Top 50 Angel Investors in South Korea (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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12 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence | $74k–$18M |
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S Cubic Angels
Angel
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8 | South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, Apps, EdTech | $87k–$223k |
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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6 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Services, Information Technology | $295k–$743k |
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Daniel Shin
Angel
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6 | South Korea, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Legal Tech | $1.6M–$5M |
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Minsik Cho
Angel
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5 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS | |
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Douglas Guen
Angel
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4 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce | $50k–$631k |
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Han Ki yong
Angel
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3 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Fitness | |
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Jong-Il Yoon
Angel
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3 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $336k–$6.9M |
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Jay Eum
Angel
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3 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Analytics | $71k–$40M |
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Kim Bong-jin
Angel
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3 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Home Decor, Architecture, Interior Design | |
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Kelvin Dongho Kim
Angel
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3 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | News, Content, Advertising | $920k–$29M |
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Kim Jeong-ho
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Angel, Series A | Travel, Communities, Social Media | |
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Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Software, Education | |
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $4M–$15M |
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Sisun Lee
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel | SNS, Software, Content Creators | $895k–$3.8M |
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Jung-hee Ryu
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Fashion, Health Care | $2.7M–$5.3M |
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Naval Ravikant
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$25M |
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Pietro Dova
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea | Series A, Seed | Events, Mobile, Sports | $400k–$12M |
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Alex Shin
Angel
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2 | Canada, South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS | $895k–$12M |
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Seojoon Kim
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain | $957k–$17M |
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Young Song
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea | Angel, Seed | Travel, Software, Logistics | $150k–$520k |
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Shin Dong-won
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Angel, Series A | Retail, Craft Beer, Wine and Spirits | |
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GI Equity (Private Investment Fund)
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Guides, Fashion, Tourism | |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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2 | United States, France, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $250k–$60M |
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Gabriel Fong
Angel
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2 | Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea | Seed | Hotel, Apps, Travel | $500k–$1.1M |
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Primer Saje
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $741k–$1.1M |
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Lee Seung Ho
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Audio, Social, Sports | |
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
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2 | Japan, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps | $1M–$1M |
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Richard Seongho Choi
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed | SaaS, Software, Human Resources | |
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Shin Hyun Sung
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Computer, Internet | |
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Matthew Papakipos
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel, Series A | Music, Apps, Video | $100k–$255k |
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Wes Schwalje
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $150k–$2M |
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David Lee
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Health Care | $245k–$25M |
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Geoff Ralston
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Senegal | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$12M |
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Sungmoon Cho
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Digital Entertainment, Audio, Music | $275k–$1M |
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Michael Yang
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech | |
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Perry Tam
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed | Mobile, Consumer, Software | $2.2M–$8M |
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Edith Yeung
Angel
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1 | United States, Malaysia, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $680k–$8M |
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Perry Ha
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Rental, FinTech | |
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David Petersen
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $1.8M–$5M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $12k–$5M |
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Tim Draper
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $356k–$50M |
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Osuke Honda
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Mobile | $2.2M–$52M |
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Jesse Middleton
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$16M |
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Chang Wook Kim
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Jae Moon Chung
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Software, Information Technology | |
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Kim Hyun joon
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Sports | |
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Ji-woo Song
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Byeong-min Yeo
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series B | Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps | |
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Kim Won-tae
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order | |
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Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $491k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $74k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
- Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
S Cubic Angels
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- Industry: Education, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $87k–$223k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
- KRG Group — KRG Group is a proptech and rental finance platform operated by KRG Group that provides “zero-deposit” monthly rental solutions for residential and commercial leases. The service helps tenants reduce or eliminate upfront security deposits while guaranteeing landlords stable monthly rent payments.
- Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
Taekkyung Lee co-founded Daum Communications and served as CTO and Head of Communication & Community Services, leading Daum's growth into a major portal service and its KOSDAQ listing. He later facilitated the M&A of D&Shop, a spin-off from Daum, to GS Home Shopping. While contemplating his path as a serial entrepreneur andinvestor, he decided to focus on early-stage investments and began investing in early-stage startups in earnest. He established Mashup Angels (now Mashup Ventures), an early-stage startup investment firm, and as CEO, aims to support portfolio companies' growth and engage in various activities within the startup ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $295k–$743k; Angel $371k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
- 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
- Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Legal Tech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
- Outside Board Director, Kakao Corp. (Korea’s Telegram) - (Ex) Senior partner, KPMG Korea - Certified Public Accountant - Business Administration, Seoul National University
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Bitbyte — Fun communication. A happy world. We maximize the value of communication with a mobile keyboard app used by over 600K people.
- Mapiacompany — Official website of Mapiacompany. We are innovate Music-Tech industry and musician's daily life.
Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder of Primer. He previously worked at INICIS as a Founder and CEO. Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.
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- Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $100k–$631k; Angel $100k–$520k; Pre-Seed $50k–$297k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
- Soomgo — Soomgo supports interactions across categories such as education, home maintenance, event-related work, and personal services. It enables users to search for and engage providers for specific tasks, while service providers list and manage their offerings through the platform. Soomgo is a local services marketplace.
- 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.
Han Ki-yong is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bolta — Volta Corporation offers 'Volta,' a solution that eliminates the inefficiencies and hassle of e-tax invoice issuance and maintenance. Volta allows users to effortlessly issue electronic tax bills and manage them after they have been sent. Companies may dramatically enhance job efficiency by reducing unnecessary labor and time waste.
- Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
- Business Canvas — An easy-to-use workspace that transforms scattered information into your knowledge.
Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $336k–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
- Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
- Mr.Dealer (Mrs Garage) — Mr.Dealer is an online platform that provides a comparison of used car prices.
Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $71k–$12M; Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OPENSURVEY Incorporated — • Founded in 2011, the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
Baedal Minjok was created in 2010 by founder Kim Bong-jin.
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- Industry: Home Decor, Architecture, Interior Design
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kimcaddie — Kimcaddie, a screen golf platform, which is providing End to End golf experience.
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Browse database — It's Free!Kelvin Dongho Kim is the founding Chief Executive of Korea Credit Data (KCD), a leading provider of essential digital services for small and medium-sized businesses in South Korea. KCD’s offerings span business management software, credit scoring, POS and payments infrastructure, as well as a marketplace platform. Together with its fivesubsidiaries, the company currently supports over 3 million businesses, establishing itself as a dominant force in the Korean SME services landscape.A recognised figure in Korea’s start-up ecosystem, Kelvin is a serial entrepreneur whose first major success was Opensurvey, a mobile-based consumer data and insights platform.In 2025, Kelvin was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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- Industry: News, Content, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $920k–$29M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
- Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.
- The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
Kim Jeong-ho serves as Bear Better CEO.
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- Industry: Travel, Communities, Social Media
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MetaBon — MetaBon is an online portal promoting and curated with NFT communities
- Activity Exchange — Activity Exchange is a startup that develops travel product publishing and reservation management solutions for local travel agencies.
Hwang Seong-hyeon
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- Industry: Software, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.
Sunghwan Choi
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $4M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
- Pilotly — Gain insight into any video or creative asset by using Pilotly to create and field studies that will help you discover what your consumer really thinks.
- BOOQED — Transform any underutilized areas into co-working spaces with QUBIC booths and software. People can book them as work pods for meeting rooms, office spaces, hot desks, access control system included.
Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $895k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hamming AI — Complete voice & chat agent QA platform. Auto-generate scenarios, replay production calls, 50+ metrics. SOC 2 certified. Start in under 10 minutes.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
- Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Events, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $400k–$800k; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
- Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
- Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
Alex Shin
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $895k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saga.xyz — Saga builds AI agents that turn characters, brands, and worlds into living digital participants that can engage, adapt, and grow across the internet.
