Top 50 Digital Media Startup Investors in South Korea (October 2026)
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $2.1M–$57M |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $280k–$27M |
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DSC Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology | $594k–$60M |
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | $743k–$91M |
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LB Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.5M–$71M |
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $287k–$42M |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $85k–$16M |
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Manufacturing, Health Care, Software | $1.7M–$78M |
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $741k–$35M |
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $613k–$52M |
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology | $692k–$52M |
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Access Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $200k–$25M |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $135k–$26M |
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Michigan Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Music, Software | $776k–$1.3B |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $973k–$50M |
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Ilshin Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Digital Media, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $208k–$13M |
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TheVentures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $72k–$5.1M |
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Samsung Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing | $1.8M–$90M |
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Reventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software | $71k–$9.7M |
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KTB Network
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce | $1.4M–$150M |
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KB Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$35M |
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TimeWorks investments
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics | $691k–$57M |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence | $223k–$17M |
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Momentum 6
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.2M–$8.4M |
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Blocksync Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United Kingdom, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $50k–$5M |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $229k–$15M |
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F&F
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series B | Web3, Gaming, Retail | |
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Hi Investment & Securities
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Convertible Note | Video, Robotics, Blockchain | |
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AMOREPACIFIC
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Corporate Round, Seed | Cosmetics, B2C, Apps | $1.9M–$9.1M |
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $27k–$1.7M |
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Steve Chen
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Taiwan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $350k–$40M |
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SB Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Vietnam, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment | $2k–$17M |
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The Raine Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Sweden | Series A, Seed, Series C | Gaming, Software, Music | $2.8M–$555M |
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Ascendo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Taiwan | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Medical | $2.8k–$21M |
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $223k–$11M |
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Lifestyle Central Preparation Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Retail, Commercial, E-Commerce | |
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IP Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series B, Seed, Series A | News, Medical, Education | $16M–$25M |
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Kakao Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series C | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $743k–$123M |
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Mainstreet Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Marketing, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment | $1.3M–$22M |
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Philian Venture Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Digital Media, Angel Investment, Innovation Management | |
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RICH Asset Management
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | UX Design, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment | ||
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Pathfinder H
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage | |
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NEOVALUE
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series B | Video, Internet, Digital Entertainment | |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
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TINVESTMENT
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $328k–$26M |
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KOSME
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care | |
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Gaia Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Content, Content Creators, Fashion | |
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Globlex Holding Management
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Digital Media, Service Industry | |
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NCSOFT
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, South Korea, United States | Series B | Software, Information Technology, Film | |
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KNet Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming | |
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We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 405
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$27M; Series B $4.2M–$35M; Series C $5.2M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $350M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Soraban — The cloud-based platform modernizing and automating menial work for tax firms.
- PureSpace — Shelf-Life Extension Technology: Remarkably effective ethylene scrubber designed to keep fruits and vegetables fresher for longer. 50% food waste reduction in the supply chain. Explore more.
- 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
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 420
- Round size: Seed $280k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
- A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Seed $594k–$9.1M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
- IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
- GMI Cloud — Run production AI workloads on GMI Cloud. Deploy serverless inference, dedicated GPU clusters, and bare metal AI infrastructure on one scalable platform.
Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Series A $743k–$10M; Series B $743k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $852k–$91M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
- SK Horizon — SK Horizon is an AI data center (AIDC) infrastructure company whose name reflects its ambition to “open new horizons” in the AIDC sector, will be responsible for expanding its infrastructure to a total capacity of 318 MW, encompassing eight data centers already in operation - Seocho, Ilsan (two locations), Bundang, Gasan, Centum, Yangju, and Pangyo- and new AIDCs currently under construction, including those in Ulsan and Guro.
