Top 35 FinTech Angel Investors in South Korea (August 2026)
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Services, Information Technology | $295k–$743k |
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Naval Ravikant
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$25M |
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S Cubic Angels
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, Apps, EdTech | $87k–$223k |
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Pietro Dova
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea | Series A, Seed | Events, Mobile, Sports | $400k–$12M |
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Daniel Shin
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Legal Tech | $1.6M–$5M |
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Jay Eum
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Analytics | $71k–$40M |
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Jong-Il Yoon
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $336k–$6.9M |
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $4M–$15M |
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Young Song
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea | Angel, Seed | Travel, Software, Logistics | $150k–$520k |
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Richard Seongho Choi
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SaaS, Software, Human Resources | |
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Kim Taek-Jin
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Cyber Security, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning | |
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Lee Dong seok
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Incubators, Crowdfunding, Enterprise Software | |
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Sungjae Hwang
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Pre-Seed | Art, FinTech, Peer to Peer | |
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Douglas Guen
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce | $50k–$631k |
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
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1 | Japan, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps | $1M–$1M |
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Abbas Shaikh
Angel
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1 | Pre-Seed | |||
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David Lee
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $245k–$25M |
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Victor Wang
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $150k–$143M |
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Kelvin Dongho Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | News, Content, Advertising | $920k–$29M |
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Kim Hyun-jun
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Medical, Software, Health Care | |
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Michael Yang
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech | |
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Tim Draper
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $356k–$50M |
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Sachin Bhanot
Angel
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1 | Australia, Singapore, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, Cyber Security, Financial Services | $5M–$80M |
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Songyee Yoon
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Software, Film, Hardware | $2.2M–$20M |
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Jaewoong Lee
Angel
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1 | Vietnam, South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | News, SaaS, Beauty | |
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $450k–$28M |
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Mark Pui
Angel
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1 | India, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, Open Source | $900k–$11M |
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Oleg Smagin
Angel
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1 | Pre-Seed | |||
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TPan
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1 | Pre-Seed | |||
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Yannik Meka
Angel
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1 | Pre-Seed | |||
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Norberts Erts
Angel
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1 | Estonia, South Korea, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Rental | $1.5M–$2.3M |
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Genya Smagin
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1 | Pre-Seed | |||
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Louis Beryl
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$14M |
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Kiha Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Sales, Customer Service | $156k–$26M |
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Chang Wook Kim
Angel
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1 | United States | Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Financial Services, Information Technology | |
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Taekkyung Lee co-founded Daum Communications and served as CTO and Head of Communication & Community Services, leading Daum's growth into a major portal service and its KOSDAQ listing. He later facilitated the M&A of D&Shop, a spin-off from Daum, to GS Home Shopping. While contemplating his path as a serial entrepreneur andinvestor, he decided to focus on early-stage investments and began investing in early-stage startups in earnest. He established Mashup Angels (now Mashup Ventures), an early-stage startup investment firm, and as CEO, aims to support portfolio companies' growth and engage in various activities within the startup ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $295k–$743k; Angel $371k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
- 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
- Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.
S Cubic Angels
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- Industry: Education, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $87k–$223k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
- KRG Group — KRG Group is a proptech and rental finance platform operated by KRG Group that provides “zero-deposit” monthly rental solutions for residential and commercial leases. The service helps tenants reduce or eliminate upfront security deposits while guaranteeing landlords stable monthly rent payments.
- Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Events, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $400k–$800k; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
- Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
- Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Legal Tech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $71k–$12M; Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OPENSURVEY Incorporated — • Founded in 2011, the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
- 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.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $336k–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
- Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
- Mr.Dealer (Mrs Garage) — Mr.Dealer is an online platform that provides a comparison of used car prices.
Sunghwan Choi
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $4M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
- Pilotly — Gain insight into any video or creative asset by using Pilotly to create and field studies that will help you discover what your consumer really thinks.
- BOOQED — Transform any underutilized areas into co-working spaces with QUBIC booths and software. People can book them as work pods for meeting rooms, office spaces, hot desks, access control system included.
