Top 50 Education Startup Investors in South Korea in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Education startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Education Startup Investors in South Korea in November 2024
Investor | Education South Korea investments |
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Kakao Ventures | 16 |
Strong Ventures | 15 |
KB Investment | 10 |
Capstone Partners | 10 |
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund | 9 |
Korea Investment Partners | 8 |
Coolidge Corner Investment | 8 |
DSC Investment | 7 |
Smilegate Investment | 7 |
Fast Ventures | 6 |
TheVentures | 5 |
Primer Sazze Partners | 5 |
Big Basin Capital | 5 |
Yoonmin Foundation | 5 |
Company K Partners | 5 |
SBVA | 4 |
Laguna Investment | 4 |
KT investment | 4 |
Murex Partners | 4 |
InfoBank | 4 |
Altos Ventures | 4 |
Stonebridge Capital | 4 |
HB Investment | 4 |
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) | 3 |
TBT Partners | 3 |
VNTG Corp. | 3 |
PKSHA Capital | 3 |
We Ventures | 3 |
IBK Capital | 3 |
D3 Jubilee | 3 |
JB Ventures | 2 |
Yellowdog | 2 |
Lotte Ventures | 2 |
Mark & Company | 2 |
Kiwoom Investment | 2 |
DS Asset Management | 2 |
One-asset management | 2 |
MOCA Ventures | 2 |
Seoul Investment Partners | 2 |
SK Telecom | 2 |
Premier Partners | 2 |
InterVest Co. | 2 |
Shinhan Capital | 2 |
IPS Ventures | 2 |
Wantedlab | 2 |
Daekyo Investment | 2 |
S Cubic Angels | 2 |
Daekyo Investment | 2 |
LB Investment | 2 |
Hana Ventures | 2 |
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
- WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- Pathalys Pharma — Pathalys is a clinical biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics that improve late-stage chronic kidney disease.
- Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
- TMR Founders — TMR Founders provides a one-stop service that helps prospective entrepreneurs start a start-up in the offline individual start-up market.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
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), YGEntertainment(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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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- 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.
- AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
- Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- 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.
- Evacycle — Evacycle is a company that recycles waste electric vehicle batteries, focusing on developing technology to recover valuable metals and reuse waste materials for new purposes.
- Fitin — Fitin is a startup developing a subscription service model for replacing batteries in commercial electric vehicles such as taxis and cargo trucks.FitIn was known for its technological prowess in that it used its unique battery swap technology to overcome charging problems and remaining battery life (SOH), which were recurring problems in commercialelectric vehicles. Battery swap is a technology that replaces a depleted battery with a fully charged battery.
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
- Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
- Korea Education Partners — Korea Education Partners is utilizing AI technology to facilitate a shift in educational paradigms, aiming to transition from traditional test-based education to customized career education. Their AI-based SaaS, 'Hakjong Pro', offers affordable, high-quality services like life record management, department selection tests, tax-relatedtopic recommendations, and research activity assistance tools for local academy teachers.
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Textiley — Textiley is an environmental deep-tech firm developed to address environmental issues caused by landfilling and incineration of waste textiles.
- Factosquare — Factosquare develops goods and brands, manufactures them in-house, and innovates the factory manufacturing process.
- Hyphen — Hyphen has developed 'Yugwanggi', a YouTube ad search engine that categorizes advertising videos using generative Al technology. Hyphen aims to evolve from referencing work to a hub that integrates collaboration in PR/marketing work, It focuses on the marketer work process after referencing.
Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Episoden — Enjoy free English conversations in video chat format with international friends for your English speaking practice.
- 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.
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Recl — Recl is an application that collects and recycles old clothes.
- mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
- Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
- MetaDx — MetaDx is a veterinary bioinformatics analysis company that detects tumors in pets and provides diagnostic services.
- FOBECON — Pobicon offers an auto-estimation solution that analyzes construction blueprints using vision AI and other algorithms to quantify the net quantity of raw materials utilized in construction in three days.
Company K Partners Limited is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in culture content, electronic components, computer, machinery, broadcasting, arts, sports, and leisure industries. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeongnam, and Gyeonggi. Company K Partners Limited was established in 2006 and isbased in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Gibraltar
Portfolio highlights
- Makestar — The K-Culture place everyone seeks first
- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- Diden Robotics — Diden Robotics, a company specializing in industrial robot solutions, Diden Robotics is developing a quadruped robot for iron environments, providing automated inspection and work solutions introduced the Ascension Robot technology to streamline complex and dangerous work processes. The robot can work over complex obstacles, reducing humancasualties and increasing efficiency.
Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors
kt investment is a new technology business finance company established in 2015. It is an investment company that represents KT Group .kt investment seeks to contribute to social contribution and maximize investment return through win-win cooperation with promising SMEs and venture companies .kt investment seeks to achieve long-term returns bylooking at the market from a global perspective and looking for value investment opportunities in the long term.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
- Medipal — Medipal provides personal health for a health consultation. It provides subscription-based personal nurse service for patients.
