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

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
KB Investment
VC Fund
32 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $743k–$40M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
30 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
23 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $223k–$7.1M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
21 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $149k–$29M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
20 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $12k–$77M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
19 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$15M
Company K Partners
VC Fund
18 South Korea, United States, Gibraltar Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$44M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
18 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $594k–$47M
KDB Capital
VC Fund
16 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $11k–$44M
InfoBank
VC Fund
15 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps $74k–$16M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
15 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $694k–$47M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
15 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $743k–$60M
Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
15 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $7k–$45M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
14 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $371k–$17M
L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
14 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software $594k–$37M
SBVA
VC Fund
13 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $1.9M–$100M
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
13 South Korea, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.4M–$23M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
12 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $45k–$60M
Magna Investment
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $141k–$26M
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
11 South Korea Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $22k–$1.5M
We Ventures
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $743k–$15M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $2.6M–$55M
IMM Investment
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $3M–$80M
IBK Capital
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology $2k–$21M
Hyundai Motor Group
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $144k–$45M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
10 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $223k–$42M
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $223k–$11M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $743k–$15M
Mirae Asset Capital
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, India Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $6k–$255M
Korea Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
9 South Korea Seed, Series A, Angel Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $1k–$1.3B
Hyundai Motor Company
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Automotive, Software, Transportation $100k–$475M
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $2.2M–$48M
SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$33M
Naver
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1k–$59M
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
TBT
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $678k–$18M
Innopolis Partners
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $1k–$11M
BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
8 South Korea, Kuwait Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $4k–$13M
SV Investment Corp
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $223k–$52M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Software $371k–$7M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software $860k–$25M
STIC Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology $2M–$46M
UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2M–$20M
Series Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $74k–$4.5M
LB Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, E-Commerce, Software $3M–$50M
InterVest Co.
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series B, Series A, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $2.2M–$54M
Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Enlight Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Information Technology $3k–$12M
Quantum Ventures Korea
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Medical, Information Technology $1M–$54M
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 32 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 30 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 23 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 21 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 20 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 19 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Company K Partners
VC Fund · Ilsangu, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 18 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Company K Partners Limited is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in culture content, electronic components, computer, machinery, broadcasting, arts, sports, and leisure industries. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeongnam, and Gyeonggi. Company K Partners Limited was established in 2006 and isbased in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Gibraltar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$11M; Series B $6.7M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Wave — We are a team trying to developing mind-blowing products.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
  • Space Lintech — Space Lintech provides novel medical research, development, and manufacture in the microgravity environment of satellites and space stations.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 18 investments in South Korea Hardware 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 · 16 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 15 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M; Series A $761k–$9.2M; Series B $8.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.
  • Cycloid — Cycloid facilitates the easy trading of secondhand two-wheeled vehicles, as well as the safe sale of your two-wheeled vehicle through an expert condition assessment.
  • Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 15 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 15 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 15 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

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, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 237
  • Round size: Series A $7k–$24M; Series B $3.7M–$37M; Series C $5.4M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Config — Config develops data infrastructure services for robotics applications.
  • 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
  • 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.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 14 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 14 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 13 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 13 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 12 investments in South Korea Hardware 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

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  • 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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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Hardware startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$60M; Series A $1.6M–$25M; Series B $3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

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.
  • MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
  • Aim Intelligence — Leading AI Security & Safety Solutions Provider - Specializing in AI Risk Detection, Mitigation, and Elimination through Advanced Red Teaming and Defensive Systems | Leading provider of AI Security, Safety, and Compliance solutions
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Magna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $22k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
  • Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
  • Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
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We Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$4.5M; Series A $1.2M–$12M; Series B $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 33M2 — 33M2 is a housing rental platform.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Sapien Semiconductors — Sapien Semiconductors is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company that specializes in display driver ICs for micro‑LED and OLED technologies. The company develops custom ASICs and silicon‑proven IPs, including CMOS backplane drivers for AR/MR micro‑LED and pixel‑level driver ICs for TVs and digital signage. The firm also providesdisplay‑driver IP licensing and chip customization services.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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IMM Investment
VC Fund · Kangnam, Cholla-namdo, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Korean alternative asset investment firm

