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Top 50 Cryptocurrency VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in January 2026

Investor	Cryptocurrency South Korea investments
Hashed	4
Digital Currency Group	3
Strong Ventures	3
Stone Bridge Ventures	2
SOSV	2
SBVA	2
Bass Investment	2
Pantera Capital	2
SK Networks	2
KB Investment	2
Kakao Ventures	2
Kiwoom Investment	2
SJ Investment Partners	2
L&S Venture Capital	1
Capstone Headwaters	1
Alchemic Investments	1
OKX Ventures	1
Jiranjigyo Security	1
AC Capital	1
Kenetic	1
TS Investment	1
SK Planet	1
Draper Associates	1
We Ventures	1
Karen Ventures	1
Alphanonce	1
Honest Ventures	1
Samsung Venture Investment	1
Woori Technology Investment	1
DWF Labs	1
Wemade	1
SL Investment	1
ICONIUM	1
Cadenza Ventures	1
Polychain	1
C3 Venture Capital	1
Quassar Capital	1
Danal Co Ltd	1
DSC Investment	1
NexusOne	1
100x Ventures	1
BCI	1
DS Asset Management	1
Qualcomm Ventures	1
Fast Ventures	1
Translink Capital	1
Altos Ventures	1
Union Investment Partners	1
Korea Investment & Securities	1
Dunamu	1

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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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lysto — How much does culture influence creative thinking?
Flexity — Flexity provides fast and efficient planning and design services.
Phi Labs — Blockchain tools that empower and reward builders

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
Doppler Finance — Doppler Finance is a yield-earning platform that unlock earning opportunities within the XRPL ecosystem

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
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Tacta Systems — Tacta Systems develops robotics with human-like tactile abilities with Dextrous Intelligence, the nervous system for robots.

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cutback — Cutback is an AI-powered video editing assistant designed to streamline the editing process by automatically analyzing footage, suggesting cuts, enhancing visuals, and helping users create polished videos with minimal manual effort.
Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.
Pickle — We are crafting personal intelligence designed to amplify human agency, helping you shape the life you want. Meet Pickle I and Pickle OS, the core foundations for the soul computing era.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
Filament — Automating vehicle usage history and vehicle payments for Automakers, OEMs and Enterprise Fleets.
FunFair Technologies Ltd — FunFair is a decentralised gaming platform powered by Ethereum smart contracts. Thanks to our breakthrough technology, it is the first platform to solve the big challenges that have made other blockchain casinos unplayable.Our vision is a limitless universe of transparent, secure casinos that can be easily created by anyone, anywhere, where gamesare fun, fast and fair. That’s why we’re called FunFair.

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.

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 — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
Ttukboka — Ttukboka is a money-making English word quiz app.
Apollo Studios — Studio is a hub for creating, evolving, and consuming your graph for all members of your team.

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.

SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530

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.

L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
Flexell Space — Flexell Space engages in space solar cells, focusing on improving cost, delivery, design, and power efficiency.

Capstone Partners provides investment banking & financial advisory services to leading middle market companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Blockchain
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Tenping — Tenping is a marketing service that allows advertising content to be released in native format. The app then releases this onto other social networks, blogs and mobile apps. Already more than 100 advertising companies have used the service to release over 600 advertising contents.
Chain Partners — Best Crypto Company in Korea - Chain Partners

Alchemic Investments is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
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.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

zkMe — zkMe operates as a zero-knowledge Identity Oracle provider.
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!
Legend of Arcadia — Legend of Arcadia is a mobile card-based RPG inspired by Kingdom Hearts, leveraging blockchain technology for immersive gameplay. Players can engage in real-time PvP modes, trade highly composable NFTs, and earn rewards through strategic gameplay.

Jiranjigyo Security is a security software company providing solutions and services for corporate information security and data management.

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.

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.

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.

