Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Korea (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $18k–$30M |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $223k–$15M |
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Health Care | $371k–$18M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $743k–$40M |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $650k–$48M |
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $149k–$4.5M |
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software | $594k–$37M |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $149k–$29M |
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Third Prime
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Mexico, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1.6M–$70M |
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SBVA
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $1.9M–$100M |
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Draper Associates
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $1M–$50M |
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DAYLI Financial Group
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Finance, Health Care | |
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SK Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Apps, Health Care, Information Technology | $1k–$24M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $371k–$17M |
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Hong Kong, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile Apps, Biotechnology | $2k–$14M |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$48M |
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The Wells Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Singapore, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1k–$14M |
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Wooshin Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Finance | $11k–$30M |
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Pietro Dova
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea | Series A, Seed | Events, Mobile, Sports | $400k–$12M |
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IMM Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $3M–$80M |
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NH Investment & Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series B, Series C, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | $3k–$45M |
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DSC Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $594k–$47M |
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Translink Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $300k–$12M |
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Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $450k–$7.8M |
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Hungary, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce | $111k–$6.9M |
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Shinhan Bank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series B, Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Blockchain | $1.5M–$23M |
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Hashed
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care | |
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Base Investments
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software | |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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KB Securities
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | |
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TBT Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Software | |
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Busan Bank
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Grant | Apps, Manufacturing, Food Delivery | |
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Japan, Malaysia | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | |
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Blockchain, Software | |
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology | |
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TS Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Singapore | Series B, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical | |
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Ignite Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital | |
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TheVentures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Vietnam, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | |
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Root Impact
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology | |
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Octagon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Software, Information Services, Management Information Systems | |
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Bie Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Apps, FinTech, Finance | |
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software | |
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Eugene Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Indonesia | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Apps, EdTech | |
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Plantree Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A | Apps, SaaS, Hotel | |
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K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed | Apps, Transportation, Travel | |
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Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 271
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$10M; Series B $18k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Soroh —
- Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
- Specter — Specter is a reputation sharing platform for applicants who are sincere and do their job well, but cannot do enough self-PR in interviews.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 224
- Round size: Seed $223k–$3.9M; Series A $223k–$11M; Series B $743k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
- TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$18M; Series B $1.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
- Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
- PEOPLE & 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 346
- Round size: Seed $743k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Series B $4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
- AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 294
- Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
- Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
- Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $149k–$2M; Series A $1M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Conalog — Conalog is a piezoelectric element-based energy harvesting technology.
- Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
- Wintec Glovis — Wintec Glovis manufactures water treatment and air purification equipment that solves the drawbacks of activated carbon. With the help of superheated steam, the company recycles activated carbon with eco-friendly technology, which allows humans to breathe clean air and drink clear water without concern.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $594k–$4.7M; Series A $1.4M–$8.2M; Series B $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
- Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
- Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $1.7M–$16M; Series B $4.9M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
- Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
- Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
Third Prime is an early-stage venture firm focused primarily on Financial and Industrial Technology.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$32M; Series B $15M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- UnityAI — At UnityAI, we specialize in developing innovative AI solutions that drive business success. Our state-of-the-art technology and expert team empower companies to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. Discover how UnityAI can transform your business with our comprehensive suite of AI services. Partner with us to turn your vision into reality.
- Cubby Storage — Cubby supports self storage owners and operators
- Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 245
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$44M; Series B $4M–$63M; Series C $8.9M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Syncly — Syncly is an AI-native customer intelligence platform for fast-growing brands. Turn customer conversations into actionable insights to help your brand grow faster.
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
- Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 371
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $2.3M–$21M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
- CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
- Gradescope — Grade your existing paper-based assignments in half the time and see exactly what your students learned, for free.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Apps, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $1k–$2.2M; Series A $3k–$24M; Series B $5k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
- Quantum AI — Quantum AI is an AI data company that offers offline and online data collection and analysis services.
- Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
- Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile Apps, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $3k–$13M; Series A $4k–$14M; Series B $2k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 33M2 — 33M2 is a housing rental platform.
- MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
- Redrob by McKinley Rice — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 291
- Round size: Seed $2M–$18M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
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- Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $289k–$701k; Series A $1k–$3.7M; Series B $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Honored — Honored is a tour operator that operates the domestic travel services.
