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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Korea in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Korea in April 2025

Investor	Finance South Korea investments
Strong Ventures	10
Capstone Partners	6
KB Investment	4
Bokwang Investment	4
Digital Currency Group	3
L&S Venture Capital	3
Industrial Bank of Korea	3
D3 Jubilee	3
Hansae Yes 24 Partners	2
Third Prime	2
Shinhan Bank	2
SBVA	2
Shinhan Capital	2
Daekyo Investment	2
The Wells Investment	2
Fast Ventures	2
SK Securities	2
DAYLI Financial Group	2
DSC Investment	2
Pantera Capital	2
Pietro Dova	2
Draper Associates	2
Translink Investment	2
IMM Investment	2
Ernest Ventures	1
Woori Technology Investment	1
Spark Labs	1
SkyVision Capital	1
CTK Investments	1
Dream Ventures	1
Firestartr	1
Z Venture Capital	1
Qualcomm Ventures	1
One & Partners	1
InterVest Co.	1
The Wells Investment	1
BC Card	1
Alticast	1
Kakao Ventures	1
Dattoz Partners	1
Stone Bridge Ventures	1
Innopolis Partners	1
DS Asset Management	1
OKX Ventures	1
Block Crafters Capital	1
Michael Yang	1
BNK Venture Capital	1
Busan Bank	1
Quassar Capital	1
East Gate Partners	1

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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

REMEX Liquidation — Remex provides online return management and unfulfillable inventory resale solution for eCommerce seller. Especially, we focus on Amazon Unfulfillable Inventory; that used to disposal from Amazon FBA center. We resale amazon seller's unfulfillable inventory and generate revenue !
Honored — Honored is a tour operator that operates the domestic travel services.
Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)

Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

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

Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
ANAFLASH — ANAFLASH Inc. is an NSF, DoD, NASA funded semiconductor startup, developing a brain inspired solution for energy efficient smart edge devices with a standard logic based non-volatile neuromorphic processor.

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.
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.
Micro-one — Micro-One is an air functionality expert company that manufactures incinerators, ecological infrastructure, and advanced dust filters.

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.

Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
Wilco — Wilco a start-up specialized in thermal management of electronic products and new space era.
KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.

Third Prime is an early-stage venture firm focused primarily on Financial and Industrial Technology.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Inspiren — Inspiren uses machine learning and industrial design to help nurses keep track. Inspiren provides data about what actually goes on in hospital rooms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.
Everstar — Everstar is an AI-powered system designed to assist with the operation and management of nuclear power plants.

Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
Lotte Group — Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sellsconfectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.
Primemas Inc. — Primemas is a semiconductor startup based in New York with an R&D center in Seoul. It specializes in low-cost, high-performance Hub Chiplet SoC modules designed for the emerging chiplet industry. Primemas Hub Chiplets, or "Hublets" use high-bandwidth, low-latency D2D interfaces to achieve seamless infrastructure sharing with custompartner dies, making them a universal choice for a wide variety of markets (CXL, AI, Crypto, Data Analytics). With Primemas Hublets, the cost and time needed to design and manufacture a custom SoC can be reduced by a factor of 10x.

Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
Gole Robotics — Gole Robotics is an intelligent robotics company that focuses on developing robots specially to transporting construction materials to help on-site workers.

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

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.

Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
Mediver — Mediver focuses on medical and cosmetic devices, providing new solutions to the healthcare and beauty industries worldwide.
Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.

VC, Venture Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
Honored — Honored is a tour operator that operates the domestic travel services.
Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
23rd Century Children — THE NEXT ENTERTAINMENT

SK Securities is a South Korea-based financial service provider that specializes in the securities market. It primarily engaged in securities brokerage, dealing and underwriting businesses, covering stocks, futures, options, government bonds, corporate bonds, foreign exchanges, and financial derivative products. The company also involves in theinvestment banking business, which provides acquisition, project financing services, and wealth management services.SK Securities was founded in 1955.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Soft Berry — Soft Berry is an electric vehicle charging platform.
Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.

DAYLI Financial Group(DFG) is a leading Fintech company in Asia. The company provides data tech solutions, digital wealth management, and lead-generation services mainly through its three core divisions – DAYLI Intelligence(DI), Quarterback, and DAYLI Marketplace(DMP). DFG also has strategic investments that create synergies with the corebusinesses. Founded in February 2015, the company is headquartered in Seoul with offices in Tokyo.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

PeopleFund — Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr.
Circumvent — Circumvent Pharmaceuticals is seeking to address the significant unmet need of neurodegenerative disease patients. Circumvent is targeting heritable forms of neurodegeneration to enable drug discovery and development in both rare and common forms of neurodegenerative disease. Circumvent is funded by NIH/NINDS, YC Bio, Heritage ProviderNetwork, the Longevity Fund, and additional investors.

