Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2025
Investor | Cryptocurrency South Korea investments |
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Hashed | 4 |
Digital Currency Group | 3 |
Strong Ventures | 3 |
Kakao Ventures | 2 |
Kiwoom Investment | 2 |
KB Investment | 2 |
SOSV | 2 |
Stone Bridge Ventures | 2 |
SK Networks | 2 |
SJ Investment Partners | 2 |
Bass Investment | 2 |
SBVA | 2 |
Pantera Capital | 2 |
Pietro Dova | 2 |
Naval Ravikant | 1 |
Kclavis | 1 |
Struck Crypto | 1 |
Korea Technology Finance Corporation | 1 |
Draper Associates | 1 |
ICONIUM | 1 |
Jiranjigyo Security | 1 |
CRIT Ventures | 1 |
Alameda Ventures | 1 |
Arrington XRP Capital | 1 |
KOREA INVESTMENT & SECURITIES | 1 |
FBG Capital | 1 |
AC Capital | 1 |
Huobi Capital | 1 |
Cadenza Ventures | 1 |
Pathfinder H | 1 |
Dunamu | 1 |
KuCoin | 1 |
HDR Cadenza | 1 |
Victor Wang | 1 |
we ventures | 1 |
OKX Ventures | 1 |
Quassar Capital | 1 |
1kx | 1 |
Jay Eum | 1 |
SK Planet | 1 |
BCI | 1 |
DS Asset Management | 1 |
Tim Draper | 1 |
C3 Venture Capital | 1 |
Firestartr | 1 |
Altos Ventures | 1 |
DWF Labs | 1 |
Solid Ventures | 1 |
Qualcomm Ventures | 1 |
Woori Technology Investment | 1 |
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
- Sekai — Sekai makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
- Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
- Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
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, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
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
- Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
- Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
- AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
- WeMeet Mobility — WeMeet Mobility is an AI-based logistics platform that offers transportation planning, location, routing, and monitoring services.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Aldavar — ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials that closely resemble human tissues and 3D printing technology.
- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- ANAFLASH — ANAFLASH Inc. is an NSF, DoD, NASA funded semiconductor startup, developing a brain inspired solution for energy efficient smart edge devices with a standard logic based non-volatile neuromorphic processor.
- EcoRemix — EcoRemix produces recycled soil by developing Customized Concrete Mixing Technology.
- INKA Entworks — INKA Entworks specializes in the field of digital rights management and mobile application security.
SK Networks has created customer values in various business areas.(ICT Marketing) SK is the Korea’s No.1 mobile phone distributor based on the largest sales network and nationwide distribution system in the domestic market. We also have launched various ICT products to ease customers’ digital life and established the ecosystem of used phonerecycling.(Home appliance) SK magic (subsidiary of SK Networks) is a premium kitchen appliance company by introducing the gas oven to the Korean market in 1985, and it is expanding its business area to gas/electric ranges, electric ovens, dishwashers, water purifiers, air purifiers and bidets. (Rent-a-car) SK rent-a-car (subsidiary of SK Networks) is an automotive company that leads the total automotive after market and runs about 170 nationwide network points and consumes about 20.7% market share. (Trading) With 28 global out posts, our trading business is expanded all over the world. Through international experience amassed over more than 50 years, we have secured outstanding global sourcing ability, market intelligence and strategic networking on steel/chemical/automotive industries around the world that gives us a distinct competitive edge and stable profit structure.(Hotel) Walkerhill Hotels & Resorts is a pioneer of the Korean hotel industry that provides the best experience in the overall lifestyle including leisure, culture, and food, as well as comfortable rest in the nature.(Investments) SK Networks is looking for investment opportunities that can bring disruptive innovation to its existing businesses. Since 2018, SK Networks has been actively investing in Venture Capitals/Start-ups mostly in Silicon Valley and in Korea as well.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
- Source.ag — We're Source.ag and we're on a mission to empower growers through artificial intelligence-based software solutions.
- Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
- Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
- CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
- Reprise — Reprise offers an automation system that creates patterns and work instructions based on a design image.
Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
- Gole Robotics — Gole Robotics is an intelligent robotics company that focuses on developing robots specially to transporting construction materials to help on-site workers.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
- Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
- Series A, Seed
- United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
- Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
- Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
Kclavis pursues a stable return on customer assets. It provides technology-driven companies with investments and asset management services.
