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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Korea (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Finance startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Finance startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$12M
KB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $743k–$40M
Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Health Care $371k–$18M
SK Securities
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Apps, Health Care, Information Technology $3k–$24M
Third Prime
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $2M–$70M
D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $149k–$4.5M
Kakao Pay
VC Fund
3 South Korea, Malaysia Series A, Series B, Seed Finance, Financial Services, FinTech $1.4M–$20M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software $594k–$39M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $149k–$29M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A, Debt Financing Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $223k–$7.5M
Shinhan Bank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, India, Singapore Series B, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Blockchain, Finance $1.5M–$23M
InfoBank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $76k–$16M
Pietro Dova
Angel
2 United States, South Korea Series A, Seed Events, Mobile, Sports $400k–$12M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Software $2.2M–$45M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $347k–$19M
DAYLI Financial Group
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Finance, Health Care
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce $371k–$7.5M
SBVA
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.7M–$168M
NH Investment & Securities
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $4k–$45M
Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $450k–$7.8M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$48M
Wooshin Venture Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Finance $3M–$30M
Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Hong Kong, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps $7k–$13M
The Wells Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software $289k–$11M
IMM Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$54M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $594k–$47M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $300k–$12M
Base Investments
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
KB Securities
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services
OKX Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
TBT Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Software
Busan Bank
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Seed, Grant Apps, Manufacturing, Food Delivery
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Seed, Series B Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
TS Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore Series B, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
Ignite Innovation Fund
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital
TheVentures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Vietnam, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Root Impact
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
Octagon Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Software, Information Services, Management Information Systems
Bie Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Apps, FinTech, Finance
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
Eugene Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Indonesia Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Apps, EdTech
Plantree Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Apps, SaaS, Hotel
K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Seed Apps, Transportation, Travel
Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, Thailand Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 10 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 301
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.7M; Series A $966k–$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

  • Serpot — Serpot is a production service platform that offers film shooting products and support services.
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  • Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.1M; Series A $334k–$9.7M; Series B $743k–$12M
  • 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.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$36M; Series B $4.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $1.1M–$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.
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SK Securities
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$2.2M; Series A $3k–$24M; Series B $5k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Buysell Standards — Buysell Standards is the provider of manpower supply and employment arrangement services.
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Third Prime
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 8 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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9.7M; Series A $4.5M–$32M; Series B $12M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% 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.
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • 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.
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Kakao Pay
VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Kakao Pay is the financial technology division of Kakao. It allows over-counter payments, peer-to-peer transactions, bill payment, web banking and more, and it will move to offer financial services such as loans and financing. Kakao Pay is a platform that aims for a new financial effortless that is completely different from the existing anddifficult and cumbersome finance beyond just cashless and wallet less life without cash or wallet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
  • Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
  • CC Media Service — CC Media Service is an IT company that specializes in data modelling, web analysis, and bigdata consulting solutions.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 298
  • 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
  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$4.5M; Series A $1.9M–$8.2M; Series B $3.7M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 285
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • 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
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 263
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.9M; Series A $743k–$7.5M; Debt Financing $254k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloto — CLOTHO Co., Ltd. is a South Korean B2B GovTech company that provides operational support for government-funded R&D projects. Their flagship service, "Hello Unicorn" (헬로유니콘), helps startups, SMEs, universities, and research institutes manage research administration, project expenditure, settlement, and documentation — reducingcompliance issues, missing paperwork, deadline risks, and operational gaps from personnel changes through systematized processes.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
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Shinhan Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Blockchain, Finance
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $1.5M–$4.5M; Series B $4.7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
  • Fescaro — FESCARO Automotive Cyber Security provides automotive security solutions for autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles from hacking
  • HDFC Credila — HDFC Credila is India's First Dedicated Education Loan company and a pioneer in the field of education loan. Avail hassle free loans for higher studies with attractive tax benefits under section 80E.
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$1.5M; Series A $761k–$9.4M; Series B $8.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • Walkie Doki — Walkie Doki provides offline store management customized platform and job recommendations.
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Pietro Dova
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • 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.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$23M; Series B $6.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $347k–$4.6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
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DAYLI Financial Group
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Hungary, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 252
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $4M–$60M; Series C $8.9M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BEJEWEL — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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NH Investment & Securities
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 15 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Series A $4k–$15M; Series B $2.8M–$18M; Series C $11M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% 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
  • Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
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Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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: 23% lead, 77% 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.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
  • Peer Robotics — Discover the latest cutting-edge robotics solutions at Peer Robotics. We offer innovative products and services to revolutionize industries.
  • Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Polkadot — Polkadot is a dedicated community that envisions a web where users own their digital identities and data, restoring their authority.
  • Solana Company
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Wooshin Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Finance
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $8.9M–$17M; 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.
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$13M; Series A $445k–$8.5M; Series B $7k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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.
  • UCONNEC
  • Redrob — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
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The Wells Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