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

MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.

Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
Series A, Seed
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.

Translink Investment is a startup investment company.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ControlM — ControlM is a food technology company that provides optimum AI solutions to F&B and franchise operators.
Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked

Korean alternative asset investment firm

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
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.
Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.

Ernest Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Content, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Wavers — Wavers provides online purchase solutions, direct transactions, and vehicle information inquiries for the automotive sector.
MOIN — MOIN is a FinTech startup to solve problems of the current global remittance market. MOIN has developed a money transfer solution based on Blockchain technology. Without going through SWIFT network or intermediary banks, MOIN directly connects senders and receivers to make the wire process simpler, safer, faster, and more convenient with mostaffordable rates. The company was founded on March 21, 2016, and it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Poin Campus — Poin Campus is an online platform that lets people sell knowledge content and create their own websites.

Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, FinTech
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lambda256 — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.

Spark Labs is a co-working community and venture incubator dedicated to digital start-up companies in NYC.____Located in the heart of the Silicon Alley, Spark Labs hosts a multitude of digital businesses under its roof. Unlike most traditional office rentals we can have your business up and running within 24 hours. When you join our lab youwill be immediately plugged in with the best of the NYC Tech community through our monthly networking events and our 40+ mentors. We charge $550/desk/month which includes internet, utilities, amenities and cleaning so we always have a sparkling office!

Investment focus

Software, Network Security, Apps
Seed, Series A
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

slowave — Slowwave discovered that the current sleep test is performed in a foreign hospital setting with numerous sensors attached to the head, making it impossible to test and identify sensitive insomnia patients effectively. As a result, a microprocessor and low-power measuring algorithm were integrated into an ultra-light patch, allowing patients withinsomnia to easily perform sleep EEG at home while eliminating factors that interfere with the examination and boosting measurement precision.
Tablero — Tablero is a service platform company that supports easy offline ordering with an NFC-based simple order/payment order service.
City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

SkyVision Capital (SVC) promotes new, open decentralized technology and its development. We are a Crypto Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
Amnis Finance — Amnis Finance is a staking technology built on the Aptos blockchain. It is the game-changing liquid staking solution that offers a simple way to earn rewards on your APT tokens. By staking with Amnis, your tokens remain liquid and may be utilized in a variety of DeFi applications, earning additional incentives.
Nexus Interactive — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

CTK Investments is an early stage and growth investment company.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Energy
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Malaysia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
OROS Labs — OROS Labs is a material technology company provides thermal solutions.
Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.

Dream Ventures provides Investment and growth support.

Investment focus

Finance, Payments, Employee Benefits
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Blue Lions — Blue Lions is a payroll management company for office workers.

Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, South Korea, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Metalogos — Metalogos operates a public stock information service. It provides individual investors with easy-to-understand and unambiguous information regarding public offerings.
Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
TicketMe — TicketMe is Japan's largest NFT, allows to freely purchase and sell tickets for live music, theater, sports, and other events. Its purpose is to ''find the hidden value in the world and deliver the appropriate value to the right location.

As the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, we help connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
Cavli Wireless — Build, Connect and scale your IoT Solutions with Cavli Wireless Cellular IoT Modules and Cavli Hubble IoT connectivity platform

One & Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Solar
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Artblood — Artblood is a cell-based artificial blood production company.
Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.
Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.

Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cover Summon — CVSM Cruelty-free Savvy tech
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.
Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.

The Wells Investment

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Genetics
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

DalGo — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
GenKOre — GenKOre operates as a biotech company, specializing in genetic scissors.
Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.

BC Card is a global payment processing service provider.

Investment focus

Finance, Asset Management, Financial Services
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

December & Company — December & Company offers customized asset management services to a broad population.

Alticast Corp. provides MHP solutions for the DVB-MHP, OCAP/tru2way platform, IPTV, and Mobile television industries. It offers altisynchro, an interactive services automation system, which acts as the foundation of an open standards iTV broadcast facility; Altiinteractive that supports a running environment for interactive TV service plug-insand handles requests from the users; Alticaptor, a MHP middleware, which supports various iTV service platforms; Alticast that enables integration with DRM or CAS for paid services; and AltiCaptor Blu-ray Disc Java middleware, which shares a common code base with AltiCaptor MHP and OCAP/tru2way platform middleware. The company also provides porting and application services. Alticast Corp. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with additional offices in Broomfield, Colorado; Frankfurt, Germany; and Beijing, China.

