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Top 50 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Food and Beverage startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
23 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $211k–$26M
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
13 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software $371k–$26M
MYSC
VC Fund
11 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $198k–$15M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $280k–$27M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $166k–$28M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$17M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $273k–$13M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $150k–$14M
Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage $231k–$6.7M
Series Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $86k–$4.4M
BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
8 South Korea, Kuwait Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $268k–$15M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Apps $448k–$11M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $789k–$52M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$15M
UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.3M–$21M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $414k–$15M
SBVA
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $907k–$60M
Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.9M–$51M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $973k–$50M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $694k–$47M
Timewise Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $981k–$29M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $424k–$20M
Donghoon Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, Medical $419k–$44M
Signite Partners
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage $16k–$31M
Woowa Bros
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore Seed, Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Software $520k–$18M
JB Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $74k–$15M
IBK Capital
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology $436k–$17M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology $530k–$54M
HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Agriculture $144k–$7.4M
CJ Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $379k–$21M
Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Sensor $421k–$27M
We Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $729k–$19M
Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Iraq, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology $816k–$17M
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.6M–$22M
Alumni Partners
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Brazil Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Personal Health, Food and Beverage $177k–$3.3M
Enlight Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $94k–$20M
Seoul National University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
4 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Retail, E-Commerce, Apps
GS Retail
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Iraq, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Apps, Robotics $225k–$17M
Pathfinder H
VC Fund
4 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $775k–$21M
LB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, E-Commerce, Software $3M–$50M
Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Software $6k–$18M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, India Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.7M–$78M
Magna Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $147k–$18M
CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition $508k–$105M
Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $446k–$17M
KB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $737k–$39M
HG Initiative
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $360k–$13M
NongHyup Financial Group
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Singapore Series A, Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Financial Services $1.7M–$128M
KNet Investment Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming $743k–$14M
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 23 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 376
  • Round size: Seed $211k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
  • Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 13 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$5.5M; Series A $2M–$8.8M; Series B $5M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • Daedong Robotics — Daedong Robotics, a Daedong Group affiliate, offers AI robot solutions that understand agricultural sites, reducing time-consuming and hazardous tasks.
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 12 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 344
  • Round size: Seed $198k–$2.9M; Series A $881k–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $884k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Locuskorea — Locuskorea is an early-stage firm that focuses on local distribution and logistics businesses.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 393
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • Sume — Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $166k–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
  • 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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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 295
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.1M; Series A $371k–$11M; Series B $886k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $273k–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $882k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
  • Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.
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Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $231k–$1.7M; Series A $2.2M–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caretive —
  • Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
  • ArcGen Bioscience — Embark on a Voyage in Immuno-Oncology
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Series Ventures
VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $86k–$1.9M; Series A $2.9M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TouchMeal — TouchMind (operating as TouchMeal) runs an AI-driven senior foodtech platform that manages professional institutional catering, customized dietary meal planning, and automated ingredient supply chains for nursing homes. The company handles full kitchen management operations, including hygiene standards compliance, staff management, and thedistribution of specialized elderly-friendly food products.
  • HD Hi-Tech — HD Hi-Tech is an innovative technology company specializing in AI-powered switchboard safety diagnostic solutions, helping industries improve electrical system reliability, detect faults in real time, and enhance operational safety and efficiency.
  • ROBOS — Robos is a hybrid robot system built by evaluating biological object vision data using Lidar Vision and Open CV-based Object Detection. By combining self-developed biomaterial machine vision technology and robot technology, it intends to expand into a company that delivers core services to diverse industrial sites such as manufacturing, food, andmedical.
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 7 in the past 12 months

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Kuwait

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$5.5M; Series A $1.9M–$9M; Series B $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $191k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BEYLESS — BEYLESS is an embedded platform for autonomous driving.
  • GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
  • Camello Tech Co. — Camello Tech Co. is an agricultural products company that sells tea capsules and aloesonic pills.
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 8 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $448k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M; Series B $2.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

