Top 25 Startup Investors in South Korea in October 2023

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• Bionsight — We are pioneering a new era of AI to facilitate the long journey from a laboratory to the patients in drug discovery
• Superblock — Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core.
• Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.

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• Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
• 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
• DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.

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• Dremo — Dreamo is a leading game developer making great games for friends, family, and people around the world.
• Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
• Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.

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• Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
• Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
• 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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• cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
• Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.
• Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.

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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.

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• B GARAGE — B GARAGE is an autonomous drone and service company for warehouse inventory management. B GARAGE is an homage to Willow Garage, a widely respected robotics research company that developed an open-source robotics software platform.
• VERTICAH — VERTICAH is a growth platform for start-ups that offers alternative financing, venture capital, and asset management services.

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• TRDST — TRDST is an e-commerce platform for luxury furniture.
• VERTICAH — VERTICAH is a growth platform for start-ups that offers alternative financing, venture capital, and asset management services.
• Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.

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• Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.

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• MyGlamm — MyGlamm is a direct-to-consumer beauty brand that offers an online beauty products marketplace with international spa and salon products. The company uses a combination of technology, content, and social media to allow consumers to not only discover its products but also create rich, personalized, content and tutorial.MyGlamm was founded in 2015and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
• Ninjacart — Ninjacart is India's largest tech-driven supply chain platform that connects farmers of fresh vegetables and fruits with kiranas and businesses.
• UPRISE — UPRISE creates self-driving investment services.

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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.

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• Triz — Triz is a commerce platform that offers creation of a new commerce and influencer ecosystem with differentiated products.
• TradLinx Co. — TradLinx is an integrated international logistics platform that has enlightened enclosed logistics market with ‘Visibility’ based on our ‘Big Data’. We provide a consolidated logistics management system to international shippers, and an efficient management system as well as opportunities to expand client pool to freight service providers.TradLinx has truly been reshaping the international logistics market.TradLinx’s vast database and strong algorithm have been solving decades old issues in the market. With TradLinx, shippers were able to reduce logistics costs, track shipments, manage history easy and fast. Freight service providers are now able to work efficiently and now finding new opportunities through TradLinx. 1. Visibility Solution TradLinx provides real-time visibility solution. We've developed an easy-to-use solution that only requires input of bill of lading number to track your shipments real-time through the years of collecting & analyzing logistics data. Our clients include Samsung Electronics and many multinational corporations based in Korea and we now track over 10% of all containers ship in & out of Korea.2. Hassle Free Quote Request TradLinx’s hassle free quote request system differentiate from the beginning of your logistics journey. An easy to use system and our professional consultants provide quotes within 24 hours for point to point location anywhere in the world. 3. Smart Solution to Compare Quotes & Instant Booking TradLinx, only to better logistics market and reduce unnecessary costs for shippers, compares quotes from our partners who are simply the best in the market for your specific countries and all other needs. 4. Smart Document Manager on Cloud Hard copies are now things in the past. Logistics documents managed over cloud are easily accessible anywhere, anytime. TradLinx provides checklist and samples for shippers to have them better prepare documents without missing any required documents. 5. Efficient Shipment History Management Shippers now can easily manage shipment history without spreadsheets. Repeat orders became easy with one click on TradLinx.6. Monitoring Dashboard for Shippers’ Logistics Status TradLinx’s integrated monitoring dashboard lets shippers know current logistics status with real-time alarm system. Shippers now never have to be kept in the dark.TradLinx is also a logistics data provider to one of the largest conglomerate in Korea as well as government agencies. TradLinx greatly enhances user experience searching for logistics information to a whole new level by providing integrated data sets for Ocean Schedule, Air Cargo Schedule, Tracking, Vessel Info, and Terminal Schedule.Become a member to check your favorite carriers' schedule and compare rates from our top of the market partners!!
• PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics Inc. is a preclinical stage Biotechnology company that is pioneering the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Infectious Diseases.

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• Nuvilab — We lead innovation of the Food-tech through AI technology that is helpful for both human and the environment.
• Anterogen — Anterogen is a bio-venture company specializing in research and development of cell therapy products and orphan drugs using adult stem cells.
• BIORCHESTRA — Developing innovative medicines to improve the lives of patients and their families

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• Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
• PersonaAI — PersonaAI is a conversational AI technology company that provides chatbot, callboat and AI semiconductor Kiosk product and SaaS products.
• Joby Aviation — A Better Way to Move

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• GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
• sendy Korea — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
• mangrove — mangrove is a real estate and rental services provider.

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• Botash — Botash manufactures and sells carbon packaging boxes.
• GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
• Power Player — Natural Clean Beauty

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

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• Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
• KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
• Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.

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• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
• Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters

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• Nuvilab — We lead innovation of the Food-tech through AI technology that is helpful for both human and the environment.
• Right Route — Right Route is an e-commerce company for clothes.
• Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.

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• Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.

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• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• Solvook — Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services.
• MakeDashy — Boost your loyal customers and Increase revenue by improving customers journey with AI-powered anaytics platform, Retentics.

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• WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
• Soomgo — Soomgo is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
• Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.

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• Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.

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• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
• Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.