Investment focus

Transportation, Rental, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Tourzy — New wave of middle & last mile
Smallticket — Smallticket, an insurtech start-up, provides digital insurance brokerage platform service to innovate the insurance distribution market in Korea by providing with customized policies based on rapidly changing lifestyles for micro-segmented groups. Since established, Smallticket expands its business vertically, mainly focusing on the markets of petand Mobility as a service as providing on-demand mobility insurance, a risk-heading solution ahead to mobility related platform under gig economy and pet insurance by rewards and community service, selected as a sandbox program of the Korean Financial Committee.
Nature Mobility — Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform.

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 Expensive

Dattoz is based on the experience of successfully leading M&A for small and medium-sized companies at home and abroad for many years.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Korea, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Moiin — Moiin is a VR hardware company based in South Korea and led by Mr. Jae Yoon Ok, a VR pioneer with over a decade of experience building immersive VR equipment. Currently, Moiin is leading the construction of Oasis City, the world's first fully immersive VR ecosystem. Moiin's first mass consumer product, the FBG suits and gloves, will beavailable for sale in 2020.
CompanyWe — CompanyWe provide platform maintenance and consignment operation services. The company creates VPP systems for a variety of customers, as well as platform SW.
Peach Grove — Peach Grove is an operator of a shared service platform intended for split subscriptions.

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.

Innopolis Partners LLC. is a LLC-type venture capital firm in Korea. Partners of Innopolis Partners are former CEO or Representative Fund Manager of leading venture capital firms, such as Korea Technology Investment, STIC Investment, LG Venture Capital, KTB Network. “Innopolis No. 1 Fund” managed by Innopolis Partners is specialized for hi-techstartups in the Daedeok Innopolis complex. Daedeok Innopolis complex is set up based on former Daedeok R&D complex where most of major national R&D institutes, including ETRI, KAITST, KAERI, KRIBB, are located.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
INKA Entworks — Complete mobile application and content security.
Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.

DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

AIMMO — AIMMO is the developer of a data annotation platform with custom workflow designs, labeler analytics, and real-time communication functions. The company was founded in 2016 by SeungTaek Oh and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
GOPIZZA — GOPIZZA is a food and beverage company based in Mapo.
IDID — IDID provides an entertainment platform designed to host short-form entertainment content. The company provides a short-form social entertainment platform that can generate content by superimposing different images on different sound sources.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

Established in Singapore, Block Crafters Capital is a subsidiary of Block Crafters which provides professional asset management and crypto fund service.With in-depth expertise in algorithm trading, quant trading, arbitrage, active trading, we aim to offer investment services for investors who believe in the incredible potential and opportunitiesin the world of cryptocurrencies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
South Korea, Gibraltar, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

TEEware — TEEware is a security technology to create a secure and dependable IT environment by protecting valuable digital assets from the threat of hacking that is emerging in new fields such as blockchain, Fintech, IoT, autonomous driving, and healthcare.
Openull — Openull offers BNPL products and services.
EMERGE Group — EMERGE Group is a leading Martech organisation that specialises in developing optimal commercialisation solutions for content creators, intellectual property right holders, advertising inventories and brands.

Michael founded users. Michael and the team successfully raised $30M in venture capital investment from investors such as Brentwood, Sprout, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, and Transcosmos Corporation. In February of 2000, mySimon was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M.Prior to mySimon.com, Michael held positions at Xerox Corp., Intergraph Corporation, TeleVideo, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Jazz Multimedia, Inc. Michael has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University. Michael holds a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Investment focus

SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

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.

Busan Bank is a regional bank in South Korea.

Investment focus

Apps, Manufacturing, Food Delivery
Series A, Seed, Grant
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
Medipresso — Medipresso produces coffee and tea capsule machine.
Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.

Quassar Capital is a hedge fund with a broad presence in the United States with offices in New York and London. We are widely respected for our asset management approach globally but more importantly for our innovative operating methodology that allows us to maintain exceptional management of advanc

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
Orbiaz Healthcare — Instruments for healthcare facilities

East Gate Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investment for businesses.

Investment focus

Gaming, Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.

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