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Top 45 Software Angel Investors in South Korea (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in South Korea Software startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Software startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Aviram Jenik
Angel
8 South Korea, United States, Israel Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Daniel Shin
Angel
5 South Korea, United States, Malaysia Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology
Jay Eum
Angel
3 United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps $2M–$20M
S Cubic Angels
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Education, Apps, EdTech
Richard Seongho Choi
Angel
2 South Korea Seed Trading Platform, Virtual Currency
Pietro Dova
Angel
2 United States, South Korea Series A, Seed Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
Taekkyung Lee
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Content, TV $578k–$764k
Hyunjae Lee
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Martin Randel
Angel
1 Sweden, South Korea Seed, Series A Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile
Chester Roh
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Apps, Beauty $500k–$750k
Seojoon Kim
Angel
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services $2.3M–$6.6M
Perry Ha
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed Apps, Rental, FinTech
Gabriel Fong
Angel
1 Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea Seed Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps $500k–$1M
Naval Ravikant
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Blockchain $800k–$25M
Sebastien Borget
Angel
1 United States, France, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.5M–$60M
Michael Yang
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
Luke Wood
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
Do Kwon
Angel
1 Singapore, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $5.1M–$9M
Louis Beryl
Angel
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $605k–$12M
Matthew Papakipos
Angel
1 United States, South Korea, The Netherlands Seed, Angel Music, Apps, Video
Ed Sheeran
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
David Lee
Angel
1 United States, Japan, South Korea Seed, Series A, Angel Software, FinTech, Health Care $245k–$10M
Tim Draper
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Mobile $350k–$32M
Jung-hee Ryu
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Fashion, Health Care $3M–$5.3M
Sung Cho
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed
Hesham Zreik
Angel
1 United States, India, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Internet $50k–$472k
Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
1 Japan, South Korea Seed Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
Sunghwan Choi
Angel
1 United States, Hong Kong, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Sachin Bhanot
Angel
1 Singapore, Australia, Indonesia Series A, Seed Financial Services, SaaS, FinTech
Byeong-min Yeo
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, India, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps $50k–$500k
Benjamin Joseph Levin
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Software, Education
Songyee Yoon
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Video
Sanghee Lee
Angel
1 South Korea Pre-Seed Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning
Paul Wachter
Angel
1 United States Series A, Series B, Private Equity Sports, News, Video
Jimmy Iovine
Angel
1 United States, Israel, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series C Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet
Miguel McKelvey
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Pre-Seed, Series A Real Estate, Rental, Software
Victor Wang
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning $150k–$26M
Douglas Guen
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
Justin Lubliner
Angel
1 Israel, South Korea Seed, Series A Content, Software, Digital Media
Ji-woo Song
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Jae-sik Shin
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Justin Bieber
Angel
1 United States, South Korea, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Media and Entertainment, Health Care, Information Technology
Seongho Choi
Angel
1 South Korea Seed, Angel Health Care, Robotics, Automotive $76k–$200M
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Aviram Jenik
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States · 8 investments in South Korea Software startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Daniel Shin
Angel · 5 investments in South Korea Software startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Jay Eum
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Software startups

Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $4.1M–$12M; Series B $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Merit — A software platform for verified digital credentials for government, organizations, people, and communities.
  • Opaper — Bikin toko online dalam 2 menit! Terima pembayaran, pesan kurir semua disatu aplikasi memudahkan penjualan manualmu yang dari WhatsApp dan sosial media.
  • 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.
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S Cubic Angels
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

S Cubic Angels

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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Savle
  • KRG Group — KRG Group is a rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
  • Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
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Richard Seongho Choi
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Richard Seongho Choi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Trading Platform, Virtual Currency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
  • Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.
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Pietro Dova
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
  • Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
  • Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Taekkyung Lee - Representative Partner @ MashUp Angels

