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Top 50 Manufacturing VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Manufacturing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Manufacturing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
33 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $198k–$15M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
22 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $166k–$28M
KB Investment
VC Fund
19 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $767k–$36M
Series Ventures
VC Fund
17 South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $86k–$4.4M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
16 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $594k–$54M
L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
15 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software $600k–$39M
Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
14 South Korea, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Medical $7k–$15M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
13 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $924k–$54M
POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
13 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $149k–$14M
Enlight Ventures
VC Fund
13 South Korea, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $392k–$20M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
12 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $347k–$18M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
12 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care $1.2M–$52M
Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
12 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$51M
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
12 South Korea Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $27k–$1.7M
Company K Partners
VC Fund
12 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$42M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $694k–$47M
KOSME
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Health Care, E-Commerce $81k–$43M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $297k–$30M
Magna Investment
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $147k–$18M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $2.2M–$71M
IBK Capital
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology $2k–$22M
SL Investment
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Software $2k–$27M
SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $2.5M–$33M
Korea Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
9 South Korea Seed, Series A, Angel Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $1k–$1.3B
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$14M
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $223k–$11M
KDB Capital
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$39M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $414k–$15M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Peru Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $253k–$42M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $223k–$26M
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.6M–$22M
We Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $729k–$19M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $741k–$35M
TheVentures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $72k–$4.8M
SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical $547k–$28M
Albatross Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Device $2k–$22M
AI Angel Club
VC Fund
6 South Korea Seed, Series A, Angel Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce $74k–$5.8M
Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $45k–$28M
Antler
VC Fund
6 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, Hong Kong, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Education, Mobile Apps $497k–$17M
TINVESTMENT
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $328k–$26M
Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Iraq, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology $816k–$17M
Nice Investment Partners
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Japan Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Information Technology, Software $1k–$22M
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
5 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software $2k–$26M
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $3.4M–$44M
Intops Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, China, Indonesia Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $1k–$8.2M
HB Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$21M
Kolon Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, India, Indonesia Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology $6k–$24M
Technology Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
5 South Korea, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $7k–$7.3M
Hyundai Investment Partners
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Medical, Health Care $363k–$104M
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 33 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $198k–$2.9M; Series A $786k–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $884k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 22 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 303
  • Round size: Seed $166k–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
  • Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
  • Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 19 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 414
  • Round size: Seed $767k–$7.2M; Series A $2.1M–$36M; Series B $4.8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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Series Ventures
VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 17 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $86k–$1.9M; Series A $2.9M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TouchMeal — TouchMind (operating as TouchMeal) runs an AI-driven senior foodtech platform that manages professional institutional catering, customized dietary meal planning, and automated ingredient supply chains for nursing homes. The company handles full kitchen management operations, including hygiene standards compliance, staff management, and thedistribution of specialized elderly-friendly food products.
  • HD Hi-Tech — HD Hi-Tech is an innovative technology company specializing in AI-powered switchboard safety diagnostic solutions, helping industries improve electrical system reliability, detect faults in real time, and enhance operational safety and efficiency.
  • ROBOS — Robos is a hybrid robot system built by evaluating biological object vision data using Lidar Vision and Open CV-based Object Detection. By combining self-developed biomaterial machine vision technology and robot technology, it intends to expand into a company that delivers core services to diverse industrial sites such as manufacturing, food, andmedical.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 16 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 228
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.1M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $4.5M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FastView — FastView provides content commerce services and online marketing services.
  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
  • CarbonSix — CarbonSix delivers cutting-edge robotics automation for manufacturing, combining Six-Sigma robot dexterity and intelligence to transform industrial operations worldwide.
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 15 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 6 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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.1M; Series A $1.9M–$8.8M; Series B $4.8M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
  • Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 14 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $383k–$4.1M; Series A $1.4M–$7.4M; Series B $7k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
  • Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.
  • Intergravity — Intergravity is a company that is developing orbital transportation technologies to support the future of in-space activity. Intergravity is to enable a space environment in which mobility, service, and logistics are seamlessly integrated, creating the framework for long-term operations beyond Earth.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 13 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 311
  • Round size: Seed $924k–$15M; Series A $1.9M–$38M; Series B $5M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 13 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$6.1M; Series A $1.2M–$10M; Series B $3.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
  • Daedong Robotics — Daedong Robotics, a Daedong Group affiliate, offers AI robot solutions that understand agricultural sites, reducing time-consuming and hazardous tasks.
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Enlight Ventures
VC Fund · 13 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Enlight Ventures, one of the fastest growing VCs in the world, invests in early-stage startups with unique and sustainable business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $392k–$3.3M; Series A $1.7M–$14M; Series B $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
  • Aigencore — Aigencore is a specialized, advanced technology company focused on tritium solutions, nuclear fusion fuel cycles, and tritium-applied industrial products.
  • Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 193
  • Round size: Seed $347k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 474
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $2.1M–$21M; Series B $4.7M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Cashkaro — Cashkaro is an Indian cashback and coupons site. They are backed by Mr. Ratan Tata and Indian VC firms, Kalaari Capital. With over two million registered users, CashKaro is a one stop destination for savings across 1500+ ecommerce sites like Amazon.in, Flipkart, Nykaa, Ajio, etc.
  • Together Funding — Together Funding offers peer-to-peer financial service.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 336
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$32M; Series B $5.1M–$33M; Series C $7.5M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 12 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