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Degame — Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO.
Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad

TS Investment is an Investment firm specializing in engineering, real estate, and food and beverage through various group companies. They identifying, analyzing, and developing real opportunities across multiple disciplines. The firm aims to become a top tier diversified holding company offering its subsidiaries the necessary financial,operational, and managerial support to ensure each transcends its customer’s expectations, meets its employees' contentment, and exceeds its responsibilities to its stakeholders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, India

Portfolio highlights

OpenPlan — OpenPlan develops an online platform that offers mini insurance packages. It offers insurance premiums for various types of daily activity. OpenPlan was founded in 2019 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
Toggle — Toggle provides customized one-day insurance that can be purchased even with a small amount.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Angel, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bertis — Bertis is a proteomics-based molecular diagnostics service company.
FraSen — Frasen Inc. provides software and hardware related to healthcare services. It developed a hardware known as Neurofeedback Sleep Mask and a software known as Personal Sleep Care Service.Neurofeedback Sleep Mask is based on the neuroscience of sleep. It is able to measure the brain waves to monitor sleep stages precisely and to stimulate thebrain using sound and light to synchronize brain waves from light sleep stages to deep sleep stages.Frasen has received investments from FastTrackAsia.It was established on March 8, 2010.
Melephant — Melephant Inc. is a Korea based startup established in October 2013.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.
Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
Ten63 Therapeutics — Ten63 Therapeutics is a venture-backed startup developing durable therapeutics against some of the most lethal diseases. It combines low-residual, ML-based computational chemistry and mathematically guaranteed, superlinear search algorithms to find optimized drug candidates. The company's platform, COPPER, leverages its proprietary AI andstate-of-the-art physical models to explore an unprecedentedly large chemical space, allowing them to discover new therapeutics to targets previously believed undruggable.

we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
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)

Karen Ventures’ team of experts know how to deploy a global approach of investment strategies in thorough compatibility with economic and legal environment of Iran. To reduce investors’ concerns of starting a new venture in a new market they deal with internal systems and arrangements in Iran and they are here to help you and simplify your pathtoward this advantageous field.

Investment focus

Finance, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B
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.
Ceres F&D — Ceres F&D is a biopharmaceutical company that manufactures immunosuppressants and antibiotic drug substances.

We believe crypto assets innovate the process of value creation to value transfer

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Finland, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
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.
Synesis One — Synesis One is a data crowdsourcing platform where anyone can earn $SNS by completing micro-tasks that train AI.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
Soomvi — Soomvi is an industrial drone market company that provides marine lifesaving system services.
Safetics — Safetics has developed a solution that analyzes and predicts the safety of collaborative robots only through simulation without physical collision experiments.

Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using...
Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
C2N Diagnostics — C2N Diagnostics, LLC is a privately held protein diagnostic and therapeutic discovery company targeting progressive neurodegeneration. They formed in late 2007 by scientific co-founders Drs. David Holtzman and Randall Bateman of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and LifeTech Research, a Maryland-based technology research andcommercialization firm (www.lifetechresearch.com). They reside at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis.

Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.

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.

DWF Labs is the leading crypto venture capital company, market maker & liquidity provider. We help build strong web3 companies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rice AI — Rice AI is a decentralized AI smart-contract protocol designed to provide autonomous training and incentive mechanisms for robots.
Depinsim — DepinSim is a blockchain-based eSIM platform that lets users access global mobile data and earn rewards.
Block Street — Blockstreet is a multichain platform driving USD1 stablecoin adoption, smart contract deployment, and cross-chain DeFi growth tools.