Young Song joined NComputing as Founder and CEO in 2003.Mr. Song brings over 20 years of technology vision and entrepreneurial leadership with a focus on products that deliver life-enhancing value to education, business and consumers. He has founded and operated several start-up ventures with an inherent talent and track record for turning ideasinto viable products and sustainable businesses. He is also active angel investor through his own investment vehicle, Booga Ventures and Big Basin Capital as a venture partner. He founded and currently is Chief Executive Officer of NComputing group. Prior to co-founding NComputing, Mr. Song was also the founder and CEO of DoubleSight Displays, a company that delivered affordable and cost-effective dual displays to businesses and consumers and successfully acquired by Erae Inc, TV and Monitor company in South Korea. In addition, Mr. Song co-founded and was vice president of product marketing for eMachines, a pioneer in bringing affordable computing to consumers. eMachines went NASDAQ in 3 years and acquired by Gateway Computer. He began his career as marketing director for both TriGem America Corporation and TriGem Computer, Inc.Mr. Song holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He is also an active volunteer for several non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Palo Alto with his family.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Logistics
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $150k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
- Airmule — Airmule Founded in 2015 and built with love in Los Angeles, California, Airmule is a trusted community marketplace for anyone to affordably express ship worldwide with a traveler from a mobile phone or tablet.Whether across the country or the world, Airmule connects people to safely deliver packages anytime, anywhere at low rates and in lesstime. Airmule is the easiest way for people list their trip to earn money with their extra luggage space.
- Talkwheel — Talkwheel is where you discuss what you are passionate about in life. We are ushering in the new days of mobile conversation. Want to argue over who has the cutest pet, debate politics, or talk about the Giants during the game? Talkwheel is the app for that!Instead of tweeting and getting no response, write in Talkwheel and find fellowaficionados to have meaningful conversations around topics you care about. Unlike most mobile forums, Talkwheel believes that forums don’t have to be ugly to be functional. That’s why we’ve designed a beautiful mobile app with you, the user, as the focal point. You can even continue the conversation at your desktop at social.talkwheel.com!
Richard Seongho Choi
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
- Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.
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- Industry: Cyber Security, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI SPERA — AI SPERA is an AI- based cybersecurity firm. It provides real-time intelligence with machine learning and fraud detection by analyzing cyber threats. It provides comprehensive intelligence solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent cyberattacks targeting organizations.
Lee Dong -seok serves as Chairman at Coolidge Corner Investment.
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- Industry: Incubators, Crowdfunding, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OpenTrade — OpenTrade (오픈트레이드) is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Having identified lack of communication as the biggest stumbling block in attracting investments, the company has developed the platform to enable transparent communication between entrepreneurs, startups, andinvestors.OpenTrade’s crowdfunding platform enables startups to have ongoing communication with investors and thereby build a long-term relationship based on trust. OpenTrade also provides mentoring facilities in the areas of management, marketing, and finance.
Sungjae Hwang is the Founder and CEO of Lounge Lab. He earned his doctorate and master's degree at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and his bachelor's degree at Kwangwoon University.
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- Industry: Art, FinTech, Peer to Peer
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TESSA — TESSA is an alternative investment platform for the purchase, sale, and trade of fractionalized ownership interests in investment-grade blue-chip artwork (such as Warhol, Picasso, Kusama, Basquiat, etc.) with the accessibility and liquidity of public markets. The platform enables white-listed “micro-collectors” to co-own fractional ownershipinterests in curated blue-chip artwork represented in digital form on a public blockchain. TESSA manages all maintenance and administrative services relating to the artwork which is publicly promoted and displayed to enhance its value and broaden its exposure to the art-viewing public.The platform provides transparent and safe management of ownership certificates, transaction history, and transfer status through a blockchain network and secure third-party service providers.
Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder of Primer. He previously worked at INICIS as a Founder and CEO. Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.
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- Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $100k–$631k; Angel $100k–$520k; Pre-Seed $50k–$297k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
- Soomgo — Soomgo supports interactions across categories such as education, home maintenance, event-related work, and personal services. It enables users to search for and engage providers for specific tasks, while service providers list and manage their offerings through the platform. Soomgo is a local services marketplace.
- Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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- Industry: Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Abbas shaikh is an individual investor.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.
