Top 15 Blockchain Angel Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

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• Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
• XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
• Hashnode — Hashnode is a blogging platform where developers, engineers, and tech leaders write to sharpen ideas, share knowledge, and build their reputation. Start for free.

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• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
• Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
• Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

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• Alerzo — Alerzo is a B2B e-commerce retail company providing a technology and services platform that transforms how informal retail stores operate. It offers on-demand inventory distribution and financial services for small informal stores while also providing real-time market trends, customer feedback, and other consumer purchasing data to brands andmanufacturers.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Ibadan, Nigeria.
• Verandah — Verandah is story based conscious luxury resort brand retailing amongst the top 100 in the global luxury resort wear space with design roots strongly based in India. Verandah also has a line of 100% Italian made sustainable swimwear to compliment the season-less ready to wear line.
• Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories

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• Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

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• GALY — GALY biocrafts premium cocoa and cotton with quality, traceability, and scalable supply for modern brands.
• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• Vivoo — Get personalized wellness insights with Vivoo's innovative, science-backed products. Understand your body's needs and take control of your body. Shop now!

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• GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
• Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.

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• boam.ai — The easy way to find your next meal. Combines your favorite review sites, restaurant platforms, and tools in one place.
• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
• Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.

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• Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Story Protocol — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
• The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.

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• Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
• Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
• Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat

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• Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
• Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
• Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

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• Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
• Defi.money — Welcome to a new era of $MONEY
• Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

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• Eigenpie — Eigenpie is a restaking SubDAO that gives holders of Liquid Staking Tokens the chance to enhance their earning potential by restaking assets.
• RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
• t1 protocol — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.

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• Inco — Bringing confidentiality to Web3 through the fhEVM
• Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
• Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

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• Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
• Bonsai — An experimental, mixed ERC-20 / ERC-721 implementation with native liquidity, fractionalization and unique art. 100000 $BONSAI Token is linked to 1 BONSAI NFT!
• Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

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• ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
• RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
• Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.