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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Korea

A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor Finance South Korea investments
Strong Ventures 10
Capstone Partners 5
Bokwang Investment 4
KB Investment 4
Digital Currency Group 3
D3 Jubilee 3
L&S Venture Capital 3
The Wells Investment 2
DAYLI Financial Group 2
Hansae Yes 24 Partners 2
Shinhan Bank 2
Pantera Capital 2
Daekyo Investment 2
Translink Investment 2
Shinhan Capital 2
IMM Investment 2
Pietro Dova 2
SBVA 2
Industrial Bank of Korea 2
Third Prime 2
Draper Associates 2
Fast Ventures 2
Z Venture Capital 1
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) 1
One & Partners 1
Western Technology Investment 1
CJ Investment 1
SJ Investment Partners 1
SL Investment 1
Wooshin Venture Investment Corp. 1
Michael Yang 1
TheVentures 1
KB Securities 1
Hana Financial Investment 1
Bie Partners 1
Quassar Capital 1
Tim Draper 1
Bass Investment 1
KDB Capital 1
David Lee 1
CTK Investments 1
CRIT Ventures 1
Korea Investment Partners 1
Block Crafters Capital 1
Hashed 1
Alticast 1
Firestartr 1
Smilegate Investment 1
Cognitive Investment 1
Soorim 1
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Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
  • Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
  • Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.
Capstone Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
  • Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
  • GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
Bokwang Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.
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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.
  • NRISE — NRISE is develops MOCI and WIPPY services. NRISE research and develops social media services to bring people the joy of communication.
  • Sangwha — Creating experiences by adding imagination to technology. We design all possibilities through innovative technology, ideas and bold aspirations.
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 36 investments in the past 12 months
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
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
  • ReadyPost — ReadyPost is a general meeting service platform that provides services for real estate general meetings.
Digital Currency Group VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Beoble — The chat solution for web3 people. The most fun you'll have on a wallet-to-wallet messaging app.
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
  • Tensorplex Labs — Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks.
D3 Jubilee VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
  • Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
  • 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.
L&S Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • 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.
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
The Wells Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
VC, Venture Capital
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Real Estate, Mobile Apps
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Testworks — Testworks is a social enterprise company in Seoul, Korea. We create innovative solutions in AI data and software testing fields while providing an inclusive employment model for socially disadvantaged people. Our technical excellence ranges from AI data processing automation to manual software testing and review. We are recognized as thebest-in-class data processing company for building high quality datasets used for AI training and verification.
DAYLI Financial Group VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
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.
Hansae Yes 24 Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.
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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.
Shinhan Bank VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Blockchain, Finance
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Mildang PT — Mildang PT is an ed-tech platform that provides lectures, management, evaluation, and content through online mode.
  • 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.
Pantera Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
  • Morph — Morph is a fully permissionless EVM L2 that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technology to open up new possibilities in banking, gaming, social media, and entertainment. Morph is the first Layer 2 on Ethereum to launch with a decentralized sequencer, which aligns with several important web3 concepts, includingdecentralization, censorship resistance, and security.
  • Figure Markets — Figure Markets is a company that uses blockchain technology to construct the future of private capital markets.
Daekyo Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile Apps, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
  • McKinley & Rice — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
  • Elpis Cell Therapeutics — Elpis Cell Therapeutics develops individualized cell therapy to cure incurable diseases.
Shinhan Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
IMM Investment VC Fund · Kangnam, Cholla-namdo, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Korean alternative asset investment firm
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
  • MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.
  • Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
Pietro Dova Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States
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.
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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.
SBVA VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
  • Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
  • Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
Industrial Bank of Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Algocare — Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations.
  • HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
  • Korea Credit Service — Korea Credit Service is a credit agency for individual enterprises. Korea Credit Service offers a credit evaluation service called "CreditNote," and entrepreneurs can check their credit rating.
Third Prime VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Third Prime is an early-stage venture firm focused primarily on Financial and Industrial Technology.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Januar — Innovative EU crypto companies use Januar's payment account solutions to accept payments & send payout's while maintaining full compliance & stable business operations.
  • Moonware — Moonware is building the ecosystem to automate ground operations for the passenger, cargo, defense and advanced air mobility sectors.
  • ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Draper Associates VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 21 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • CredShields — Established in 2021, CredShields is a Web 3.0 Security organization providing best-in-class auditing services and building affordable and accessible products to cater to the needs of the growing blockchain space. Launched in March’21, SolidityScan is CredShields’ flagship product, built by a team of renowned security experts with strong backgroundsand notable work in the cybersecurity industry. SolidityScan is a one-stop platform to perform smart contract scans, source code vulnerability analysis, and automated smart contract security audits. Built for Web 3.0 Developers, Auditors, and Organizations to monitor projects in real-time and improve their security posture over time.
