Top 10 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in South Korea in September 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in South Korea in September 2025
Investor | Artificial intelligence South Korea investments |
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S Cubic Angels | 1 |
Hyunjae Lee | 1 |
Jae-sik Shin | 1 |
Sanghee Lee | 1 |
Aviram Jenik | 1 |
Chester Roh | 1 |
Daniel Shin | 1 |
Byeong-min Yeo | 1 |
Songyee Yoon | 1 |
Ji-woo Song | 1 |
S Cubic Angels
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Investment focus
- Education, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Hyunjae Lee serves as Director of Public Policy at Woowa Brothers.
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Investment focus
- Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.
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Investment focus
- Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Sanghee Lee
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Investment focus
- Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- CLIKA — Tiny AI, Everywhere
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
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 (aka Neosapience) — The online AI voice generator that can turn your text into life-like speech. Our extensive selection of hyper-realistic voices. Create your content just the way you want it!
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.
Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.
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Investment focus
- Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
- Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
Songyee Yoon
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Investment focus
- Software, Film, Hardware
- Seed, Series B
- United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
- Together AI — 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.
Song Ji-woo serves as CEO at Jiwoo Company.
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Investment focus
- Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
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