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Hyunjae Lee
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Hyunjae Lee serves as Director of Public Policy at Woowa Brothers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
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Martin Randel
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Martin Randel - Co-Founder, Board Member and Owner @ Vitamin Well

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reve — Tipser is the global leader in embedded commerce, turning any digital surface into a point of sale. Discover a better way to monetize traffic.
  • Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.
  • Covr Security AB — Covr Security meet the growing demand for highly secure, user-centric control over mobile security and digitized personal information. Covr is founded by serial entrepreneurs, including the developers of the digital verification standard currently used by the Swedish banking system.
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Chester Roh
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Chester is 13 year-long serial entrepreneur with successes such as IPO and M&A with Google. His current company, Ablar Company, is the fourth start-up with a great vision to connect offline world more into online. He worked as a product manager at Google Korea after his last start-up, Tatter&Company had been acquired by Google in 2008.Before Tatter&Company, he founded two more companies, one of which had successfully done the IPO. He also worked as a product manager at SK Telecom, where he developed intelligent personalization system for mobile phone users. Chester received his bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering from KAIST.He's also been an active angel investor and business mentor in the companies like, Ticket Monster (Recently merged to LivingSocial), Paprika Lab, LIFO interactive, Sha.kr Media, Ultra Caption Corp (klassmate.com), Flyfan (clubvenit.com) and J3T (stylesays.com).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AWAIR — Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
  • Typecast AI — The online AI voice generator that can turn your text into life-like speech. Over 400+ hyper-realistic voices. Create your content just the way you want it!
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Seojoon Kim
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Seojoon Kim (서준 김) is a co-founder and vice president of KnowRe, an education technology company that develops digital learning platforms.Kim’s previous career portfolio includes his time as an intern at Sun Microsystem; intern at Olaworks; manager at ½ project; and project manager at Mozzet. He was also the co-founder of edueyes. Aftergraduating from Seoul Science High School, Kim went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
  • Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
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Perry Ha
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Perry Ha is the founder of DFJ Athena, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson affiliate venture fund focused on investments in Korea and the US.He has been an active investor since 1998 when he founded Athena Technology Ventures.He has invested in and/or served on the board of many successful companies including Ipivot (INTC), Demandtec (DMAN),Imparto Software (PKS), ProfitLogic (ORCL), and Zantaz (AUTNF).He also served as an interim CEO at two companies. He currently serves on the board of several companies in Korea and the US.Prior to his venture capital career, he led the Technology Management Practice at Gemini Consulting, a global management consultancy, helping Fortune 1000 clients to manage technology portfolios and develop new products. Prior to that, he managed an R&D Group at Amicon, a life science devices company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994. He was granted two patents during his tenure at Amicon.He serves on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), on the Visiting Committee at MIT, and on the Leadership Board of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Rental, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
  • Precursor Energetics — Precursor Energetics utilizes state-of-the-art inorganic and organometallic chemistry, coupled with advanced process engineering and materials science, to satisfy the need for high value advanced materials within the electronics and energy markets. Our technology can fundamentally change the way that many of these materials are produced.Precursor Energetics’ proprietary molecular precursor ink technology provides atomic-level control over material structure and composition. It thereby improves material uniformity, performance, and yield while enabling high-throughput manufacturing processes using low-cost printing and coating methods.Our technology platform is applicable to a wide range of markets, including thin film solar, Li-ion batteries, transparent conductors, LED lighting, and others.
  • Zeuss Technologies — Zeuss Technologies develops next generation blockchain-based Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) technology for cash intensive industries. Zeuss’ software non-intrusively monitors and verifies all financial activity across industries and efficiently fulfills federal regulatory compliance obligations.
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Gabriel Fong
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Naval Ravikant
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups, 21 in the past 12 months

