# Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors in South Korea in June 2026

## Medytox Venture Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical

Medytox Venture Investment is a TIPS operator that provides opportunities and supports growth in the healthcare sector.

## Coolidge Corner Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care

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.

## BSK Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

BSK Investment is a private equity investment company that invests in unlisted companies.

## SJ Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical

SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.

## Boditech Med
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chuncheon, Kangwon-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics

Boditech Med provides reliable In-Vitro Diagnostic Solutions for everyone at anywhere, and anytime.

## HG Initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps

HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.

## Aju IB Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Aju IB Investment is a venture capital firm that offers SMEs with investments and consulting services.Aju IB Investment offers consulting services that focus on business management, tax, accounting, legal, mergers and acquisitions, additional funding, marketing, and technology support.Aju IB Investment was founded in September 1974 and is basedin Seoul, South Korea.

## Kakao Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

## UTC Investment Co.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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.

## Korea Technology Finance Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Medical

Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.

## Mirae Asset Venture Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

## Quantum Ventures Korea
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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.

## Devsisters Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Biotechnology

Venture Capital firm in Korea. 
We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

## Series Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

## Yuhan Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Corporate Round
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Yuhan Co, Ltd. is a South Korean pharmaceutical and chemical company.

## QUAD Investment Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Established in 2009, QUAD is an independent investment manager overseeing approximately US$1.0 billion in equity assets (as of June 2019). Our clients range from institutional clients such as pension funds, endowments and family offices to individual parents and their children. All investment managers and key management being equity partners of thefirm, QUAD members are significant investors in the company, which we believe aligns our goals with the interests of our clients.

## Cytogen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical

Cytogen, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and sells CTC enrichment systems for cancer diagnosis and treatment in South Korea. It offers Smart Biopsy, an automated CTC enrichment system from blood sample; and cell isolators, IF stainers, cell image analyzers, time laps analyzers, isolation kits, and culture kits. The company was founded in2010 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

## Time Folio Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

 Time Folio Asset Management 

## BNH Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical

BNH Investment is an investment company for bio and healthcare sectors.

## L&S Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software

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.

## Korea Omega Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics

Korea Omega Investment Finance is a private equity and venture capital firm

## Neoflux
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology

Neoflux is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea.

## Industrial Bank of Korea
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Timepolio Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

Timepolio Asset Management is an asset management firm.

## JX Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma

JX Partners is a venture capital firm.

## KB Securities
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

KB Securities is a Financial Services company.

## Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology

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

## Korea Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care

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.

## Quad Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical

Quad Asset Management is an Investment firm.

## P&I Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Music, Content, Health Care

P&I Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.

## Shinhan Venture Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.

## Synergy IB Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical

Synergy IB Investment specializes in the fields of cost, profitability, analysis, finance, and management.

## Nice Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software

NICE Investment Partners is a new technology finance company whose main job is to increase corporate value by discovering and investing in new technology businesses with promising growth, providing various management support, business alliances, and strategic consulting to the invested companies.

## STIC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

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

## Ulmus Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Manufacturing

Ulmus Investment

## ActnerLab
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device

ActnerLab is a venture capital and accelerator that helps hardware, IoT and biotech startups establish their initial foothold and beyond.

## Company K Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ilsangu, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Future Science and Technology Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage

Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.

## Yozma Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Yozma earned worldwide recognition as the founder of Israel's VC industry. 

## Yuanta Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce

A star of private equity market grow up your companies and ascend your potential.

## Stick Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Pharmaceutical

Stick Ventures is a venture capital firm based in South Korea that prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies.

## The Wells Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence

 The Wells Investment

## Kolon Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical

Kolon Investment, Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in buyouts, mezzanine, corporate restructuring, growth capital, and turnaround investment. It prefers to invest in electronic components, petroleum, energy, computer, and telecommunications equipment. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul,Gyeonggi, Incheon, and Gyeongbuk. Kolon Investment, Inc. was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Source: Businessweek

## Ost Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Ost Investment

## Daekyo Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology

Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.

## G.N. Tech Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

G.N. Tech Venture is a corporate investment company that invests in electronic components.

## Kiwoom Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

## Mirae Asset Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

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

## HB Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

HB Investment Inc. was founded on November 11, 1999 starting with paid-in Capital of KRW 10 billion.Since its foundation, HB Investment Inc. has been investing small and medium businesses that have the potential for steady growth and profitability and helping the invested companies to grow well by giving various consulting services. As a result,HB Investment Inc.constructed comprehensive portfolio out of various industrial areas, such as game, entertainment, as well as representative high-tech industries related to semiconductor, Internet, LCD, and a smart phone, bio, health care. In addition, HB Investment Inc. has experiences in implementing business Success-fully by organizing several partnership funds for recent years.

## Meritz Securities
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical

Securities, Investment, Finance, Trading company