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Top 50 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in July 2025

Investor	Finance South Korea investments
Strong Ventures	10
Capstone Partners	6
Bokwang Investment	4
KB Investment	4
L&S Venture Capital	3
Digital Currency Group	3
Industrial Bank of Korea	3
Third Prime	3
D3 Jubilee	3
Shinhan Bank	2
Fast Ventures	2
Hansae Yes 24 Partners	2
Daekyo Investment	2
Draper Associates	2
Shinhan Capital	2
SBVA	2
DAYLI Financial Group	2
DSC Investment	2
Wooshin Venture Investment	2
Translink Investment	2
The Wells Investment	2
SK Securities	2
Pantera Capital	2
IMM Investment	2
Spark Labs	1
Hanwha Investment Corp	1
Korea Investment Partners	1
SL Investment	1
PlayDapp	1
OKX Ventures	1
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)	1
Hana Ventures	1
KDB Capital	1
DGB Daegu Bank	1
Meritz Financial Group	1
NH Investment & Securities	1
InfoBank	1
NAVER Z	1
WONIK Investment Partners	1
Cognitive Investment	1
Base Investments	1
Knollwood Investment Advisory	1
KT investment	1
Nau IB Capital	1
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund	1
KB Securities	1
Block Crafters Capital	1
StableNode	1
Alticast	1
Kakao Ventures	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

NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
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.
Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
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

Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)

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

Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.

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

XWeave — Xweave enables real time & competitive cross-border payments with no pre-funding
Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

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

Portfolio highlights

Mommom — Mommom gathers and analyzes online meta data, as well as a list of national items categorized by objective group. Mommom is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
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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 — Transparent AI for reducing alarm fatigue and nurse burnout. ICU noise reduction via tailored, patient-specific alarm configurations and data-based insights.
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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
Mediver — Mediver focuses on medical and cosmetic devices, providing new solutions to the healthcare and beauty industries worldwide.
Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.

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, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Grifin — Automatically buy stock where you shop. When you buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks, you invest $1 into Starbucks stock. Shop on Amazon? You now own $1 of Amazon stock.
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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.
DAAN Biotherapeutics — DAAN Biotherapeutics develops novel treatments for cancer patients. The company conducts cancer treatment research and development, including cell therapies, antibodies, and small molecule inhibitors.

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

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Tacta Systems — Tacta Systems develops robotics with human-like tactile abilities with Dextrous Intelligence, the nervous system for robots.
Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.

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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.

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

Portfolio highlights

MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
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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.

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

ControlM — ControlM is a food technology company that provides optimum AI solutions to F&B and franchise operators.
Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
Honored — Honored is a tour operator that operates the domestic travel services.
Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.

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

Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
K-Rangers — K-Rangers empowers businesses, fosters relationships, and realizes dreams through apps. The company created ohmyapp, a custom web-based build-and-manage solution that makes it easy to build and manage native apps without the need to hire expensive developers.
Soft Berry — Soft Berry is an electric vehicle charging platform.

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

Volcon — Volcon is an off-road power sports company that offers electric off-road vehicles. Volcon's mission is to build industry-leading products that connect people to outdoor experiences through the intentional blending of leading technology and design. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.
Amber International Holding — Founded in 2009 and listed on NASDAQ in 2017, iClick is a leading marketing and data cloud platform. We empower global brands to unlock significant growth in China with a comprehensive suite of data-driven solutions. Our expertise spans China Marketing, Cross-Border E-commerce, Smart Retail, and Travel Retail.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

Korean alternative asset investment firm

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
Cellid — Cellid developing the waveguide-architecture display module for AR glasses and high-performance spatial recognition software.
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Spark Labs is a co-working community and venture incubator dedicated to digital start-up companies in NYC.____Located in the heart of the Silicon Alley, Spark Labs hosts a multitude of digital businesses under its roof. Unlike most traditional office rentals we can have your business up and running within 24 hours. When you join our lab youwill be immediately plugged in with the best of the NYC Tech community through our monthly networking events and our 40+ mentors. We charge $550/desk/month which includes internet, utilities, amenities and cleaning so we always have a sparkling office!

Investment focus

Software, Network Security, Apps
Seed, Series A
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

slowave — Slowwave discovered that the current sleep test is performed in a foreign hospital setting with numerous sensors attached to the head, making it impossible to test and identify sensitive insomnia patients effectively. As a result, a microprocessor and low-power measuring algorithm were integrated into an ultra-light patch, allowing patients withinsomnia to easily perform sleep EEG at home while eliminating factors that interfere with the examination and boosting measurement precision.
Tablero — Tablero is a service platform company that supports easy offline ordering with an NFC-based simple order/payment order service.
City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.
Minxin Technology — Minxin Technology focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sales of photo- and thermal-curing functional materials and electronic-grade wet chemicals.

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

Portfolio highlights

Soomvi — Soomvi is an industrial drone market company that provides marine lifesaving system services.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.

Web3-based service that everyone can enjoy

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.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
Hyperion — Hyperion is an on-chain DEX that combines an order book and AMM, built for Aptos.
Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.

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.

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

Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
Open Asset — Open Asset enables financial institutions to rapidly and effectively implement blockchain technology and exchange token assets.

KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HJ Wave — HJ Wave is a manufacturing comapny that designs and develops millimeter-wave RF band, including radar antennas for autonomous driving.
HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
INTAKE foods — INTAKE foods (인테이크푸즈) is a company focused on food content development and food branding, specialized in the innovation of leading food brands. It is focused on brand development, content development and publishing, such as food activities, intake of foods, and a food culture of innovation.

DGB Daegu Bank is a financial company that offers banking and DGB management value systems.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Infinite Block — Infinite Block is a financial platform that provides digital asset services.
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.

