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Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in South Korea in December 2024

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 December 2024

Investor Cryptocurrency South Korea investments
Hashed 4
Strong Ventures 3
Digital Currency Group 3
Kiwoom Investment 2
KB Investment 2
SBVA 2
Pantera Capital 2
SOSV 2
Stone Bridge Ventures 2
SK Networks 2
Pietro Dova 2
SJ Investment Partners 2
Bass Investment 2
KuCoin 1
HDR Cadenza 1
Victor Wang 1
we ventures 1
OKX Ventures 1
David Lee 1
Samsung Venture Investment 1
OKEx 1
Quassar Capital 1
TS Investment 1
1kx 1
Arrington XRP Capital 1
Kingo Investment Partners 1
Jay Eum 1
SK Planet 1
SL Investment 1
BCI 1
DS Asset Management 1
Tim Draper 1
C3 Venture Capital 1
Firestartr 1
Altos Ventures 1
Naval Ravikant 1
DWF Labs 1
Solid Ventures 1
Kclavis 1
Qualcomm Ventures 1
Woori Technology Investment 1
DigiFinex 1
Danal Co Ltd 1
Michael Yang 1
BCI 1
Struck Crypto 1
Honest Ventures 1
Polychain 1
Korea Technology Finance Corporation 1
Draper Associates 1
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Hashed VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 27 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
  • 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.
  • Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Digital Currency Group VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • Spire — Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability.
  • Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
Kiwoom Investment VC Fund · Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
  • MIRI.DIH — MIRI.DIH is a technology-intensive e-business company.
  • WeMeet Mobility — WeMeet Mobility is an AI-based logistics platform that offers transportation planning, location, routing, and monitoring services.
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 24 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers.​ It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
  • AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
SBVA VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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.
  • Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
  • Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Pantera Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 27 investments in the past 12 months
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.
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
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 VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • weflo — weflo is an aircraft diagnostics solution company that offers drone solutions.
  • 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.
  • ADEL — We dream of a world without dementia. Alzhheimer's Disease Experts Lab, ADEL,Inc.
SK Networks VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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.
Pietro Dova Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States
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.
SJ Investment Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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 VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 16 investments in the past 12 months
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.
KuCoin VC Fund · Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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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.
HDR Cadenza VC Fund · Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles
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 Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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 VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
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 Ventures VC Fund · Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 56 investments in the past 12 months
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • 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!
David Lee Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Right Rice — RightRice is a tasty new rice grain that's made from vegetables. It's what they all love about rice, but made even right-er. RightRice is a complete, plant-based protein that's delicious, nutritious, and easy to cook. Every bowl of RightRice has more than double the protein, five times the fiber, and almost 40 percent fewer net carbsthan a bowl of white rice. Just like rice, RightRice soaks up your favorite flavors and sauces. Original RightRice is ready to season your own way, or you can try one of their delicious, already seasoned varieties like Lemon Pepper, Spanish or Garlic Herb—all using real herbs and spices, nothing artificial, non-GMO, vegan, and a complete source of protein, all with a low glycemic index.
  • The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Samsung Venture Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
  • Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
  • Princeton NuEnergy — Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Its patented Direct Battery Recycling technology to produce high-quality and high value-added cathode active materials with low operating cost from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainableenergy and environmental solutions.
OKEx VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
OKEx is a digital asset exchange that provides advanced financial services to traders globally by using blockchain technology.OKEx provides hundreds of token & futures trading pairs to help traders to optimize their strategy. They are also one of the top digital asset exchanges by trading volume, serving millions of users in over 100countries. Their BTC futures trade has nearly $1.5B of volume daily, and is widely recognized as the gold standard for the industry.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, China, Vietnam
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.
  • Sidus Heroes — gaming company
  • Legends of Mitra — Legends of Mitra is a Free-to-Play-to-Earn game that rewards players with tokens and NFTs depending on their engagement and skills in the game.
Quassar Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A
  • 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.
  • Orbiaz Healthcare — Instruments for healthcare facilities
TS Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
TS Investment is an investment company.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
  • Creators Network — Creators Network offers data-driven label and artist services to help creative artists.
