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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
KDB Capital 5
Hyundai Investment Partners 5
AI Angel Club 5
Lotte Ventures 5
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 4
Strong Ventures 4
Hyundai Motor Company 4
L&S Venture Capital 4
KB Investment 4
Capstone Partners 3
Coolidge Corner Investment 3
Atinum Partners 3
Hyundai Motor Group 3
STIC Ventures 3
SBI Investment Korea 3
ZER01NE 3
Korea Development Bank 3
Seoul Investment Partners 3
K Ground Ventures 2
HG Initiative 2
Halla Holdings 2
Series Ventures 2
Fast Ventures 2
KDB Industrial Bank 2
KB Securities 2
Industrial Bank of Korea 2
Kakao Ventures 2
Korea Investment Partners 2
IDG Ventures Korea 2
DSC Investment 2
Artesian VC 2
BDC Laboratories 2
SJ Investment Partners 2
Enlight Ventures 2
Mando Corporation 2
Shinhan Financial Group 2
MYSC 2
Shinhan Asset Management 2
K and Investment Partners 2
Central 2
Mando Coperation 2
Chonnam National University Technology Holdings 1
Nextrans 1
Smilegate Investment 1
Base Investments 1
Naver 1
Trust Value 1
Mark & Company 1
CJ Investment 1
Daum Communications 1
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KDB Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Hyundai Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 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.
AI Angel Club VC Fund · Mapo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Lotte Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 15 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
  • Software, Information Technology, 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.
  • Space Vision — 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.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 22 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, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Suppor-T — Suppor-T is an entrepreneur-focused growth management tool
  • Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 19 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
  • K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
  • 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.
  • Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.
Hyundai Motor Company VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 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
  • 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.
  • Koop Technologies — We automate Enterprise Risk Management for technology companies to make insurance smart and save customers over 30% on coverage
  • BOS Semiconductors — BOS Semiconductors develops semiconductor technology for the automotive industry.
L&S Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 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
  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 36 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
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
  • ReadyPost — ReadyPost is a general meeting service platform that provides services for real estate general meetings.
Capstone Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 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
  • Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
  • Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
  • GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
Coolidge Corner Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
  • jeongyookgak — jeongyookgak produces and sells fresh meat.
  • Signature Label — Signature Label takes pride in providing Korean beauty to the rest of the world. Their brand selection approach is rigorous and selective, as they collaborate closely with fashionable local partners to develop products that match the specific needs of each area. They are able to streamline the distribution process for both brands and localpartners, saving significant time and energy and removing unneeded clutter as a result.
Hyundai Motor Group VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 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.
STIC Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 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
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • Sangwha — Creating experiences by adding imagination to technology. We design all possibilities through innovative technology, ideas and bold aspirations.
  • 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.
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
  • Health Care, Mobile, Apps
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Medipixel — Medipixel is a MedTech startup that aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality of human life by innovating the way we diagnose diseases and controlling surgical robots with the power of AI. Consisting of a group of AI experts in computer vision, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, Medipixel conducts research and product developmentfor lung cancer diagnosis and coronary intervention robots together with the best healthcare professionals in Korea such as Seoul Asan Medical Center. In November 2018, MediPixel won the championship in the QuickFire Challenge hosted by Johnson & Johnson. MediPixel currently offers three solutions for intervention surgeons:1. An AI Based Diagnosis Solution makes it possible for doctors to spot lesions while performing a coronary angiography, perform segmentation of the vessel in question within just one second and analyze the lesion’s status.2. A Guide & Planning Solution clearly visualizes the hidden part of the coronary artery to make doctors perform guidewire manipulation with more ease and confidence, which is quite useful especially in case of CTO. Furthermore, the solution frees doctors from the need to use contrast -- this is important because contrast can cause potentially fatal reactions in 5 to 10% of patients.3. An Automated Navigation Engine automates navigation through coronary arteries. Once the destination is reached, it controls a robotic unit by giving the most appropriate real-time commands in its existing situation, thus delivering devices such as guidewire to the destination in the most efficient way.We're open to any candidates who are excited to apply their knowledge and skill in deep learning to real-world medical data and surgery robots. Do you have any questions? Email us at contact@medipixel.io
  • Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
  • LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
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.
Korea Development Bank VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 16 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
  • GenEdit — Developing innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines.
  • Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
  • BrownBag — Brown Bag is an online portal for coffee and cafe supplies.
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • 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.
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.
HG Initiative VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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.
