Top 50 B2B VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in February 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in B2b startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 B2B VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in February 2025
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.
- Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
- Urban Sky — Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.
- Soombit.AI — AIRead-CXR is a web-based AI solution for radiologist.
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Recl — Recl is an application that collects and recycles old clothes.
- mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
- Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
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
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- Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
- ANAFLASH — ANAFLASH Inc. is an NSF, DoD, NASA funded semiconductor startup, developing a brain inspired solution for energy efficient smart edge devices with a standard logic based non-volatile neuromorphic processor.
- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
- Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
- Rootfinders — RouteFinders develops an AI-based media platform to support independent living for visually impaired individuals in an increasingly digital world.
Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
- Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.
- Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
- Kite AI — Kite AI is a purpose-built, EVM-compatible L1 designed to power the AI economy.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- AIGEN Sciences — We aim to advance current state-of-the-art AI drug discovery technologies and transform high-cost, low-efficiency drug discovery practices into rapid, efficient discovery, ultimately leading to high success rates in the clinical phase. Our award-winning AI drug discovery platform enables the direct
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ControlM — ControlM is a food technology company that provides optimum AI solutions to F&B and franchise operators.
- Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
Dooghoon Investment is an investment firm that invests in biotechnology and information technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
- NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
- Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
As a global corporate venture firm, we invest in entrepreneurs who are building revolutionary businesses that redefine the world around us.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
- Eclypsium — Eclypsium's platform enhances supply chain security by incorporating zero-trust in every device, fortifying hardware, firmware, and software.
- Netradyne — At NetraDyne, they are creating a unique end-to-end IoT solution pushing Deep Learning processing to the edge. They are well-positioned to leverage the growing trend where the video is driving advanced analytics and business intelligence. Through processing visual and sensory inputs, they are targeting industries where the timeliness of actionabledata is a key differentiator of performance.There is a continuing technology movement that is driving rapid improvements in camera technology together with reductions in the cost of sensors, processing, and connectivity. These improvements, along with advancements in deep learning technology, have created a perfect opportunity to deliver vision-based solutions across multiple industries.
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, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Therapeutics, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
- ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
The Impact Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- MY NORMAL — MY NORMAL provides food and services for ketogenic diets.
- 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.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
- Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
SMBC Trust Bank
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, B2B, Advertising
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
- CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
- Mellow — Mellow is a food and beverage company that offers a food truck platform and event management support services.
Korea Kolmar Co. engaged in the manufacture and sale of cosmetics. The Company operates in two divisions: cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Its cosmetics division involves in the business of original development and design manufacturing (ODM) and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) of cosmetics including skin care, makeup, hair care, body care andothers. Its pharmaceutical division involves in the development and production of pharmaceutical products and quasi-drugs including general medicines, specialized medicines, bioequivalence medicines and others.
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Investment focus
- Medical, B2B, 3D Technology
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- MyIB — MyIB offers a matching gift program for businesses.MyIB commodities enterprises have a software platform called 'Give & Match' as well as a matching gift program.
- Biome ATS — BioM ATS intends to provide the fundamental infrastructure required to progress the complex strain design platform and foster technical collaboration with microbiome firms through proof-of-concept (POC) of the complex strain design technology. It is a strategy to begin the platform business in earnest by the end of the year, with an emphasis onplatform advancement and collaboration with industry, academia, research institutes, and the military.
- ProEn Therapeutics — ProEn Therapeutics is a bio-drug development company that focuses on protein engineering.
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- LeMong — LeMong automates comments on content assistants using AI technology.
- Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.
- Second Ocean — Second Ocean is an aquaculture company that provides data collection and technology development for sustainable seaweed farming.
Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
- Return Helper — Founded in 2018, Return Helper is a data-driven return management solution that optimizes return process and the aftermarket activities for online retailers. We support all the major ecommerce platforms including Amazon and FBA, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Rakuten etc.
Inha University is a private research university located in Incheon, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Wholesale
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services.
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
- XORBIS — XORBIS offers software, media hardware integration, and media management solutions for public and cultural spaces.
- ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
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
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
TBT is an Adventure Capital.We are more than your average VC investor; we are always up for an adventure. Investment means more than just transfer of capital for us. We want to be a discussion partner that discovers possibilities beyond risk and aligns growth with progress. We want to share decades of industry knowledge and experience in internetand mobile services to build services and products that can make the world a better place.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Beauty
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
- Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.
Ascendo Ventures is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm that strives to be a true lifecycle partner for the fastest growing, game-changing Asian tech companies. From the moment we invest in our portfolio companies, we commit to being a long-term partner and ascend together embracing the treme
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Medical, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Aldavar — ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials that closely resemble human tissues and 3D printing technology.
