Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in South Korea
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Big data startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in South Korea
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Hypersonic Laboratories — Hypersonic Laboratories is a venture startup building HELIX, a high-fidelity metaverse.
- Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
- Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
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
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- Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
- WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
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
- 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.
- Bitmagic — All you need is your imagination and Bitmagic helps you create the game you want to make.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
kt investment is a new technology business finance company established in 2015. It is an investment company that represents KT Group .kt investment seeks to contribute to social contribution and maximize investment return through win-win cooperation with promising SMEs and venture companies .kt investment seeks to achieve long-term returns bylooking at the market from a global perspective and looking for value investment opportunities in the long term.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
- Medipal — Medipal provides personal health for a health consultation. It provides subscription-based personal nurse service for patients.
- Rebellions — Liberate Human Potential with Accelerated AI
SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
- Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
- ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.
Premier Partners (프리미어 파트너스) is a Korean domestic funds management company. It provides investment services for individuals and businesses. Premier Partners was established in September 2005 in Seoul, Korea.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
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
- MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
- Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- NXN Labs — NXN Labs empowers individuals in crafting indistinguishable and sophisticated human images and videos. It goal is to empower people to seamlessly navigate this exciting, intertwined journey into a new era.
- MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
- Reliv — Automate QA tests in just 5 minutes
Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Modapl — Modapl's objective is to make all mobility data available to everyone. It is developing a platform for exchanging mobility data. The platform will contain data generated by autos, IoT devices, and smartphones, as well as mobility data owned by businesses.
- BrickBio — BrickBio: Bioconjugation platform for site-specific, site-selective modification of antibodies and other proteins
- HMC Networks — Hmcnetworks leads service innovation, resolving the imbalance of information in the medical industry by using big data.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
- Paraform — Match with expert recruiters and fill your hardest roles. Finding exceptional talent was extremely difficult, until now.
- Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
- JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
- PersonaAI — PersonaAI is a conversational AI technology company that provides chatbot, callboat and AI semiconductor Kiosk product and SaaS products.
Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GEXVal — GEXVal is to help patients and families fighting against orphan and intractable diseases
- Novorex — Novorex specializes in the development of molecule drugs targeting oncology and neurology diseases.
- Right Route — Right Route is an e-commerce company for clothes.
AhnLab is a cloud security technology provider that develops information security solutions and services for consumers, enterprises, and small and medium businesses worldwide. It delivers a comprehensive security lineup, including proven, world-class antivirus products for desktops and servers, mobile security products, online transaction securityproducts, network security appliances, and consulting services.AhnLab has established its market position and manages sales partners in many countries worldwide. Based on its cloud computing strategy, AhnLab’s technologies and solutions converge into a single platform to cope with evolving IT security challenges. It delivers comprehensive, coordinated protection against a wide variety of threat sources.AhnLab was founded in 1995 by Charles Ahn and is headquartered in Seoul.
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Investment focus
- Security, Cloud Security, Information Technology
- Series A, Private Equity
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- MONITORAPP — MONITORAPP is responsible for complete web security. Protect your business environment with Application Security Solutions of MONTORAPP.
- Astron Security — Astron Security is a cloud security technology company that provides core technology services for businesses.
We Ventures (Korea) is a venture capital investment firm based in Seoul
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, EdTech, Big Data
- Series A, Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvilab — Nuvi Lab has developed food scanners for two different industries:Healthcare - Nuvi Lab's food scanners can analyze users' eating habits to understand their health. Based on this data, users can obtain objective and reliable Big Data analysis of nutritional balance, calories, meal times and preferred food.Eco-cafeterias - NuviLab's food scanners can also improve the quality of cafeteria meals by analyzing the volume of servings, consumed food and leftover food. Through this solution, users can also analyze the causes of food waste and accurately predict the volume of intake to minimize the amount of leftovers. In addition, they can establish a compensation system to induce reduction of leftovers by analyzing individual deviated food habits.
- SPARTA — SPARTA is a coding education platform.
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Legend Capital, a subsidiary of Legend Holdings Ltd., started its vintage year in April, 2001 with a mission to become a top-notch and the most respected venture capital investment manager in China.Managing up to US$700 million across four funds, Legend Capital focuses on driving high-growth ventures with operations substantially based in Chinaor on markets related to China.Legend Capital mainly invests in early stage IT companies, specifically, in sectors of network applications and services, outsourcing and professional services, Infrastructure (IC design/key components), and mid-market growth stage companies in the fields of consumer goods, clean technology, health care, equipment manufacturing and modern services.Among over 60 portfolio companies are Joyo.com (acquired by Amazon.com), SinoCom (0299.HK), Solarfun Power (Nasdaq: SOLF), Spreadtrum Communications (Nasdaq: SPRD), China Sunshine Paper (2002.HK), and VanceInfo (NYSE:VIT), Eyang (0117.HK), etc.As an active investor, Legend Capital provides its portfolio companies extensive business resources and tailored services to assist with business development, company image building, and other critical company building activities on Chinese market so as to add value and maximize returns. Legend Capital is proud and thankful that it has the opportunity to blaze a trail with its innovative practice for China's venture capital industry.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- DK MedTech — Dingke Medical is a medical device tech firm specializing in the R&D and production of vascular interventional medical treatment products.
