Top 15 Mobile Angel Investors in South Korea (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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4 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security | |
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Osuke Honda
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Mobile | $2.8M–$11M |
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Daniel Shin
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Geoff Ralston
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Senegal | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Education, Social Media | $1M–$4.7M |
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Jong-Il Yoon
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning | $530k–$6.9M |
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Douglas Guen
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce | |
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Erik Peterson
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Algeria | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, SaaS | $69k–$20M |
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Gabriel Fong
Angel
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps | $500k–$1M |
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Jae-sik Shin
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Kim Won-tae
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order | |
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
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1 | Japan, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps | |
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Content, TV | $578k–$764k |
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S Cubic Angels
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, Apps, EdTech | |
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel
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1 | United States, Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Perry Tam
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile, Consumer | |
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Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- Apolyta — Threat simulators use playbooks and checklists. Adversaries don't. Prepare for the real threats of tomorrow with adaptive attack emulation.
- Vicarius — Consolidate vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation in a single automated solution.
Osuke Honda is a General Partner at DCM Ventures, Osuke previously worked at Mitsubishi Corporation and then at Apax Globis Partners & Co (now GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS & Co.). Having assumed the position of Outside Director of Sansan, Inc. in April 2018, he draws on his extensive experience of investment and business management in makinggeneral management recommendations.Osuke Honda attended Hitotsubashi University, The Wharton School, and Keio University.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Series A $4M–$11M; Series B $2.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metafy — Learn from the world's best players
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- Picsart — Picsart is the largest all-in-one creative platform of photo, video editing, and design tools. An ecosystem of free-to-use content and inspiration from other creators.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.7M; Angel $1M–$1.5M; Series A $3.2M–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
- Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $530k–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
- Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
- TIDEPOOL — FISHSCOPE, powerful AI "Fish & Feed Monitoring" solution
Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder at PrimerSerial. Entrepreneur and the friend of Startups. He is a Founder and CEO of Primer (2010-now), Founder and CEO of INICIS, INITECH others (1997-2008). Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.
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- Industry: Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
- Soomgo — Soomgo is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
- Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.
Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Algeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$20M; Equity Crowdfunding $69k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
- Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
- Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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- Industry: Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
- LTAI — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.
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- Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Kim Won-tae
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- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TMM — TMM is a mail-order platform that helps anyone to easily conduct mail-order and field sales.
- Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.
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- Industry: Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Taekkyung Lee - Representative Partner @ MashUp Angels
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- Industry: Software, Content, TV
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $578k–$764k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
- 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
- DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
S Cubic Angels
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- Industry: Education, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- KRG Group — KRG Group is a rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
- Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
Sunghwan Choi
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
- CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
- Sequin — Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit.
Perry Tam is the Co-Founder and Managimg Partner of Locus Ventures. Took up B.S., Computer Science at Cornell University.
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- Industry: Mobile, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
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