- Rebellions — Under the latency critical mission in the age of Generative AI
Murex Partners is a VC firm specializing in thesis-driven investing.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- VoyagerX — VoyagerX develops artificial intelligence software.
- LIVEKLASS — LIVEKLASS is an online education platform for educators and students.
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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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LanDup — LanDup is a real estate development company that offers online real estate development and land sales services.
- Modern Farm — Modern Farm is an agricultural startup that produces diverse agricultural goods including GABA tomatoes and Stevia tomatoes.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
- Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
- Makestar — The K-Culture place everyone seeks first
Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
- Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
- OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.
HB Investment Inc. was founded on November 11, 1999 starting with paid-in Capital of KRW 10 billion.Since its foundation, HB Investment Inc. has been investing small and medium businesses that have the potential for steady growth and profitability and helping the invested companies to grow well by giving various consulting services. As a result,HB Investment Inc.constructed comprehensive portfolio out of various industrial areas, such as game, entertainment, as well as representative high-tech industries related to semiconductor, Internet, LCD, and a smart phone, bio, health care. In addition, HB Investment Inc. has experiences in implementing business Success-fully by organizing several partnership funds for recent years.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Lucas — Medical AI Solution, MONCAD Monitor Corporation aim to achieve innovation in the field of medical imaging through artificial intelligence technology.
- Creators Network — Creators Network offers data-driven label and artist services to help creative artists.
Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
- Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
TBT Partners is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
- STAYFOLIO — * Founded in 2015, STAYFOLIO is a Fine-Stay platform that curates accommodations with unique values and personality with the motto of “Curate the space where staying itself is travel” * Beyond just introducing accommodation, we provide exclusive accommodation solutions by building a full value chain for Fine Stays, from the process of creatingaccommodation spaces to branding, promotion, operation and service.
- 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.
VNTG Corp. creates an end-to-end digital ecosystem across the value chain.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Product Design, Service Industry
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bunnit — Bunnit operates the workout log platform service and is designed to meticulously document customers' strength training routines.
- Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
- Belinker — Based on information from domestic processing partners, B-Linker fulfills customers' processing requests. From the perspective of the client, less effort is required because many processed products can be "aggregated" to non-linkers, and processed products can be consistently purchased at prices as much as 20% lower thanks tostreamlined procurement.
We are a venture capital firm accelerating the innovation and the algorithm transformation of existing industries with artificial intelligent technology.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
- Broom — Broom ID memberikan pelayanan terbaik untuk pengalaman Jual Beli Mobil Bekas Anda, banyak pilihan Variasi merek dan tipe Mobil Bekas yang berlimpah
- Excellent Vision — Excellent Vision is a spatial intelligence company focused to transforming video creation into a 4D world model, enabling AI big models to grasp, generate, and reason about 4D space.
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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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.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
- Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
- Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services.
D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
- Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
- Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
JB Ventures is a venture capital investment firm and startup accelerator that aims to support startups in the Chungcheongnam-do region.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile Apps, Pet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Rubit — Rubit is an online mobile application with the provisions for individuals to take care of their pets.
- Cre Planet — Cre Planet creates technologies for analyzing advertising performance and provides staffing services.
- Wise Convey — Wise Convey is innovating smart logistics, starting with task automation.
The Impact Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- MY NORMAL — MY NORMAL provides food and services for ketogenic diets.
- 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.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
- SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
Mark & Company is an open innovation platform that provides app traffic, legal, and accounting consulting services.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed
- South Korea
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- FOBECON — Pobicon offers an auto-estimation solution that analyzes construction blueprints using vision AI and other algorithms to quantify the net quantity of raw materials utilized in construction in three days.
- Feat Paper — Motion PDF and Analytics
- Iroun & Company — Iron & Company offers solutions that enable businesses to employ artificial intelligence to boost production and efficiency secand easilyly.
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, Japan, Germany
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- AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
- MIRI.DIH — MIRI.DIH is a technology-intensive e-business company.
- WeMeet Mobility — WeMeet Mobility is an AI-based logistics platform that offers transportation planning, location, routing, and monitoring services.
Investing in listed companies and venture firms
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- Biotechnology, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, Sweden, United States
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- ArtNGuide — ArtNGuide conducts online auctions and art fairs.
- FASSKER — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.
- Doosan Mobility Innovation — Doosan offers drone solutions based on Fuel Cell powerpacks, which enable longer flights than existing battery-powered drones.
One Asset Management is a Total Portfolio Investment Platform, offering unique products across 5 different asset classes (Global Equity, Local Equity, Fixed Income, Global Futures Strategies, Alternative Investment) to our customers.
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- EdTech, Tutoring, Education
- Series A
- South Korea
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- Ringle — Ringle is a premium 1:1 online English learning platform that connects top tutors with global employees looking to perfect their English
MOCA Ventures is an independent specialized firm that develops, designs, engineers and procures high quality Italian kitchen and bathroom .
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- News, EdTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Germany
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- Vinssen — Vinssen is a manufacturer of electric and hydrogen ships.
- Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseastelecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
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- BitGo Korea — BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers.
- Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
- Smart Global Holdings — SMART is an independent designer, manufacturer and supplier of electronic subsystems to OEMs engaged in the computer, industrial, networking, telecommunications, aerospace and defense markets. Taking innovations from the design stage through manufacturing and supply, SMART Modular Technologies has developed a comprehensive product line thatincludes DRAM and Flash memory technologies across various form factors.
Premier Partners (프리미어 파트너스) is a Korean domestic funds management company. It provides investment services for individuals and businesses. Premier Partners was established in September 2005 in Seoul, Korea.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
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- Medipixel — Medipixel is a MedTech startup that aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality of human life by innovating the way we diagnose diseases and controlling surgical robots with the power of AI. Consisting of a group of AI experts in computer vision, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, Medipixel conducts research and product developmentfor lung cancer diagnosis and coronary intervention robots together with the best healthcare professionals in Korea such as Seoul Asan Medical Center. In November 2018, MediPixel won the championship in the QuickFire Challenge hosted by Johnson & Johnson. MediPixel currently offers three solutions for intervention surgeons:1. An AI Based Diagnosis Solution makes it possible for doctors to spot lesions while performing a coronary angiography, perform segmentation of the vessel in question within just one second and analyze the lesion’s status.2. A Guide & Planning Solution clearly visualizes the hidden part of the coronary artery to make doctors perform guidewire manipulation with more ease and confidence, which is quite useful especially in case of CTO. Furthermore, the solution frees doctors from the need to use contrast -- this is important because contrast can cause potentially fatal reactions in 5 to 10% of patients.3. An Automated Navigation Engine automates navigation through coronary arteries. Once the destination is reached, it controls a robotic unit by giving the most appropriate real-time commands in its existing situation, thus delivering devices such as guidewire to the destination in the most efficient way.We're open to any candidates who are excited to apply their knowledge and skill in deep learning to real-world medical data and surgery robots. Do you have any questions? Email us at contact@medipixel.io
- MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
- Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
- QSIM Plus — QSIM Plus provides ultra-secure communications that are time-consuming and extremely expensive to construct, as well as entry hurdles, allowing non-experts to participate in the establishment of a quantum ecosystem.
- LiveIn — LiveIn is a hospitality company that offers long term room rental. Enjoy quality assured room, cleaning services, maintenance and community activities. Find out more!
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc.
Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
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- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
IPS Ventures provides investment support to technology startups in South Korea.
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- Apps, Medical, Online Portals
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Huject — Huject is a Hanyang University laboratory startup company founded in 2020 with the goal of commercializing energy harvesting technology. The company develops and sells a wide range of products that use energy-harvesting source technology. Energy harvesting is an environmentally friendly energy technology that collects discarded energy and converts,stores, and uses it to generate electrical energy.
- InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
- Medi Whale — We believe that early detection is the best prevention. Our innovative diagnostic technology helps you take action before symptoms appear.
Wanted provides personalized job recommendations and content programs to empower your lifelong career journey. Wanted is here for you, every step of the way.
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- Sports, Fitness, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Redrob by McKinley Rice — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
- Learning Spoons — Learning Spoons employs both online and offline ways to give professionals with courses in data science, business, real estate and many more.
- Learning Spoons — Learning Spoons employs both online and offline ways to give professionals with courses in data science, business, real estate and many more.
Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.
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- Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, Hong Kong
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- VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
- Mediver — Mediver focuses on medical and cosmetic devices, providing new solutions to the healthcare and beauty industries worldwide.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
S Cubic Angels
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- Education, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Daekyo Seeks to apply business philosophies such as value-, customer-, and outcome-oriented management as well as the reinforcement of change management. Based on the principles, the company tries to ensure the continued growth of its flagship operations with stable growth basis and to launch new projects with higher growth potential. The companyalso plans to realize remarkable advancement by discovering and implementing new business models that reflect the changes in the educational environment and propose high value-added.
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- Education, Software, Apps
- Series A, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- South Korea
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- Geekble — Geekble is a media startup that produces new media content on science and technology to bridge the gap between geeks and the world. With revenue from workshops and branded content, Geekble is building its own "maker space" for geeks to experiment. Teachers and professors are using Geekble's content for educational purposes, andGeekble videos have been used for public TV.
- PeLeMed — PeLeMed is a drug development company working on the discovery of anti-cancer drugs. The company's innovative therapeutic candidates through type 1 kinase inhibitor development platform.
- WizSchool — We employ real-time user code analysis algorithm based on compiler technology to diagnose learners’ levels and status of the software education. And our AI tutor for coding education using deep learning technology offers learner-centered customized learning contents to the users. Aiming for the global market, we are developing and growing ourbusiness to solve the shortage problem of software education instructors and also provide the market with the best quality software education service.
LB Investment is one of the top VCs in Korea. LB invests in diverse industries ranging from Technology and Contents to Bio and healthcare
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- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, China, United States
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- MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
- Torder — Torder is evolving into a next-generation technology leader that allows unattended control of all devices from any location. The business began as a platform for ordering and advertising on tablets.
- aiz Entertainment — aiz Entertainment uses AI technology to generate interesting content.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
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- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
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