global, with a vision to become the main hub for information across South Korea, Singapore, and the United States.To learn more visit us at http://thecodit.com.CODIT Legislation・Regulation・Policy Data Platform
  • LINE Studio — LINE Studio is a casual game developer of the global messenger.
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HG Initiative
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $306k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ticaros — Ticaros is a biotech company that develops immune anti-cancer drugs.
  • ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
  • ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
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Aju IB Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Aju IB Investment is a venture capital firm that offers SMEs with investments and consulting services.Aju IB Investment offers consulting services that focus on business management, tax, accounting, legal, mergers and acquisitions, additional funding, marketing, and technology support.Aju IB Investment was founded in September 1974 and is basedin Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Series A $3.1M–$23M; Series B $3.1M–$25M; Series C $3.5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
  • Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
  • Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is a tour guide that recommends houses suitable for monthly living.
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IMM Investment
VC Fund · Kangnam, Cholla-namdo, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Gaming 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: 67
  • 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.
  • NHN Cloud — Provides a variety of cloud-based platforms for each industry and support customer business innovation thorugh differentiated cloud services
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Gaming VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 136 deals from 151 investors.

151
investors
in South Korea Gaming startups
136
deals
in South Korea Gaming startups
$2.4M
median round
in South Korea Gaming startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
35%
Seed
most common funding stage

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