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$4.7M; Series A $1.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
  • Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
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Sebastien Borget
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.4M; Series A $5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.
  • Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
  • Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.
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Michael Yang
Angel · La Canada Flintridge, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Michael founded users. Michael and the team successfully raised $30M in venture capital investment from investors such as Brentwood, Sprout, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, and Transcosmos Corporation. In February of 2000, mySimon was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M.Prior to mySimon.com, Michael held positions at Xerox Corp., Intergraph Corporation, TeleVideo, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Jazz Multimedia, Inc. Michael has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University. Michael holds a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
  • Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
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Luke Wood
Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Wood began his career with Geffen Records in 1991 as a Director of Publicity, representing such bands as Nirvana and Sonic Youth. He subsequently served as Geffen’s Director of Marketing, and later as Vice President of A&R at DreamWorks Records. In 2003, Wood joined Interscope Records (as part of its merger with DreamWorks) as Executive VicePresident of A&R, having signed such artists as Jimmy Eat World, Elliott Smith and AFI. He also developed label deals with Downtown Records and signed artists such as TV on the Radio, All Time Low and Yelawolf.A lifelong producer, songwriter and musician, Wood signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Group in 1996 and that same year his band, Sammy, released its third album, Tales of Great Neck Glory, on Geffen/DGC Records. Wood earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University with a major in American Studies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
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Do Kwon
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $5.1M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
  • Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
  • Treehouse — Hyperion is the most powerful and actionable portfolio management and market intelligence toolset for digital asset traders and investors.
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Louis Beryl
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $605k–$4.1M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stelo Labs — Read the lastest on web3 security from Stelo
  • Cashmere — Secure multisig solana wallet, built for teams. Send, receive, and grow your digital assets directly from your Cashmere Vault.
  • Meez Culinary Solutions — Organize, Train, Cost, Iterate, Collaborate, and Share your recipes and process.
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Matthew Papakipos
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Matthew Papakipos

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OP.GG — The Best LoL Champion Builds and Summoner Stats by OP.GG - Learn champion builds, runes, and counters. Search any summoner name for stats of all game modes.
  • Ozarka — Milieuvriendelijke maaltijd verpakkingen nodig? Ontdek onze milieuvriendelijke verpakking. Herbruikbare en duurzame oplossing voor take away.
  • Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
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Ed Sheeran
Angel · Framlingham, Suffolk, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
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David Lee
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $245k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
  • The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
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Tim Draper
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$3.7M; Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
  • Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
  • SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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Jung-hee Ryu
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
  • Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
  • 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
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Sung Cho
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Founder and CEO of Chartmetric.io, a data analytics company dedicated to serve the music industry, by solving the complex problem by tracking a large amount of data and meeting the industry needs around playlist marketing.Most recently he worked as Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was first employee/engineerat Gamevil (KQ:063080, Market Cap: $400MM), where he initiated mobile game development and eventually positioned the company as a leading mobile game developer. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • OPENSURVEY Incorporated — • Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
  • MoxieJam — MoxieJam will be a consumer app targeted to fans of entertainment. During this time of exploding choice in media content, there is a good news / bad news situation for consumers. They have access to an incredible supply of music, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books, but that also brings a significant source of frustration. There is just nogood way to help fans organize their own playlists and watchlists, to share their interests with other fans and to discover new things that they might enjoy. MoxieJam will help fans do just that.
  • Kurvv — Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$472k; Pre-Seed $70k–$390k; Series A $50k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
  • AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
  • Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sunghwan Choi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • 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.
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Sachin Bhanot
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sachin Bhanot serves as the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neara — Neara electric utility software is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets. Request a demo.
  • Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
  • Quotabook — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
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Byeong-min Yeo
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$500k; Angel $100k–$400k; Pre-Seed $120k–$340k
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Safedeploy — Fault free software update platform for tracking your software reliability in real time for every device and every software application
  • Event Arena — Event Arena organizes events, corporate events, conferences, sales promotions, and presentations.
  • Palacio Inc. — Palacio Inc. aims to inspire every living space through innovation in art and technology. Our first product Canvia is a revolutionary content platform for art and photography, which utilizes patented technology for a seamless and authentic experience in any environment. We bring content from leading contemporary creators and world class culturalinstitutions into our living spaces like never before.
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Benjamin Joseph Levin
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Benny Blanco is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
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Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Hwang Seong-hyeon

