Top 50 Climate Startup Investors in South Korea (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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36 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Debt Financing | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $254k–$7.5M |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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23 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $149k–$29M |
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Series Ventures
VC Fund
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20 | South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | $74k–$4.4M |
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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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17 | South Korea, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Medical | $1k–$15M |
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
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16 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software | $594k–$39M |
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DSC Investment
VC Fund
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16 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $594k–$47M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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16 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $743k–$40M |
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
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15 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $22k–$1.5M |
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
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15 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $149k–$11M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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14 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $694k–$35M |
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Magna Investment
VC Fund
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13 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical | $145k–$18M |
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Company K Partners
VC Fund
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13 | South Korea, United States, Gibraltar | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $2.2M–$44M |
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
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13 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $594k–$54M |
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
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12 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.9M–$45M |
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Enlight Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | South Korea, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $3k–$20M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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11 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $347k–$19M |
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
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11 | South Korea, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $223k–$11M |
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KOSME
VC Fund
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11 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Health Care, E-Commerce | $74k–$37M |
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
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11 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Software | $2.2M–$45M |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $297k–$27M |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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10 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care | $973k–$50M |
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
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10 | South Korea, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $149k–$4.5M |
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MYSC
VC Fund
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10 | South Korea, China, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce | |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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9 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $223k–$12M |
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IBK Capital
VC Fund
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9 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $2k–$21M |
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TheVentures
VC Fund
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9 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $72k–$4.8M |
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Korea Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
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9 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology | $1k–$1.3B |
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SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund
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9 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $2.5M–$33M |
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SL Investment
VC Fund
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9 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Medical, Software | $2k–$25M |
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
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8 | South Korea, Kuwait | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $5k–$13M |
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KDB Capital
VC Fund
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8 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $743k–$39M |
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | South Korea, United States, South Africa | Series A, Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $1.4M–$19M |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $18k–$30M |
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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, United States, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical | $547k–$28M |
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software | $383k–$25M |
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Albatross Investment
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care | $2k–$21M |
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $45k–$28M |
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, Hong Kong, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps | $7k–$13M |
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Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, Iraq, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology | $5k–$16M |
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $223k–$25M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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6 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $108k–$28M |
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Nice Investment Partners
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, Japan | Series A, Series B, Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, Software | $1k–$22M |
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TINVESTMENT
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $328k–$26M |
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Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $74k–$1.8M |
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AI Angel Club
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical | $74k–$4.8M |
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Hana Securities
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software | $22k–$19M |
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Gaming, Information Technology | $741k–$35M |
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Bass Investment
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $523k–$20M |
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Intops Investment
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, China, Indonesia | Series A, Seed | Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology | $1k–$24M |
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | |
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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: 264
- Round size: Seed $314k–$2.9M; Series A $743k–$7.5M; Debt Financing $254k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inobus — Inobus is a company that focuses on innovating household recycling systems through IT technology.
- 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.
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 287
- Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
- Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M; Series A $2.4M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TouchMeal — TouchMind (operating as TouchMeal) runs an AI-driven senior foodtech platform that manages professional institutional catering, customized dietary meal planning, and automated ingredient supply chains for nursing homes. The company handles full kitchen management operations, including hygiene standards compliance, staff management, and thedistribution of specialized elderly-friendly food products.
- XYZ — LoungeLAB is a Retail-tech startup that augments space with technology, using the state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and Robotics technology. LoungeLAB focuses on enhancing the product value and services, and we develop in the field rather than on the desk. We Invent Everyday Technology for All.
- ROBOS — Robos is a hybrid robot system built by evaluating biological object vision data using Lidar Vision and Open CV-based Object Detection. By combining self-developed biomaterial machine vision technology and robot technology, it intends to expand into a company that delivers core services to diverse industrial sites such as manufacturing, food, andmedical.
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: 88
- Round size: Seed $1k–$4.1M; Series A $2k–$7.4M; Series B $7k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
- 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.
