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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in South Korea (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $157k–$15M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps $200k–$8M
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $115k–$7.6M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $382k–$17M
D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $153k–$4.6M
TheVentures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, Vietnam, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $50k–$4.8M
Lee Seung Ho
Angel
2 South Korea Social, Sports, Travel
IBK Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Travel, Art, Logistics $1.2M–$23M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $860k–$25M
MYSC
VC Fund
2 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce $76k–$3.7M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Japan, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Wellness, Marketing, Enterprise $764k–$34M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing $229k–$6.3M
Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A SaaS, Fitness, Computer
One Billion Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Design, Internet Services, Information Technology
Hanwha Investment Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B Software, Big Data, Internet of Things $1.5M–$6.1M
Falcon Partners VC
VC Fund
1 Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea Seed Travel, Cycling, Leisure $500k–$1.5M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $76k–$15M
Gentium Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Pet, Apps, Software $176k–$1.1M
Qihoo 360 Technology
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Austria Series A, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Security, Internet $412k–$600M
IDG Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United States, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Internet, E-Commerce $2.9M–$190M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce $458k–$3.2M
GS Shop
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing $336k–$24M
InterVest
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics $2.7M–$36M
Aju IB Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $3.1M–$55M
KDB Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $500k–$54M
Green Cross Holding Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $2.3M–$60M
Quantum Ventures Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B Biopharma, Video Streaming, Gaming $2.3M–$61M
IMO Ventures
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, FinTech $500k–$35M
ID ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Fashion, Media and Entertainment, Health Care $764k–$200M
HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Agriculture, E-Commerce, Farming $153k–$1.5M
Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, Germany Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Biotechnology, Apps $1.1M–$34M
Golden Oak Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series C Apps, Beauty, Rental $2.4M–$2.7M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $764k–$50M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A Software, Retail, Health Care $306k–$11M
Young-Tae Kim
Angel
1
Han Ki yong
Angel
1
Kim Hyun joon
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Sports
Genaxis
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Medical, Therapeutics, Artificial Intelligence
The Wells Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device $917k–$6.9M
K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series C Apps, SaaS, Mobile
JS Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Sports, eSports
WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.5M–$16M
Korea Tech Incubator Program For Startup
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Video $382k–$1M
Hyperithm
VC Fund
1 Singapore, South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $3.8M–$4.5M
Wantedlab
VC Fund
1
NBH Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Travel, Software, Electronics
Hwang Sung hyun
Angel
1
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $76k–$3.7M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $150k–$7.7M
Jang Won-gwi
Angel
1 South Korea Pre-Seed Sports
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Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
  • Solvook — Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services.
  • Paraform — Get paid to recruit for the most exciting startups on your own terms. Recruiting has never been so accessible.
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 207
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M; Series A $1.1M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Pillyze — mobile health care startup
  • InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
  • Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 21 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
  • Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$10M; Series B $4.6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CLOP — CLOP is an ophthalmology medical company that provides services to prevent blindness in patients through AI-based eye disease management.
  • Cashwalk — Cashwalk is an app that motivates to walk by providing financial incentives.
  • GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 8 in the past 12 months

D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $153k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
  • RTBP ALLIANCE — RTBP ALLIANCE focuses on creating co-working spaces and modernize old places for local communities.
  • Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 14 in the past 12 months

TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.2M; Series A $3.1M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • slowave — Slowwave discovered that the current sleep test is performed in a foreign hospital setting with numerous sensors attached to the head, making it impossible to test and identify sensitive insomnia patients effectively. As a result, a microprocessor and low-power measuring algorithm were integrated into an ultra-light patch, allowing patients withinsomnia to easily perform sleep EEG at home while eliminating factors that interfere with the examination and boosting measurement precision.
  • Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
  • Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring
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Lee Seung Ho
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Lee Seung Ho

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, Sports, Travel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
  • Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
  • Frientrip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

IBK Capital has established an enviable track record as an independent Canadian investment banking firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Art, Logistics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$15M; Series B $13M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ronfic — Ronfic develops a smart fitness healthcare system.
  • MetaFines — MetaFines is researching and developing anti-cancer drugs using cancer metabolism.
  • SeaVantage — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $860k–$2.5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M; Series B $3.8M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
  • Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, China, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$1.5M; Series A $917k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VPP — Providing clean energy to wherever it is needed
  • JeCLEAN — Jacqueline, an ESG startup, draws attention to the vast amounts of abandoned and burnt hotel bedding waste on Jeju Island and provides industrial solutions through upcycling solutions that recycle it into cotton-based raw materials, yarns, and fabrics.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Marketing, Enterprise
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$1.9M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $1.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
  • 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.
  • Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 33 in the past 12 months