- Zhongke Guosheng — Zhongke Guosheng is a bio-based materials R&D firm that designs and develops furan-based bio-based materials.
- Xellar Biosystems — Xellar Biosystems is a wet artificial intelligence biotechnology company that provides analysis of drug testing and treatment.
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
- Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings is a startup company that invests in startups that solve social problems through innovative technologies. They invest in businesses that maximize synergy by pursuing both social and financial values at the same time. It focuses on five sectors including health, environment, education, elimination of inequality, andsocial infrastructure. Kaist Venture Investment Holdings was founded on October 31, 2014, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Retail, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Grant
- South Korea, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- J Fun — J Fun is a marketing agency that provides design, video production, and domestic marketing services.
- Bredis — Bredis Healthcare provides a variety of solutions for early diagnosis and prognosis monitoring of dementia based on ultrasensitive detection of biomarkers in bodily fluid. We also offer various digital solutions for personalized cognitive training to prevent and treat the disease.
- Mockingbird — Mockingbird gives personalized mock exams for the CSAT utilizing an AI item suggestion system.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
- HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
- Navigantis — Navigantis empowers physicians to deliver uncompromised neurovascular care by creating a new frontier in surgical robotics.
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc.
Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
KDB Industrial Bank is an investment firm
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Pillyze — mobile health care startup
- ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Deskera — All In One Business Software with Accounting, Inventory, CRM, Payroll and HRMS.
- Clap — Clap is a performance management platform for the growth of people and businesses. The integrated growth platform connects employee goals, feedback, and performance and provides an optimal solution for the introduction of a regular performance management system and a powerful onboarding program.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
Beyond Valley supports startup discovery and incubation so that they can overcome the crisis and achieve their goals. The company offers consultancy, strategy, incubation, and collaboration services.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Information Technology
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- SIJE — Sije is an IT-based solution company.
In Light Ventures is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Big Data, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- ioCrops — IoCrops is a greenhouse horticulture company based on high technology. They operate glasshouses with AI technologies and automation, overcoming space and time restrictions. The company's goal is to expand IoCrops’ glasshouses so they don’t require any human intervention.
- UPPTHERA — UPPTHERA is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in drug development using targeted protein degradation technology.
- Vegestar — Vegestar is a domestic fresh-cut company that provides purchase, process, and manufacturing solutions for the food and agriculture industry.
DB Capital, L.L.C., headquartered in Bellaire, Texas. DB Capital, L.L.C. is Home Improvement Lending company specializing in financing pools, spas and outdoor improvement projects. They at DB Capital, L.L.C. are able to offer their customers the most competitive and diversified loan programs available today. They proudly serve homeowners andhome buyers in Texas.They offer customized loan programs that will help you finance the home improvement project of your dreams. No matter what your financing needs are or what loan program you qualify for, they will provide you with excellent customer service to make sure your needs are met in the most economical and hassle-free way. Their goal is to make your financing dreams come true.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- WeDataLab — WeDataLab is an IT technology company that provides data integration and AI-related solutions.
CKD Venture Capital Corporation is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm. Founded in 1997, CKD Venture Capital Corporation considers seed, early stage, late stage and mezzanine investments.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Geekble — Geekble is a media startup that produces new media content on science and technology to bridge the gap between geeks and the world. With revenue from workshops and branded content, Geekble is building its own "maker space" for geeks to experiment. Teachers and professors are using Geekble's content for educational purposes, andGeekble videos have been used for public TV.
- Medinno — Medinno develops cell therapeutics for brain diseases. The company's therapy uses technology to treat a wide range of diseases, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, neonatal refractory brain diseases, and severe intraventricular hemorrhages..
- Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
- Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
- Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
SK Holdings provides information technology (IT) services.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Transportation
- Series B, Series C, Corporate Round
- United States, South Korea, China
Portfolio highlights
- a41 — A41 is a blockchain infra-service provider that validates and paves paths never ventured before.
- Wildtype — Wild Type is an agtech platform based in San Francisco, California.Wild Type aims to create clean and sustainable fish and meat. They use cellular agriculture technologies to address the most pressing challenges of the generation: climate change, food security, and health. They are looking for committed scientists to fundamentally redefine howthe world sources healthy and delicious meat.
- Thermo Lab Korea — Thermo Lab korea supplies eco-friendly packaging optimized for the cold chain to customers.
No.1 credit card company in Korea - a subsidiary of Shinhan Financial Group
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Credit Bureau
- Series A, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
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.
