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Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Energy South Korea investments
D3 Jubilee	10
MYSC	9
Coolidge Corner Investment	7
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation	6
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund	5
Industrial Bank of Korea	5
Hyundai Motor Company	5
Shinhan Capital	4
Kakao Ventures	4
POSCO CAPITAL	4
DSC Investment	4
TheVentures	4
Lighthouse Combined Investment	4
Hana Financial Investment	4
Series Ventures	4
BNK Venture Capital	4
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation	3
BNK Venture Capital	3
Nextdream Angel Club	3
Future Science and Technology Holdings	3
Strong Ventures	3
Korea Technology Finance Corporation	3
Yoonmin Foundation	2
Quantum Ventures Korea	2
Daesung Private Equity	2
ENSL Partners	2
Korea Science and Technology Holdings	2
Korea Angel Investment Association	2
Shinhan Venture Investment	2
Antler	2
Stone Bridge Ventures	2
AI Angel Club	2
Big Basin Capital	2
Samsung Venture Investment	2
Applied Ventures	2
TINVESTMENT	2
L&S Venture Capital	2
GS Venture	2
Korea Development Bank	2
Rising S Ventures	2
Golden Oak Investment	2
HG Initiative	2
Smilegate Investment	2
SJ Investment Partners	2
Shinhan Investment	1
Philosophia Ventures	1
SL Investment	1
Capital One	1
SparkLabs	1
LG Technology Ventures	1

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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.

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.
RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
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 is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.

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 (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.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Nexusbe — Nexusbe is a manufacturer of atomic layer equipment technology intended to provide vacuum deposition equipment.
Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
Nature Loud — Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products.

CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.

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.

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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.
Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.

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.

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
WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
DAAN Biotherapeutics — DAAN Biotherapeutics develops novel treatments for cancer patients. The company conducts cancer treatment research and development, including cell therapies, antibodies, and small molecule inhibitors.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Nanosilicon — Nano Silicon is a company that manufactures silicon anodes, which are important materials for secondary batteries in the electric vehicle sector.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.

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Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.
Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.

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Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
BRUSH Theatre — BRUSH Theatre is a theatre for live performances.

Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

Investment focus

Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

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.

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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.

The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation for investing in startups

Investment focus

GreenTech, Energy, Events
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

CareSix — The future of veterinary care. We envision a world where all companions receive the quality healthcare they're entitled to. Our first line of production - Cotons AI Sense 1 series presents wearable devices, where shaving, gel or electrode is not required for vital data collection. Simply wear the device on your dog's neck to receive notonly vital data, but clinical and behavioral via app or web.
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.

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm that invests and supports small and medium-sized enterprises.

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 provides startup angel investment and solutions.

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.

Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Atlo — Ato is designed to be available at any time and place on the web, ready to engage with users.
Roovook — Room + Venue + Booking = Roovook! Provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels.Even though hotel banquet/event segment is big part of MICE industry, still customers are having hard timefinding right venue to hold their events. So Roovook provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. As a fast growing start-up, we are acknowledged by one of the best accelerator in Korea, called Primer and VC TBT(Naver). Thanks to our trustworthy partner hotels like IHG, Marriott, and Accor, we are no.1 hotel venue reservation platform in Korea and keep expanding our service to global market. We are making Roovook as "Expedia for event spaces" We are looking for our future teammates to make our vision and dream together!
Lunch Lab — Lunch Lab is a startup that provides regular in-house meal services to various companies that have difficulty eating out or having trouble solving lunch issues.

Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.
Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.

Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

INVAIZ — INVAIZ sells macro input keyboards, plug-ins, and accessories.
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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
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.

Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.

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.

ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.

Investment focus

Apps, PaaS, Events
Seed, Convertible Note
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Adler — Adler creates a social media application to create personal space. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
Advance Battery Recycle — Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process.

Korea Science and Technology Holdings specializes in technology commercialization services by government-funded research institutes.

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.

Korea Angel Investment Association is a small and medium-sized enterprise that supports startups and angel investors.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Solar, Energy
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Needs — Needs is an online clothing shop and also a distributor.
Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
Advance Battery Recycle — Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!

Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.

AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical
Seed, Series A, Angel
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
Potts Company — Potts Company develops manufacturing technologies for sustainable plastic circulation & leads the resource recycling market for consumption.
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.

Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT) investing in innovative startups for over a decade.

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.
Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.

TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Preneu — PRENEU is a brand specialized in drones and ceaselessly challenging and striving to meet market needs and improve technology.Find drones manufacturer and supplier, reconnaissance drone service systems in korea.
Dotter — Dotter is a manufacturing company that designs and produces biodegradable optical coherence tomography devices to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. The company also develops next-generation OCT equipment, an optical imaging device that can create a synergy effect when inserting stents.
Nanosilicon — Nano Silicon is a company that manufactures silicon anodes, which are important materials for secondary batteries in the electric vehicle sector.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.

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).

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.

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.

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.
RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.

Rising S Ventures is a venture investment company specializing in early-stage technology start-ups.

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.

Golden Oak, LLC is a privately held investment company that focuses on the acquisition, development, and management of value-add multifamily real estate.

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.

HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.

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.

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.

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
Tiro — Tiro is an AI-powered note-taking service designed to capture and summarize multilingual conversations in real-time, allowing users to focus on the conversation rather than note-taking.
Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.

Shinhan Investment Corporation operates as a securities brokerage and investment banking company.

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

YMX — YMX is a firm that specializes in XR-based industrial metabus platforms, with solutions that address chronic pain points throughout the manufacturing industry's life cycle, from facility building to production and maintenance.
Nexeon — Nexeon is a world leader in engineered silicon materials for battery applications. Its Li-ion battery anode technology uses silicon instead of graphite.
Cashwalk — Cashwalk is an app that motivates to walk by providing financial incentives.

We are thesis-driven investors that back bold entrepreneurs who are building legendary companies and protocols reshaping the future of human life. Contact us Our Firm Philosophia Ventures is a Seoul-based investment firm founded in June 2022, by a team of Web3 enthusiasts who have been on the scene since 2017. We invest in early-stage startups

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, Grocery
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.

SL investment (SLi) aims at a company with global standards through management by principle and transparency.SLi is a venture capital firm founded in February 2000 and has widely invested in the companies from early to mezzanine stage, in the field of semiconductors, display (AMOLED, LED, LCD), renewable energy, and health care industry.Since its incorporation, SLi has recorded black-ink balances for 12 consecutive years with zero debt and also has successfully dissolved all the five funds with outstanding earning rates.SLi tries to raise the value of venture companies not only by offering funds but by supporting the management omnidirectionally after its investment. Consequently, 31 companies have been successfully listed in KOSDAQ market for 12 years and all the companies have positioned as leading firms in their specific fields.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices

Capital One can help you find the right credit cards; checking or savings accounts; auto loans; and other banking services for you or your business

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
United States, South Korea, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
EquipmentShare — Get the newest equipment, track your entire fleet and put your assets to work when you aren't using them, all with EquipmentShare.
Monochrome Technology — Monochrome Technology focuses on extraordinarily lightning-fast laser processing equipment in the area of advanced manufacturing.

SparkLabs Group is a network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 350 startups since 2013.

Investment focus

Database, Analytics, Trading Platform
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Sendtime — Sendtimes is an automated B2B tool that offers a software platform for schedule management.
NODA Labs — NODA Labs is a data analytics company that provides actionable market intelligence and direct sales engagement services.
Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.

LG Technology Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of the LG Group. LG Technology Ventures was established in 2018, and its team consists of experienced investors, entrepreneurs, technologists, and industry domain experts. Currently, LG Technology Ventures is managing over $400 million of fund assets and invests in early-stage start-ups in artificial intelligence, mobility, advanced materials, life-sciences, next generation display, mobile, and 5G.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

QuickNode — QuickNode is a Web3 developer platform which helps you build & operate blockchain-powered applications (dApps).A lightning-fast global API provides instant access to Ethereum & Bitcoin networks (JSON-RPC over https:// or wss://).Monitor usage with analytics dashboard and ship faster with tools like 1-click WebHooksfor smart-contract events.Over 3000 nodes launched; trusted by top blockchain projects; helping the blockchain ecosystem grow since 2017!
Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
Element Energy — Element Energy, a startup with technology that significantly improves the performance, lifetime, reliability and cost of large battery packs used in a wide range of applications including stationary and renewable energy storage and hybrid and electric vehicles.

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