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.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 336
  • Round size: Seed $789k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$40M; Series B $5M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $118M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexedge — Nexedge is a wealth management firm that offers investment management, estate planning, and business advisory services.
  • IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 7 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $407k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Acro — Main - ACRO
  • Upstage — Upstage AI develops artificial intelligence technologies focused on large language models and document processing systems designed to support enterprise workflows. Its platform includes tools that convert unstructured data such as PDFs, scans, and emails into structured, machine-readable formats, enabling downstream analysis and automation. Thecompany also provides models like its Solar LLM, which are optimized for tasks such as text generation, information extraction, and question answering within business environments. Its solutions are applied across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing to handle tasks like document parsing, data extraction, and workflow automation. Additionally, its services can be deployed through APIs, cloud environments, or on-premise systems to integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure.
  • TippingPoint Biosciences — Pioneering new therapies for diseases of chromatin dysfunction. There is a necessity for new types of treatments in diseases like Pediatric Diffuse Midlines Glioma (DMG). Cancer, Chromatin, Health, new solutions.
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$13M; Series B $4.9M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beamworks — Beamworks is a research-centered company in medical imaging and conversational AI, that enables expert-level cancer diagnosis anywhere in the world and providing reliable medical consultations at any time. The company's platform utilizes an on-device AI system that processes ultrasound data in real-time without the need for serverconnectivity, achieving detection sensitivity and differential diagnosis performance, enabling healthcare providers to offer precise and timely diagnostics and improve patient outcomes, and reduce unnecessary procedures.
  • CanLab — CanLab is a developer of AI sensors that focuses on creating optical and thermal cameras, as well as real-time image processing platforms for ground, aerial, and marine mobility. Its product offerings include the Vision Camera, Edge AI Platform, Equipment for Thermal Cameras, and Automotive Camera MES.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$6.9M; Series A $2.2M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Addit & Ark — Adit & Ark operates an AI-powered advertising platform that connects brands with Instagram-based digital magazines and content creators, enabling targeted collaborations and more effective marketing campaigns.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • BioNexus — BioNexus is an artificial intelligence (AI) biotechnology startup that specializes in automating the early stages of biomedical research and drug discovery.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 280
  • Round size: Seed $907k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $23M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 382
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$32M; Series B $4.7M–$33M; Series C $7.2M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
  • 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
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 520
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$10M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $4.7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
  • Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 33 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 292
  • Round size: Seed $694k–$6.6M; Series A $1.3M–$16M; Series B $3.6M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosmos Lab — Cosmos Lab is a battery manufacturer.
  • Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
  • Hookable — Hookable is an AI-based e-commerce detail page automatic generation solution.
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Timewise Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $981k–$4.3M; Series A $1.9M–$8.7M; Series B $5.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carlet Store — Carlet Bio is a wholesale supplier of packaging solutions.
  • Datumo — Datumo got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many AI labs/companies. To solve this problem, Datumo 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 technologies forthe 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. Datumo was founded in 2018.
  • ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Round size: Seed $424k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$11M; Series B $4.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
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Donghoon Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $419k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$5.9M; Series B $3.7M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Future Connect — Livfarm is an online platform that delivers fresh vegetables and salad samplers.
  • Blue M Tec — Blue M Tec develops a prescription medicine AI platform that offers medical supplies and medical consumables.
  • 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.
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Signite Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

Signite Partners is a venture capital arm of Shinsegae Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$5.1M; Series A $1.8M–$21M; Series B $16k–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PAWCHI — PAWCHI is a pet insurance company.
  • Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
  • A-Bio Materials — A-Bio Materials is the developer of bioactive cosmetic and medical products designed to utilize exosome-based compounds for regenerative applications. The company offers formulations derived from plant, human, and microbial exosomes that support cell signaling, inflammation reduction, and collagen synthesis, enabling skincare and medical devicemanufacturers to create clinically validated products that promote tissue regeneration, enhance skin health, and deliver targeted therapeutic benefits.
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Woowa Bros
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

WOOWA BROS (우아한형제들) is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms. Its service portfolio also includes local marketing and web services solutions and products, such as a sports events app and a food delivery app. WOOWA BROS was established in March 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$10M; Series A $2.4M–$5M; Series B $5.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • lululab — Lumini is a personalized AI skin assistant that analyzes the user’s skin and recommends the best products and services for each user. It examines the facial skin based on six categories: wrinkles,pores, acne, sebum, melasma, and redness simply by taking a photo of the face. It also features an intelligent chatbot within the mobile app that logs andanalyzes user’s lifestyle. It then combines all relevant data to provide a comprehensive skin analysis along with accurate skincare recommendations. Lumini is the first brainchild of lululab, the 22nd spin-off company from Samsung Electronics.
  • Shiok Meats — This best online casino Singapore guide ranks the top 10 sites and provides all you need to know to get started.
  • Shin Starr presents — Shin Starr presents create, operate, and franchise Korean cuisine-based QSR and fast-casual dining restaurants built around its proprietary robotic kitchen technology and Korean cuisine excellence.It develops and commercializes SPACE+ Technology™, a spatial technology platform brand created by SHIN STARR presents to enhance cooking and foodservicing quality and efficiency.SPACE+ combines and integrates in-house made robotic and network technologies into a flawless autonomous kitchen platform.
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JB Investment
VC Fund · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

