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Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Gaming startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Gaming startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
31 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$15M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
19 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
18 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
SBVA
VC Fund
12 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $1.9M–$100M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $743k–$60M
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
11 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $223k–$7.1M
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
10 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software $1k–$13M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $300k–$12M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Seed Software, Gaming, Biotechnology $1k–$7.8M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $2.1M–$102M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
9 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $223k–$42M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $669k–$15M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $694k–$47M
Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games $743k–$82M
Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage $297k–$3.7M
BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
7 South Korea, Kuwait Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $4k–$13M
Series Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $74k–$4.5M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $12k–$77M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Software $371k–$7M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $149k–$29M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $743k–$15M
UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2M–$20M
Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.1M–$15M
Timewise Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, E-Commerce $2k–$29M
Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing $1k–$27M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$19M
Hashed
VC Fund
6 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$39M
POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $149k–$13M
Donghoon Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, Information Technology $5k–$44M
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $223k–$11M
DS Asset Management
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Medical, Software $2k–$51M
KB Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $743k–$40M
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series B Information Technology, Blockchain, Gaming $686k–$20M
CJ Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Food and Beverage, Apps $366k–$21M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $2.6M–$55M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $594k–$47M
KDB Capital
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $11k–$44M
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.4M–$23M
Magna Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $141k–$26M
LB Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, E-Commerce, Software $3M–$50M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Gaming
L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software $594k–$37M
HG Initiative
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $35k–$5.2B
JB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Pakistan Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Manufacturing $483k–$16M
Seoul National University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
4 South Korea Seed, Series A Apps, Retail, E-Commerce
GS Retail
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Iraq, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Information Technology $186k–$15M
HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Aju IB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, India Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 31 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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: 224
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.9M; Series A $223k–$11M; Series B $743k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
  • TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
  • Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 19 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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: 271
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$10M; Series B $18k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Soroh
  • Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
  • Specter — Specter is a reputation sharing platform for applicants who are sincere and do their job well, but cannot do enough self-PR in interviews.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 18 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Swit — An Employee Productivity Hub for Collaboration Essentials
  • Restream — Restream is a super simple live video platform that empowers you to create beautiful videos and multistream them to your favorite channels.
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 245
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$44M; Series B $4M–$63M; Series C $8.9M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Syncly — Syncly is an AI-native customer intelligence platform for fast-growing brands. Turn customer conversations into actionable insights to help your brand grow faster.
  • Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
  • Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Gaming 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: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 403
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$26M; Series B $2.6M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Adriel — Adriel provides the necessary tools to handle complex campaigns and reach your advertising goals. Drive results at maximum efficiency with a centralized dashboard.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • I-Sense — i-SENS, Inc. is a global company dedicated to improving the lives of people with diabetes and those who care for them.
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Gaming 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 · 11 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.8M; Series A $743k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • 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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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Gaming 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: 64
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$9.6M; Series A $3k–$7.4M; Series B $5.4M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
  • 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.
  • SN BioScience — SN BioScience provide nano-formulation screening services for small molecule, oligonucleotide (siRNA, DNA), peptide and protein to deliver in the form of nano-micelle, nanoparticle or liposome. Their proprietary “double core-shell technology” and pool of acceptable lipids and polymers could help your research that having difficulties in solubilityor delivery.
