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Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Energy startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Energy companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2025

Investor Energy South Korea investments
D3 Jubilee 10
MYSC 9
Coolidge Corner Investment 7
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation 6
Industrial Bank of Korea 5
Hyundai Motor Company 5
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 5
BNK Venture Capital 4
Kakao Ventures 4
TheVentures 4
DSC Investment 4
Hana Financial Investment 4
Shinhan Capital 4
Series Ventures 4
POSCO CAPITAL 3
BNK Venture Capital 3
Nextdream Angel Club 3
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation 3
Future Science and Technology Holdings 3
Korea Technology Finance Corporation 3
Strong Ventures 3
Lighthouse Combined Investment 2
Shinhan Venture Investment 2
Samsung Venture Investment 2
Korea Development Bank 2
Yoonmin Foundation 2
L&S Venture Capital 2
SJ Investment Partners 2
Quantum Ventures Korea 2
Korea Science and Technology Holdings 2
Daesung Private Equity 2
Rising S Ventures 2
GS Venture 2
Golden Oak Investment 2
HG Initiative 2
Applied Ventures 2
Smilegate Investment 2
Big Basin Capital 2
Stone Bridge Ventures 2
UNID 1
Central Investment Partners 1
Y-Alliance Investment 1
Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation 1
Hanyang University 1
Yuhan-Kimberly 1
Pohang University of Science and Technology 1
Hyundai Technology Investment 1
Newborn Ventures 1
Timepolio Asset Management 1
E&Venture Partners 1
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D3 Jubilee VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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.
MYSC VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
  • Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
Coolidge Corner Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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.
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Industrial Bank of Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 31 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
  • Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
  • INKA Entworks — INKA Entworks specializes in the field of digital rights management and mobile application security.
Hyundai Motor Company VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
  • Surff — Surf is a logistics company that offers a solution that allows for both the comparison of shipping/forwarder freight rates by route, which was previously difficult to provide on other platforms, and actual shipment reservations.
  • Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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.
BNK Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
  • Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
  • Korea Precision Materials Industry — Korea Precision Materials Industry is a manufacturer of next-generation composite materials used for weight reduction.
Kakao Ventures VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 15 investments in the past 12 months
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
  • Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
  • Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
TheVentures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 21 investments in the past 12 months
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, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • LeMong — LeMong automates comments on content assistants using AI technology.
  • ReFeed — ReFeed provides innovative IT technology to develop effective solutions for both trash emitters and collectors.
  • Second Ocean — Second Ocean is an aquaculture company that provides data collection and technology development for sustainable seaweed farming.
DSC Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
  • INKA Entworks — INKA Entworks specializes in the field of digital rights management and mobile application security.
  • Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
Hana Financial Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
  • Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Shinhan Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Apps
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Series Ventures VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Dentifle — Dentifle specializes in providing advanced technologies for producing customized implant prosthetics solutions for dental professionals and patients, enhancing implant procedures' overall efficiency and effectiveness.
  • SkinSeoul — Skin Seoul Lab utilizes AI agents to secure product assortments and design processes for Korean beauty products, advancing overseas through sustainable inventory management, logistics, and marketing based on the LLM model.
  • ICU Corporation — ICU Corporation offers skilled and high-level optics from opticians with master's and doctoral degrees in optics, ensuring ease and sharp vision, which is the essence of glasses.
POSCO CAPITAL VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
  • H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
BNK Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in the past 12 months
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm that invests and supports small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
  • Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
Nextdream Angel Club VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Nextdream Angel Club provides startup angel investment and solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Water Purification, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.
  • Top Mobility — Top Mobility is an electric airplane solution firm. It provides sustainable infrastructure and maintenance systems.
  • Blue Labs — BLUELABS specializes in eco-friendly water treatment solutions using recycled oyster shells for pure water. Our sustainable innovations enhance water quality and promote environmental conservation. Committed to sustainable development, we reduce waste and protect the planet with effective water purification products.
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation for investing in startups
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Investment focus
  • GreenTech, Energy, Events
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Spacebeam — Spacebeam is a startup creating space optical communication technology, a space-to-earth data transfer technique that uses light.
  • JIN System — JIN System uses location-based spatial information technology to identify customers' potential needs and offers market-friendly solutions by integrating and converging relevant technologies. They aim to cater to increasing consumer needs in transportation, social welfare, and safety sectors, and expand into the digital twin field.
  • Tanger Medal — HAPPY MOMENT WITH CITRUS
Future Science and Technology Holdings VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • NationA INC. — We are NationA
  • Copper Innovation Technology — CIT Co, Ltd utilizes metal single crystals and the ASE method to ensure the accurate, lossless transmission of every signal.
Korea Technology Finance Corporation VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
  • Evmodu — Evmodu offers EV-SaaS, on-site charging, connected car service for electric vehicles, and real-time charging station information.
  • Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
  • Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
  • Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
Lighthouse Combined Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • CTNS — CTNS develops and produces secondary battery packs.
  • Lightyear — Lightyear One is a Long-Range Solar Car Designed & Engineered by Lightyear in The Netherlands. Designed for Independence.
  • Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
Shinhan Venture Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 23 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
  • EMCRAFTS — EMCRAFTS specializes in the manufacturing and designing of scanning electron microscopes.
  • Novelty Nobility — Novelty Nobility Inc. is a private biotech company. They are currently focused on the research of novel angiogenesis targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics in ophthalmology and oncology, where angiogenesis plays a key pathogenic role.In ophthalmology, Novelty Nobility first discovered a novel angiogenesis target, Stem Cell Factor(SCF)and c-KIT, which was initially known for its engagement with proliferation and survival of primitive hematopoietic stem cells for a couple of past decades. We believe that anti-SCF/c-KIT could effectively address the unmet medical needs, mostly caused by inherent limitations of anti-VEGFs, in terms of treatment efficacy and long-term safety. Our target discovery is widely and strongly patent-protected in US/KOR and the lead pipeline, NN2101(a full-human monoclonal antibody), is currently under preclinical development.
Samsung Venture Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
  • Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
  • Princeton NuEnergy — Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Its patented Direct Battery Recycling technology to produce high-quality and high value-added cathode active materials with low operating cost from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainableenergy and environmental solutions.
Korea Development Bank VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 33 investments in the past 12 months
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • XORBIS — XORBIS offers software, media hardware integration, and media management solutions for public and cultural spaces.
  • Meissa — Meissa is a drone-based construction tech startup that provides real-time 3D mapping and modeling.
  • Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
Yoonmin Foundation VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
L&S Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
  • ANAFLASH — ANAFLASH Inc. is an NSF, DoD, NASA funded semiconductor startup, developing a brain inspired solution for energy efficient smart edge devices with a standard logic based non-volatile neuromorphic processor.
  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
SJ Investment Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
  • Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
  • CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
Quantum Ventures Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
  • LuluMedic — LuluMedic provides the best solutions and lead the global health tech market.
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
Korea Science and Technology Holdings VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea
Korea Science and Technology Holdings specializes in technology commercialization services by government-funded research institutes.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • BJ Wai — BJ Wai develops functional cosmetics materials that depend on imports with enzyme fermentation platform technology.
  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • Thermoeye — Thermoeye provides thermal imaging systems utilizing temperature analysis technology.
Daesung Private Equity VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
Rising S Ventures VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea
Rising S Ventures is a venture investment company specializing in early-stage technology start-ups.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Security, Recycling
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • Carbon Energy — Carbon Energy was founded as a direct air capture (DAC) solution startup. With the use of direct carbon capture (DAC) technology, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is directly extracted and either buried underground or recycled into new resources. Beyond the current DAC technology, Carbon Energy is claimed to possess a special technology thatsimultaneously produces renewable energy and lowers carbon dioxide.
GS Venture VC Fund · Sankt-peterburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation
GS Venture is part of GS Group– an investment and industry holding, operating on the basis of its very own high technologies in telecommunications and innovation. Investments 0.1-10M USD in a startup.Fund Size: 40M USD GS Group is also developing a unique private innovation cluster, located in the special economic zone of Russian Federation(Kaliningrad region). Its aim is built an environment for innovative ideas for innovative ideas that will be able to enter the market. GS Group holding is the investor and initiator of Technopolis GS. It involve industrial cluster, research center, office space and comfortable living area.Priority fields: game developmentinteractive TV services (iTV)original tv contentsmart homeconsumer electronics development and productionmicrochip development for various purposes wearable technology (incl. wristbands, smartglasses, activity trackers, heart rate monitors, etc).
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Mineral, CleanTech
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Levit — Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience
  • Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
  • Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
Golden Oak Investment VC Fund
Golden Oak, LLC is a privately held investment company that focuses on the acquisition, development, and management of value-add multifamily real estate.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Wellness, Beauty
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • LOWE — Lowe is a shared beauty salon platform service that provides a variety of beauty infrastructure such as beauty spaces, facilities and materials, and creates an optimal environment for designers to focus on the essence.
  • Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
  • Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.
HG Initiative VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • phoneGO — phoneGO is a mobile repair cost comparison estimate platform.
  • ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
  • CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
Applied Ventures VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT) investing in innovative startups for over a decade.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ayar Labs — Ayar Labs solves bandwidth and power bottlenecks by moving data using light. We built the world's first optical I/O chiplets.
  • Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
  • TXOne Networks — We offer cybersecurity solutions tailored to the protection of industrial control systems, ensuring reliability and safety from cyberattacks.
Smilegate Investment VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 22 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
  • Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
Big Basin Capital VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Stone Bridge Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • ANAFLASH — ANAFLASH Inc. is an NSF, DoD, NASA funded semiconductor startup, developing a brain inspired solution for energy efficient smart edge devices with a standard logic based non-volatile neuromorphic processor.
  • EcoRemix — EcoRemix produces recycled soil by developing Customized Concrete Mixing Technology.
  • INKA Entworks — INKA Entworks specializes in the field of digital rights management and mobile application security.
UNID VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
UNID manufactures and sells basic inorganic chemical products such as potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate, chlorine, and hydrochloric acid. They also produce chlorine-based products that are used in various fields such as petrochemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, medicines, and food additives. Their chemical products are also used in electronicindustries such as semiconductor and solar wafer etching.
