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Top 50 Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Impact startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2025

Investor Impact South Korea investments
D3 Jubilee 12
MYSC 9
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation 6
Strong Ventures 5
Coolidge Corner Investment 5
Industrial Bank of Korea 5
TheVentures 4
BNK Venture Capital 4
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 4
Hyundai Motor Company 4
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation 3
BNK Venture Capital 3
POSCO CAPITAL 3
Hana Financial Investment 3
Shinhan Capital 3
Series Ventures 3
DSC Investment 3
Kakao Ventures 3
Future Science and Technology Holdings 3
Nextdream Angel Club 3
Rising S Ventures 2
L&S Venture Capital 2
Antler 2
IMO Ventures 2
Falcon Partners VC 2
Yoonmin Foundation 2
ENSL Partners 2
Quantum Ventures Korea 2
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) 2
Smilegate Investment 2
Partners Investment 2
HG Initiative 2
Stone Bridge Ventures 2
AI Angel Club 2
Korea Angel Investment Association 2
Lighthouse Combined Investment 2
Daesung Private Equity 2
Big Basin Capital 2
GS Venture 2
Korea Development Bank 2
Golden Oak Investment 2
Samsung Venture Investment 2
Penta Stone Investment 1
Pohang University of Science and Technology 1
BeHigh Investment 1
MMS Ventures 1
Sema Investment 1
KDB Industrial Bank 1
Capital One 1
Yuhan-Kimberly 1
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D3 Jubilee VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
  • RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
  • Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
MYSC VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 10 investments in the past 12 months
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BioSean — BioSean is a diverse feed technology and breeding organization that provides integrated solutions for microorganisms utilized from the hatched self-fish stage to plankton, high-efficiency fermented feed, and functional additive feed.
  • Coactus — Coactus is a social venture that creates an innovative business to make a better world. They do deaf taxi driver's taxi service, 'Goyohan Taxi'. In order to help communicate with passengers, they developed a communication tool 'Goyohan', which operates in two tablet PC's inside the taxi. Goyohan Taxi has 26 deaf taxidrivers in 5 areas, with 10 taxi companies. Within 2020, they aim to create 100 deaf taxi drivers.
  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea
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.
Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Coolidge Corner Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Nexusbe — Nexusbe is a manufacturer of atomic layer equipment technology intended to provide vacuum deposition equipment.
  • Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
  • Nature Loud — Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products.
Industrial Bank of Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 32 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
  • Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
  • ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
TheVentures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
  • Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.
  • Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.
BNK Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
  • Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
  • Korea Precision Materials Industry — Korea Precision Materials Industry is a manufacturer of next-generation composite materials used for weight reduction.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
  • Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
Hyundai Motor Company VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Automotive, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
  • WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
  • Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation for investing in startups
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Investment focus
  • GreenTech, Energy, Events
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • CareSix — The future of veterinary care. We envision a world where all companions receive the quality healthcare they're entitled to. Our first line of production - Cotons AI Sense 1 series presents wearable devices, where shaving, gel or electrode is not required for vital data collection. Simply wear the device on your dog's neck to receive notonly vital data, but clinical and behavioral via app or web.
  • Spacebeam — Spacebeam is a startup creating space optical communication technology, a space-to-earth data transfer technique that uses light.
  • JIN System — JIN System uses location-based spatial information technology to identify customers' potential needs and offers market-friendly solutions by integrating and converging relevant technologies. They aim to cater to increasing consumer needs in transportation, social welfare, and safety sectors, and expand into the digital twin field.
BNK Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm that invests and supports small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
  • Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
POSCO CAPITAL VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
  • Nanosilicon — Nano Silicon is a company that manufactures silicon anodes, which are important materials for secondary batteries in the electric vehicle sector.
Hana Financial Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Singapore, India
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.
Shinhan Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Apps
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
  • Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
  • DAAN Biotherapeutics — DAAN Biotherapeutics develops novel treatments for cancer patients. The company conducts cancer treatment research and development, including cell therapies, antibodies, and small molecule inhibitors.
Series Ventures VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
DSC Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
  • Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
  • MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
Kakao Ventures VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 13 investments in the past 12 months
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
Future Science and Technology Holdings VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • NationA INC. — We are NationA
  • Copper Innovation Technology — CIT Co, Ltd utilizes metal single crystals and the ASE method to ensure the accurate, lossless transmission of every signal.
Nextdream Angel Club VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Nextdream Angel Club provides startup angel investment and solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Water Purification, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.