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$80M; Series B $5.2M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • MediBloc — MediBloc is a decentralized healthcare information ecosystem built on blockchain technology for patients, healthcare providers, and researchers.MediBloc provides data I/O control(core) and interfaces(service) for 3rd party applications & services. On top of MediBloc platform, all kinds of services using medical data can be implemented.This new healthcare information system with unprecedented possibility will bring a revolutionary movement in global healthcare.
  • HurayPositive — HurayPositive (휴레이포지티브) is a healthcare and wellness innovation-focused company based in Seoul, Korea. The company provides mHealth, PHR, PWR, and genome- and analysis-related healthcare and wellness services, as well as gamification, SNS consulting, user interface, and experience development-related IT convergence services.HurayPositive wasestablished on April 6, 2010.
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Hardware startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $2k–$7.6M; Series A $3k–$8.2M; Series B $5k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
  • Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions
  • PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.
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Hyundai Motor Group
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Welcome to the Hyundai Motor Group website.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $144k–$31M; Series A $1.9M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mycel — IMAGINATION TRANSITION REGENERATION
  • Field AI — FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.
  • Genomines — World resources are expected to be depleted in the next 30 to 50 years and increasing scarcity is driving metal prices up, sometimes doubling in a few years. 86% of ore that is being extracted, containing up to 10years+ metal consumption, is not processed as metal concentration is too low. Each year a volume of low-metal concentrated soilsequivalent to the area of Paris and 100m high is extracted and not processed. It is not only a missed opportunity to recover significant amounts of metal, but it is also a serious risk for the environment. At Genomines, we bring together 2 worlds: Agriculture and Mining. We offer a sustainable alternative to conventional mining by genetically enhancing the natural ability of plants to hyperaccumulate metals.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Hardware 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.
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  • Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
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Mirae Asset Capital
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Mirae Asset Capital Market is a leading global investment banking, securities and institutional business firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Series A $6k–$63M; Series B $5.5M–$123M; Series C $14M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

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.
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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Korea Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Korea Science and Technology Holdings specializes in technology commercialization services by government-funded research institutes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $3k–$1.3B; Series A $1k–$6k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • OASYS STUDIO — ​OASYS STUDIO is a cloud-native visual effects company that integrates VFX pipeline services and production within a cloud environment. They offer scalable and efficient production solutions, fostering stable collaboration structures for clients.
  • Thermoeye — Thermoeye provides thermal imaging systems utilizing temperature analysis technology.
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Hyundai Motor Company
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Software, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $4.5M–$100M; Corporate Round $3.7M–$475M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revv — Revv is an Indian car-rental startup that offers multiple options to meet all your self-drive needs. The company was founded in 2015 and currently operates in 11 cities in India namely: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Vizag, Mysore, and Coimbatore.To date, Revv has a fleet of around 1,000 vehicles andclaims have served around 300,000 users. It has its main office located at Gurgaon, India.
  • Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers.​ It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
  • Metawave — Metawave develops AI-powered radar and 5G solutions for autonomous vehicles, enabling safer mobility and faster wireless connectivity.
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$24M; Series B $4M–$48M; Series C $11M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
  • Rapport Labs — Rapport Labs create a service that will change the online shopping experience that created the 4050 fashion platform.
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

SBI Investment Co., Ltd. has established itself as a true partner of the Republic of Korea venture business development in the past 28 years as a venture capital concept introduced first in Korea in 1986 was even unfamiliar concept of 'venture'. SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a direct excavation domestic / other promising venturesinvestment as well as domestic / external funding attracted through cooperation with institutional investors and technology, marketing, public offering (IPO), the law, adhere to the role which has been providing comprehensive services such as Value-up tax.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$21M; Series C $8.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Snackfor — Snackfor is a B2B company that curates and delivers snacks to offices.
  • NO Search — NO Search is an online marketplace for home and kitchen appliances.
  • Studio Lab — Studio Lab offers artificial intelligence technology for the fashion industry.
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Naver
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Naver operates as a search engine and e-commerce platform providing fintech, digital content, and cloud services.The company introduces innovative search services such as ‘Comprehensive Search,’ ‘Knowledge iN,’ and ‘Real-time Rising Keyword.' It also offers UGC services such as Blog and Cafe; Junior Naver, a children’s portal; Happybean, anonline donation portal. NAVER launched its Webtoon service in June 2004 and has pioneered the distribution and consumption of webtoons, also known as digital comics. In addition, NAVER also offers services for the global market, including the mobile messenger LINE through LINE Corporation, NAVER’s subsidiary; the video messenger Snow; and the group communication service BAND.NAVER is also involved in software development and distribution; performances and exhibitions business; mobile content development and distribution; search advertising; internet commerce and customer service business; the operation and security services of IT infrastructure; operating online shopping services, and mobile applications marketing.Lee Hae-Jin and Lee Joon-ho headquartered the company in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea in 1999.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$20M; Series A $8k–$20M; Series B $4k–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JNPMEDI — JNPMEDI has been putting effort on bringing disruption on healthcare industry via integrating digital technologies to clinical research & trial operations.
  • TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
  • SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
  • City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
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TBT
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