Shinhan Bank, is a bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, Vietnam, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
- Apartmentary — Apartmentary provides apartment mentoring service. It creates a framework that allows the customer to find the most personal life in their apartment. They record their stories in different colors. It finds ways to make every customer's home beautiful.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
- Testbank — Mission | About Product | Team Culture | Recruit | Team Blog
- Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
Shorooq Partners is the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dtonic — Efficient Spatio-Temporal Big Data Processing across Smart-X Industries
- The Food Lab — The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
- Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Douzone — Douzone provides information and communications technology solutions and services for companies.
- onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
- Lotte Group — Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sellsconfectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.
R&D fund for Korean startups who secured at least $100,000 from designated startup VCs or Accelerators
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- Software, Mobile, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
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- Seawith — home english version
- Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.
- Seoul Robotics — Welcome to Seoul Robotics! We build advanced Lidar perception software powered by deep learning.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Malaysia
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- Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
the operator of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Big Data
- Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Lambda256 — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
Insight Equity is an equity firm that makes control investments in middle-market and asset-intensive companies.
It is partnering with corporate divestitures, bankruptcies, restructurings, and family-owned liquidity events. Insight Equity has the ability to execute circumstances where speed is a priority.
It is headquartered in Southlake, Texas.
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- Health Care, Online Portals, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea
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- 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.
- Medipal — Medipal provides personal health for a health consultation. It provides subscription-based personal nurse service for patients.
- Doing Lab — DoingLAB is a mobile dietary application featuring an artificial intelligence camera that can calculate calories via photograph.
Dayli Partners is an investment firm.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- Nuvilab — We lead innovation of the Food-tech through AI technology that is helpful for both human and the environment.
- 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
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Japan, Germany
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- MIRI.DIH — MIRI.DIH is a technology-intensive e-business company.
- Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis 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.
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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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Mexico
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- 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.
IBK Capital has established an enviable track record as an independent Canadian investment banking firm.
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- Travel, Art, Logistics
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United Kingdom
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- Ronfic — Ronfic develops a smart fitness healthcare system.
- MetaFines — MetaFines is researching and developing anti-cancer drugs using cancer metabolism.
- 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
SANG SANG ebiz offers software education and MySQL DBMS consulting services.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
- 0njourney — Onjeonchi is an operator of a data-based hyper-personalized healthy diet recommendation using AI platform.
- RealDesignTech — Official Website of RealDesignTech
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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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
- LINKFLOW — LINKFLOW is a hardware company that produces and develops wearable cameras to capture scenes at a full 360-degree angle. The cameras are designed as wearable neckbands, use anti-shaking software to stabilize the image are lightweight allowing hands-free operation, and have cloud storage functionality with single-tap mobile applications connected tocapture their surroundings with seamless integration and a virtual reality-ready camera.
- LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
- Datarize — Datarize provides a simple to use integrated solution for personalized marketing - From extracting insights from data analysis to managing multiple campaigns in one seamless process.
- MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
SBC is a non-profit government-funded organization that provides health and success solutions for small & medium enterprises. It also operates financial and non-financial programs and provides financing for SMEs. SBC offers technology consulting, comprehensive diagnosis, SME training support, SME start-up, promotion fund management &operation, and domestic export marketing & international cooperation support.SBC was founded on January 30, 1979, and is based in Jinju, Korea.
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- E-Commerce, Pet, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Ziovision — Ziovision is a data analysis firm that uses artificial intelligence. advancement of social safety AI solution solutions, as well as licensing AI software and medical devices.
- Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
- Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
Established in 1973 in Korea, Hanmi Pharmaceuticals now is one of the top 5 pharmaceutical companies in terms of revenue, and the most R&D focused company with the highest R&D investment for several years.Hanmi has been successful for a few decades with high flexibility, continuously changing its market/development strategy fromfirst generics to IMD & FDC (Incrementally Modified Drug and Fixed Dose Combination) to new drug development including innovative small molecules and biologics. During the period of significant changes, Hanmi made multiple strategic collaboration relationships with multinational companies and biotech companies.Based on the success in 1980s and 1990s, Hanmi started its Chinese operation in 1996 with establishment of Beijing Hanmi. Now, Beijing Hanmi grew as a well-localized and well-settled Chinese company with more than 1,300 staffs including R&D, sales / marketing, and manufacturing experts and significant growth rate higher than 20% every year. Currently, Hanmi and Beijing Hanmi is closely collaborating on various business opportunities and new drug development projects as well as sales and marketing in Chinese territories.As the only Asian company with significant presence both in Korea and China, as the most R&D focused company with number of clinical stage projects with competitiveness, and as the company with open innovation based on multiple development/marketing collaborations, Hanmi is trying to develop and provide differentiated treatment options to patients suffering from various disease.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Series C
- United States, South Korea, Canada
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- Digital Pharm — Digital Pharm is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in electroceuticals and DTx.
- Aptose Biosciences — Aptose Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to developing first-in-class targeted agents to treat life-threatening cancers.
- Spectrum Pharmaceuticals — Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage biotechnology company with fully integrated commercial and drug development operations, and a focus in oncology and hematology.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
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- 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.
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