LB Investment is a venture capital firm that specializes in technology, content, bio-healthcare, semiconductor, energy, IT, and LCD investments. It offers funding, IPO, and M&A advisory, and portfolio management services to support high-growth companies. The firm emphasizes governance and sustainable development in its partner selection process.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $6.4M–$45M; Series C $7.8M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
- Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
- AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Road Not Taken
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- Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $425k–$6.5M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $287k–$42M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- A button — A button is a game development firm that focuses on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), first-person shooter (FPS) games, roguelikes, and souls-likes. Averton makes extensive use of AI. This strategy enhances development efficiency by minimizing the need for information gathering, data organization, and basic repetitivetasks. In certain instances, programmer productivity can nearly double.
- Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
- J Dragon Games — J Dragon Games is a video game studio that develops cross-platform medieval fantasy role-playing games playable simultaneously on computers and mobile devices.
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $85k–$1.5M; Series A $88k–$9.4M; Series B $8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pmatch — Pmatch is a comprehensive platform designed to provide reliable, accurate medication information to help users make informed decisions about their healthcare. By offering detailed insights into various medications, including their uses, dosages, side effects, and interactions, Pmatch ensures that individuals can use medicines in a smarter and saferway. The platform aims to enhance patient safety, reduce medication errors, and improve overall health outcomes by empowering users with the knowledge they need to manage their treatments effectively. Whether for healthcare professionals or patients, Pmatch serves as a trusted resource for promoting informed decision-making and better health management.
- A2D2 — A2D2 AI analyzes and organizes tens of thousands of pages of evidence documents.
- Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 247
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$26M; Series B $4.5M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$78M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
- Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
- Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $741k–$4.7M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
- Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
- Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $613k–$16M; Series A $2M–$45M; Series B $3.2M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $190M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
- QueryLift — QueryLift develops software for analyzing how generative AI systems represent brands and products. Its marketing intelligence service provides prompt analysis, competitor comparison, brand visibility monitoring, and source tracking. Its security service monitors misinformation, brand damage, data leakage, and other reputation risks associated with generative AI. The company provides these capabilities through SaaS products and positions them within generative engine optimization and AI security.
- Ocean — Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike.
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Browse database — It's Free!A fundamental investment philosophy of ‘Building on principles’ guides us at Mirae Asset. Over the years, these principles have enabled us to become Asia’s premier financial group and created new trends in the Asian capital market. Above all, we put our clients’ interests first, always adhering to high ethical standards. Because our success clearly comes from their success, we use fundamental investment principles to identify opportunities that generate value and lasting profits. We are strong believers in teamwork and are determined to recruit the best and brightest people as we open new horizons in Asia and expand globally. Just as we strive to continually improve our own performance, Mirae Asset is committed to helping every community it joins. On behalf of the entire Mirae Asset Financial Group, I would like to convey the sense of responsibility your trust in us merits and pledge to do all that we can to exceed your expectations.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 341
- Round size: Seed $692k–$14M; Series A $2M–$40M; Series B $5M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $118M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Hurotics — Hurotics is a company with deep-tech technology related to human-robot fusion.Hurotix's wearable robots, notably the 'H-Flex', are modular and give personalized support based on the user's demands, assisting users in overcoming physical restrictions.
- Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
- AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
Access Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage technology companies in Vietnam, Indonesia and Korea. They provide strategic expertise to their founders and access to their unique network of executives and technology professionals. Leveraging their robust network of strategic investors, they also focus their attention on creatingand executing sound exit strategies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Series A $375k–$9M; Series B $5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Yulift — Yulift is an edtech company that develops AI and coding education platforms for beginners and aspiring developers. The company operates AI Coding Valley, a mobile-based learning platform that provides programming and artificial intelligence education content for beginners and students.
- Plugo — Indonesia's e-commerce platform for all businesses. Start, manage, and grow your business. Build your own online store website.
- PeopleFund — Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr.
Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 390
- Round size: Seed $135k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
- Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
- READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
Michigan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in the late and growth stages, and buyout deals. The firm typically invests in the technology and telecommunication, sports, leisure information technology, game software, education, consumer retail focusing on the high-end global brands,entertainment projects including movies, television dramas, high-end musicals, operas, exhibitions, media, financial advisory services including equity and debt financing, corporate advisory services including mergers and acquisitions and asset divestitures, and consulting services including sales and marketing, operating and branding. It primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul nad Gyeonggi province. The firm primarily invests between $0.5 million and $1million in the initial stage, and between $1 million and $2.5 million in the late stage investments. Michigan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 2002 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Content, Music, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $776k–$1.3B; Series A $1.7M–$3.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XORBIS — XORBIS offers software, media hardware integration, and media management solutions for public and cultural spaces.
- Sodomall — Sodomall is a retail-tech platform that operates offline group-buying stores, connecting consumers through community-driven purchasing. It enables store-based pickup of products ordered collectively, focusing on cost-efficient distribution, franchise-style expansion, and a hybrid model that links online ordering with offline retail locations forimproved accessibility and convenience.
- The Muse Entertainment — The Muse Entertainment is a professional entertainment agency.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YG Entertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 539
- Round size: Seed $973k–$10M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $4.9M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
- Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
- Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
Ilshin Investment is a venture capital firm producing cotton yarn for small and medium enterprise establishments act. The firm has invested in numerous companies within IT manufacturing, IT service, electronic components, and biotechnology, enduring through various venture capital cycles. It also invested in the consumer retail sector and achieved strong returns by utilizing advanced management techniques. Additionally, through many innovative investments in film, music, television, performing arts and other entertainment sectors, Ilshin has contributed significantly to the growth of the cultural industry in Korea. The firm has provided its portfolio companies with hands-on added value to be able to contribute to the long-term sustainability of their businesses. Ilshin Investment was founded in 1990 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Digital Media, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $208k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Draftype — DraftType provides an online platform called 'DraftType Studio,' which allows users to design brand models and create other forms of content such as product photographs and marketing materials. The company's technology drastically lowers the expenses associated with brand model contracts and utilization, making it affordable to bothsmall and medium-sized enterprises and huge brands. The platform is currently used by over 3,500 sellers and significant companies from many industries, including fashion, cosmetics, and other goods.
- AnAI — AnAI Co., Ltd. is a AI audio infrastructure platform designed for global media localization. The company specializes in creating advanced, emotion-aware AI dubbing that preserves original vocal tones. They also provide high-utility solutions like automated, multilingual voice generation for international networks. Additionally, their technology scales real-time live sports commentary by processing live game statistics. Ultimately, these services help media studios expand their content into new global markets efficiently.
- Buffett Seoul — Buffett Seoul provides group physical training services in order to provide a unique fitness experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea..
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $72k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Group by — Group by is a recruitment platform for start-up career developer
- Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
- Libra Health — Libra Health develops menstrual-cycle-focused sports nutrition products for female athletes.
Samsung Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that makes investments in technology companies and startups. Its investment areas include artificial intelligence, robotics, device solutions, bio and health, energy, security and privacy, enterprise technology, and consumer devices. The firm operates investment activities across Korea, the United States, Europe, Israel, and Asia and manages multiple investment funds.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 298
- Round size: Series A $3.9M–$40M; Series B $5.3M–$90M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Swype — Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input.In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units
- FlexCompute — Our aerodynamics & electromagnetic simulation solutions reduce solve times, time to market, overall cost, and ensure a more robust product.
- PowerbyProxi — PowerbyProxi is a leader in advanced, safe, wireless power solutions for consumer electronics (CE) and industrial markets. Our advanced wireless power solutions solve mission-critical problems in demanding, hostile industrial environments. We license and sell robust, flexible wireless power and data solutions, with proven implementations rangingfrom less than one watt to multiple kilowatts. PowerbyProxi is a venture-backed company spun out of The University of Auckland—an internationally recognized leader in wireless power innovation—and holds a comprehensive portfolio of over 350 patents worldwide. For more information visit: www.powerbyproxi.com
Reventures is an investment management company that provides venture investment services for investors and startup partners.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $71k–$4.7M; Series A $6.8M–$9.7M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- My Link — My Link is taking the lead in creating a center for process digitization and convergence that suits the characteristics of each small and medium-sized manufacturer in Korea
- Rainbow Company — Rainbow Company is a software firm that develops a cloud-based mobile application, next-generation photo cards, which enables the capture of photos, videos, and audio. The platform functions as a cloud-based photo service leveraging image recognition and augmented reality (AR) video playback technologies.
