Top 20 Mobile Angel Investors in South Korea (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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4 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence | $74k–$18M |
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Minsik Cho
Angel
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3 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS | |
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $4M–$15M |
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S Cubic Angels
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, Apps, EdTech | $87k–$223k |
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Osuke Honda
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Mobile | $2.2M–$52M |
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Kim Won-tae
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order | |
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Ji-woo Song
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Park Jong-hwan
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Angel | Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology | |
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Geoff Ralston
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Senegal | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$12M |
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Services, Information Technology | $295k–$743k |
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Douglas Guen
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce | $50k–$631k |
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
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1 | Japan, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps | $1M–$1M |
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Gabriel Fong
Angel
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1 | Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea | Seed | Hotel, Apps, Travel | $500k–$1.1M |
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Perry Tam
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed | Mobile, Consumer, Software | $2.2M–$8M |
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Daniel Shin
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Legal Tech | $1.6M–$5M |
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Bong Jin Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile Apps, Pet, Software | |
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Byeong-min Yeo
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series B | Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps | |
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Hyunjae Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Jae-sik Shin
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Jong-Il Yoon
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $336k–$6.9M |
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Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $491k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $74k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
- Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
- Outside Board Director, Kakao Corp. (Korea’s Telegram) - (Ex) Senior partner, KPMG Korea - Certified Public Accountant - Business Administration, Seoul National University
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Bitbyte — Fun communication. A happy world. We maximize the value of communication with a mobile keyboard app used by over 600K people.
- Mapiacompany — Official website of Mapiacompany. We are innovate Music-Tech industry and musician's daily life.
Sunghwan Choi
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $4M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
- Pilotly — Gain insight into any video or creative asset by using Pilotly to create and field studies that will help you discover what your consumer really thinks.
- BOOQED — Transform any underutilized areas into co-working spaces with QUBIC booths and software. People can book them as work pods for meeting rooms, office spaces, hot desks, access control system included.
S Cubic Angels
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- Industry: Education, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $87k–$223k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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 proptech and rental finance platform operated by KRG Group that provides “zero-deposit” monthly rental solutions for residential and commercial leases. The service helps tenants reduce or eliminate upfront security deposits while guaranteeing landlords stable monthly rent payments.
- Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$52M; Series A $4M–$11M; Series B $2.8M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- 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.
- Fish Audio — Fish Audio is an AI platform for expressive text‑to‑speech and voice cloning with pro‑grade voices and multilingual support.
Kim Won-tae
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- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Park Jong-hwan is a Founder and CEO at LOC&ALL.
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- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.
Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $3.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Asymmetric Security — Asymmetric Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup specializing in digital forensics and incident response. It combines elite forensic experts with proprietary AI to accelerate investigations, especially Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, at less than half the cost of competitors while shrinking timelines from days to hours.
Taekkyung Lee co-founded Daum Communications and served as CTO and Head of Communication & Community Services, leading Daum's growth into a major portal service and its KOSDAQ listing. He later facilitated the M&A of D&Shop, a spin-off from Daum, to GS Home Shopping. While contemplating his path as a serial entrepreneur andinvestor, he decided to focus on early-stage investments and began investing in early-stage startups in earnest. He established Mashup Angels (now Mashup Ventures), an early-stage startup investment firm, and as CEO, aims to support portfolio companies' growth and engage in various activities within the startup ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $295k–$743k; Angel $371k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
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.
- Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $100k–$631k; Angel $100k–$520k; Pre-Seed $50k–$297k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 supports interactions across categories such as education, home maintenance, event-related work, and personal services. It enables users to search for and engage providers for specific tasks, while service providers list and manage their offerings through the platform. Soomgo is a local services marketplace.
- 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.
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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- Industry: Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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- Industry: Hotel, Apps, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flow - By the Hour Hotel Booking Platform — Flow App : Book hotels and co-working spaces by the hour. Flexible duration from 1-12 hours. Check-in anytime, save up to 75% off regular prices.
- LIberaTrade — 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.
Perry Tam is the Co-Founder and Managimg Partner of Locus Ventures. Took up B.S., Computer Science at Cornell University.
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- Industry: Mobile, Consumer, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- Eunice — Eunice combines extensive on-chain data with powerful off-chain insights to provide a customisable, AI-driven due diligence and monitoring solution
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Legal Tech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
Bongjin is the CEO & Co-Founder of Woowa Brothers.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Pet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ban Life — Ban Life is a pet lifestyle reservation platform that provides information on pet accommodations, cafes, restaurants, and companion travel services across multiple locations. The app helps users discover pet-friendly places by offering facility details, usage guidelines, reviews, parking availability, and operating hours, making it easier to planoutings and travel with pets conveniently and efficiently.
- Vendys — Vendys offers mobile meal management solution for office workers.
Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 could not find the information they wanted online or get inaccurate information through word of mouth. On the other hand, care service providers were having difficulty collecting elderlycustomers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care service provider information on the mobile.
Hyunjae Lee serves as Director of Public Policy at Woowa Brothers.
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- Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.
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- Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $336k–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Mr.Dealer (Mrs Garage) — Mr.Dealer is an online platform that provides a comparison of used car prices.
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