The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seoul.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- R&R Lab — R&R Lab is a semiconductor manufacturing startup that develops heat treatment equipment.
- Inkle — Inkle is a facility data platform that offers industrial software technology services for equipment makers and producers.
- Nuon Media — Nuon Media is an Internet e-book store that sells famous domestic romance martial arts fantasy fantasy novels.
Struck Crypto is a multi-strategy crypto fund based in Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mero — Backd offers to maximize the power of assets and begin generating yield. Backd is a protocol for reactive liquidity decentralized finance (Defi).
- Shardeum — Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that maintains low gas fees while providing true decentralization and solid security
- Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.
Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
- GhostPass — GhostPass is a startup that develops a biometric payment solution with A.I. and Self-Sovereign Identification technologies.
- Spaceport — Spaceport is a Logitech startup that develops innovative services that converge IT technology and logistics expertise.
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Opolis — Opolis is next-gen Digital Employment Platform for Freelancers providing payroll, benefits and other services for independent workers and freelancers.
- GAST Clearwater — GAST Clearwater is a US-based, next-generation water treatment company with a mission to provide Water for Mankind one drop at a time. Operating in various industries and markets from Real Estate, Wastewater Treatment, Municipal Potable Water, and various others in particular focusing on the recovering and recycling of different waters in acentralized or decentralized way. The company also does artificial beaches, urban lagoons, wave pools, surf parks, aquatics to sewerage treatment, wastewater, and drinking water.
- Alef Aeronautics — Armada operates in a stealth mode
Paving the Way for the Digital Assets Revolution
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Funding Round, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Enjin — Enjin offers a suite of integrated products that make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) easy for individuals, businesses, and developers.
- Fragcolor — Empowering the next generation of game creators.
- Alter — Alter is the most secure communications platform built on private blockchain technology powered by Secret Network's Private Smart Contracts and ECDH encryption. Alter has leveraged this technology and made something that was historically available only to limited groups of people, institutions and government organizations - accessible toeveryone and anyone to make sure there's higher control over own data privacy and it is truly secure.
Jiranjigyo Security is a security software company providing solutions and services for corporate information security and data management.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- D'CENT — Experience ultimate security with D'CENT - your premier crypto wallet, cold wallet. Safely manage Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and more cryptocurrencies.
The Road Not Taken
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
- Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
- Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
- LiveArtX — LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.
- Coinshift — Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.
Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Supermojo — Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class.
- Tapio Protocol — The stability of native DOT, with the yield of LDOT.
- Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.
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
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- 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.
- Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.
FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Inferix Labs — Inferix Labs is a decentralized GPU network that provides GPU visual computing solutions dedicated to 3D/AR/VR rendering and AI inference.
- Skyfire Systems — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.
AC Capital is a venture firm focusing on block-chain and fin-tech Industry, dedicated to discovering unicorns and expanding the development and adoption of block-chain technology through investments and marketing services.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Infinitar — Infinitar is a blockchain game in the Web3 field.
- Scallop — Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market.
- UniLive — UniLive is a Web3 live broadcast platform that allows users to create short videos and creative content for global social and entertainment interaction.
HTX serves its 10 million+ users worldwide with secure and stable trading services. Here at HTX, you can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, SHIB, and over 500 quality cryptocurrencies anywhere, anytime.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bit2Me — Buy and sell cryptocurrencies from home. With the security, ease, and speed that only Bit2Me can provide.
- DRepublic — DRepublic is a metaverse company who are the developers behind the upcoming 3A blockchain game Cradles.
- Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network
Global Investors in Transformative Technologies
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
- Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
- Moon Mortgage — Crypto backed mortgage provider
Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
- CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
- 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.
Dunamu owns and operates a digital asset exchange (UPbit), two investment exchange platforms (Stockplus and U-Stockplus), and an equity management platform (Onboard). UPbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform with presence in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Stockplus is a securities information/trading platform with an activepartnership with 11 broker-dealers. U-Stockplus is an OTC platform providing a trading service for private companies. Onboard helps private companies manage equity electronically for their shareholders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Series B, Funding Round, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glassdome — Glassdome | Manufacturing Operations Software Empowering Manufacturers to Optimize Operations and Meet Regulatory Requirements through Software
- VIVER — VIVER is a luxury watch trading platform.