- All My Anic Dots — All My Anic Dots is a virtual entertainment company dedicated to the creation, development, and management of virtual idols—digital performers brought to life through advanced animation, motion capture, and artificial intelligence technologies.
Korea Technology Development Company, a government-funded investment vehicle specializing in technology-related investment opportunities, KTB Financial Group(“KTB”) has since grown into a comprehensive financial group offering a wide range of financial services, including securities, asset management, venture capital, and private equity.KTB alsohas expanded our global network by actively entering overseas markets includes the United States, China, and Thailand.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$17M; Series B $7.4M–$30M; Series C $11M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NYOU — NYOU is a game development company that develops games for recreational purposes.
- Soelect — Soelect creates cutting-edge engineering solutions for anode technology and solid-state electrolyte materials, enabling safe, high-energy-density batteries for use in electric vehicles, portable electronics, power tools, drones, aircraft, spacecraft, and tactical defense equipment. Soelect's LiX technology is a lithium metal anode for fastcharging of all advanced and solid-state batteries.
- CoLearn — Aplikasi belajar online yang bantu belajar Matematika, Fisika, Kimia jadi lebih cepat dimengerti. Ada beragam fitur aplikasi mulai dari bantuan mengerjakan PR dengan foto soal sampai bimbel untuk SD, SMP, SMA.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$11M; Series B $4.7M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klleon — Revolutionizing AI-Human Interactions with Real-Time Digital AvatarsEstablished in 2019, Klleon pioneers a fresh dimension in AI-human relations through its real-time digital avatar video chat. Recognized by industry giants like NVIDIA, AWS, and Microsoft, Klleon's unique technologies facilitate emotionally resonant AI digital avatarinteractions. Features include rapid-response digital human animations and optimized GPT processing, ensuring efficiency in both time and cost. By creating lifelike digital avatars from just a facial snapshot and 30 seconds of voice, Klleon transcends physical, temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries. With Klleon, your digital twin can converse globally, anytime, in any language.
- Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
- Woori Technology — We, Woori Technology, are trying our best to satisfy customers with continuous R&D and innovation.
TimeWorks investments is a investment firm.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $691k–$15M; Series A $1.1M–$57M; Series B $833k–$22M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
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- MHS — MHS operates as a thermal management company specializing in cooling technology and thermal fluid analysis for high-heat environments. The company applies experience from multiple industries and knowledge of heatsink design to assess customer requirements and operating conditions at the design stage. It develops and provides thermal solutions forengineering applications.
- Pickle Plus — Pickle Plus provides an account sharing service for the OTT platform.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. The firm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 311
- Round size: Seed $223k–$3.8M; Series A $371k–$11M; Series B $914k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots. If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
- Intellicia — AI-powered Synthetic Consumers platform for market research. 91.2% Spearman Correlation, 93.6% accuracy validated across 120+ PoC projects.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
Building momentum for ideas in WEB3.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
- RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
- Perceptron Network — AI agents that learn, earn, and reward trust. Perceptron powers a decentralized mesh of reputation and revenue. Perceptron Network is the first AI-powered system where interactions drive growth and earn real rewards.
Blocksync Ventures is an Investment firm specialising in digital assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enjinstarter — Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility
- Zeitgeist PM — Zeitgeist PM is a blockchain tech to facilitate prediction markets and the futarchy form of governance.
