Top 35 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2025
A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2025
Investor | Hospitality South Korea investments |
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Strong Ventures | 4 |
Fast Track Asia | 2 |
SBVA | 2 |
SJ Investment Partners | 2 |
Hyundai Investment Partners | 2 |
Mirae Asset Venture Investment | 2 |
Yellowdog | 2 |
TS Investment | 1 |
KB Securities | 1 |
Yellowdog | 1 |
Daesung Private Equity | 1 |
Gangwon Creation Economic Innovation Center | 1 |
TBT | 1 |
YellowDog | 1 |
Series Ventures | 1 |
SB Partners | 1 |
500 Startups Korea | 1 |
Purplelabs | 1 |
AJ Capital Partners | 1 |
Kolon Investment | 1 |
Solidus Investment | 1 |
Kakao Ventures | 1 |
TS Investment | 1 |
NBH Capital | 1 |
Mousq angel club | 1 |
Hana Ventures | 1 |
Aju IB Investment | 1 |
SparkLabs Global Ventures | 1 |
Bass Investment | 1 |
Timewise Investment | 1 |
Woomi construction corporation | 1 |
SK Securities | 1 |
DAOL Investment | 1 |
KB Investment | 1 |
SparkLabs | 1 |
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Atlo — Ato is designed to be available at any time and place on the web, ready to engage with users.
- Roovook — Room + Venue + Booking = Roovook! Provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels.Even though hotel banquet/event segment is big part of MICE industry, still customers are having hard timefinding right venue to hold their events. So Roovook provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. As a fast growing start-up, we are acknowledged by one of the best accelerator in Korea, called Primer and VC TBT(Naver). Thanks to our trustworthy partner hotels like IHG, Marriott, and Accor, we are no.1 hotel venue reservation platform in Korea and keep expanding our service to global market. We are making Roovook as "Expedia for event spaces" We are looking for our future teammates to make our vision and dream together!
- Lunch Lab — Lunch Lab is a startup that provides regular in-house meal services to various companies that have difficulty eating out or having trouble solving lunch issues.
They're Company Builder, Company Building Company.Fast Track Asia (http://www.fast-track.asia) is Company Builder, start-up holding company. They're backed by Daniel Shin (Founder & CEO of Ticketmonster, acquired by Groupon for $300M), Chester Roh (Founder & CSO of 5rocks, acquired by Tapjoy for $40M, Angel Investor ofTicketmonster, Serial Entrepreneur, ex-Googler), Stonebridge Capital (Korea-based Venture Capital, Investor of Ticketmonster), Insight Venture Partners (US-based Venture Capital & Private Equity Firm, Investor of Ticketmonster), Hur Min (Founder of Wemakeprice, ex-Founder of Neople, acquired by Nexon for $400M) and a lot of local serial entrepreneurs
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Hospitality
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PAWCHI — PAWCHI is a pet insurance company.
- Fast campus — Fast campus are Unity game creation / startup / UX Design CAMP during the Early Bird Discount!
- Day1 Company — Investor Relations - Day 1 Company
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
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
- HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
- Gole Robotics — Gole Robotics is an intelligent robotics company that focuses on developing robots specially to transporting construction materials to help on-site workers.
SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530
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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
- Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
- CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
Hyundai Investment Network Co., Ltd. provides financial advisory, and mergers and acquisitions strategy consulting services. The company offers financial advisory funding; consulting services; advisory services for ship charter and vessel acquisition; and investment services for natural resource exploration, development, and production. It alsoprovides financial product brokerage and project financing services. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Automotive, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CHABOT MOBILITY — CHABOT MOBILITY is an automotive concierge platform that provides finance, insurance and automotive services.
- Roovook — Room + Venue + Booking = Roovook! Provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels.Even though hotel banquet/event segment is big part of MICE industry, still customers are having hard timefinding right venue to hold their events. So Roovook provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. As a fast growing start-up, we are acknowledged by one of the best accelerator in Korea, called Primer and VC TBT(Naver). Thanks to our trustworthy partner hotels like IHG, Marriott, and Accor, we are no.1 hotel venue reservation platform in Korea and keep expanding our service to global market. We are making Roovook as "Expedia for event spaces" We are looking for our future teammates to make our vision and dream together!
- Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
- Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
The Impact Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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.
- MY NORMAL — MY NORMAL provides food and services for ketogenic diets.
- Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
TS Investment is an investment company.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
- Imagoworks — Imagoworks Inc. offers a Web-based Dental CAD solution using AI, streamlining the digital workflow for dental professionals. Together with world-class technology, we are setting new standards for digital dentistry in the global market. Our mission is to <Making the future of digital medicine for everyone>.While we have accumulatedtechnological expertise in the medical field for over 10 years, specializing in AI-based automation, 3D geometric modeling and mesh processing, and software as a service (SaaS), we now turn our focus to commercializing our innovative technologies and transforming the field of digital dentistry. By cooperating with and licensing to leading global dental companies, we are seeing great success as we find ourselves in the industry spotlight.Imagoworks currently offers Dentbird Crown which automatically generates optimal crown designs with a single click and without any software installation required. As we continue to expand our services, Imagoworks aims to be recognized as a chairside design solution for dentists worldwide.
