Top 50 Internet Startup Investors in South Korea in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Internet startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Internet Startup Investors in South Korea in December 2024
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
- Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
- 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.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
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
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
- TMR Founders — TMR Founders provides a one-stop service that helps prospective entrepreneurs start a start-up in the offline individual start-up market.
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
- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- 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.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- 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.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
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
- VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- 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.
- Evacycle — Evacycle is a company that recycles waste electric vehicle batteries, focusing on developing technology to recover valuable metals and reuse waste materials for new purposes.
- MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
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
- Roumit — Roumit is software for tax office automatic evidence transmission, financial transfer, employee/labor management, and pay statement.
- Mepsgen — Mepsgen is a biotechnology research organization that focuses on pharmaceutical services and drug development.
- Kookmin Bio — Kookmin Bio is a biotechnology company that specialises in the development of bio-food and pharmaceutical materials.
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
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
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
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
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ReFeed — ReFeed provides innovative IT technology to develop effective solutions for both trash emitters and collectors.
- Amersley — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- AIgement — AIgement enables industrial firms to make data-driven choices, save costs, and improve supplier relationships.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Polaris3D — Polaris3d offers indoor autonomous navigating solution.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- Adler — Adler creates a social media application to create personal space. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Episoden — Enjoy free English conversations in video chat format with international friends for your English speaking practice.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
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, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
- Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
- Novelty Nobility — Novelty Nobility Inc. is a private biotech company. They are currently focused on the research of novel angiogenesis targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics in ophthalmology and oncology, where angiogenesis plays a key pathogenic role.In ophthalmology, Novelty Nobility first discovered a novel angiogenesis target, Stem Cell Factor(SCF)and c-KIT, which was initially known for its engagement with proliferation and survival of primitive hematopoietic stem cells for a couple of past decades. We believe that anti-SCF/c-KIT could effectively address the unmet medical needs, mostly caused by inherent limitations of anti-VEGFs, in terms of treatment efficacy and long-term safety. Our target discovery is widely and strongly patent-protected in US/KOR and the lead pipeline, NN2101(a full-human monoclonal antibody), is currently under preclinical development.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
- PushPress — Automate and scale your fitness business with an easy-to-use solution that your clients and your team will love. Cut your costs and save time with PushPress.
- Soombit.AI — AIRead-CXR is a web-based AI solution for radiologist.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
- Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
- Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.
Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
- onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
- OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.
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.
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
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
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
- Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
- Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
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
- 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.
- MetaDx — MetaDx is a veterinary bioinformatics analysis company that detects tumors in pets and provides diagnostic services.
- 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.
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, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Recl — Recl is an application that collects and recycles old clothes.
- mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
- Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
- SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
SV Investment Corp is a venture capital firm that provides companies with finance, strategic advice and information at critical stages of their development.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Germany
KEB Hana Bank provides commercial banking services.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SK on — SK on develops and manufacturers high-energy density electric vehicle batteries.
- Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
- Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.
DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AIMMO — AIMMO is the developer of a data annotation platform with custom workflow designs, labeler analytics, and real-time communication functions. The company was founded in 2016 by SeungTaek Oh and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
- GOPIZZA — GOPIZZA is a food and beverage company based in Mapo.
- IDID — IDID provides an entertainment platform designed to host short-form entertainment content. The company provides a short-form social entertainment platform that can generate content by superimposing different images on different sound sources.
Incorporated in 2015, Kakao Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Kakao which specializes in venture capital investments.Based on Kakao’s philosophy of “Connect Everything”, Kakao Investment seeks to invest and support innovative start-ups that can realize interpersonal connection and the connection of all of us to the things around us. Also KakaoInvestment strives to foster a virtuous circle with in the venture environment by facilitating M&As and IPOs.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Snaptag — Snaptag is a developer of an invisible watermark technology intended for image data engine processing.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
- Superb AI — Automate data preparation, label and manage images and videos, and find annotation services with one training data platform. Fast, precise, and easy to use.
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
- Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
- ANAFLASH — ANAFLASH Inc. is an NSF, DoD, NASA funded semiconductor startup, developing a brain inspired solution for energy efficient smart edge devices with a standard logic based non-volatile neuromorphic processor.
- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
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
- Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
- Princeton NuEnergy — Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Its patented Direct Battery Recycling technology to produce high-quality and high value-added cathode active materials with low operating cost from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainableenergy and environmental solutions.
Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- BRLab — BRLab offers a framework that makes it possible to implement sophisticated sleep analysis and enhancement techniques. The solutions are based on a unique sleep-enhancing technology that is scientifically validated and patented, as well as an AI-powered algorithm with the highest level of reliability.
- Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
- Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
POSTECH Venture Capital Corporation(POSTECH VC) was founded and financed by POSCO to participate in SME(small and medium enterprise) Revitalization Policy in 1997 for the National Economy Restoration.We seek investment opportunities in diverse markets including Information Technologies, Advanced Materials, Bio Technologies, Renewable Energy,and Life Sciences.And we are to accelerate the commercialization of the valuable technologies from POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), RIST(Research institute of Industrial Science and Technology), and other institutes in Korea. More than 200 professors in POSTECH help POSTECH VC evaluate the technologiesPOSTECH VC is comprised of a team consisted of experienced venture capitalists who has previous experiences in successful startups, consulting firms, and executive management.We are currently investing from our several funds and manage over 60 billion Won.Our recent primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in renewable energy such as bio-diesel and photovoltaic technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- OKHOME — Pembersihan tanpa ribet, Hemat Waktu, Hidup Jadi Mudah
- Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
- NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.