- Genesis Shards — Crafting a whole new suite of NFT powered products across multiple blockchains
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 347
- Round size: Seed $229k–$2.9M; Series A $881k–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $884k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
- DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
- S-Innovations — S-Innovations is a robotics software company that develops SynK, a cyber-physical AI operating system for robot deployment, integration, and recovery across different robot brands and industrial facilities. The company provides automation software that enables faster robot setup, system connectivity, and operational management for sectors usingautonomous mobile robots
F&F mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of apparel and accessories. The Company operates its business through four segments. The Fashion segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of apparel, hats, and shoes under the brand names DISCOVERY, MLB, MLB KIDS, and STRETCH ANGELS.
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- Industry: Web3, Gaming, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RXC — RXC is a startup that creates a differentiated next-gen media commerce platform that helps brands succeed.
- brick — Redbrick, a tech startup founded in 2018, aims to democratize the creation of games and metaverse content. It offers a cloud-based 3D creation engine, which has significantly lowered the entry barrier to game development that was previously complex and challenging. Redbrick's 3D creation engine leverages Artificial Intelligence GeneratedContent (AIGC), Educational Technology (Edtech), and Blockchain technology, enabling anyone to easily and quickly create games, metaverse, VR, and AR content. Additionally, the Redbrick Store allows for the monetization of these creative works. Currently, Redbrick boasts over 200,000 UGC (User Generated Content) game creators and more than 1 million users.
Hi Investment & Securities is the provider of asset management services for various foreign and domestic funds
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- Industry: Video, Robotics, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Convertible Note
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Genome & Co. — Genome & Company is a biotechnology company that researches microbes and probiotics and develops dietary supplements, cosmeceuticals, and new drugs for obesity, diabetes, acne, atopic dermatitis, and cancer.
- HYRobotics — Plastic-injection molding Take-Out Robots manufactured with South Korean technology and distributed domestically by HYRobotics St. Louis, featuring t...
- CC Media Service — CC Media Service is an IT company that specializes in data modelling, web analysis, and bigdata consulting solutions.
Established in 1945, Amorepacific is Korea’s No.1 beauty company and a blue-chip corporation. Amorepacific owns nearly 30 well-known brands and has been developing rapidly worldwide. Amorepacific pays great attention to product research and development through research centers located in Korea, France, Japan and Shanghai, to develop premium andhigh quality skincare and cosmetics products. The Group chose Hong Kong as a strategic bridgehead for the expansion of its presence across the Greater China region and the rest of the world. Two flagship brands - LANEIGE and Sulwhasoo, were introduced in Hong Kong in 2002 and 2004 respectively. The eponymous luxury brand – AMOREPACIFIC, was introduced in Hong Kong in 2014. In 2015, ETUDE HOUSE, a playful cosmetics brand, made its debut in the territory. In 2018, the Company set foot in the personal care product market, introducing the Group’s legendary hair care brand ‘Ryo’ into Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Cosmetics, B2C, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caregen — Caregen is a biotechnology company specializing in biomimetic peptides, growth factors, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and cosmeceutical products. The company develops peptide-based solutions for skincare, hair restoration, obesity, diabetes, anti-aging, and regenerative medicine applications.
- Fronics — Flexible electronics change the world
- Add Brand Add Ads — Add Brand Add Ads provides advertising, branding, printing, signage, exhibition setup, and promotional material services for businesses. The company works on brand identity, outdoor advertising, display solutions, packaging, and event-related visual communication projects across different industries.
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $27k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
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- Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
- Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
- Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
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Browse database — It's Free!Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $350k–$12M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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- Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
- E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
- Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.
SB Partners is an investment firm in South Korea. Its major businesses include new technology business and Finance Business. It was established on December 11, 2017.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $706k–$5.8M; Series A $892k–$5.5M; Series B $2k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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- Toad World — Toad World is a real estate platform that facilitates direct property transactions between landlords and tenants. It offers a user-friendly mobile application that is available on iOS and Android, enabling users to efficiently search for and list rental properties. Their mission is to streamline the real estate transaction process.