Investment Firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$2.2M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TEUIDA — Learn and speak Korean and Japanese app
  • ZigTruck — ZigTruck is a comprehensive and user-friendly online platform designed specifically for buying and selling used trucks. It connects truck owners, dealers, and potential buyers, offering a wide variety of trucks, from light-duty to heavy-duty models, along with detailed specifications, pricing information, and customer reviews
  • Mediark — Mediark compiles a comprehensive summary of a patient's symptoms, including key details such as the nature, duration, severity, and progression of each symptom, to ensure that medical staff receive accurate and timely information for effective diagnosis and treatment planning.
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $436k–$4M; Series A $1.8M–$11M; Series B $3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BEYLESS — BEYLESS is an embedded platform for autonomous driving.
  • IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Round size: Seed $530k–$9.1M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
  • CarbonSix — CarbonSix delivers cutting-edge robotics automation for manufacturing, combining Six-Sigma robot dexterity and intelligence to transform industrial operations worldwide.
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HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $144k–$1.5M; Series B $3.3M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FIRMMIT — FIRMMIT is an ag-tech company that optimizes growth data by securing and analyzing agricultural technology data.
  • Mr. Dad — Mr. Dad is a seller of food products.
  • TMR Founders — TMR Founders is a personal startup platform intended to help entrepreneurs grow. The company's platform offers tools and resources to solve the problems of the offline individual startup market, which has many risk factors due to information asymmetry and is inefficient, helping self-employed entrepreneurs in the start-up process.
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CJ Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $379k–$7.4M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $5.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
  • MobilTech — MOBILTECH is an AI-based 3D GIS startup. The company is developing a 3D spatial scanner that replicates space to supply 3D spatial information and software solutions for smart cities. It specializes in immersive digital twin and LiDAR technology. Its digital twin data is compatible with NVIDIA Omniverse and Unreal Engine.
  • Scone — Meechu (Scone) is a virtual creator and entertainment platform focused on VTuber-style digital characters. It enables users to create, animate, and stream 3D avatars using motion tracking and interactive tools. The platform supports immersive online performances, audience engagement, and digital content creation through AI-assisted avatartechnology and real-time virtual interaction systems.
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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Sensor
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $421k–$3M; Series A $2.7M–$9.3M; Series B $1.1M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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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We Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $729k–$4.3M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GraphAI — GraphAI AI enables seamless integration of diverse data sources for fast and user-friendly AI-powered Business Intelligence (BI).GraphAI-A leverages neural networks to maintain a comprehensive graph view and swiftly reveals valuable insights from enterprise data, facilitating trend analysis and a 360-degree customer perspective. This is achievedthrough In-DB AI technology with an intuitive low-code interface.GraphAI-T delivers accelerated and robust BI analytics by leveraging the valuable insights obtained from GraphAI-A. It further facilitates transaction processing on business data through structured queries like SQL and Cypher.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $816k–$10M; Series A $1.2M–$7M; Series B $4.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AddedBiome — AddedBiome is a Korean wellness food company focused on gut-health snacks and kombucha.
  • Scone — Meechu (Scone) is a virtual creator and entertainment platform focused on VTuber-style digital characters. It enables users to create, animate, and stream 3D avatars using motion tracking and interactive tools. The platform supports immersive online performances, audience engagement, and digital content creation through AI-assisted avatartechnology and real-time virtual interaction systems.
  • Cafe Manwolgyeong — Cafe Manwolgyeong is a customer-centered cafe brand that values different cafes and related products.​​
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9.7M; Series A $2.4M–$18M; Series B $2.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $138M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • Argos Identity — Argos Identity is an identity verification service provider. Identify Anyone Anywhere Anytime.
  • Amber Road — Amber Road is the creator of an operation management-focused data analysis program. By analyzing the data based on the input data, the company's platform generates a customized AI model and business insight report that requires the input of manufacturing process data.
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Alumni Partners
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