- Infrared Finance — Infrared simplifies interacting with Proof of Liquidity with liquid products.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Seojoon Kim (서준 김) is a co-founder and vice president of KnowRe, an education technology company that develops digital learning platforms.Kim’s previous career portfolio includes his time as an intern at Sun Microsystem; intern at Olaworks; manager at ½ project; and project manager at Mozzet. He was also the co-founder of edueyes. Aftergraduating from Seoul Science High School, Kim went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6.7M; Series A $957k–$9M; Series B $8M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
- SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
- Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
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Browse database — It's Free!Young Song joined NComputing as Founder and CEO in 2003.Mr. Song brings over 20 years of technology vision and entrepreneurial leadership with a focus on products that deliver life-enhancing value to education, business and consumers. He has founded and operated several start-up ventures with an inherent talent and track record for turning ideasinto viable products and sustainable businesses. He is also active angel investor through his own investment vehicle, Booga Ventures and Big Basin Capital as a venture partner. He founded and currently is Chief Executive Officer of NComputing group. Prior to co-founding NComputing, Mr. Song was also the founder and CEO of DoubleSight Displays, a company that delivered affordable and cost-effective dual displays to businesses and consumers and successfully acquired by Erae Inc, TV and Monitor company in South Korea. In addition, Mr. Song co-founded and was vice president of product marketing for eMachines, a pioneer in bringing affordable computing to consumers. eMachines went NASDAQ in 3 years and acquired by Gateway Computer. He began his career as marketing director for both TriGem America Corporation and TriGem Computer, Inc.Mr. Song holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He is also an active volunteer for several non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Palo Alto with his family.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Logistics
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
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- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $150k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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.
- Airmule — Airmule Founded in 2015 and built with love in Los Angeles, California, Airmule is a trusted community marketplace for anyone to affordably express ship worldwide with a traveler from a mobile phone or tablet.Whether across the country or the world, Airmule connects people to safely deliver packages anytime, anywhere at low rates and in lesstime. Airmule is the easiest way for people list their trip to earn money with their extra luggage space.
- Talkwheel — Talkwheel is where you discuss what you are passionate about in life. We are ushering in the new days of mobile conversation. Want to argue over who has the cutest pet, debate politics, or talk about the Giants during the game? Talkwheel is the app for that!Instead of tweeting and getting no response, write in Talkwheel and find fellowaficionados to have meaningful conversations around topics you care about. Unlike most mobile forums, Talkwheel believes that forums don’t have to be ugly to be functional. That’s why we’ve designed a beautiful mobile app with you, the user, as the focal point. You can even continue the conversation at your desktop at social.talkwheel.com!
Shin Dong-won is the chairman of the Nongshim Group.
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- Industry: Retail, Craft Beer, Wine and Spirits
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Industry: Guides, Fashion, Tourism
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is NO.1 short-term rental platform. You can rent over 10K fully furnished houses in 165 cities over the world.
Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
- VOYA Games — Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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- Industry: Hotel, Apps, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flow - By the Hour Hotel Booking Platform — Flow App : Book hotels and co-working spaces by the hour. Flexible duration from 1-12 hours. Check-in anytime, save up to 75% off regular prices.
- LIberaTrade — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Primer Saje
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $741k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- DALPHA — Dalpha develops artificial intelligence technology for the creation of AI models. The company provides data security and ownership through a secure cloud environment and differential privacy technology.
- Jiro — By simplifying video creation, we enable people around the world to tell their stories more successfully.
- Doctornow — Doctornow is a leading digital healthcare platform in South Korea and the pioneer of the nation's first remote medical consultations & drug delivery services. Doctornow offers a range of services, including medical AI assessments and real-time consultations with medical practitioners.
Lee Seung Ho
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- Industry: Audio, Social, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
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- Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
- Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
- Frip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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- Industry: Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Richard Seongho Choi
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
- Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.