- Ugly Lab — Ugly Lab is a waste-tech startup that provides subscription-based waste collection services and consulting.
- H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
VC, Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
- 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.
DB Financial Investment is a client-oriented financial investment company. Since its establishment as Citizen Investment & Finance in 1982 and its transformation into a full-scale securities company in 1991, Dongbu Securities has grown substantially along with the flourishment of the Korea capital market, and is now starting a new chapter as DBFinancial Investment.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- South Korea
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.
- NEUROPHET — Neurophet produces solutions based on Segengine, the company’s own technology that automatically segments brain magnetic resonance (MR) images into 107 regions within a minute.
- SecureLink — SecureLink creates and sells AI-powered next-generation EPP technology, network ETA (password threat) detection, and an XDK service that can integrate AI security capabilities into current security infrastructure.
Founded in 2008, AV is one of the most active and influential Mexican VC firms in Latin America. The Firm invests in early-stage to early-growth companies by becoming a leading Series Seed and Series A investor in startups that drive innovative business models tailored for the Latin American market.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- NOLD — NOLD provides a platform that users may locate an exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an outfit with a past that can tell a new tale and take them on a trip. The company was based in Bulgaria.
- Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
- Occosoft LLC — At Occosoft, we unlock infinite opportunities for entrepreneurship by tackling the power of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions. We collaborate with diverse clients across industries to transform their advanced experiences and enable them to reach new heights.Our Services: Managed AI Solutions: Use ourexpertise to consistently integrate AI into your operations. We handle updates, security, and framework checks, guaranteeing a smooth and secure experience.Custom Software Development with AI: Our custom software solutions are custom-fitted to your unique needs and consistently integrated with advanced AI functionalities.AI Web Development: Build a global presence with secure, universal web applications powered by AI. Access everything and work from anywhere with our intelligent online solutions.AI-Powered Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Outsmart the competition and get noticed! Our AI strategies get you to the top of search engine results organically, attracting more customers and moving your business growth.Social Media Optimization: We help you use the control of social media to manage your online profile, connect with modern clients, and build brand awareness.Features:Smart Report Processing: Automate data extraction and eliminate manual information entry tasks. Focus on what truly matters and discover the power of intelligent document processing.AI-Powered Security: Occosoft's AI security learns and adapts, creating an intelligent shield that safeguards your data from advanced attacks.Customized User Access: Our framework simplifies security while engaging your team for success. Experience streamlined collaboration without compromising information integrity.Connect us on our mission to open the genuine potential of your business with AI!
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
- Apps, Software, Food and Beverage
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
- Medi Whale — We believe that early detection is the best prevention. Our innovative diagnostic technology helps you take action before symptoms appear.
- Nuon Media — Nuon Media is an Internet e-book store that sells famous domestic romance martial arts fantasy fantasy novels.
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, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
- INKA Entworks — INKA Entworks specializes in the field of digital rights management and mobile application security.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. analyzes the profitability, growth, and risks of its businesses by sector (real estate, infrastructure, corporate credit, private equity, etc.) and region (international/domestic); identifies comparative advantages; and makes targeted investments in areas that will yield excess returns. Thecompany will continue achieving differentiated growth to fulfill its role as Korea’s foremost leader in the alternative investment industry.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GGQ — Download GGQ Desktop and Enjoy Your Game - Offers real-time champion ban-pick recommendations based on summoner play analysis, play highlights, AI coaching, and tutorial videos. PC Cafe LoL Program, LoL Assistant Program, LoL AI Analysis
- SSMM — SSMM provides artificial intelligence-based media and mobility solutions.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Mirae Asset Securities specializes in offering Prime Brokerage, Securities Financing, Agency Execution, and Correspondent Clearing services. They provide comprehensive financial services, including asset management, wealth management, investment banking, and life insurance.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, B2B
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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
- Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
- Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
Zero to One Partners is an investment company with management consulting capabilities.
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- Manufacturing, Art, B2B
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Vertex Lab — Vertex Lab provides reliable medical services
- The N Planet — The N Planet specializes in the development of exhibition planning contents through media art.
- Studio Yam Yam — The B2B marketing solution from Studio Yum Yum combines a client (company manager) database with a content-based strategy to assist businesses efficiently acquire customers and maximize the ROI of their B2B sales and marketing departments.
KEB Hana Bank provides commercial banking services.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
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- SK on — SK on develops and manufacturers high-energy density electric vehicle batteries.
- Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.
- 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.
