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Top 35 Enterprise Angel Investors in South Korea in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 35 angel investors that invest in Enterprise startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Enterprise Angel Investors in South Korea in December 2024

Investor	Enterprise South Korea investments
Taekkyung Lee	5
Aviram Jenik	4
S Cubic Angels	3
Daniel Shin	3
Jay Eum	2
Jung-hee Ryu	2
Young Song	2
Matthew Papakipos	1
Primer Saje	1
Seongho Choi	1
Sanghee Lee	1
Sam Kazemian	1
Sujay Tyle	1
Chaehyun Lee	1
Michael Egorov	1
Shin Hyun Sung	1
Stani Kulechov	1
Lee Dong seok	1
Douglas Guen	1
Blaine Vess	1
Sung Cho	1
Park Jong-hwan	1
Kim Won-tae	1
Sangmin Shim	1
Shrishti Sahu	1
Jimmy Kim	1
Kiha Lee	1
Tarun Chitra	1
Robert Leshner	1
Songyee Yoon	1
Fernando Martinelli	1
Kevin Baek	1
Alexander Schill	1
Richard Seongho Choi	1
eve Christine	1

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Taekkyung Lee is the Founder , CEO and Representative Partner of Mashup Ventures. He previously worked at Primer Season2 as a Founding Partner. Taekkyung Lee attended Yonsei University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.

Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities

S Cubic Angels

Investment focus

Education, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
KRG Group — KRG Group is a rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology

Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
South Korea, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
Port One — Experience every payment in the world with one line of code
Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.

Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

boam.ai — The easy way to find your next meal. Combines your favorite review sites, restaurant platforms, and tools in one place.
Merit — A software platform for verified digital credentials for government, organizations, people, and communities.
Opaper — Bikin toko online dalam 2 menit! Terima pembayaran, pesan kurir semua disatu aplikasi memudahkan penjualan manualmu yang dari WhatsApp dan sosial media.

Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Fashion, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters

Young Song joined NComputing as Founder and CEO in 2003.Mr. Song brings over 20 years of technology vision and entrepreneurial leadership with a focus on products that deliver life-enhancing value to education, business and consumers. He has founded and operated several start-up ventures with an inherent talent and track record for turning ideasinto viable products and sustainable businesses. He is also active angel investor through his own investment vehicle, Booga Ventures and Big Basin Capital as a venture partner. He founded and currently is Chief Executive Officer of NComputing group. Prior to co-founding NComputing, Mr. Song was also the founder and CEO of DoubleSight Displays, a company that delivered affordable and cost-effective dual displays to businesses and consumers and successfully acquired by Erae Inc, TV and Monitor company in South Korea. In addition, Mr. Song co-founded and was vice president of product marketing for eMachines, a pioneer in bringing affordable computing to consumers. eMachines went NASDAQ in 3 years and acquired by Gateway Computer. He began his career as marketing director for both TriGem America Corporation and TriGem Computer, Inc.Mr. Song holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He is also an active volunteer for several non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Palo Alto with his family.

Investment focus

Travel, Software, Logistics
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
Airmule — Airmule Founded in 2015 and built with love in Los Angeles, California, Airmule is a trusted community marketplace for anyone to affordably express ship worldwide with a traveler from a mobile phone or tablet.Whether across the country or the world, Airmule connects people to safely deliver packages anytime, anywhere at low rates and in lesstime. Airmule is the easiest way for people list their trip to earn money with their extra luggage space.
Talkwheel — Talkwheel is where you discuss what you are passionate about in life. We are ushering in the new days of mobile conversation. Want to argue over who has the cutest pet, debate politics, or talk about the Giants during the game? Talkwheel is the app for that!Instead of tweeting and getting no response, write in Talkwheel and find fellowaficionados to have meaningful conversations around topics you care about. Unlike most mobile forums, Talkwheel believes that forums don’t have to be ugly to be functional. That’s why we’ve designed a beautiful mobile app with you, the user, as the focal point. You can even continue the conversation at your desktop at social.talkwheel.com!