Shin Hyun Sung
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- Industry: SaaS, Computer, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Toss Lab — Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tools. The company's platform JANDI, a group-oriented messaging platform with an integrated suite of collaboration tools that is tailor-made for workplaces in Asia. It also offers messaging and group chats. The platform serves companies rangingfrom small to mid-sized businesses to large enterprises with thousands of employees.Toss Lab was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with offices in Taiwan, Dubai, Malaysia, and Japan.
- LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.
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- Industry: Music, Apps, Video
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $100k–$255k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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- Ozarka — Why Just Eat When You Can Inspire? Beautiful Reusables for Caterers Who Lead. Save money, time, and storage space with reusables services. Ozarka reusables are not just a sustainable choice
- Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
- Snibbe Studio — Snibbe Studio is pioneering a new interactive music platform for people to socially engage with visual music. Based in the lessons learned from making bestselling bespoke music apps, we are currently in stealth mode, building a mass-market mobile product to release this Fall.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $360k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — SAUDARATOTO adalah daftar situs toto slot dan bandar togel resmi 4D & 5D terpercaya yang menawarkan layanan aman, transaksi cepat, serta peluang menang besar setiap hari. Nikmati permainan lengkap dengan sistem stabil dan akses mudah kapan saja.
David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $245k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Bolt Labs — Our mission at Bolt Labs is to build a usable, secure, and scalable infrastructure to enable everyone to securely store their assets while preserving the privacy of their transactions. Bolt’s secure computation solutions (or MPC) allow you to protect your user’s assets while providing confidentiality, ensuring integrity, and preventing misuse ortheft. A technology that is fast becoming the standard for digital asset security, MPC enables these benefits by federating trust across multiple parties and allowing evaluation of functions without decrypting private inputs. Bolt is also developing the zkChannels L2 protocol - a scalable and usable privacy-preserving payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including but not limited to public blockchains. We believe zkChannels will set a new standard for secure payments in online services, giving merchants a seamless way to comply with emerging privacy regulations and delight their customers with cryptographically rigorous respect for their privacy.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
- The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
- The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $3.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
- Asymmetric Security — Asymmetric Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup specializing in digital forensics and incident response. It combines elite forensic experts with proprietary AI to accelerate investigations, especially Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, at less than half the cost of competitors while shrinking timelines from days to hours.
Sungmoon Cho is based out of San Mateo, California, and is the Founder and CEO of Chartmetric. Sungmoon previously worked at Oracle as a Principal Product Manager. Sungmoon Cho attended Seoul National University.
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- Industry: Digital Entertainment, Audio, Music
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $275k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Saarey — The world's largest online collection of South Asian classical music, with ustads and pandits exclusively performing rare renditions in khayal, dhurpad, thumri and more.
- MoxieJam — MoxieJam will be a consumer app targeted to fans of entertainment. During this time of exploding choice in media content, there is a good news / bad news situation for consumers. They have access to an incredible supply of music, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books, but that also brings a significant source of frustration. There is just nogood way to help fans organize their own playlists and watchlists, to share their interests with other fans and to discover new things that they might enjoy. MoxieJam will help fans do just that.
- Kurvv — Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening.
Michael founded users. Michael and the team successfully raised $30M in venture capital investment from investors such as Brentwood, Sprout, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, and Transcosmos Corporation. In February of 2000, mySimon was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M.Prior to mySimon.com, Michael held positions at Xerox Corp., Intergraph Corporation, TeleVideo, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Jazz Multimedia, Inc. Michael has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University. Michael holds a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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- Industry: SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
Perry Tam is the Co-Founder and Managimg Partner of Locus Ventures. Took up B.S., Computer Science at Cornell University.
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- Industry: Mobile, Consumer, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- Eunice — Eunice combines extensive on-chain data with powerful off-chain insights to provide a customisable, AI-driven due diligence and monitoring solution
Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Malaysia, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $680k–$8M; Series A $1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
- OhmniLabs — OhmniLabs is reinventing traditional robotics development and redefining telepresence for healthcare, education, senior care and work. Along with game changing solutions for Developers, Enterprise and RaaS. Learn more about how you can use robotics for your business.
- Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.
Perry Ha is the founder of DFJ Athena, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson affiliate venture fund focused on investments in Korea and the US.He has been an active investor since 1998 when he founded Athena Technology Ventures.He has invested in and/or served on the board of many successful companies including Ipivot (INTC), Demandtec (DMAN),Imparto Software (PKS), ProfitLogic (ORCL), and Zantaz (AUTNF).He also served as an interim CEO at two companies. He currently serves on the board of several companies in Korea and the US.Prior to his venture capital career, he led the Technology Management Practice at Gemini Consulting, a global management consultancy, helping Fortune 1000 clients to manage technology portfolios and develop new products. Prior to that, he managed an R&D Group at Amicon, a life science devices company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994. He was granted two patents during his tenure at Amicon.He serves on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), on the Visiting Committee at MIT, and on the Leadership Board of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Apps, Rental, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
- Precursor Energetics — Precursor Energetics utilizes state-of-the-art inorganic and organometallic chemistry, coupled with advanced process engineering and materials science, to satisfy the need for high value advanced materials within the electronics and energy markets. Our technology can fundamentally change the way that many of these materials are produced.Precursor Energetics’ proprietary molecular precursor ink technology provides atomic-level control over material structure and composition. It thereby improves material uniformity, performance, and yield while enabling high-throughput manufacturing processes using low-cost printing and coating methods.Our technology platform is applicable to a wide range of markets, including thin film solar, Li-ion batteries, transparent conductors, LED lighting, and others.
- Zeuss Technologies — Zeuss Technologies develops next generation blockchain-based Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) technology for cash intensive industries. Zeuss’ software non-intrusively monitors and verifies all financial activity across industries and efficiently fulfills federal regulatory compliance obligations.
David Petersen is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Assists. He previously worked at BuildZoom as a Co-Founder and CEO. David Petersen attended the University of Maryland.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- Winible — Winible is the first creator monetization platform for cappers to launch a business online, build a community, and sell their picks.
- Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 887
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
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- Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 298
- Round size: Seed $356k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
- SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Osuke Honda is a General Partner at DCM Ventures, Osuke previously worked at Mitsubishi Corporation and then at Apax Globis Partners & Co (now GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS & Co.). Having assumed the position of Outside Director of Sansan, Inc. in April 2018, he draws on his extensive experience of investment and business management in makinggeneral management recommendations.Osuke Honda attended Hitotsubashi University, The Wharton School, and Keio University.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$52M; Series A $4M–$11M; Series B $2.8M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
- Fish Audio — Fish Audio is an AI platform for expressive text‑to‑speech and voice cloning with pro‑grade voices and multilingual support.
Jesse is a GP at Flybridge Capital and a co-founder of The Community Fund. His expertise lies in business development, community building, product, and fundraising. Jesse was on the founding team of WeWork and a part of the global WeWork community. He attended Drexel University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ChurchAI — The Intelligent OS For Churches.
- FlyngCat — FlyingCat is Wish for Korea.
- 3Claps — 3Claps provide fast fashion for Kids on a daily basis. They are determined to deliver high quality of kids fashion, made widely accessible through technology. 3Claps is targeting moms in global who want to provide best quality of apparel for their kids. They're a venture-backed eCommerce company at the intersection of fashion andtechnology. They are looking for driven and dynamic self-starters who are passionate about learning, and able to keep up with the flexibility and changing demands of an early stage startup.
Chang Wook Kim - CEO & Representative Director @ Snow Corporation
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.
Jae Moon Chung is the Philosopher, Founder & CEO of Liberty Labs
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
Kim Hyun-Joon is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Field Mentor — Field Mentor is an operator of a golf field lesson platform.
Song Ji-woo serves as CEO at Jiwoo Company.
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- Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
- Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
Kim Won-tae
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- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TMM — TMM is a mail-order platform that helps anyone to easily conduct mail-order and field sales.
- Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.
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