L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $594k–$4.5M; Series A $1.9M–$8.2M; Series B $3.7M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
- Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
- Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $594k–$9.1M; Series A $1.5M–$17M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FastView — FastView provides content commerce services and online marketing services.
- Clobe AI — Clobe AI is a SaaS-based financial management platform designed for businesses to monitor and manage cash flow and financial operations. The company provides services such as real-time aggregation of financial data from bank accounts, corporate cards, and tax invoices, along with automated accounting and tax handling. The platform also supportscash flow tracking, profit and loss analysis, and automated settlement workflows, including transaction mapping and invoice processing, enabling centralized financial reporting and operational control.
- Kong Studios, Inc. — We truly believe in Gameplay First. Kong Studios is a U.S game developer, and a 'Unicorn' valued at 1B USD.
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
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $22k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
- Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
- Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $149k–$6.1M; Series A $1.1M–$8.2M; Series B $3.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
- Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
- Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
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
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $145k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$8.2M; Series B $1.4M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
- Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
- Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
Company K Partners Limited is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in culture content, electronic components, computer, machinery, broadcasting, arts, sports, and leisure industries. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeongnam, and Gyeonggi. Company K Partners Limited was established in 2006 and isbased in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Gibraltar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$17M; Series B $6.5M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
- AccuOptotech — AccuOptotech develops advanced semiconductor inspection equipment, including ultra-high-resolution thermal imaging and non-destructive glass core substrate inspection systems
- 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.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 283
- Round size: Seed $594k–$12M; Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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
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, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$24M; Series B $4.5M–$39M; Series C $7.1M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
- Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
- 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
Enlight Ventures, one of the fastest growing VCs in the world, invests in early-stage startups with unique and sustainable business models.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $392k–$10M; Series A $541k–$4.7M; Series B $3k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
- Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
- 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.
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.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5.4M; Series B $4.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
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- Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops automotive data platform that provides web-based visualization, filtering, and post-processing of vehicle data.
KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1M; Series A $743k–$37M; Series B $2.6M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iTNew — iTNew Corp is a company focused on using Web3 and blockchain technologies to drive innovation and create customized digital solutions.
- VivaLabs — VivaLabs is a health tech company that analyzes senior health data with AI technology and implements a personalized exercise prescription system to provide scientific strength training programs.
- Dfinite Inc. — DARVIS 2.0 is an AI-powered data operations platform designed to streamline, automate, and optimize the entire data lifecycle, leveraging advanced machine learning, intelligent analytics, and workflow automation to help enterprises manage, interpret, and act on complex data efficiently, enabling faster decision-making and improved operationalperformance.
Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
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- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$23M; Series B $6.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
- Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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: 320
- 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
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
- Pridge Crew — Pridge Crew offers a range of services primarily focused on pet care and app development. Their services include pet care shop reservations and customer management, automatic dispatch of reservation guidance through KakaoTalk, electronic consent forms, and notifications. They also provide services related to pet grooming and pet hotels. Inaddition, Pridge Crew is involved in app development, creating solutions that cater to the needs of their customers in the pet care industry.
- Consumer Bridge — Consumer Bridge is an electronics company.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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- 90days — 90days is an electronic bill-based P2B investment brokerage platform.
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- Art Together — Art Together is a crowdfunding platform to buy an artwork.
D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $149k–$2M; Series A $1M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Conalog — Conalog is a piezoelectric element-based energy harvesting technology.
- Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
- Wintec Glovis — Wintec Glovis manufactures water treatment and air purification equipment that solves the drawbacks of activated carbon. With the help of superheated steam, the company recycles activated carbon with eco-friendly technology, which allows humans to breathe clean air and drink clear water without concern.
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, China, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
- Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
- Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
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.
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.
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Seed $73k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $72k–$2M; Series A $2.5M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Kilofarms — Kilofarms is a tech-enabled platform that aims to help farmers overcome inefficiencies in the traditional farming practices and produce residue-free fruits and vegetables.
- Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
- Wecare — Wecare is an e-commerce business that shares childcare-related product information through the community and sells content and products.
