Top 50 Sustainability VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in October 2023
Top 50 Sustainability VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in October 2023
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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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- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Kenya
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- Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
- RTBP ALLIANCE — RTBP ALLIANCE focuses on creating co-working spaces and modernize old places for local communities.
- Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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- Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, China, France
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- 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.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
- Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
- Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
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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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
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- Pillyze — mobile health care startup
- InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
- Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
- Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea
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- Fxip — FXIP has the capacity to quickly complete a number of processes, including product planning, design, and manufacturing. Through the introduction of various IP brands in the food & life sector, it has already demonstrated the potential of the business.
- Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
- Simply Care Bio — Simply Care Bio is a care food company that manufactures functional foods based on ingredient composition and amplification technology through water-solubilization of fatty acids and immunity-building technology through cell activation.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, India
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- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
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- slowave — Slowwave discovered that the current sleep test is performed in a foreign hospital setting with numerous sensors attached to the head, making it impossible to test and identify sensitive insomnia patients effectively. As a result, a microprocessor and low-power measuring algorithm were integrated into an ultra-light patch, allowing patients withinsomnia to easily perform sleep EEG at home while eliminating factors that interfere with the examination and boosting measurement precision.
- Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
- Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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- Automotive, Software, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Israel
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- 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
- 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.
- BOS Semiconductors — BOS Semiconductors develops semiconductor technology for the automotive industry.
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, China, India
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- N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
- Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
- Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
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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- Biopharma, Video Streaming, Gaming
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- 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.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Software, Online Portals, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
- H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
- Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
GS Venture is part of GS Group– an investment and industry holding, operating on the basis of its very own high technologies in telecommunications and innovation. Investments 0.1-10M USD in a startup.Fund Size: 40M USD GS Group is also developing a unique private innovation cluster, located in the special economic zone of Russian Federation(Kaliningrad region). Its aim is built an environment for innovative ideas for innovative ideas that will be able to enter the market. GS Group holding is the investor and initiator of Technopolis GS. It involve industrial cluster, research center, office space and comfortable living area.Priority fields: game developmentinteractive TV services (iTV)original tv contentsmart homeconsumer electronics development and productionmicrochip development for various purposes wearable technology (incl. wristbands, smartglasses, activity trackers, heart rate monitors, etc).
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- Recycling, Waste Management, Natural Resources
- Series A
- South Korea
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- Levit — Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience
- Eight Tech — Eight Tech is a resource circulation platform that solves the waste problem with science and technology.
- 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.
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm that invests and supports small and medium-sized enterprises.
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- Solar, Drones, Energy
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea
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- Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
- Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
- sendy Korea — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- Dremo — Dreamo is a leading game developer making great games for friends, family, and people around the world.
- Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
- Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.
Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
- Order Hero — Order Hero is an application for food service management.
- DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.
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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- Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
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- 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.
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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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
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- 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.
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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- Apps, Beauty, Rental
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- South Korea
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- 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.
InterValue Partners is a financial investment firm that provides venture capital, corporate venture capital, and other investment services. The company provides services all over South Korea.
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- Software, Aerospace, Health Care
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- Absology — Developer of in-vitro-diagnostic systems designed to help save more lives. The company's platform offers various diagnostic kits such as testosterone, vitamin - D, PSA, TSH, FreeT4, PCT and also helps in anti-cancer therapy monitoring, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer's diseases monitoring, enabling doctors to easily diagnosedifferent types of medical conditions and treat them suitably.
- PMX Inc. — PMX is a digital health company that delivers personalized physical examination through the democratization of medical imaging with AI to providers and patients all around the world. We at PMX have developed a multi-modality imaging platform to measure the major vital organs and tissues of the body for universal care and wellness.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
TBT is an Adventure Capital.We are more than your average VC investor; we are always up for an adventure. Investment means more than just transfer of capital for us. We want to be a discussion partner that discovers possibilities beyond risk and aligns growth with progress. We want to share decades of industry knowledge and experience in internetand mobile services to build services and products that can make the world a better place.
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- Information Technology, Information Services, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- 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.
- Kokoji — Kokoji is a kids' audio tech platform. Kokoji redesigns childrens content consumption journeys based on audio content. Kokoji provides services for children, such as language, brain, and emotional development, through auditory stimulation.
- FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.
Yoonmin Foundation
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- Apps, EdTech, Rental
- Seed
- South Korea
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- CTEE — CTEE is an online solution that empowers content creators to monetize their passion.
- Refeely — Refeely provides sustainable carton packaging solutions for beverages.
- TRUCK LINX — TRUCK LINX is a software to check and pay transportation cost online.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
- Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
KDB is a Hungarian financial market player that offers a wide range of commercial banking services to retail clients, SMEs, and large enterprises. It manages significant cross-border financing activity from its central office in Budapest, available in the countries of Central and Eastern European region and beyond. It aims to serve Hungariancorporates from micro, small, and medium-sized to large companies on a high professional level, by providing competitive, favorable financial solutions.KDB Bank Europe is a subsidiary in 100% ownership of the South Korean state bank The Korea Development Bank.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea
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- Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
- Petnow Inc. — Petnow offers AI-driven pet biometric ID for dogs and cats on mobile phones. Register & identify pets by scanning their unique nose or face.
