Top 45 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in South Korea (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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6 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning | $30k–$7M |
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Sisun Lee
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel | SNS, Software, Content Creators | $895k–$3.8M |
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Alex Shin
Angel
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2 | Canada, South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS | $895k–$12M |
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Minsik Cho
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS | |
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Michael Carter
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, Music, Dating | |
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Louis Beryl
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$14M |
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Sachin Bhanot
Angel
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1 | Australia, Singapore, Indonesia | Series A, Seed | SaaS, Financial Services, FinTech | $5M–$30M |
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Jimmy Iovine
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series C | Software, Beauty, Media and Entertainment | |
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Justin Bieber
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Media and Entertainment, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Marketing | |
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Cooper Turley
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Music, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain | |
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Luke Wood
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Content, Software, Media and Entertainment | |
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Justin Lubliner
Angel
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1 | Israel, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Content, Software, Digital Media | |
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S Cubic Angels
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, Apps, EdTech | |
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Sean (Solme) Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed | SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum | |
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Benjamin Joseph Levin
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Content, Software, Media and Entertainment | |
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Ed Sheeran
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Content, Software, Media and Entertainment | |
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Han-Kyun Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SNS, Beauty, Software | |
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Jong-Il Yoon
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $336k–$5.7M |
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Jeong Hwan Jeong
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SNS, Software, Content Creators | |
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Kim Jae-seok
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SNS, Software, Content Creators | |
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So Seong-hyun
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SNS, Software, Content Creators | |
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Kim Bong-jin
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Social Media, Generative AI, Social Network | |
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Sungjae Hwang
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Pre-Seed | Art, FinTech, Peer to Peer | |
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Jimmy Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Media and Entertainment, iOS, Apps | |
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Wes Schwalje
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $150k–$7.5M |
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Kelvin Dongho Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | News, Content, Advertising | $920k–$29M |
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Primer Saje
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $741k–$1.1M |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $250k–$60M |
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Steve Chen
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Taiwan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $350k–$40M |
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GI Equity (Private Investment Fund)
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Guides, Fashion, Tourism | |
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Richard Ma
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $325k–$16M |
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Cristian Manea
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Web3, PC Games | $1.5M–$9M |
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Kim Jeong-ho
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Angel, Series A | Travel, Communities, Social Media | |
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Kim Seo- joon
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Content, FinTech, Accounting | |
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See eun Ha
Angel
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1 | Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, SNS | $1.1M–$5M |
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Yoon Soo-young
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SNS, Software, Content Creators | |
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Shin- jae
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | News, SaaS, Software | |
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Myounghoon Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Manufacturing, Digital Entertainment | |
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Sean Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum | |
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Taehoon Park
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Content, Marketing, Content Creators | |
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Lee Dong- Hun
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Content, Creative Agency, Subscription Service | |
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Paul Wachter
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, South Korea | Series A, Seed, Private Equity | Sports, Content, Wellness | $1.1M–$48M |
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Jung-hee Ryu
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Fashion, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Park Byung-jong
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SNS, Software, Content Creators | |
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Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $30k–$7M; Angel $135k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
- Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $895k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hamming AI — Complete voice & chat agent QA platform. Auto-generate scenarios, replay production calls, 50+ metrics. SOC 2 certified. Start in under 10 minutes.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Alex Shin
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $895k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saga.xyz — Saga builds AI agents that turn characters, brands, and worlds into living digital participants that can engage, adapt, and grow across the internet.
- Infrared Finance — Infrared simplifies interacting with Proof of Liquidity with liquid products.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
- Outside Board Director, Kakao Corp. (Korea’s Telegram) - (Ex) Senior partner, KPMG Korea - Certified Public Accountant - Business Administration, Seoul National University
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Bitbyte — Fun communication. A happy world. We maximize the value of communication with a mobile keyboard app used by over 600K people.
- Candr — Candr is an IT company that uses artificial intelligence to collect, analyse andpresent detailed information on used cars for sale.
Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, Dating
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
- Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
- Dandy — Exclusively in LA, invite only.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AnchorUSD — Unlike competing stablecoins, AnchorUSD holds all deposits in US-domiciled bank accounts. Because USDX can always be created for $1 or redeemed for $1, investors can trade with confidence and avoid the volatility of unbacked cryptocurrencies. We undergo regular audits to ensure that the number of USDX in circulation is exactly equal to the numberof dollars in our bank account.
- Names & Faces — Names & Faces makes it easy for you to transform your employee data into a world class visual employee directory and org chart in minutes that help everyone from the CEO to the new joiner recognise team members and understand where they fit in.
- Rescue Forensics — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
Sachin Bhanot serves as the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures.
