Top 50 Proptech Startup Investors in South Korea (October 2023)

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
• Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
• Geek Planner —
• Somsidang Company — Somsidang Company is an online learning platform that offers baking and pottery painting training services.

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• Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
• Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

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• GenKOre — GenKOre operates as a biotech company, specializing in genetic scissors.
• GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
• Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.

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• Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
• Inertia — Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology.
• Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

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• AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
• Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
• Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE

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• 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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• 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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• Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
• Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
• City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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• Intematix — Intematix Corporation engages in developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling nano, bulk, and thin film materials to light and imaging markets. The company offers phosphors materials for LED, CCFL, CFL, and security/detection applications; lighting solutions; and energy storage/clean energy materials technologies, including fuel celland battery materials. It also provides chips and silicones in the greater China market. Intematix Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Fremont, California with a technology center in Yang Mei, Taiwan.
• BratVillage — Brat Village which was formed in December 2014, services total home care provider Doctor House.
• GCT Semiconductor — GCT Semiconductor, Inc. is a leading fabless designer and supplier of advanced 4G LTE, IoT and 5G semiconductor solutions. GCT's market-proven LTE solutions enable fast and reliable LTE connectivity to commercial devices such as smartphones, tablets, hotspots, USB dongles, routers, M2M applications

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• Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
• Meisters — Meisters is a service management service (ATCM, After-sales Total Care Management) that handles all after-sales responsibilities for Korean home appliance and manufacturing enterprises, allowing them to focus more on the process of studying, developing, and creating high-quality products. It is a business.
• KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.

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• 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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• ANGELSWING — ANGELSWING provides web-based platform which turns drone captured images into actionable business and social insights.
• Korea Zinc — Korea Zinc operates as a general non-ferrous metal smelting company primarily in South Korea. It offers zinc slab ingots, alloy jumbo blocks, anode ingots, and die cast ingots for use in galvanized steel plates, steel pipes and wires, color steel plates, automobile parts, machine/electronic parts, anti-corrosion paints, etc. Korea Zinc alsoprovides lead and lead alloy ingots used in automobile and industrial batteries, electric wire coatings, radiation shielders for batteries, anti-corrosion paints, etc.; and copper for use in copper plates, pipes, wires, as well as bronze, etc. Moreover, it offers gold used in semiconductors, PCBs, electrically conducting materials, jewelries, coins, etc.; and silver for use in electronic products, cameras, X-ray films, jewelries, etc. Further, Korea Zinc provides other rare metals, including indium, bismuth, antimony, antimony trioxide, cadmium, tellurium, cobalt, cadmium sticks, gallium, selenium, etc.; sulfuric acid used in inorganic chemicals, metal refining, steel making, and spinning and weaving, as well as in chemical and fertilizer, fiber, and paper manufacturing industries; electronic grade sulfuric acid used for cleaning and etching in semiconductor manufacturing process; and oleum used in nitro compounds, dye stuffs, chloro sulfonic acid, blasting powder, and oxidation. It began operation in 1974, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
• Tenstorrent — At Tenstorrent, we build AI processors for machine learning workloads of today and tomorrow.

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• Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
• Petnow Inc. — Petnow offers AI-driven pet biometric ID for dogs and cats on mobile phones. Register & identify pets by scanning their unique nose or face.
• jeongyookgak — jeongyookgak produces and sells fresh meat.

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• Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
• Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
• Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.

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• 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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• Gatda — Gatda provides a waste collection application service.
• Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
• FeelBetter — FeelBetter is an information technology company that provides 3D product advertisements and augmented reality services.

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• Doodlin — Doodlin creates and operates Greeting and also manages Application registration, resume verification, applicant management, interview schedule adjustments, and recruitment evaluations
• POSTYPE — POSTYPE is a content open market where anyone can sell and buy digital content.
• Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.

