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

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Internet startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Internet 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
20 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps $200k–$8M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
19 South Korea, United States, Finland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $229k–$7.6M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
18 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $229k–$10M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $382k–$17M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $76k–$15M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing $229k–$6.3M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $382k–$53M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $764k–$50M
Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
8 South Korea, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $2.3M–$47M
KB Investment
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $809k–$34M
KDB Capital
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $500k–$54M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Internet $2M–$50M
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, India Seed, Series B Information Technology, Blockchain, Software $382k–$20M
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
TheVentures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, Vietnam, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $50k–$4.8M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $764k–$15M
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $115k–$7.6M
SV Investment Corp
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.3M–$51M
Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $157k–$15M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $1M–$45M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $150k–$7.7M
SparkLabs Global Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $229k–$8.6M
KOSME
VC Fund
4 South Korea Seed, Series A Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care $76k–$38M
LB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, China, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Mobile, Health Care $4.5M–$61M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $382k–$7M
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
4 South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $76k–$3.7M
KEB Hana Bank
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Vietnam Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $657k–$13M
Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $153k–$1.5M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A Software, Retail, Health Care $306k–$11M
TBT Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Software $3.3M–$10M
IMM Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care $3.1M–$61M
Ahn Lab
VC Fund
3 South Korea Seed Software, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
POSCO Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $306k–$27M
KT investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.8M–$47M
LG Uplus
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Corporate Round Software, Information Technology, Apps $1.5M–$69M
Woori Bank
VC Fund
3 South Korea, China, Hong Kong Series B, Series A, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $153k–$13M
SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive $1M–$24M
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea Series B, Series A Information Technology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$26M
Samsung Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, South Korea, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $3.7M–$74M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Gaming, Health Care, B2B $2.3M–$21M
Premier Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Therapeutics $3.2M–$46M
D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $153k–$4.6M
Naver
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series C, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $38k–$107M
Northern Light Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 China, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Medical, Internet $500k–$58M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $450k–$76M
Company K Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.3M–$25M
KB Financial Group
VC Fund
2 South Korea, India, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Financial Services, Software, SaaS $1M–$107M
GS Shop
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing $336k–$24M
UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
2 South Korea, France, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Information Technology, Therapeutics $2.7M–$25M
Block Crafters Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Gibraltar, Hong Kong Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency $809k–$2.2M
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 20 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 19 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 18 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Internet 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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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 10 in the past 12 months

The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$24M; Series B $3.8M–$25M; Series C $17M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
  • Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Internet 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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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 7 investments in South Korea Internet 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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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Softbank Ventures Asia
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Internet 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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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Internet 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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SV Investment Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 13 in the past 12 months

SV Investment Corp is a venture capital firm that provides companies with finance, strategic advice and information at critical stages of their development.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$47M; Series C $12M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Saige Research — Saige Research specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for industrial inspection and quality control. The company provides a deep learning vision inspection platform optimized for the manufacturing industry to solve inspectors' difficulties and increase work efficiency; its technology provides power detection, speed detection, wideversatility, and development convenience.
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Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 6 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Internet 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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SparkLabs Global Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Internet startups

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$2.7M; Series A $3M–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.2M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Splab — Splab creates and operates a calendar-based scheduling automation tool. Splab is located in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
  • Tella — Service
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KOSME
VC Fund · Jinju, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Internet startups

KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$382k; Series A $764k–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
  • Tredy Team — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
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LB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Internet startups

Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$2.9M; Series A $458k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
  • Brandi — Brandi sells clothes, cosmetics, and home interior products.
  • Village Baby — Village Baby is an online marketplace that provides childbirth and parenting products and information.
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Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Internet 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: 21
  • 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.
  • Headless — We provides growth-hacking D2C solutions through AI headless commerce technology with data-pipeline connection and auto-marketing solutions.
  • 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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KEB Hana Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Internet startups

KEB Hana Bank provides commercial banking services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $657k–$840k; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $6.1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.
  • Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.
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Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Internet startups

Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $153k–$1.1M; Series A $535k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
  • Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.
  • Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet 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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TBT Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 6 in the past 12 months

TBT Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$9.5M; Series B $7.6M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
  • STAYFOLIO — * Founded in 2015, STAYFOLIO is a Fine-Stay platform that curates accommodations with unique values and personality with the motto of “Curate the space where staying itself is travel” * Beyond just introducing accommodation, we provide exclusive accommodation solutions by building a full value chain for Fine Stays, from the process of creatingaccommodation spaces to branding, promotion, operation and service.
  • 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 · 3 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Ahn Lab
VC Fund · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups

AhnLab, a cloud security technology provider that develops information security solutions and services for consumers, enterprises, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Spiceware — Spiceware is an easy-to-install automative PII protection service for the cloud in the category of Privacy Preserving in Analytics.
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POSCO Venture Capital
VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups

POSTECH Venture Capital Corporation(POSTECH VC) was founded and financed by POSCO to participate in SME(small and medium enterprise) Revitalization Policy in 1997 for the National Economy Restoration.We seek investment opportunities in diverse markets including Information Technologies, Advanced Materials, Bio Technologies, Renewable Energy,and Life Sciences.And we are to accelerate the commercialization of the valuable technologies from POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), RIST(Research institute of Industrial Science and Technology), and other institutes in Korea. More than 200 professors in POSTECH help POSTECH VC evaluate the technologiesPOSTECH VC is comprised of a team consisted of experienced venture capitalists who has previous experiences in successful startups, consulting firms, and executive management.We are currently investing from our several funds and manage over 60 billion Won.Our recent primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in renewable energy such as bio-diesel and photovoltaic technologies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series A $306k–$6.3M; Series B $2.7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OKHOME — OKHOME adalah penyedia jasa kebersihan terbaik untuk rumah, apartemen dan berbagai tempat yang membutuhkan pembersih profesional.
  • Hexlant — Hexlant - Blockchain Laboratory. Build Blockchain Security Environment in just few days. With Simple Installation, Expand your Business onto Blockchain.
  • Deepbrain AI — Deepbrain AI has proven its world-class conversational artificial intelligence technology to be highly utilizing in many areas, including broadcasting, education, and in service industry. State-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology, analogous to real people say, can be applied in a wide variety of areas. Also, it is expected that demandwill increase significantly with differentiated technology in the age of diversification.In recognition of its competitiveness and value, the company has received $2M investment from IDG Capital in 2019, and up to date, it has accumulated $9.5M. In addition, the company is currently growing in partnership with major companies such as Microsoft, Kakao Partner, and SK Telecom. It is expected to accelerate its external growth and profit expansion in the new market as it is set to make inroads into the global market based on its performance so far.
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KT investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 9 in the past 12 months

kt investment is a new technology business finance company established in 2015. It is an investment company that represents KT Group .kt investment seeks to contribute to social contribution and maximize investment return through win-win cooperation with promising SMEs and venture companies .kt investment seeks to achieve long-term returns bylooking at the market from a global perspective and looking for value investment opportunities in the long term.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $1.8M–$47M; Series B $9.2M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VCAT.AI — VCAT.AI is a business-to-business (B2B) subscription software (SaaS) based on AI technology. Create mass marketing creatives as video and banner images just with an product URL or TEXT.
  • cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
  • Pion — Pion Corporation is an Martech focused video intelligence company. We provide “Vispot”, a video creation and ad-automation platform powered by AI.
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LG Uplus
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 7 in the past 12 months

LG Uplus Corp is a South Korean telecommunications and Mobile phone operator controlled by the LG Group, one of the country's largest chaebol. It was formerly known as LG Telecom.LG Telecom became one of the first companies to launch a commercial 3G service using PCS technology. In 1997, this was followed up by launching the second PCSnetwork, offering greatly increased data transmission speeds.LG Telecom also offers a variety of mobile services. BankOn is one of the most popular Mobile banking services in South Korea and MusicOn is an on-line music store.In July 2006, the South Korean government has cancelled LG Telecom's business license for a W-CDMA wireless communications system after the company opted not to develop the technology. LG Telecom will instead continue investing and upgrading in its CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A network.In January 2010, LG Telecom merged with LG Dacom and LG Powercom.As of 1 July 2010, LG Telecom changed its name to "LG U+".On July 17th 2013 LG Uplus launched LTE-A service and introduced Galaxy S4 LTE-A, the world’s first "100% LTE" smart mobile phone that can utilize data, voice and text with LTE and not fall back to CDMA. Starting from 2014 LG Uplus plans to release only "100% LTE" phones.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$69M; Series B $1.5M–$6.9M; Corporate Round $23M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • growV — growV offers educational services by using learning technology.
  • Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.
  • Somsidang Company — Somsidang Company is an online learning platform that offers baking and pottery painting training services.
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Woori Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea's wealth and economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, China, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $153k–$7.6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.6M; Series B $1.7M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
  • Lotte Group — Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sellsconfectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.
  • Green Dot — Green Dot runs an E-MaaS (Energy-Mobiliy as a Service) platform, which integrates mobility and energy. Since its inception, the service has drawn attention due to its rapid construction of Green Dot Zones, which provide energy and transportation All-in-One services in the heart of Seoul and the metropolitan area.
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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups

SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $1.6M–$24M; Series B $4.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
  • CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
  • Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Samsung Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 12 in the past 12 months

The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPOcompanies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$26M; Series B $4.8M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • BKT — BKT is the creator of Tomorrow Water Process (TWP) that minimizes the environmental impacts maximizing the benefits from wastewater.
  • d-Matrix — d-Matrix takes a clean-slate approach to AI compute efficiency, solving some of the most teething problems for the largest datacenter customers in the world.
  • GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Premier Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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: 57
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $6.9M–$20M; Series C $11M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VCAT.AI — VCAT.AI is a business-to-business (B2B) subscription software (SaaS) based on AI technology. Create mass marketing creatives as video and banner images just with an product URL or TEXT.
  • Yipscell — Yipscell is a biotech company that develops IPSC stem cell therapy to diagnose and treat incurable diseases.
  • Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Naver
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups