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • StudioBside — StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
  • 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.
  • AWESOME Entertainment — AWESOME Entertainment is a media and digital content company that provides YouTube content production, influencer and MCN management, advertising and branded content creation, and media commerce services. The comapny supports brands with campaign planning, viral video production, and distribution across multiple social platforms, while alsooffering production outsourcing and partnership services to maximize audience reach and engagement.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 10 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 300
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$22M; Series B $3.7M–$30M; Series C $4.3M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Stuf — Stuf Storage Homepage
  • Vimcal — The only calendar designed for remote work. Schedule with ease across any time zone. It also comes fully-featured with booking links, keyboard shortcuts, color coding, and polls. Vimcal can be used on desktop, iOS, and Chrome Extension with any Google or Outlook/Exchange account.
  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$4.1M; Series A $1.4M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sasung power — Sasung power enhances energy storage performance using advanced structural battery source technology, developing new batteries for structural support and eco-friendly lightweight structures.
  • 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 influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased 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.
  • 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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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$9.1M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 225
  • Round size: Seed $694k–$6.8M; Series A $1M–$15M; Series B $3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Freewheelin — Freewheelin is an edtech company developing AI-powered tools to personalize math education. Their platform offers services such as generating homework books, integrating with textbooks, managing student errors, and analyzing performance data to assist educators in course preparation. The company has curated a database of math resources inpartnership with textbook publishers, ensuring teachers can use materials without copyright concerns.​
  • Big Mobility — Big Mobility is a start-up that is addressing the issue of unlawful overnight truck parking brought on by a lack of truck parking spaces. In order to generate additional revenue for landowners and provide fixed parking spaces for truck owners, we operate a truck parking lot as a corporate type and develop and manage vacant land in the city as atruck parking lot.
  • Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
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Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Kona Venture Partners is a South Korea-based venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$5M; Series A $2.8M–$19M; Series B $1.5M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that creates a character for animation, game, and comics.
  • Warp Space — Warp Space is a South Korea-based AI entertainment company founded in 2023 that develops and operates CAVEDUCK, a generative AI character chat and interactive storytelling platform. Warp Space focuses on long-term character consistency and contextual storytelling through proprietary memory and context management technologies.
  • Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
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Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$1.8M; Series A $1.9M–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
  • Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 6 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: 73
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$4.8M; Series A $4k–$9M; Series B $5k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Leesol — Leesol is a sleep technology company engaged in the production of AI based neuromodulation devices for the prevention and treatment solutions for modern-day people’s healthy brains. The company's product range includes the sleepisol which is a functional smart wearable device that utilizes CES (Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation) and is aneffective product for the customer’s quality of sleep and life. The product can also be used with a user-oriented data based App.
  • Future Connect — Livfarm is an online platform that delivers fresh vegetables and salad samplers.
  • Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
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Series Ventures
VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming 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
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M; Series A $2.4M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ladit — Ladit provides camping provides peaceful relaxation after a rough travel and gives extensive outdoor services so that all outdoor activities
  • Mold — Mold develops, manufactures, and distributes automobile parts and new material parts.
  • Linkup
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 254
  • Round size: Seed $12k–$12M; Series A $1.5M–$30M; Series B $3.7M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • AITRICS — AITRICS is taking on the ultimate role of giving everyone access to the power of data-driven health intelligence by developing advanced clinical solutions that will revolutionize their lives. With a shared vision and a common purpose, passionate and dedicated professionals from diverse backgrounds came together to create the most exceptional team.
  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • NextBillion — An open forum for discussion of social enterprise, poverty alleviation and business development in emerging markets and beyond.
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
  • Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
  • 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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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $1.7M–$16M; Series B $4.9M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Series A $743k–$10M; Series B $743k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Design and Practice
  • Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming 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: 114
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$13M; Series B $2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$10M; Series B $1.5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise 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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Timewise Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $2k–$3.7M; Series A $3k–$7.4M; Series B $3M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carlet Store — Carlet Bio is a wholesale supplier of packaging solutions.
  • Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.
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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Lighthouse Combined Investment Homepage

