Top 50 Big Data VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (July 2026)
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Debt Financing | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $223k–$7.5M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $743k–$40M |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care | $973k–$50M |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $76k–$16M |
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Naver
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $1k–$59M |
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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Medical | $1k–$15M |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $223k–$12M |
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Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Medical, Software | $1k–$18M |
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Legend Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, South Korea | Series B, Series A, Series C | Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology | $2.9M–$156M |
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We Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $743k–$19M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $694k–$35M |
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KT Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $1.7M–$104M |
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Quantum Ventures Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Medical, Information Technology | $1M–$54M |
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SBVA
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1.7M–$168M |
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.9M–$45M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $347k–$19M |
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Premier Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Russian Federation | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $2.2M–$45M |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $297k–$27M |
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Kaist Venture Investment Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Australia | Seed, Angel, Grant | Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $149k–$1.5M |
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AhnLab
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Private Equity | Information Technology, Security, Cloud Security | $2k–$4.9M |
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KB Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Post-IPO Equity | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $82–$22M |
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Newborn Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $147k–$554k |
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $200k–$19M |
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Mirae Asset Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series B, Series A, Series C | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $6k–$255M |
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Korea Omega Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Vietnam, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care | $5k–$59M |
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IBK Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $2k–$21M |
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SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $2.5M–$33M |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $750k–$33M |
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | $2M–$20M |
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WOW Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Music, Content, Big Data | $68k–$374k |
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Kingospring
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Fashion, Information Technology, Pet | $67k–$100M |
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Woori Bank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, China, Hong Kong | Series B, Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage | $149k–$16M |
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $45k–$28M |
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Oda Stone Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Medical, Big Data | $745k–$1.4M |
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GC Biopharma
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Canada, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $2k–$120M |
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Kolon Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Biotechnology, Apps | |
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Aju IB Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics | |
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HB Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | |
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HB Realty Investments, Inc.
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A | Big Data, Software, Food Delivery | |
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Partners Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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Technology Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Chemical, Industrial, Manufacturing | |
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CKD Venture Capital Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Information Technology | |
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SK Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, China | Series B, Series C, Corporate Round | Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Transportation | |
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Dunamu
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Big Data | |
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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Information Technology | |
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Korea Tech Incubator Program For Startup
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, Video | |
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In Light Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | AgTech, Big Data, Internet | |
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Albatross Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | Medical Device, Shopping, Pharmaceutical | |
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Dayli Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | |
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Hanmi Pharmaceutical
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Canada | Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 263
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.9M; Series A $743k–$7.5M; Debt Financing $254k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloto — CLOTHO Co., Ltd. is a South Korean B2B GovTech company that provides operational support for government-funded R&D projects. Their flagship service, "Hello Unicorn" (헬로유니콘), helps startups, SMEs, universities, and research institutes manage research administration, project expenditure, settlement, and documentation — reducingcompliance issues, missing paperwork, deadline risks, and operational gaps from personnel changes through systematized processes.
- Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
- DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 378
- Round size: Seed $743k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$36M; Series B $4.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
- H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
- ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 434
- Round size: Seed $973k–$11M; Series A $1.9M–$23M; Series B $2.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- 90days — 90days is an electronic bill-based P2B investment brokerage platform.
- New Id —
- Art Together — Art Together is a crowdfunding platform to buy an artwork.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $76k–$1.5M; Series A $761k–$9.4M; Series B $8.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.
- Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
- Walkie Doki — Walkie Doki provides offline store management customized platform and job recommendations.
Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1k–$4.1M; Series A $2k–$7.4M; Series B $7k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sodamsodam — Sodamsodam is a meat processing and home meal replacement (HMR) manufacturing company. They secure cost competitiveness by directly deboning and shaping beef and pork, utilizing all parts. They produce their products using a combination of cast-iron pot heating and modern equipment.
- Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.
- Intergravity — Intergravity is a company that is developing orbital transportation technologies to support the future of in-space activity. Intergravity is to enable a space environment in which mobility, service, and logistics are seamlessly integrated, creating the framework for long-term operations beyond Earth.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 234
- Round size: Seed $223k–$3.1M; Series A $334k–$9.7M; Series B $743k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
- TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $743k–$3M; Series A $1k–$11M; Series B $6k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
- MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
- Eurobotics — Eurobotics is a cutting-edge startup focused on developing autonomous walking robot technology capable of navigating and operating effectively in irregular, complex, or unpredictable environments.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 408
- Round size: Series A $2.9M–$93M; Series B $12M–$115M; Series C $14M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $177M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
- Lunit — With AI, we aim to make data-driven medicine the new standard of care. We are especially focused on conquering cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
- CMind-SEMI — CMind is committed to becoming the new global leader in smartphone communication chips by concentrating on 4G and 5G advanced wireless communication chips and complete solutions.