VC, Venture Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $289k–$1.8M; Series A $891k–$4.3M; Series B $2.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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.
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IMM Investment
VC Fund · Kangnam, Cholla-namdo, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Korean alternative asset investment firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 225
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$46M; Series B $5.8M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Dunamu — Dunamu owns and operates a digital asset exchange (UPbit), two investment exchange platforms (Stockplus and U-Stockplus), and an equity management platform (Onboard). UPbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform with presence in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Stockplus is a securities information/trading platform with an activepartnership with 11 broker-dealers. U-Stockplus is an OTC platform providing a trading service for private companies. Onboard helps private companies manage equity electronically for their shareholders.
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
  • Pure Harvest Smart Farms — Pure Harvest Smart Farms is a regional innovator in sustainable agriculture focused on the production of premium fruits and vegetables in the challenging climates of the Arab Gulf region using world-leading controlled-environment agriculture technologies. Pure Harvest seeks to leverage innovative growing technologies and horticultural bestpractices in order to pioneer year-round production of affordable, premium quality fresh produce.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.1M; Series A $1.5M–$17M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FastView — FastView provides content commerce services and online marketing services.
  • Clobe AI — Clobe AI is a SaaS-based financial management platform designed for businesses to monitor and manage cash flow and financial operations. The company provides services such as real-time aggregation of financial data from bank accounts, corporate cards, and tax invoices, along with automated accounting and tax handling. The platform also supportscash flow tracking, profit and loss analysis, and automated settlement workflows, including transaction mapping and invoice processing, enabling centralized financial reporting and operational control.
  • Kong Studios, Inc. — We truly believe in Gameplay First. Kong Studios is a U.S game developer, and a 'Unicorn' valued at 1B USD.
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Base Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Base Investments operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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KB Securities
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

KB Securities is a Financial Services company.

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 6 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

  • 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.
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund · Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 15 in the past 12 months

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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TBT Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

TBT Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Busan Bank
VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Busan Bank is a regional bank in South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Manufacturing, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Grant
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
  • Medipresso — Medipresso produces coffee and tea capsule machine.
  • Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • 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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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 43 in the past 12 months

The Road Not Taken

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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Investment focus

  • 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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TS Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

TS Investment is an investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Ignite Innovation Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 18 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

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Root Impact
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Root Impact is a social service and non-profit organization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • THECHEAT — THECHEAT provides financial fraud prevention services.
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Octagon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Octagon Venture Partners invests in entrepreneurs and identifies firms early in their lifespan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Services, Management Information Systems
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Bie Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Bie Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Eugene Investment
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

Eugene Investment is a finance company that provides venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, mutual funds and online trading service.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Plantree Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups

K- Bridge Investment

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Investment focus

  • 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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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in South Korea Finance startups, 7 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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Finance Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 198 deals from 296 investors.

296
investors
in South Korea Finance startups
198
deals
in South Korea Finance startups
$3.9M
median round
in South Korea Finance startups
30%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
most common funding stage
97/3
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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