Matthew Papakipos

Investment focus

Music, Apps, Video
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

OP.GG — The Best LoL Champion Builds and Player Stats by OP.GG - Learn champion builds, runes, and counters. Search Riot ID and Tagline for stats of all game modes.
Ozarka — Why Just Eat When You Can Inspire? Beautiful Reusables for Caterers Who Lead. Save money, time, and storage space with reusables services. Ozarka reusables are not just a sustainable choice
Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.

Primer Saje

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Sales, Software
Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

DALPHA — Dalpha develops artificial intelligence technology for the creation of AI models. The company provides data security and ownership through a secure cloud environment and differential privacy technology.
MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI

Choi Seong-ho is the chairman of the AI Angel Club.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
ONES Global — ONES Global provides global healthcare solutions and databases for the healthcare market.
MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.

Sanghee Lee

Investment focus

Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

CLIKA — Tiny AI, Everywhere

Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance.

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eigenpie — Eigenpie is a restaking SubDAO that gives holders of Liquid Staking Tokens the chance to enhance their earning potential by restaking assets.
RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
t1 protocol — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.

Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Colombia, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH NASA Ames Research Center Research Intern LG Uplus Next Browser Dev. Naver Search Engine Crawler Dev. SK planet RecoPick founder & Team Leader

Investment focus

Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Draph — Draph provides cloud solutions and services for product image production and automated optimization to enhance product sales and advertising efficiency. Draph is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 2022.

Michael Egorov is the Founder of Curve DAO Token. He previously worked at NuCypher as a CTO. Michael Egorov attended Swinburne University of Technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
Defi.money — Welcome to a new era of $MONEY
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Shin Hyun Sung

Investment focus

SaaS, Computer, Internet
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Toss Lab — Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tools. The company's platform JANDI, a group-oriented messaging platform with an integrated suite of collaboration tools that is tailor-made for workplaces in Asia. It also offers messaging and group chats. The platform serves companies rangingfrom small to mid-sized businesses to large enterprises with thousands of employees.Toss Lab was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with offices in Taiwan, Dubai, Malaysia, and Japan.
LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Lee Dong -seok serves as Chairman at Coolidge Corner Investment.

Investment focus

Incubators, Crowdfunding, Enterprise Software
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OpenTrade — OpenTrade (오픈트레이드) is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Having identified lack of communication as the biggest stumbling block in attracting investments, the company has developed the platform to enable transparent communication between entrepreneurs, startups, andinvestors.OpenTrade’s crowdfunding platform enables startups to have ongoing communication with investors and thereby build a long-term relationship based on trust. OpenTrade also provides mentoring facilities in the areas of management, marketing, and finance.

Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder of Primer. He previously worked at INICIS as a Founder and CEO. Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.

Investment focus

Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
Soomgo — Soomgo is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

Founder and CEO of Chartmetric.io, a data analytics company dedicated to serve the music industry, by solving the complex problem by tracking a large amount of data and meeting the industry needs around playlist marketing.Most recently he worked as Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was first employee/engineerat Gamevil (KQ:063080, Market Cap: $400MM), where he initiated mobile game development and eventually positioned the company as a leading mobile game developer. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Social Media
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OPENSURVEY Incorporated — • Founded in 2011, the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
MoxieJam — MoxieJam will be a consumer app targeted to fans of entertainment. During this time of exploding choice in media content, there is a good news / bad news situation for consumers. They have access to an incredible supply of music, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books, but that also brings a significant source of frustration. There is just nogood way to help fans organize their own playlists and watchlists, to share their interests with other fans and to discover new things that they might enjoy. MoxieJam will help fans do just that.
Kurvv — Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening.

Park Jong-hwan is a Founder and CEO at LOC&ALL.

Investment focus

Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology
Angel
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.

Kim Won-tae

Investment focus

Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

TMM — TMM is a mail-order platform that helps anyone to easily conduct mail-order and field sales.
Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.

Sangmin Shim was the CEO and Founder of HogangNono. Sangmin Shim is the current CEO of Cafe Nono.

