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Top 50 Medical Startup Investors in South Korea

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Medical startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Medical Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor	Medical South Korea investments
Dayli Partners	12
KB Investment	11
DSC Investment	9
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund	8
IMM Investment	7
Aju IB Investment	7
Company K Partners	6
Hana Ventures	6
AI Angel Club	6
Bass Investment	6
Shinhan Venture Investment	5
Quantum Ventures Korea	5
SBI Investment Korea	5
HB Investment	4
Hyundai Investment Partners	4
STIC Ventures	4
SV Investment Corp	4
Stonebridge Capital	4
POSCO CAPITAL	4
ActnerLab	4
Premier Partners	3
Laguna Investment	3
Dt& Investment	3
Strong Ventures	3
SJ Investment Partners	3
Fast Ventures	3
K Ground Ventures	3
Mirae Asset Capital	3
TIGRIS investment	3
TheVentures	3
ID Ventures	3
Capstone Partners	3
IBK Capital	3
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings	3
Kakao Ventures	3
UTC Investment Co.	3
Kiwoom Investment	3
Series Ventures	3
LSK Investment	3
SGI Venture Capital	3
WONIK Investment Partners	3
Smilegate Investment	3
Hi Investment Partners	3
Murex Partners	3
Pathfinder H	3
Korea Investment Partners	3
TS Investment	2
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)	2
Atinum Investment	2
Kolon Investment	2

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Dayli Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
Tiernes — Tienes is a dental practice that specializes in digital-based clear orthodontics.
Medipixel — Medipixel is a MedTech startup that aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality of human life by innovating the way we diagnose diseases and controlling surgical robots with the power of AI. Consisting of a group of AI experts in computer vision, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, Medipixel conducts research and product developmentfor lung cancer diagnosis and coronary intervention robots together with the best healthcare professionals in Korea such as Seoul Asan Medical Center. In November 2018, MediPixel won the championship in the QuickFire Challenge hosted by Johnson & Johnson. MediPixel currently offers three solutions for intervention surgeons:1. An AI Based Diagnosis Solution makes it possible for doctors to spot lesions while performing a coronary angiography, perform segmentation of the vessel in question within just one second and analyze the lesion’s status.2. A Guide & Planning Solution clearly visualizes the hidden part of the coronary artery to make doctors perform guidewire manipulation with more ease and confidence, which is quite useful especially in case of CTO. Furthermore, the solution frees doctors from the need to use contrast -- this is important because contrast can cause potentially fatal reactions in 5 to 10% of patients.3. An Automated Navigation Engine automates navigation through coronary arteries. Once the destination is reached, it controls a robotic unit by giving the most appropriate real-time commands in its existing situation, thus delivering devices such as guidewire to the destination in the most efficient way.We're open to any candidates who are excited to apply their knowledge and skill in deep learning to real-world medical data and surgery robots. Do you have any questions? Email us at contact@medipixel.io

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
Hypersonic Laboratories — Hypersonic Laboratories is a venture startup building HELIX, a high-fidelity metaverse.
Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

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
Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
Terracle — Terracle is a Korean eco-friendly startup with the world's best waste plastic depolymerization technology. We supply recycled TPA (PTA) and EG in large quantities and focus on low-grade, hard-to-recycle plastic waste, clothing, and film waste. The best ESG solution is Terracle.

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gloud — Gloud offers dental digital and digital practice transformation services.
Suppor-T — Suppor-T is an entrepreneur-focused growth management tool
Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.

Korean alternative asset investment firm

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.
Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is a tour guide that recommends houses suitable for monthly living.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
South Korea, United States, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
Space Lintech — Space Lintech provides novel medical research, development, and manufacture in the microgravity environment of satellites and space stations.
Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Arobot — Arobot creates robots with HRI-based behavior patterns, allowing consumers to embrace robots more readily and organically.
Tripearl Games — Tripearl Games develops action games for the PC and console platforms.
NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.

AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Angel
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Frankit — Frankit is a franchise supply chain curating platform that offers a supplier curating feature that identifies and links providers of essential commodities.
Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Uncommon Home — Uncommon Home delivers a pleasant life experience and creates a Beauty & Lifestyle brand that leads the culture that consumers aspire to.
Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
Paradigm Shift — Paradigm Shift created an exercise diary platform to help people stay fit. The company's website allows mothers to upload activity diaries, encourage one another, and win incentives, enabling them to grow through motivating support.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
Essen — Essen is a vehicle wrapping advertising platform, but in the future, it hopes to offer new services like traffic congestion relief and anomaly detection that make use of mobility data.

Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Testbank — Mission | About Product | Team Culture | Recruit | Team Blog
Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
LINKFLOW — LINKFLOW is a hardware company that produces and develops wearable cameras to capture scenes at a full 360-degree angle. The cameras are designed as wearable neckbands, use anti-shaking software to stabilize the image are lightweight allowing hands-free operation, and have cloud storage functionality with single-tap mobile applications connected tocapture their surroundings with seamless integration and a virtual reality-ready camera.
LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

AITRICS — AITRICS is taking on the ultimate role of giving everyone access to the power of data-driven health intelligence by developing advanced clinical solutions that will revolutionize their lives. With a shared vision and a common purpose, passionate and dedicated professionals from diverse backgrounds came together to create the most exceptional team.
MindwareWorks — Mindware all development efforts are focuses on service platform which integrates a variety of non-face-to-face customer contact methods and channels into MSA platform by ourself.
Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Medical, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
Catch Table — Catch Table is a restaurant reservation and customer management solution provider company.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
SqueezeBits — SqueezeBits builds ecosystem for designing, training, and deploying compressed neural networks.
SIMPLE planet — Food biotech company producing sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients using cellular agriculture.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Dexelion — Dexelion - Ultimate Depth and Image Sensing Solution
AltMedical — AltMedical is a research institute jointly established with Dong-A University and aims to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
Chain Lightning — Chain Lightning is an electric vehicle charging station that provides electric vehicle care payment and charge management services.

Premier Partners (프리미어 파트너스) is a Korean domestic funds management company. It provides investment services for individuals and businesses. Premier Partners was established in September 2005 in Seoul, Korea.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Medipixel — Medipixel is a MedTech startup that aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality of human life by innovating the way we diagnose diseases and controlling surgical robots with the power of AI. Consisting of a group of AI experts in computer vision, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, Medipixel conducts research and product developmentfor lung cancer diagnosis and coronary intervention robots together with the best healthcare professionals in Korea such as Seoul Asan Medical Center. In November 2018, MediPixel won the championship in the QuickFire Challenge hosted by Johnson & Johnson. MediPixel currently offers three solutions for intervention surgeons:1. An AI Based Diagnosis Solution makes it possible for doctors to spot lesions while performing a coronary angiography, perform segmentation of the vessel in question within just one second and analyze the lesion’s status.2. A Guide & Planning Solution clearly visualizes the hidden part of the coronary artery to make doctors perform guidewire manipulation with more ease and confidence, which is quite useful especially in case of CTO. Furthermore, the solution frees doctors from the need to use contrast -- this is important because contrast can cause potentially fatal reactions in 5 to 10% of patients.3. An Automated Navigation Engine automates navigation through coronary arteries. Once the destination is reached, it controls a robotic unit by giving the most appropriate real-time commands in its existing situation, thus delivering devices such as guidewire to the destination in the most efficient way.We're open to any candidates who are excited to apply their knowledge and skill in deep learning to real-world medical data and surgery robots. Do you have any questions? Email us at contact@medipixel.io
MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Liternol — Liternol offers logistics services, along with competitive return collection rates and inspection information.
Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
ZeroXFlow — ZeroXFlow develops 1hour, an all-in-one platform for foreign language education.

Dt&Investment

Investment focus

Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Quriously — Quriously is an integrated platform for video lectures in Korea.
Atlas Labs — Atlas Labs develops and delivers language-based AI solutions.
Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
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.
ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.

K Ground Ventures is a science and technology commercialization investment platform.

Investment focus

Medical, Automotive, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Yellowknife — Yellowknife is a custom digital cluster sharing and usage platform for vehicles.
Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
Ingenium Therapeutics — Ingenium Therapeutics commercializes NK anti-cancer immunotherapy with clinical impact based on solid basic research.

South Korean investment firm, headquartered in Seoul.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
Rebellions.ai — Liberate Human Potential with Accelerated AI

TIGRIS investment is a venture investment and management consulting company.

Investment focus

Pharmaceutical, Medical, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Snaptag — Snaptag is a developer of an invisible watermark technology intended for image data engine processing.
Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
Cell Lab Med — Cell Lab Med is a drug research and development company.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

Loanfra — Loanfra delivers mortgage loan options within 10 minutes and approves loans the following day.
Reppley — Reppley is an AI chat tool that generates a daily conversation chatbot based on previous KakaoTalk talks.
Zetic.ai — ZETIC.ai presents Zero-cost AI with Server-less, On-device optimized AI with fully utilized target hardware.

