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Top 50 Angel Investors in South Korea in September 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in South Korea in September 2025

Investor South Korea investments
Aviram Jenik 12
Daniel Shin 6
S Cubic Angels 6
Taekkyung Lee 5
Douglas Guen 4
Jay Eum 3
Shin Hyun Sung 2
Pietro Dova 2
Naval Ravikant 2
Jung-hee Ryu 2
Kim Bong-jin 2
Han Ki yong 2
Jong-Il Yoon 2
Lee Seung Ho 2
GI Equity (Private Investment Fund) 2
Sisun Lee 2
Richard Seongho Choi 2
Kelvin Dongho Kim 2
Seojoon Kim 2
Young Song 2
Andrew McGlinchey 1
Perry Ha 1
Matthew Shampine 1
Sean (Solme) Kim 1
Sangmin Shim 1
Kevin Baek 1
Tarun Chitra 1
Young-Tae Kim 1
Michael Carter 1
Shin- jae 1
Cho Man Ho 1
Kim Sang-Hun 1
Yoon Soo-young 1
Kim Chang-won 1
Choi Ji-woong 1
Justin Lubliner 1
Toni Ko 1
Yun-seong Hwang 1
Songyee Yoon 1
Bae Yong-Joon 1
Jesse Middleton 1
Kiha Lee 1
Chester Roh 1
David Petersen 1
Perry Tam 1
Justin Waldron 1
David Lee 1
Blaine Vess 1
Gabriel Fong 1
Martin Randel 1
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Aviram Jenik Angel · Cupertino, California, United States
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
  • Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
  • 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.
  • illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities
Daniel Shin Angel
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Malaysia
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 (KCD) 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 ofhis business 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.
S Cubic Angels Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
S Cubic Angels
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Investment focus
  • Education, Apps, EdTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
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 rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
  • Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
Taekkyung Lee Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Taekkyung Lee is the Founder , CEO and Representative Partner of Mashup Ventures. He previously worked at Primer Season2 as a Founding Partner. Taekkyung Lee attended Yonsei University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • South Korea
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.
  • DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
Douglas Guen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, South Korea
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 is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
  • Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.
Jay Eum Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, South Korea, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • boam.ai — The easy way to find your next meal. Combines your favorite review sites, restaurant platforms, and tools in one place.
  • Merit — A software platform for verified digital credentials for government, organizations, people, and communities.
  • Opaper — Bikin toko online dalam 2 menit! Terima pembayaran, pesan kurir semua disatu aplikasi memudahkan penjualan manualmu yang dari WhatsApp dan sosial media.
Shin Hyun Sung Angel
Shin Hyun Sung
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Computer, Internet
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
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.
Pietro Dova Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, South Korea
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.
Naval Ravikant Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
  • SimpleAutomation — General purpose robot to automate repetitive manual work
  • Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall, restore ecosystems, and fight drought. Learn how our scalable weather technology brings water to the West.
Jung-hee Ryu Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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
  • Software, Fashion, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
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
Kim Bong-jin Angel
Baedal Minjok was created in 2010 by founder Kim Bong-jin.
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Investment focus
  • Home Decor, Architecture, Interior Design
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Kimcaddie — Kimcaddie, a screen golf platform, which is providing End to End golf experience.
  • Staybility — THE CULTURE OF SPACES
Han Ki yong Angel
Han Ki-yong is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, United States
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 Angel
Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
  • 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.
Lee Seung Ho Angel
Lee Seung Ho
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Social, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea
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.
  • Frientrip — 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.
GI Equity (Private Investment Fund) Angel
GI Equity (Private Investment Fund)
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Investment focus
  • Guides, Tourism, Travel Accommodations
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea
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 a tour guide that recommends houses suitable for monthly living.
Sisun Lee Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Software, Content Creators
  • Seed, Angel
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
Richard Seongho Choi Angel
Richard Seongho Choi
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • South Korea
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.
Kelvin Dongho Kim Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Kelvin Dongho Kim is a founding CEO of Korea Credit Data(KCD), which provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its five subsidiaries currently serve almost all of the two million merchants that accept credit cards payment inKorea.Kelvin is well known in the start-up scene as a serial entrepreneur with his first success case being Opensurvey, a consumer data company that leverages mobile application.
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Investment focus
  • Service Industry
  • Angel
  • South Korea
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.
Seojoon Kim Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
Young Song Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
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
  • Travel, Software, Logistics
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea
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!
Andrew McGlinchey Angel
Andrew McGlinchey is the VP of Products at PropertyGuru Group.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Internet, Software
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Estmob — Send whatever you want, wherever you want
Perry Ha Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Apps, Other, Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Matthew Shampine Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Co-founder and CEO at Dongnae
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Fashion, Big Data
  • Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Sean (Solme) Kim Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Solme Kim is President and Chief Product Officer at Kajabi. He attended The University of Texas at Austin.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • StormX — Earn crypto shopping at your favorite stores. Get up to 87.5% Crypto Cashback with each purchase. Download the StormX App & Extension today.
  • Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Sangmin Shim Angel · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea
Sangmin Shim was the CEO and Founder of HogangNono. Sangmin Shim is the current CEO of Cafe Nono.
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Investment focus
  • Analytics, Real Time, Scheduling
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • FlareLane — Engage with both first-time and returning app/web visitors through interactive push notifications and boost user retenion and revenue. Push, Interact, Grow.
Kevin Baek Angel
Korea University, BSc KAIST, MSc U. of Maryland, Entrepreneurship A.T Kearney Research Assistant LOTTE HQ In-house-consultant SK planet RecoPick Biz. Development
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Draph — Draph provides cloud solutions and services for product image production and automated optimization to enhance product sales and advertising efficiency. Draph is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 2022.