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $743k–$4.5M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
- ActionPower — ActionPower is an AI-based startup company that offers speech recognition and natural language processing technology services.
- Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 255
- Round size: Seed $694k–$6.6M; Series A $1M–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AstralQ — AstralQ builds an AI-powered end-to-end materials development cloud lab. It develops Machine-learned Hamiltonian models for large-scale electronic structure computations and Machine-learned Force Field models trained on proprietary DFT datasets. The company operates an automated inorganic synthesis lab to validate AI predictions through physicalexperiments.
- GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
KT Investment, established in 2015 as the venture capital arm of KT Group, is dedicated to driving social impact while achieving maximum investment returns. We stand with founders every step of the way, providing the support and resources necessary to transform innovative ideas into impactful ventures. By partnering with promising startups andventure companies, we create win-win opportunities that pave the way for long-term success. With a global perspective, we actively seek value-driven investments that shape the future.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $5.9M–$104M; Series C $7.4M–$97M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Twinny — Twinny specializes in the development of self-driving robots.
- Refilled — Refilled offers tailored hair loss home care services based on scientific hair loss study findings.
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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- Industry: Software, Medical, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $3.7M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $34M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
- Wavelord —
- Plastal — Plastal is a mechanical and chemical engineering company that offers polymer, metal, and mold injection services. The company specializes in using its core technology required for bonding between metal and plastic resin, mold technology, injection conditions, and milling capabilities, enabling manufacturing companies to avail themselves of theproducts they desire.
Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $4M–$60M; Series C $8.9M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- BEJEWEL — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$23M; Series B $4.5M–$42M; Series C $5.6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
- Yeoshin — Yeoshin is a skin treatment information platform.
- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $347k–$4.6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $5.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $82M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
- Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
- Akisostem BioStrategies — Archisostem BioStrategies is a research and development company.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 319
- Round size: Seed $297k–$4.2M; Series A $891k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- LifeLabs — LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients.LifeLabs is strongly committed to continual innovation in testingservices. For our patients and healthcare providers, this means we always strive to provide access to the latest specialized clinical tests—to detect cancer for example, to monitor heart disease, identify neurological disorders and pinpoint allergies.LifeLabs is well-positioned to deliver care at home, in the community and across Ontario and British Columbia. We have over 5,400 professionally trained staff members, over 360 conveniently located patient service centres and an extensive network of couriers and mobile phlebotomists on the job.
- MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $149k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blue Magnet — Blue Magnet is a startup company that develops technology for treating radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The company specializes in nuclear waste treatment solutions, with a particular focus on developing magnetic materials for collecting and processing radioactive cesium and other contaminants from nuclear facilities.
- Visionary — Visionary operates as a spatial intelligence infrastructure company for autonomous systems.Visionary is a single data platform for autonomous systems, from registration and processing to search and evaluation.
- K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Security, Cloud Security
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Private Equity
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $2k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fescaro — FESCARO Automotive Cyber Security provides automotive security solutions for autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles from hacking
- MONITORAPP — MONITORAPP provides comprehensive cybersecurity solutions that protect web applications, APIs, and users from advanced threats efficiently and cost-effectively.
- Tatum security — Tatum security provides cloud security software for businesses. All enterprise infrastructure environments are transitioning to the cloud, Enterprises need a flexible and secure form of security. Tatum security's Cloud Security Configuration Management (CSPM) technology helps companies build context-optimized cloud security. Enterprises useTatum security's CSPM (Cloud Security Configuration Management) technology, You can build cloud security that is optimized for each situation.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$12M; Series B $4.1M–$22M; Post-IPO Equity $82–$202k
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Korean Air — Korean Air provides passenger air transportation, air cargo logistics, and related travel services through scheduled and charter flight operations. The company transports passengers between international and domestic destinations and manages ticketing, reservations, and in-flight services through its digital platforms and airport operations. Itscargo division handles freight transportation, including general cargo, special shipments, and charter logistics, and supports shipment tracking and electronic air waybill processing. The company also operates integrated logistics services such as trucking connections that link air routes with ground transport networks for cargo delivery. In addition, Korean Air runs programs that allow cargo customers to measure and reduce transportation-related carbon emissions through the use of sustainable aviation fuel initiatives.
- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- Seeann Solution — integrated PSI manufacturer Seeann Solution
Newborn Ventures is an investment consulting firm that provides professional training courses and initial startup funding.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $147k–$554k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SemiAI — SemiAI develops an agentic AI platform for semiconductor manufacturing. The company provides AI-driven solutions that analyze fabrication data, detect process issues, optimize yield, and support decision-making across production workflows, helping semiconductor manufacturers improve efficiency and production quality through intelligent automation.
- Metainnotech — Metainnotech is an innovative technology platform that provides inter-floor noise reduction solutions in apartments and complexes using AI and various algorithms.
- Moment Studio — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $334k–$19M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- BacklotCars — Making Wholesale Easy
- Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Series A $6k–$47M; Series B $5.5M–$105M; Series C $14M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
- Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
- Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
Korea Omega Investment Finance is a private equity and venture capital firm
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $743k–$1.5M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $5k–$59M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
- Esol — Esol operates a semiconductor equipment business focused on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. It provides EUV pellicle transmittance and mask phase measurement systems, as well as interference patterning equipment, enabling higher-resolution, denser, and more advanced semiconductor chips.
- MilieMoon — Demi-fine Jewelry for Finer Taste.
IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $2k–$7.6M; Series A $720k–$8.2M; Series B $7k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
- Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions
- PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$14M; Series B $4.5M–$32M; Series C $8.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
- Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions
- Cenyx Biotech — Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $750k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$13M; Series B $2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Beamworks — Beamworks is a research-centered company in medical imaging and conversational AI, that enables expert-level cancer diagnosis anywhere in the world and providing reliable medical consultations at any time. The company's platform utilizes an on-device AI system that processes ultrasound data in real-time without the need for serverconnectivity, achieving detection sensitivity and differential diagnosis performance, enabling healthcare providers to offer precise and timely diagnostics and improve patient outcomes, and reduce unnecessary procedures.
- CanLab — CanLab is a developer of AI sensors that focuses on creating optical and thermal cameras, as well as real-time image processing platforms for ground, aerial, and marine mobility. Its product offerings include the Vision Camera, Edge AI Platform, Equipment for Thermal Cameras, and Automotive Camera MES.
- AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
WOW Partners is a startup accelerator and consulting company.
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- Industry: Music, Content, Big Data
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $68k–$374k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoya Lab — HoyaLab is a biotech business that specializes in gene editing.
- Maze — Maze offers distinct big data collection solutions by using AIoT technology.
- Peptirna Therapeutics —
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- Industry: Fashion, Information Technology, Pet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $67k–$100M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sofcle — Sofkle holds a patented technology for a unique and environmentally friendly method of manufacturing natural mineral calcium balls by utilizing clam shells—a readily available and sustainable natural resource—as a recyclable material.
- Save the Farms — Save the Farms aims to contribute to a sustainable agricultural ecosystem by developing biochar using microbial agents to solve the problem of continuous cropping in rural areas.
- Textile Design Bank — Textile Design Bank is a textile design trading platform intended to digitally register and license designs for print pattern commercialization. The company's platform provides global print pattern designs and customized colors for each brand and product signature and conducts practical fashion education and employment consulting, enablingtextile designers and fashion brands to efficiently find, evaluate, and obtain design assets that support creative, production, and commercial workflows in the textile design ecosystem.
Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea's wealth and economy.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, China, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $149k–$7.4M; Series A $1.5M–$7.4M; Series B $3.7M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
- Grace — Grace operates as a health and beauty brand aggregator.
- EXA Infrastructure —
Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $45k–$4.1M; Series A $1.7M–$28M; Series B $3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
- 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.
- Aim Intelligence — Leading AI Security & Safety Solutions Provider - Specializing in AI Risk Detection, Mitigation, and Elimination through Advanced Red Teaming and Defensive Systems | Leading provider of AI Security, Safety, and Compliance solutions
Oda Stone Investment is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Medical, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $745k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SIJE — Sije is an IT-based solution company.
- Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
GC holding company, which operates pharmaceutical, biotechnology, distribution system, life insurance, and healthcare entities.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $2k–$11M; Series A $3k–$78M; Series B $17k–$120M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
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- Curevo — focused on a new generation of adjuvanted subunit vaccines Learn More Our Focus We're dedicated to developing non-mRNA vaccines for unmet medical needs Curevo Vaccine is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing next-generation non-mRNA vaccines. We focus on one need at a time, allowing us to bring effective and better-tolerated vaccines to market quickly
- Humanscape — The IT-based healthcare company Humanscape operates three services - Rarenote for rare disease patients, MommyTalk for families in pregnancy and parenting, and Clinical Trials Korea for patients interested in clinicial trials.
