Top 5 Hardware Angel Investors in South Korea (August 2026)

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• SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
• StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
• Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.

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• Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
• Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
• Frip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.

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• Dot — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
• Lanfranco & Cordova — We are an agency of optimists, for brands that believe anything is possible.

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• Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
• Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
• Thermoflyde — Refractory

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• Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
• Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
• Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.