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Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in South Korea

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

Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor Automotive South Korea investments
Strong Ventures 5
Hyundai Motor Company 5
Lotte Ventures 5
AI Angel Club 5
Hyundai Investment Partners 5
KDB Capital 5
L&S Venture Capital 4
STIC Ventures 4
KB Investment 4
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 4
SBI Investment Korea 3
Atinum Partners 3
Series Ventures 3
Seoul Investment Partners 3
Coolidge Corner Investment 3
Korea Investment Partners 3
Korea Development Bank 3
Hyundai Motor Group 3
ZER01NE 3
Capstone Partners 3
Mando Coperation 2
MYSC 2
Halla Holdings 2
Shinhan Asset Management 2
Shinhan Financial Group 2
Quantum Ventures Korea 2
Fast Ventures 2
Enlight Ventures 2
KB Securities 2
Artesian VC 2
Industrial Bank of Korea 2
IDG Ventures Korea 2
DSC Investment 2
SJ Investment Partners 2
K and Investment Partners 2
Mando Corporation 2
KDB Industrial Bank 2
HG Initiative 2
BDC Laboratories 2
Central 2
Smilegate Investment 2
K Ground Ventures 2
Kakao Ventures 2
HANA Micron 1
CJ Investment 1
SK energy 1
Autonomous a2z 1
Kakao Mobility 1
Alpen Route Asset Management 1
Translink Investment 1
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Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Gyul Medal — Gyul Medal is a fruit beverage brand that offers quality citrus fruits and zero-sugar juices among various citrus varieties.
  • Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
  • Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
Hyundai Motor Company VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
  • Surff — Surf is a logistics company that offers a solution that allows for both the comparison of shipping/forwarder freight rates by route, which was previously difficult to provide on other platforms, and actual shipment reservations.
  • Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.
Lotte Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
  • SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
AI Angel Club VC Fund · Mapo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, E-Commerce, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Frankit — Frankit is a franchise supply chain curating platform that offers a supplier curating feature that identifies and links providers of essential commodities.
  • Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
  • MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.
Hyundai Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Hyundai Investment Network Co., Ltd. provides financial advisory, and mergers and acquisitions strategy consulting services. The company offers financial advisory funding; consulting services; advisory services for ship charter and vessel acquisition; and investment services for natural resource exploration, development, and production. It alsoprovides financial product brokerage and project financing services. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Medical, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
  • Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
  • Catch Table — Catch Table is a restaurant reservation and customer management solution provider company.
KDB Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
L&S Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
STIC Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
STIC Ventures invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 28 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
  • Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.
  • Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Gloud — Gloud offers dental digital and digital practice transformation services.
  • Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
  • Metainnotech — Metainnotech is an innovative technology platform that provides inter-floor noise reduction solutions in apartments and complexes using AI and various algorithms.
SBI Investment Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
SBI Investment Co., Ltd. has established itself as a true partner of the Republic of Korea venture business development in the past 28 years as a venture capital concept introduced first in Korea in 1986 was even unfamiliar concept of 'venture'. SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a direct excavation domestic / other promising venturesinvestment as well as domestic / external funding attracted through cooperation with institutional investors and technology, marketing, public offering (IPO), the law, adhere to the role which has been providing comprehensive services such as Value-up tax.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
  • LINKFLOW — LINKFLOW is a hardware company that produces and develops wearable cameras to capture scenes at a full 360-degree angle. The cameras are designed as wearable neckbands, use anti-shaking software to stabilize the image are lightweight allowing hands-free operation, and have cloud storage functionality with single-tap mobile applications connected tocapture their surroundings with seamless integration and a virtual reality-ready camera.
  • LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
Atinum Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
  • MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
  • Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
Series Ventures VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • OddNT — OddNT is a company that produces household, consumer, and other goods.
  • TAX AI — TAX AI provides accurate tax calculation and consulting through a six-step patent application procedure incorporating AI tax-type judgment technology.
  • Monster Riot — Monster Riot is an IP content planning and webtoon production studio.
Seoul Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
  • Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Coolidge Corner Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
  • Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
  • Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
Korea Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
  • Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
  • Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.
Korea Development Bank VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 27 investments in the past 12 months
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
  • Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
  • Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
Hyundai Motor Group VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Hyundai Motor Group is an automotive company that also affiliates in other industries such as construction, steel, and finance. They have developed a value chain focused on vehicles, steel, and construction, as well as logistics, finance, information technology, and service.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • South Korea, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Clodot — Clodot is an information technology company.
  • MobilTech — MobilTech is an AI-based 3D GIS startup company that supplies 3D spatial information, hardware, and software solutions for smart cities.
