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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2026

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

Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2026

Investor Food and Beverage South Korea investments
Strong Ventures 17
MYSC 11
Nau IB Capital 10
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 8
Hana Ventures 8
Translink Investment 7
Big Basin Capital 7
Future Science and Technology Holdings 7
Industrial Bank of Korea 7
Series Ventures 7
Capstone Partners 6
Kakao Ventures 6
Bass Investment 6
BNK Venture Capital 6
Timewise Investment 6
UTC Investment Co. 6
Sazze Partners 6
Lighthouse Combined Investment 5
Mirae Asset Venture Investment 5
SBVA 5
BNK Venture Capital 5
Korea Development Bank 4
Lotte Ventures 4
GS Retail 4
HG Initiative 4
Seoul Investment Partners 4
CJ CheilJedang Corp. 4
L&S Venture Capital 4
Smilegate Investment 4
Daesung Private Equity 4
Shinhan Venture Investment 4
Donghoon Investment 4
IBK Capital 4
Hyundai Technology Investment 4
DSC Investment 4
Korea Investment Partners 4
Magna Investment 4
JB Investment 4
Altos Ventures 4
Stone Bridge Ventures 4
POSCO CAPITAL 4
Seoul National University of Science and Technology 4
HITEJINRO CO 4
SL Investment 3
NongHyup Financial Group 3
InfoBank 3
SBI Investment Korea 3
Hana Financial Investment 3
DS Asset Management 3
BNK Ventures 3

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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
  • Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
  • UModeler — UModeler is a Unity3D editor extension to empower you to designer your level and mesh without leaving Unity.
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months

MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
  • Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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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 — Best Graphene specializes in the manufacturing of graphene products tailored for a wide range of industrial sectors. Best Graphene provides a diverse array of products to cater to various needs, such as graphene colloid, graphene ink and paste, additive graphene, and customizable graphene solutions. These offerings ensure optimal processsuitability and compatibility across different materials, empowering users to harness the unique properties of graphene for enhanced performance and applications in their respective industries.
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Crosshub — Crosshub is a fast-growing blockchain-based company focused on next-generation identity authentication and global payment solutions, gaining attention as a key deep-tech fintech player in the domestic market.
  • Unit Lab — "Unitlab is an innovative company that offers a comprehensive, integrated platform for modular architecture, streamlining every stage of the building process—from initial planning and design to final construction.
  • Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
  • Rentree — Rentree is a data-driven lifestyle rental product recommendation service.
  • Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States

Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Apps, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
  • Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
  • My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
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Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea

Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • NationA — We are NationA
  • 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.
  • Copper Innovation Technology — CIT Co, Ltd utilizes metal single crystals and the ASE method to ensure the accurate, lossless transmission of every signal.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mycel — IMAGINATION TRANSITION REGENERATION
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.
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Series Ventures
VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Gottech — Gattech is creating an eco-friendly solution that combines 3D printing and recycling technology to domestically produce high-value industrial materials and components, reducing reliance on imports.
  • ELBA — ELBA is a Korea-based media-tech company
  • XYZ — LoungeLAB is a Retail-tech startup that augments space with technology, using the state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and Robotics technology. LoungeLAB focuses on enhancing the product value and services, and we develop in the field rather than on the desk. We Invent Everyday Technology for All.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
  • Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SeedN — SeedN provides air conditioning system temperature management solutions for office spaces.
  • Portrai — Portrai leverages cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to reveal unprecedented biological insights, transforming target discovery into transformative therapies.
  • Intelon Optics — Intelon Optics is a medical device company that focuses on the development and commercialization of the Brillouin Optical Scanner System.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PRTN — PRTN is the company that owns and operates Proteinner, a high-protein fast food brand focused on delivering convenient, nutritious meals designed to support active and health-conscious lifestyles.
  • Money Walk — The step-counting app that rewards you with cash for every step
  • Cuckoo — Cuckoo is an always-available, in-house realtime translator. Cuckoo instantly learns the technical details of your conversation from your keywords and documents and interprets into over 20 languages—customized for your specific industry and organization. Global teams like Snowflake, PagerDuty, Weights & Biases, dbt Labs, and SeAH rely onCuckoo for multilingual meetings, events, business trips, and more.
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • Bem Robotics — Bem Robotics is developer of indoor industrial robotics technology designed to improve automated material handling and operational control
  • Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.
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Timewise Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

