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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2026

Investor	Finance South Korea investments
Strong Ventures	10
Capstone Partners	6
Bokwang Investment	4
KB Investment	4
D3 Jubilee	3
Industrial Bank of Korea	3
L&S Venture Capital	3
Digital Currency Group	3
Third Prime	3
Pietro Dova	2
Shinhan Bank	2
Hansae Yes 24 Partners	2
SK Securities	2
Wooshin Venture Investment	2
Daekyo Investment	2
Shinhan Capital	2
Translink Investment	2
Fast Ventures	2
IMM Investment	2
Draper Associates	2
DSC Investment	2
Pantera Capital	2
SBVA	2
DAYLI Financial Group	2
The Wells Investment	2
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)	1
Jay Eum	1
Soorim	1
E&Investment	1
LG CNS	1
SL Investment	1
Hashed	1
Stonebridge Capital	1
Hanwha Investment Corp	1
Korea Investment Partners	1
Western Technology Investment	1
Base Investments	1
InfoBank	1
KB Securities	1
Hana Financial Investment	1
Smilegate Investment	1
OKX Ventures	1
TBT Partners	1
Busan Bank	1
Hana Ventures	1
CRIT Ventures	1
POSCO CAPITAL	1
TS Investment	1
Friends Games	1
Ignite Innovation Fund	1

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
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.
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.

D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
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Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.

L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
Flexell Space — Flexell Space engages in space solar cells, focusing on improving cost, delivery, design, and power efficiency.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
Doppler Finance — Doppler Finance is a yield-earning platform that unlock earning opportunities within the XRPL ecosystem

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CalmWave — almWave provides a platform that uses AI and expert services to help healthcare organizations optimize operations and make data-informed decisions. Utilizing a healthcare organization’s data, the company transparently empowers leadership to manage staff more efficiently, reduce turnover rates, and improve patient outcomes.
Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.
Alternative Payments — Simplify your customer payments and grow revenue with Alternative Payments. Explore end-to-end B2B account receivable solutions and features.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DSRV — DSRV, a leading blockchain infrastructure company, offers A-Z solutions across the entire ecosystem for 160+ institutions through vertical integration of technologies such as staking, custody, and validators.
Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
Soft Berry — Soft Berry is an electric vehicle charging platform.

Wooshin Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Asia Cement Co. Ltd which invests in various range of sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
Dotter — Dotter is a manufacturing company that designs and produces biodegradable optical coherence tomography devices to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. The company also develops next-generation OCT equipment, an optical imaging device that can create a synergy effect when inserting stents.
Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TeraView — TeraView is the world’s first company devoted to the application of Terahertz light for imaging and spectroscopy. TeraView’s proprietary platform uses the Terahertz spectrum between light and radio waves and offers the advantage of being non-invasive and non-destructive. A key application of the technology is the detection of faults and qualityvariations in semiconductor integrated circuits. In addition, studies have demonstrated how Terahertz uniquely and non invasively provides 3 dimensional structural and chemical information in a diverse range of applications, including weapons/explosives hidden below clothing, the contents of tablets and capsules in the pharmaceutical industry, and other objects normally invisible to conventional detection techniques. Other markets for the technology exist in medical imaging of cancer and industrial inspection which are explored via commercial partners. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, TeraView was spun-out of the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory in April 2001. Sales and support are available throughout Europe, North America and the Far East either directly or through a network of distributors.
Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.

Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
DewCell — Dewcell Biotherapeutics develops synthetic platelets using biomimetic technology. The company's system secures stem cell differentiation technology into megakaryocytes that generate platelets and mass-produces artificial platelets.

Translink Investment is a startup investment company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.
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Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
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Korean alternative asset investment firm

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
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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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.

DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.

Investment focus

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

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.
PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
Filament — Automating vehicle usage history and vehicle payments for Automakers, OEMs and Enterprise Fleets.
FunFair Technologies Ltd — FunFair is a decentralised gaming platform powered by Ethereum smart contracts. Thanks to our breakthrough technology, it is the first platform to solve the big challenges that have made other blockchain casinos unplayable.Our vision is a limitless universe of transparent, secure casinos that can be easily created by anyone, anywhere, where gamesare fun, fast and fair. That’s why we’re called FunFair.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
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Tacta Systems — Tacta Systems develops robotics with human-like tactile abilities with Dextrous Intelligence, the nervous system for robots.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

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

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.

Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.

Investment focus

Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

We Art — We Art is a culture and arts company that provides services for all paintings and cultural arts.
fastpong — FastPong developed a revolutionary system for training table tennis. Hardware and software for digitalising and tracking sports performance with real-time metrics. Compatible with any ball shooter. The next evolution in table tennis training has arrived.
Thingsflow — Thingsflow is a chatbot that engages in the development and operation of the character chatbot brand Hellobot.

Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

boam.ai — The easy way to find your next meal. Combines your favorite review sites, restaurant platforms, and tools in one place.
Merit — A software platform for verified digital credentials for government, organizations, people, and communities.
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Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

AIM (Automated Investment Management) — AIM is an online platform that allows its users to make trades and investments via smartphone. Its platform specializes on personal finance, portfolio management, asset allocation, and mobile investment application. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

E&Investment is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mepsgen — Mepsgen is a biotechnology research organization that focuses on pharmaceutical services and drug development.
Sizzle — Sizzle is a company that provides an integrated process analysis solution based on accumulated experience.
Mardi Mercredi — Mardi Mercredi operates a clothing store offering easy-to-wear everyday clothes for women, men, and children. In addition to jackets, jeans, tops, shirts, and other accessories, the company offers French-inspired designer clothes as per customers' needs, including jackets, jeans, and tops.

LG CNS drives business innovation with AI Transformation (AX), combining technology leadership and consulting expertise to uncover hidden value and deliver global customer impact.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
LOVO — Your Voice for Metaverse. Capture the most realistic AI voices on the web.
bithumb META — bithumb META is a metaverse platform for the development of NFT marketplaces.

SL investment (SLi) aims at a company with global standards through management by principle and transparency.SLi is a venture capital firm founded in February 2000 and has widely invested in the companies from early to mezzanine stage, in the field of semiconductors, display (AMOLED, LED, LCD), renewable energy, and health care industry.Since its incorporation, SLi has recorded black-ink balances for 12 consecutive years with zero debt and also has successfully dissolved all the five funds with outstanding earning rates.SLi tries to raise the value of venture companies not only by offering funds but by supporting the management omnidirectionally after its investment. Consequently, 31 companies have been successfully listed in KOSDAQ market for 12 years and all the companies have positioned as leading firms in their specific fields.

Investment focus

Medical, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
SCBIO — SCBIO is a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs with specialized technologies in immuno-oncology. The company discovers and develops novel therapeutics for future medicine.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.

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.

Investment focus

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, China

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.

Hanwha Investment Trust Management is an asset manager applying advanced Hanwha Venture Capital was established in 2000 to nurture startup small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with promising business models and advanced technology but lack capital and management capabilities. The comprehensive support packages include capital, managementexpertise and technology that cover from establishment through initial public offering. In addition, the firm plays a leading role in the Korean venture capital industry. The company utilizes various domestic and overseas networks to secure advanced investment methods and gather information on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the future. Hanwha Venture Capital invests for future value and serves as a trustworthy partner for invested companies, creating venture investment funds that provide stable financing sources and making investment decisions after careful study. The firm also acts as a trusted asset manager for limited partners of the investment funds and helps to strengthen the competitive edge of domestic SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Internet of Things
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
Element AI — Fundamental and applied research transformed into AI products for your enterprise needs.
StradVision — Vision AI for all

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

Base Investments operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, South Africa, United States

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, China

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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

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
South Korea, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that has been growing remarkably alongside our many invested companies. From our initial venture capital funding in 2000, we have since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds, and have invested in morethan 200 companies with promising growth potential.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.

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

Investment focus

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

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.

Investment focus

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

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

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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Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

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.

TS Investment is an investment company.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
South Korea, Singapore

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

Friends Games aim to become Global Multi Platform through Game and Blockchain.

Investment focus

Finance, Virtual Currency
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.

Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital
Seed
South Korea

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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