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.
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Songyee Yoon
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Songyee Yoon

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Spera — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
  • Light Field Lab — Escape the Screen. We're creating a world where content escapes the screen and merges with reality.
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Sanghee Lee
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sanghee Lee

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CLIKA — Tiny AI, Everywhere
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Paul Wachter
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Paul Wachter has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2015. Since 1997, Wachter has been the founder and CEO of financial and asset management advisory firm Main Street Advisors in Los Angeles. Prior to forming Main Street Advisors, from 1993 to 1997, Wachter was Managing Director of Schroder & Co. Incorporated, aninvestment banking and asset management company. He has also served on the board of directors of Time Warner Inc., a publicly-traded media company, since 2010 and the board of directors of Avalanche Biotechnologies, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, since 2014. Wachter has served as a Regent on the University of California Board of Regents since 2004. Wachter brings financial expertise and general business experience to our board of directors and his experience as a director of public companies provides our board of directors with valuable insights to assist in achieving our goals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, News, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ATTN: — ATTN: is a content network that helps young people understand and impact the world around them. It was launched in June 2014.
  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
  • Fenway Sports Group — Fenway Sports Group (FSG) is a global sports, marketing, media, entertainment, and real estate platform anchored by two iconic clubs, the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club (LFC).
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Jimmy Iovine
Angel · Malibu, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Jimmy Iovine, the Chairman of Universal Music Group’s Interscope Geffen A&M Records unit, is regarded as both a legendary figure in the music industry as well as a forward-thinking visionary.The Brooklyn-born Iovine’s four-decade career began when he was just out of his teens. As a recording engineer, he found himself in the studio withJohn Lennon and Bruce Springsteen (Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town) before setting his sights on being a producer. Building on what he’d learned from the masters, he helped Patti Smith (Easter), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Damn The Torpedoes), and U2 (Rattle & Hum) -- all current Rock and Roll Hall of Famers -- achieve career breakthroughs. He also produced Stevie Nicks first solo album (Bella Donna) as well as albums for Dire Straits (Making Movies) and The Pretenders (Get Close).Interscope, the record label that Iovine co-founded in 1990, has come to be widely regarded as the home of music’s most consistently fearless, intriguing, and popular artists, including Dr. Dre, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Mary J. Blige, No Doubt, Marilyn Manson, The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, 50 Cent, and Lady Gaga. Powered by Iovine’s peerless rapport with musicians, new buzzed-about stars like Azealia Banks, Ellie Goulding, Kendrick Lamar, and Lana Del Rey, are ensuring that that reputation endures.With the rise of hip-hop, alternative culture, and technology, Iovine didn’t rest on his legacy but instead used his credibility and integrity to transform Interscope into a multi-media powerhouse that puts artists and ideas first. “The way I produce records now is I support record producers,” Iovine has said.Iovine co-produced the hit Eminem movie 8 Mile directed by Curtis Hanson and executive produced the critically acclaimed LeBron James documentary More Than A Game.In 2006, Iovine and hip-hop pioneer/producer Dr. Dre co-founded Beats By Dr. Dre, a high-performance headphone and sound transmission company intent on recapturing the fidelity of the studio. “Dre’s and my mission for Beats was to introduce premium audio to a generation that had never experienced the emotion of music as intended by the artists because of substandard ear buds and PCs,” says Iovine.Thanks to the sleekly designed headphones, as well as expansion into smart phones and car audio systems, Beats By Dr. Dre has been widely successful, securing the #1 spot in the billion+ dollar premium headphones industry. Iovine is now expanding the Beats Brand and reputation into the digital music space with Beats Music—the first streaming music service delivering contextually and culturally relevant playlists, personalized for each user, by real music experts. In many ways, Beats Music is Iovine’s latest “supergroup” with former Topspin exec Ian Rogers and Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor will work alongside Beats Electronics President Luke Wood to create the next chapter of the music business and bring streaming music to the masses.For the last two years, Iovine has found a new outlet for his hard-earned wisdom. Most Americans know him as the outspoken and frank mentor who shares his insight and expertise with contestants on Fox’s ratings blockbuster American Idol. Under Iovine’s watchful eye, Idol’s standout performers now release their music through Interscope, whose A&R and marketing strategies have led to breakout careers for Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
  • FaZe Clan — FaZe Clan is the most popular esports and entertainment organization in the world. Shop official team jerseys, t-shirts, hoodies, hats, and more. Shipping available worldwide. #FaZeUp!
  • Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
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Miguel McKelvey
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