TIMEWISE INVESTMENT, formerly known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in video broadcasting, animation, movies, culture contents, games, communications equipment, arts, sports, leisure, manufacturing and service, mobile devices and solutions, information technology, SI, web agency, cell therapy andbiotechnology sectors. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeju. CJ Venture Investment was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Carlet Store — Carlet Bio is a wholesale supplier of packaging solutions.
  • Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

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.
  • Pebble Square — Pebble Square's new Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architecture is a significant advancement for AI performance and power efficiency.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States

Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
  • Retentics — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
  • Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.
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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
  • Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
  • BRUSH Theatre — BRUSH Theatre is a theatre for live performances.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playad.ai — The AI Ad Workspace
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
  • Eridu — Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI.
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

  • Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
  • Korea Precision Materials Industry — Korea Precision Materials Industry is a manufacturer of next-generation composite materials used for weight reduction.
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in the past 12 months

The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
  • Yeoshin — Yeoshin is a skin treatment information platform.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
  • SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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GS Retail
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

GS Retail sells beauty and skincare products, candles, gifts, perfumes, bathroom accessories and other products.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Robros — Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life.
  • Snackfor — Snackfor is a B2B company that curates and delivers snacks to offices.
  • The Grit — The Grit manufactures multi-use container and collection boxes.
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HG Initiative
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
  • CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
  • Glovv — Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform.
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Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Medical, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
  • Nine Biopharm — Nine Biopharm is biotechnology company that develops new peptidomimetic materials, compound new materials, and drug repositioning.
  • Eurobotics — Eurobotics is a cutting-edge startup focused on developing autonomous walking robot technology capable of navigating and operating effectively in irregular, complex, or unpredictable environments.
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CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

A global lifestyle company that creates health, happiness and convenience

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Michroma — Michroma is a biotech platform producing natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. We are using synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.
  • New Culture — New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • AQUA Cultured Foods — Whole muscle-cut sustainable seafood alternatives made using biomass fermentation. Our product looks and tastes just like traditional seafood.
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
  • Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

  • AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.
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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
  • FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
  • 12 Pharmacy — 12 Pharmacy is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in manufacturing and providing medicines and services for veterinary hospitals.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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Donghoon Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Dooghoon Investment is an investment firm that invests in biotechnology and information technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
  • NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Ucube — Ucube is an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialist company that is actively accelerating its preparations for a public listing. The company is undergoing a series of strategic initiatives, such as refining its financial operations, enhancing its product offerings, and aligning its corporate structure to meet the regulatory andmarket demands necessary for a successful initial public offering (IPO).
  • AutoHands — AutoHands is a South Korea-based mobility company that offers comprehensive integrated mobility services including vehicle buying and selling, management, online used-car auctions, car rentals, extended warranties, residual value guarantees, mobile maintenance, and accident compensation programs.
  • HydroXpand — HydroXpand is an innovative developer and manufacturer specializing in the design and production of anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolysis stacks, which are key components in the efficient and sustainable production of hydrogen through water electrolysis.
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Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Hyundai Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that mainly invests in early-stage companies and is based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SOY MEDIA — Storytelling Opens Your world
  • SCBIO — SCBIO is a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs with specialized technologies in immuno-oncology. The company discovers and develops novel therapeutics for future medicine.
  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
  • Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
  • PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • LumanLab — LumanLab develops digital therapeutics to solve developmental delay problems.
  • Enlivex Therapeutics — Enlivex is a clinical-stage macrophage reprogramming immunotherapy company that targets diseased macrophages in patients with sepsis. The company develops an autologous and allogeneic drug pipeline for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions such as Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD), solid organ transplant rejection, Crohn'sDisease, and other autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.The company's revolutionary approach is to induce immune tolerance by injecting apoptotic cells and facilitating their interaction with dendritic cells activates the body's innate, physiologic mechanism for down-regulating inflammation and autoimmunity.Enlivex is an Israeli-based cell immunotherapy company established in October 2005 by Professor Dror Mevorach, a world-renowned expert on clearance of dying (apoptotic) cells.
  • Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Magna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months

As a Venture Capital / Accelerator / Private Equity Manager specialized in initial companies, SMEs and SMEs, They are generating profits by finding and investing in companies with promising growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • JNJ Tech — JNJ Tech is a digital healthcare startup that will provide services such as pharmaceutical ordering, inventory management, and pharmaceutical information.
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  • Ensol Biosciences — EnSol Bioscience is a creative and challenging company that makes it possible and realizes that many people in the world say it is impossible.
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JB Investment
VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
  • Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States

