Top 50 Music VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $2.1M–$102M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology | $335k–$40M |
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InterVest Co.
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series B, Series A, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $2.2M–$54M |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $149k–$29M |
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kocca
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Apps, Music, E-Commerce | |
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Timewise Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Russian Federation | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, E-Commerce | $2k–$29M |
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Content Technologies, Inc. (CTI)
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Music, Art, Fashion | |
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $743k–$35M |
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $200k–$15M |
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Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage | $297k–$3.7M |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $18k–$30M |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $223k–$15M |
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SV Investment Corp
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $223k–$52M |
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Blockchain, Gaming | $686k–$20M |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps | $25k–$9.2M |
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Michigan Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Music, Content, Software | $776k–$1.3B |
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | $2.6M–$55M |
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Grand Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Education, Apps, E-Learning | |
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Midas Doang-A Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series B, Series A, Seed | Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Software | |
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SNU Technical Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Apps, Music, Database | $223k–$1.6M |
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Solaire Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A | Apps, Music, Events | |
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Reflexive Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, France, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Architecture, Information Technology | |
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YG Entertainment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Corporate Round | Software, Media and Entertainment, Music | $2.5M–$166M |
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Kaist Venture Investment Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Australia | Seed, Angel, Grant | Information Technology, Retail, Health Care | |
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Kuwait | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | |
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KNet Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming | $3M–$36M |
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Kudos Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series B | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Biotechnology | |
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SANG SANG ebiz
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Information Technology | |
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Murex Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $6k–$16M |
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Germany | Series B, Series A | Software, Mobile, Internet | |
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Hashed
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Japan, Germany | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology | |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Apps | |
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Health Care | $371k–$18M |
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Sfermion
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, France | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | |
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Juwon Patent Law Firm
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | B2B, Music, E-Learning | |
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CJ Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Therapeutics, Information Technology | |
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iM Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care | |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
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Union Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical | |
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IAM
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B | Music, Content, Health Care | |
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The Raine Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Sweden | Series A, Seed | Software, Gaming, Information Technology | |
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Formation 8
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Big Data | $850k–$46M |
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Eugene Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Indonesia | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Apps, EdTech | |
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Qihoo 360 Technology
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Austria | Series A, Angel, Series B | Information Technology, Internet, Security | $425k–$600M |
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $12k–$77M |
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Groom Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Private Equity | Apps, Music, EdTech | |
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eBEST
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Japan | Series B, Series C, Series D | Biotechnology, Biopharma, Apps | $8k–$99M |
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $655k–$25M |
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We Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $335k–$15M |
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 282
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$22M; Series B $3.7M–$30M; Series C $4.3M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Quizlet — Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning. Its mission is to build great learning tools for every student on the planet. Originally created by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland to study high school French vocabulary. Over 20 million unique visitors per month, fromgrade school to grad school, study a wide range of subjects using Quizlet's web and mobile learning tools and games.
- Plugo — Indonesia's e-commerce platform for all businesses. Start, manage, and grow your business. Build your own online store website.
- Channel Talk — Channel Corp. provide a chat platform Channel Talk to create a customer-centric culture.
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
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 321
- Round size: Seed $335k–$7M; Series A $1.5M–$36M; Series B $3.4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logpresso — Logpresso is an automated security operation platform that integrates on-premise, cloud, and SaaS environments.
- AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
- Gomi Corporation — Gomi Corporation is a Overseas market.
Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$24M; Series B $2.6M–$54M; Series C $9.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cover Summon — CVSM Cruelty-free Savvy tech
- Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
- LiveIn — LiveIn is a hospitality company that offers long term room rental. Enjoy quality assured room, cleaning services, maintenance and community activities. Find out more!
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M; Series B $4.9M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
- Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
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.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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
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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $2k–$3.7M; Series A $3k–$7.4M; Series B $3M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carlet Store — Carlet Bio is a wholesale supplier of packaging solutions.
- 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.
Content Technologies, Inc. (CTI) is an artificial intelligence research and development company. It specializes in production automation, business process automation, instructional design, and content application solutions. CTI helps companies to discover insights, generate content, and navigate new competitive landscapes. The company possessesseveral business units and ventures up and running using its proprietary artificial intelligence platform. CTI partners with companies of various sizes in various industries to solve challenges with data, business, and process automation using artificial intelligence in areas such as health care, financial markets, education, and government. The company was founded by Dr. Scott R. Parfitt in 2005 and is headquartered in Moorpark, California.
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- Industry: Music, Art, Fashion
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Naivy — Naivy offers music product marketing services, providing users with cash incentives and artists with marketing promotion services through its PLAM application.
- Lively — 'Lively', an online music performance platform enjoyed with characters
- DANIEL PROJECT — DANIEL PROJECT is a music professional MCN that supports the recruitment, production, distribution, and management of artists.
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $743k–$4.6M; Series A $1.8M–$7.7M; Series B $1.9M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
- Hourplace — Hourplace operates a filming place sharing platform.