  • Top Mobility — Top Mobility is an electric airplane solution firm. It provides sustainable infrastructure and maintenance systems.
  • Blue Labs — BLUELABS specializes in eco-friendly water treatment solutions using recycled oyster shells for pure water. Our sustainable innovations enhance water quality and promote environmental conservation. Committed to sustainable development, we reduce waste and protect the planet with effective water purification products.
Rising S Ventures VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea
Rising S Ventures is a venture investment company specializing in early-stage technology start-ups.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Security, Recycling
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • Carbon Energy — Carbon Energy was founded as a direct air capture (DAC) solution startup. With the use of direct carbon capture (DAC) technology, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is directly extracted and either buried underground or recycled into new resources. Beyond the current DAC technology, Carbon Energy is claimed to possess a special technology thatsimultaneously produces renewable energy and lowers carbon dioxide.
L&S Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
  • AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
  • AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.
Antler VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 118 investments in the past 12 months
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
  • Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
  • FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
IMO Ventures VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
  • Vessel Finance — Vessel Finance is a ZK-powered order book exchange, seeks to combine the dependability of DEXs with the speed of CEXs.
  • Merda Biopharma — Merda Biopharma is a AI-enabled drug discovery technology platform that produces small molecule drugs that helps immune metabolism.
Falcon Partners VC VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Falcon Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital investment firm licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Founded by former investors at institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Apax Partners, Capital Group, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, Falcon partners withexceptional management teams to build enduring, category-defining businesses over the long-term by providing value-added capital and strategic support at all stages of the company’s development – from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Returns from our investments have reflected the success of this approach, with portfolio companies backed by Falcon at the pre-seed stage raising over US$500 million in follow on investments at unicorn valuations, and later-stage companies achieving rapid growth across Asia and attaining valuations well north of US$1 billion. Falcon primarily focuses on high impact innovation areas such as AI/machine learning, consumer, e-commerce, education, and pharma life-sciences in the China Greater Bay Area. See less
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Cycling, Leisure
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Gbike — Gbike is a mobility sharing startup in Korea, innovating green urban mobility in Korea where currently car-centric environment. Our service includes bike and scooter sharing with IT services specialized for Korean market with 50MM population.
  • Klook — Klook is a developer of travel activities and services booking platform designed to connect travelers with experiences. With Klook’s innovative technologies, travelers can book on-the-go and redeem the services by using QR code-enabled e-vouchers. Each day, Klook empowers countless travelers to indulge in their wanderlust and spontaneity throughover 100,000 offerings in more than 400 destinations.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
  • GetLinks — GetLinks is a platform and ecosystem connecting tech talents to opportunities across Asia.
Yoonmin Foundation VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • INVAIZ — INVAIZ sells macro input keyboards, plug-ins, and accessories.
  • Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
  • FOBECON — Pobicon offers an auto-estimation solution that analyzes construction blueprints using vision AI and other algorithms to quantify the net quantity of raw materials utilized in construction in three days.
ENSL Partners VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, PaaS, Events
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Adler — Adler creates a social media application to create personal space. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
  • Advance Battery Recycle — Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process.
Quantum Ventures Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments 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
  • Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
  • LuluMedic — LuluMedic provides the best solutions and lead the global health tech market.
  • Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
  • Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Smilegate Investment VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 13 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • Tiro — Tiro is an AI-powered note-taking service designed to capture and summarize multilingual conversations in real-time, allowing users to focus on the conversation rather than note-taking.
  • Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
Partners Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Dime Bio — Dime Bio is a drug development company for novel dementia treatments.
  • JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
  • AIGEN Sciences — We aim to advance current state-of-the-art AI drug discovery technologies and transform high-cost, low-efficiency drug discovery practices into rapid, efficient discovery, ultimately leading to high success rates in the clinical phase. Our award-winning AI drug discovery platform enables the direct
HG Initiative VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • phoneGO — phoneGO is a mobile repair cost comparison estimate platform.
  • ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
  • CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
Stone Bridge Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 16 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
  • Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.
AI Angel Club VC Fund · Mapo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
  • Potts Company — Potts Company develops manufacturing technologies for sustainable plastic circulation & leads the resource recycling market for consumption.
  • 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.
Korea Angel Investment Association VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Angel Investment Association is a small and medium-sized enterprise that supports startups and angel investors.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Solar, Energy
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Needs — Needs is an online clothing shop and also a distributor.
  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • Advance Battery Recycle — Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process.
