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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
38 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $266k–$27M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
36 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $89k–$26M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
31 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence $276k–$44M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
27 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $973k–$50M
KB Investment
VC Fund
25 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $737k–$44M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
22 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $424k–$20M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
22 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $741k–$35M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
20 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $692k–$52M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
20 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Internet $2.1M–$57M
TheVentures
VC Fund
20 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $72k–$5.1M
InfoBank
VC Fund
20 South Korea, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $85k–$11M
Mashup Ventures
VC Fund
19 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$3.2M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
18 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A, Debt Financing Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $229k–$8.8M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
16 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $200k–$15M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
15 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $694k–$47M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
14 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software $441k–$60M
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
13 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games $287k–$42M
Union Investment Partners
VC Fund
12 South Korea, Malaysia, United States Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Health Care $1.3M–$18M
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Video Games, Casual Games $741k–$83M
SBVA
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $878k–$60M
IMM Investment
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.3M–$78M
Timewise Investment
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $981k–$29M
SmartStudy Ventures
VC Fund
9 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Media and Entertainment, Marketing $351k–$8.4M
Antler
VC Fund
8 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
8 Japan, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $613k–$52M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $166k–$28M
SB Partners
VC Fund
8 South Korea, Vietnam, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment $836k–$17M
Hashed
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$40M
We Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $729k–$19M
Innopolis Partners
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $1M–$13M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, India Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Software $1.7M–$78M
Base Investments
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Information Technology, Apps $743k–$14M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Apps $448k–$11M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Gaming $441k–$11M
Kakao Investment
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $811k–$123M
InterVest Co.
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series B, Series A, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $2.3M–$56M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Mobile $829k–$91M
SV Investment Corp
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$60M
Hyundai Investment Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $1M–$128M
ENSL Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea Seed, Convertible Note Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps $74k–$1.1M
Nau IB Capital
VC Fund
6 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software $371k–$26M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $414k–$15M
ID ventures
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology $178k–$15M
Naver
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $45k–$39M
Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile Apps, Education $589k–$17M
MYSC
VC Fund
6 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care
East Gate Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Gaming, Information Technology $223k–$3.7M
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 38 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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: 430
  • Round size: Seed $266k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
  • Corologic — Korologic develops cardiovascular imaging AI solutions for medical procedures.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 36 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 15 in the past 12 months

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: 395
  • Round size: Seed $89k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
  • 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.
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 31 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. The firm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 316
  • Round size: Seed $276k–$3.1M; Series A $442k–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $458k–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • Intellicia — AI-powered Synthetic Consumers platform for market research. 91.2% Spearman Correlation, 93.6% accuracy validated across 120+ PoC projects.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 27 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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), YG Entertainment(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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 548
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$10M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $4.9M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
  • Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 25 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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 widest network 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, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 441
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • GMI Cloud — Run production AI workloads on GMI Cloud. Deploy serverless inference, dedicated GPU clusters, and bare metal AI infrastructure on one scalable platform.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion Battery Technologies is a manufacturing company that offers cathode active materials for lithium batteries.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 22 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $424k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$11M; Series B $4.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 22 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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: 100
  • Round size: Seed $741k–$4.7M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
  • 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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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 20 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

A fundamental investment philosophy of ‘Building on principles’ guides us at Mirae Asset. Over the years, these principles have enabled us to become Asia’s premier financial group and created new trends in the Asian capital market. Above all, we put our clients’ interests first, always adhering to high ethical standards. Because our success clearly comes from their success, we use fundamental investment principles to identify opportunities that generate value and lasting profits. We are strong believers in teamwork and are determined to recruit the best and brightest people as we open new horizons in Asia and expand globally. Just as we strive to continually improve our own performance, Mirae Asset is committed to helping every community it joins. On behalf of the entire Mirae Asset Financial Group, I would like to convey the sense of responsibility your trust in us merits and pledge to do all that we can to exceed your expectations.

