Top 5 ESports Startup Investors in South Korea
A list of 5 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Esports startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 ESports Startup Investors in South Korea
Investor | eSports South Korea investments |
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Shinhan Capital | 1 |
WONIK Investment Partners | 1 |
Seoul Investment Partners | 1 |
Quantum Ventures Korea | 1 |
JS Corp | 1 |
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc.
Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
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- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- CLE — CLE provides software packages, scanning, 3D reconstruction, and modeling services for factory automation.
- ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
Wonik Investment Partners, formerly known as Hanmi Technology Investment Co., Ltd., is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, start-up, early and mid-stage companies, growth capital and corporate restructuring. The firm prefers to invest in gaming contents, electronic components, computer,telecommunications equipment, petroleum, energy, machinery and equipment industries. It seeks to exit through an IPO or merger and acquisition. Wonik Investment Partners was established in 1997 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
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- Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
- VSI — 1st high bandwidth automotive Serdes chip, supporting ASA (Automotive Serdes Alliance) motion link. Vsitech.
- Saige Research — Saige Research specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for industrial inspection and quality control. The company provides a deep learning vision inspection platform optimized for the manufacturing industry to solve inspectors' difficulties and increase work efficiency; its technology provides power detection, speed detection, wideversatility, and development convenience.
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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- Software, Information Technology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Germany
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- Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Biopharma, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
- Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
- Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
JS Corp engaged in the manufacture and distribution of fashion products.
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Investment focus
- Sports, eSports
- Series A
- South Korea
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- DRX — DRX is an esports management organization and runs a professional League of Legends (LOL) team. It has a strong global fandom, which helped DRX reach 270k average viewers in this spring season and 3rd place in global viewership across all global LOL teams. DRX has developed a proprietary method of quantitative and qualitative metrics analysis uponwhich builds a structured team training system.
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