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Top 50 Finance VC Funds in South Korea

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Finance startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Finance VC Funds in South Korea

Investor	Finance South Korea investments
Strong Ventures	10
Capstone Partners	5
Bokwang Investment	4
KB Investment	4
D3 Jubilee	3
Digital Currency Group	3
L&S Venture Capital	3
Shinhan Capital	2
Translink Investment	2
SBVA	2
Fast Ventures	2
Hansae Yes 24 Partners	2
Pantera Capital	2
IMM Investment	2
Draper Associates	2
Third Prime	2
Daekyo Investment	2
Industrial Bank of Korea	2
The Wells Investment	2
Shinhan Bank	2
DAYLI Financial Group	2
Z Venture Capital	1
Krust	1
Block Crafters Capital	1
SK Planet	1
Soorim	1
Hana Ventures	1
CRIT Ventures	1
BA Partners	1
Hashed	1
Karen Ventures	1
Smilegate Investment	1
Firestartr	1
ROK Capital	1
DSC Investment	1
StableNode	1
CJ Investment	1
SL Investment	1
WONIK Investment Partners	1
SK Square Americas	1
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)	1
Quassar Capital	1
Base Investments	1
TheVentures	1
The Wells Investment	1
LG CNS	1
SJ Investment Partners	1
Bie Partners	1
SkyVision Capital	1
KT investment	1

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Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.

Bokwang Investment 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.
NRISE — NRISE is develops MOCI and WIPPY services. NRISE research and develops social media services to bring people the joy of communication.
Sangwha — Creating experiences by adding imagination to technology. We design all possibilities through innovative technology, ideas and bold aspirations.

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, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
ReadyPost — ReadyPost is a general meeting service platform that provides services for real estate general meetings.

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

Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Beoble — The chat solution for web3 people. The most fun you'll have on a wallet-to-wallet messaging app.
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
Tensorplex Labs — Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
CLE — CLE provides software packages, scanning, 3D reconstruction, and modeling services for factory automation.
ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.

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

Disco — Disco is a location-based service platform for real estate companies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.

SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
Space Vision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.

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.

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, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
Morph — Morph is a fully permissionless EVM L2 that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technology to open up new possibilities in banking, gaming, social media, and entertainment. Morph is the first Layer 2 on Ethereum to launch with a decentralized sequencer, which aligns with several important web3 concepts, includingdecentralization, censorship resistance, and security.
Figure Markets — Figure Markets is a company that uses blockchain technology to construct the future of private capital markets.

Korean alternative asset investment firm

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.
Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.

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, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CredShields — Established in 2021, CredShields is a Web 3.0 Security organization providing best-in-class auditing services and building affordable and accessible products to cater to the needs of the growing blockchain space. Launched in March’21, SolidityScan is CredShields’ flagship product, built by a team of renowned security experts with strong backgroundsand notable work in the cybersecurity industry. SolidityScan is a one-stop platform to perform smart contract scans, source code vulnerability analysis, and automated smart contract security audits. Built for Web 3.0 Developers, Auditors, and Organizations to monitor projects in real-time and improve their security posture over time.
Magnetic 3D — With Magnetic 3D's Glasses-Free 3D Platform anyone can create or view holographic 3D content across multiple industries with ease.
Hinkal Protocol — Hinkal is a self-service dApp and SDK that allows liquid funds, institutions, whales, and consumers to run their strategies privately on their favorite dApps.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Januar — Innovative EU crypto companies use Januar's payment account solutions to accept payments & send payout's while maintaining full compliance & stable business operations.
Moonware — Moonware is building the ecosystem to automate ground operations for the passenger, cargo, defense and advanced air mobility sectors.
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
McKinley & Rice — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
Elpis Cell Therapeutics — Elpis Cell Therapeutics develops individualized cell therapy to cure incurable diseases.

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

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Algocare — Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations.
HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
Korea Credit Service — Korea Credit Service is a credit agency for individual enterprises. Korea Credit Service offers a credit evaluation service called "CreditNote," and entrepreneurs can check their credit rating.

VC, Venture Capital

Investment focus

Apps, Real Estate, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Testworks — Testworks is a social enterprise company in Seoul, Korea. We create innovative solutions in AI data and software testing fields while providing an inclusive employment model for socially disadvantaged people. Our technical excellence ranges from AI data processing automation to manual software testing and review. We are recognized as thebest-in-class data processing company for building high quality datasets used for AI training and verification.

Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mildang PT — Mildang PT is an ed-tech platform that provides lectures, management, evaluation, and content through online mode.
onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
Lotte Group — Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sellsconfectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

PeopleFund — Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Video Games, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
Japan, South Korea, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Munto — Munto is a community platform that enables individuals to connect better online and offline depending on their interests.
Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.

Krust incubates innovative startups that are building the next generation of groundbreaking technology applications. They lead kakao's global business with a focus on innovative technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence.

Investment focus

Gaming, Finance, Blockchain
Seed, Initial Coin Offering
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.
Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

SK planet, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK telecom, was established in October 1, 2011 with an aspiration to become a global platform innovator.As the lynchpin of SK telecom's future growth, the company was spun off with the industry-leading platform businesses including T-Store, T-map, MelOn, and Cyworld, Korea's biggest mobile appstore, mobile navigation, online music service and SNS respectively. The company also pioneers in new media with hoppin, Korea's first multi-screen premium video service, and continues to build momentum in its online commerce leadership with 11th Street. SK planet aspires to develop a wide scope of global partnerships such as TMK, a media joint venture with Disney. Through collaborations with partners, SK planet is committed to building global platform business in Asia and other strategic markets.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bertis — Bertis is a proteomics-based molecular diagnostics service company.
Gimbal — Gimbal develops and delivers mobile contextual awareness platform and solutions to enhance mobile engagement. Using its own hardware and software, Gimbal enables brands, media agencies, and marketers to improve their campaigns with personalized messaging and drive measurable business outcomes. The company offers Gimbal, a geofencing and analyticsplatform; AdSynergy, AdKit, AdCast, AdScore, AudienceArchitect, for mobile media campaigns; people and proximity platform, such as Gimbal Manager, GeoFences, and Location SDK, for cloud-based location management; and Bluetooth smart beacons with iBeacon technology.
Melephant — Melephant Inc. is a Korea based startup established in October 2013.

Soorim

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
Open Asset — Open Asset enables financial institutions to rapidly and effectively implement blockchain technology and exchange token assets.

The Road Not Taken

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.

BA Partners

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.
Hyper Lounge — Hyperlounge is a startup that has developed a monthly subscription management analysis SaaS by combining management consulting know-how with data collection, analysis and visualization technology. It is a specialized system for small and medium-sized business executives, which is completely different from existing data analysis tools or services.When using this service, user can easily check the core data and analysis necessary for business management every day on mobile without the burden of initial investment or recruitment.

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

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
Merkle Trade — Merkle Trade is the creator of a decentralized trading platform with functionality for commodities, currencies, and cryptocurrencies.
Blackwing — Blackwing runs a range of modular apps while retaining decentralization, and it is distinguished by leverage trading.

Karen Ventures’ team of experts know how to deploy a global approach of investment strategies in thorough compatibility with economic and legal environment of Iran. To reduce investors’ concerns of starting a new venture in a new market they deal with internal systems and arrangements in Iran and they are here to help you and simplify your pathtoward this advantageous field.

Investment focus

Finance, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

D'CENT — With D'CENT Wallet, you can manage various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Klaytn, and more. Through the built-in Dapp browser on D'CENT Wallet, variety of blockchain based services are accessible such as DeFi and NFTs management.
Ceres F&D — Ceres F&D is a biopharmaceutical company that manufactures immunosuppressants and antibiotic drug substances.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
Clarisights — Clarisights streamlines reporting for sophisticated growth marketing teams. Automatically integrate, process and visualize data from all of your marketing sources.

ROK Capital is a multi-strategy hedge fund and accelerator aiming to grow the Korean crypto ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cogni — Cogni is a new digital banking platform that brings you curated brands and experiences while helping manage your spend.
Snackclub — Learn more about play to earn games
Boba Network — Boba Network Universal L2 for all blockchains

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, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Bionsight — Bionsight is a drug discovery company that uses Chemoproteomics interweaved with AI to speed up the drug development process.
Superblock — Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core.
Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.

StableNode operates Blockchain Node Validations and uses the accruing rewards for Investments in early-stage Crypto and Blockchain ventures as well as for liquidity provision in DeFi Applications. We provide a broad range of hands-on growth and governance advisory, supporting and guiding our portfolio companies, founders and their teams from early-stage to growth-at-scale. Our core lies in accelerating growth in new markets and scaling business strategies along the way.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Art, Music
Seed, Series A
India, Sweden, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
Anotherblock — access music ownership in the world's biggest tracks.
Oasis Pro Markets — Alternative Trading System

CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tablero — Tablero is a service platform company that supports easy offline ordering with an NFC-based simple order/payment order service.
Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
Signature Label — Signature Label takes pride in providing Korean beauty to the rest of the world. Their brand selection approach is rigorous and selective, as they collaborate closely with fashionable local partners to develop products that match the specific needs of each area. They are able to streamline the distribution process for both brands and localpartners, saving significant time and energy and removing unneeded clutter as a result.

