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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in South Korea

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

Top 50 Music Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor	Music South Korea investments
Altos Ventures	3
KB Investment	3
Industrial Bank of Korea	2
Laguna Investment	2
Strong Ventures	2
SV Investment Corp	2
kocca	2
Shinhan Venture Investment	2
Future Science and Technology Holdings	2
Primer Sazze Partners	2
Timewise Investment	2
Capstone Partners	2
Series Ventures	1
Netmarble	1
Access Ventures	1
CRIT Ventures	1
KC Ventures	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
SBVA	1
SBI Investment Korea	1
Groom Investment	1
Qihoo 360 Technology	1
Michael Carter	1
Maven Capital Partners	1
Solaire Partners	1
Formation 8	1
HB Investment	1
Murex Partners	1
KNet Investment Partners	1
Richard Ma	1
SNU Technical Holdings	1
Kiwoom Investment	1
Samsung Ventures	1
Sfermion	1
Golden Gate Ventures	1
Bokwang Investment	1
Cooper Turley	1
KDDI Open Innovation Fund	1
E&Investment	1
P&I Investment	1
Wargaming	1
Partners Investment	1
ID ventures	1
We Ventures	1
YG Entertainment	1
IDG Capital	1
The Raine Group	1
Reflexive Capital	1
KEB Hana Bank	1
DT Capital Partners	1

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Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
PI Corporation — PI Corporation is a new media and entertainment firm.

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.

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

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.
MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.

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.

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.

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.

Korea Creative Content Agency (kocca) was established on May 7, 2009 to efficiently support the growth of the cultural industry by combining Korea Broadcasting Institute, Korea Culture and Content Agency, Korea Game Industry Agency, Cultural Contents Center, and Digital Contents Business Group of Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency according toArticle 31 of the Framework Act on Cultural Industry Promotion.kocca is an agency dedicated to promoting all areas for content. We established a comprehensive support system to nurture the content industry, and aim to develop Korea as one of the world's top 5 contents powerhouses.kocca conducts various support businesses to help Korea's content industry grow into a global leader in the creative economy.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Digital Entertainment
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

DNsolution — DN Solution is startup company focusing on NFC(Near field Communication) feature of Android smartphone. we make various embeded pruducts which makes NFC easier.
Cre Planet — Cre Planet creates technologies for analyzing advertising performance and provides staffing services.
Wazzle Entertainment — Wazzle Entertainment is founded by IT experts and K-Pop stars' actual dance choreographers, and provides K-Pop dance lessons through smartphone devices.Wazzle Entertainment has been granted an exclusive use of official choreography copyrights from K-Pop choreographers for providing dance lessons to the world. We also have exclusivecontracts with champion street dance teams from around the globe to provide their lessons online. All lessons are being serviced through iOS, Android, Smart TV and Web streaming.Wazzle Entertainment has acquired access to the choreography rights of over 90% of K-Pop dances, and provide dance-related services on iOS, Android, Smart TV and Web streaming in more than 7 languages. We aim to be 'the Youtube of Dance' by providing video contents including K-pop dance, street dance lessons, star news, and dance studio segments.Wazzle Entertainment develops original content and lesson-video streaming solutions for dance-learning through apps, smart TV, web, including projects such as:-Original K-POP DanceRelease: iOS 1.0.1(July, 2013)http://youtube.com/OriginalKpopDanceLearn the hottest K-pop dances anytime and anywhere!Wherever you are, the place you're at instantly becomes a dance studio. With a smartphone, tablet or smart TV, you can easily learn K-pop dances on your own schedule – no searching for a studio and dance instructor, no need for expensive classes! 'Original K-POP Dance' provides one hour lessons with 15 clips, so users can repeat sections they want to practice. Anyone can dance and show off to their friends after learning even just some of the parts. Plus!- Mirror mode for easily keeping track of moves and directions- Suitable for learning group dances, with detailed instructions and breakdowns of each members' dance steps and movements

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.

Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

NationA INC. — We are NationA
DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.
Carbon Energy — Carbon Energy was founded as a direct air capture (DAC) solution startup. With the use of direct carbon capture (DAC) technology, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is directly extracted and either buried underground or recycled into new resources. Beyond the current DAC technology, Carbon Energy is claimed to possess a special technology thatsimultaneously produces renewable energy and lowers carbon dioxide.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Genesis lab — Genesis lab is a authentic machine to human communication to improve the way human and machine communicate.
Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.

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

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, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Fxip — FXIP has the capacity to quickly complete a number of processes, including product planning, design, and manufacturing. Through the introduction of various IP brands in the food & life sector, it has already demonstrated the potential of the business.
Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
Simply Care Bio — Simply Care Bio is a care food company that manufactures functional foods based on ingredient composition and amplification technology through water-solubilization of fatty acids and immunity-building technology through cell activation.

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Investment focus

Gaming, Music, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ALUX — ALUX is a content creation company that specializes in video and coding education content.
HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
Epic League — Epic League is a next-generation game studio focusing on introducing innovative web3 elements to the game experience. We are proudly backed by Griffin Gaming Partners, Mirana Ventures (Bybit's venture partner), Game7, and more!

Access Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage technology companies in Vietnam, Indonesia and Korea. They provide strategic expertise to their founders and access to their unique network of executives and technology professionals. Leveraging their robust network of strategic investors, they also focus their attention on creatingand executing sound exit strategies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Yulift — Yulift is a software company that designs and develops software solutions.
Plugo — Indonesia's e-commerce platform for all businesses. Start, manage, and grow your business. Build your own online store website.
PeopleFund — Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr.

The Road Not Taken

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.

KC Ventures is a Seoul based-venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in the healthcare, and media sectors.

Investment focus

Music, Medical, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

VSI — 1st high bandwidth automotive Serdes chip, supporting ASA (Automotive Serdes Alliance) motion link. Vsitech.
Space Oddity — Space Oddity is a music company.
CarboExpert — CarboExpert is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the development of anti-allergy medical materials. The company is known for its innovative approach in the biotechnology field, focusing on natural and synthetic-based anti-inflammatory and anti-allergy solutions. CarboExpert also produces and supplies functional carbohydrates andstandard reference materials, making it a unique entity in its industry. Additionally, the company owns a derma-cosmetic brand, THERAPHYTOABEL, which aims to address consumers' skin problems.

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
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.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.

SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
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.

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.

Groom Investment is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, EdTech
Private Equity
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Clesson — Clesson is a music edtech company.

360 Total Security is a leader in Cybersecurity software. With a billion active internet users, 360 has earned a strong reputation for excellence. Download Free

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Hozon — Hozon integrates hardware products and software services through innovative technology research and development, intelligent manufacturing, and multi-channel sales services. Through the development of electric, intelligence, and connectivity, they are committed to creating cost-effective Intelligent electric vehicles of high quality, providingusers with a simple, intuitive, and comfortable travel experience.
Lanxin — Lanxin is a secure mobile work platform for government and enterprise.
HanSight — HanSight is dedicated to changing the cyber security landscape based on their award-winning big data analytics platform and patented machine learning algorithms, by unifying SIEM, User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Network Traffic Analytics (NTA). Their mission is to empower organizations to detect and prevent to cyber breaches, fraudand insider threats that threaten their digital property and financial assets, in real time and with greater accuracy than ever before. With the vision "Data Driven Security", HanSight was founded in 2014 by seasoned entrepreneurs from Trend Micro, Microsoft and Oracle, with extensive experience in security analytics, big data technology and machine learning. They are backed by world-class ventures including IDG Capital, CASH Capital etc, and trusted by large-scale banks, telcos and government agencies. They are ranked #320 on Cybersecurity 500 list in 2017.

Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Dating
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
Dandy — Exclusively in LA, invite only.