Investment focus

Analytics, Real Time, Scheduling
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

FlareLane — Engage with both first-time and returning app/web visitors through interactive push notifications and boost user retenion and revenue. Push, Interact, Grow.

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OnFinance AI — OnFinance.ai is committed to harnessing the power of Generative AI for the betterment of the banking, wealth management, and insurance landscapes. Every Generative AI solution they develop is anchored in safety, efficiency, and the intricate nuances of their industry.NeoGPT, their in-house LLM (Large Language Model), and their flagship offering,embodies their belief in Generative AI's potential to redefine the financial sector. They provide secure AI Copilots, powered by NeoGPT, designed for internal teams at these institutions, boosting the efficiency of research, relationship management, sales, and customer support functions.
Thermoflyde — Refractory
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

Jimmy Kim is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. Jimmy is co- founder and Chairman of the board of N3N, an interactive software company that mixes passion, creativity and technology to create new interactive user experiences and innovativepresentation solutions. N3N’s client lists include BMW, Infiniti, Nike Golf, Dentsu, Korea Telecom and other leading worldwide companies. He previously served as N3N’s CEO. Jimmy is sought-after speaker on online gaming and technology and has spoke at various conference such as LeWeb, Ad:Tech, and Web 2.0 Expo.Previously, Jimmy was CEO of Nexonova, a game development studio of Nexon Corp that specializes in Social Network Games. Prior to Nexonova, Jimmy served Executive Vice President of Nexon Corp, and Head of Nexon’s Portal (www.nexon.com, market cap: $5 billion) and Web Services. Nexon is one of the most successful online gaming providers, with games such as Maple Story, Dungeon and Fighter, Combat Arms, and Kart Rider. Nexon services over 20 games across 60 countries to an audience of 300 million.Jimmy was the founding investor and active deal adviser of Studio Ex, an online gaming studio that was acquired by Disney in 2012.Jimmy received his B.S. in Engineering from Northwestern University, and also a M.S. in Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Jimmy also completed the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business’s Executive Management Program.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, iOS, Apps
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Billyo — Billyo is a music/dance training studio reservation platform for Generation MZ, artist, and creator. We will expand our business both online application and offline space, and become the most iconic and popular one-stop platform in 'Creator Economy' globally
Solomonster — Advertising agency, digital content development, supply, pop culture art planning/e-commerce

Kiha Lee is the Founding Partner of Primer Sazze Partners. He previously worked at Sazze Partners as a Managing Partner. Kiha Lee attended the University of California Berkeley.

Investment focus

Apps, Sales, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI

Tarun Chitra is Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. His research in DeFi includes the first peer-reviewed papers proving the economic security properties ofUniswap and Compound. He previously worked in high frequency trading for Vatic Labs and was a scientific programmer at D. E. Shaw Research.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Inco — Bringing confidentiality to Web3 through the fhEVM
Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
Bonsai — An experimental, mixed ERC-20 / ERC-721 implementation with native liquidity, fractionalization and unique art. 100000 $BONSAI Token is linked to 1 BONSAI NFT!
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Songyee Yoon

Investment focus

Software, Film, Hardware
Seed, Series B
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Light Field Lab — Escape the Screen. We're creating a world where content escapes the screen and merges with reality.

Fernando Martinelli is the Co-Founder and CEO at Balancer Labs. He was the Co-Founder of Brasil Mate before that.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, France

Portfolio highlights

Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Korea University, BSc KAIST, MSc U. of Maryland, Entrepreneurship A.T Kearney Research Assistant LOTTE HQ In-house-consultant SK planet RecoPick Biz. Development

Investment focus

Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Draph — Draph provides cloud solutions and services for product image production and automated optimization to enhance product sales and advertising efficiency. Draph is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 2022.

Alexander Schill

Investment focus

Hardware, Wearables, Health Care
Series A, Corporate Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dot Inc. — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
Lanfranco & Cordova — We are an agency of optimists, for brands that believe anything is possible.

Richard Seongho Choi

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Human Resources
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.