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.
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Company K Partners
VC Fund · Ilsangu, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 188
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$17M; Series B $6.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
  • EtherNafusion — EtherNafusion is an early-stage South Korean deep-tech startup developing compact modular nuclear fusion reactors.
  • 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.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 36 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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $694k–$6.6M; Series A $1.2M–$15M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
  • 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.
  • Hookable — Hookable is an AI-based e-commerce detail page automatic generation solution.
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KOSME
VC Fund · Jinju, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $81k–$1M; Series A $886k–$43M; Series B $2.6M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iTNew — iTNew Corp is a company focused on using Web3 and blockchain technologies to drive innovation and create customized digital solutions.
  • VivaLabs — VivaLabs is a health tech company that analyzes senior health data with AI technology and implements a personalized exercise prescription system to provide scientific strength training programs.
  • Dfinite Inc. — DARVIS 2.0 is an AI-powered data operations platform designed to streamline, automate, and optimize the entire data lifecycle, leveraging advanced machine learning, intelligent analytics, and workflow automation to help enterprises manage, interpret, and act on complex data efficiently, enabling faster decision-making and improved operationalperformance.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 363
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.2M; Series A $966k–$14M; Series B $3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Veluga — Veluga is a membership service that provides regular delivery of craft beer and pairing night snack twice a month.
  • LifeLabs — LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients.LifeLabs is strongly committed to continual innovation in testingservices. For our patients and healthcare providers, this means we always strive to provide access to the latest specialized clinical tests—to detect cancer for example, to monitor heart disease, identify neurological disorders and pinpoint allergies.LifeLabs is well-positioned to deliver care at home, in the community and across Ontario and British Columbia. We have over 5,400 professionally trained staff members, over 360 conveniently located patient service centres and an extensive network of couriers and mobile phlebotomists on the job.
  • Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
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Magna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

As a Venture Capital / Accelerator / Private Equity Manager specialized in initial companies, SMEs and SMEs, They are generating profits by finding and investing in companies with promising growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $147k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $3.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging The number of influencers is explosively increasing. Featuring allows brands and marketers to discover product-fit influencers andhelps matching based on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring, and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia, including Japan and China.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is an educational technology company specializing in exam preparation solutions. Its platform provides automated question generation, adaptive difficulty adjustment, CSAT-style question modeling, and the creation of similar questions based on incorrect answers. The company enables middle and high school educators and students to accesspersonalized mock examinations, enhance learning outcomes, and streamline exam preparation through automation and data-driven insights.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$26M; Series B $4.8M–$45M; Series C $7.6M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
  • Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 13 in the past 12 months

IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $2k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$9.8M; Series B $12k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
  • FNCT Biotech — FNCT Biotech develops antibody therapeutics for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). To create antibodies that target the underlying cause of IPF, the company's platform uses genetic engineering, providing patients with this medical need with a new treatment option.
  • Automata — Automata builds ontology-driven enterprise systems that execute. Zenith verifies decisions, grades knowledge, and turns institutional memory into software you can run.
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SL Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $2k–$13M; Series A $1.9M–$17M; Series B $4.2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
  • Twinny — Twinny specializes in the development of self-driving robots.
  • Cenyx Biotech — Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.
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SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