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$2.7M; Series A $764k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.
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Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Fitness, Computer
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adler — Adler creates a social media application to create personal space. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Dev Unlimit — AI platforms for personal improvement Lacking the motivation to go to gym and slay the day? These 3 platforms are made to improve efficiency and productivity for health, fitness and task management. Smart strategies for self-improvement made easier with AI.
  • Mondrian AI — Mondrian AI is an innovative data science and visualization company.
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One Billion Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

One Billion Partners is a South Korea-based investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Design, Internet Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VWX — VWX is an entertainment audition platform specialized in commercialized services.
  • Next ground — Next ground operates the real estate residential review and evaluation platform.
  • Field Mentor — Field Mentor is an operator of a golf field lesson platform.
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Hanwha Investment Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Hanwha Investment Trust Management is an asset manager applying advanced Hanwha Venture Capital was established in 2000 to nurture startup small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with promising business models and advanced technology but lack capital and management capabilities. The comprehensive support packages include capital, managementexpertise and technology that cover from establishment through initial public offering. In addition, the firm plays a leading role in the Korean venture capital industry. The company utilizes various domestic and overseas networks to secure advanced investment methods and gather information on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the future. Hanwha Venture Capital invests for future value and serves as a trustworthy partner for invested companies, creating venture investment funds that provide stable financing sources and making investment decisions after careful study. The firm also acts as a trusted asset manager for limited partners of the investment funds and helps to strengthen the competitive edge of domestic SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
  • Element AI — Fundamental and applied research transformed into AI products for your enterprise needs.
  • StradVision — Vision AI for all
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Falcon Partners VC
VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Falcon Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital investment firm licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Founded by former investors at institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Apax Partners, Capital Group, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, Falcon partners withexceptional management teams to build enduring, category-defining businesses over the long-term by providing value-added capital and strategic support at all stages of the company’s development – from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Returns from our investments have reflected the success of this approach, with portfolio companies backed by Falcon at the pre-seed stage raising over US$500 million in follow on investments at unicorn valuations, and later-stage companies achieving rapid growth across Asia and attaining valuations well north of US$1 billion. Falcon primarily focuses on high impact innovation areas such as AI/machine learning, consumer, e-commerce, education, and pharma life-sciences in the China Greater Bay Area. See less

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Cycling, Leisure
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gbike — Gbike is a mobility sharing startup in Korea, innovating green urban mobility in Korea where currently car-centric environment. Our service includes bike and scooter sharing with IT services specialized for Korean market with 50MM population.
  • KLOOK — Klook is a developer of travel activities and services booking platform designed to connect travelers with experiences. With Klook’s innovative technologies, travelers can book on-the-go and redeem the services by using QR code-enabled e-vouchers. Each day, Klook empowers countless travelers to indulge in their wanderlust and spontaneity throughover 100,000 offerings in more than 400 destinations.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
  • GetLinks — GetLinks is a platform and ecosystem connecting tech talents to opportunities across Asia.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$8.3M; Series A $1.5M–$8M; Series B $5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
  • Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
  • Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
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Gentium Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Gentium Partners is an investment management firm that offers financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $176k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EVAR — EVAR brings a solution for EV charging with an autonomous robotic charger.
  • Zakdang — Zakdang operates in the billiards industry by helping in the launching, management and closing of billiard rooms and clubs.
  • AI FOR PET — TTcare is a health care app for pets. Take pictures to check your pet's health. A solution that makes pet homecare easy. Eye health checkup. Skin health check-up. Perfect care for your pet. Easily find and book vet services. Nofication for your life with pets.
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Qihoo 360 Technology
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

360 Total Security is a leader in Cybersecurity software. With a billion active internet users, 360 has earned a strong reputation for excellence. Download Free

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Security, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: China, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Angel $412k–$1.4M; Series A $1.4M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$600M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hozon — Hozon integrates hardware products and software services through innovative technology research and development, intelligent manufacturing, and multi-channel sales services. Through the development of electric, intelligence, and connectivity, they are committed to creating cost-effective Intelligent electric vehicles of high quality, providingusers with a simple, intuitive, and comfortable travel experience.
  • Lanxin — Lanxin is a secure mobile work platform for government and enterprise.
  • HanSight — HanSight is dedicated to changing the cyber security landscape based on their award-winning big data analytics platform and patented machine learning algorithms, by unifying SIEM, User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Network Traffic Analytics (NTA). Their mission is to empower organizations to detect and prevent to cyber breaches, fraudand insider threats that threaten their digital property and financial assets, in real time and with greater accuracy than ever before. With the vision "Data Driven Security", HanSight was founded in 2014 by seasoned entrepreneurs from Trend Micro, Microsoft and Oracle, with extensive experience in security analytics, big data technology and machine learning. They are backed by world-class ventures including IDG Capital, CASH Capital etc, and trusted by large-scale banks, telcos and government agencies. They are ranked #320 on Cybersecurity 500 list in 2017.
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IDG Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 24 in the past 12 months

