Top 15 CleanTech VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (August 2026)

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• Conalog — Conalog is a piezoelectric element-based energy harvesting technology.
• GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
• Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.

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• 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

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• Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
• Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
• Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.

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• Grindr — Grindr is an all-male location-based network that allows gay, bi, or curious men to connect and hang out with one another.Since launching in March 2009, Grindr has become a global sensation and surpassed 7 million users in 192 countries. On a daily basis, Grindr counts some 1.2 million users who log on approximately eight times per day and spendan average of two hours each day using the app. Grindr also offers a fully loaded, premium subscription-based service called Grindr Xtra. Grindr is currently available on the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android and BlackBerry models. For more information about Grindr, visit www.Grindr.com.In 2011, Grindr launched Grindr for Equality, its social action division. Grindr for Equality works diligently to engage the Grindr network in a variety of ways to help bring about a more equal tomorrow. Initiatives include helping to promote a documentary on the conditions of the Jamaican LGBT community and driving donations and signatures for petitions to denounce anti-homosexuality policies in Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine and Russia.
• Faropoint — Faropoint is an innovative real estate investment firm that acquires last-mile individual warehouses. Using a self-developed proprietary data platform, which enhances acquisition methodology, they have learned how to generate highly attractive off-market opportunities.
• Centra Funding — Centra Funding is committed to providing small businesses the opportunity to acquire equipment with a fast and simple finance solution.

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• LTechUVC — LTechUVC is a hydrogen-based green energy company that manufactures fuel cell power generation.
• LTechkorea — LTechkorea is a technology company that develops eco-friendly servers based on green technology that reduces failure rates. The company leads the future in the global market based on cutting-edge high-tech Super Vision camera technology, will always grow together with its customers. Eltek Korea develops eco-friendly servers based on proprietarygreen technology that significantly reduce failure rates and power consumption through high efficiency and low heat generation using high-performance SSDs, and is supporting the sustainable growth of customers across all industries. The firm continues its eco-friendly server business through continuous development and investment.

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• MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
• UCONNEC — UConnec is a marketing platform that connects YouTube influencers with advertiser brands.
• Redrob — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.

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• TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
• Aigencore — Aigencore is a specialized, advanced technology company focused on tritium solutions, nuclear fusion fuel cycles, and tritium-applied industrial products.
• Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.

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• Nearthlab — The progress of technology must ultimately serve people. Nearthlab safeguards life and safety through Physical AI.
• Electra — Electra is decarbonizing ironmaking for green steel production using intermittent renewable energy and low-grade iron ores.
• Labrador Labs — LABRADOR LABS began as an academic research collaboration initiative to develop an automated analytic method for detecting both known and new vulnerabilities.

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• Ecogear — Ecogear develops eco-friendly bio-materials derived from natural resources, applying advanced nanotechnology to create functional coatings and ingredients. Its solutions are used across food, cosmetics, and healthcare sectors. The company emphasizes sustainability, safety, and innovation while delivering high-performance materials that supportenvironmentally responsible industries.

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• TripleW Group NV — Making Waste History. TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value bioplastic
• Levit — Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience
• Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.

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• Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
• Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
• Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform

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• Petch — Petch is a digital services provider that offers business consulting, content provision, food supply, and collaborative branding for pet.
• Dear Monday — Dear Monday is a work service platform that specializes in balancing work and vacation. It provides high-end work equipment to provide a superior experience to working in the office or from home.
• Safe Kitchen Company — Safe Kitchen Company is a kitchen cleaning and maintenance services company.

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• CLEANBELL — CLEANBELL provides information about cleaning companies in Korea.

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• RXC — RXC is a startup that creates a differentiated next-gen media commerce platform that helps brands succeed.
• Elice — Elice is an e-learning services company.
• GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.

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• A2D2 — A2D2 AI analyzes and organizes tens of thousands of pages of evidence documents.
• All Conec — All Conec is a digital platform that connects dental clinics and laboratories around the world. The platform also provides dental equipment shopping. The user can plan implant surgery quickly and precisely through the platform.
• Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.