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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: 344
  • Round size: Seed $692k–$14M; Series A $2M–$40M; Series B $5M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $118M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • NanoForge AI — Nanoforge AI merges AI-driven material design with robotics automation to cut material development time from years to weeks
  • The Pant Project — The Pant Project is an e-tailoring company that specializes in customizing pants according to individual fit and style. They offer a curated range of premium fabrics including poly viscose, knit, and wool. The company also provides a 4-way stretch technology in their formal pants for enhanced comfort and mobility. Customers can track their ordersthrough the company's website.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 20 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 415
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$26M; Series B $4.1M–$35M; Series C $5.2M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $350M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Soraban — The cloud-based platform modernizing and automating menial work for tax firms.
  • PureSpace — Shelf-Life Extension Technology: Remarkably effective ethylene scrubber designed to keep fruits and vegetables fresher for longer. 50% food waste reduction in the supply chain. Explore more.
  • Branders.com — Branders.com sells instantly customizable promotional items suchs as pens, hats, magnets, etc for marketing, sales, and event planning. They provide a single source to locate, design, order, and track promotional items online. Branders.com experience also offers you the following benefits to help you with your purchase: - Provides aone-stop shop for customizing merchandise - Aids in product selection with advanced, custom search and recommendation services - Allows you to customize and decorate your own products online and in real-time - Reduces fulfillment activities - Improves corporate identity management
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 20 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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: 155
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $72k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • AnyBridge AI — AnyBridge is an enterprise AI platform that helps businesses deploy, manage, and scale AI agents using a unified software stack. It supports multiple AI models, including open-source and commercial models, through a single gateway. The platform optimizes AI workloads across different hardware infrastructures to improve performance, reduce costs, and simplify operations.
  • Smoking Tiger — Smoking Tiger is a korean concept cafe enabling customers to experience Korean culture and heritage via food, drinks, and environment.
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 20 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services. The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services. InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$1.5M; Series A $88k–$9.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pmatch — Pmatch is a comprehensive platform designed to provide reliable, accurate medication information to help users make informed decisions about their healthcare. By offering detailed insights into various medications, including their uses, dosages, side effects, and interactions, Pmatch ensures that individuals can use medicines in a smarter and saferway. The platform aims to enhance patient safety, reduce medication errors, and improve overall health outcomes by empowering users with the knowledge they need to manage their treatments effectively. Whether for healthcare professionals or patients, Pmatch serves as a trusted resource for promoting informed decision-making and better health management.
  • Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
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Mashup Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 19 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Mashup Ventures is a Seoul based early-stage VC led by Taekkyung Lee, co-founder of Daum Communications, focusing on AI, SaaS, and IT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rosherin — Rosherin is a healthcare startup that researches, develops and manufactures various medical supplies and medical devices.
  • Airbility — Korean anti-drone and counter-drone company founded in 2023 by aerospace, defense and mobility engineers. Team, milestones and careers.
  • NanoForge AI — Nanoforge AI merges AI-driven material design with robotics automation to cut material development time from years to weeks
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 18 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 350
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$2.9M; Series A $881k–$8.8M; Debt Financing $380k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Studio Meta K — Studio Meta K is a content creation company that provides artificial intelligence and virtual reality services.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 16 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $264k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Concorda — Concorda is a legal tech platform helping teams manage contracts, automate workflows, and streamline business operations.
  • Airbility — Korean anti-drone and counter-drone company founded in 2023 by aerospace, defense and mobility engineers. Team, milestones and careers.
  • Pascal — Pascal, founded in 2023, develops innovative low-pressure solid refrigerant systems for cooling applications including air conditioning and industrial uses. Join us in building better cooling solutions.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 15 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 24 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 companies with promising growth potential.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 297
  • Round size: Seed $694k–$6.6M; Series A $1.4M–$15M; Series B $3.6M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RX — RX is a startup that provides an on-site analysis solution for material properties, mainly serving environment, energy, inspection, and testing needs. It also develops technology related to next-generation nuclear power plants and agentic AI, supported by national R&D activity.This company helps industries assess materials and engineeringconditions more efficiently and accurately.
  • Vectorial AI — Vectorial is a human behavior simulation platform that helps teams understand how their target audience thinks, reacts, and responds before building a product, launching a campaign, or making a strategic decision. The platform allows users to simulate distinct audiences to predict their reactions to product ideas, designs, messaging, content, and experiences.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 14 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 270
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$9.7M; Series A $1.7M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
  • FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
  • NanoForge AI — Nanoforge AI merges AI-driven material design with robotics automation to cut material development time from years to weeks
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 13 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