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.8M; Series B $3M–$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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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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: 147
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $334k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
  • DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 272
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Borderless — Stockal helps retail investors in India, Middle East and South East Asia “globalize” their savings and wealth by saving and/or investing money in mature international markets such as US, UK, Germany, HK and Japan. Using Stockal, people can, digitally, open, own and operate overseas investing accounts - digitally and affordably. Additionally,investing on Stockal is backed by big data-based automated research and analysis that helps investors make smarter investing decisions. Stockal helps investors manage their portfolio better, keep track of its health, make better investing decisions and discover interesting stocks and investing themes every day so that they don't have to scour through reams of data or depend on unreliable guesswork.
  • Rare Circles — RareCircles simplifies the business of NFTs so you can focus on growing your community.
  • Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 8 in the past 12 months

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$6.1M; Series A $1.1M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
  • Superb AI — Automate data preparation, label and manage images and videos, and find annotation services with one training data platform. Fast, precise, and easy to use.
  • Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
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Donghoon Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$1.8M; Series A $1.5M–$6.3M; Series B $5k–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Future Connect — Livfarm is an online platform that delivers fresh vegetables and salad samplers.
  • NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5M; Series B $4.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
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  • Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops automotive data platform that provides web-based visualization, filtering, and post-processing of vehicle data.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Series A $2k–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$50M; Series C $4.2M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IMBiologics — IMBiologics is a biotechnology company that develops immunomodulatory antibody drugs for physiological balance.
  • Labrador Labs
  • Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 346
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Series B $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

The Road Not Taken

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Blockchain, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $686k–$6.5M; Series B $2.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
  • Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
  • Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
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CJ Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $366k–$6.7M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Series B $2M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
  • Aurumplanet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming 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: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$55M; Series B $2.8M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
  • Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
  • MicrobiotiX — MicrobiotiX develops bacteriophage and microbiome-based therapeutics to combat multidrug-resistant infections and autoimmune diseases.
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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 10 in the past 12 months

KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.3M; Series A $1.1M–$8.8M; Series B $11k–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
  • Redrob by McKinley Rice — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
  • Power Cube Semi
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming 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: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Series B $4.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Higher Diversity — Higher Diversity provides foreigners with a platform for administrative and convenient services.
  • Holiday Robotics — Meet FRIDAY, the world's most advanced humanoid robot with 63 DoF and dexterous hands. Powered by Holiday Sim and World Model AI technology.
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Magna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming 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: 91
  • Round size: Seed $141k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.4M; Series B $1.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased 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.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
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LB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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: 128
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$36M; Series B $3.9M–$42M; Series C $7.4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • S2W — S2W is a data intelligence company to solve the problems with technology for good.
  • onepredict — We offer a digital solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
  • Gaudio Lab — Gaudio Lab delivers innovative audio solutions to platforms, device manufacturers, and content creators. Learn more about our innovative AI-driven sound technologies.
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
  • Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
  • Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$4.7M; Series A $1.4M–$8.2M; Series B $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
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HG Initiative
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$7.7M; Series A $35k–$7.4M; Series B $4M–$5.2B
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Netspa — Netspa produces recycled nylon by collecting and processing waste fishing nets.
  • Brewguru — Brewguru is an online beverage store that makes and sells healthy beverages.
  • 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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JB Investment
VC Fund · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Investment Firm

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$16M; Series B $3.7M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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  • Mass Adoption — Simplify Connection Amplify Experience
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Seoul National University of Science and Technology
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
  • Build B — Build B sells mattress covers, carpets, cushions, furniture, and kitchen accessories.
  • JeCLEAN — JeCLEAN is a washing company that provides bedding, laundry and delivery service.
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GS Retail
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming 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, Food Processing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$1.6M; Series A $2.2M–$5.3M; Series B $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Snackfor — Snackfor is a B2B company that curates and delivers snacks to offices.
  • The Grit — The Grit manufactures multi-use container and collection boxes.
  • CafeWhale — the AI intelligence layer transforming physical retail into a continuous, data-driven ecosystem. By integrating real-time machine telemetry, customer behavior analytics, and automated engagement, MoonWhale connects the physical and digital, enabling retailers to optimize conversion, retention, and operations through a unified, adaptiveinfrastructure.
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HITEJINRO CO
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Herb Today — Herb Today is a supplier of vegetable, seaweed, and mushroom products for the food industry.
  • Mr. Dad — Mr. Dad is a seller of food products.
  • Charging Pig — Charging Pig is a mobile app that provides auxiliary battery rental services.
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Aju IB Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups

Aju IB Investment is a venture capital firm that offers SMEs with investments and consulting services.Aju IB Investment offers consulting services that focus on business management, tax, accounting, legal, mergers and acquisitions, additional funding, marketing, and technology support.Aju IB Investment was founded in September 1974 and is basedin Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
  • Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
  • Kovis Technology — Kovis Technology is a manufacturer of measurement and inspection equipment intended for global semiconductor and electronic industries.
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Gaming startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
  • Yeoshin — Yeoshin is a skin treatment information platform.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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Gaming Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 776 deals from 617 investors.

617
investors
in South Korea Gaming startups
776
deals
in South Korea Gaming startups
$2.2M
median round
in South Korea Gaming startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage
99/1
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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