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• breezm — Breezm produces custom eyewear optimized for the customer's face, using 3D-printing, 3D-scanning, and big data analysis. We sell directly to consumers through our offline stores as well as online channels.
• Munice — Munice is a sleep tech company that develops technical analysis and sleep solutions for individuals.
• Disco — Disco is a location-based service platform for real estate companies.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
• MetroSpeedy — MetroSpeedy is a leading technology based local delivery company providing on-demand, same day or scheduled delivery services.
• Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

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• RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
• VoyagerX — VoyagerX develops artificial intelligence software.
• Wecover Platforms — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.

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• Flojoy — Flojoy is the leading open-source platform for AI-enhanced test, measurement, and control and the leading Python-based alternative to LabVIEW. Download Flojoy Studio today to connect to over 700 supported benchtop instruments, sensors, motors, cameras, DAQ boards, and DMMs.
• Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
• H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.

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• 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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• 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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• Bredis — Bredis Healthcare provides a variety of solutions for early diagnosis and prognosis monitoring of dementia based on ultrasensitive detection of biomarkers in bodily fluid. We also offer various digital solutions for personalized cognitive training to prevent and treat the disease.
• Cheongse-Lab — Cheongse-Lab is an e-commerce and retail company.
• Code blossom — Code blossom is a medical code used when an emergency or announcement occurs in a hospital.

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• Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
• ONES Global — ONES Global provides global healthcare solutions and databases for the healthcare market.
• MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.

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• Geekble — Geekble is a media startup that produces new media content on science and technology to bridge the gap between geeks and the world. With revenue from workshops and branded content, Geekble is building its own "maker space" for geeks to experiment. Teachers and professors are using Geekble's content for educational purposes, andGeekble videos have been used for public TV.
• New Vessel — New Vessel is to navigate the sea of e-commerce. We utilize our e-commerce and consumer branding experience and partner with world-class e-commerce experts.
• Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.

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• OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
• Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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• Tiki — Tiki.vn is the an e-commerce company that specializes in the end-to-end supply chain and partnering with brands. Tiki.vn is the fastest-growing retail company in Vietnam and is well-positioned to be an industry winner. It is also the Vietnam’s most favorite B2C e-commerce company.Tiki.vn features more than 300,000 products in 12 categories ofelectronics, lifestyle, and books. The company achieves the highest customer satisfaction rate and the lowest return rate among all e-commerce players in Vietnam due to its capability to control the end-to-end supply chain, from partnering with brands to deliver high-quality merchandise to managing warehouse and logistics to processing payments and providing superior customer service.Tiki.vn has a fun, dynamic, and innovative work culture and is currently 500+ team members strong. Investors in the company include Seedcom, CyberAgents Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation, and VNG Corporation.
• BlockOdyssey — Best Enterprise Blockchain Enabler, Block Odyssey
• ABLY Corporation — ABLY Corporation is a fashion platform and application.

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• 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.
• Interior Teacher — Interior Teacher is solidifying its position as a premium home styling service.

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• Refeely — Refeely provides sustainable carton packaging solutions for beverages.
• TRUCK LINX — TRUCK LINX is a software to check and pay transportation cost online.
• Homeliaison — Homeliaison is an interior design company.

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• ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
• Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
• Growing Sales — Growing Sales is a mobile application that handles payment methods of customers.

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• GenEdit — Developing innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines.
• BIORCHESTRA — BIORCHESTRA is a developer of RNA-based therapeutics.
• Curiox Biosystems — Curiox is a bioinstrumentation company spun out of the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. Curiox has become a leader in the development and commercialization of innovative assay platforms based on its expertise in surface chemistry and engineering. Curiox’s vision is to accelerate the progress of life sciences, drugdiscovery and diagnostics through the miniaturization and improved automation of bioassays.

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• 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.

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• 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.
• Gridwiz — Gridwiz is an energy company that provides efficient, economic, safe and sustainable energy services for energy users.
• Ticaros — Ticaros is a biotech company that develops immune anti-cancer drugs.