The Road Not Taken

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$6.5M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $287k–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • A button — A button is a game development firm that focuses on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), first-person shooter (FPS) games, roguelikes, and souls-likes. Averton makes extensive use of AI. This strategy enhances development efficiency by minimizing the need for information gathering, data organization, and basic repetitivetasks. In certain instances, programmer productivity can nearly double.
  • Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
  • J Dragon Games — J Dragon Games is a video game studio that develops cross-platform medieval fantasy role-playing games playable simultaneously on computers and mobile devices.
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Union Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

“Union Investment Partners” since its founding in 2000, has been the leading venture capital firm in Korea specializing in contents investment that includes successful investment portfolios of films, animations, games, TV dramas, and live concerts. Union Investment Partners will maintain its role as a major investment partner of venture businesses and contents industry that seeks growth and advancement to the global market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Malaysia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$8.6M; Series B $4.2M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
  • Monster Riot — Monster Riot is an IP content planning and webtoon production studio.
  • Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
  • Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
  • Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
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Primer Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 11 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
  • Paraform — Match with expert recruiters and fill your hardest roles. Finding exceptional talent was extremely difficult, until now.
  • Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund · 10 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Kona Venture Partners is a South Korea-based venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Casual Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $741k–$6.8M; Series A $2.9M–$11M; Series B $1.5M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cave Duck — Free Trial! Create your own unique AI friend.
  • 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.
  • Warp Space — Free Trial! Create your own unique AI friend.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with a renewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

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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: 311
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$9.5M; Series A $1.5M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $23M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — New predictions from the examples in your data, without task-specific retraining.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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IMM Investment
VC Fund · Kangnam, Cholla-namdo, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Korean alternative asset investment firm

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$46M; Series B $5.8M–$54M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $18M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • SK Horizon — SK Horizon is an AI data center (AIDC) infrastructure company whose name reflects its ambition to “open new horizons” in the AIDC sector, will be responsible for expanding its infrastructure to a total capacity of 318 MW, encompassing eight data centers already in operation - Seocho, Ilsan (two locations), Bundang, Gasan, Centum, Yangju, and Pangyo- and new AIDCs currently under construction, including those in Ulsan and Guro.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Timewise Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

TIMEWISE INVESTMENT, formerly known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in video broadcasting, animation, movies, culture contents, games, communications equipment, arts, sports, leisure, manufacturing and service, mobile devices and solutions, information technology, SI, web agency, cell therapy and biotechnology sectors. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeju. CJ Venture Investment was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $981k–$4.3M; Series A $1.9M–$8.7M; Series B $5.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carlet Store — Carlet Bio is a wholesale supplier of packaging solutions.
  • Datumo — Datumo got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many AI labs/companies. To solve this problem, Datumo provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologies forthe optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. Datumo was founded in 2018.
  • ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.
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SmartStudy Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

