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Top 50 Gaming VC Funds in South Korea

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Gaming startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Gaming VC Funds in South Korea

Investor	Gaming South Korea investments
Capstone Partners	30
Kakao Ventures	14
Strong Ventures	14
MYSC	11
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund	10
Korea Investment Partners	9
SBVA	8
Industrial Bank of Korea	7
Stonebridge Capital	7
Series Ventures	7
Bass Investment	7
Translink Investment	7
Altos Ventures	7
Daesung Private Equity	6
Lighthouse Combined Investment	6
Big Basin Capital	6
UTC Investment Co.	6
Future Science and Technology Holdings	6
POSCO CAPITAL	6
Hana Ventures	6
Devsisters Ventures	6
Primer Sazze Partners	6
Nau IB Capital	6
DSC Investment	5
Stone Bridge Ventures	5
Shinhan Venture Investment	5
Coolidge Corner Investment	5
KDB Capital	5
Base Investments	4
Smilegate Investment	4
Shinhan Capital	4
JB Investment	4
Donghoon Investment	4
GS Retail	4
Hana Financial Investment	4
Laguna Investment	4
HG Initiative	4
Seoul National University of Science and Technology	4
CJ CheilJedang Corp.	4
Lotte Ventures	4
BNK Ventures	3
Signite Partners	3
DS Asset Management	3
Kona Venture Partners	3
Fast Ventures	3
Partners Investment	3
TINVESTMENT	3
CJ Investment	3
NongHyup Financial Group	3
Base Investment	3

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Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.

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

Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
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.
Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BioSean — BioSean is a diverse feed technology and breeding organization that provides integrated solutions for microorganisms utilized from the hatched self-fish stage to plankton, high-efficiency fermented feed, and functional additive feed.
Coactus — Coactus is a social venture that creates an innovative business to make a better world. They do deaf taxi driver's taxi service, 'Goyohan Taxi'. In order to help communicate with passengers, they developed a communication tool 'Goyohan', which operates in two tablet PC's inside the taxi. Goyohan Taxi has 26 deaf taxidrivers in 5 areas, with 10 taxi companies. Within 2020, they aim to create 100 deaf taxi drivers.
Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Suppor-T — Suppor-T is an entrepreneur-focused growth management tool
Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.

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

LabInCube — LabInCube develops inCube materials capable of selective drug release, sustained release, and supporting complex raw materials.
StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
Syntekabio — Syntekabio is a Korean biotech firm, developing personal genome map which is expected to enable personalized medical service. The company also provides a technology for collecting and integrating decrypted whole genome data.

SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Algocare — Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations.
HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
Korea Credit Service — Korea Credit Service is a credit agency for individual enterprises. Korea Credit Service offers a credit evaluation service called "CreditNote," and entrepreneurs can check their credit rating.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Ladit — Ladit provides camping provides peaceful relaxation after a rough travel and gives extensive outdoor services so that all outdoor activities
Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
Wave&Vibe — Wave & Vibe enables small restaurant enterprises to enter the home convenience food industry by providing easy access to food manufacturing facilities around the country.

Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GPTers — GPTers began as a minuscule chat GPT study and has developed into a group that boasts of being the operator of the AI community.
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
BrownBag — Brown Bag is an online portal for coffee and cafe supplies.

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

Disco — Disco is a location-based service platform for real estate companies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We 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, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
Real Draw — Real Draw helps writers demonstrate their skills through the correct use of AI to deliver the quality work to readers.
MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

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

Cochl — Official website of Cochl
Lablup — Lablup Inc.: Make AI Accessible
Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.

Lighthouse Combined Investment Homepage

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CTNS — CTNS develops and produces secondary battery packs.
Lightyear — Lightyear One is a Long-Range Solar Car Designed & Engineered by Lightyear in The Netherlands. Designed for Independence.
Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.

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, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.