SBI Investment Co., Ltd. has established itself as a true partner of the Republic of Korea venture business development in the past 28 years as a venture capital concept introduced first in Korea in 1986 was even unfamiliar concept of 'venture'. SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a direct excavation domestic / other promising venturesinvestment as well as domestic / external funding attracted through cooperation with institutional investors and technology, marketing, public offering (IPO), the law, adhere to the role which has been providing comprehensive services such as Value-up tax.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $4.5M–$32M; Series C $8.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
  • Automata — Automata builds ontology-driven enterprise systems that execute. Zenith verifies decisions, grades knowledge, and turns institutional memory into software you can run.
  • Cenyx Biotech — Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.
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Korea Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Korea Science and Technology Holdings specializes in technology commercialization services by government-funded research institutes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $253k–$1.3B; Series A $1k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • OASYS STUDIO — ​OASYS STUDIO is a cloud-native visual effects company that integrates VFX pipeline services and production within a cloud environment. They offer scalable and efficient production solutions, fostering stable collaboration structures for clients.
  • Thermoeye — Thermoeye provides thermal imaging systems utilizing temperature analysis technology.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 249
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.8M; Series A $371k–$11M; Series B $743k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
  • TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5.4M; Series B $7.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
  • Plantner — PLANTNER develops environmentally friendly polymers that utilizes the controlled-release characteristics of alginate, a polymer derived from seaweed, along with natural controlled-release fertilizers to substitute current chemical products. Concurrently, the company is engaged in research and development as well as local field trials in Korea andVietnam. These innovations are directly aimed at promoting low-input sustainable agriculture. The organization is committed to tackling the unsustainable practices prevalent in conventional agriculture through the use of slow-release fertilizers, aspiring to foster eco-friendly advancements rooted in natural materials, beginning with agriculture, which is the cornerstone of the industry. In traditional agricultural settings, the significant loss of chemical fertilizers has resulted in nutrient depletion, leading to soil degradation issues such as acidification. This reduction in soil productivity compels farmers to resort to even greater quantities of chemicals to enhance yields, thereby perpetuating a detrimental cycle of increasing overuse. As a response, coated slow-release fertilizers have been introduced; however, their synthetic polymer coatings have contributed to the buildup of microplastics in the soil, harming the habitats of beneficial microorganisms and generating additional environmental challenges. To mitigate these concerns, ongoing research and development efforts are focused on substituting the conventional coating materials of slow-release fertilizers which are responsible for environmental issues like residual microplastics with alginate, a biodegradable polymer sourced from seaweed.
  • Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops an automotive data platform that enables real-time data transfer, sharing, and structured data management. The platform offers end-to-end capabilities, including data collection, storage, and deployment pipelines for processing vehicle big data through web-based visualization tools. It allows users to access streamingdata without local downloads and supports seamless collaboration among engineers worldwide.
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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $5.3M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unastella — Unastella is an aerospace company developing human spaceflight technologies, including launch vehicles and suborbital tourism systems. The company focuses on advancing reusable rocket technology and future space travel infrastructure for civilian space exploration missions. Unastella aims to support the growth of private human spaceflight andnext-generation aerospace innovation.
  • Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$6.9M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Addit & Ark — Adit & Ark operates an AI-powered advertising platform that connects brands with Instagram-based digital magazines and content creators, enabling targeted collaborations and more effective marketing campaigns.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • BioNexus — BioNexus is an artificial intelligence (AI) biotechnology startup that specializes in automating the early stages of biomedical research and drug discovery.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Peru

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $253k–$4.5M; Series A $1.6M–$15M; Series B $3.7M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Green Lamp — The Green Lamp Library is a study space dedicated to enhancing students' study efficiency and promoting the development of self-directed learning services through the implementation of gamification techniques to encourage engagement in learning. Among the standout features of the Green Lamp Library is the S2E (Study to Earn) system, whichincentivizes learning by enabling users to accumulate points that can be redeemed like cash through a variety of educational tasks. Additionally, it offers a structured system that assists users in concentrating on their studies for a predetermined duration.
  • Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 8 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 347
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.2M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
  • Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
  • Minimap — The all-in-one game tracker for PC & Console. Sync achievements and trophies, manage your backlog, and analyze playtime stats. Your entire gaming history, unified.
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Series B $2.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • Argos Identity — Argos Identity is an identity verification service provider. Identify Anyone Anywhere Anytime.
  • Amber Road — Amber Road is the creator of an operation management-focused data analysis program. By analyzing the data based on the input data, the company's platform generates a customized AI model and business insight report that requires the input of manufacturing process data.
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We Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $729k–$4.3M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • ActionPower — ActionPower is an AI-based startup company that offers speech recognition and natural language processing technology services.
  • Automata — Automata builds ontology-driven enterprise systems that execute. Zenith verifies decisions, grades knowledge, and turns institutional memory into software you can run.
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $741k–$5.4M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $72k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • OYD — OYD is a consumer goods brand aggregator that operates the functional skincare and body care brand Sione and the casual ball cap brand Onooi.
  • Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
  • Out of Set — Out of Set is a technology startup that creates ultra-lightweight vertical AI models that operate directly on the device without requiring an online connection.
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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $547k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $4M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DevD — DevD is a startup that provides 1:1 customized content and recommendation services based on self-developed lifestyle AI algorithms.
  • Eleven O'Clock — Eleven O'Clock is a space management platform that offers non-face-to-face cleaning of accommodation facilities. The company's platform Keeper innovates space operation and management as the new standard for space management. The efficiency and quality of space management are improved according to the systematic manual of the Keeperplatform. The platform records and communicates every process as data, from management manuals to space status checks.
  • Real Estate Planet — Real Estate Planet is an AI-based real estate platform that provides transaction prices, investment, and management information.
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Albatross Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Albatross Investment is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $4k–$4.4M; Series A $1.5M–$17M; Series B $2k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InnoDtech — InnoDtech creates AI dental diagnostics and clear orthodontic aligners using 3D imaging, modeling, and personalized treatment planning.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging The number of influencers is explosively increasing. Featuring allows brands and marketers to discover product-fit influencers andhelps matching based on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring, and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia, including Japan and China.
  • Wert Intelligence — The Value Contained in IP Data, Bringing that Value Out into The World
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AI Angel Club
VC Fund · Mapo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 9 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