1kx VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 21 investments in the past 12 months
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Arrington XRP Capital VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
  • Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
  • QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
Kingo Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Kingo Investment Partners is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series C, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
  • Medinno — Medinno develops cell therapeutics for brain diseases. The company's therapy uses technology to treat a wide range of diseases, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, neonatal refractory brain diseases, and severe intraventricular hemorrhages..
  • Polaris3D — Polaris3d offers indoor autonomous navigating solution.
Jay Eum Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
SL Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
SL investment (SLi) aims at a company with global standards through management by principle and transparency.SLi is a venture capital firm founded in February 2000 and has widely invested in the companies from early to mezzanine stage, in the field of semiconductors, display (AMOLED, LED, LCD), renewable energy, and health care industry.Since its incorporation, SLi has recorded black-ink balances for 12 consecutive years with zero debt and also has successfully dissolved all the five funds with outstanding earning rates.SLi tries to raise the value of venture companies not only by offering funds but by supporting the management omnidirectionally after its investment. Consequently, 31 companies have been successfully listed in KOSDAQ market for 12 years and all the companies have positioned as leading firms in their specific fields.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • EMCRAFTS — EMCRAFTS specializes in the manufacturing and designing of scanning electron microscopes.
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
  • Novelty Nobility — Novelty Nobility Inc. is a private biotech company. They are currently focused on the research of novel angiogenesis targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics in ophthalmology and oncology, where angiogenesis plays a key pathogenic role.In ophthalmology, Novelty Nobility first discovered a novel angiogenesis target, Stem Cell Factor(SCF)and c-KIT, which was initially known for its engagement with proliferation and survival of primitive hematopoietic stem cells for a couple of past decades. We believe that anti-SCF/c-KIT could effectively address the unmet medical needs, mostly caused by inherent limitations of anti-VEGFs, in terms of treatment efficacy and long-term safety. Our target discovery is widely and strongly patent-protected in US/KOR and the lead pipeline, NN2101(a full-human monoclonal antibody), is currently under preclinical development.
BCI VC Fund · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
With $250.4 billion in assets under management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests for BC public sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Transportation, FinTech, Logistics
  • Private Equity, Seed, Corporate Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
DS Asset Management VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Investing in listed companies and venture firms
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 Venture Capital VC Fund · Frankfort, Maine, United States
C3 Management is an asset management company focused on managing venture funds which invest in technology companies worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany, South Korea, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Naval Ravikant Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
  • LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
  • Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
DWF Labs VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 25 investments in the past 12 months
We help build strong Web3 companies
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • LogX — About LogXLogX is the leading Perpetual DEX on Layer 2 networks. Supported by top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital Coinbase Ventures IOSG Hashed and more LogX combines a simple user friendly interface with extremely fast order matching built on proprietary scalable infrastructure. Currently live on 15+ networks LogX stands out as the mostomnipresent Perp DEX in the market.We offer two distinct products to cater to different types of traders1. LogX Pro: An advanced order book-based platform designed for experienced traders, live on three networks. 2. LogX OG: Featuring an innovative AMM based DAMN pool infrastructure, built for scalability and live on over 10 networks, perfect for new traders.Our Competitive Edge and Uniqueness:- Low Cost High Liquidity Offering: LogX sets a new standard in decentralized trading with unmatched cost efficiency and high liquidity across multiple pairs. - Technological Superiority: Our DAMN-based AMM pool enables rapid deployment of perpetual DEXs on new networks and ecosystems. - AI-Based Trading Bots: We are the first in the perps industry to offer fully functional AI trading bots executing strategies like grid trading.At LogX we prioritize composability seamlessly integrating with other protocols while allowing other protocols to integrate with us. This makes LogX a versatile choice for applications like wallets copy trading platforms and analytics platforms.
  • 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.
  • Quantlytica — Quantlytica is the creator of an AI-powered multi-chain liquidity distribution system meant to optimize liquidity strategies. The company's platform uses machine learning and statistical models to do horizontal assessments of returns, liquidity risks, and safety across DeFi projects.