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

GEXVal — GEXVal is to help patients and families fighting against orphan and intractable diseases
Novorex — Novorex specializes in the development of molecule drugs targeting oncology and neurology diseases.
Right Route — Right Route is an e-commerce company for clothes.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.
Carbon Energy — Carbon Energy was founded as a direct air capture (DAC) solution startup. With the use of direct carbon capture (DAC) technology, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is directly extracted and either buried underground or recycled into new resources. Beyond the current DAC technology, Carbon Energy is claimed to possess a special technology thatsimultaneously produces renewable energy and lowers carbon dioxide.

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
SqueezeBits — SqueezeBits builds ecosystem for designing, training, and deploying compressed neural networks.
SIMPLE planet — Food biotech company producing sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients using cellular agriculture.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
Open Asset — Open Asset enables financial institutions to rapidly and effectively implement blockchain technology and exchange token assets.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sorcerics — Our mission is to empower people to live more productively by lowering the learning curve of smart devices.
MUHAYU — MUHAYU is an artificial intelligence technology firm that provides services such as plagiarism detection, reading and evaluating recruiting paperwork, and Advanced video/audio/content assessment services suited to recruiting interviews.
Clover Games — Clover, part of the company's gaming portfolio, it offers a mobile animation RPG game that focuses on recruiting heroes, expanding territories, and revolutionizing the world, so that players can enjoy engaging content.

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

Amber Technologies — Protect your electric vehicle with Amber's expert-designed breakdown coverage for high-voltage parts, hassle-free claims, and roadside assistance. Get a quote today for peace of mind tomorrow.
FlareLane — Engage with both first-time and returning app/web visitors through interactive push notifications and boost user retenion and revenue. Push, Interact, Grow.
SalesMap — SalesMap focuses on providing CRM software for B2B and is dedicated for improving the efficiency of B2B sales and marketing teams.

Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BRLab — BRLab offers a framework that makes it possible to implement sophisticated sleep analysis and enhancement techniques. The solutions are based on a unique sleep-enhancing technology that is scientifically validated and patented, as well as an AI-powered algorithm with the highest level of reliability.
Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE

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, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
Terracle — Terracle is a Korean eco-friendly startup with the world's best waste plastic depolymerization technology. We supply recycled TPA (PTA) and EG in large quantities and focus on low-grade, hard-to-recycle plastic waste, clothing, and film waste. The best ESG solution is Terracle.
Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.

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

Portfolio highlights

QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
GenGenAI — GenGenAI develops synthetic data generation technologydesigned to advance AI learning.
Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.

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 A, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
Parameta — ICONLOOP, Inc. is a blockchain-specialized tech company based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in May 2016, ICONLOOP provides the entire technical support to the leading global blockchain project, ICON. ICONLOOP aims to acquire both scalability and security in existing platforms and maximize the utility of blockchain technology with SCORE SmartContract, LFT Algorithm, Tiered System, Multi Channel and Modular Architecture. Based on self-developed blockchain engine, loopchain, ICONLOOP, as a technology partner of Korea Financial Investment Association, Kyobo Life Insurance, and P-HIS consortium, leads diverse innovations in financial transactions, digital currency and IoT(Internet of Things).

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.

Base Investments operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

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
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Hudson AI — Hudson AI is an enterprise that delivers AI-based dubbing solutions. It supports the development of dubbed content, which is the core of content localization, using voice and video AI technologies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
CLE — CLE provides software packages, scanning, 3D reconstruction, and modeling services for factory automation.
ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.

Investment Firm

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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.

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

Dayoff — Dayoff wants to be a sensual content and product-curating platform for travel media commerce. It promotes taste-based domestic and international unknown travel products and provides differentiating services in the current travel market, where well-known products and information centered on the lowest price are the main focus. In addition tosupplying limited direct contract products, it intends to expand the current accommodation service to include excursions and activities in the market.
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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Liternol — Liternol offers logistics services, along with competitive return collection rates and inspection information.
Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
ZeroXFlow — ZeroXFlow develops 1hour, an all-in-one platform for foreign language education.

