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Top 50 Angel Investors in South Korea (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in South Korea startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Aviram Jenik
Angel
18 United States, South Korea, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning $30k–$7M
S Cubic Angels
Angel
8 South Korea Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Education, Apps, EdTech $87k–$223k
Taekkyung Lee
Angel
6 South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Apps, Information Services $295k–$969k
Daniel Shin
Angel
6 South Korea, United States, Malaysia Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Education $1.9M–$5M
Minsik Cho
Angel
5 South Korea Seed, Angel Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
Douglas Guen
Angel
4 United States, South Korea Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce $50k–$726k
Jay Eum
Angel
3 United States, South Korea, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Analytics $85k–$40M
Jong-Il Yoon
Angel
3 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $336k–$5.7M
Han Ki yong
Angel
3 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Fitness
Kim Bong-jin
Angel
3 South Korea Seed, Series A Home Decor, Architecture, Interior Design
Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
3 South Korea, Japan Seed, Angel Apps, Hotel, Blockchain $1M–$1M
Kelvin Dongho Kim
Angel
3 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed News, Content, Advertising $920k–$29M
Sisun Lee
Angel
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel SNS, Software, Content Creators $895k–$3.8M
Jung-hee Ryu
Angel
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Fashion, Health Care $2.7M–$5.3M
Seojoon Kim
Angel
2 South Korea, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services $829k–$17M
GI Equity (Private Investment Fund)
Angel
2 South Korea Seed Guides, Fashion, Tourism
Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel
2 South Korea Seed Software, Education
Matthew Papakipos
Angel
2 United States, South Korea, The Netherlands Seed, Angel, Series A Music, Apps, Video $100k–$286k
Shin Hyun Sung
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Series A SaaS, Computer, Internet
Benjamin Joe
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, Credit Bureau
Richard Seongho Choi
Angel
2 South Korea Seed SaaS, Software, Human Resources
Young Song
Angel
2 United States, South Korea Angel, Seed Travel, Software, Logistics $150k–$520k
Lee Seung Ho
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Series A Audio, Social, Sports
Gabriel Fong
Angel
2 Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea Seed Hotel, Apps, Travel $400k–$1.1M
Sunghwan Choi
Angel
2 United States, Hong Kong, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.7M–$15M
Primer Saje
Angel
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $741k–$1.1M
Kim Jeong-ho
Angel
2 South Korea Angel, Series A Travel, Communities, Social Media
Naval Ravikant
Angel
2 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain $1M–$25M
Pietro Dova
Angel
2 United States, South Korea Series A, Seed Events, Mobile, Sports $400k–$12M
Sebastien Borget
Angel
2 United States, France, Estonia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $250k–$60M
Alex Shin
Angel
2 Canada, South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS $895k–$12M
Shin Dong-won
Angel
2 South Korea Angel, Series A Retail, Craft Beer, Wine and Spirits
Shrishti Sahu
Angel
1 India, Singapore, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Financial Services, Apps $125k–$25M
Sungmoon Cho
Angel
1 United States, South Korea, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Digital Entertainment, Audio, Music $275k–$1M
Justin Waldron
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Chile Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Internet, Gaming $50k–$20M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
1 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
David Petersen
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $1.8M–$5M
Geoff Ralston
Angel
1 United States, India, Senegal Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence $125k–$12M
Michael Yang
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
Edith Yeung
Angel
1 United States, Malaysia, Spain Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Mobile, Information Technology $900k–$8M
Osuke Honda
Angel
1 United States, Japan, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$52M
Jesse Middleton
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $550k–$16M
Chester Roh
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Apps, Beauty $500k–$2.3M
Park Ga young
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Fitness, Wellness, Therapeutics
Norberts Erts
Angel
1
Perry Tam
Angel
1 South Korea, United Kingdom Seed Mobile, Consumer, Software $2.6M–$8M
Chang Wook Kim
Angel
1
Jae Moon Chung
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Software, Information Technology
Kim Hyun joon
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Sports
Ji-woo Song
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
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Aviram Jenik
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States · 18 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$7M; Angel $135k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$275k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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.
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S Cubic Angels
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in South Korea startups

S Cubic Angels

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $295k–$969k; 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.
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Daniel Shin
Angel · , , North Korea · 6 investments in South Korea startups