Alumni Partners is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Personal Health, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $177k–$930k; Series A $421k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dalol — Dalol is a bakery that sells snacks, cakes, and rice chips.
  • EmoticBox — EmoticBox is an emoticon B2B platform that allows users to create and sell emoticons.
  • PS Analytics — PS Analytics is a gaming data and esports content company that began as the “Pro Spectator P.S.” YouTube channel focused on data-driven League of Legends analysis. The company later expanded into statistics-based game analysis platforms, esports media content, and digital services that provide strategic insights, match analysis, and player data forgaming audiences.
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Enlight Ventures
VC Fund · 5 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Enlight Ventures, one of the fastest growing VCs in the world, invests in early-stage startups with unique and sustainable business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $94k–$3.3M; Series A $1.8M–$14M; Series B $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops multi-joint robotic grippers and robotic hands for precise grasping and manipulation in industrial automation, humanoid robotics, and research.
  • Aigencore — Aigencore is a specialized, advanced technology company focused on tritium solutions, nuclear fusion fuel cycles, and tritium-applied industrial products.
  • Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
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Seoul National University of Science and Technology
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages. Kihya is striving to create a more rational alcohol consumption culture through innovation in the online alcohol distribution market. Kihya delivers beer, wine, or spirits at the push of a button and also offers home delivery.
  • 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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GS Retail
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $225k–$1.6M; Series A $2.4M–$5.9M; Series B $2.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PO:DL — PO:DL is a beauty and skincare brand. It develops and retails a variety of skincare products, including hydrating masks, pore-cleansing balms, and skin care packs. Its flagship product, the 'Gongju Balm Balm-to-Foam Cleanser,' is a gel-type cleanser that utilizes balm ingredients and eliminates the need for double cleansing.
  • The Grit — The Grit manufactures multi-use container and collection boxes.
  • CafeWhale — The on-chain loyalty layer for CafeWhale's 700+ autonomous cafe network.
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Pathfinder H
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$13M; Series B $2.7M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services. It is a online wholesale marketplace that connects buyers with products from major Korean shopping districts. It allows users to browse and order items directly from multiple vendors in one place.
  • Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
  • Camello Tech Co. — Camello Tech Co. is an agricultural products company that sells tea capsules and aloesonic pills.
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LB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups, 12 in the past 12 months

LB Investment is one of the top VCs in Korea. LB invests in diverse industries ranging from Technology and Contents to Bio and healthcare

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$42M; Series C $7.4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roai — One Click Controls Robots, Creating Anything You Imagine
  • XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
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Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $266k–$3.1M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $6k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $16M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
  • MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
  • 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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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 235
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$26M; Series B $4.5M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
  • Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
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Magna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $147k–$3.1M; Series A $1.8M–$12M; Series B $3.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging The number of influencers is explosively increasing. Featuring allows brands and marketers to discover product-fit influencers andhelps matching based on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring, and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia, including Japan and China.
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CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

A global lifestyle company that creates health, happiness and convenience

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $508k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $18M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

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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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $446k–$8.4M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Series B $1.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Lee Eum-Gil — Lee Eum-Gil is a consulting firm specializing in career transition support services.
  • DAIM Research — DAIM Research is an AI-based automation system solution company that provides logistics automation solutions.
  • Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 437
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops multi-joint robotic grippers and robotic hands for precise grasping and manipulation in industrial automation, humanoid robotics, and research.
  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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HG Initiative
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$7.7M; Series A $1M–$8.2M; Series B $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sankun — Sankun is a Seoul-based construction data and AI platform. It connects buyers, vendors, and contractors through databases for projects, bidding, and construction analytics. The company offers enterprise data, site intelligence, and bidding insights, helping firms improve decision-making and streamline construction workflows using real-time data andAI tools.
  • Lumora — Lumora is an Independent Power Producer (IPP) specializing in transforming idle land into renewable energy assets by developing, owning, and operating sustainable power generation projects that maximize land value while supporting clean energy production.
  • Dolbom-ui-sin — Caregiver is a specialized platform operator that provides hospitals with advanced nursing solutions, streamlining patient care coordination, enhancing clinical workflows, and supporting specialized nursing practices through intelligent tools and integrated digital systems.
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NongHyup Financial Group
VC Fund · Okdong, Ulsan-gwangyoksi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$11M; Series B $12M–$128M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dabeeo — Dabeeo, an AI technology company specializing in geospatial data, creates digital twin earth by digitizing earth's spatial through AI-powered data transformation. Leveraging its cutting-edge AI technologies, Dabeeo delivers the essential digital spatial analysis data and insights to customers across various industries, enhancing productivityand convenience.
  • Pensées — Pensées is a 3D bio-printer company that develops cultured meat through 3D bioprinting technology.
  • Korea Digital Asset Custody — Korea Digital Asset Custody provides custodial solutions for digital assets with security and blockchain technology services.
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KNet Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Food and Beverage startups

K-Net is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$12M; Series A $2.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
  • PaySign — Paysign is a SaaS platform that provides electronic document management and valid e-signature services for businesses. It allows users to create, send, sign, and track contracts online.
  • The Muse Entertainment — The Muse Entertainment is a professional entertainment agency.
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Food and Beverage VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 507 deals from 447 investors.

447
investors
in South Korea Food and Beverage startups
507
deals
in South Korea Food and Beverage startups
$2.7M
median round
in South Korea Food and Beverage startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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