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Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

adoc — adoc provides medical records, discount medical examination, check AI symptoms and compare hospital expenses services.
Sirs — Sirs is a men's medical healthcare platform that offers non-face-to-face treatment, drug delivery, and consultation services.
LIONROCKET — Enjoy your daily life through a new level of immersion - Discover possibilities beyond your imagine with overwhelming generative AI technology.

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. Thefirm 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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services.

Kaist Venture Investment Holdings is a startup company that invests in startups that solve social problems through innovative technologies. They invest in businesses that maximize synergy by pursuing both social and financial values at the same time. It focuses on five sectors including health, environment, education, elimination of inequality, andsocial infrastructure. Kaist Venture Investment Holdings was founded on October 31, 2014, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Grant
South Korea, Australia

Portfolio highlights

J Fun — J Fun is a marketing agency that provides design, video production, and domestic marketing services.
Bredis — Bredis Healthcare provides a variety of solutions for early diagnosis and prognosis monitoring of dementia based on ultrasensitive detection of biomarkers in bodily fluid. We also offer various digital solutions for personalized cognitive training to prevent and treat the disease.
Mockingbird — Mockingbird gives personalized mock exams for the CSAT utilizing an AI item suggestion system.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

1000jobs — 1000jobs provides job training opportunities regardless of age or experience.
WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
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.

Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GEXVal — GEXVal is to help patients and families fighting against orphan and intractable diseases
Novorex — Novorex specializes in the development of molecule drugs targeting oncology and neurology diseases.
Right Route — Right Route is an e-commerce company for clothes.

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sauce — Smart sound sends data over sound that cannot be heard by humans, enabling connection among devices without additional hardware. Mobidoo is leading Fintech industry with its own technology 'Smart sound'. 'Smart Sound' is applied to payment, IoT, and marketing solutions, and has been customized to Lotte L.pay and commercializedfor more than 20,000 merchants of Lotte Department Store, Lotte Mart and 7 Eleven Korea, etc. as the world's first case. Currently, mobidoo is launching pre-paid P2P payment platform for merchants and users. Mobidoo is targeting fintech and global market using 'Smart Sound' technology.
Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea

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Cryotech — Cryotech obtains low-temperature protein enzymes from Antarctic marine microbes and manufactures products with effective protein degradation.
Sonervis — Sonervis offers precise industrial automation software services and includes essential technologies including visualization and report automation.
Live X — Live X is a digital transformation and brand development company that provides media services.

LSK Investment is a Korean venture capital firm that provides long-term capital and management support to venture enterprises. The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, Korea.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
Autotelic Bio — Autotelic Bio is a bio technology company that researches and develops anti-cancer drugs.
Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.

Founded in 2007, SGI (Samho Green Investment) is the first and only venture capital firm in Korea focused on the green growth sector, including renewable energy, green and agricultural technologies. We engage in venture capital and private equity investments for mergers & acquisitions and buyouts, and conduct business as well as engineeringconsulting for our portfolio and client companies.Our investment focus areas are green technology (greentech) commercialization, green infrastructure and agricultural technologies (agritech), as well as early-stage project development. We have an experienced team of in-house greentech specialists and an extensive domestic and international greentech network, which assists us in deal sourcing, value creation and exit management.

Investment focus

Medical, Software, Supply Chain Management
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Singapore, United States

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VSI — 1st high bandwidth automotive Serdes chip, supporting ASA (Automotive Serdes Alliance) motion link. Vsitech.
TradLinx Co. — TradLinx is an integrated international logistics platform that has enlightened enclosed logistics market with ‘Visibility’ based on our ‘Big Data’. We provide a consolidated logistics management system to international shippers, and an efficient management system as well as opportunities to expand client pool to freight service providers.TradLinx has truly been reshaping the international logistics market.TradLinx’s vast database and strong algorithm have been solving decades old issues in the market. With TradLinx, shippers were able to reduce logistics costs, track shipments, manage history easy and fast. Freight service providers are now able to work efficiently and now finding new opportunities through TradLinx. 1. Visibility Solution TradLinx provides real-time visibility solution. We've developed an easy-to-use solution that only requires input of bill of lading number to track your shipments real-time through the years of collecting & analyzing logistics data. Our clients include Samsung Electronics and many multinational corporations based in Korea and we now track over 10% of all containers ship in & out of Korea.2. Hassle Free Quote Request TradLinx’s hassle free quote request system differentiate from the beginning of your logistics journey. An easy to use system and our professional consultants provide quotes within 24 hours for point to point location anywhere in the world. 3. Smart Solution to Compare Quotes & Instant Booking TradLinx, only to better logistics market and reduce unnecessary costs for shippers, compares quotes from our partners who are simply the best in the market for your specific countries and all other needs. 4. Smart Document Manager on Cloud Hard copies are now things in the past. Logistics documents managed over cloud are easily accessible anywhere, anytime. TradLinx provides checklist and samples for shippers to have them better prepare documents without missing any required documents. 5. Efficient Shipment History Management Shippers now can easily manage shipment history without spreadsheets. Repeat orders became easy with one click on TradLinx.6. Monitoring Dashboard for Shippers’ Logistics Status TradLinx’s integrated monitoring dashboard lets shippers know current logistics status with real-time alarm system. Shippers now never have to be kept in the dark.TradLinx is also a logistics data provider to one of the largest conglomerate in Korea as well as government agencies. TradLinx greatly enhances user experience searching for logistics information to a whole new level by providing integrated data sets for Ocean Schedule, Air Cargo Schedule, Tracking, Vessel Info, and Terminal Schedule.Become a member to check your favorite carriers' schedule and compare rates from our top of the market partners!!
PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics Inc. is a preclinical stage Biotechnology company that is pioneering the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Infectious Diseases.