  • Magnetic 3D — With Magnetic 3D's Glasses-Free 3D Platform anyone can create or view holographic 3D content across multiple industries with ease.
  • Hinkal Protocol — Hinkal is a self-service dApp and SDK that allows liquid funds, institutions, whales, and consumers to run their strategies privately on their favorite dApps.
Fast Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • Space Vision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
Z Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Content
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, Japan, 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.
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • We Art — We Art is a culture and arts company that provides services for all paintings and cultural arts.
  • fastpong — FastPong developed a revolutionary system for training table tennis. Hardware and software for digitalising and tracking sports performance with real-time metrics. Compatible with any ball shooter. The next evolution in table tennis training has arrived.
  • Thingsflow — Thingsflow is a chatbot that engages in the development and operation of the character chatbot brand Hellobot.
One & Partners VC Fund
One & Partners is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Solar, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Brite Energy Partners — Brite Energy Partners develops a clean energy platform that offers a solar income plan for landowners, project owners, and building owners.
Western Technology Investment VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
  • Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.
CJ Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tablero — Tablero is a service platform company that supports easy offline ordering with an NFC-based simple order/payment order service.
  • 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.
  • Signature Label — Signature Label takes pride in providing Korean beauty to the rest of the world. Their brand selection approach is rigorous and selective, as they collaborate closely with fashionable local partners to develop products that match the specific needs of each area. They are able to streamline the distribution process for both brands and localpartners, saving significant time and energy and removing unneeded clutter as a result.
SJ Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
  • Plcoskin — Plcoskin is a MedTech company specializing in reconstructive plastic surgery and regenerative skincare. They have developed a scaffold that removes the need for cadaver-sourced material used in breast reconstruction surgery, making procedures safer and cheaper. Plcoskin’s scaffolds are made with synthetic PCL, a biodegradable material that iscommonly used to create surgical sutures. Unlike competitors' products that remain in the body for a lifetime, Plcoskin’s PCL scaffolds are absorbed and replaced with the recipient’s own natural tissues, minimizing the possibility of long-term side effects. As they do not contain any dangerous chemicals, they are also 50% safer than cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Costs for reconstructive breast surgery are brought down by 40% to only $3 thousand per breast. Furthermore, much less handling time is required, reducing average surgery durations from an hour and a half to only 30 minutes. The mesh design of the scaffolds mitigates the need for an additional follow-up reconstructive surgery, something that is common when using cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Plcoskin has also developed Youlief, a cosmeceutical product & therapeutic device pipeline that helps fund R&D for their medical devices. Youlief is available in the US, Europe, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.
  • Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.
SL Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
SL investment (SLi) aims at a company with global standards through management by principle and transparency.SLi is a venture capital firm founded in February 2000 and has widely invested in the companies from early to mezzanine stage, in the field of semiconductors, display (AMOLED, LED, LCD), renewable energy, and health care industry.Since its incorporation, SLi has recorded black-ink balances for 12 consecutive years with zero debt and also has successfully dissolved all the five funds with outstanding earning rates.SLi tries to raise the value of venture companies not only by offering funds but by supporting the management omnidirectionally after its investment. Consequently, 31 companies have been successfully listed in KOSDAQ market for 12 years and all the companies have positioned as leading firms in their specific fields.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
  • Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
Wooshin Venture Investment Corp. VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Wooshin Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Asia Cement Co. Ltd which invests in various range of sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Marketing
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Innogrid — InnoGrid develops and sells cloud computing solutions.
  • New Vessel — New Vessel is to navigate the sea of e-commerce. We utilize our e-commerce and consumer branding experience and partner with world-class e-commerce experts.
  • ZUZU Hospitality — ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers.
Michael Yang Angel · La Canada Flintridge, California, United States
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.
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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.
TheVentures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • DOR — 'Dor' is a social media platform that enables easy sharing and communication of game play by allowing gamers to automatically record and highlight their gaming experiences for easy sharing.
  • Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
  • Box Sports — Box Sports provides professional e-sports team, orienting e-Sports players, to become the leading club for traditional sports athletes
KB Securities VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
  • JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
  • Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
Hana Financial Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
  • Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Bie Partners VC Fund
Bie Partners is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Seafood, Commercial
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Conbini — Conbini store offers local food and specialty items.
  • 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.
  • Luxury & All — Luxury & All is an online platform that offers repairing and restoration services for luxury goods.
Quassar Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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
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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
Tim Draper Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Baseflow — Baseflow is the first platform that streamlines Citizenship by Investment and Golden Visas. Discover the fast track to your freedom. Baseflow today to a country that actually wants you.
  • Vivoo — Get insight into your body's unique needs with Vivoo's at-home urine test strips. Order now and start your wellness journey today.
  • Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
Bass Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • GPTers — GPTers began as a minuscule chat GPT study and has developed into a group that boasts of being the operator of the AI community.