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $87k–$894k; Angel $74k–$104k; Series A $1.1M–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
  • Salm Clinic — Salm Clinic is a specialized digital healthcare platform that provides comprehensive psychological testing services, offering accessible mental health assessments, personalized evaluations, and technology-driven support for individuals seeking psychological insights and care.
  • Plantner — PLANTNER develops environmentally friendly polymers that utilizes the controlled-release characteristics of alginate, a polymer derived from seaweed, along with natural controlled-release fertilizers to substitute current chemical products. Concurrently, the company is engaged in research and development as well as local field trials in Korea andVietnam. These innovations are directly aimed at promoting low-input sustainable agriculture. The organization is committed to tackling the unsustainable practices prevalent in conventional agriculture through the use of slow-release fertilizers, aspiring to foster eco-friendly advancements rooted in natural materials, beginning with agriculture, which is the cornerstone of the industry. In traditional agricultural settings, the significant loss of chemical fertilizers has resulted in nutrient depletion, leading to soil degradation issues such as acidification. This reduction in soil productivity compels farmers to resort to even greater quantities of chemicals to enhance yields, thereby perpetuating a detrimental cycle of increasing overuse. As a response, coated slow-release fertilizers have been introduced; however, their synthetic polymer coatings have contributed to the buildup of microplastics in the soil, harming the habitats of beneficial microorganisms and generating additional environmental challenges. To mitigate these concerns, ongoing research and development efforts are focused on substituting the conventional coating materials of slow-release fertilizers which are responsible for environmental issues like residual microplastics with alginate, a biodegradable polymer sourced from seaweed.
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 8 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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$4.1M; Series A $1.7M–$28M; Series B $3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
  • MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
  • Aim Intelligence — Leading AI Security & Safety Solutions Provider - Specializing in AI Risk Detection, Mitigation, and Elimination through Advanced Red Teaming and Defensive Systems | Leading provider of AI Security, Safety, and Compliance solutions
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$13M; Series A $1.5M–$8.7M; Series B $497k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • UCONNEC — UConnec is a marketing platform that connects YouTube influencers with advertiser brands.
  • Redrob — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
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TINVESTMENT
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $328k–$26M; Series A $3.3M–$9M; Series B $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • Nexusbe — Nexusbe is a manufacturer of atomic layer equipment technology intended to provide vacuum deposition equipment.
  • Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
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Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Hyundai Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that mainly invests in early-stage companies and is based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $816k–$10M; Series A $1.2M–$6.4M; Series B $4.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CafeWhale — The on-chain loyalty layer for CafeWhale's 700+ autonomous cafe network.
  • Scone — Meechu (Scone) is a virtual creator and entertainment platform focused on VTuber-style digital characters. It enables users to create, animate, and stream 3D avatars using motion tracking and interactive tools. The platform supports immersive online performances, audience engagement, and digital content creation through AI-assisted avatartechnology and real-time virtual interaction systems.
  • Cafe Manwolgyeong — Cafe Manwolgyeong is a customer-centered cafe brand that values different cafes and related products.​​
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Nice Investment Partners
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$1.7M; Series A $2.1M–$22M; Series B $5k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pensées — Pensées is a 3D bio-printer company that develops cultured meat through 3D bioprinting technology.
  • Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
  • Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Nau IB Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $2k–$5.5M; Series A $851k–$8.1M; Series B $5M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • SN BioScience — SN BioScience provide nano-formulation screening services for small molecule, oligonucleotide (siRNA, DNA), peptide and protein to deliver in the form of nano-micelle, nanoparticle or liposome. Their proprietary “double core-shell technology” and pool of acceptable lipids and polymers could help your research that having difficulties in solubilityor delivery.
  • Daedong Robotics — Daedong Robotics, a Daedong Group affiliate, offers AI robot solutions that understand agricultural sites, reducing time-consuming and hazardous tasks.