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Investment focus
  • Battery, Commercial, Electric Vehicle
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Solivis — Solivis is a solid electrolyte company that develops secondary batteries for next-generation electric vehicles.
Central Investment Partners VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Central Investment Partners is a financial service provider company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Real Estate, Online Portals
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Factosquare — Factosquare develops goods and brands, manufactures them in-house, and innovates the factory manufacturing process.
  • Estate Cloud — Estate Cloud provides online real estate services for buying and selling properties.
  • TODOC — TODOC is the technology leader of neural prosthesis and neuromodulation system in Korea.TODOC is developing cochlear implant system with innovative manufacturing method for implantable neural interface. People who have a hearing loss greater than 90dB are guided to use cochlear implant instead of hearing aids to restore hearing.Our goal is toexpand the cochlear implant market globally. Because of the high price, cochlear implants are usually consumed in the developed countries such as North America and Europe. However, majority of the hearing-impaired population currently resides in the developing or underdeveloped countries where people cannot afford the benefit of the cochlear implant. This high price of the cochlear implant is mostly due to the manual method of manufacturing the neural electrodes.To replace the conventional manual fabrication method, TODOC has developed automated micro-machining electrode manufacturing processes at only 1/10 of conventional manufacturing cost of electrode, as well as the cochlear implant system. The automated electrode manufacturing processes can offer higher capacities for a wider range of sounds to the hearing impaired than conventional ones.TODOC aims to become a global leader in the Brain-Machine Interface field based on its superior Neural Interface Technology.
Y-Alliance Investment VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Y-Alliance Investment is a venture capital firm that supports young venture companies and start-ups.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, CleanTech, Information Services
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • CLEANBELL — CLEANBELL provides information about cleaning companies in Korea.
Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
With a corporate mission of helping small and medium companies, HVIC was founded in April 1997 with \ 30 billion of paid-in capital. HVIC is always ready to partner with companies which have innovative technology but weak financial and management basis. HVIC has a broad range of services for its portfolio companies including management control,technology consulting, not to mention financial assistance. HVIC became a new affiliated company of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd on April 1, 2002
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Anterogen — Anterogen is a bio-venture company specializing in research and development of cell therapy products and orphan drugs using adult stem cells.
  • AUTOCRYPT — Comprehensive, end-to-end automotive cybersecurity and mobility solutions for V2X, in-vehicle systems, Plug&Charge, and fleet management.
  • Headless — We provides growth-hacking D2C solutions through AI headless commerce technology with data-pipeline connection and auto-marketing solutions.
Hanyang University VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Hanyang University is a school in Seoul.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Grant
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
  • Worker's high Co. — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
Yuhan-Kimberly VC Fund · Gangneung, Kangwon-do, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Yuhan-Kimberly is the joint venture between Korea’s Yuhan Corporation
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Investment focus
  • Product Design, Consumer Goods, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Byhayan — Byhayan is an eco-friendly lifestyle business that strives for a more sustainable future by repurposing everyday consumer goods with environmentally friendly materials. It can be challenging.
  • Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
  • Sixty Hertz — Sixty Hertz is a social venture that provides climate crisis with IT technology and services.
Pohang University of Science and Technology VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
  • Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.
  • Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
Hyundai Technology Investment VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Hyundai Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that mainly invests in early-stage companies and is based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Biopharma, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Cool Sign — Coolsign is an EV specialist that offers a complete set of hardware and platforms based on its own technology for the reliable operation of electric car charging stations.
  • Selecxine — Selecxine is a biopharmaceutical development company specialized in the field of immunotherapeutics. Selecxine strives to develop immunotherapeutics a new paradigm of pharmaceuticals– through a specialized antibody development process, using an innovative platform technology of functional antibody screening and development.
  • Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
Newborn Ventures VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Newborn Ventures is an investment consulting firm that provides professional training courses and initial startup funding.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, DIY, Smart Home
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Il Conus — Il Conus is a sensor bases IoT company that offers smart sterilization system toilets and smart tunnel lighting control systems.
  • CoinTravIT — CoinTravIT provides international currency exchange services with mobile support.
  • Moment Studio — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Timepolio Asset Management VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Timepolio Asset Management is an asset management firm.
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Investment focus
  • Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • DoubleMe — DoubleMe is a leading volumetric capture company focused on bringing the physical and virtual worlds together. The company pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with 3D technology and create simple solutions that improve the lives of real people, in real time.Operating in Sunnyvale, London, and Seoul and partnering with 15 telcos worldwide,DoubleMe is constantly developing new ways to democratize 3D technology and bring the physical and virtual worlds together.DoubleMe's technology provides an end-to-end platform for social holographic reality experiences. The company has received more than $17M in funding to date.
  • KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.
  • Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
E&Venture Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
E&Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in South Korea. Established in 2018, the venture capital arm of Easy Bio focuses on investment opportunities in startups in the biotech and IT sectors based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Biopharma, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
  • Dareesoft — Dareesoft is a company that provides road hazard information service in real time.
  • Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
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