Top 15 Community Angel Investors in South Korea (August 2026)

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• Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
• 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
• Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.

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• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• Airmule — Airmule Founded in 2015 and built with love in Los Angeles, California, Airmule is a trusted community marketplace for anyone to affordably express ship worldwide with a traveler from a mobile phone or tablet.Whether across the country or the world, Airmule connects people to safely deliver packages anytime, anywhere at low rates and in lesstime. Airmule is the easiest way for people list their trip to earn money with their extra luggage space.
• Talkwheel — Talkwheel is where you discuss what you are passionate about in life. We are ushering in the new days of mobile conversation. Want to argue over who has the cutest pet, debate politics, or talk about the Giants during the game? Talkwheel is the app for that!Instead of tweeting and getting no response, write in Talkwheel and find fellowaficionados to have meaningful conversations around topics you care about. Unlike most mobile forums, Talkwheel believes that forums don’t have to be ugly to be functional. That’s why we’ve designed a beautiful mobile app with you, the user, as the focal point. You can even continue the conversation at your desktop at social.talkwheel.com!

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• Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
• Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
• Frip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.

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• WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
• Soomgo — Soomgo supports interactions across categories such as education, home maintenance, event-related work, and personal services. It enables users to search for and engage providers for specific tasks, while service providers list and manage their offerings through the platform. Soomgo is a local services marketplace.
• Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.

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• Ban Life — Ban Life is a pet lifestyle reservation platform that provides information on pet accommodations, cafes, restaurants, and companion travel services across multiple locations. The app helps users discover pet-friendly places by offering facility details, usage guidelines, reviews, parking availability, and operating hours, making it easier to planoutings and travel with pets conveniently and efficiently.
• Vendys — Vendys offers mobile meal management solution for office workers.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI

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• Neuroventi — Neuroventi is a biotechnology venture that focuses on creating therapies for neurological disorders. It is engaged in the development of small molecule medications targeting neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and depression, while also performing preclinical contractdevelopment and research organization (CDRO).
• Malama Health — Personalized support through Diabetes in Pregnancy. Download our App on the App Store and Google Play. We help moms diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes log and track glucose levels, snap pictures of meals for automatic ingredient tagging, record exercise, stress and medication, and share reports wi
• Art and Design International — Art and Design International(ADI) is a Korea-based global manufacturer & distributor, with large customer base mainly in Korea, China, North America, and other countries. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, the firm provides a comprehensive range of cosmetic products including face/body/hair products, and it extends its business intolifestyle products and services.

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• MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
• Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
• Mr.Dealer (Mrs Garage) — Mr.Dealer is an online platform that provides a comparison of used car prices.

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• Serum — Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
• OhmniLabs — OhmniLabs is reinventing traditional robotics development and redefining telepresence for healthcare, education, senior care and work. Along with game changing solutions for Developers, Enterprise and RaaS. Learn more about how you can use robotics for your business.
• Telepathic — Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue.

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• Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
• KRG Group — KRG Group is a proptech and rental finance platform operated by KRG Group that provides “zero-deposit” monthly rental solutions for residential and commercial leases. The service helps tenants reduce or eliminate upfront security deposits while guaranteeing landlords stable monthly rent payments.
• Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology

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• Motion2AI — Motion2AI is the all-in-one artificial intelligence AI telematics solution for warehouses to track MHE equipment, manage safety, schedule jobs, and more.
• EO Studio — Media and Information platform provides news and other articles on the start-up in Korea
• Updream Korea Co — Updream Korea Co offers feminine, senior care.

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• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
• Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters

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• SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
• StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
• Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.

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• SODA — Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.
• Meow Island — Meow Island provides sales of cosmetic products and excreta treatment products for cats.

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• Meow Island — Meow Island provides sales of cosmetic products and excreta treatment products for cats.