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

Manufacturing, Software, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE

Wonik Investment Partners, formerly known as Hanmi Technology Investment Co., Ltd., is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, start-up, early and mid-stage companies, growth capital and corporate restructuring. The firm prefers to invest in gaming contents, electronic components, computer,telecommunications equipment, petroleum, energy, machinery and equipment industries. It seeks to exit through an IPO or merger and acquisition. Wonik Investment Partners was established in 1997 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
Saige Research — Saige Research specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for industrial inspection and quality control. The company provides a deep learning vision inspection platform optimized for the manufacturing industry to solve inspectors' difficulties and increase work efficiency; its technology provides power detection, speed detection, wideversatility, and development convenience.

SK Square is an investment company spun off from South Korean telecoms provider SK Telecom. SK Square plans to invest in promising future technologies such as quantum cryptography, digital healthcare and future media content.

Investment focus

Gaming, Finance, Software
Seed, Corporate Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
bithumb META — bithumb META is a metaverse platform for the development of NFT marketplaces.

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

Health Care, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

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

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

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

Base Investments operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Finance
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

DOR — 'Dor' is a social media platform that enables easy sharing and communication of game play by allowing gamers to automatically record and highlight their gaming experiences for easy sharing.
Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
Box Sports — Box Sports provides professional e-sports team, orienting e-Sports players, to become the leading club for traditional sports athletes

The Wells Investment

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

LG CNS is a global IT service provider.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nota AI — Hardware-aware AI optimization and edge AI solutions
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.

SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
Plcoskin — Plcoskin is a MedTech company specializing in reconstructive plastic surgery and regenerative skincare. They have developed a scaffold that removes the need for cadaver-sourced material used in breast reconstruction surgery, making procedures safer and cheaper. Plcoskin’s scaffolds are made with synthetic PCL, a biodegradable material that iscommonly used to create surgical sutures. Unlike competitors' products that remain in the body for a lifetime, Plcoskin’s PCL scaffolds are absorbed and replaced with the recipient’s own natural tissues, minimizing the possibility of long-term side effects. As they do not contain any dangerous chemicals, they are also 50% safer than cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Costs for reconstructive breast surgery are brought down by 40% to only $3 thousand per breast. Furthermore, much less handling time is required, reducing average surgery durations from an hour and a half to only 30 minutes. The mesh design of the scaffolds mitigates the need for an additional follow-up reconstructive surgery, something that is common when using cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Plcoskin has also developed Youlief, a cosmeceutical product & therapeutic device pipeline that helps fund R&D for their medical devices. Youlief is available in the US, Europe, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.
Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.

Bie Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Seafood, Commercial
Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Conbini — Conbini store offers local food and specialty items.
MOIN — MOIN is a FinTech startup to solve problems of the current global remittance market. MOIN has developed a money transfer solution based on Blockchain technology. Without going through SWIFT network or intermediary banks, MOIN directly connects senders and receivers to make the wire process simpler, safer, faster, and more convenient with mostaffordable rates. The company was founded on March 21, 2016, and it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Luxury & All — Luxury & All is an online platform that offers repairing and restoration services for luxury goods.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ultiverse — Ultiverse builds the social gaming metaverse, connecting the Web3 to an immersive, fully VR compatible virtual world, and finally creates a unique MetaFi.
HYDRO — The Ultimate Platform for Staked Assets
KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.

kt investment is a new technology business finance company established in 2015. It is an investment company that represents KT Group .kt investment seeks to contribute to social contribution and maximize investment return through win-win cooperation with promising SMEs and venture companies .kt investment seeks to achieve long-term returns bylooking at the market from a global perspective and looking for value investment opportunities in the long term.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VCAT.AI — VCAT.AI is a business-to-business (B2B) subscription software (SaaS) based on AI technology. Create mass marketing creatives as video and banner images just with an product URL or TEXT.
cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
Pion — Pion Corporation is an Martech focused video intelligence company. We provide “Vispot”, a video creation and ad-automation platform powered by AI.

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