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • BrownBag — Brown Bag is an online portal for coffee and cafe supplies.
KDB Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
  • Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
David Lee Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Japan, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Right Rice — RightRice is a tasty new rice grain that's made from vegetables. It's what they all love about rice, but made even right-er. RightRice is a complete, plant-based protein that's delicious, nutritious, and easy to cook. Every bowl of RightRice has more than double the protein, five times the fiber, and almost 40 percent fewer net carbsthan a bowl of white rice. Just like rice, RightRice soaks up your favorite flavors and sauces. Original RightRice is ready to season your own way, or you can try one of their delicious, already seasoned varieties like Lemon Pepper, Spanish or Garlic Herb—all using real herbs and spices, nothing artificial, non-GMO, vegan, and a complete source of protein, all with a low glycemic index.
  • The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
CTK Investments VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
CTK Investments is an early stage and growth investment company.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Financial Services, Payments
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
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  • Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
  • Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.
CRIT Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 43 investments in the past 12 months
The Road Not Taken
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
  • KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
  • Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
Korea Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • LabInCube — LabInCube develops inCube materials capable of selective drug release, sustained release, and supporting complex raw materials.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • Syntekabio — Syntekabio is a Korean biotech firm, developing personal genome map which is expected to enable personalized medical service. The company also provides a technology for collecting and integrating decrypted whole genome data.
Block Crafters Capital VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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.
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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.
Hashed VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 30 investments in the past 12 months
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
  • Merkle Trade — Merkle Trade is the creator of a decentralized trading platform with functionality for commodities, currencies, and cryptocurrencies.
  • Blackwing — Blackwing runs a range of modular apps while retaining decentralization, and it is distinguished by leverage trading.
Alticast VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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.
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Investment focus
  • Transportation, Rental, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Tourzy — Tourzy is a tourism company that provides public transportation through electric vehicles for tourist places.
  • 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.
Firestartr VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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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 streamlines reporting for sophisticated growth marketing teams. Automatically integrate, process and visualize data from all of your marketing sources.
Smilegate Investment VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that has been growing remarkably alongside our many invested companies. From our initial venture capital funding in 2000, we have since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds, and have invested in morethan 200 companies with promising growth potential.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
  • USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
  • Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
Cognitive Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Venture Capital based in Seoul, South Korea
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Investment focus
  • Apps, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Watcha — WATCHA - Launched in AUG 2012, it quickly became Korea’s favorite movie review app - Its core competency lies in personalized recommendation technology - once users rate movie, WATCHA predicts how they will like movies they haven’t yet seen - Now provides the widest and most accurate movie, TV show and book reviews - Launched in Japan in 2015WATCHA PLAY - Launched in JAN 2016 - Subscription VOD service for movie and TV series available on multiple devices including Web, iOS/Android mobile and tablet, Samsung/LG Smart TV, Google Chromecast, Android TV - Provides extremely accurate personalized content recommendation, powered by WATCHA - 75% of content consumed based on recommendationsComment by Apple, App Store Editor Team “Thanks to its large volume of reliable review data collected from users, WATCHA PLAY can recommend contents that perfectly satisfy my taste. Please don’t waste your time in choosing what to watch. Trust WATCHA PLAY and Enjoy tonight”
  • Tevaluewise — Tevaluewise is the Korea's No.1 instructor evaluation platform. Civil servant exam, How long do you want to listen to your friend, school, and pick a teacher? starteacher.co.kr Korean government officials lecturer evaluation all together! No.1 civil servant teacher evaluation platform in Korea, different teacher
  • Quantec — Quantec was founded in 2016 with the goal of ‘making easy and convenient asset management a daily possibility for everyone’.Through Quantec’s own technology called ‘Q-Engine’, users can analyze their actual assets and receive recommendation of variety of products suitable for their investment environment, or they can modify their own assets toconstruct a customized asset management portfolio.Based on ‘Q-Engine’, we are planning to launch the platform ‘Quantec (B2C Application)’ for general customers. In recognition of ‘Q-Engine’, Quantec has led to the selection of the fourth ‘Shinhan Future’s Lab’ by Shinhan Financial Group, the fourth ‘Dreamplus’ by Hanhwa Life Insurance, 'KB Starters' by KB Innovation HUB, the fourth 'NH Digital Challenge+' by NH Bank, and has attracted a Series A and Series B investments of total KRW 11 billion from Industrial Bank of Korea, Wonik Investment Partners, AG Investment, and Shinhan Capital.Via QUANTEC's asset management platform Quantec (App) and among other solutions, you will be able to meet your own private banker at any time, from anywhere!
Soorim VC Fund
Soorim
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • AIM (Automated Investment Management) — AIM is an online platform that allows its users to make trades and investments via smartphone. Its platform specializes on personal finance, portfolio management, asset allocation, and mobile investment application. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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