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

GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
phoneGO — phoneGO is a mobile repair cost comparison estimate platform.
Plcoskin — Plcoskin is a MedTech company specializing in reconstructive plastic surgery and regenerative skincare. They have developed a scaffold that removes the need for cadaver-sourced material used in breast reconstruction surgery, making procedures safer and cheaper. Plcoskin’s scaffolds are made with synthetic PCL, a biodegradable material that iscommonly used to create surgical sutures. Unlike competitors' products that remain in the body for a lifetime, Plcoskin’s PCL scaffolds are absorbed and replaced with the recipient’s own natural tissues, minimizing the possibility of long-term side effects. As they do not contain any dangerous chemicals, they are also 50% safer than cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Costs for reconstructive breast surgery are brought down by 40% to only $3 thousand per breast. Furthermore, much less handling time is required, reducing average surgery durations from an hour and a half to only 30 minutes. The mesh design of the scaffolds mitigates the need for an additional follow-up reconstructive surgery, something that is common when using cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Plcoskin has also developed Youlief, a cosmeceutical product & therapeutic device pipeline that helps fund R&D for their medical devices. Youlief is available in the US, Europe, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
JeCLEAN — JeCLEAN is a washing company that provides bedding, laundry and delivery service.
Shared fishery — Shared fishery is a fishery firm that specializes in collecting, storing and selling fresh sea fishes.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, 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.
Space Vision — 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.

BNK Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Signite Partners is a venture capital arm of Shinsegae Group.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Wave — Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
QANDA(Mathpresso) — Providing the most effective education for all - We build QANDA, the world's leading personalized learning platform.
Sweet Spot — Sweet Spot is a platform for companies and retailers who need space for marketing and sales.

Investing in listed companies and venture firms

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

ArtNGuide — ArtNGuide conducts online auctions and art fairs.
FASSKER — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.
Doosan Mobility Innovation — Doosan offers drone solutions based on Fuel Cell powerpacks, which enable longer flights than existing battery-powered drones.

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

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nanali — Nanali is a multidisciplinary creative studio that creates smart device games, toys, animation, and stories. Nanali’s main ongoing project is the mobile arcade game "Fruit Attacks," which uses every input method available in smart devices such as touching, shaking, and blowing.
Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.
Clover Games — Clover, part of the company's gaming portfolio, it offers a mobile animation RPG game that focuses on recruiting heroes, expanding territories, and revolutionizing the world, so that players can enjoy engaging content.

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
Space Vision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.

As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
Harbinger Health — Harbinger Health is a biotechnology company that develops a two-tier testing model for the detection of early cancer with a blood test. The company combines artificial intelligence with insights into the biology of the beginnings of cancer to identify cancer before it is visible or symptomatic with the aim of developing low-cost, multi-cancer bloodtests.

TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Evmodu — Evmodu offers EV-SaaS, on-site charging, connected car service for electric vehicles, and real-time charging station information.
Goodoc — Goodoc (굿닥) is a Korean smartphone application that helps users with a variety of medical services. The app allows users to access reliable information on doctors, hospitals, and other medical services. It also provides users with information on doctors' fees, hospital fees, contact numbers, and more.
CONTEC — CONTEC is a spin-off company from KARI(Korea Aerospace Research Institute) which was established in 2015 on Jan.5th, and doing the business for design, development and integration of ground system in the space and defense application.

CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Medinno — Medinno develops cell therapeutics for brain diseases. The company's therapy uses technology to treat a wide range of diseases, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, neonatal refractory brain diseases, and severe intraventricular hemorrhages..
Tablero — Tablero is a service platform company that supports easy offline ordering with an NFC-based simple order/payment order service.
Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Sanigen — Sanigen is a food safety company that provides solutions for food safety on microbial genetic analysis technology.
JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN suggests sustainable and reliable desserts and ingredients.
We Hudling — White Delight is a food production and distribution company.

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

Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
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.

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