Top 10 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in South Korea in April 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Mobile apps startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile apps companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in South Korea in April 2025
Investor | Mobile Apps South Korea investments |
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Daniel Shin | 1 |
Byeong-min Yeo | 1 |
Jae-sik Shin | 1 |
S Cubic Angels | 1 |
Bae Yong-Joon | 1 |
Aviram Jenik | 1 |
Ji-woo Song | 1 |
Douglas Guen | 1 |
Hyunjae Lee | 1 |
Gabriel Fong | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, 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 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 ofhis business 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.
Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.
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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.
Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.
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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.
S Cubic Angels
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Investment focus
- Education, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
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- 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
Song Ji-woo serves as CEO at Jiwoo Company.
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, South Korea
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- 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.
Hyunjae Lee serves as Director of Public Policy at Woowa Brothers.
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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.
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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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.
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