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Top 20 Mobile Angel Investors in South Korea in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Mobile startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Mobile Angel Investors in South Korea in December 2024

Investor	Mobile South Korea investments
Aviram Jenik	4
Kim Won-tae	1
Ji-woo Song	1
Hyunjae Lee	1
Sunghwan Choi	1
Erik Peterson	1
S Cubic Angels	1
Geoff Ralston	1
Jong-Il Yoon	1
Daniel Shin	1
Bae Yong-Joon	1
Douglas Guen	1
Park Jong-hwan	1
Gabriel Fong	1
Osuke Honda	1
Jae-sik Shin	1
Taekkyung Lee	1
Byeong-min Yeo	1
Bong Jin Kim	1
Perry Tam	1

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Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities

Kim Won-tae

Investment focus

Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

TMM — TMM is a mail-order platform that helps anyone to easily conduct mail-order and field sales.
Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.

Song Ji-woo serves as CEO at Jiwoo Company.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.

Hyunjae Lee serves as Director of Public Policy at Woowa Brothers.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.

Sunghwan Choi

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
Sequin — Sequin is on a mission to fight the Pink Tax with cashback rewards & money education.

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
United States, Canada, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

S Cubic Angels

Investment focus

Education, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
KRG Group — KRG Group is a rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.

Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
South Korea, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
Port One — Experience every payment in the world with one line of code
Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.

Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.

Investment focus

Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
Seed
Japan, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.

Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder of Primer. He previously worked at INICIS as a Founder and CEO. Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.

Investment focus

Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
Soomgo — Soomgo is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.

Park Jong-hwan is a Founder and CEO at LOC&ALL.

Investment focus

Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology
Angel
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.

Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie

Investment focus

Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
Seed
Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
LTAI — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.

Osuke Honda is a General Partner at DCM Ventures, Osuke previously worked at Mitsubishi Corporation and then at Apax Globis Partners & Co (now GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS & Co.). Having assumed the position of Outside Director of Sansan, Inc. in April 2018, he draws on his extensive experience of investment and business management in makinggeneral management recommendations.Osuke Honda attended Hitotsubashi University, The Wharton School, and Keio University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Japan, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
Picsart — Picsart is the largest all-in-one creative platform of photo, video editing, and design tools. An ecosystem of free-to-use content and inspiration from other creators.
Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.

Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.

Taekkyung Lee is the Founder , CEO and Representative Partner of Mashup Ventures. He previously worked at Primer Season2 as a Founding Partner. Taekkyung Lee attended Yonsei University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.

Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

Bongjin is the CEO & Co-Founder of Woowa Brothers.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Pet, Software
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Ban Life — Ban Life is a mobile application that provides real-time information related to pet accommodations nationwide.
Vendys — Vendys offers mobile meal management solution for office workers.