  • Korea Zinc — Korea Zinc operates as a general non-ferrous metal smelting company primarily in South Korea. It offers zinc slab ingots, alloy jumbo blocks, anode ingots, and die cast ingots for use in galvanized steel plates, steel pipes and wires, color steel plates, automobile parts, machine/electronic parts, anti-corrosion paints, etc. Korea Zinc alsoprovides lead and lead alloy ingots used in automobile and industrial batteries, electric wire coatings, radiation shielders for batteries, anti-corrosion paints, etc.; and copper for use in copper plates, pipes, wires, as well as bronze, etc. Moreover, it offers gold used in semiconductors, PCBs, electrically conducting materials, jewelries, coins, etc.; and silver for use in electronic products, cameras, X-ray films, jewelries, etc. Further, Korea Zinc provides other rare metals, including indium, bismuth, antimony, antimony trioxide, cadmium, tellurium, cobalt, cadmium sticks, gallium, selenium, etc.; sulfuric acid used in inorganic chemicals, metal refining, steel making, and spinning and weaving, as well as in chemical and fertilizer, fiber, and paper manufacturing industries; electronic grade sulfuric acid used for cleaning and etching in semiconductor manufacturing process; and oleum used in nitro compounds, dye stuffs, chloro sulfonic acid, blasting powder, and oxidation. It began operation in 1974, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
ZER01NE VC Fund · Seochon, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
ZER01NE is creating an ecosystem for creative talents to collaborate with start-ups and developing ground of participation.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • iSTAY — iStay develops and operates IoT platform for hotel.
  • Mycel — IMAGINATION TRANSITION REGENERATION
  • Deep Insight — Deep-In-Sight is redefining how 3D sensing technology and 3D data-driven artificial intelligence can be used and applied to power smart automation. We are developing Driving Monitoring System and In-Cabin Monitoring System using 3D ToF cameras and AI technology. With its industry-leading 3D sensing and AI technology, we are leading the global enablement of new smart applications to realize automation efficiency in a wide range of fields from mobility, robotics, and smart factory, Edtech, and AGV.
Capstone Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
  • Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
  • DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
Mando Coperation VC Fund
Manufacturing of automotive parts
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Sensor, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • SOS LAB — SOS Lab, a LiDAR development company focusing on core technology for self-driving cars, plans to present its differentiated hybrid LiDAR system, the SL-1SOS LAB's long-range, hybrid scanning design combines the advantages of the widely-used motor scanning system with a solid-state MEMS mirror, and will be offered at a much lower price pointcompared to traditional LiDAR products on the market today. SL-1 is expected to play an important role in the popularization and accessibility of self-driving cars.In addition to the SL-1, SOS LAB offers two additional LiDAR products designed to integrate safe, effective, and affordable LiDAR technology into various industries: the GL-3 for factory automation and robotics, and the TL-3 for security and automatic doors. SOS LAB is also focusing on combining hardware-based sensors and AI-based object recognition and tracking technology using 3D point cloud LiDAR data, and plans to provide LiDAR data space/object recognition solutions for self-driving vehicles.SOS LAB includes jointly developing their hybrid LiDAR with a partner automotive electronic equipment field company, continuing to develop the next generation of Solid-State-LiDAR with global semiconductor companies to overstep the limits of OPA-method LiDAR, and extending the global footprint of SOS LAB to provide the smartest solutions for self-driving and ADAS markets. SOS LAB is planning to enter global markets based on its R&D centers in Seoul and Gwangju and business centers in Silicon Valley.
  • bitsensing — bitsensing designs and develops cutting-edge imaging radar technology solutions for the ultimate smart cities and connected experience
MYSC VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
  • Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
Halla Holdings VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Halla Holdings is engaged in the auto parts distribution and logistics business.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Automotive, Apps
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Ourbox — Ourbox is a logistics agency that provides total logistics solutions and fulfillment services for online sellers.
  • Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
  • Gomi Corporation — Gomi Corporation is a Overseas market.
Shinhan Asset Management VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Shinhan Asset Management is an asset management company.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Coactus — Coactus is a social venture that creates an innovative business to make a better world. They do deaf taxi driver's taxi service, 'Goyohan Taxi'. In order to help communicate with passengers, they developed a communication tool 'Goyohan', which operates in two tablet PC's inside the taxi. Goyohan Taxi has 26 deaf taxidrivers in 5 areas, with 10 taxi companies. Within 2020, they aim to create 100 deaf taxi drivers.
  • Testworks — Testworks is a social enterprise company in Seoul, Korea. We create innovative solutions in AI data and software testing fields while providing an inclusive employment model for socially disadvantaged people. Our technical excellence ranges from AI data processing automation to manual software testing and review. We are recognized as thebest-in-class data processing company for building high quality datasets used for AI training and verification.
  • Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Shinhan Financial Group VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Shinhan Bank, is a bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, Vietnam, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
  • Apartmentary — Apartmentary provides apartment mentoring service. It creates a framework that allows the customer to find the most personal life in their apartment. They record their stories in different colors. It finds ways to make every customer's home beautiful.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
Quantum Ventures Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
  • Testbank — Mission | About Product | Team Culture | Recruit | Team Blog
  • Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
Fast Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
Enlight Ventures VC Fund
Enlight Ventures, one of the fastest growing VCs in the world, invests in early-stage startups with unique and sustainable business models.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Matchuda — Matchuda is a service that digitizes existing learning methods and applies AI technology to help students pass exams quickly
  • Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
  • Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
KB Securities VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
  • JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
  • PersonaAI — PersonaAI is a conversational AI technology company that provides chatbot, callboat and AI semiconductor Kiosk product and SaaS products.
Artesian VC VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
  • Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
  • Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.
Industrial Bank of Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
  • weflo — weflo is an aircraft diagnostics solution company that offers drone solutions.
  • MIRI.DIH — MIRI.DIH is a technology-intensive e-business company.
IDG Ventures Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
IDG Ventures Korea manages a US$100 million venture capital fund focused on growing companies whose innovative products and services can succeed in both the local and the global market. Korea is a global IT powerhouse that has a history of launching new technologies ahead of other markets.
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Investment focus
  • iOS, Local, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cardoc — Cardoc is a location-based mobile automotive repair estimate service. By uploading photos of their car's exterior damage, users can get free repair estimates and text-consultation from selected car body shops.During the 15 month of service period, Cardoc processed $3.5M worth of transactions and registered stores of Cardoc experienced agrowth rate of 30-100% per month. Each user can get their first estimate within an average of 7 minutes and compare at least 3 estimates without having to register personal information. The founding team consists of five automative enthusiasts. They received the support of Daum NIS (Next Incubation Studio), a startup incubation organization proposed by Daum Communications and spun off in January 2014.
  • Mykoon co.,ltd. — Plugger solves the dead phone problem.Plugger offers battery swapping & portable chargers at local convenience stores. For only $3, costumers can have their dead battery swapped for a newly charged one. For Apple devices (non-removable batteries), we provide a portable-battery sharing membership. Costumers join our service by purchasing ourbranded portable batteries, which can be swapped out for $3.Plugger currently has over 100 service locations in Seoul, Korea. By the end of 2015, Plugger will be in over 600 locations in Korea. Our partner stores continue to request the expansion of our service to their storefronts.Our goal for 2016 is to expand into new Asian markets, which will help us reach $10M in sales. We will continue to develop and roll-out new services, including Plugger branded smartphone accessories. We will use our established partner-store relationships as our distribution channel for new product launches.We're fundraising! Please contact us to meet.
DSC Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
  • Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
  • Terracle — Terracle is a Korean eco-friendly startup with the world's best waste plastic depolymerization technology. We supply recycled TPA (PTA) and EG in large quantities and focus on low-grade, hard-to-recycle plastic waste, clothing, and film waste. The best ESG solution is Terracle.
SJ Investment Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
  • Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
  • CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
K and Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
K and Investment Partners is a venture capital company that offers venture investment, funding, and consulting services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
  • PRENEU — PRENEU is a brand specialized in drones and ceaselessly challenging and striving to meet market needs and improve technology.Find drones manufacturer and supplier, reconnaissance drone service systems in korea.
  • Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
Mando Corporation VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Manufacturing of automotive parts
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • iPin Labs — iPin Labs is a AI-based, high-precision, low-cost indoor positioning solution provider.
  • Multiple Eye — Multiple Eye provides image-based omnidirectional distance measurement and environment recognition technology services for mobile robots.
  • SpringCloud — SpringCloud provides solutions and services for autonomous driving mobility as well as big data. It is made up of experts from Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Autron, Image Next, Automobile Convergence Technology Institute, Korea Railroad Research Institute, and other organizations, and it has excellent teamwork in terms of technology and sales.
KDB Industrial Bank VC Fund
KDB Industrial Bank is an investment firm
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Pillyze — mobile health care startup
  • 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.
  • Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
HG Initiative VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
  • phoneGO — phoneGO is a mobile repair cost comparison estimate platform.