Series Ventures VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 9 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, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Ladit — Ladit provides camping provides peaceful relaxation after a rough travel and gives extensive outdoor services so that all outdoor activities
  • Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
  • Wave&Vibe — Wave & Vibe enables small restaurant enterprises to enter the home convenience food industry by providing easy access to food manufacturing facilities around the country.
Fast Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 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.
  • Space Vision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
KDB Industrial Bank VC Fund · 4 investments in the past 12 months
KDB Industrial Bank is an investment firm
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, India, United States
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.
KB Securities VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • 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.
  • Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
Industrial Bank of Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 26 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, Software, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Algocare — Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations.
  • HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
  • Korea Credit Service — Korea Credit Service is a credit agency for individual enterprises. Korea Credit Service offers a credit evaluation service called "CreditNote," and entrepreneurs can check their credit rating.
Kakao Ventures VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 14 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
  • Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
  • Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
  • Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.
Korea Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 23 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
  • LabInCube — LabInCube develops inCube materials capable of selective drug release, sustained release, and supporting complex raw materials.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • Syntekabio — Syntekabio is a Korean biotech firm, developing personal genome map which is expected to enable personalized medical service. The company also provides a technology for collecting and integrating decrypted whole genome data.
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 · 14 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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
  • 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.
  • Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.
Artesian VC VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 9 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
  • Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
  • Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
  • Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.
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, Seed, Series A
  • 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 — 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
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.
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, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • 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.
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.
Shinhan Financial Group VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Shinhan Bank, is a bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Automotive
  • Series A, Series C, Angel
  • South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Tiki — Tiki.vn is the an e-commerce company that specializes in the end-to-end supply chain and partnering with brands. Tiki.vn is the fastest-growing retail company in Vietnam and is well-positioned to be an industry winner. It is also the Vietnam’s most favorite B2C e-commerce company.Tiki.vn features more than 300,000 products in 12 categories ofelectronics, lifestyle, and books. The company achieves the highest customer satisfaction rate and the lowest return rate among all e-commerce players in Vietnam due to its capability to control the end-to-end supply chain, from partnering with brands to deliver high-quality merchandise to managing warehouse and logistics to processing payments and providing superior customer service.Tiki.vn has a fun, dynamic, and innovative work culture and is currently 500+ team members strong. Investors in the company include Seedcom, CyberAgents Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation, and VNG Corporation.
  • BlockOdyssey — Best Enterprise Blockchain Enabler, Block Odyssey
  • ABLY Corporation — ABLY Corporation is a fashion platform and application.
MYSC VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 14 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
  • Health Care, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BioSean — BioSean is a diverse feed technology and breeding organization that provides integrated solutions for microorganisms utilized from the hatched self-fish stage to plankton, high-efficiency fermented feed, and functional additive feed.
  • 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.
  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Shinhan Asset Management VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A
  • 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.
Central VC Fund · Seongsan, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Central is an auto parts manufacturer.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Sales, Rental
  • 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
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 — SOSLAB, the leading LiDAR expert team for upcoming era of Smart Mobility and Infrastructure. As a LiDAR supplier, we focus our effort on cooperation with market partners from Automotive, Robotics, Surveillance fields.
  • bitsensing — bitsensing designs and develops cutting-edge imaging radar technology solutions for the ultimate smart cities and connected experience
Chonnam National University Technology Holdings VC Fund · Gwangju, Kwangju-jikhalsi, South Korea
Chonnam National University Technology Holdings is a financial service company that specializes in investment and funding services.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • The Trive — The Trive is a car subscription service platform through which users can pay a monthly subscription fee to drive the car they most desire.
  • malang honey (So soft) — malang honey is an e-commerce platform for childcare products.
Nextrans VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Nextrans is the various capital provider including seed capital, human resources and networks but not limited to for the entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Vietnam, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Pillyze — mobile health care startup
  • Cooky.vn — The community loves food, cooking and baking. Join the community to share recipes and cooking tips.
  • Hyper Lounge — Hyperlounge is a startup that has developed a monthly subscription management analysis SaaS by combining management consulting know-how with data collection, analysis and visualization technology. It is a specialized system for small and medium-sized business executives, which is completely different from existing data analysis tools or services.When using this service, user can easily check the core data and analysis necessary for business management every day on mobile without the burden of initial investment or recruitment.