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Movv — Movv is a mobility service that makes movement more safe and convenient anytime and anywhere by using dedicated articles and vehicles. They offer dedicated drivers and cars to help travelers move safely and comfortably. With the mobile application, you can set up your travel itinerary and call your driver anytime anywhere, so you can enjoy youroverseas travel with the movv.
- NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
- Move — Move is a travel agency that offers ticketing, travel, and reservation services.
The Impact Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Apps, Medical, Seafood
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Shiok Meats — Delicious, healthy & cell-based seafood from Shiok Meats. Get variety of cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, cell cultured meat & Lab Meats in Singapore.
- The PlantEat — The PlantEat is a food-tech startup that designs, develops, produces, distributes, and sells a variety of plant-based alternatives powered by food data. It was established to address social issues such as the over-reliance on animal-based diet and global nutrition imbalances. The PlantEat aims to improve and create balanced eating habits to keepeveryone healthy and fit.More Information: www.theplanteat.com
- The Wave Talk — The.Wave.Talk developed a biosensor that can detect and monitor impurities (bacteria) within a second. 420,000 people die of food-borne disease per year. Moreover, 10 million people will die of antimicrobial resistance by 2050. It's all about bacteria. It is the origin of life and 5 million-trillion-trillion bacteria are living together withus today. Bacteria are everywhere and every-time. Comparing to this, conventional technologies can detect bacteria only with sampling manner. Because they take long time(several hours up-to days) even with expensive tools.
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
Gangwon Creation Economic Innovation Center is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Medical Device, Apps, Health Care
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- WSB Farm —
- Node — Node is a healthcare company that develops and manufactures medical and beauty devices.
- Medi&B Tech Company — Medi&B Tech Company is a medical device manufacturing company that researches and develops urinal disposal machines and skin care devices.
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
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Beauty
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
- Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.
YellowDog enables companies across the globe to accelerate and optimise complex data processes with the most scalable predictive scheduling and orchestration platform for hybrid and multi-cloud management. There are multiple uses of the technology, across multiple industries - from Life Sciences, to Financial Services, to CGI and more. The idealcloud workflows are those that are elastic, highly parallelisable and distributable. The technology automates the selection of the best source of compute for every workload, delivering new levels of prediction and efficiency in cost and performance optimisation.
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Investment focus
- Q&A, EdTech, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stibee — Stibee is an internet marketing service company that offers content monetization and A/B testing services.
- Unlimeat — Unlimeat is plant-based meat for the planet and to create a virtuous circle in the food industry.
- QANDA(Mathpresso) — Providing the most effective education for all - We build QANDA, the world's leading personalized learning platform.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dentifle — Dentifle specializes in providing advanced technologies for producing customized implant prosthetics solutions for dental professionals and patients, enhancing implant procedures' overall efficiency and effectiveness.
- SkinSeoul — Skin Seoul Lab utilizes AI agents to secure product assortments and design processes for Korean beauty products, advancing overseas through sustainable inventory management, logistics, and marketing based on the LLM model.
- ICU Corporation — ICU Corporation offers skilled and high-level optics from opticians with master's and doctoral degrees in optics, ensuring ease and sharp vision, which is the essence of glasses.
SB Partners is an investment firm in South Korea. Its major businesses include new technology business and Finance Business.
It was established on December 11, 2017.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, India
Portfolio highlights
- infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
- Sharetreats — Share Treats Innovation introduces a 'Casual O2O Commerce' dedicated to South East Asia. It has a vision to create a cultural movement whereby anyone can interact more through casual treats.
- BlockOdyssey — BlockOdyssey is a tech start-up that provides 'blockchain-based B2B solutions'.Currently, the main solution is supplying 'blockchain-based anti-counterfeiting solution', and logistics & distribution history management is in progress with blockchain. It has received investment from Asia's largest cosmetic company, andis conducting business with French pharmaceutical companies.
500 Startups Korea is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Publishing, Developer Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Finda — Finda is an online financial comparison platform across various financial products.
- Mommom — Mommom gathers and analyzes online meta data, as well as a list of national items categorized by objective group. Mommom is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
- Medb Korea — Medb Korea is a medical consumer, hospital, and pharmacy-focused online medical care and prescription drug delivery platform.. Medb Korea is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
Commerce service company in S.Korea
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hospitality, Consumer Reviews
- Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stayes — Stayes helps any foreigners who look for suitable accommodations in Seoul. (Online counselling, contract signing, and C/S after move in)
AJ Capital Partners is a vertically-integrated real estate investment manager anchored by the core principles of hospitality, placemaking, and residentially inspired design.
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Investment focus
- Apps, InsurTech, Hospitality
- Series A, Seed
- Singapore, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Roxy — Roxy creates intelligent, conversational devices for local businesses, providing patrons with on-site information and services.