SmartStudy Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of global entertainment company SmartStudy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Marketing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $351k–$5.1M; Series A $1.1M–$8.4M; Series B $3.7M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mateo AI studio — Mateo AI Studio is an AI‑native studio that conceives, plans, and develops original intellectual property in the fields of film, drama, and animation, executing these projects through an AI‑driven production system.
  • Red Brick House — Red Brick House is a specialized South Korean indie game publisher dedicated to discovering, supporting, and publishing innovative independent games, helping talented developers bring creative and engaging gaming experiences to players across domestic and global markets.
  • The Muse Entertainment — The Muse Entertainment is a professional entertainment agency.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 8 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2394
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Plouton AI —
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $613k–$16M; Series A $2M–$45M; Series B $3.2M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $190M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
  • QueryLift — QueryLift develops software for analyzing how generative AI systems represent brands and products. Its marketing intelligence service provides prompt analysis, competitor comparison, brand visibility monitoring, and source tracking. Its security service monitors misinformation, brand damage, data leakage, and other reputation risks associated with generative AI. The company provides these capabilities through SaaS products and positions them within generative engine optimization and AI security.
  • Ocean — Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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 making every 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: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 316
  • Round size: Seed $166k–$4.5M; Series A $2.3M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Hurotics — Hurotics is a company with deep-tech technology related to human-robot fusion.Hurotix's wearable robots, notably the 'H-Flex', are modular and give personalized support based on the user's demands, assisting users in overcoming physical restrictions.
  • Airbility — Korean anti-drone and counter-drone company founded in 2023 by aerospace, defense and mobility engineers. Team, milestones and careers.
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SB Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

SB Partners is an investment firm in South Korea. Its major businesses include new technology business and Finance Business. It was established on December 11, 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $836k–$5.8M; Series A $892k–$5.5M; Series B $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toad World — Toad World is a real estate platform that facilitates direct property transactions between landlords and tenants. It offers a user-friendly mobile application that is available on iOS and Android, enabling users to efficiently search for and list rental properties. Their mission is to streamline the real estate transaction process.
  • Haimaru Company — Haimaru Company is the developer of the AI-based influencer communication platform 'ReverseTok.' The company supports creators through casting and brand development, plans content and channel strategies, offers structured training programs to develop skills, and provides management using equipment and data-driven analysis for channeloperation, enabling digital creators and partner brands to access professional production support, education, and international audience growth opportunities.
  • Big House Entertainment — Big House Entertainment creates content like webtoons and dramas, focusing on cross-platform storytelling across media, games.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$37M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Oh — Chat live with uncensored AI girlfriends and digital twins of top creators. Flirty, personalised conversations, voice, and steamy images. Discover your favourite companion on OhChat.
  • Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
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We Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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: 95
  • Round size: Seed $729k–$4.3M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GraphAI — GraphAI AI enables seamless integration of diverse data sources for fast and user-friendly AI-powered Business Intelligence (BI).GraphAI-A leverages neural networks to maintain a comprehensive graph view and swiftly reveals valuable insights from enterprise data, facilitating trend analysis and a 360-degree customer perspective. This is achievedthrough In-DB AI technology with an intuitive low-code interface.GraphAI-T delivers accelerated and robust BI analytics by leveraging the valuable insights obtained from GraphAI-A. It further facilitates transaction processing on business data through structured queries like SQL and Cypher.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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Innopolis Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Innopolis Partners LLC. is a LLC-type venture capital firm in Korea. Partners of Innopolis Partners are former CEO or Representative Fund Manager of leading venture capital firms, such as Korea Technology Investment, STIC Investment, LG Venture Capital, KTB Network. “Innopolis No. 1 Fund” managed by Innopolis Partners is specialized for hi-tech startups in the Daedeok Innopolis complex. Daedeok Innopolis complex is set up based on former Daedeok R&D complex where most of major national R&D institutes, including ETRI, KAITST, KAERI, KRIBB, are located.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.4M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CM1 — CMWON is a technology firm that specializes in the development and manufacturing of organic chemical materials. The company synthesizes core chemical structures utilized in the production of OLED displays, semiconductor fabrication, and secondary batteries. Its operations focus heavily on Research and Development (R&D) to refine functional chemical components for high-tech applications. The firm primary supplies these synthesized electronic and chemical materials to industrial supply chains for advanced electronic hardware manufacturing.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
  • Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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: Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$23M; Series B $4.5M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
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Base Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Base Investments operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$5.7M; Series A $2.2M–$9.3M; Series B $3.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
  • Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
  • Paradigm Shift — Paradigm Shift is an application that focuses on improving the lives of mom's through social media.
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $448k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M; Series B $2.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Gaming
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$3.5M; Series A $1.7M–$8.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Deeply — Deeply provides AI-powered sound analysis solutions for real-time monitoring across manufacturing, industrial safety, and security environments.
  • Red Brick House — Red Brick House is a specialized South Korean indie game publisher dedicated to discovering, supporting, and publishing innovative independent games, helping talented developers bring creative and engaging gaming experiences to players across domestic and global markets.
  • AWESOME Entertainment — AWESOME Entertainment is a media and digital content company that provides YouTube content production, influencer and MCN management, advertising and branded content creation, and media commerce services. The comapny supports brands with campaign planning, viral video production, and distribution across multiple social platforms, while alsooffering production outsourcing and partnership services to maximize audience reach and engagement.
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Kakao Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Incorporated in 2015, Kakao Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Kakao which specializes in venture capital investments.Based on Kakao’s philosophy of “Connect Everything”, Kakao Investment seeks to invest and support innovative start-ups that can realize interpersonal connection and the connection of all of us to the things around us. Also Kakao Investment strives to foster a virtuous circle with in the venture environment by facilitating M&As and IPOs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $811k–$20M; Series A $1.8M–$12M; Series C $7.1M–$123M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
  • FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
  • Tommoro Robotics — We build the next generation of Physical AI.
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InterVest Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$36M; Series B $2.6M–$54M; Series C $14M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • MVRIX — MVRIX is a forward-thinking biotechnology company that focuses on pushing the boundaries of therapeutic innovation. The company specialises in developing new drugs based on platform technology related to membranes and viruses, enabling humans to be free from the attack of viruses and microorganisms. Additionally, it offers engineerable recombinantbotulinum toxin and virucidal therapeutics.
  • Yipscell — Yipscell is a biotech company that develops IPSC stem cell therapy to diagnose and treat incurable diseases.
  • Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Series A $838k–$10M; Series B $829k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $852k–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • SK Horizon — SK Horizon is an AI data center (AIDC) infrastructure company whose name reflects its ambition to “open new horizons” in the AIDC sector, will be responsible for expanding its infrastructure to a total capacity of 318 MW, encompassing eight data centers already in operation - Seocho, Ilsan (two locations), Bundang, Gasan, Centum, Yangju, and Pangyo- and new AIDCs currently under construction, including those in Ulsan and Guro.
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SV Investment Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 10 in the past 12 months