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Series A $3.4M–$40M; Series B $5.8M–$44M; Series C $12M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AB180 — AB180 is a marketing technology company that develops software for app growth, user acquisition, engagement, attribution, and monetization. The company provides a full-stack AI platform that helps businesses measure marketing performance, optimize customer acquisition, improve user retention, and maximize revenue across mobile apps, games, anddigital services. Its product portfolio includes Airbridge, a mobile measurement partner (MMP) and attribution platform; DeepLink Plan, a deep linking and user journey optimization solution; and Airflux, an AI-powered monetization platform for mobile games. Together, these products enable businesses to measure cross-platform marketing performance, predict customer lifetime value (LTV), detect ad fraud, automate in-app advertising and purchase optimization, and deliver personalized user experiences.AB180 also provides AI-driven analytics, customer engagement, and marketing automation solutions that integrate with enterprise platforms and advertising ecosystems. Its technologies leverage machine learning to optimize marketing campaigns, improve conversion rates, automate monetization experiments, and generate actionable insights from user behavior. In addition to its proprietary products, the company is a strategic implementation and consulting partner for platforms such as Amplitude and Braze, helping organizations deploy and optimize data-driven growth strategies.
  • Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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Intops Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Intops Investment is a financial investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, China, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Maihub — We deliver cutting-edge healthcare technology faster and more widely than anyone else
  • Glovv — Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform.
  • Peanut AI — Peanut AI is a cybersecurity company that specializes in embedded protection for industrial OT and IoT systems. The company help manufacturers secure their factory equipment, PLCs, sensors, and industrial networks with lightweight and real-time defense solutions designed for global compliance.
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HB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$14M; Series B $2.2M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
  • NaruSecurity — NaruSecurity provides security architecture to prevent recurrence and analysis based on the cyber kill chain. The company has pioneered the development of technologies designed to detect attacker movements after they infiltrate the internal network. They have supplied these solutions across diverse sectors, particularly supporting government anddefense organizations with high-level threat analysis that traditional security teams often find challenging—such as identifying internal threats, investigating incidents, and detecting signs of targeted attacks. Naru Security is dedicated to protecting the assets and services and are committed to continuous technological innovation and exceptional support to respond faster and more accurately to evolving threats in the cyber domain.
  • BOS Semiconductors — Driving the Future of Automotive, BOS Semiconductors
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Kolon Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Series A $6k–$10M; Series B $4.8M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexusbe — Nexusbe is a manufacturer of atomic layer equipment technology intended to provide vacuum deposition equipment.
  • StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
  • The SMC Group — The SMC Group is a social marketing company.
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Technology Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Technology Guarantee Fund is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $884k–$6.8M; Series A $1.4M–$7.3M; Series B $7k–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LYNK Solutec — LYNK Solutec is a laboratory-based company that specializes in bio-medical devices.
  • Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.
  • DK Fine Chemical — DK Fine Chemical is committed to providing essential cellulose-based solutions that play a crucial role in various industries, including construction, paint, coatings, food, pharmaceuticals, personal care, and more. The company focuses on delivering high-quality, sustainable, and innovative cellulose compounds, tailored to meet the diverse needs ofits clients across these sectors.
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Hyundai Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Manufacturing startups

Hyundai Investment Network Co., Ltd. provides financial advisory, and mergers and acquisitions strategy consulting services. The company offers financial advisory funding; consulting services; advisory services for ship charter and vessel acquisition; and investment services for natural resource exploration, development, and production. It alsoprovides financial product brokerage and project financing services. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $363k–$3.5M; Series A $891k–$7.8M; Series B $5.9M–$104M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Diquest — diquest is a Korean enterprise search engine.
  • Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
  • Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
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Manufacturing VC funding in South Korea at a glance

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757
investors
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1.1k
deals
in South Korea Manufacturing startups
$3.2M
median round
in South Korea Manufacturing startups
37%
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lead at least one round
34%
Seed
most common funding stage

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