- Project Pluto — A platform serving US stock investors with financial content and investment services
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- AutoLayer — All LRTfi. One Interface.
- Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
- E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.
100x Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of 100x Group
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- India, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- TabTrader — TabTrader - Cryptocurrency trading terminal. Over 20K+ trading instruments on 20+ major exchanges in one app.
- Sparrow — Sparrow is the leading options trading platform, providing the simplest way to control risk and monetize digital assets. This revolutionary platform empowers institutions and individuals to trade options that are settled by smart contract. Headquartered in Singapore, Sparrow offers fully-customizable options settled by smart contract in anintuitive and easy-to-use trading interface. Professional traders can use Sparrow trading APIs for maximum performance. Sparrow serves the needs of all traders by providing a wide range of industry-leading trading tools.Sparrow is backed by renowned organizations such as: Signum Capital, Hyperchain Capital, Kyber Network, LuneX Ventures, Arrington XRP Capital, Digital Currency Holdings, Du Capital, The Yozma Group, QCP Capital, 256 Ventures and Jubilee Capital who firmly believe in the project and have committed to use Sparrow as their preferred hedging partner.
- League of Traders — The one-stop-shop to maximize your profits, see all of your exchanges in one portfolio, Copy Trade the best Traders, and compete in trading competitions to win cash prizes! Sign up now and become a member of the League of Traders.
Victor Wang is a technology-focused VC investor interested in helping extremely brilliant, ambitious, relentless founders build category-defining companies.
Earlier in his career, Victor conducted genomic research at Stanford University and earned a B.A. in Molecular & Cell Biology with a Minor in Nutritional Sciences from UC Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Alethea AI — Alethea AI is an R&D studio building at the intersection of two of the most transformative technologies of our time - Generative AI and Blockchain.
- Dialect — Join the waitlist for early access.
- Explorex Technologies, Inc. — The Indian restaurant industry has already adopted technology to adapt to the growing demands and match the expectations of today's customers but the absence of a full-stack cloud-based software is extremely frustrating to business owners today. The existing systems lack modularity, lack the ability to integrate with services, and hencearen't plug and play. Also, Restaurants are extremely frustrated with all the 5-6 independent systems that don't talk to each other. We are solving these problems by building a full-stack solution for the 30 million+ restaurants in India, by solves order management, operations management, online delivery, payment processing, reports & analytics, and guest identification and re-engagement all using one system - Explorex.
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- POSTYPE — POSTYPE is a content open market where anyone can sell and buy digital content.
- Plcoskin — Plcoskin is a MedTech company specializing in reconstructive plastic surgery and regenerative skincare. They have developed a scaffold that removes the need for cadaver-sourced material used in breast reconstruction surgery, making procedures safer and cheaper. Plcoskin’s scaffolds are made with synthetic PCL, a biodegradable material that iscommonly used to create surgical sutures. Unlike competitors' products that remain in the body for a lifetime, Plcoskin’s PCL scaffolds are absorbed and replaced with the recipient’s own natural tissues, minimizing the possibility of long-term side effects. As they do not contain any dangerous chemicals, they are also 50% safer than cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Costs for reconstructive breast surgery are brought down by 40% to only $3 thousand per breast. Furthermore, much less handling time is required, reducing average surgery durations from an hour and a half to only 30 minutes. The mesh design of the scaffolds mitigates the need for an additional follow-up reconstructive surgery, something that is common when using cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Plcoskin has also developed Youlief, a cosmeceutical product & therapeutic device pipeline that helps fund R&D for their medical devices. Youlief is available in the US, Europe, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.
- Bigwave Robotics — Bigwave Robotics is a developer of robotics devices designed to automate processes.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
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- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Quassar Capital is a hedge fund with a broad presence in the United States with offices in New York and London. We are widely respected for our asset management approach globally but more importantly for our innovative operating methodology that allows us to maintain exceptional management of advanc
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- Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
- Series A
- South Korea
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- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
- Orbiaz Healthcare — Instruments for healthcare facilities
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
- Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.
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- Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, South Korea
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- Merit — A software platform for verified digital credentials for government, organizations, people, and communities.