Naver operates as a search engine and e-commerce platform providing fintech, digital content, and cloud services.The company introduces innovative search services such as ‘Comprehensive Search,’ ‘Knowledge iN,’ and ‘Real-time Rising Keyword.' It also offers UGC services such as Blog and Cafe; Junior Naver, a children’s portal; Happybean, anonline donation portal. NAVER launched its Webtoon service in June 2004 and has pioneered the distribution and consumption of webtoons, also known as digital comics. In addition, NAVER also offers services for the global market, including the mobile messenger LINE through LINE Corporation, NAVER’s subsidiary; the video messenger Snow; and the group communication service BAND.NAVER is also involved in software development and distribution; performances and exhibitions business; mobile content development and distribution; search advertising; internet commerce and customer service business; the operation and security services of IT infrastructure; operating online shopping services, and mobile applications marketing.Lee Hae-Jin and Lee Joon-ho headquartered the company in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea in 1999.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $38k–$19M; Series A $3.6M–$100M; Series C $7.6M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brandi — Brandi is a vertical commerce company that creates B2C and B2B platforms for fashion and beauty shopping. The company specializes in the fields of apps, app marketing, and online shopping platform. Brandi was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea.
  • Wallapop — Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods, primarily accessible via a mobile app. It uses a geo-localized technology that connects a community of 15 million users by offering an easy and convenient way to buy and sell items that are no longer used. The platform, which has found a second home for more than180 million items, provides people with access to unique goods at great prices while extending the life of fully functional products. Since its inception, Wallapop has been committed to continuous innovation in the online classifieds industry and second-hand market and aspires to use technology to contribute to sustainability. The company is backed by investors Korelya Capital, NAVER, Accel, Insight Venture Partners, 14W, and Northzone. It was founded in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain by Agustin Gomez, Miguel Vicente, and Gerard Olive in 2013.
  • 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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Northern Light Venture Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Supporting the next generation of entpreneurs in enterprise, healthcare, and consumer with disruptive potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$16M; Series A $4M–$40M; Series B $11M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Flytech — Flytech specializes in crystal materials and related components for magneto-optical-electrical integrated signal processing.
  • Zhonghui Laser — Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers.
  • Kangpu Biopharmaceuticals, Ltd. — Kangpu is focused on developing small molecule drugs targeting immuno-modulating sites to develop treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases and inflammation. The company has developed proprietary technologies to generate and degrade ubiquitin-protein. It also has a drug discovery combination platform called X-Synergy®.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Company K Partners
VC Fund · Ilsangu, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Internet startups

Company K Partners Limited is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in culture content, electronic components, computer, machinery, broadcasting, arts, sports, and leisure industries. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeongnam, and Gyeonggi. Company K Partners Limited was established in 2006 and isbased in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$6.9M; Series B $6.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
  • Databank — Databank is an AI-based EdTech Startup that provides online test preparation services with instant scoring through TestGlider.
  • Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
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KB Financial Group
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Internet startups

KB Financial Group is Korea’s leading financial institution with the largest customer base and the most extensive branch network in the country. With total assets exceeding US$342 billion, the Group wields a solid capital prowess and enjoys a strong brand loyalty. As of December 2012, the Group has ten domestic subsidiaries--banking, credit cards,securities, life insurance, asset management, real estate trust, venture capital, credit information, data system, and savings bank--and four overseas subsidiaries in Hong Kong, England, Cambodia, and China.KB Financial Group was established in September 2008 with extensive stock transfers from major subsidiary companies. The Group’s establishment was to better deal with such fundamental changes in the financial markets at home and abroad as the rapid globalization of financial service, a declining profitability of traditional banking operations, new industry regulations, and an increasing demand for comprehensive financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$45M; Series B $7.6M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
  • 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.
  • BlockOdyssey — Best Enterprise Blockchain Enabler, Block Odyssey
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GS Shop
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Internet startups

GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $336k–$4M; Series A $917k–$7.5M; Series B $2.1M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
  • Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
  • Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Internet 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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Block Crafters Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in South Korea Internet startups

Established in Singapore, Block Crafters Capital is a subsidiary of Block Crafters which provides professional asset management and crypto fund service.With in-depth expertise in algorithm trading, quant trading, arbitrage, active trading, we aim to offer investment services for investors who believe in the incredible potential and opportunitiesin the world of cryptocurrencies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: South Korea, Gibraltar, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $809k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TEEware — TEEware is a security technology to create a secure and dependable IT environment by protecting valuable digital assets from the threat of hacking that is emerging in new fields such as blockchain, Fintech, IoT, autonomous driving, and healthcare.
  • Openull — Openull offers BNPL products and services.
  • EMERGE Group — EMERGE Group is a leading Martech organisation that specialises in developing optimal commercialisation solutions for content creators, intellectual property right holders, advertising inventories and brands.
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Internet VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 222 deals from 229 investors.

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in South Korea Internet startups
$2.6M
median round
in South Korea Internet startups
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