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Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in South Korea

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) South Korea investments
HITEJINRO CO	3
Industrial Bank of Korea	3
Enlight Ventures	3
CKD Venture Capital Corporation	2
KB Investment	2
Base Investment	2
KT investment	2
Big Basin Capital	2
Coolidge Corner Investment	2
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation	2
Fast Ventures	2
In Light Ventures	2
Donghoon Investment	2
Hana Ventures	2
Hansae Yes 24 Partners	1
DSC Investment	1
Mainstreet Investment	1
Series Ventures	1
Daekyo Investment	1
Woori Bank	1
Lotte Ventures	1
IBK Capital	1
N15 Partners	1
Strong Ventures	1
Intops Investment	1
Lighthouse Combined Investment	1
Kakao Ventures	1
Hana Financial Investment	1
Empower Investment	1
InfoBank	1
Smilegate Investment	1
NongHyup Financial Group	1
BeHigh Investment	1
WONIK Investment Partners	1
POSCO CAPITAL	1
Capstone Partners	1
KDB Capital	1
Softbank Ventures Asia	1
Activant Capital	1
Timewise Investment	1
Forest Partners	1
Korea Development Bank	1
Korea Omega Investment	1
Lee Soo-up Investment	1
Bokwang Investment	1
AI Angel Club	1
Nau IB Capital	1
TheVentures	1
Translink Investment	1
Rokya	1

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Investment focus

Agriculture, E-Commerce, Farming
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Japan, United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Algocare — Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations.
HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
Korea Credit Service — Korea Credit Service is a credit agency for individual enterprises. Korea Credit Service offers a credit evaluation service called "CreditNote," and entrepreneurs can check their credit rating.

Enlight Ventures, one of the fastest growing VCs in the world, invests in early-stage startups with unique and sustainable business models.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Matchuda — Matchuda is a service that digitizes existing learning methods and applies AI technology to help students pass exams quickly
Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.

CKD Venture Capital Corporation is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm. Founded in 1997, CKD Venture Capital Corporation considers seed, early stage, late stage and mezzanine investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Residential
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Geekble — Geekble is a media startup that produces new media content on science and technology to bridge the gap between geeks and the world. With revenue from workshops and branded content, Geekble is building its own "maker space" for geeks to experiment. Teachers and professors are using Geekble's content for educational purposes, andGeekble videos have been used for public TV.
Medinno — Medinno develops cell therapeutics for brain diseases. The company's therapy uses technology to treat a wide range of diseases, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, neonatal refractory brain diseases, and severe intraventricular hemorrhages..
Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
ReadyPost — ReadyPost is a general meeting service platform that provides services for real estate general meetings.

Base Investment connects private equity, strategic buyers, and private individuals with opportunities to invest. The company works with well-known, enormous national firms that are looking to acquire a business that will help them extend their brand or make better use of their current facilities.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

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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.

kt investment is a new technology business finance company established in 2015. It is an investment company that represents KT Group .kt investment seeks to contribute to social contribution and maximize investment return through win-win cooperation with promising SMEs and venture companies .kt investment seeks to achieve long-term returns bylooking at the market from a global perspective and looking for value investment opportunities in the long term.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Medipal — Medipal provides personal health for a health consultation. It provides subscription-based personal nurse service for patients.
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Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.

Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.

Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.

CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
Space Vision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.

In Light Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Manufacturing, AgTech
Series A, Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ioCrops — IoCrops is a greenhouse horticulture company based on high technology. They operate glasshouses with AI technologies and automation, overcoming space and time restrictions. The company's goal is to expand IoCrops’ glasshouses so they don’t require any human intervention.
Vegestar — Vegestar is a domestic fresh-cut company that provides purchase, process, and manufacturing solutions for the food and agriculture industry.
Eflow — Eflow is a hydraulic equipment manufacturing company that offers smart mobility, filter technology, and hydrogen mobility technology.

Dooghoon Investment is an investment firm that invests in biotechnology and information technology companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
Open Asset — Open Asset enables financial institutions to rapidly and effectively implement blockchain technology and exchange token assets.

Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
Wilco — Wilco a start-up specialized in thermal management of electronic products and new space era.
KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.

DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
GenGenAI — GenGenAI develops synthetic data generation technologydesigned to advance AI learning.
Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.

Mainstreet Investment is a privately held investment firm dedicated to advancing the world by allocating capital, talent, and ideas to missions that allow us to travel to the future.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sales, AgTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Weclassic — Weclassic is a music company that teaches classic music to students.
Fanagement — Introducing Fanddle to all K-Wave fans!
Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Ladit — Ladit provides camping provides peaceful relaxation after a rough travel and gives extensive outdoor services so that all outdoor activities
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.
Wave&Vibe — Wave & Vibe enables small restaurant enterprises to enter the home convenience food industry by providing easy access to food manufacturing facilities around the country.

Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
McKinley & Rice — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
Elpis Cell Therapeutics — Elpis Cell Therapeutics develops individualized cell therapy to cure incurable diseases.

Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea's wealth and economy.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, China, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
Green Dot — Green Dot runs an E-MaaS (Energy-Mobiliy as a Service) platform, which integrates mobility and energy. Since its inception, the service has drawn attention due to its rapid construction of Green Dot Zones, which provide energy and transportation All-in-One services in the heart of Seoul and the metropolitan area.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, China

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.

IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services.

N15 Partners provides specialized accelerating program for tech-based and product-base startups

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

AVALVE — AVALVE installs agricultural equipment for farms through artificial intelligence technology.
Dansaek — Dansaek is an online store that offers women's clothing brand.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.

Intops Investment is a financial investment company.

Investment focus

Software, iOS, Health Care
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Astrogen — Astrogen is a biotech company developing new drugs.
ProtoPie — Create interactive, realistic prototypes that work like the actual digital product. Ideal for designers prototyping for mobile, desktop, web, or IoT. Try for free.
Quantum Cat — Quantum Cat protects the sustainable future of the earth and mankind through its unrivaled catalyst technology.

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Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CTNS — CTNS develops and produces secondary battery packs.
Lightyear — Lightyear One is a Long-Range Solar Car Designed & Engineered by Lightyear in The Netherlands. Designed for Independence.
Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Singapore, India

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.

Empower Investment was founded in 2012 in Shanghai, China. Their investment covers early-stage ventures, mid-stage growth, and securities in the public market. With headquarters in Shanghai, the company established branch offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu. Empower Investment has invested in over 150 high-tech and high-growthcompanies on a global scale covering regions including China, U.S, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Their portfolio companies include fast-growing industries such as internet, AI, big data, automation & robotics, financial technology, cultural creativity, advanced materials, and healthcare.The Empower team has extensive experience in both deep technologies and financial services including internet, computer science, electronic engineering, materials science, auditing and investment banking. Some team members were serial entrepreneurs. With candidness and empathy, the team is eager to find and partner with the most visionary, determined and down-to-earth entrepreneurs. It always brings great excitement and pleasure to build a bright future with them.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Ykccn.com — Ykccn.com is a professional company that operates and replaces the operation and maintenance of new energy vehicles.
Xunyuan Technology — Xunyuan Technology is a bio-refining and bio-manufacturing platform company based on non-grain carbon sources.
01 Life Science and Technology — Shenzhen is a high-tech firm dedicated to the application of human micro-ecological technology to develop solutions for a healthy life. It also offers solutions for clinical research and diagnosis and treatment of diseases. It was stablished in 2016 and is based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
Fairy — Capture the high intent moments to persuade users outside of your app. Accompany your customers outside of your app and engage at an intent-rich moment in real time.
Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Hudson AI — Hudson AI is an enterprise that delivers AI-based dubbing solutions. It supports the development of dubbed content, which is the core of content localization, using voice and video AI technologies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.

NongHyup Financial Group offers property & casualty insurance, investment & securities, asset management, and banking services.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Sanigen — Sanigen is a food safety company that provides solutions for food safety on microbial genetic analysis technology.
JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN suggests sustainable and reliable desserts and ingredients.
We Hudling — White Delight is a food production and distribution company.

BeHigh Investment is a 'pace maker' venture capital that invests in companies with the potential of innovation and grows together.