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Carcinotech — Carcinotech has pioneered the development of assay-ready, 3D-bioprinted tumours derived from patient biopsies for oncology drug development.
Metrion Biosciences — Metrion Biosciences is a Contract Research Organization (CRO) that is located in the world renowned Cambridge biocluster.
McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd — We deliver actionable intelligence on a global scale, empowering informed decision making for insurance and commercial clients across the world

Solaire Partners is an investment firm

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Events
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Umag — Umag is a music content company that provides brand channel, concerts, and advertisment services.
Order Plus — Order Plus is a food service company that offers grocery supplies for restaurants.

Formation 8 is a venture capital firm that provides financial and strategic capital to early growth smart enterprise and energy technology companies. They support entrepreneurs who seek to transform the most important global industries by solving hard problems with technology solutions. Partnership is in their DNA. Formation 8 value trustedrelationships with entrepreneurs, investors, and strategic partners through their global network.As a partner to young companies, Formation 8's goal is to create long-term, sustainable value through operational expertise and business development partnerships. Formation 8 leverage their deep and distributed networks to provide the market knowledge, deployment expertise, sales channels, and relationships needed to expand into and thrive in Asia. With local teams in Korea, China and Singapore, Formation 8 connect Silicon Valley start-ups to dynamic multinational corporations in these geographies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Big Data
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, South Korea, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aviatrix — Aviatrix secure cloud networking software is purpose-built for your business, delivering enterprise-grade networking with security, agility, and cost-optimization in mind.
Cape Analytics — CAPE Analytics uses AI and geospatial imagery to help property insurers and investors better understand the built environment.
Ascus Biosciences — Taking charge of health

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

K-Net is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

GXC — The Company that aims to change the global gaming ecosystem for the better
Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
Contents Technologies — Content Technologies is a content IP-based company builder.

Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

NodeOps — Simplifying the Life for Node Operators and Developers Value Capture Engine for Node Operators
Storm Labs — We are an open-source software development studio that builds infrastructure for the next financial generation.
GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.

SNU Technical Holdings

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Mobile Apps
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Violet — Violet is a new music application for cover music. Anyone can easily upload their own music videos, and people can enjoy it even in background. Discover talented amateur singers and be the next top singer with Violet!
Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.

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.

The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPOcompanies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, South Korea, Israel

Portfolio highlights

illumex — Illumex is a mapping solution platform that empowers businesses to create a unified and accurate data language for everyone.
Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.

Sfermion is a metaverse-native firm investing in esoteric digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, France

Portfolio highlights

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Kasagi Labo — Kasagi Labo is an anime venture studio that brings authentic Japanese craft to a global audience through licensing, distribution and merchandising.
Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure

Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Rukita — Cari Kost Eksklusif, Co-living, Sewa Apartemen, dan Corporate Housing bisa di Rukita! Jadikan kami solusi hunian untuk setiap fase hidupmu.
Arkadiah — Secure high quality carbon credits & support biodiversity. Arkadiah fuses AI with satellite data and ground truth, transforming degraded lands to be nature-positive.
Klinik Pintar — Klinik Pintar membantu pasien mendapatkan layanan kesehatan primer terbaik di klinik, rumah, dan kantor.

Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.

Cooper Turley Crypto Strategy at Audius

Investment focus

Music, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Series A
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
Stack — Whether you're a business or individual creator, we have robust APls, SDKs, and no-code integrations to analyze and grow engagement, loyalty, and revenue.
Mirage — Mirage is developing the foundational AR infrastructure and artist tooling that will allow creators to create and curate their own decentralized trans digital reality that bridges our physical and digital worlds.

KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MOV — MOV is a technology platform. They offer SaaS for stores that can collectively manage word-of-mouth sites and visualize and analyze customer feedback. It distributes inbound market data, news, and know-how to domestic companies. Their services include inbound support and consulting.
DataMesh — DataMesh empowers conventional enterprises to adopt intelligent design, accelerate service deployment, and execute cost-effective planning processes by leveraging Digital Twin and Mixed Reality technologies.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.