Tarun Chitra Angel · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Tarun Chitra is Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. His research in DeFi includes the first peer-reviewed papers proving the economic security properties ofUniswap and Compound. He previously worked in high frequency trading for Vatic Labs and was a scientific programmer at D. E. Shaw Research.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Inco — Bringing confidentiality to Web3 through the fhEVM
  • Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
  • Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Young-Tae Kim Angel
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Therapeutics
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
Michael Carter Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Dating
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
  • Callback — Callback is building a next-generation loyalty platform for independent stores
  • Dandy — Exclusively in LA, invite only.
Shin- jae Angel
Shin- jae
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Investment focus
  • News, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Motion2AI — Motion2AI is the all-in-one artificial intelligence AI telematics solution for warehouses to track MHE equipment, manage safety, schedule jobs, and more.
  • EO Studio — Media and Information platform provides news and other articles on the start-up in Korea
  • Updream Korea Co — Updream Korea Co offers feminine, senior care.
Cho Man Ho Angel
Cho Man Ho is the Founder of Musinsa.
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Investment focus
  • Hotel, Coworking
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Localstitch — Localstitch is a co-working and co-living space for digital nomads, startups, and single-family homes.
Kim Sang-Hun Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Kim Sang-Hun
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Investment focus
  • Service Industry
  • Angel, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
  • Story Protocol — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
Yoon Soo-young Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Yoon Soo-young - CEO @ Trevari
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Software, Content Creators
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
Kim Chang-won Angel
Kim Chang-won
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Choi Ji-woong Angel
Choi Ji-woong is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Education
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.
Justin Lubliner Angel
Justin Lubliner is a CEO of the Darkroom.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Software, Digital Media
  • Seed, Series A
  • Israel, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
  • Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
Toni Ko Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Toni Ko
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Wellness
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
  • Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
Yun-seong Hwang Angel
Yun-seong Hwang is a Vice President of Hyundai Motor Company.
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Investment focus
  • B2C, Apps, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • AppyParking — Decarbonising cities from the kerb up. Best-in-class Kerbside Data, APIs and Smart Parking Solutions for Local Authorities and Businesses. Get in Touch.
  • Bronine — Bronine is a manufacturer of an IC chip with VOLKIT software used for charging electronic devices.
  • Koop Technologies — We automate Enterprise Risk Management for technology companies to make insurance smart and save customers over 30% on coverage
Songyee Yoon Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Songyee Yoon
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Video
  • Seed, Series B
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • AI Spera — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
  • Light Field Lab — Escape the Screen. We're creating a world where content escapes the screen and merges with reality.
Bae Yong-Joon Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Apps, Mobile
  • Seed
  • Japan, South Korea
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.
Jesse Middleton Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
  • E-Commerce, Beauty, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • FlyngCat — FlyingCat is Wish for Korea.
  • Covenant — An AI Law Firm
  • 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.
Kiha Lee Angel · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Kiha Lee
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Sales, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
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.
  • Solvook — Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services.
  • MakeDashy — Boost your loyal customers and Increase revenue by improving customers journey with AI-powered anaytics platform, Retentics.
Chester Roh Angel
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
  • Software, Apps, Beauty
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States, South Korea
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).
  • Typecast AI — The online AI voice generator that can turn your text into life-like speech. Over 400+ hyper-realistic voices. Create your content just the way you want it!
David Petersen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
David Petersen is the Co-Founder and CEO at BuildZoom.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
  • Baton — Baton is a technology platform that eliminates detention and dwell for truck drivers. Long haul trucks drop off and pick up loads at our network of drop zones and Baton handles pick up and delivery to and from warehouses.
  • Skiff — Everything on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. Your most sensitive data is private, decentralized, and truly owned by you.
Perry Tam Angel · Redwood Shores, California, United States
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
  • Mobile, Consumer
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
Justin Waldron Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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 youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Chile
Portfolio highlights
  • Spore — The easy way to earn, reach your fans, and build your online presence
  • Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
  • Breakr — Breakr connects artists and influencers to break new music through the culture. Music influencers can set up profiles, update their music preferences, and create digital campaigns available across all platforms. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
David Lee Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Right Rice — RightRice is a tasty new rice grain that's made from vegetables. It's what they all love about rice, but made even right-er. RightRice is a complete, plant-based protein that's delicious, nutritious, and easy to cook. Every bowl of RightRice has more than double the protein, five times the fiber, and almost 40 percent fewer net carbsthan a bowl of white rice. Just like rice, RightRice soaks up your favorite flavors and sauces. Original RightRice is ready to season your own way, or you can try one of their delicious, already seasoned varieties like Lemon Pepper, Spanish or Garlic Herb—all using real herbs and spices, nothing artificial, non-GMO, vegan, and a complete source of protein, all with a low glycemic index.
  • The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Blaine Vess Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. Attended at Y Combinator.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
  • Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
  • Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Gabriel Fong Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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Investment focus
  • Software, Real Estate, Transportation
  • Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong
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.
  • LTAI — 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.
Martin Randel Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Martin Randel - Co-Founder, Board Member and Owner @ Vitamin Well
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Sweden, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Reve — Tipser is the global leader in embedded commerce, turning any digital surface into a point of sale. Discover a better way to monetize traffic.
  • Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.
  • Covr Security AB — Covr Security meet the growing demand for highly secure, user-centric control over mobile security and digitized personal information. Covr is founded by serial entrepreneurs, including the developers of the digital verification standard currently used by the Swedish banking system.
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