- Haimaru Company — Haimaru Company is the developer of the AI-based influencer communication platform 'ReverseTok.' The company supports creators through casting and brand development, plans content and channel strategies, offers structured training programs to develop skills, and provides management using equipment and data-driven analysis for channeloperation, enabling digital creators and partner brands to access professional production support, education, and international audience growth opportunities.
- Big House Entertainment — Big House Entertainment creates content like webtoons and dramas, focusing on cross-platform storytelling across media, games.
Raine is an integrated merchant bank powering transformative growth through seasoned advisory expertise, innovative investment strategies, and a robust global network.
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Music
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$20M; Series A $5M–$80M; Series C $35M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
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- Olo — Olo enables 600+ restaurant brands to scale online ordering and delivery, make data-driven business decisions, and personalize the guest experience.
- HowStuffWorks — Founded in 1998, HowStuffWorks is the leading for-profit publisher of entertaining and informative podcast content. The parent company of 18 leading brands including Stuff You Should Know, Stuff You Missed in History Class and Stuff Mom Never Told You, the HowStuffWorks team reaches a highly engaged fan base across multiple platforms anddistribution partners and has amassed a library of more than 6,000 podcasts and 1 billion downloads. With an expansive and award-winning collection of audio podcasts, HowStuffWorks is ranked #2 in global downloads and streams. The company is headquartered in Atlanta and also operates studios out of Los Angeles.
- Mitosis Games — Download a Play To Win Game today
Ascendo Ventures is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm that strives to be a true lifecycle partner for the fastest growing, game-changing Asian tech companies. From the moment we invest in our portfolio companies, we commit to being a long-term partner and ascend together embracing the treme
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $443k–$5M; Series A $2.8k–$7.7M; Series B $3.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- A.drop — A.drop is an advertising solution that effectively leverages first-party (1P) in-app data from both web and mobile app developers to deliver highly personalized and targeted marketing campaigns, driving better engagement, higher conversion rates, and improved return on investment (ROI).
- ASET — ASET is a technology-based startup developing all-solid-state, composite electrolyte membrane technology that simultaneously improves fire safety and energy density.
- Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5.4M; Series B $7.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
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- Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
- Plantner — PLANTNER develops environmentally friendly polymers that utilizes the controlled-release characteristics of alginate, a polymer derived from seaweed, along with natural controlled-release fertilizers to substitute current chemical products. Concurrently, the company is engaged in research and development as well as local field trials in Korea andVietnam. These innovations are directly aimed at promoting low-input sustainable agriculture. The organization is committed to tackling the unsustainable practices prevalent in conventional agriculture through the use of slow-release fertilizers, aspiring to foster eco-friendly advancements rooted in natural materials, beginning with agriculture, which is the cornerstone of the industry. In traditional agricultural settings, the significant loss of chemical fertilizers has resulted in nutrient depletion, leading to soil degradation issues such as acidification. This reduction in soil productivity compels farmers to resort to even greater quantities of chemicals to enhance yields, thereby perpetuating a detrimental cycle of increasing overuse. As a response, coated slow-release fertilizers have been introduced; however, their synthetic polymer coatings have contributed to the buildup of microplastics in the soil, harming the habitats of beneficial microorganisms and generating additional environmental challenges. To mitigate these concerns, ongoing research and development efforts are focused on substituting the conventional coating materials of slow-release fertilizers which are responsible for environmental issues like residual microplastics with alginate, a biodegradable polymer sourced from seaweed.
- Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops an automotive data platform that enables real-time data transfer, sharing, and structured data management. The platform offers end-to-end capabilities, including data collection, storage, and deployment pipelines for processing vehicle big data through web-based visualization tools. It allows users to access streamingdata without local downloads and supports seamless collaboration among engineers worldwide.
Lifestyle Central Preparation Corporation is a new corporation that will be in charge of media-based lifestyle business.
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- Industry: Retail, Commercial, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- RXC — RXC is a startup that creates a differentiated next-gen media commerce platform that helps brands succeed.