Solid Ventures VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
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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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Social Media
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • The Netherlands, Colombia, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Kclavis VC Fund
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.
Qualcomm Ventures VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, FinTech
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
DigiFinex VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
DigiFinex is a digital assets trading platform, focusing on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin etc. It was founded by blockchain enthusiasts and the core team come from well-known technology companies such as Xunlei, Tencent, Baidu and HP. DIGIFINEX is a Seychelles company headquartered in Singapore.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Credit, Banking
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaBeat — Experience new distance with your favorite artists' NFT!
  • Data Mynt — B2B2C web3 fintech platform
Danal Co Ltd VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States
Danal Co., Ltd. provides digital entertainment services in Korea and internationally. The company operates through four divisions: Commerce, Contents, Media, and Internet. The Commerce division offers integrated payment solutions and services, including payment services through telephone, payment services using mileage, and financial paymentservices. It also involves in mobile Internet billing, as well as operates as an online payment proxy company. This division exports its products to China and Taiwan. The Contents division offers digital entertainment services.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Blockchain, Snack Food
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaviar — Kaviar is an Restaurant Meal Replacement business that collects a wide range of dishes from illustrious chefs and eateries.
  • Parameta — ICONLOOP, Inc. is a blockchain-specialized tech company based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in May 2016, ICONLOOP provides the entire technical support to the leading global blockchain project, ICON. ICONLOOP aims to acquire both scalability and security in existing platforms and maximize the utility of blockchain technology with SCORE SmartContract, LFT Algorithm, Tiered System, Multi Channel and Modular Architecture. Based on self-developed blockchain engine, loopchain, ICONLOOP, as a technology partner of Korea Financial Investment Association, Kyobo Life Insurance, and P-HIS consortium, leads diverse innovations in financial transactions, digital currency and IoT(Internet of Things).
Michael Yang Angel · La Canada Flintridge, California, United States
Michael founded users. Michael and the team successfully raised $30M in venture capital investment from investors such as Brentwood, Sprout, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, and Transcosmos Corporation. In February of 2000, mySimon was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M.Prior to mySimon.com, Michael held positions at Xerox Corp., Intergraph Corporation, TeleVideo, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Jazz Multimedia, Inc. Michael has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University. Michael holds a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
  • 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.
BCI VC Fund · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
With $250.4 billion in assets under management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests for BC public sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Transportation, Logistics, Electronics
  • Private Equity, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Photonic — We are building a new world through scalable, fault-tolerant quantum technologies.
  • National Gas — National Grid operates in the gas transmission and metering business.National Gas is comprised of two organisations – National Gas Transmission and National Gas Metering. National Gas Transmission will own and operate the UK’s 7,600km-long National Transmission System (NTS). It will continue to ensure the safe, reliable and affordabletransportation of the gas needed to heat homes, fuel industry and generate electricity. National Gas Metering will provide industry-leading maintenance and management services for over 7 million domestic, industrial and commercial gas meters.
  • Cube Highways and Infrastructure — Cube Highways and Infrastructure (Cube Highways) is a Singapore based company investing in road and highway projects, along with select other infrastructure sectors in India. Cube Highways is an independent, professionally-managed platform that leverages the extensive transportation experience of its management and execution teams.
Struck Crypto VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States
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.
Honest Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Honest Ventures invests in biotechnology, healthcare, manufacturing, software, and information and communications technology. They support the growth of businesses and believe investing is a collaboration.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Enliple — Enliple is an online advertising platform that provides AI business and B2C app services.
  • EnergyX — Energy X is an AI-driven online energy platform company based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Energy X connects various energy market participants from individual households to EPC contractors and investors via its online and mobile Social Energy Platform. Backed by socially responsible venture capital investors, Energy X strives to become the globalstandard for clean energy development and energy securitization.
  • Ziovision — Ziovision is a data analysis firm that uses artificial intelligence. advancement of social safety AI solution solutions, as well as licensing AI software and medical devices.
Polychain VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 30 investments in the past 12 months
The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
  • P0x Labs — P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
  • Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
Korea Technology Finance Corporation VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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 VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 25 investments in the past 12 months
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
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