Meritz Financial Group, through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services in South Korea. The company offers fire, marine, long-term, automobile, and general insurance products, as well as financing, asset management, etc.; and securities and OTC derivatives investment/brokerage and trading, trust, and investment consulting anddiscretion services. It is also involved in the provision of car financing, personal loan, and corporate financing services; and commissioned management of investment trusts. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Finance, Commercial, Credit Bureau
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Korea Technology Credit Bureau — Korea Technology Credit Bureau is a credit rating agency providing credit evaluation services.

NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses in South Korea and internationally. It operates through Sales, Investment Bank, and Trading segments. The Sales segment offers asset management services, such as brokerage consignment, financial instrument sales, etc. toindividuals, and domestic or foreign institutional investors. The Investment Bank segment provides corporate finance services, including corporate finance, M&A, PF, PEF operation, etc. The Trading segment is involved in stocks and bonds operations, product operations, the supply of derivatives, and capital investment activities. Woori Investment & Securities that began operation in 1969 became NH Investment & Securities in December 2014, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series C, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Diorigin — Diorigin is a comprehensive content IP holding company. It obtains original content IP and methodically develops and implements complete plans.
Treasurer — Treasurer is an online e-commerce and credit platform that offers retail sales and financial services namely personal loans and credit.
Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine

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, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
NationA INC. — We are NationA
CrossPoint Therapeutics — CrossPoint Therapeutics is a therapeutics company that specializes in drug development by using Stealth-Body with antibody source technology.

The official corporate website of NAVER Z Corporation

Investment focus

Software, 3D Technology, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, Denmark, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Rokoko — Rokoko | Affordable high-end motion capture and animation tools for body, hand, and face capture + software with native integrations for all major animation software and game engines
Cinamon — Cinamon provides a visual story platform designed for casual games. In 2018, the company began as a joint venture with Naver Webtoon. Since our first project, an interactive stories app called "Maybe," the company has continued to broaden its scope in the field of visual storytelling. The company is currently working on two projects: a 2Dand a 3D UGC story platform.
Line — LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.

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.

Venture Capital based in Seoul, South Korea

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mr.Pic — Mr.Pic (미스터픽) is an online Korean information portal that provides information about vehicles, lifestyles, games, and more. Mr.Pic was launched in February 2014.
Tevaluewise — Tevaluewise is the Korea's No.1 instructor evaluation platform. Civil servant exam, How long do you want to listen to your friend, school, and pick a teacher? starteacher.co.kr Korean government officials lecturer evaluation all together! No.1 civil servant teacher evaluation platform in Korea, different teacher
Quantec — Quantec was founded in 2016 with the goal of ‘making easy and convenient asset management a daily possibility for everyone’.Through Quantec’s own technology called ‘Q-Engine’, users can analyze their actual assets and receive recommendation of variety of products suitable for their investment environment, or they can modify their own assets toconstruct a customized asset management portfolio.Based on ‘Q-Engine’, we are planning to launch the platform ‘Quantec (B2C Application)’ for general customers. In recognition of ‘Q-Engine’, Quantec has led to the selection of the fourth ‘Shinhan Future’s Lab’ by Shinhan Financial Group, the fourth ‘Dreamplus’ by Hanhwa Life Insurance, 'KB Starters' by KB Innovation HUB, the fourth 'NH Digital Challenge+' by NH Bank, and has attracted a Series A and Series B investments of total KRW 11 billion from Industrial Bank of Korea, Wonik Investment Partners, AG Investment, and Shinhan Capital.Via QUANTEC's asset management platform Quantec (App) and among other solutions, you will be able to meet your own private banker at any time, from anywhere!

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.

Investment company headquarted in Baltimore, MD

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, India

Portfolio highlights

env0 — Automate the provisioning of Terraform and Terragrunt workflows and infrastructure as code with env0. Get visibility, predictability & governance on your cloud deployments and design the controls to empower your teams with self-service cloud environments.
Baraka — baraka is an investment and US stocks trading platform built to empower the next generation of Middle East investors.
Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
Diorigin — Diorigin is a comprehensive content IP holding company. It obtains original content IP and methodically develops and implements complete plans.
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.

KB Securities is a Financial Services company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
Move — Move is a travel agency that offers ticketing, travel, and reservation services.

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.

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

Alticast Corp. provides MHP solutions for the DVB-MHP, OCAP/tru2way platform, IPTV, and Mobile television industries. It offers altisynchro, an interactive services automation system, which acts as the foundation of an open standards iTV broadcast facility; Altiinteractive that supports a running environment for interactive TV service plug-insand handles requests from the users; Alticaptor, a MHP middleware, which supports various iTV service platforms; Alticast that enables integration with DRM or CAS for paid services; and AltiCaptor Blu-ray Disc Java middleware, which shares a common code base with AltiCaptor MHP and OCAP/tru2way platform middleware. The company also provides porting and application services. Alticast Corp. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with additional offices in Broomfield, Colorado; Frankfurt, Germany; and Beijing, China.

Investment focus

Transportation, Rental, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Tourzy — New wave of middle & last mile
Smallticket — Smallticket, an insurtech start-up, provides digital insurance brokerage platform service to innovate the insurance distribution market in Korea by providing with customized policies based on rapidly changing lifestyles for micro-segmented groups. Since established, Smallticket expands its business vertically, mainly focusing on the markets of petand Mobility as a service as providing on-demand mobility insurance, a risk-heading solution ahead to mobility related platform under gig economy and pet insurance by rewards and community service, selected as a sandbox program of the Korean Financial Committee.
Nature Mobility — Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense

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