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- Industry: SaaS, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, Singapore, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $6.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
- Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
- Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
Jimmy Iovine is a legendary figure in the music industry and a forward-thinking visionary, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy, the Iovine and Young Center, Interscope Records, and Beats by Dre. Jimmy’s influential career began at Record Planet in New York City. Early on, Jimmywas a recording engineer for the likes of John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen before becoming a recording producer for Patti Smith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Stevie Nicks, Dire Straits, The Pretenders, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, and U2. Jimmy co-founded Interscope Records in 1990, launching artists such as Dr. Dre, Nine Inch Nails, Mary J. Blige, No Doubt, The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, 50 Cent, and Lady Gaga. Jimmy and hip-hop producer and trailblazer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young co-founded Beats By Dr. Dre, a leading, high-performance headphone and speaker company in 2006. Thanks to the sleekly designed headphones, and expansion into smartphones and car audio systems, Beats By Dr. Dre secured the No. 1 spot in the billion dollar-plus premium headphones industry. In 2014, Jimmy and Dr. Dre expanded the Beats brand into the digital music space with Beats Music—the first streaming music service delivering contextually and culturally relevant playlists personalized for each user. Beats by Dr. Dre and Beats Music were acquired by Apple in 2014. In 2013, Jimmy and Dr. Dre teamed up again to establish and fund the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California. The pair endowed the Academy with a $70 million donation to help forge the futures of technologists, entrepreneurs, designers, and innovators working toward purpose-driven societal change. The signature integrated learning framework offers a different type of education, with undergraduate and graduate degrees focusing on technology, communication, entrepreneurship, and human-centered design. Jimmy and Dr. Dre wanted to extend the Academy’s curriculum to high school students across the U.S. The inaugural Iovine and Young Center (IYC) opened its doors in Los Angeles in 2022. The Iovine and Young Center at Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta is set to open in August 2024. Jimmy is a board member for several companies and organizations, including Live Nation Entertainment, XQ Institute, NTWRK, and Rosewood Creative. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
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- Industry: Software, Beauty, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
- Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
- Handle — 15 minute delivery by students for students
Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop musician, actor, and singer-songwriter. He was discovered in 2008 by American talent manager Scooter Braun and has since driven over 3 billion views to YouTube, gained nearly 81M followers on Twitter, 68M followers on Instagram, and 77M fans on Facebook.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
- Legacy — Take charge of your health & invest in your future. Analyze and freeze your sperm from the comfort of home. $0 out of pocket with insurance & fertility benefits.
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
Taekkyung Lee is the Founder , CEO and Representative Partner of Mashup Ventures. He previously worked at Primer Season2 as a Founding Partner. Taekkyung Lee attended Yonsei University.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
- 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
- DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
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- Industry: Music, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
- Stack — Whether you're a business or individual creator, we have robust APls, SDKs, and no-code integrations to analyze and grow engagement, loyalty, and revenue.
- Mirage — La Mirage is a band from Lenny + Tyler <3
Wood began his career with Geffen Records in 1991 as a Director of Publicity, representing such bands as Nirvana and Sonic Youth. He subsequently served as Geffen’s Director of Marketing, and later as Vice President of A&R at DreamWorks Records. In 2003, Wood joined Interscope Records (as part of its merger with DreamWorks) as Executive VicePresident of A&R, having signed such artists as Jimmy Eat World, Elliott Smith and AFI. He also developed label deals with Downtown Records and signed artists such as TV on the Radio, All Time Low and Yelawolf.A lifelong producer, songwriter and musician, Wood signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Group in 1996 and that same year his band, Sammy, released its third album, Tales of Great Neck Glory, on Geffen/DGC Records. Wood earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University with a major in American Studies.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
Justin Lubliner is a CEO of the Darkroom.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
- Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
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- Industry: Education, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
- KRG Group — KRG Group is a rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
- Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
Solme Kim is President and Chief Product Officer at Kajabi. He attended The University of Texas at Austin.
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- Industry: SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- StormX — Earn crypto shopping at your favorite stores. Get up to 87.5% Crypto Cashback with each purchase. Download the StormX App & Extension today.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Benny Blanco is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
- Ipswich Town Football Club — Ipswich Town Football Club is a football club that competes in leagues and tournaments.