- Feldan Therapeutics — Feldan Therapeutics has developed a patented peptide-based technology platform, the Feldan Shuttle, which enables fast and safe intracellular delivery. The company's mission is to develop leading-edge therapeutic applications based on its proprietary platform, as demonstrated by its current pipeline of clinical programs taking advantage of theunique characteristics of the Shuttle.
Kolon Investment, Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in buyouts, mezzanine, corporate restructuring, growth capital, and turnaround investment. It prefers to invest in electronic components, petroleum, energy, computer, and telecommunications equipment. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul,Gyeonggi, Incheon, and Gyeongbuk. Kolon Investment, Inc. was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Source: Businessweek
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
- Hej home — Hej home is the largest smart home IoT brand in Korea under GoQual Co. Ltd. Hej Home is a company that aims to create a comfortable and transformed daily life that people may not have experienced before. It turns uncomfortable moments into enjoyable ones, making everyone's dream house a part of their everyday lives.
- 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.
Aju IB Investment is a venture capital firm that offers SMEs with investments and consulting services.Aju IB Investment offers consulting services that focus on business management, tax, accounting, legal, mergers and acquisitions, additional funding, marketing, and technology support.Aju IB Investment was founded in September 1974 and is basedin Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
- Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
- Kovis Technology — Kovis Technology is a manufacturer of measurement and inspection equipment intended for global semiconductor and electronic industries.
HB Investment Inc. was founded on November 11, 1999 starting with paid-in Capital of KRW 10 billion.Since its foundation, HB Investment Inc. has been investing small and medium businesses that have the potential for steady growth and profitability and helping the invested companies to grow well by giving various consulting services. As a result,HB Investment Inc.constructed comprehensive portfolio out of various industrial areas, such as game, entertainment, as well as representative high-tech industries related to semiconductor, Internet, LCD, and a smart phone, bio, health care. In addition, HB Investment Inc. has experiences in implementing business Success-fully by organizing several partnership funds for recent years.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
- Lucas — Medical AI Solution, MONCAD Monitor Corporation aim to achieve innovation in the field of medical imaging through artificial intelligence technology.
- 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.
HB Realty Investments provides exceptional risk-adjusted returns through careful and strategic execution. Our team has deep experience with market cycles and multiple project phases including: acquisition, disposition, recapitalization, development, and investment management, within all major U.S. markets. The company has engaged ininvestment activities across a portfolio of assets.
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Food Delivery
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Helloworld — Helloworld is a Korean software company that provides online delivery solutions.
As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
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- Total investments: 110
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
- Dime Bio — Dime Bio is a drug development company for novel dementia treatments.
- Arbor Biotechnologies — Arbor Biotechnologies is an early stage life sciences company pushing the boundaries of biodiscovery. Using artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, gene synthesis and high-throughput screening, we are accelerating the discovery of proteins for improving human health and sustainability.
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- Industry: Chemical, Industrial, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Data Company — Data Company is a big data analytics company.
- DK Fine Chemical — DK Fine Chemical is committed to providing essential cellulose-based solutions that play a crucial role in various industries, including construction, paint, coatings, food, pharmaceuticals, personal care, and more. The company focuses on delivering high-quality, sustainable, and innovative cellulose compounds, tailored to meet the diverse needs ofits clients across these sectors.
- DewCell — Dewcell Biotherapeutics develops synthetic platelets using biomimetic technology. The company's system secures stem cell differentiation technology into megakaryocytes that generate platelets and mass-produces artificial platelets.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
SK Holdings provides information technology (IT) services.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Transportation
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Corporate Round
- Geography: United States, South Korea, China
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- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
the operator of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Big Data
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Total investments: 38
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- CTNS — CTNS develops and produces secondary battery packs.
- Lightyear — Lightyear One is a Long-Range Solar Car Designed & Engineered by Lightyear in The Netherlands. Designed for Independence.
- Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
R&D fund for Korean startups who secured at least $100,000 from designated startup VCs or Accelerators
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Video
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
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- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
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- Industry: AgTech, Big Data, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Albatross Investment is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
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- Industry: Medical Device, Shopping, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
- HJ Wave — HJ Wave is a manufacturing comapny that designs and develops millimeter-wave RF band, including radar antennas for autonomous driving.
- Edgecare — Edgecare Inc. is pioneering ultrasound technology to offer innovative healthcare solutions.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Series C
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Canada
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- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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.
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