Top 50 Climate Startup Investors in South Korea
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Climate startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Climate Startup Investors in South Korea
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
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.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Cryotech — Cryotech obtains low-temperature protein enzymes from Antarctic marine microbes and manufactures products with effective protein degradation.
- Sonervis — Sonervis offers precise industrial automation software services and includes essential technologies including visualization and report automation.
- Live X — Live X is a digital transformation and brand development company that provides media services.
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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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
- WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
- MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
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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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
- Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
- Terracle — Terracle is a Korean eco-friendly startup with the world's best waste plastic depolymerization technology. We supply recycled TPA (PTA) and EG in large quantities and focus on low-grade, hard-to-recycle plastic waste, clothing, and film waste. The best ESG solution is Terracle.
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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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
- Tredy Team — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
- Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, China, France
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.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
- SqueezeBits — SqueezeBits builds ecosystem for designing, training, and deploying compressed neural networks.
- SIMPLE planet — Food biotech company producing sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients using cellular agriculture.
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
- Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
- Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
- Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Hypersonic Laboratories — Hypersonic Laboratories is a venture startup building HELIX, a high-fidelity metaverse.
- Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc.
Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Modapl — Modapl's objective is to make all mobility data available to everyone. It is developing a platform for exchanging mobility data. The platform will contain data generated by autos, IoT devices, and smartphones, as well as mobility data owned by businesses.
- BrickBio — BrickBio: Bioconjugation platform for site-specific, site-selective modification of antibodies and other proteins
- HMC Networks — Hmcnetworks leads service innovation, resolving the imbalance of information in the medical industry by using big data.
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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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
- WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
- Essen — Essen is a vehicle wrapping advertising platform, but in the future, it hopes to offer new services like traffic congestion relief and anomaly detection that make use of mobility data.
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
- Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
- ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
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.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- 1000jobs — 1000jobs provides job training opportunities regardless of age or experience.
- WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
- Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Loanfra — Loanfra delivers mortgage loan options within 10 minutes and approves loans the following day.
- Reppley — Reppley is an AI chat tool that generates a daily conversation chatbot based on previous KakaoTalk talks.
- Zetic.ai — ZETIC.ai presents Zero-cost AI with Server-less, On-device optimized AI with fully utilized target hardware.
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- zetciti — A one pager template for Entertaining companies aiming at striking their online presence with their events or conferences.
- Horang Edu — Horang Edu offers coding education classes at different educational institutions.
- Euler Robotics — Euler Robotics manufactures industrial robot arms used for box loading and unloading. The company offers robot automation services for developing, deploying, and managing robots that mimic human movements, allowing businesses to perform anything from design to manufacturing and after-sales service.
SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
- MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
- Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.
Hana Securities is a subsidiary of Hana Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
- Lucentblock — Lucentblock is a FinTech and blockchain-based digital real estate securities platform company.
- NationA INC. — We are NationA
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
- Surff — Surf is a logistics company that offers a solution that allows for both the comparison of shipping/forwarder freight rates by route, which was previously difficult to provide on other platforms, and actual shipment reservations.
- Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.
ActnerLab is a venture capital and accelerator that helps hardware, IoT and biotech startups establish their initial foothold and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Dexelion — Dexelion - Ultimate Depth and Image Sensing Solution
- AltMedical — AltMedical is a research institute jointly established with Dong-A University and aims to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
- Chain Lightning — Chain Lightning is an electric vehicle charging station that provides electric vehicle care payment and charge management services.
Base Investments operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
- Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Arobot — Arobot creates robots with HRI-based behavior patterns, allowing consumers to embrace robots more readily and organically.
- Tripearl Games — Tripearl Games develops action games for the PC and console platforms.
- NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, E-Commerce, Automotive
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Frankit — Frankit is a franchise supply chain curating platform that offers a supplier curating feature that identifies and links providers of essential commodities.
- Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
- MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- CTNS — CTNS develops and produces secondary battery packs.
- Lightyear — Lightyear One is a Long-Range Solar Car Designed & Engineered by Lightyear in The Netherlands. Designed for Independence.
- Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- āshibio — āshibio creates treatments for rare bone and connective tissue ailments, potentially preventing symptoms or slowing their course.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
- Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co. — Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co., Ltd specializes in the development, production, and supply of high-purity single molecular PEG series derivatives, polypeptide long-acting drug side chains, and their intermediates. The company focuses on serving the pharmaceutical industry with a range of chemical supplies that are crucial for drug development andmanufacturing processes. With a professional R&D team, Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology is dedicated to advancing pharmaceutical intermediates technology and providing solutions that meet the evolving needs of the healthcare sector. The company's commitment to research and development is evident in its continuous efforts to innovate and improve its product offerings to support the pharmaceutical industry.
KOREA INVESTMENT & SECURITIES is a financial investment company that offers brokerage, asset management, and investment banking services.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.