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 611
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$100M; Series B $6.9M–$137M; Series C $15M–$190M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Infinimos — Infinimos is a Cosmos ecological liquid staking derivatives platform that aims to build a decentralized and democratized ecosystem capable of maximizing staking rewards while retaining liquidity.
  • Xbotspace — Xbotspace is the generative AI middleware startup investigates the implementation and deployment of huge language models.
  • Biotyx Medical — Biotyx Medical manufactures and sells iron-based biodegradable vascular materials and stents.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$2.3M; Series A $2.3M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Inertia — Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology.
  • Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
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GS Shop
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
  • Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
  • Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
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InterVest
VC Fund · Kirkland, Washington, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

InterVest offers a range of marketing and financial technology services to companies in Gibraltar.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$36M; Series B $5M–$30M; Series C $11M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dot Inc — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
  • N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
  • WIRobotics — WIRobotics is a Wearable robot that lessen physical demands on your body to safely allow active motion.
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Aju IB Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Series A $3.1M–$23M; Series B $3.1M–$25M; Series C $3.5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BRLab — BRLab is a healthcare company in the sleep tech area. We serve sleep tracking and enhancing platform but also ai-based life coaching services. BRLab's platform allows you to use top notching sleep technologies to any type of related applications.
  • Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
  • Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is a tour guide that recommends houses suitable for monthly living.
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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
  • Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
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Green Cross Holding Corp
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

GC holding company, which operates pharmaceutical, biotechnology, distribution system, life insurance, and healthcare entities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curevo — https://videos.files.wordpress.com/1c7Vju9e/labsmall.mp4 Creating Next Generation Vaccines for Diseases of Global Importance Learn More Our Strength Creating a new generation of adjuvanted subunit vaccines We've been in business since 2018, focusing on one vaccine at a time. Curevo Vaccine is a US-based, clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing next-generation vaccines that bring effectiveness, safety, tolerability, and advanced
  • Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
  • MiNDCAFE — MiNDCAFE is an online psychological counseling platform.
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Quantum Ventures Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, Video Streaming, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$13M; Series B $5.5M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • arcreal — Arcreal, Software Redefines Digital Dentistry
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
  • Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
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IMO Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$10M; Angel $687k–$8.2M; Series A $2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFTEye — NFTEye is an all-in-one platform that provides both deep analytics and professional trading suites. With NFTEye Analytics, customers can identify potential opportunities through hot mints, trending collections, bluechip index, and other valuable metrics & signals. NFTEye Trading Suites also provide services like real-time Sniper, SmartBidding, Smart Minting, etc., to help traders capture the potential opportunities. Our vision is to make NFT trading more intelligent for both professional and retail investors.
  • Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
  • Laifei Smart — Laifei Smart offers AI intelligent lawn mowing robots for global lawn care, and provides customers in this field with more standardized, precise and efficient intelligent solutions.
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ID ventures
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

ID ventures is an IP based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Media and Entertainment, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$200M; Series A $1.5M–$8.6M; Series B $5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
  • Aminolab — Aminolab specializes in the development of blood resource recycling technology, aimed at addressing concerns associated with the environmental impact of waste blood treatment. Aminolab identifies the environmental burden of waste blood processing worldwide and prepares for improvement.Since 2013, the company has developed amino acid extractiontechnology through hydrolysis of slaughter blood using natural enzymes, and completed the construction of a factory for mass production in April 2022.
  • infoplus — InfoPlus provides financial software solutions and services that are developed in accordance with the most recent technological trends.
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HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
  • TIDEPOOL — Tidepool(500 Global selected) DBA Fishscope, powerful AI Fish & Feed Monitoring solution that solves periodic sampling and fish health diagnosis that requires human labor through Computor vision tech for BioMass Measurement, Fish Healthcare, and Feeding Optimization. - 10+ partnerships including GS E&C(Fortune 500 GS Group Subsidiary) andmany major government arms based in APAC - 90% or more accuracy for weight estimation of live fish in water - Demo: http://fishscope.tidepool.kr/
  • Unique Good Company — Unique Good Company develops entertaining mobile apps.
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Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund · Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Apps
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$13M; Series B $4.6M–$23M; Series C $11M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Early Pay — Early Pay is a service to small businesses across the country that selects and calculates card and delivery platform transactions made in physical stores. The goal is to significantly improve small business owners' cash flow and, ultimately, lower the closure rate by extending the life cycle of small business owners by reducing the settlementcycle, which used to take up to 14 days, to one day.
  • Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
  • Learning Spoons — Learning Spoons employs both online and offline ways to give professionals with courses in data science, business, real estate and many more.
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Golden Oak Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Golden Oak, LLC is a privately held investment company that focuses on the acquisition, development, and management of value-add multifamily real estate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Rental
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LOWE — Lowe is a shared beauty salon platform service that provides a variety of beauty infrastructure such as beauty spaces, facilities and materials, and creates an optimal environment for designers to focus on the essence.
  • Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
  • 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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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 23 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Camfit — Camfit is a travel and leisure company that provides real-time camping site reservations and also offers community, and commerce services.
  • 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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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $306k–$7.6M; Series A $2.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
  • S-Alpha Therapeutics — Digital approach for unmet medical needs. We embody technology that understands and cares for humans.
  • Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
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Young-Tae Kim
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
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Han Ki yong
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
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Kim Hyun joon
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Kim Hyun-Joon is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Field Mentor — Field Mentor is an operator of a golf field lesson platform.
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Genaxis
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Genaxis is an investment company that provides investment services for the healthcare and bio sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Therapeutics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sum — SUM is a start-up comprised of key personnel in self-driving technology, It is undertaking actual transportation services, such as a large electric self-driving shuttle bus at the Blue House, a self-driving paid transportation service in Sangam-dong, and a tourist-type self-driving service in Gangneung, in addition to R&D for self-drivingcommercialization.
  • 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.
  • Oligo & Gene Pharmaceuticals — Oligo & Gene is developing products for gene and cell therapy using a process for manufacturing retinal organoids. internal technology for growing and evaluating retinal organoids
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The Wells Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