- Milliway — Milliway is an infrastructure digitalization startup that uses vehicle sensor data to detect and manage road damage in real time. It offers solutions for monitoring city and road events and provides tools to enhance productivity in city and road management.
- AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
Wooshin Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Asia Cement Co. Ltd which invests in various range of sectors.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Finance
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $11k–$22M; Series C $15M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ark — Ark is an AI-based early screening company focused on identifying and preventing complications associated with chronic diseases, developing and supplying advanced medical AI solutions that enable early detection, risk assessment, and proactive disease management to support healthcare providers in delivering more precise and timely care.
- Goi — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- IMBiologics — IMBiologics is a biotechnology company that develops immunomodulatory antibody drugs for physiological balance.
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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- Industry: Events, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $400k–$800k; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Korean alternative asset investment firm
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Series A $3M–$80M; Series B $5.2M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- MediBloc — MediBloc is a decentralized healthcare information ecosystem built on blockchain technology for patients, healthcare providers, and researchers.MediBloc provides data I/O control(core) and interfaces(service) for 3rd party applications & services. On top of MediBloc platform, all kinds of services using medical data can be implemented.This new healthcare information system with unprecedented possibility will bring a revolutionary movement in global healthcare.
- HurayPositive — HurayPositive (휴레이포지티브) is a healthcare and wellness innovation-focused company based in Seoul, Korea. The company provides mHealth, PHR, PWR, and genome- and analysis-related healthcare and wellness services, as well as gamification, SNS consulting, user interface, and experience development-related IT convergence services.HurayPositive wasestablished on April 6, 2010.
- Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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Browse database — It's Free!NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses in South Korea and internationally. It operates through Sales, Investment Bank, and Trading segments. The Sales segment offers asset management services, such as brokerage consignment, financial instrument sales, etc. toindividuals, and domestic or foreign institutional investors. The Investment Bank segment provides corporate finance services, including corporate finance, M&A, PF, PEF operation, etc. The Trading segment is involved in stocks and bonds operations, product operations, the supply of derivatives, and capital investment activities. Woori Investment & Securities that began operation in 1969 became NH Investment & Securities in December 2014, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Series A $3k–$25M; Series B $2.8M–$18M; Series C $13M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Korean Air — Korean Air provides passenger air transportation, air cargo logistics, and related travel services through scheduled and charter flight operations. The company transports passengers between international and domestic destinations and manages ticketing, reservations, and in-flight services through its digital platforms and airport operations. Itscargo division handles freight transportation, including general cargo, special shipments, and charter logistics, and supports shipment tracking and electronic air waybill processing. The company also operates integrated logistics services such as trucking connections that link air routes with ground transport networks for cargo delivery. In addition, Korean Air runs programs that allow cargo customers to measure and reduce transportation-related carbon emissions through the use of sustainable aviation fuel initiatives.
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
- Estech Pharma — Estech Pharma is a raw material pharmaceutical company.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $594k–$9.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
- Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
- MicrobiotiX — MicrobiotiX develops bacteriophage and microbiome-based therapeutics to combat multidrug-resistant infections and autoimmune diseases.
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
- Pop-Up Studio — Pop-Up Studio is a joint venture between Singapore-based venture studio Wilt Venture Builders (WVB) and AI studio DubDubDub, bringing together venture creation expertise and advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to develop innovative, technology-driven solutions for brands and digital platforms.
- Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.
Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $450k–$2.2M; Series A $1.5M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
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.
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Hungary, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $111k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
- Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $1.5M–$4.5M; Series B $5.9M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- onepredict — We offer a digital 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 delivers pre-built SoC hub chiplets to accelerate semiconductor development.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 237
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
- Sekai — Sekai makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives.
Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
- onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
- OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 360
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 90days — 90days is an electronic bill-based P2B investment brokerage platform.
- Together Funding — Together Funding offers peer-to-peer financial service.
- Geneos Therapeutics — Geneos is developer of a neo-antigen based personalized immunotherapy designed to offer cancer treatment. The company's technology is designed to identify relevant neoantigen targets from individual patient tumors to develop novel treatments for cancer, providing patients with tumor targeted immunotherapies to cure their disease.