SV Investment Corp is a venture capital firm that provides companies with finance, strategic advice and information at critical stages of their development.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$31M; Series A $2.8M–$36M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
  • KaliVir Immunotherapeutics — multiple therapies, one virus.KALIVIR is developing cutting edge, next-generation oncolytic viral immunotherapy programs for treatment of cancer. LEARN MORE NEWS AND EVENTSAugust 19, 2026 - KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Closing of $14 Million Series A Extension Financing READ MORE November 19, 2025 - KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement with Roche to Evaluate
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Hyundai Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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 also provides 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, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$7.8M; Series B $6.9M–$128M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.6M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • NationA — NationA builds AI-native media & entertainment infrastructure. Neuroid powers AI animation production. Glaze is the Playable Drama Platform.
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ENSL Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivetta — Rivetta provides a web novel translation platform that supports global publishing through translation, distribution, promotion, and settlement services. It enables writers to share their work with international audiences while managing publishing and monetization processes. The platform helps creators grow readership and expand their presenceacross diverse global markets.
  • TalentSeeker — TalentSeeker is an AI-powered recruitment platform developing global talent sourcing and hiring automation solutions. The company provides AI-based candidate search, resume parsing, talent database management, and personalized outreach tools to help businesses streamline recruitment workflows.
  • Meta Energy Frontier — Meta Energy Frontier is a carbon-neutral smart energy solution company utilizing high-transmittance artificial photovoltaics. It contributes to improving building energy ratings through proprietary technology that converts 20% of existing unused lighting light energy into electricity. The company aims to recycle wasted light from indoor LEDlighting and utilize it as a distributed power source in urban areas.
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Nau IB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) 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: 80
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$5.5M; Series A $2M–$8.8M; 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.
  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • 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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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.