Han-kyun Kim, former CEO of Costory, founded the popular K-Beauty company in 2012. Having begun with the initial capital of just $2000, Costory went on to achieve $200 million in annual revenue within just 7 years. Costory began with the flagship organic brand “PAPA RECIPE” that Kim developed for his young daughter, who suffered from severely dryand sensitive skin. Since then, Costory shot into popularity in the K-Beauty market with $170 million in annual revenue in China alone. Kim, a first-generation beauty blogger and Korea’s first male beauty influencer, began his career in the beauty industry as the brand manager at Amore Pacific. He also appeared in various TV programs and built his presence on social media as a beauty specialist. Currently, Costory owns brands such as PAPA RECIPE, INGA, and MUSTUS and exports its products to over 30 countries, including China, Vietnam, France, and Italy. With the recent launch of ‘BIEUP,’ a health supplements brand, Costory is actively expanding its reach to diverse areas.
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- Industry: SNS, Beauty, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neul'er — Neul'er is a beauty company that offers skincare products.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $336k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
- MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
- Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
Jeong Hwan Jeong is the CEO of 01000.
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
So Seong-hyun is the CEO of Ultru.
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Kim Bong-jin is the chairman at Grandeclip.
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- Industry: Social Media, Generative AI, Social Network
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
Sungjae Hwang is the Founder and CEO of Lounge Lab. He earned his doctorate and master's degree at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and his bachelor's degree at Kwangwoon University.
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- Industry: Art, FinTech, Peer to Peer
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TESSA — TESSA is an alternative investment platform for the purchase, sale, and trade of fractionalized ownership interests in investment-grade blue-chip artwork (such as Warhol, Picasso, Kusama, Basquiat, etc.) with the accessibility and liquidity of public markets. The platform enables white-listed “micro-collectors” to co-own fractional ownershipinterests in curated blue-chip artwork represented in digital form on a public blockchain. TESSA manages all maintenance and administrative services relating to the artwork which is publicly promoted and displayed to enhance its value and broaden its exposure to the art-viewing public.The platform provides transparent and safe management of ownership certificates, transaction history, and transfer status through a blockchain network and secure third-party service providers.
Jimmy Kim is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. Jimmy is co- founder and Chairman of the board of N3N, an interactive software company that mixes passion, creativity and technology to create new interactive user experiences and innovativepresentation solutions. N3N’s client lists include BMW, Infiniti, Nike Golf, Dentsu, Korea Telecom and other leading worldwide companies. He previously served as N3N’s CEO. Jimmy is sought-after speaker on online gaming and technology and has spoke at various conference such as LeWeb, Ad:Tech, and Web 2.0 Expo.Previously, Jimmy was CEO of Nexonova, a game development studio of Nexon Corp that specializes in Social Network Games. Prior to Nexonova, Jimmy served Executive Vice President of Nexon Corp, and Head of Nexon’s Portal (www.nexon.com, market cap: $5 billion) and Web Services. Nexon is one of the most successful online gaming providers, with games such as Maple Story, Dungeon and Fighter, Combat Arms, and Kart Rider. Nexon services over 20 games across 60 countries to an audience of 300 million.Jimmy was the founding investor and active deal adviser of Studio Ex, an online gaming studio that was acquired by Disney in 2012.Jimmy received his B.S. in Engineering from Northwestern University, and also a M.S. in Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Jimmy also completed the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business’s Executive Management Program.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, iOS, Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Billyo — Billyo is a music/dance training studio reservation platform for Generation MZ, artist, and creator. We will expand our business both online application and offline space, and become the most iconic and popular one-stop platform in 'Creator Economy' globally
- GrowthFit — E-commerce customer behavior data analytics solution
- Solomonster — Advertising agency, digital content development, supply, pop culture art planning/e-commerce
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $360k–$1M; Series A $5M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — SAUDARATOTO adalah daftar situs toto slot dan bandar togel resmi 4D & 5D terpercaya yang menawarkan layanan aman, transaksi cepat, serta peluang menang besar setiap hari. Nikmati permainan lengkap dengan sistem stabil dan akses mudah kapan saja.
Kelvin Dongho Kim is the founding Chief Executive of Korea Credit Data (KCD), a leading provider of essential digital services for small and medium-sized businesses in South Korea. KCD’s offerings span business management software, credit scoring, POS and payments infrastructure, as well as a marketplace platform. Together with its fivesubsidiaries, the company currently supports over 3 million businesses, establishing itself as a dominant force in the Korean SME services landscape.A recognised figure in Korea’s start-up ecosystem, Kelvin is a serial entrepreneur whose first major success was Opensurvey, a mobile-based consumer data and insights platform.In 2025, Kelvin was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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- Industry: News, Content, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $920k–$29M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
- Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.
- The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
Primer Saje
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $741k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DALPHA — Dalpha develops artificial intelligence technology for the creation of AI models. The company provides data security and ownership through a secure cloud environment and differential privacy technology.
- Jiro — By simplifying video creation, we enable people around the world to tell their stories more successfully.
