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Top 50 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in September 2025

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

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.
Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
Arobot — Arobot creates robots with HRI-based behavior patterns, allowing consumers to embrace robots more readily and organically.
Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Joabro — Joabro is a startup that provides life care solutions based on a fitness center platform. It is the operator of the fitness center-based community platform 'Joa Jim Series'.
Elexlab — Elexlab is a pioneering biotech startup focused on developing an AI-powered drug discovery platform that accelerates and enhances the process of new drug development by leveraging machine learning, biological data analysis, and predictive modeling to identify promising therapeutic candidates more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Pet Station — Pet Station is an innovative startup that aims to develop a unique and immersive cultural hub where pet-related content, services, and experiences are seamlessly integrated into offline spaces.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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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Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Apollon — Needle Gone, Data On
NationA — We are NationA
Copper Innovation Technology — CIT Co, Ltd utilizes metal single crystals and the ASE method to ensure the accurate, lossless transmission of every signal.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.

Translink Investment is a startup investment company.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
Flonics — FlowNix develops medical image-based blood flow analysis software products and hemodynamic analysis methods for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases .
Conport Lab — Confort Lab investigates and develops the 'Porta Solution,' an integrated solution for quickly and easily building complicated and demanding industrial field control systems. FOTA solution offers self-developed IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) dedicated middleware and industrial lightweight equipment fitted with it, as well as simpleand convenient business logic via a no-coda-based integrated development environment. assist you in designing Companies that utilise the Porta solution can swiftly implement the system by loading only user logic without requiring the services of a developer, and the system can be readily altered and modified, boosting the speed and convenience of business.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cutback — Cutback is an AI-powered video editing assistant designed to streamline the editing process by automatically analyzing footage, suggesting cuts, enhancing visuals, and helping users create polished videos with minimal manual effort.
Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.
Pickle — AI that remembers your entire life

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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.

Lighthouse Combined Investment Homepage

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Health Care
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.

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

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.

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

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.
BigTech Plus — BigTech Plus is a real estate information based fintech company.

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ENERZAi — As your AI catalyst, we are dedicated to spearheading an AI breakthrough with our cutting-edge AI optimization technology.
Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.
Minxin Technology — Minxin Technology focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sales of photo- and thermal-curing functional materials and electronic-grade wet chemicals.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.

Investment Firm

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Metafarmers — Metafarmers is an agricultural technology company that provides robotic assistance in farming to increase production.
Saesol Tech — Saesol Tech is an autonomous V2X security technology company.
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.

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Food Processing
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.

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
Biplant — Your daily life curator, BRONTE
Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Food and Beverage, Health Care
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.

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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.

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Service Industry
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
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.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
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).
Dime Bio — Dime Bio is a drug development company for novel dementia treatments.
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.

A global lifestyle company that creates health, happiness and convenience

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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
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.
The Blessed Moon — The Blessed Moon is a cosmetics brand that sells and offers skin, face, hair, and body care products.

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

Investment focus

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

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Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
Flexell Space — Flexell Space engages in space solar cells, focusing on improving cost, delivery, design, and power efficiency.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
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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Ascendo Ventures is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm that strives to be a true lifecycle partner for the fastest growing, game-changing Asian tech companies. From the moment we invest in our portfolio companies, we commit to being a long-term partner and ascend together embracing the treme

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Medical, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Aldavar — ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials that closely resemble human tissues and 3D printing technology.
Ugly Lab — Ugly Lab is a waste-tech startup that provides subscription-based waste collection services and consulting.
H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Bakery, Local Business
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Dalol — Dalol is a bakery that sells snacks, cakes, and rice chips.
DEEPX — DEEPX is a Korean AI hardware system solution company.
Freshstore — We Love To Eat The Fresh Food

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

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.

Base Investment connects private equity, strategic buyers, and private individuals with opportunities to invest. The company works with well-known, enormous national firms that are looking to acquire a business that will help them extend their brand or make better use of their current facilities.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

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Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.
Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.

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

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, 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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