Venture Capital firm in Korea.
We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Sorcerics — Our mission is to empower people to live more productively by lowering the learning curve of smart devices.
- MUHAYU — MUHAYU is an artificial intelligence technology firm that provides services such as plagiarism detection, reading and evaluating recruiting paperwork, and Advanced video/audio/content assessment services suited to recruiting interviews.
- Clover Games — Clover, part of the company's gaming portfolio, it offers a mobile animation RPG game that focuses on recruiting heroes, expanding territories, and revolutionizing the world, so that players can enjoy engaging content.
KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
- Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- Bold9 — Bold9 provides logistics services to online sellers.
- Lucas — Medical AI Solution, MONCAD Monitor Corporation aim to achieve innovation in the field of medical imaging through artificial intelligence technology.
- Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.
Shinhan Bank, is a bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, Vietnam, Australia
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- Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
- Apartmentary — Apartmentary provides apartment mentoring service. It creates a framework that allows the customer to find the most personal life in their apartment. They record their stories in different colors. It finds ways to make every customer's home beautiful.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
- 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.
As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- 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
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- 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.
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Canada
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- Disco — Disco is a location-based service platform for real estate companies.
- Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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
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- 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.
LB Investment is one of the top VCs in Korea. LB invests in diverse industries ranging from Technology and Contents to Bio and healthcare
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- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, China, United States
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- AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
- Liner — Best AI search engine for students and researchers trusted by over 10 million people. Get smart faster with Liner.
- Open Research — Open research focuses on specialized AI search for knowledge workers, aiming to provide an efficient information search experience by shortening the mechanical and repetitive search process. Open Research plans to introduce an innovative AI search service that provides sophisticated answers and reports in near real time through technicaldifferentiation of models and algorithms, with a closed beta test.
Korean alternative asset investment firm
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
- Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
- Mediwhale — Medi Whale seeks to achieve sustainable healthcare where every eye can truly be the window to one’s health with our world's first-of-its-kind 1-stop AI screening platform solution for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic risk assessment, and eye disease diagnosis. Our AI Platform was developed through several clinical collaborations (Korea,Singapore, India, UK, and other European datasets) using structured longitudinal event-based datasets for the development of our retinal biomarker engines. RetiCVD® (cardiovascular disease risk assessment): Developed using coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, CAC is recognized as the gold standard for precise CVD risk calculation. Our CVD engine predicts the presence of CAC and provides a stratified probabilistic risk based on US ASCVD and EU SCORE guidelines.RetiCKD® (chronic kidney disease risk assessment): Developed using eGFR and full lab panel, our CKD engine has been demonstrated to achieve better predictive capability as compared to eGFR or full panel analysis.RetiEYE®: Referable Eye Disease engine detects and flags common aging-related eye modalities such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract at its referable disease state.Medi Whale retinal-based systemic biomarkers have been clinically demonstrated to be non-inferior to current gold standards and are recognized by clinical and scientific communities with two Lancet Digital Health publications.
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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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
SL investment (SLi) aims at a company with global standards through management by principle and transparency.SLi is a venture capital firm founded in February 2000 and has widely invested in the companies from early to mezzanine stage, in the field of semiconductors, display (AMOLED, LED, LCD), renewable energy, and health care industry.Since its incorporation, SLi has recorded black-ink balances for 12 consecutive years with zero debt and also has successfully dissolved all the five funds with outstanding earning rates.SLi tries to raise the value of venture companies not only by offering funds but by supporting the management omnidirectionally after its investment. Consequently, 31 companies have been successfully listed in KOSDAQ market for 12 years and all the companies have positioned as leading firms in their specific fields.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Manufacturing
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
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- EMCRAFTS — EMCRAFTS specializes in the manufacturing and designing of scanning electron microscopes.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
- Novelty Nobility — Novelty Nobility Inc. is a private biotech company. They are currently focused on the research of novel angiogenesis targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics in ophthalmology and oncology, where angiogenesis plays a key pathogenic role.In ophthalmology, Novelty Nobility first discovered a novel angiogenesis target, Stem Cell Factor(SCF)and c-KIT, which was initially known for its engagement with proliferation and survival of primitive hematopoietic stem cells for a couple of past decades. We believe that anti-SCF/c-KIT could effectively address the unmet medical needs, mostly caused by inherent limitations of anti-VEGFs, in terms of treatment efficacy and long-term safety. Our target discovery is widely and strongly patent-protected in US/KOR and the lead pipeline, NN2101(a full-human monoclonal antibody), is currently under preclinical development.
Taekkyung Lee is the Founder , CEO and Representative Partner of Mashup Ventures. He previously worked at Primer Season2 as a Founding Partner. Taekkyung Lee attended Yonsei University.
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- Software, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
- 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
- DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
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