Korea Science and Technology Holdings specializes in technology commercialization services by government-funded research institutes.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $698k–$1.3B; Series A $1k–$8.2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cellico — Cellico is a medical device company that develops electronic eyeglasses for vision loss.
- Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
- Thermoeye — Thermoeye provides thermal imaging systems utilizing temperature analysis technology.
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.
SL investment (SLi) aims at a company with global standards through management by principle and transparency.SLi is a venture capital firm founded in February 2000 and has widely invested in the companies from early to mezzanine stage, in the field of semiconductors, display (AMOLED, LED, LCD), renewable energy, and health care industry.Since its incorporation, SLi has recorded black-ink balances for 12 consecutive years with zero debt and also has successfully dissolved all the five funds with outstanding earning rates.SLi tries to raise the value of venture companies not only by offering funds but by supporting the management omnidirectionally after its investment. Consequently, 31 companies have been successfully listed in KOSDAQ market for 12 years and all the companies have positioned as leading firms in their specific fields.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $2k–$13M; Series A $7k–$14M; Series B $1.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ark — Ark is an AI-based early screening company focused on identifying and preventing complications associated with chronic diseases, developing and supplying advanced medical AI solutions that enable early detection, risk assessment, and proactive disease management to support healthcare providers in delivering more precise and timely care.
- Twinny — Twinny specializes in the development of self-driving robots.
- Cenyx Biotech — Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Kuwait
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $743k–$4.8M; Series A $1.1M–$9M; Series B $5k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
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- Leesol — Leesol is a sleep technology company engaged in the production of AI based neuromodulation devices for the prevention and treatment solutions for modern-day people’s healthy brains. The company's product range includes the sleepisol which is a functional smart wearable device that utilizes CES (Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation) and is aneffective product for the customer’s quality of sleep and life. The product can also be used with a user-oriented data based App.
- ROVO — ROVO is a startup developing an "unmanned road pavement maintenance platform" that combines an AI-based road pavement control and decision-making system with autonomous road repair robots.
- Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
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Browse database — It's Free!KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $743k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $3.8M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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- Unastella — Unastella is an aerospace company developing human spaceflight technologies, including launch vehicles and suborbital tourism systems. The company focuses on advancing reusable rocket technology and future space travel infrastructure for civilian space exploration missions. Unastella aims to support the growth of private human spaceflight andnext-generation aerospace innovation.
- Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
- Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Series B $2.7M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
- Amber Road — Amber Road is the creator of an operation management-focused data analysis program. By analyzing the data based on the input data, the company's platform generates a customized AI model and business insight report that requires the input of manufacturing process data.
- De novo Biotherapeutics — De novo Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing mRNA-encoded antibodies and NK cell-engaging antibodies for cancer treatment.
Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.7M; Series A $966k–$10M; Series B $18k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
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- Serpot — Serpot is a production service platform that offers film shooting products and support services.
- Bosalpim —
- Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $547k–$2.3M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $4M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deaver — Deaver is an app for delivery management services.
- Eleven O'Clock — Eleven O'Clock is a space management platform that offers non-face-to-face cleaning of accommodation facilities. The company's platform Keeper innovates space operation and management as the new standard for space management. The efficiency and quality of space management are improved according to the systematic manual of the Keeperplatform. The platform records and communicates every process as data, from management manuals to space status checks.
- Real Estate Planet — Real Estate Planet is an AI-based real estate platform that provides transaction prices, investment, and management information.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India
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- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $383k–$7.9M; Series A $1.9M–$25M; Series B $1.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.
- Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
Albatross Investment is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $4k–$3.7M; Series A $3k–$14M; Series B $2k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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- MAYMUST — MayMust offers IT consulting service.
- Wilco — Wilco a start-up specialized in thermal management of electronic products and new space era.
- Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
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
Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $743k–$13M; Series A $445k–$8.5M; Series B $7k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 —
- Redrob — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
Hyundai Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that mainly invests in early-stage companies and is based in South Korea.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.2M–$6.4M; Series B $5k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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- CafeWhale — the AI intelligence layer transforming physical retail into a continuous, data-driven ecosystem. By integrating real-time machine telemetry, customer behavior analytics, and automated engagement, MoonWhale connects the physical and digital, enabling retailers to optimize conversion, retention, and operations through a unified, adaptiveinfrastructure.
- Scone — Scone provides virtual youtuber and video conferencing services.
- Cafe Manwolgyeong — Cafe Manwolgyeong is a customer-centered cafe brand that values different cafes and related products.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $223k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
- Green Lamp — Green Lamp is a mobile app that provides reading room.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1820
- Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Agentio — Agentio's patent-pending ad platform empowers marketers to finally unlock scalable, creator-led advertising. Programmatically buy the highest quality creator and influencer ad reads to deliver unprecedented efficiency and performance.
- Codis.io — COD LEGAL BLOG CONTACT US Areas We Serve California Florida TEXAS Ohio Trusted Insights on Birth Injury and Medical Negligence Law COD LEGAL BLOG is a dedicated legal information platform created to help readers understand complex legal matters in a clear and structured way. Click here to learn more. The legal system can often feel
- Quantflo — Options market intelligence and structured trade planning for Indian markets.
NICE Investment Partners is a new technology finance company whose main job is to increase corporate value by discovering and investing in new technology businesses with promising growth, providing various management support, business alliances, and strategic consulting to the invested companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1k–$1.7M; Series A $2.1M–$22M; Series B $5k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pensées — Pensées is a 3D bio-printer company that develops cultured meat through 3D bioprinting technology.
- Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
- Motif Technologies — Motif Technologies is an AI deep tech company that develops proprietary AI models and provides optimized cloud infrastructure for AI deployment, from everyday personal use to enterprise-scale applications.
TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $328k–$26M; Series A $3M–$8.2M; Series B $3.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- Nexusbe — Nexusbe is a manufacturer of atomic layer equipment technology intended to provide vacuum deposition equipment.
- Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
- Semonyeo — Semonyeo is a senior lifestyle brand dedicated to enhancing the dining experience of older adults. The company designs, develops, and sells specialized tableware tailored to the unique needs of seniors, focusing on comfort, safety, and ease of use.
- Plancklab — Plancklab develops compact AI-powered maskless lithography systems that make semiconductor and microfabrication tools more accessible to research labs, universities, and emerging semiconductor ecosystems. Its platform uses UV-DLP and DMD-based digital patterning to expose high-precision micro/nano patterns directly from digital files withoutphysical photomasks or full cleanroom infrastructure. Plancklab’s technology supports semiconductor education, microfabrication research, MEMS, biochips, microfluidics, 2D material devices, and advanced packaging R&D.
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $126k–$817k; Angel $74k–$104k; Series A $1.1M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
- Salm Clinic — Salm Clinic is a specialized digital healthcare platform that provides comprehensive psychological testing services, offering accessible mental health assessments, personalized evaluations, and technology-driven support for individuals seeking psychological insights and care.
Hana Securities is a subsidiary of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Series A $3M–$11M; Series B $22k–$13M; Series C $3.4M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
- Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
- Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $741k–$5.4M; Series A $1.8M–$9.7M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hourplace — Hourplace operates a filming place sharing platform.
- Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that creates a character for animation, game, and comics.
- LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.
Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $523k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$20M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Clobe ai — Clobe ai is an AI‑powered financial platform that simplifies money management for individuals and small‑to‑medium businesses.
- Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
Intops Investment is a financial investment company.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, China, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $1k–$8M; Series A $4k–$24M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Maihub — We deliver cutting-edge healthcare technology faster and more widely than anyone else
- Glovv — Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform.
- Peanut AI — Peanut AI is a cybersecurity company that specializes in embedded protection for industrial OT and IoT systems. The company help manufacturers secure their factory equipment, PLCs, sensors, and industrial networks with lightweight and real-time defense solutions designed for global compliance.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
- SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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