Investment focus

Logistics, Information Technology, Transportation
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
VSI — 1st high bandwidth automotive Serdes chip, supporting ASA (Automotive Serdes Alliance) motion link. Vsitech.
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.

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
SqueezeBits — SqueezeBits builds ecosystem for designing, training, and deploying compressed neural networks.
SIMPLE planet — Food biotech company producing sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients using cellular agriculture.

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.

SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
Lapotable — Lapotable is a ecommerce platform that trades food products that come directly from agricultural and farm lands.
Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

Activant is a global investment firm that partners with high-growth companies that are transforming commerce. The firm was founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino and has offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Berlin, Germany.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series B, Series A, Series D
United States, Germany, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Stuut — AI Driven collections platform
Vartana — Close more deals and increase cash flow with Vartana
Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.

TIMEWISE INVESTMENT, formerly known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in video broadcasting, animation, movies, culture contents, games, communications equipment, arts, sports, leisure, manufacturing and service, mobile devices and solutions, information technology, SI, web agency, cell therapy andbiotechnology sectors. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeju. CJ Venture Investment was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Genesis lab — Genesis lab is a authentic machine to human communication to improve the way human and machine communicate.
Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.

Forest Partners is a leading alternative investment firm based in Korea focused on investing in high growth companies to deliver exceptional value to founders and investors. Our firm operates Venture Capital and Private Equity divisions so that we can invest in bold ideas across multiple strategies and help drive hypergrowth of our portfoliocompanies.Our robust network and team of experts with decades of combined investment and operating experience guides our portfolio companies on the path to global expansion so we can also deliver outsized returns back to our investors.Our vision is to grow together with great companies so that we can continue to be the go-to alternative investment firm in Asia.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
South Korea

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FADU — FADU is a fabless start up focusing on memory and storage architecture. Explosively increasing data requires next generation storage and FADU would like to preempt the opportunity. Though they are very new comer in this industry, they believe that new and innovative idea is the most required in this fast changing enviornment. Built based on 3groups of talented people, - brilliant architects including 5 Ph.Ds, high caliber ASIC experts, and seasoned SSD engineers from leading memory and storage companies - their team has comprehensive capabilities to innovate this industry. they introduce true next generation products and will raise the bar for the entire industry.
Utransfer — Utransfer is a platform that offers overseas money transfer services.
Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, China

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GenEdit — Developing innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines.
Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
BrownBag — Brown Bag is an online portal for coffee and cafe supplies.

Korea Omega Investment Finance is a private equity and venture capital firm

Investment focus

Health Care, Retail, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

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Colley — Colley is an online theme park app that creates and sells IP products.
Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.

Lee Soo-up Investment is an investment firm.

Investment focus

AgTech, Software, Agriculture
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ioCrops — IoCrops is a greenhouse horticulture company based on high technology. They operate glasshouses with AI technologies and automation, overcoming space and time restrictions. The company's goal is to expand IoCrops’ glasshouses so they don’t require any human intervention.
Neuromeka — Neuromeka specializes in robot technology and creates a robot platform business for manufacturing companies.

Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States

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QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
NRISE — NRISE is develops MOCI and WIPPY services. NRISE research and develops social media services to bring people the joy of communication.
Sangwha — Creating experiences by adding imagination to technology. We design all possibilities through innovative technology, ideas and bold aspirations.

AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Angel
South Korea

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Frankit — Frankit is a franchise supply chain curating platform that offers a supplier curating feature that identifies and links providers of essential commodities.
Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.

Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea

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BRLab — BRLab offers a framework that makes it possible to implement sophisticated sleep analysis and enhancement techniques. The solutions are based on a unique sleep-enhancing technology that is scientifically validated and patented, as well as an AI-powered algorithm with the highest level of reliability.
Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

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DOR — 'Dor' is a social media platform that enables easy sharing and communication of game play by allowing gamers to automatically record and highlight their gaming experiences for easy sharing.
Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
Box Sports — Box Sports provides professional e-sports team, orienting e-Sports players, to become the leading club for traditional sports athletes

Translink Investment is a startup investment company.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Canada

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Disco — Disco is a location-based service platform for real estate companies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.