Top 5 ESports Startup Investors in South Korea in February 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in February 2025
Investor | eSports South Korea investments |
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Quantum Ventures Korea | 1 |
WONIK Investment Partners | 1 |
Seoul Investment Partners | 1 |
JS Corp | 1 |
Shinhan Capital | 1 |
Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- XCENA(formerly MetisX) — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
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- Hurotics — Hurotics is a company with deep-tech technology related to human-robot fusion.Hurotix's wearable robots, notably the 'H-Flex', are modular and give personalized support based on the user's demands, assisting users in overcoming physical restrictions.
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Germany
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- Vinssen — Vinssen is a manufacturer of electric and hydrogen ships.
- Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
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.
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.
- 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.
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