Base Investments operates as an investment firm.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Korea Technology Development Company, a government-funded investment vehicle specializing in technology-related investment opportunities, KTB Financial Group(“KTB”) has since grown into a comprehensive financial group offering a wide range of financial services, including securities, asset management, venture capital, and private equity.KTB alsohas expanded our global network by actively entering overseas markets includes the United States, China, and Thailand.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
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- NYOU — NYOU is a game development company that develops games for recreational purposes.
- Soelect — Soelect provides engineering solutions and develops solid-state battery components for electric vehicles, power tools and electronics.
- CoLearn — Aplikasi belajar online yang bantu belajar Matematika, Fisika, Kimia jadi lebih cepat dimengerti. Ada beragam fitur aplikasi mulai dari bantuan mengerjakan PR dengan foto soal sampai bimbel untuk SD, SMP, SMA.
GS Retail sells beauty and skincare products, candles, gifts, perfumes, bathroom accessories and other products.
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- Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Food Processing
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- Dayoff — Dayoff wants to be a sensual content and product-curating platform for travel media commerce. It promotes taste-based domestic and international unknown travel products and provides differentiating services in the current travel market, where well-known products and information centered on the lowest price are the main focus. In addition tosupplying limited direct contract products, it intends to expand the current accommodation service to include excursions and activities in the market.
- Robros — Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life.
- Snackfor — Snackfor is a B2B company that curates and delivers snacks to offices.
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- Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam
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- AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
- Atlas Labs — Atlas Labs develops and delivers language-based AI solutions.
- Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.
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- B2B, Retail, Wholesale
- Seed
- South Korea
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- BitGo Korea — BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers.
- Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore
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- Dentifle — Dentifle specializes in providing advanced technologies for producing customized implant prosthetics solutions for dental professionals and patients, enhancing implant procedures' overall efficiency and effectiveness.
- SkinSeoul — Skin Seoul Lab utilizes AI agents to secure product assortments and design processes for Korean beauty products, advancing overseas through sustainable inventory management, logistics, and marketing based on the LLM model.
- ICU Corporation — ICU Corporation offers skilled and high-level optics from opticians with master's and doctoral degrees in optics, ensuring ease and sharp vision, which is the essence of glasses.
Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Episoden — Enjoy free English conversations in video chat format with international friends for your English speaking practice.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.
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- Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
- Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
Mirae Asset Capital Market is a leading global investment banking, securities and institutional business firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Open Research — Open research focuses on specialized AI search for knowledge workers, aiming to provide an efficient information search experience by shortening the mechanical and repetitive search process. Open Research plans to introduce an innovative AI search service that provides sophisticated answers and reports in near real time through technicaldifferentiation of models and algorithms, with a closed beta test.
- 858 Therapeutics — 858 Therapeutics is a stealth company specializing in the area of healthcare services, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA.
Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm.
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- Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
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- Wefun — Wefun operates as a company specializing in managing office snacks, providing a wide selection of snacks to cater to the preferences of workers. The company sends a dedicated snack curator who provides personalized consultations and suggests new products, ensuring clients can order weekly snacks that perfectly match their preferences.
- Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
The Turning Point is a korean investment firm.
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- Energy
- Series C
- South Korea
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- H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
- marketboro — marketboro is an online and offline B2B distribution platform.
Plantree Partners provides seed investment venture capital to the early-stage start-ups.
The investment firm is based in South Korea.
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- Apps, SaaS, Hotel
- Series A
- South Korea
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- Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
- CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
- Albam — Albam : A mobile based HR Solution that is available for both Managers(Admins) and Staffs in App both IOS & Android.The average HR manager spends 45 minutes a day to calculate time attendance & payroll. With Albam, time is reduced by 70% to only 15 minutes. Albam help enterprises in simplifying and automating their time attendance systemto payroll solution. Our easy to use and simple Cloud based Human Resource solution helps companies in reducing the high costs that are often associated in the investment of Time Attendance system which includes the purchase of expensive fingerprint machines and training of IT Personnels. With Albam, employees can clock in and clock out directly right away from their smartphone, clock in and clock out has never been this easier with Albam.
Bespin Global provide consulting, migration, managed service and solutions for hybrid cloud. They rapidly implement architectures optimized for various industry areas into a hybrid cloud environment interacting with IDB using AWS, MS Azure, and Flexcloud. Bespin Global is a premium brand for strengthening Hostway's cloud business that hasprovided corporate professional hosting services and managed services since 1998 and is dedicated to Hostway's cloud managed service provider (MSP) business.
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- B2B, Software
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Splab — Manage communities and events and enjoy them like never before. Umoh is a super-connector for participants and provides a powerful dashboard full of insights for event and community managers.
Murex Partners is a VC firm specializing in thesis-driven investing.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
- Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
- Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
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