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
- Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
- Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
- Rootfinders — Rootfinders is a digital solutions startup focused on empowering the visually impaired community by providing accessible, innovative technology solutions. The company’s mission is to break down barriers to independence, mobility, and social participation by creating intuitive, accessible, and inclusive digital tools for individuals who are blind orhave low vision.
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- HAII — HAII is a theranostics companion platform that offers treatments developed by AI data analytics.
- Movv — Movv is a mobility service that makes movement more safe and convenient anytime and anywhere by using dedicated articles and vehicles. They offer dedicated drivers and cars to help travelers move safely and comfortably. With the mobile application, you can set up your travel itinerary and call your driver anytime anywhere, so you can enjoy youroverseas travel with the movv.
- Move — Move is a travel agency that offers ticketing, travel, and reservation services.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
- Momentum — Momentum is a move central liquidity engine with multi-sig treasury management, token vesting, and liquidity provisioning.
- Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
TBT Partners is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
- STAYFOLIO — * Founded in 2015, STAYFOLIO is a Fine-Stay platform that curates accommodations with unique values and personality with the motto of “Curate the space where staying itself is travel” * Beyond just introducing accommodation, we provide exclusive accommodation solutions by building a full value chain for Fine Stays, from the process of creatingaccommodation spaces to branding, promotion, operation and service.
- 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.
Busan Bank is a regional bank in South Korea.
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- Industry: Apps, Manufacturing, Food Delivery
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Grant
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
- H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
- AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore
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- Total investments: 87
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
- Senko Co — Senko Co is a maker of electrochemical gas sensor and module, gas detector, odor monitoring system, environmental & breath IoT, etc.
- Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- B GARAGE — B GARAGE is an autonomous drone and service company for warehouse inventory management. B GARAGE is an homage to Willow Garage, a widely respected robotics research company that developed an open-source robotics software platform.
- VERTICAH — VERTICAH is a growth platform for start-ups that offers alternative financing, venture capital, and asset management services.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Textiley — Textiley is an environmental deep-tech firm developed to address environmental issues caused by landfilling and incineration of waste textiles.
- Factosquare — Factosquare develops goods and brands, manufactures them in-house, and innovates the factory manufacturing process.
- Hyphen — Hyphen has developed 'Yugwanggi', a YouTube ad search engine that categorizes advertising videos using generative Al technology. Hyphen aims to evolve from referencing work to a hub that integrates collaboration in PR/marketing work, It focuses on the marketer work process after referencing.
Root Impact is a social service and non-profit organization.
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- Industry: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- THECHEAT — THECHEAT provides financial fraud prevention services.
Octagon Venture Partners invests in entrepreneurs and identifies firms early in their lifespan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Services, Management Information Systems
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
- Metafarmers — Metafarmers is an agricultural technology company that provides robotic assistance in farming to increase production.
- Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.
Bie Partners is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Apps, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 62
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
- Diorigin — Diorigin is a comprehensive content IP holding company. It obtains original content IP and methodically develops and implements complete plans.
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
Eugene Investment is a finance company that provides venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, mutual funds and online trading service.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
- Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
- LC Square — LC Square is a micro-LED display core component and technology company that manufactures signage, TV, and wearable micro-LED displays.
Plantree Partners provides seed investment venture capital to the early-stage start-ups. The investment firm is based in South Korea.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Hotel
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
- CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
- Albam — Albam : A mobile based HR Solution that is available for both Managers(Admins) and Staffs in App both IOS & Android.The average HR manager spends 45 minutes a day to calculate time attendance & payroll. With Albam, time is reduced by 70% to only 15 minutes. Albam help enterprises in simplifying and automating their time attendance systemto payroll solution. Our easy to use and simple Cloud based Human Resource solution helps companies in reducing the high costs that are often associated in the investment of Time Attendance system which includes the purchase of expensive fingerprint machines and training of IT Personnels. With Albam, employees can clock in and clock out directly right away from their smartphone, clock in and clock out has never been this easier with Albam.
K- Bridge Investment
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- Industry: Apps, Transportation, Travel
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NomadHer — NomadHer is the app for solo female travellers to find travel buddy, provide female friendly accommodation and information for solo travelers.
- Jim Carry — Jim Carry is a hotel services company that offers same-day luggage transportation and station and airport luggage storage services.
- 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.
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