# Top 45 Enterprise Angel Investors in South Korea in June 2026 ## Taekkyung Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Aviram Jenik - Type: Angel - Location: Cupertino, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence 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 ## Daniel Shin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services 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. ## S Cubic Angels - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, Apps, EdTech S Cubic Angels ## Jay Eum - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Analytics Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures. ## Matthew Papakipos - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Music, Apps, Video Matthew Papakipos ## Jung-hee Ryu - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Fashion, Health Care 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. ## Young Song - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Travel, Software, Logistics 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. ## Fernando Martinelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech Fernando Martinelli is the Co-Founder and CEO at Balancer Labs. He was the Co-Founder of Brasil Mate before that. ## Sanghee Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning Sanghee Lee ## Park Jong-hwan - Type: Angel - Location: Kangnam, Cholla-namdo, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology Park Jong-hwan is a Founder and CEO at LOC&ALL. ## Kim Taek-Jin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cyber Security, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning Kim Taek-Jin ## Michael Novogratz - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Biotechnology Michael E. Novogratz is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital. Michael previously served at Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group. Michael E. Novogratz attended Princeton University. ## Joowan Jung - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, SaaS, Music Joowan Jung is a Principal at SV Investment. ## Park Kyung-chul - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Information Technology Park Kyung-chul ## Kevin Baek - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology Korea University, BSc KAIST, MSc U. of Maryland, Entrepreneurship A.T Kearney Research Assistant LOTTE HQ In-house-consultant SK planet RecoPick Biz. Development ## Chaehyun Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology 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 ## Richard Seongho Choi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Human Resources Richard Seongho Choi ## Kelvin Dongho Kim - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Service Industry Kelvin Dongho Kim is a founding CEO of Korea Credit Data(KCD), which provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its five subsidiaries currently serve almost all of the two million merchants that accept credit cards payment inKorea.Kelvin is well known in the start-up scene as a serial entrepreneur with his first success case being Opensurvey, a consumer data company that leverages mobile application. ## Alexander Schill - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Corporate Round - Focus: Hardware, Wearables, Health Care Alexander Schill ## Sujay Tyle - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, B2B 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. ## Songyee Yoon - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Film, Hardware Songyee Yoon ## Sung Cho - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, Social Media 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. ## Blaine Vess - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Kiha Lee - Type: Angel - Location: San Jose, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Apps, Sales, Customer Service 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. ## Primer Saje - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps Primer Saje ## Jaewoong Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: News, SaaS, Beauty Jaewoong Lee is based out of Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, and is the Founder of Socar. Jaewoong previously worked at Daum Communications as a Founder. ## Dongwon Sung - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Generative AI, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Dongwon Sung is the Principal at Korea Investment Partners. ## Douglas Guen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce 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. ## Seongho Choi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Retail Choi Seong-ho is the chairman of the AI ​​Angel Club. ## Shrishti Sahu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, FinTech, Apps 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) ## Sangmin Shim - Type: Angel - Location: Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Analytics, Real Time, Scheduling Sangmin Shim was the CEO and Founder of HogangNono. Sangmin Shim is the current CEO of Cafe Nono. ## Kim Won-tae - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order Kim Won-tae ## eve Christine - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Marketing, Consulting, Non Profit eve Christine ## Chang Wook Kim - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 Chang Wook Kim - CEO & Representative Director @ Snow Corporation ## Shin Hyun Sung - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Computer, Internet Shin Hyun Sung ## Jimmy Kim - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Media and Entertainment, iOS, Apps 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. ## Lee Dong seok - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Incubators, Crowdfunding, Enterprise Software Lee Dong -seok serves as Chairman at Coolidge Corner Investment. ## Jae Moon Chung - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology Jae Moon Chung is the Philosopher, Founder & CEO of Liberty Labs ## Andrew McGlinchey - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Internet, Software Andrew McGlinchey is the VP of Products at PropertyGuru Group. ## Sam Kazemian - Type: Angel - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Blockchain, Financial Services Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance. ## Robert Leshner - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech 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. ## Michael Egorov - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Michael Egorov is the Founder of Curve DAO Token. He previously worked at NuCypher as a CTO. Michael Egorov attended Swinburne University of Technology. ## Stani Kulechov - Type: Angel - Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 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. ## Tarun Chitra - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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