TBT is an Adventure Capital.We are more than your average VC investor; we are always up for an adventure. Investment means more than just transfer of capital for us. We want to be a discussion partner that discovers possibilities beyond risk and aligns growth with progress. We want to share decades of industry knowledge and experience in internetand mobile services to build services and products that can make the world a better place.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$4.5M; Series A $678k–$18M; Series B $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shopl & Company — From Scheduling to Task management and Communication. Collaborate easily with teams on site with Shopl.
  • Sky Labs — Our company, Sky Labs, is developing a ring-type Cardio Tracker, CART to help continuous monitoring of atrial fibrillation which is difficult to diagnose even in a hospital in daily life.According to a disease statistics study released in 2004, atrial fibrillation is a very common chronic disease that occurs in 1 out of 4 people in their 40s orolder. As stated in the Atrial Fibrillation Report from the UK's Atrial Fibrillation Association in 2012, the biggest problem is that atrial fibrillation is not diagnosed in 1 in 2 patients because it is not accompanied by severe subjective symptoms and hard to find due to the intermittent properties.To diagnose atrial fibrillation, the following three features of continuous monitoring are essential. Our product, CART, is equipped with these features to fully maximize the benefits of continuous monitoring.1) Comfortability as a wearable device : You can always wear CART on a daily basis. Additionally, it is even water-proof and dust-proof. So, you don't have to take it off while taking a shower, or washing hands.2) No-user intervention : By just wearing it on any finger which fits for you, every measurement is performed on the background basis without any intervention.3) Medical proof & Accuracy : Diagnosis is based on the conventional diagnosis method of cardiologists.By simply wearing CART on user's finger, CART continuously detects atrial fibrillation without any user intervention. CART detects and records atrial fibrillation, so users can track and manage their heart health status. In addition, users can diagnose atrial fibrillation whenever they want and see the results on their smartphone. By merely tapping CART, users can make event logs and analyze atrial fibrillation data at that moment when it occurs. Finally, the collected atrial fibrillation data can be used to help the physician diagnose of the atrial fibrillation.Initial target market is 0.2 million atrial fibrillation patients in Finland. Total target market is 300 million people to diagnose atrial fibrillation and tens of million subjects in clinical trials.Sky Labs is currently conducting clinical trials with the Seoul National University Hospital to verify the device's performance and is analyzing clinical data on heart disease. And, Sky Labs is working with global pharmaceutical company Bayer to make innovative healthcare business.
  • FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.
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Innopolis Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Innopolis Partners LLC. is a LLC-type venture capital firm in Korea. Partners of Innopolis Partners are former CEO or Representative Fund Manager of leading venture capital firms, such as Korea Technology Investment, STIC Investment, LG Venture Capital, KTB Network. “Innopolis No. 1 Fund” managed by Innopolis Partners is specialized for hi-techstartups in the Daedeok Innopolis complex. Daedeok Innopolis complex is set up based on former Daedeok R&D complex where most of major national R&D institutes, including ETRI, KAITST, KAERI, KRIBB, are located.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$10M; Series A $2k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EMX — EMX is a content production company focused on delivering narrative expression through visual art. It utilizes deep learning-based digital twin technology to develop virtual environments for large-scale content creation, providing visual effects (VFX) companies with end-to-end technical support across concept design, key visuals, previsualization,and production. The platform enables users to trade perpetual swaps and futures across crypto, commodities, forex, and equity markets using digital assets as collateral.
  • Arobot — Arobot creates robots with HRI-based behavior patterns, allowing consumers to embrace robots more readily and organically.
  • Cure Stream — Cure Stream specializes in developing autonomous artificial pancreas system based on AI hormone injection decision algorithm.
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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SV Investment Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

SV Investment Corp is a venture capital firm that provides companies with finance, strategic advice and information at critical stages of their development.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$13M; Series A $1.3M–$22M; Series B $5.2M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CREMA — CREMA is a Software-as-a-Service company.
  • iCore — iCore develops machine vision solutions for semiconductors, electronics, automobiles and other industries.
  • Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 8 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $860k–$7.9M; Series A $1.9M–$25M; Series B $1.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
  • Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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STIC Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

STIC Ventures invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$22M; Series B $5.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
  • Pebble Square — Pebble Square's new Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architecture is a significant advancement for AI performance and power efficiency.
  • 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.
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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Series Ventures
VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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LB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware 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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InterVest Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$36M; Series B $2.6M–$54M; Series C $11M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banksalad — Banksalad is a fintech company that develops financial applications.
  • 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
  • LiveIn — LiveIn is a hospitality company that offers long term room rental. Enjoy quality assured room, cleaning services, maintenance and community activities. Find out more!
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Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware startups

Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
  • Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.
  • Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
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Enlight Ventures
VC Fund · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Enlight Ventures, one of the fastest growing VCs in the world, invests in early-stage startups with unique and sustainable business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$12M; Series B $3k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
  • Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
  • Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
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Quantum Ventures Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $3.7M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $34M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
  • Wavelord
  • Plastal — Plastal is a mechanical and chemical engineering company that offers polymer, metal, and mold injection services. The company specializes in using its core technology required for bonding between metal and plastic resin, mold technology, injection conditions, and milling capabilities, enabling manufacturing companies to avail themselves of theproducts they desire.
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Hardware Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 1.2k deals from 794 investors.

794
investors
in South Korea Hardware startups
1.2k
deals
in South Korea Hardware startups
$2.8M
median round
in South Korea Hardware startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
40%
Seed
most common funding stage
98/2
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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