- Opaper — Bikin toko online dalam 2 menit! Terima pembayaran, pesan kurir semua disatu aplikasi memudahkan penjualan manualmu yang dari WhatsApp dan sosial media.
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
SK planet, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK telecom, was established in October 1, 2011 with an aspiration to become a global platform innovator.As the lynchpin of SK telecom's future growth, the company was spun off with the industry-leading platform businesses including T-Store, T-map, MelOn, and Cyworld, Korea's biggest mobile appstore, mobile navigation, online music service and SNS respectively. The company also pioneers in new media with hoppin, Korea's first multi-screen premium video service, and continues to build momentum in its online commerce leadership with 11th Street. SK planet aspires to develop a wide scope of global partnerships such as TMK, a media joint venture with Disney. Through collaborations with partners, SK planet is committed to building global platform business in Asia and other strategic markets.
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- Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- South Korea, United States
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- Bertis — Bertis is a proteomics-based molecular diagnostics service company.
- Gimbal — The world's best brands and agencies rely on Infillion for advertising and software solutions that connect people, places, and digital experiences.
- Melephant — Melephant Inc. is a Korea based startup established in October 2013.
With $250.4 billion in assets under management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests for BC public sectors.
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- Transportation, FinTech, Logistics
- Private Equity, Seed, Corporate Round
- United States, United Kingdom, South Korea
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- MetaBeat — The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.
- Ziply Fiber — Ziply Fiber simplify and elevate the connected lives of our communities by combining the most advanced network.
- Authority Brands — Authority Brands supports individual franchisee growth through providing strong marketing, technology and operational support. Authority Brands, LLC is the parent company of two leading home service franchisors, The Cleaning Authority and Homewatch CareGivers.
Investing in listed companies and venture firms
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- E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, Sweden
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- ArtNGuide — ArtNGuide conducts online auctions and art fairs.
- Fassker — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.
- Doosan Mobility Innovation — Doosan offers drone solutions based on Fuel Cell powerpacks, which enable longer flights than existing battery-powered drones.
Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Software, FinTech, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
- Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
- SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
C3 Management is an asset management company focused on managing venture funds which invest in technology companies worldwide.
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- FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A
- Germany, South Korea, Switzerland
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- Gatenox — Gatenox brings 4x more clients by streamlining the Corporate KYC process while enhancing the user experience
- League of Traders — The one-stop-shop to maximize your profits, see all of your exchanges in one portfolio, Copy Trade the best Traders, and compete in trading competitions to win cash prizes! Sign up now and become a member of the League of Traders.
- Stableton Financial — Challenge the boundaries of conventional investment portfolios. Stableton is a partner for fast-growing companies and founders across FinTech, Consumer, B2B SaaS and Mobility globally, with a focus on Europe and North America.
Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
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- Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
- Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
- Clarisights — Clarisights streamlines reporting for sophisticated growth marketing teams. Automatically integrate, process and visualize data from all of your marketing sources.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Canada
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- Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
- PushPress — Automate and scale your fitness business with an easy-to-use solution that your clients and your team will love. Cut your costs and save time with PushPress.
- Soombit.AI — AIRead-CXR is a web-based AI solution for radiologist.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
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- DuckChain — DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space.
- Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
- Yei Finance — Yei Finance a pioneering decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol.
Solid Ventures provides growth capital to technology companies. Solid Ventures focuses on scale-up companies at the growth stage of development in the digital economy with a focus on the sectors marketplaces, digital, SaaS, sustainable mobility, smart energy and smart city solutions.
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- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- The Netherlands, Colombia, South Korea
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- Dwarfs — Bij Dwarfs vind je de beste cadeau's voor elk feestje. Vind inspiratie voor een huwelijkscadeau, babyborrel, kinderfeestje of een verjaardagscadeau en koop het meteen veilig op Bol.com. Cadeau's voor hem en haar tegen de scherpste prijzen.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
As the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, we help connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Ethernovia — Embrace the future of vehicle networks with Ethernovia's new Ethernet approach. Explore our cutting-edge technology today.
- Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
- Cavli Wireless — Build, Connect and scale your IoT Solutions with Cavli Wireless Cellular IoT Modules and Cavli Hubble IoT connectivity platform
Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.
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- Gaming, Video Games, FinTech
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Israel
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- Lambda256 — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
- Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
- Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.
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