  • Plcoskin — Plcoskin is a MedTech company specializing in reconstructive plastic surgery and regenerative skincare. They have developed a scaffold that removes the need for cadaver-sourced material used in breast reconstruction surgery, making procedures safer and cheaper. Plcoskin’s scaffolds are made with synthetic PCL, a biodegradable material that iscommonly used to create surgical sutures. Unlike competitors' products that remain in the body for a lifetime, Plcoskin’s PCL scaffolds are absorbed and replaced with the recipient’s own natural tissues, minimizing the possibility of long-term side effects. As they do not contain any dangerous chemicals, they are also 50% safer than cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Costs for reconstructive breast surgery are brought down by 40% to only $3 thousand per breast. Furthermore, much less handling time is required, reducing average surgery durations from an hour and a half to only 30 minutes. The mesh design of the scaffolds mitigates the need for an additional follow-up reconstructive surgery, something that is common when using cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Plcoskin has also developed Youlief, a cosmeceutical product & therapeutic device pipeline that helps fund R&D for their medical devices. Youlief is available in the US, Europe, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.
BDC Laboratories VC Fund · Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
BDC Laboratories provides Comprehensive Testing Services and Test Equipment for Stents, Stent Grafts, Heart Valves, Vascular Grafts and Catheters.
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Investment focus
  • Sales, Fitness, Shipping
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Baree — Baree is an automobile company that offers domestic motorcycle maintenance and second-hand trading of bikes.
  • BRLab — BRLab offers a framework that makes it possible to implement sophisticated sleep analysis and enhancement techniques. The solutions are based on a unique sleep-enhancing technology that is scientifically validated and patented, as well as an AI-powered algorithm with the highest level of reliability.
  • SeaVantage Ltd. — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions
Central VC Fund · Seongsan, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Central is an auto parts manufacturer.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Information Technology, Sales
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • RCE — RCE specializes in the sales of construction machines.
  • Getcha — Getcha is a car purchase, long-term rental, lease, test ride, and car consulting company.
  • MARS Auto — Mars Auto - Building Autonomous Trucks
Smilegate Investment VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • NXN Labs — NXN Labs empowers individuals in crafting indistinguishable and sophisticated human images and videos. It goal is to empower people to seamlessly navigate this exciting, intertwined journey into a new era.
  • MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
  • Reliv — Automate QA tests in just 5 minutes
K Ground Ventures VC Fund · Gangneung, Kangwon-do, South Korea
K Ground Ventures is a science and technology commercialization investment platform.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Automotive, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Yellowknife — Yellowknife is a custom digital cluster sharing and usage platform for vehicles.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
  • Ingenium Therapeutics — Ingenium Therapeutics commercializes NK anti-cancer immunotherapy with clinical impact based on solid basic research.
Kakao Ventures VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 15 investments in the past 12 months
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
  • WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
  • Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
HANA Micron VC Fund · Asan, Ch'ungch'ong-namdo, South Korea
HANA Micron is a semiconductor company that specializes in state-of-the-art packaging solutions and test manufacturing services.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
CJ Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 23 investments in the past 12 months
CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
  • Sneakers — Sneakers is a real-time on-demand local information platform.
  • Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
SK energy VC Fund · Mapo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
SK energy is a renewable energy company that produces petroleum products. The company was founded in 1962 and is based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Getcha — Getcha is a car purchase, long-term rental, lease, test ride, and car consulting company.
  • Auto Stay — Auto Stay is an online platform that produces and sells car wash equipment and chemical.
  • Goodsflow — Goodsflow is an e-commerce logistics platform company.
Autonomous a2z VC Fund · Gyeongsan, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea
Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
Kakao Mobility VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Kakao Mobility provides online taxi-hailing and parking services. Kakao Mobility brands include Kakao Taxi, Kakao Driver, and Kakao Navi. Kakao Mobility also provides its services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • South Korea, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ThorDrive — ThorDrive is a company that develops software solutions related to automated and unmanned technology. ThorDrive provides an automated and unmanned platform and associated products as well as intellectual properties that can be applied to other areas.
  • Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
Alpen Route Asset Management VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Alpen Route Asset Management is finding companies in their focused business and helping them to grow the value as a partner. It invites partners who they can enjoy walking with so that they put emphasis on the mission, strategy, core competence, and the management team of the company when it comes to the investment decisions. The firm activelyseeks Hetero synergies across different sectors in the journey of walking together as an AlpenRoute’ team. It capitalizes on the experiences of challenges and successes, creates a financial culture that builds up over time like the rings of trees growing over winter, and shares the fruits of this journey with the clients.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Medical, Automotive
  • Series A, Series C
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • ABL Bio — ABL Bio is one of the world's leading biotech research companies focusing on the development of therapeutic drugs for immuno-oncology & neurodegenerative diseases. Their core values are life-improvement, collaboration, innovation and novel therapy.
  • Xingxing Mobility — Xingxing Mobility is an app that offers an electric kickboard sharing service.
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