E&Investment is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Petnow Inc. — Petnow Inc. is a pet tech startup based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2018. Petnow Inc. is a Korean pet tech startup established in 2018. We have been striving to build a world without missing pets through AI-driven pet biometric identification. As a technology-based company, we have filed 9 patents regarding our proprietary AI. Its researchwas published in IEEE Access in March 2021, which proves the accuracy of 98.97%. Also, we have been advancing technology non-stop and released the world’s first features, cat identification and selfie mode, in late 2022.Petnow Inc. has been accelerated by Samsung and POSCO and awarded Best of Innovation at CES 2022. We successfully raised $5M on the Pre-Series A round in 2022 and were selected for ‘Google for Startups Accelerator Korea’ in 2023. We entered the US pet ID market recently and will open a US office in early 2023. We are also looking for partnerships with various pet service providers, local government agencies, and insurance companies in the US.
MiNDCAFE — MiNDCAFE is an online psychological counseling platform.
Contents Technologies — Content Technologies is a content IP-based company builder.

P&I Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.

Investment focus

Music, Content, Health Care
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Novelty Nobility — Novelty Nobility Inc. is a private biotech company. They are currently focused on the research of novel angiogenesis targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics in ophthalmology and oncology, where angiogenesis plays a key pathogenic role.In ophthalmology, Novelty Nobility first discovered a novel angiogenesis target, Stem Cell Factor(SCF)and c-KIT, which was initially known for its engagement with proliferation and survival of primitive hematopoietic stem cells for a couple of past decades. We believe that anti-SCF/c-KIT could effectively address the unmet medical needs, mostly caused by inherent limitations of anti-VEGFs, in terms of treatment efficacy and long-term safety. Our target discovery is widely and strongly patent-protected in US/KOR and the lead pipeline, NN2101(a full-human monoclonal antibody), is currently under preclinical development.
Content Technologies — Content Technologies is a content IP-based company builder.

A catalogue of games produced by the leading game developer in the CIS. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Apps
Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed
United States, Austria, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

RAWG — RAWG.io is a video game discovery platform that converts your skills into goods and services.
Donut Lab — Donut Punks is a MOBA game that offers a unique blend of fun, action, and strategy. It is designed for players who want to team up and take on the challenge of fighting against hordes of zombies in a thrilling online environment.
Polystream — Polystream is completely rethinking and realising new ways of how to use the visual cloud, from server to client, from network to edge as we build the 3D Internet. Powered by our breakthrough command streaming technology, you can now instantly engage, grow, and monetise audiences of all shapes and sizes wherever they are in the world; whether it’splayers, streamers, or viewers. Our synchronous spectator engine Fantom enables cloud native games and experiences to be cost-effectively streamed with unrivalled reach, and unprecedented scale.

As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.

Investment focus

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

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
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.
Artblood — Artblood is a cell-based artificial blood production company.

ID ventures is an IP based venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Fashion, Media and Entertainment, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
Aminolab — Aminolab specializes in the development of blood resource recycling technology, aimed at addressing concerns associated with the environmental impact of waste blood treatment. Aminolab identifies the environmental burden of waste blood processing worldwide and prepares for improvement.Since 2013, the company has developed amino acid extractiontechnology through hydrolysis of slaughter blood using natural enzymes, and completed the construction of a factory for mass production in April 2022.
infoplus — InfoPlus provides financial software solutions and services that are developed in accordance with the most recent technological trends.

We Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in bio-health, digital content, AI data, and deep tech.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Umag — Umag is a music content company that provides brand channel, concerts, and advertisment services.
Ineeji — Ineeji is an industrial AI solutions company that provides AI prediction services based on the machine learning technology.
Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '

YG Entertainment, the entertainment company established by Yang Hyun Suk, of the popular Korean act Seo Tae Ji and Boys, has been at the forefront of the popularization of hip-hop music in Korea. From its inception, YG Entertainment has been the birthplace of some of Korea’s most popular and well-respected artists, from YG’s earlier artists such asJINUSEAN and 1TYM, to the immensely successful current acts, BIGBANG and 2NE1. The company has flourished by creating a family-like atmosphere where ideas on music, fashion, art and culture are exchanged freely between the artists, producers and staff members alike. The YG Family also includes a respected roster of actors and actresses, including actress and director, Ku Hye Sun, best known for the popular TV-drama “Boys Over Flowers” and Jeong Hye Young