- jeongyookgak — jeongyookgak produces and sells fresh meat.
One & Partners is an investment firm.
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- Analytics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A
- South Korea
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- Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.
- Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.
- Brite Energy Partners — Brite Energy Partners develops a clean energy platform that offers a solar income plan for landowners, project owners, and building owners.
NCore Ventures is an investment firm
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- Marketing, SaaS, Financial Services
- Series B, Seed, Series C
- Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea
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- GOPIZZA — GOPIZZA is a food and beverage company based in Mapo.
- VeXeRe.Com — Founded in 2013, VeXeRe.com is the largest online bus ticket platform in Vietnam. They help passengers book bus tickets conveniently thanks to their 1,000+ bus companies network and coverage for trips within Vietnam and from Vietnam to neighbor countries. Their payment channels include online payment, payment at 24/7 convenience stores, banktransfers, and other channels that provide customers with convenient booking experience.
- Brite Energy Partners — Brite Energy Partners develops a clean energy platform that offers a solar income plan for landowners, project owners, and building owners.
First Proptech Venture Capital in South Korea
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Cosmetics
- Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Nearthlab — Nearthlab is a technology-driven startup founded by M.S. and Ph.D. graduates in aerospace engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), often called the “MIT of Korea.” Nearthlab is focusing on developing autonomous drones, powered by proprietary deep learning algorithm, to automate safety inspection of industrialfacilities, an industry with estimated market size of billions of dollars. Nearthlab’s first product is an “all-in-one” automated inspection solution for wind turbine blades, which covers gathering visual data using drones, detecting cracks and damages by AI, and generating reports with minimal human involvement. Nearthlab is currently servicing numerous wind farms in Korea, with ongoing negotiations with various partners in Korea and overseas, including Japan and the United States, for wind farms and other facilities such as cell tower.
- Brandi — Brandi sells clothes, cosmetics, and home interior products.
- House Decoration — House Decoration is a seller of home interiors, furniture, and home products.
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
- Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.
- Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
Newborn Ventures is an investment consulting firm that provides professional training courses and initial startup funding.
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- Mobile Apps, DIY, Smart Home
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Kidsning — Kidsning is a mobile shopping app that provides kids clothing and toy shopping services.
- Il Conus — Il Conus is a sensor bases IoT company that offers smart sterilization system toilets and smart tunnel lighting control systems.
- CoinTravIT — CoinTravIT provides international currency exchange services with mobile support.
Nextdream Angel Club provides startup angel investment and solutions.
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- Video
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Refeely — Refeely provides sustainable carton packaging solutions for beverages.
- Scone — Scone provides virtual youtuber and video conferencing services.
Prism Ventureworks has 5 funds with $1.25 billion in investments. Their most recent fund is for $250M which was raised in June 2005.Each of their team members focuses on different industry sectors within technology and life sciences. These industry sectors in technology include the digital living, wireless, mobile and telecommunicationsmarkets, as well as promising opportunities in next-generation data centers and on-demand and security applications. In life sciences, we focus on medical devices, therapeutics and breakthrough diagnostics.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Series C, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Hong Kong
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- Aigens — Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members.
- Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
- Connotate — Connotate transforms web data and content into high-value information assets -- to feed content products, grow market and business intelligence, enable mass data aggregation, migration and integration. Connotate's patented intelligent Agent technology empowers both business users and programmers to quickly create data sets, newapplications and content products. With Connotate, customers experience productivity gains, reduced costs, mitigated risks, more informed decision-making and strategic & competitive advantages.
Hanwha Investment and Securities is a trusted financial investment partner dedicated to providing sources for stable
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- Finance, Payments, Gaming
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore
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- Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.
- RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
- Stoic Entertainment — Stoic Entertainment is a VR game developer with core technologies related to VR content and will develop blockchain games later.
Eugene Investment is a finance company that provides venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, mutual funds and online trading service.
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- Food Delivery, Information Technology
- Series B
- Indonesia
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- Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
- Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
- Campus Ground — Campus Ground is a camping platform that provides camping site search, camping content, and camping supplies.
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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- Travel, Cycling, Leisure
- Seed, Funding Round
- Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea
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- 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.
Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
- Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
Timepolio Asset Management is an asset management firm.
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- Life Science, Biotechnology
- Series A
- South Korea
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- DoubleMe — DoubleMe is a leading volumetric capture company focused on bringing the physical and virtual worlds together. The company pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with 3D technology and create simple solutions that improve the lives of real people, in real time.Operating in Sunnyvale, London, and Seoul and partnering with 15 telcos worldwide,DoubleMe is constantly developing new ways to democratize 3D technology and bring the physical and virtual worlds together.DoubleMe's technology provides an end-to-end platform for social holographic reality experiences. The company has received more than $17M in funding to date.
- KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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- Gaming, Online Games, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- South Korea, Germany, Iceland
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- Nuvilab — We lead innovation of the Food-tech through AI technology that is helpful for both human and the environment.
- Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Hanwha Investment & Securities is a wealth management company that offers asset management, investment banking, and trading services.
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- Apps, Biopharma, Biotechnology
- Series B
- South Korea
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- DoubleMe — DoubleMe is a leading volumetric capture company focused on bringing the physical and virtual worlds together. The company pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with 3D technology and create simple solutions that improve the lives of real people, in real time.Operating in Sunnyvale, London, and Seoul and partnering with 15 telcos worldwide,DoubleMe is constantly developing new ways to democratize 3D technology and bring the physical and virtual worlds together.DoubleMe's technology provides an end-to-end platform for social holographic reality experiences. The company has received more than $17M in funding to date.
- KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.
- Selecxine — Selecxine is a biopharmaceutical development company specialized in the field of immunotherapeutics. Selecxine strives to develop immunotherapeutics a new paradigm of pharmaceuticals– through a specialized antibody development process, using an innovative platform technology of functional antibody screening and development.
We are thesis-driven investors that back bold entrepreneurs who are building legendary companies and protocols reshaping the future of human life. Contact us Our Firm Philosophia Ventures is a Seoul-based investment firm founded in June 2022, by a team of Web3 enthusiasts who have been on the scene since 2017. We invest in early-stage startups
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- Apps, Retail, Grocery
- Series A
- South Korea
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- ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
- KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.
- TRUCK LINX — TRUCK LINX is a software to check and pay transportation cost online.
IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.
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- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- China, United States, Singapore
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- 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.
SK telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle.In the rapidly changing global telecommunications market, SK Telecom has established a global eco-system by forming strategic alliances with Asia's leading information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in avariety of international cooperation activities with overseas telecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their global competency, and reach out to the world.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
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- GSIL Co., Ltd. — GSIL Co., Ltd provide ‘Total safety care solution’ using Risk-Matrix first in world.We are doing our best i) To apply filed-worker’s needs ii) To administrate safety of filed-workers using real-time IoT technology. iii) To reduce overtime works.in our misson, ‘Good Safety in Life’.<Saint> that is GSIL’s safety solution reportlabor’s exact location, identification, state of educated and situation of admission control.The Saint is designed to enable safety-manager/person-in-charge to figure out all situation of field. 1. Precheck dangerous factor. 2. Analyze possibility of accident occurrence. 3. To able to handle the crisis stand on accurate data.The Saint, safety-control-system using IoT technology is already used in real field.The Saint help field-manager to figure out all situation, to diagnose dangerous in real-time, to establish best strategy in crisis.
- Scatter Lab — Scatter Lab (스캐터랩) is a text-based Korean sentiment analysis service which is available as a smartphone application.
- Sapeon Korea — The Fastest Hyper-Cloud AI Processor. AI everywhere, SAPEON everywhere.
Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT) investing in innovative startups for over a decade.
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- Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, France
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- Ionblox — High energy density lithium ion batteries for ground and aerial electric vehicles
- Scintil Photonics — SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic IC with wafer-level lasers integration.
- Infinitum Electric — Infinitum Electric is a motor technology company delivering lightweight and IoT-enabled electric motors. It is at the forefront of making electric motors more efficient, more durable, lighter weight, and less expensive. Their disruptive motor and control products utilize their patent-pending Printed Circuit Board (PCB) stator technology and providebroad application across multiple industries. They work with global manufacturers and industrial OEMs to customize their technology for specific applications and market segments.
Vision Creator is a research, analysis and investment company.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, Australia
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- Vogo — Vogo provides vivid live shopping.
- Eight Tech — Eight Tech is a resource circulation platform that solves the waste problem with science and technology.
- Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.
Hyundai M Partners is an investment firm that offers resources in the areas of hardware manufacturing as well as financial services.
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- Energy, GreenTech, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Aeonus — Aeonus is a carbon neutral startup company that offers eco-friendly power source to replace diesel generators.
Yuhan-Kimberly is the joint venture between Korea’s Yuhan Corporation
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- Product Design, Consumer Goods, Sustainability
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Byhayan — Byhayan is an eco-friendly lifestyle business that strives for a more sustainable future by repurposing everyday consumer goods with environmentally friendly materials. It can be challenging.
- Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
- Sixty Hertz — Sixty Hertz is a social venture that provides climate crisis with IT technology and services.
Rising S Ventures is a venture investment company specializing in early-stage technology start-ups.
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- Recycling, Manufacturing, Packaging Services
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Neuro Pack — Neuro Pack is a packaging development company that extracts packaging materials from natural products.
- Teamwork — Global contech company timwork
Hanyang University is an educational institute. The company provides higher education in the areas of medicine, engineering, social science, natural sciences, law, business, education, human ecology, music, physical education, arts, and international studies. Hanyang University was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.
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- PaaS, Social Media, Developer Platform
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
- Adler — Adler creates a social media application to create personal space. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
LG Social Campus is a social economy platform for financial support, space support, growth support, and talent development.
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- Rental, Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
Stone Bridge Ventures
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- Gaming
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Hanvit — Hanvit provides bespoke solutions.
- Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
- RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
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