WeMade Games is dedicated to serving gamers with a portfolio of entertaining, high-quality PC and Mobile games. Established in 2000, WeMade Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 112040) is an international game developer publisher that has grown from a handful of passionate game pioneers to a group of over 1,000 game enthusiasts. Starting with itsfirst and hit title "Legend of Mir 2", which has garnered over 200 million online PC gamers internationally, WeMade Entertainment has continued to develop and service dozens of PC and Mobile based games for fun-loving gamers since its inception.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

CLST — Buy & sell Bitcoin and cryptos with our easy and seamless Uncollateralized lending. Tust the world's finest crypto borrowing, trading or exchange platform
HwikGo — HwikGo a MaaS platform has created a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that provides a transfer connection between public transportation and shared smart mobility via a traffic card.
MetaCene — MetaCene is a blockchain company that aims to create an accessible Web3 world for the masses, with a focus on player-centric entertainment.

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.

Investment focus

Medical, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
SCBIO — SCBIO is a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs with specialized technologies in immuno-oncology. The company discovers and develops novel therapeutics for future medicine.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.

Paving the Way for the Digital Assets Revolution

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Funding Round, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
Swash — Swash is an ecosystem of tools and services that enable people, businesses, and developers to unlock the latent value of data by pooling, securely sharing, and monetising its value.People share their data to earn while retaining their privacy. Businesses access high-quality, zero-party data in a sustainable and compliant way. Developers set upand build systems within a collaborative development framework with ease.Swash is reimagining data ownership by enabling all actors of the data economy to earn, access, build and collaborate in a liquid digital ecosystem for data.

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

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

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Noble XYZ — Noble is a purpose-built generic asset issuance chain for the Cosmos & Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) ecosystem.
Neon Media — NEON Media produces transmedia, realtime sets for virtual productions, and games-as-a-service.
Nocturne Labs — Nocturne is a system that allows for on-chain private accounts.

C3 Management is an asset management company focused on managing venture funds which invest in technology companies worldwide.

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.

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

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

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.

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).
Jeongri Habit — Jeongri Habit is a home improvement and wellness company that allows users to organize residential houses and self routines.

DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
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NexusOne is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Service Industry
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
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.

100x Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of 100x Group

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.

With $250.4 billion in assets under management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests for BC public sectors.

Investment focus

Transportation, FinTech, Logistics
Private Equity, Seed, Corporate Round
United States, United Kingdom, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

MetaBeat — Experience new distance with your favorite artists' NFT!
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

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.

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.

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

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Hungary, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
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Translink Capital is a trailblazing Silicon Valley VC with unmatched institutional connections to Asia's economic powerhouses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
TensorWave — Access AMD MI300X GPUs today on TensorWave Cloud. Contact us today to get started.
Spectro Cloud — Enterprise Kubernetes management platform built for scale. Complete lifecycle management of any type of cluster, from bare metal to the edge.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Branders.com — Branders.com sells instantly customizable promotional items suchs as pens, hats, magnets, etc for marketing, sales, and event planning. They provide a single source to locate, design, order, and track promotional items online. Branders.com experience also offers you the following benefits to help you with your purchase: - Provides aone-stop shop for customizing merchandise - Aids in product selection with advanced, custom search and recommendation services - Allows you to customize and decorate your own products online and in real-time - Reduces fulfillment activities - Improves corporate identity management
MOFAC Studio — MOFAC Studio is a content production company that expanded into visual storytelling by integrating creativity with advanced technology, offering VFX-based virtual platform services and IP content production.

“Union Investment Partners” since its founding in 2000, has been the leading venture capital firm in Korea specializing in contents investment that includes successful investment portfolios of films, animations, games, TV dramas, and live concerts. Union Investment Partners will maintain its role as a major investment partner of venture businessesand contents industry that seeks growth and advancement to the global market.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
LabInCube — LabInCube develops inCube materials capable of selective drug release, sustained release, and supporting complex raw materials.
Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.

Korea Investment & Securities is a financial investment company that offers brokerage, asset management, and investment banking services.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series C, Series A
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inter X — Inter X is an industrial AI and big data analysis company.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Series B, Funding Round, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Keye — Perform better diligence in less time with AI. Empower deal teams with cutting edge LLMs. Now in beta.
VIVER — VIVER is a luxury watch trading platform.
Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.

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