- Doctornow — Doctornow is a leading digital healthcare platform in South Korea and the pioneer of the nation's first remote medical consultations & drug delivery services. Doctornow offers a range of services, including medical AI assessments and real-time consultations with medical practitioners.
Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
- VOYA Games — Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $350k–$12M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
- E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
- Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.
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- Industry: Guides, Fashion, Tourism
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
- Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is NO.1 short-term rental platform. You can rent over 10K fully furnished houses in 165 cities over the world.
Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $325k–$5M; Series A $5.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
- Noodles Finance — The no-brainer trading platform for Sui.
- YOAKE Entertainment — YOAKE Entertainment is a music studio that specializes in the planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
Cristian Manea is the Co-founder and CEO at Aggero.
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- Industry: Gaming, Web3, PC Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Planetarium — AI-powered game creation. Verse8: 3M+ MAU, 24K+ games. Nine Chronicles: world's first onchain game. A Technology Company for Fun.
- Botanika — Meet the new era of hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage. Our pioneering algorithms completely revolutionize how data is fragmented, encrypted, and stored.
- SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
Kim Jeong-ho serves as Bear Better CEO.
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- Industry: Travel, Communities, Social Media
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MetaBon — MetaBon is an online portal promoting and curated with NFT communities
- Activity Exchange — Activity Exchange is a startup that develops travel product publishing and reservation management solutions for local travel agencies.
Kim Seo- joon
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- Industry: Content, FinTech, Accounting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Double XSoft — Double XSoft develops cryptocurrency tax management and digital asset accounting software. The company operates CryptoTax, a platform that provides virtual asset transaction tracking, tax reporting, portfolio analysis, and financial data management tools for cryptocurrency investors and digital asset users.
Co-Founder/CEO of @nonce
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- prePO — Trade the top pre-IPO companies with PreStocks. Get instant access to SpaceX, OpenAI, Anduril, and more. 24/7 trading, no minimums.
- AO Labs — AO Labs provides a playground where Web 3 communities can collaborate, create, compete, and be themselves.
- Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
Yoon Soo-young - CEO @ Trevari
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Shin- jae
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- Industry: News, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Motion2AI — Motion2AI is the all-in-one artificial intelligence AI telematics solution for warehouses to track MHE equipment, manage safety, schedule jobs, and more.
- EO Studio — Media and Information platform provides news and other articles on the start-up in Korea
- Updream Korea Co — Updream Korea Co offers feminine, senior care.
Myounghoon Lee
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Digital Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moty — Moty digital weight machine not only generates a consistent load with a motor, but it also measures the user's muscle strength and generates a load appropriate for it, allowing the user to undertake strength training more effectively and personal fitness training personalized to each user. offer a service
Solme Kim is CEO of Triller. He previously worked at Kajabi as a President and Chief Product Officer. Sean Kim attended The University of Texas at Austin.
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- Industry: SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- StormX — Earn crypto shopping at your favorite stores. Get up to 87.5% Crypto Cashback with each purchase. Download the StormX App & Extension today.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
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Browse database — It's Free!Taehoon Park is the chief executive officer of Frograms, a movie recommendation service provider. He is also known as an entrepreneur. Park completed his secondary education at the Seoul Science High School. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from KAIST. Park currently lives in Seoul, Korea.
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- Industry: Content, Marketing, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Beyond Boundary — Beyond Boundary provides distribution services for content in offline markets.
Lee Dong- Hun
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- Industry: Content, Creative Agency, Subscription Service
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Paul Wachter has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2015. Since 1997, Wachter has been the Founder and CEO of financial and asset management advisory firm Main Street Advisors in Los Angeles. Prior to forming Main Street Advisors, from 1993 to 1997, Wachter was Managing Director of Schroder & Co. Incorporated, aninvestment banking and asset management company. He has also served on the board of directors of Time Warner Inc., a publicly-traded media company, since 2010 and the board of directors of Avalanche Biotechnologies, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, since 2014. Wachter has served as a Regent on the University of California Board of Regents since 2004. Wachter brings financial expertise and general business experience to our board of directors and his experience as a director of public companies provides our board of directors with valuable insights to assist in achieving our goals.
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- Industry: Sports, Content, Wellness
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Israel, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $9M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
- Wolf Games — We help media and brand partners turn passive audiences into active players through custom, hosted, measurable game experiences built from what you already own, hosted and run by us.
- Fenway Sports Group — Fenway Sports Group (FSG) is a global sports, marketing, media, entertainment, and real estate platform anchored by two iconic clubs, the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club (LFC).
Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Fashion, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
- Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
Park Byung-jong is the CEO of Colverse Lab.
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
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