- Stayes — Stayes helps any foreigners who look for suitable accommodations in Seoul. (Online counselling, contract signing, and C/S after move in)
- Symbo Platform — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Kolon Investment, Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in buyouts, mezzanine, corporate restructuring, growth capital, and turnaround investment. It prefers to invest in electronic components, petroleum, energy, computer, and telecommunications equipment. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul,Gyeonggi, Incheon, and Gyeongbuk. Kolon Investment, Inc. was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Source: Businessweek
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Boosterz — Boosterz is a company that supports the 5Ps of marketing at all stages, from product planning and launch to growth.
- Micro-one — Micro-One is an air functionality expert company that manufactures incinerators, ecological infrastructure, and advanced dust filters.
- Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
Solidus Investment Co., Ltd is a venture capital founded in June 2011 by CHA Medical Center Group. They discover and invest companies with growth potential in Bio/agricukural and marine products/ green energy / IT industry, etc.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GB SOFT — GB SOFT Co.,Ltd. is the developer of non-contact measurement solutions for bio-signals such as pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and HRV(Heart Rate Variability). These bio-signals can be used for basic health status checks in daily life and at medical sites. Analyzing these signals can calculate fatigue, drowsiness, stress index, and bloodsugar. These indices can be widely used in the automotive, transportation, construction, manufacturing, and well-being industries. The measurement process takes less than 10 seconds and has the highest accuracy worldwide. GB SOFT's goal is to make a world where everyone can experience a convenient daily life with non-contact bio-signal measurement systems.
- Dr.Diary — Dr.Diary offers diabetes management application services.
- Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
- Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
- Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense
TS Investment is an Investment firm specializing in engineering, real estate, and food and beverage through various group companies. They identifying, analyzing, and developing real opportunities across multiple disciplines. The firm aims to become a top tier diversified holding company offering its subsidiaries the necessary financial,operational, and managerial support to ensure each transcends its customer’s expectations, meets its employees' contentment, and exceeds its responsibilities to its stakeholders.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, India
Portfolio highlights
- Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
- Uneedcomms — We create communication between the shopping mall and customers. We offer mobile shopping malls, dynamic advertising systems, message automation solutions and global image hosting services based on advanced technology. Uneedcomms is moving toward the next generation of marketing that the global E-Commerce market needs with the power of software.
- Shinto Excursion Group — Shinto is a content expert that produces personalized content and promotes styles.
NBH Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, France
Portfolio highlights
- JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN is a food and beverage company that produces dessert.
- Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
Seed investor in S.Korea
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hospitality, Consumer Reviews
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stayes — Stayes helps any foreigners who look for suitable accommodations in Seoul. (Online counselling, contract signing, and C/S after move in)
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
- My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
Aju IB Investment is a venture capital firm that offers SMEs with investments and consulting services.Aju IB Investment offers consulting services that focus on business management, tax, accounting, legal, mergers and acquisitions, additional funding, marketing, and technology support.Aju IB Investment was founded in September 1974 and is basedin Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
- Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
- Kovis Technology — Kovis Technology is a manufacturer of measurement and inspection equipment intended for global semiconductor and electronic industries.
SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
- Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
- Reprise — Reprise offers an automation system that creates patterns and work instructions based on a design image.
TIMEWISE INVESTMENT, formerly known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in video broadcasting, animation, movies, culture contents, games, communications equipment, arts, sports, leisure, manufacturing and service, mobile devices and solutions, information technology, SI, web agency, cell therapy andbiotechnology sectors. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeju. CJ Venture Investment was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Genesis lab — Genesis lab is a authentic machine to human communication to improve the way human and machine communicate.
- Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
- ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.
One of the leading construction firms in S.Korea
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Video
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- HOMES — HOMES provides shared housing, shared living, and membership services for single-person households. The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
- To-Day — To-Day is a developer of an online delivery platform to create a same day delivery service.
- Scone — Scone provides virtual youtuber and video conferencing services.
SK Securities is a South Korea-based financial service provider that specializes in the securities market. It primarily engaged in securities brokerage, dealing and underwriting businesses, covering stocks, futures, options, government bonds, corporate bonds, foreign exchanges, and financial derivative products. The company also involves in theinvestment banking business, which provides acquisition, project financing services, and wealth management services.SK Securities was founded in 1955.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Apps, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
- Soft Berry — Soft Berry is an electric vehicle charging platform.
- Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.
DAOL Investment is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- South Korea, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Balaan — Balaan is a platform that allows you to get the latest luxury goods in just 3 days at a lower price than overseas fasting by contract with European local boutique
- Qli5 Therapeutics — Qli5 Therapeutics develops a new class of proteasome inhibitors with high selectivity and unique, non-covalent binding properties.
- Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.
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
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
- Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
SparkLabs Group is a network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 350 startups since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hospitality, Retail Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Sendtime — Sendtimes is an automated B2B tool that offers a software platform for schedule management.
- Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.
- Impactus — Impactus is a social enterprise that runs a career and edutech platform. Impactus offers student-tailored major programs as well as public education courses to assist teenage students in discovering and developing occupations and aptitudes that are a good fit for them.
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