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 Shin assists 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$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.
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Minsik Cho
Angel · 5 investments in South Korea startups

- 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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Investment focus

  • 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.
  • Candr — Candr is an IT company that uses artificial intelligence to collect, analyse andpresent detailed information on used cars for sale.
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Douglas Guen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$726k; Angel $100k–$520k; Pre-Seed $50k–$336k
  • 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 creates plant-based skin and body care products rooted in Korean wellness culture. Inspired by the power of Asian medicinal plants, we make quality products that are effective for sensitive skin. We support environmental sustainability by reducing carbon emissions. 100% vegan and cruelty-free. Certified B Corp.
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Jay Eum
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea startups

Jay Eum is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures. Jay previously worked at Samsung Ventures as a Managing Director. Jay Eum attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$12M; Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • boam.ai — The easy way to find your next meal. Combines your favorite review sites, restaurant platforms, and tools in one place.
  • Opaper — Bikin toko online dalam 2 menit! Terima pembayaran, pesan kurir semua disatu aplikasi memudahkan penjualan manualmu yang dari WhatsApp dan sosial media.
  • TextQL — TextQL is you personal virtual data analyst, built for enterprise and powered by AI. Ask in natural english and Ana can build insightful analysis, stunning charts, and powerful models, all with enterprise-grade security.
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Jong-Il Yoon
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea startups

Jong-Il Yoon is based out of Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi and is the Partner of BonAngels Venture Partners. Jong-Il previously worked at MyMusicTaste as a Chief Operating Officer. Jong-Il Yoon attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $336k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
  • 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.
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Han Ki yong
Angel · 3 investments in South Korea startups

Han Ki-yong is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kim Bong-jin
Angel · 3 investments in South Korea startups

Baedal Minjok was created in 2010 by founder Kim Bong-jin.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
  • Staybility — THE CULTURE OF SPACES
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea startups

Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Hotel, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
  • Seamoncoin — Seamon is working on a blockchain-based seafood transaction and smart contract system, according to its white paper.
  • 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.
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Kelvin Dongho Kim
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sisun Lee
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Jung-hee Ryu
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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
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Seojoon Kim
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea startups

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, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $829k–$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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GI Equity (Private Investment Fund)
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

GI Equity (Private Investment Fund)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Guides, Fashion, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Hwang Seong-hyeon

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Matthew Papakipos
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Matthew Papakipos

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Investment focus

  • 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–$286k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Shin Hyun Sung
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Shin Hyun Sung

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Benjamin Joe
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Benjamin Joe is based out of Singapore and is the Vice President, Asia Pacific of Meta. Benjamin previously worked at Meta as a Vice President, Southeast Asia and Emerging Markets. Benjamin Joe attended the Harvard Business School.Ben received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and holds B.A. degrees in Business Administration andEnglish Literature from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Credit Bureau
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opensurvey — • 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.
  • 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.
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Richard Seongho Choi
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Richard Seongho Choi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Young Song
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Logistics
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $150k–$520k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • 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!
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Lee Seung Ho
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Lee Seung Ho

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Social, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
  • Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
  • 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.
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Gabriel Fong
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hotel, Apps, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$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.
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Sunghwan Choi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
  • CHAI — CHAI they develops infrastructure technologies to create an efficient digital economy.
  • Sequin — Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit.
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Primer Saje
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Primer Saje

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Kim Jeong-ho
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Kim Jeong-ho serves as Bear Better CEO.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Naval Ravikant
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and co-founder and chairman of AngelList, where he previously served as CEO. He has founded or co-founded several technology companies, including Epinions, Vast.com, and CoinList, and has invested in companies such as Twitter, Uber, Postmates, and Notion. He also co-founded Airchat and has managed investment vehicles, including MetaStable Capital and Spearhead. Ravikant studied computer science and economics at Dartmouth College and writes about entrepreneurship, investing, wealth creation, and philosophy through his personal website, Nav.al.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 280
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fab2 — Fab2 is a semiconductor technology company that designs and builds chip fabs, manufacturing tools, components, and software in-house.
  • W4 Games — This is the homepage of the website
  • Conway — Conway is a technology company building software and digital solutions to streamline business operations and accelerate growth.
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Pietro Dova
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea startups

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, Pietro was 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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sebastien Borget
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 — Rocapine AI-native venture studio focused on developing mobile apps within the digital health and self-care sectors. Utilizing a high-velocity model, the company tests hundreds of minimal app prototypes annually in partnership with independent developers. Their strategy emphasizes a "hold instead of hook" philosophy, focusing on fosteringhealthy user habits rather than maximizing screen time.
  • 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.
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Alex Shin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Alex Shin

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shin Dong-won
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea startups

Shin Dong-won is the chairman of the Nongshim Group.