Wonik Investment Partners, formerly known as Hanmi Technology Investment Co., Ltd., is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, start-up, early and mid-stage companies, growth capital and corporate restructuring. The firm prefers to invest in gaming contents, electronic components, computer,telecommunications equipment, petroleum, energy, machinery and equipment industries. It seeks to exit through an IPO or merger and acquisition. Wonik Investment Partners was established in 1997 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

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MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
Saige Research — Saige Research specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for industrial inspection and quality control. The company provides a deep learning vision inspection platform optimized for the manufacturing industry to solve inspectors' difficulties and increase work efficiency; its technology provides power detection, speed detection, wideversatility, and development convenience.

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

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NXN Labs — NXN Labs empowers individuals in crafting indistinguishable and sophisticated human images and videos. It goal is to empower people to seamlessly navigate this exciting, intertwined journey into a new era.
MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
Reliv — Automate QA tests in just 5 minutes

Hi Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that provides investment and financial services.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

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HoneyNaps — Connected Family through Digital Healthcare.Beginning in 2015, HoneyNaps began to develop the element technology for monitoring Bio-signal and completed the platform launch. In order to derive full-cycle bio-signal management & the disease prediction model.
AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.

Murex Partners is a VC firm specializing in thesis-driven investing.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

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Redrob — Redrob empowers sales, recruitment, and networking around the world. B2B Lead Search, Talent Search, Online Skill Tests, Employer of Record and more.
Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
Algocare — Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations.

Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea

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Cool Sign — Coolsign is an EV specialist that offers a complete set of hardware and platforms based on its own technology for the reliable operation of electric car charging stations.
Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
Elpis Cell Therapeutics — Elpis Cell Therapeutics develops individualized cell therapy to cure incurable diseases.

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

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Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
Kangjian Miaomiao — Kangjian Miaomiao is an e-commerce platform that specializes in the production of full-category, customized oral and dental products.

TS Investment is an investment company.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
South Korea, Singapore

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growV — growV offers educational services by using learning technology.
mangrove — mangrove is a real estate and rental services provider.
Xingxing Mobility — Xingxing Mobility is an app that offers an electric kickboard sharing service.

Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea

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Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

Atinum Investment Co., Ltd. is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in the information technology and communication, materials for Information technology, renewable energy, metal and non-metal, distribution, media and contents, materials and components, and biotechnology and life science industries

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

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KLOOK — Klook is a developer of travel activities and services booking platform designed to connect travelers with experiences. With Klook’s innovative technologies, travelers can book on-the-go and redeem the services by using QR code-enabled e-vouchers. Each day, Klook empowers countless travelers to indulge in their wanderlust and spontaneity throughover 100,000 offerings in more than 400 destinations.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
Klook Hong Kong — At Klook, your career is yours to explore. Want to work on projects with global impact, try innovative solutions, and have fun doing it? Apply today!

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

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
Hej home — Hej home is the largest smart home IoT brand in Korea under GoQual Co. Ltd. Hej Home is a company that aims to create a comfortable and transformed daily life that people may not have experienced before. It turns uncomfortable moments into enjoyable ones, making everyone's dream house a part of their everyday lives.
NEUROPHET — Neurophet produces solutions based on Segengine, the company’s own technology that automatically segments brain magnetic resonance (MR) images into 107 regions within a minute.

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