Top 5 Machine Learning Angel Investors in South Korea (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kim Taek-Jin
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Cyber Security, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning | |
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Daniel Shin
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Financial Services | $1.6M–$5M |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$18M |
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Songyee Yoon
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Software, Film, Hardware | $2.2M–$20M |
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Sanghee Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Pre-Seed | Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning | |
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Kim Taek-Jin
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- Industry: Cyber Security, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $494k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
- Apolyta — Threat simulators use playbooks and checklists. Adversaries don't. Prepare for the real threats of tomorrow with adaptive attack emulation.
Songyee Yoon
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- Industry: Software, Film, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
- Spike AI — Spike AI is a marketing AGI platform that autonomously optimizes websites by identifying issues, testing AI-generated improvements, and implementing winning changes in real time to boost engagement, conversions, and revenue.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Sanghee Lee
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- Industry: Software, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Machine Learning Angel investor funding in South Korea at a glance
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