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Inthekeg — Future of Smart Brewery Platform
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Shrishti Sahu
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea startups

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Financial Services, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1M; Series A $3.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
  • Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
  • Thermoflyde — Refractory
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Sungmoon Cho
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Justin Waldron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors young entrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Chile

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Remix — Remix is a platform combining AI and mobile gaming, designed to offer on-chain, AI-powered games.
  • Proof of Play — Proof of Play helps you create high-performance, serverless apps and games that can be extended or remixed by anyone.
  • Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1175
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
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David Petersen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Geoff Ralston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Geoff Ralston is the Founder of SAIF (Safe AI Fund). He previously worked as President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • 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.
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Michael Yang
Angel · La Canada Flintridge, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Michael founded [Michael Yang Capital](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/michael-yang-capital) in April 2017 to invest in public and pre-IPO stocks of disruptive tech companies. Previously, Michael co-founded mySimon.com and served as its CEO. He developed the original idea and vision for mySimon and grew the company into the largest price comparison shopping site on the internet with over 10 million 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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Edith Yeung
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Malaysia, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
  • 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.
  • AppOnboard — AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.
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Osuke Honda
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$52M; Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2.8M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% 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.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Jesse Middleton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $550k–$1.5M; Series A $5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChurchAI — AI-native church software that spots members drifting away weeks early, then drafts the check-in for your staff to send instead of another dashboard to read.
  • 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.
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Chester Roh
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Chester is 13 year-long serial entrepreneur with successes such as IPO and M&A with Google. His current company, Ablar Company, is the fourth start-up with a great vision to connect offline world more into online. He worked as a product manager at Google Korea after his last start-up, Tatter&Company had been acquired by Google in 2008.Before Tatter&Company, he founded two more companies, one of which had successfully done the IPO. He also worked as a product manager at SK Telecom, where he developed intelligent personalization system for mobile phone users. Chester received his bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering from KAIST.He's also been an active angel investor and business mentor in the companies like, Ticket Monster (Recently merged to LivingSocial), Paprika Lab, LIFO interactive, Sha.kr Media, Ultra Caption Corp (klassmate.com), Flyfan (clubvenit.com) and J3T (stylesays.com).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AWAIR — Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed). Memebox capture emerging trends and turn them into brands people love, connectingproduct, content, and commerce into one seamless experience.
  • Typecast — Create natural, emotional voiceovers with Typecast's AI voice generator. Choose from 700+ AI voices with expressive controls for creators, teams, and developers.
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Park Ga young
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
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Norberts Erts
Angel · Riga, Riga, Latvia · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Norberts Erts is the Product Marketing Manager at Sage.

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Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Value Space Co. — Value Space Co. is a space reconstruction company that offers space-optimized services through project development planning.
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Perry Tam
Angel · Redwood Shores, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Consumer, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
  • Eunice — Eunice is an AI-powered due diligence and monitoring company built for institutional investors who cannot afford to get the details wrong.
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Chang Wook Kim
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Chang Wook Kim - CEO & Representative Director @ Snow Corporation

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Investor stats

  • 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.
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Jae Moon Chung
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Jae Moon Chung is the Philosopher, Founder & CEO of Liberty Labs

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kim Hyun joon
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Kim Hyun-Joon is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Field Mentor — Field Mentor is an operator of a golf field lesson platform.
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Ji-woo Song
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea startups

Song Ji-woo serves as CEO at Jiwoo Company.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Angel investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 228 deals from 240 investors.

240
investors
in South Korea startups
228
deals
in South Korea startups
$1.9M
median round
in South Korea startups
15%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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