Smilegate Investment VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that has been growing remarkably alongside our many invested companies. From our initial venture capital funding in 2000, we have since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds, and have invested in morethan 200 companies with promising growth potential.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
  • Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
Base Investments VC Fund · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Base Investments operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
  • Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
Naver VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Naver operates as a search engine and e-commerce platform providing fintech, digital content, and cloud services.The company introduces innovative search services such as ‘Comprehensive Search,’ ‘Knowledge iN,’ and ‘Real-time Rising Keyword.' It also offers UGC services such as Blog and Cafe; Junior Naver, a children’s portal; Happybean, anonline donation portal. NAVER launched its Webtoon service in June 2004 and has pioneered the distribution and consumption of webtoons, also known as digital comics. In addition, NAVER also offers services for the global market, including the mobile messenger LINE through LINE Corporation, NAVER’s subsidiary; the video messenger Snow; and the group communication service BAND.NAVER is also involved in software development and distribution; performances and exhibitions business; mobile content development and distribution; search advertising; internet commerce and customer service business; the operation and security services of IT infrastructure; operating online shopping services, and mobile applications marketing.Lee Hae-Jin and Lee Joon-ho headquartered the company in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea in 1999.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series C, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Brandi — Brandi is a vertical commerce company that creates B2C and B2B platforms for fashion and beauty shopping. The company specializes in the fields of apps, app marketing, and online shopping platform. Brandi was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea.
  • Wallapop — Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods, primarily accessible via a mobile app. It uses a geo-localized technology that connects a community of 15 million users by offering an easy and convenient way to buy and sell items that are no longer used. The platform, which has found a second home for more than180 million items, provides people with access to unique goods at great prices while extending the life of fully functional products. Since its inception, Wallapop has been committed to continuous innovation in the online classifieds industry and second-hand market and aspires to use technology to contribute to sustainability. The company is backed by investors Korelya Capital, NAVER, Accel, Insight Venture Partners, 14W, and Northzone. It was founded in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain by Agustin Gomez, Miguel Vicente, and Gerard Olive in 2013.
  • Interior Teacher — Interior Teacher is solidifying its position as a premium home styling service.
Trust Value VC Fund
Trust Value
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Investment focus
  • Automotive
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Ace View — Ace View is a firm that has created unique video codec technology that enables drone view displays to be used in real-time even when traveling at a high speed. Ace View's real-time AI-AVM displays Full-HD visuals in real-time as though the driver is gazing down from the sky even while driving at a speed of 100 km/h or more, in contrast tostandard 2D AVM solutions that switch the screen off when the speed surpasses 15 km/h. Based on this technology, it is characteristic that by removing blind areas around the car, accidents caused by them can be essentially avoided.
Mark & Company VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Mark & Company is an open innovation platform that provides app traffic, legal, and accounting consulting services.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Automotive, Car Sharing
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Dinto — Dinto sells lip, face, and eye care products.
  • Town Car — Town Car provides peer-to-peer carsharing service between apartment neighbors.
  • Grow & Better — Offers practical education and coaching for startups from Industry experts through live cohort lectures
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.
Daum Communications VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea
The Daum is a popular web portal in South Korea, with its rival Naver. Daum offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news.The popularity of Daum is a reflection of the high level of internet use in South Korea. The country has the highest level of broadbandusers, and one of the most widespread levels of computer and Internet access.The popularity of Daum stems from the range of services it offers, but also from the fact that it was the first Korean web portal of significant size. Its popularity started when it merged with the then most popular e-mail service, daum.net or hanmail.net. After the merging, Daum started the forum service DaumCafe which brought its firm status in the market. The term cafe is now used as the synonym for "Internet forum" in Korean.On August 2, 2004 Daum announced the purchase of Lycos for $95.4 million, and closed the transaction on October 6
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Investment focus
  • Comics, Mobile, Content
  • Seed, Series A
  • 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.
  • Tapas Media — Tapas is the “Youtube for story tellers” -- a platform and community for over 50,000 creators, who publish original stories in the form of serialized webcomics and novels. Tapas has over 2 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend 70 million minutes per month on the platform with stories on Tapas having been read over 5 billion timesto date. We co-produce original IPs with our top creators that can be shopped and brokered into the next hit TV series/movies/games/physical books. About 70% of Tapas’s audience are female millennials primarily located in the US. The Tapas app has been downloaded over 2 million times and is one of the top grossing comics apps on iOS and Android. Check out some of the latest news articles about Tapas here: https://tapas.io/site/about
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