David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $245k–$2.4M; Angel $1.7M–$10M; Series A $2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bolt Labs — Our mission at Bolt Labs is to build a usable, secure, and scalable infrastructure to enable everyone to securely store their assets while preserving the privacy of their transactions. Bolt’s secure computation solutions (or MPC) allow you to protect your user’s assets while providing confidentiality, ensuring integrity, and preventing misuse ortheft. A technology that is fast becoming the standard for digital asset security, MPC enables these benefits by federating trust across multiple parties and allowing evaluation of functions without decrypting private inputs. Bolt is also developing the zkChannels L2 protocol - a scalable and usable privacy-preserving payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including but not limited to public blockchains. We believe zkChannels will set a new standard for secure payments in online services, giving merchants a seamless way to comply with emerging privacy regulations and delight their customers with cryptographically rigorous respect for their privacy.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
- The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
- The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Victor Wang is based out of New York, New York and is the Partner of HOF Capital. Victor previously worked at Stanford University as a Researcher. Victor Wang attended the University of California, Berkeley. Victor Wang has received Principal’s Award for Academic Excellence.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $150k–$14M; Series A $10M–$26M; Series B $55M–$143M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
- Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
- Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat
Kelvin Dongho Kim is the founding Chief Executive of Korea Credit Data (KCD), a leading provider of essential digital services for small and medium-sized businesses in South Korea. KCD’s offerings span business management software, credit scoring, POS and payments infrastructure, as well as a marketplace platform. Together with its fivesubsidiaries, the company currently supports over 3 million businesses, establishing itself as a dominant force in the Korean SME services landscape.A recognised figure in Korea’s start-up ecosystem, Kelvin is a serial entrepreneur whose first major success was Opensurvey, a mobile-based consumer data and insights platform.In 2025, Kelvin was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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- Industry: News, Content, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $920k–$29M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
- Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.
- The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
Kim Hyun-jun is the former CEO at Viewno.
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- Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Risorius — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.
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Browse database — It's Free!Michael founded users. Michael and the team successfully raised $30M in venture capital investment from investors such as Brentwood, Sprout, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, and Transcosmos Corporation. In February of 2000, mySimon was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M.Prior to mySimon.com, Michael held positions at Xerox Corp., Intergraph Corporation, TeleVideo, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Jazz Multimedia, Inc. Michael has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University. Michael holds a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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- Industry: SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
- 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.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 298
- Round size: Seed $356k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CASIMIR —
- illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
- SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Sachin Bhanot serves as the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures.
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- Industry: SaaS, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $6.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$65M; Venture - Series Unknown $14M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
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.
- Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
- Quota Lab — Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem.
Songyee Yoon
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- Industry: Software, Film, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI SPERA — AI SPERA is an AI- based cybersecurity firm. It provides real-time intelligence with machine learning and fraud detection by analyzing cyber threats. It provides comprehensive intelligence solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent cyberattacks targeting organizations.
- Spike AI — Spike AI's Marketing AGI (MAGI) automates SEO, content strategy, and marketing optimization. Experience the future of B2B SaaS marketing with our autonomous AI system.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Jaewoong Lee is based out of Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, and is the Founder of Socar. Jaewoong previously worked at Daum Communications as a Founder.
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- Industry: News, SaaS, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Vietnam, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
- Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl]
- Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 271
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $450k–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
- BizScout — BizScout is an online platform of Off market deals for verified buyers and sellers.
- Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
Mark Pui
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Open Source
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $900k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EduRev — EduRev is an e-learning platform that provides student the freedom to learn what they want. It is a free website where thousands of students, teachers and professors share, study and upload their notes, video lectures and books to help each other. The problem not only exists in the school, but also colleges, especially engineering colleges, wherethe last minute study counts for everything. One common place to find all such answers is www.edurev.in, a site that provides material that you need to obtain an edge in a world of cut throat competition. EduRev provides everything for free, from online videos of lectures, and ebooks in the pdf format. The unique feature of the website is it’s interaction capabilities. Students follow their teachers and friends, and create a network. The teachers can also interact with students from different institutions across the country and bond with the like-minded.
- Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.
- Synthesys — Interoperable Liquidity Layer for Tokenized Capital Markets. Compliantly built for institutions. Access unified liquidity across 17+ jurisdictions and 40+ distribution channels.
Oleg Smagin is an Individual Investor.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.
TPan is an Individual Investor.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.
Yannik Meka is an individual investor.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Rental
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Estonia, South Korea, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miros — Miros reads shopper intent from behaviour and surfaces the right products in under 60 seconds. +7-19% GMV. +296% conversion vs Algolia.
- Giraffe360 — Giraffe360 is game-changing subscription product for real estate companies to streamline professional quality photography and high accuracy floor plan creation.
- Value Space Co. — Value Space Co. is a space reconstruction company that offers space-optimized services through project development planning.
Genya Smagin is an individual investor.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Flip — Great prices and unbelievably fast sales on popular, limited edition sneakers.
- AnchorUSD — Buy, sell, and send crypto Explore and Invest in all the top rated coins Instant Trade between thousands of coin pairs Support over at @AnchorUSDHelp
Kiha Lee is the Founding Partner of Primer Sazze Partners. He previously worked at Sazze Partners as a Managing Partner. Kiha Lee attended the University of California Berkeley.
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- Industry: Apps, Sales, Customer Service
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $156k–$3.6M; Series A $4.5M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
- MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
Chang Wook Kim - CEO & Representative Director @ Snow Corporation
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.
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