VC, Venture Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Series A $917k–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
  • Payta Lab — Payta Lab is a platform that makes the culture of order payment smarter.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
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K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

K- Bridge Investment

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WAUG — Make your reservation from local hotels to popular activities and restaurants at once !
  • Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
  • Ground K — Limousine, chauffeur, Meeting and Event, Airport Transfer, Evercab, Limousine Service in Seoul Korea - GROUNDK
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JS Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

JS Corp engaged in the manufacture and distribution of fashion products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • DRX — DRX is an esports management organization and runs a professional League of Legends (LOL) team. It has a strong global fandom, which helped DRX reach 270k average viewers in this spring season and 3rd place in global viewership across all global LOL teams. DRX has developed a proprietary method of quantitative and qualitative metrics analysis uponwhich builds a structured team training system.
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WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Wonik Investment Partners, formerly known as Hanmi Technology Investment Co., Ltd., is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, start-up, early and mid-stage companies, growth capital and corporate restructuring. The firm prefers to invest in gaming contents, electronic components, computer,telecommunications equipment, petroleum, energy, machinery and equipment industries. It seeks to exit through an IPO or merger and acquisition. Wonik Investment Partners was established in 1997 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$10M; Series B $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
  • Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
  • 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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Korea Tech Incubator Program For Startup
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

R&D fund for Korean startups who secured at least $100,000 from designated startup VCs or Accelerators

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Seawith — home english version
  • Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.
  • Seoul Robotics — Welcome to Seoul Robotics! We build advanced Lidar perception software powered by deep learning.
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Hyperithm
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Private Digital Asset Manager based in Tokyo and Seoul

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $3.8M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soarchain — Cars on the blockchain are the next thing. Soarchain is the single-purpose blockchain for advancing vehicles. Power every vehicle by blockchain.
  • Campaign — Simple no-code platform for brands to build loyalty apps with native NFTs. Brands can revitalize their loyalty programs with NFTs that allow customers to sell memberships, evolve their rank over time, and leverage interoperability to redeem them outside of just the store.
  • Typus Finance — Real Yield in One Click. Built on Sui Blockchain.
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Wantedlab
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Wanted provides personalized job recommendations and content programs to empower your lifelong career journey. Wanted is here for you, every step of the way.

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WEEBUR
  • Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
  • Learning Spoons — Learning Spoons employs both online and offline ways to give professionals with courses in data science, business, real estate and many more.
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NBH Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

NBH Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Da-gym — Da-gym is the most convenient marketplace platform for searching gyms.
  • NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
  • JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN suggests sustainable and reliable desserts and ingredients.
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Hwang Sung hyun
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
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Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$3.2M; Series A $917k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
  • Headless — We provides growth-hacking D2C solutions through AI headless commerce technology with data-pipeline connection and auto-marketing solutions.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
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Jang Won-gwi
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Jang Won-gwi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Field Mentor — Field Mentor is an operator of a golf field lesson platform.
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Sports Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 41 deals from 61 investors.

61
investors
in South Korea Sports startups
41
deals
in South Korea Sports startups
$1.3M
median round
in South Korea Sports startups
20%
lead investors
lead at least one round
51%
Seed
most common funding stage
90/10
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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