McKelvey grew up in a "five-mother collective" in Eugene, Oregon.[2] His family started and ran a weekly newspaper called the Eugene Weekly.[3]In a January 2020 interview with Fortune, McKelvey called himself "a wild kid" on the high school basketball court. He said that he found a sense of accountability from his coach, whowas a strict disciplinarian. He said of Coach Stepp, "I didn’t grow up with my father, so I never had someone telling me to keep in line

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Rental, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
  • Dongnae — Dongnae provides an online real estate platform that digitizes the rental and home-buying market. The company's platform assists users to find the right house based on their needs and purpose, even find easy transport to work from the resident with the assistance of the brokers, enabling users to save time and energy on finding the right placeto stay in.It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Victor Wang
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Victor Wang is a technology-focused VC investor interested in helping extremely brilliant, ambitious, relentless founders build category-defining companies. Earlier in his career, Victor conducted genomic research at Stanford University and earned a B.A. in Molecular & Cell Biology with a Minor in Nutritional Sciences from UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$12M; Pre-Seed $385k–$385k; Series A $12M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alethea AI — Alethea AI is an R&D studio building at the intersection of two of the most transformative technologies of our time - Generative AI and Blockchain.
  • Dialect — Dialect enables a more engaging dapp experience with timely, targeted messages and notifications.
  • Explorex Technologies, Inc. — The Indian restaurant industry has already adopted technology to adapt to the growing demands and match the expectations of today's customers but the absence of a full-stack cloud-based software is extremely frustrating to business owners today. The existing systems lack modularity, lack the ability to integrate with services, and hencearen't plug and play. Also, Restaurants are extremely frustrated with all the 5-6 independent systems that don't talk to each other. We are solving these problems by building a full-stack solution for the 30 million+ restaurants in India, by solves order management, operations management, online delivery, payment processing, reports & analytics, and guest identification and re-engagement all using one system - Explorex.
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Douglas Guen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Justin Lubliner
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Justin Lubliner is a CEO of the Darkroom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
  • Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
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Ji-woo Song
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Song Ji-woo serves as CEO at Jiwoo Company.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Jae-sik Shin
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Justin Bieber
Angel · Stratford, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop musician, actor, and singer-songwriter. He was discovered in 2008 by American talent manager Scooter Braun and has since driven over 3 billion views to YouTube, gained nearly 81M followers on Twitter, 68M followers on Instagram, and 77M fans on Facebook.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
  • Legacy — Sperm testing and freezing should be simple, and now it is. Learn about fertility, analyze and preserve your sperm with Legacy, all from home.
  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
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Seongho Choi
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Choi Seong-ho is the chairman of the AI ​​Angel Club.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Robotics, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$200M; Angel $76k–$107k
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
  • 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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Software Angel investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 16 deals from 21 investors.

21
investors
in South Korea Software startups
16
deals
in South Korea Software startups
$8.2M
median round
in South Korea Software startups
14%
lead investors
lead at least one round
44%
Seed
most common funding stage

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