- MobilTech — MobilTech is an AI-based 3D GIS startup company that supplies 3D spatial information, hardware, and software solutions for smart cities.
- Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Uncommon Home — Uncommon Home delivers a pleasant life experience and creates a Beauty & Lifestyle brand that leads the culture that consumers aspire to.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
- Paradigm Shift — Paradigm Shift created an exercise diary platform to help people stay fit. The company's website allows mothers to upload activity diaries, encourage one another, and win incentives, enabling them to grow through motivating support.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
- Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
Hyundai Investment Network Co., Ltd. provides financial advisory, and mergers and acquisitions strategy consulting services. The company offers financial advisory funding; consulting services; advisory services for ship charter and vessel acquisition; and investment services for natural resource exploration, development, and production. It alsoprovides financial product brokerage and project financing services. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Medical, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
- Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
- Catch Table — Catch Table is a restaurant reservation and customer management solution provider company.
Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Testbank — Mission | About Product | Team Culture | Recruit | Team Blog
- Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
- Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- NationA INC. — We are NationA
- DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.
- Carbon Energy — Carbon Energy was founded as a direct air capture (DAC) solution startup. With the use of direct carbon capture (DAC) technology, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is directly extracted and either buried underground or recycled into new resources. Beyond the current DAC technology, Carbon Energy is claimed to possess a special technology thatsimultaneously produces renewable energy and lowers carbon dioxide.
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm that invests and supports small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Free Grow — Freegrow Platform is an integrated platform for indoor location services. It supports map editing software and hardware, provides accurate indoor positioning, and offers development help.
- Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
- Waves — Waves is an apps service provide information and internet that entertainment and enjoyment.
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Disco — Disco is a location-based service platform for real estate companies.
- Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cochl — Official website of Cochl
- Lablup — Lablup Inc.: Make AI Accessible
- Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- Evmodu — Evmodu offers EV-SaaS, on-site charging, connected car service for electric vehicles, and real-time charging station information.
- Goodoc — Goodoc (굿닥) is a Korean smartphone application that helps users with a variety of medical services. The app allows users to access reliable information on doctors, hospitals, and other medical services. It also provides users with information on doctors' fees, hospital fees, contact numbers, and more.
- CONTEC — CONTEC is a spin-off company from KARI(Korea Aerospace Research Institute) which was established in 2015 on Jan.5th, and doing the business for design, development and integration of ground system in the space and defense application.
ETRI Holdings is a Korean government-funded electronics and telecommunications research institute.
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- Manufacturing, Apps, Dating
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
- MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
- Signature Label — Signature Label takes pride in providing Korean beauty to the rest of the world. Their brand selection approach is rigorous and selective, as they collaborate closely with fashionable local partners to develop products that match the specific needs of each area. They are able to streamline the distribution process for both brands and localpartners, saving significant time and energy and removing unneeded clutter as a result.
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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- Manufacturing, Medical Device, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
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- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- Cool Sign — Coolsign is an EV specialist that offers a complete set of hardware and platforms based on its own technology for the reliable operation of electric car charging stations.
- Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
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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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea, Indonesia
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- Matchuda — Matchuda is a service that digitizes existing learning methods and applies AI technology to help students pass exams quickly
- 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.
KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Mexico
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- enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
- Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
POSCO (formerly Pohang Iron and Steel Company) is a multinational steel-making company. Has become the world's number one steel company POSCO through continuous plant efficiency and production of conductive and practical power beyond the limits. They constantly strive to create better products for new materials development energy.
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- Manufacturing, Industrial, Mining
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Australia
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- Hardt Hyperloop — Hardt develops a transport system in traveling huge distances completely emission-free, safe, and accessible to everyone. Hardt Hyperloop has emerged from the winning team at the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition, dedicated to realizing the hyperloop.
- Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
- EnergyX — EnergyX is a clean energy technology company that builds disruptive technologies to power a sustainable future with lithium and batteries.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
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- GenEdit — Developing innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines.
- Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
- BrownBag — Brown Bag is an online portal for coffee and cafe supplies.
In Light Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- UPPTHERA — UPPTHERA is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in drug development using targeted protein degradation technology.
- Eflow — Eflow is a hydraulic equipment manufacturing company that offers smart mobility, filter technology, and hydrogen mobility technology.
- CrossVision — CrossVision offers solutions and services specific to the VTuber market.
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
- Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
- Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
Intops Investment is a financial investment company.
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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, China
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- VSI — 1st high bandwidth automotive Serdes chip, supporting ASA (Automotive Serdes Alliance) motion link. Vsitech.
- ProtoPie — Create interactive, realistic prototypes that work like the actual digital product. Try for free.
- Quantum Cat — Quantum Cat protects the sustainable future of the earth and mankind through its unrivaled catalyst technology.
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