IP Ventures
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- Industry: News, Medical, Education
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series B $16M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Jaranda — Jaranda is a learning sheet for working parents platform. They provide services for children. It solves the problem of asymmetry in child care and education information that depends on human networks. It helps children and parents discover and experience what they want.
- Byte Company — Daily Byte is a business and economics media platform that delivers simplified financial and market news through newsletters, premium content, and investment analysis services. The platform helps readers understand complex economic issues, stock markets, and business trends in an easy-to-digest format through daily briefings and educationalcontent. It also offers premium research content under the “Byte+” membership service focused on investing, finance, and economic insights.
- TeamFresh — TeamFresh is a cargo and freight company that provides logistics services.
Incorporated in 2015, Kakao Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Kakao which specializes in venture capital investments.Based on Kakao’s philosophy of “Connect Everything”, Kakao Investment seeks to invest and support innovative start-ups that can realize interpersonal connection and the connection of all of us to the things around us. Also KakaoInvestment strives to foster a virtuous circle with in the venture environment by facilitating M&As and IPOs.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $743k–$20M; Series A $1.8M–$12M; Series C $7.1M–$123M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
- Tommoro Robotics — We build the next generation of Physical AI.
Mainstreet Investment is a privately held investment firm dedicated to advancing the world by allocating capital, talent, and ideas to missions that allow us to travel to the future.
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- Industry: Marketing, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.8M; Series A $4.4M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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- Weclassic — Weclassic is a music company that teaches classic music to students.
- Live X — Live X is a digital transformation and brand development company that provides media services.
- Red Brick House — Red Brick House is a specialized South Korean indie game publisher dedicated to discovering, supporting, and publishing innovative independent games, helping talented developers bring creative and engaging gaming experiences to players across domestic and global markets.
Phillian Venture Investment is a venture capital firm providing advice and capital to companies with technology.
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- Industry: Digital Media, Angel Investment, Innovation Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Visit — Visit is a company that provides digital innovation solutions in various fields such as tourism and smart cities .
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- Industry: UX Design, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- EASYWITH — Easywith is a media research and development company design and produces creative content using new visuals and ideas.
Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 36
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
- CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
- EASYWITH — Easywith is a media research and development company design and produces creative content using new visuals and ideas.
NEOVALUE is a real estate development and construction company.
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- Industry: Video, Internet, Digital Entertainment
- Stage:Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RXC — RXC is a startup that creates a differentiated next-gen media commerce platform that helps brands succeed.
- Anipen — ANIPEN (애니펜) is a Korean 3D content development platform that enables enterprises to develop video communication and entertainment platforms.
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
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- Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.
TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $328k–$26M; Series A $3M–$8.2M; Series B $3.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- To-Day — To-Day is a developer of an online delivery platform to create a same day delivery service.
- Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
- Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
Gaia Venture Partner is an investment firm that offers venture capital to startups.
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- Industry: Content, Content Creators, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- BioSean — BioSean is a diverse feed technology and breeding organization that provides integrated solutions for microorganisms utilized from the hatched self-fish stage to plankton, high-efficiency fermented feed, and functional additive feed.
- Nanum Vitamin — Nanum Vitamin offers easy meals for children at risk of skipping meals without the burden of using an online child meal card registration payment system.
- Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
Globlex Securities offers investment holding and management services. They also provide stock trading, trading derivatives, investment banking,and mutual fund trading services.
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- Industry: Digital Media, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
NCSOFT is creating a new world connected through joy.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Film
- Stage:Series B
- Geography: Canada, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Moon Rover Games — Moon Rover Games is a game production studio that aims to create interesting, high-quality experiences while keeping "human-sized"
- 4th CREATIVE PARTY — 4th Creative Party is a VFX studio, animation and new media content company.
- Light Field Lab — Escape the Screen. We're creating a world where content escapes the screen and merges with reality.
K-Net is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
- Lala Stations — Lala Stations provides customized live total solutions for brand companies from live content creation and sales centered on live SaaS.
- Contents Technologies — Content Technologies is a content IP-based company builder.
Digital Media Investor funding in South Korea at a glance
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