Top 10 Gaming Angel Investors in South Korea (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Matthew Papakipos
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel, Series A | Music, Apps, Video | $100k–$286k |
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Shin Dong-won
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Angel, Series A | Retail, Craft Beer, Wine and Spirits | |
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Minsik Cho
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS | |
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Iced coffee
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Apps, FinTech | |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $250k–$60M |
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Park Jong-hwan
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Angel | Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology | |
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Daeho Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Snack Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | |
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Cristian Manea
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Web3, PC Games | $1.5M–$9M |
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Animoca Brands
Angel
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1 | Germany, Vietnam, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D | Gaming, Software, Information Technology | $840k–$11M |
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Kim Won-tae
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order | |
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Matthew Papakipos
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- Industry: Music, Apps, Video
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $100k–$286k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
- Snibbe Studio — Snibbe Studio is pioneering a new interactive music platform for people to socially engage with visual music. Based in the lessons learned from making bestselling bespoke music apps, we are currently in stealth mode, building a mass-market mobile product to release this Fall.
Shin Dong-won is the chairman of the Nongshim Group.
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- Industry: Retail, Craft Beer, Wine and Spirits
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Outside Board Director, Kakao Corp. (Korea’s Telegram) - (Ex) Senior partner, KPMG Korea - Certified Public Accountant - Business Administration, Seoul National University
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Bitbyte — Fun communication. A happy world. We maximize the value of communication with a mobile keyboard app used by over 600K people.
- Candr — Candr is an IT company that uses artificial intelligence to collect, analyse andpresent detailed information on used cars for sale.
Icedcoffee is the Co-Founder at spiritdao.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
- Asterix — Hybrid is the future
- JUICE Finance — Juice Finance empowers you to maximize your yield on Blast by using your Blast ETH as collateral to access 300% USDB and ETH leverage to deploy throughout the Blast ecosystem
Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
- VOYA Games — Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Park Jong-hwan is a Founder and CEO at LOC&ALL.
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- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.
Investment focus
- Industry: Snack Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kranberry — Kranberry is a food company that offers ready to heat food items than can be eaten with a simple f cooking process.
Cristian Manea is the Co-founder and CEO at Aggero.
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- Industry: Gaming, Web3, PC Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Planetarium — AI-powered game creation. Verse8: 3M+ MAU, 24K+ games. Nine Chronicles: world's first onchain game. A Technology Company for Fun.
- Botanika — Meet the new era of hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage. Our pioneering algorithms completely revolutionize how data is fragmented, encrypted, and stored.
- SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
Animoca Brands, ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification. Animoca Brands develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes;and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Formula 1®, Marvel, WWE, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Doraemon. Animoca Brands’ portfolio of blockchain investments and partnerships includes Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity), Dapper Labs (CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot), OpenSea, Harmony, Bitski, and Alien Worlds. Its subsidiaries include The Sandbox, Quidd, Gamee, nWay, Pixowl, and Lympo.
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Geography: Germany, Vietnam, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $9M–$11M; Pre-Seed $840k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
- Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
- Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.
Kim Won-tae
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TMM — TMM is a mail-order platform that helps anyone to easily conduct mail-order and field sales.
- Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.
Gaming Angel investor funding in South Korea at a glance
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