Investment focus

Software, Media and Entertainment, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Corporate Round
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

3i — Imagine. Invent. Inspire. Based in Seoul, 3i designs, develops and delivers both hardware and software solutions that provide concrete answers to problems individuals and enterprises face when trying to record and transfer ideas and valuable experiences.
NAVER Z — The official corporate website of NAVER Z Corporation
S2W — S2W is a data intelligence company to solve the problems with technology for good.

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Galaxy Bot — Galaxy Bot is an innovative robotics company that provides intelligent universal service robotic products.
Sentient — Community-built open AGI
Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co. — Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co., Ltd specializes in the development, production, and supply of high-purity single molecular PEG series derivatives, polypeptide long-acting drug side chains, and their intermediates. The company focuses on serving the pharmaceutical industry with a range of chemical supplies that are crucial for drug development andmanufacturing processes. With a professional R&D team, Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology is dedicated to advancing pharmaceutical intermediates technology and providing solutions that meet the evolving needs of the healthcare sector. The company's commitment to research and development is evident in its continuous efforts to innovate and improve its product offerings to support the pharmaceutical industry.

An integrated merchant bank advising and investing in high growth sectors of technology, media and telecom. Offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vatom — Vatom Inc’s mission is to connect humanity through networked digital objects of value or “Vatoms.” Vatoms are a new asset class: scarce interactive digital goods that can be collected, traded, combined and redeemed for tangible material. They move easily between users and are network-aware, providing a new communication platform that will changehow they interact with each other and with their surrounding environment.
AC Momento — AC Momento is football's premier online auction house, bringing fans game-worn jerseys and memorabilia.
VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.

Reflexive is a web3 focused investment firm, backing founders driving adoption and solving meaningful problems.

Investment focus

Apps, Web3, Music
Series A, Seed, Angel
South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Claim — Claim is a social application that allows users to earn and trade rewards with friends. It also connects friends through their favorite brands and for brands to reward their customers. Its application enables friends to earn cash back, exchange rewards, and redeem together by shopping at their favorite brands.
Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.

KEB Hana Bank provides commercial banking services.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SK on — SK on develops and manufacturers high-energy density electric vehicle batteries.
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.

DT Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to early and expansion stage companies. They invest in dynamic businesses that have high growth potential, strong management teams, and demonstrated revenue models in both technology-based and traditional industries. DT Capital Partners currently manages overUSD$500 Million in capital across multiple US dollar and RMB funds, and also has a close affiliation with Madrone Capital in the US, the investment entity for members of the Walton family.In addition to funds, the invested company also benefits from their extensive experience in operating capital markets across the country, close relationships with local governments and companies, and synergies with other investment companies.DT Capital Partners was awarded the “Top 10 China's Best Return Venture Capital Institution” in 2016, and the founding partners of Detong Capital, Shao Jun and Tian Lixin. DT Capital Partner was founded in 2006 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Drug Farm — Drug Farm is a China and US-based biotech developing innovative treatments targeting innate immunity for HBV, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. Drug Farm's unique IDInVivo platform combines breakthrough technologies in genetics and AI to discover new treatments.
Worg Pharmaceuticals — Worg Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing new treatments for allergy and other diseases.
Next Generation Gene Therapeutics — Next Generation Gene Therapeutics is a healthcare company that engages in the research and development of gene therapy. Its unique propriety technology of "one target and two bullets" can provide effective treatment for a variety of genetic diseases that currently have few therapeutic methods in the world.NGGT was founded in March 2020by senior scientists and entrepreneurs in the field of gene therapy. It is committed to becoming the world's leading gene therapy company with international influence. The company has successful experience in the whole industry chain, concerning the early development of gene therapy products, the large-scale production of viral vectors, the construction of quality standards, international multi-center clinical research, and the application for the marketing of gene therapy products.

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