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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: 138
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$6.9M; Series A $2.2M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Airbility — Korean anti-drone and counter-drone company founded in 2023 by aerospace, defense and mobility engineers. Team, milestones and careers.
  • 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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ID ventures
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

ID ventures is an IP based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $178k–$7.2M; Series A $1.8M–$4.9M; Series B $1.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
  • Warp Space — Free Trial! Create your own unique AI friend.
  • Unmanned Exploration Laboratory — Unmanned Exploration Laboratory manufactures multirotor drones, fixed-wing aircraft, and unmanned vehicles for space exploration.
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Naver
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Naver operates as a search engine and e-commerce platform providing fintech, digital content, and cloud services. The company introduces innovative search services such as ‘Comprehensive Search,’ ‘Knowledge iN,’ and ‘Real-time Rising Keyword.' It also offers UGC services such as Blog and Cafe; Junior Naver, a children’s portal; Happybean, an online donation portal. NAVER launched its Webtoon service in June 2004 and has pioneered the distribution and consumption of webtoons, also known as digital comics. In addition, NAVER also offers services for the global market, including the mobile messenger LINE through LINE Corporation, NAVER’s subsidiary; the video messenger Snow; and the group communication service BAND. NAVER is also involved in software development and distribution; performances and exhibitions business; mobile content development and distribution; search advertising; internet commerce and customer service business; the operation and security services of IT infrastructure; operating online shopping services, and mobile applications marketing. Lee Hae-Jin and Lee Joon-ho headquartered the company in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea in 1999.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$1.8M; Series A $3.1M–$20M; Series B $2.8M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apollon — Needle Gone, Data On
  • Hurotics — Hurotics is a company with deep-tech technology related to human-robot fusion.Hurotix's wearable robots, notably the 'H-Flex', are modular and give personalized support based on the user's demands, assisting users in overcoming physical restrictions.
  • Panthalassa — We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $589k–$13M; Series A $1.8M–$15M; Series B $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
  • Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
  • S-Innovations — S-Innovations is a robotics software company that develops SynK, a cyber-physical AI operating system for robot deployment, integration, and recovery across different robot brands and industrial facilities. The company provides automation software that enables faster robot setup, system connectivity, and operational management for sectors usingautonomous mobile robots
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups, 12 in the past 12 months

MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, China, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
  • Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

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: 105
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Modapl — Modapl's objective is to make all mobility data available to everyone. It is developing a platform for exchanging mobility data. The platform will contain data generated by autos, IoT devices, and smartphones, as well as mobility data owned by businesses.
  • BrickBio — BrickBio: Bioconjugation platform for site-specific, site-selective modification of antibodies and other proteins
  • HMC Networks — Hmcnetworks leads service innovation, resolving the imbalance of information in the medical industry by using big data.
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East Gate Partners
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups

East Gate Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investment for businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $340k–$2.2M; Series A $223k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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.
  • Waggy Days — The first impact-actuated safety leash adapter that automatically releases when an elevator door closes on the leash.
  • Peekaboo Labs — Peekaboo Labs perfectly protects the corporate data with 'On-Device AI' without external servers, and experience overwhelming productivity even without the internet. The company eliminates servers and implements AI on 'PC'. Peekaboo Labs empower enterprises in high-compliance sectors (Finance, Healthcare, Defense) to deploypowerful LLMs within air-gapped environments. They carefully select and organize only the information needed from among over 100 documents .
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Media (Entertainment) VC funding in South Korea at a glance

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in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups
$2.2M
median round
in South Korea Media (entertainment) startups
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lead investors
lead at least one round
44%
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