We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Kueski — Kueski is the online lender for the Middle Class of Mexico and Latin America. The company uses big data and advanced analytics to approve and deliver loans in a matter of minutes. Simple, paperless and available 24/7, Kueski is the most convenient lending platform for those who need an immediate loan. The company has become the fastest growingplatform of its kind in the region and has already granted thousands of loans.
  • Testlio — Tackle the most demanding software testing challenges with Testlio in any location, on any device, in any language, or on any payment system.
  • 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.
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NEWEN AI — RSN provides solutions that analyze changes in social awareness and trends in the flow of digital information and suggest their meaning.
  • MobilTech — MobilTech is an AI-based 3D GIS startup company that supplies 3D spatial information, hardware, and software solutions for smart cities.
  • De novo Biotherapeutics — De novo Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing mRNA-encoded antibodies and NK cell-engaging antibodies for cancer treatment.
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investment in the past 12 months

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Neuromeka — Neuromeka specializes in robot technology and creates a robot platform business for manufacturing companies.
  • H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
  • Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.
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Seoul National University of Science and Technology
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Seoul National University of Science and Technology is a school in Seoul.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
  • Build B — Build B sells mattress covers, carpets, cushions, furniture, and kitchen accessories.
  • JeCLEAN — JeCLEAN is a washing company that provides bedding, laundry and delivery service.
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HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Going global beyond number one in KOREA, HITEJINRO is grateful for your support.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Herb Today — Herb Today is a supplier of vegetable, seaweed, and mushroom products for the food industry.
  • Mr. Dad — Mr. Dad is a seller of food products.
  • Charging Pig — Charging Pig is a mobile app that provides auxiliary battery rental services.
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SL Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • SCBIO — SCBIO is a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs with specialized technologies in immuno-oncology. The company discovers and develops novel therapeutics for future medicine.
  • AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical's AI-powered platform reduces MRI scan times by up to 50%, improves image quality, and delivers deeper clinical insights. Trusted by 1,700+ institutions across 40+ countries.
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NongHyup Financial Group
VC Fund · Okdong, Ulsan-gwangyoksi, South Korea

NongHyup Financial Group offers property & casualty insurance, investment & securities, asset management, and banking services.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Food Processing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Agreable — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Nature Loud — Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products.
  • We Hudling — White Delight is a food production and distribution company.
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months

InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
  • Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
  • Rootfinders — RouteFinders develops an AI-based media platform to support independent living for visually impaired individuals in an increasingly digital world.
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SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months

SBI Investment Co., Ltd. has established itself as a true partner of the Republic of Korea venture business development in the past 28 years as a venture capital concept introduced first in Korea in 1986 was even unfamiliar concept of 'venture'. SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a direct excavation domestic / other promising venturesinvestment as well as domestic / external funding attracted through cooperation with institutional investors and technology, marketing, public offering (IPO), the law, adhere to the role which has been providing comprehensive services such as Value-up tax.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ENERZAi — As your AI catalyst, we are dedicated to spearheading an AI breakthrough with our cutting-edge AI optimization technology.
  • Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
  • Studio Lab — Studio Lab offers artificial intelligence technology for the fashion industry.
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
  • Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investment in the past 12 months

DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • AIMMO — AIMMO is the developer of a data annotation platform with custom workflow designs, labeler analytics, and real-time communication functions. The company was founded in 2016 by SeungTaek Oh and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
  • AIMEDBIO — AIMEDBIO provides therapeutic solutions to patients with serious brain diseases.
  • Graphene Square — Graphene Square is a pioneer in the commercialization of graphene material and graphene films for use as a transparent conductor and in other electronics applications. Established as a spin-off of the research of Prof. Byung Hee Hong at Seoul National University and with headquarters in Seoul, Korea. Graphene Square will continue to stay as theworld leader of the graphene commercialization research, also will continue to provide the best quality graphene and equipment to all over the world for the continuous development of carbon and 2D materials for the bright future of the science and technology for mankind.
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BNK Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

BNK Ventures focuses on early-stage startups across various industries. The firm provides both capital and strategic support to help startups develop their ideas and grow their businesses. By partnering with entrepreneurs, BNK Ventures aims to drive innovation and foster the success of emerging companies.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, AgTech, Retail
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • South Korea, India, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

  • N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
  • CellMEAT — Cultured meat
  • Floward — Send fresh flowers and a variety of gifts online with Floward. Browse through our numerous products and get same-day flowers delivery
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