Lighthouse Combined Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
  • Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
  • BRUSH Theatre — BRUSH Theatre is a theatre for live performances.
Daesung Private Equity VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Big Basin Capital VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
  • Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
  • My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
GS Venture VC Fund · Sankt-peterburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation
GS Venture is part of GS Group– an investment and industry holding, operating on the basis of its very own high technologies in telecommunications and innovation. Investments 0.1-10M USD in a startup.Fund Size: 40M USD GS Group is also developing a unique private innovation cluster, located in the special economic zone of Russian Federation(Kaliningrad region). Its aim is built an environment for innovative ideas for innovative ideas that will be able to enter the market. GS Group holding is the investor and initiator of Technopolis GS. It involve industrial cluster, research center, office space and comfortable living area.Priority fields: game developmentinteractive TV services (iTV)original tv contentsmart homeconsumer electronics development and productionmicrochip development for various purposes wearable technology (incl. wristbands, smartglasses, activity trackers, heart rate monitors, etc).
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Mineral, CleanTech
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Levit — Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience
  • Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
  • Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
Korea Development Bank VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 21 investments in the past 12 months
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • XORBIS — XORBIS offers software, media hardware integration, and media management solutions for public and cultural spaces.
  • RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
  • ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
Golden Oak Investment VC Fund
Golden Oak, LLC is a privately held investment company that focuses on the acquisition, development, and management of value-add multifamily real estate.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Wellness, Beauty
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • LOWE — Lowe is a shared beauty salon platform service that provides a variety of beauty infrastructure such as beauty spaces, facilities and materials, and creates an optimal environment for designers to focus on the essence.
  • Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
  • Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.
Samsung Venture Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments 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
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using...
  • Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
  • C2N Diagnostics — C2N Diagnostics, LLC is a privately held protein diagnostic and therapeutic discovery company targeting progressive neurodegeneration. They formed in late 2007 by scientific co-founders Drs. David Holtzman and Randall Bateman of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and LifeTech Research, a Maryland-based technology research andcommercialization firm (www.lifetechresearch.com). They reside at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis.
Penta Stone Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Penta Stone Investment is a business finance company with professional investment capabilities and references.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Chemical, Robotics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Rodwin — Rodwin is a transportation management company specializes in vehicle consignment transportation services.
  • LDCarbon Co. — LDCarbon Co. is a manufacture of green carbon black, pyrolysis oil, and waste tire powder.
  • Bamboo Network — Bamboo Network is a web content production company that offers brand content and digital advertising services.
Pohang University of Science and Technology VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
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.
BeHigh Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
BeHigh Investment is a 'pace maker' venture capital that invests in companies with the potential of innovation and grows together.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Transportation, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
  • Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring
MMS Ventures VC Fund · Penang, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
We are a leading industrial automation equipment & machine manufacturer in Malaysia. We are a one-stop automation solution provider to clients around the globe.
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Binding — Binding is an-energy related manufacturing company that produces solar power generation devices.
Sema Investment VC Fund · Daechidong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Sema Investment is a venture capital established by Korea Science and Technology Institute.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Food Delivery
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Recl — Recl is an application that collects and recycles old clothes.
  • EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
  • One Curegen — One Curegen develops diagnostic anti-cancer drugs.
KDB Industrial Bank VC Fund · 4 investments in the past 12 months
KDB Industrial Bank is an investment firm
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pillyze — mobile health care startup
  • ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
  • Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Capital One VC Fund · Mclean, Virginia, United States
Capital One can help you find the right credit cards; checking or savings accounts; auto loans; and other banking services for you or your business
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Software, Enterprise Software
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
  • United States, South Korea, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • SimpliSafe — Shop award-winning home security systems from SimpliSafe. Professional monitoring, protection from break-ins and hazards, and no contracts.
  • Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
  • You Need Character — [YouNeedCharacter] Our contents bring joy and lifelong lessons to children around the world. We will bring new experiences and inspiration through convergence with IT technologies.
Yuhan-Kimberly VC Fund · Gangneung, Kangwon-do, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Yuhan-Kimberly is the joint venture between Korea’s Yuhan Corporation
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Investment focus
  • Product Design, Consumer Goods, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Byhayan — Byhayan is an eco-friendly lifestyle business that strives for a more sustainable future by repurposing everyday consumer goods with environmentally friendly materials. It can be challenging.
  • Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
  • Sixty Hertz — Sixty Hertz is a social venture that provides climate crisis with IT technology and services.
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