- Numeric Song Company — Numeric Song Company is a start-up founded in September 2020 by Kim Hee-bin, CEO of the mega hit songs 'Number Song' and 'Carrot Song', in collaboration with IT companies such as NAVER, LINE, and CJ E&M.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M; Series A $334k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
- DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $297k–$1.8M; Series A $1.9M–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NationA — We are NationA
- Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
- 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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 265
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $1M–$8M; Series B $18k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
- Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
- TeamElysium — TeamElysium is a medical software development company.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Seed $223k–$3.9M; Series A $223k–$11M; Series B $743k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
SV Investment Corp is a venture capital firm that provides companies with finance, strategic advice and information at critical stages of their development.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $223k–$13M; Series A $1.3M–$22M; Series B $5.2M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
- Dable — Dable, a leading global content discovery platform, announced that the number of partnered premium media in Asia surpassed 3,000 in number and exceeded 5 billion monthly pageviews.Dable recorded an average annual sales growth of more than 50% since its establishment in 2015. Currently, Dable is the most used personalized recommendation platformin Indonesia, Vietnam and Korea. In Taiwan, the sales tripled over the past year whilst Malaysia recorded an average monthly sales growth of 30%. Dable also ranked 46th place out of the top 500 Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies announced by the Financial Times, and proved its growth potential by ranking 1st in the media category.
- iCore — iCore develops machine vision solutions for semiconductors, electronics, automobiles and other industries.
The Road Not Taken
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- Industry: Information Technology, Blockchain, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $686k–$9M; Series B $2.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1Self.World — 1Self.World is a blockchain technology company provides web 3 services.
- Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
- Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$150k; Series A $761k–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- All Conec — All Conec is a digital platform that connects dental clinics and laboratories around the world. The platform also provides dental equipment shopping. The user can plan implant surgery quickly and precisely through the platform.
- Openull — Openull offers BNPL products and services.
- Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.
Michigan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in the late and growth stages, and buyout deals. The firm typically invests in the technology and telecommunication, sports, leisure information technology, game software, education, consumer retail focusing on the high-end global brands,entertainment projects including movies, television dramas, high-end musicals, operas, exhibitions, media, financial advisory services including equity and debt financing, corporate advisory services including mergers and acquisitions and asset divestitures, and consulting services including sales and marketing, operating and branding. It primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul nad Gyeonggi province. The firm primarily invests between $0.5 million and $1million in the initial stage, and between $1 million and $2.5 million in the late stage investments. Michigan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 2002 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Music, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $776k–$1.3B; Series A $1.7M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XORBIS — XORBIS offers software, media hardware integration, and media management solutions for public and cultural spaces.
- LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
- BGM Factory — BGM Factory is a background music library for creators and video producers.
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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$55M; Series B $2.8M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
Building the Future
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- Industry: Education, Apps, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.
- User Spoon — User Spoon is a tool designed to streamline and enhance the process of user experience (UX) research by offering features that improve efficiency, such as user testing, feedback collection, and data analysis tools. It supports UX professionals in gathering insights faster and more accurately, ultimately leading to more user-centered designdecisions
- Additional Company — Additional Company provides tax support services such as regular reporting, late reporting, and correction claims for various tax items to workers, freelancers, and business customers who are in a tax blind spot.
Midas Doang-A Investment
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
- Lively — 'Lively', an online music performance platform enjoyed with characters
- Carpenstreet — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
SNU Technical Holdings
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- Industry: Apps, Music, Database
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $223k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Daytium — Daytium is a company that collects and accumulates automobile parts data from the beginning, and is building a world-class automobile parts-related AI technology platform using this data.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, Events
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Reflexive is a web3 focused investment firm, backing founders driving adoption and solving meaningful problems.
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- Industry: Apps, Architecture, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- XP — Get tickets to your favorite concerts, sports games, & more, with no hidden fees.
- Trust-Place — Trust-Place allows brands to authenticate the item with a digital certificate of ownership.
- PeachWeb — Peach Worlds is the Squarespace for 3D immersive websites. It's the first no-code builder powered by AI, enabling designers to effortlessly create 3D websites without any coding.
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
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- Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Music
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Corporate Round
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$24M; Series B $10M–$166M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Nodit — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings is a startup company that invests in startups that solve social problems through innovative technologies. They invest in businesses that maximize synergy by pursuing both social and financial values at the same time. It focuses on five sectors including health, environment, education, elimination of inequality, andsocial infrastructure. Kaist Venture Investment Holdings was founded on October 31, 2014, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: South Korea, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Podonos — Podonos evaluates the effectiveness and performance of AI models for speech and audio. You get the evaluation result within 12 hours from global evaluators.
- Risorious — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.
- K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Kuwait
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
- AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
- Korea Precision Materials Industry — Korea Precision Materials Industry is a manufacturer of next-generation composite materials used for weight reduction.
K-Net is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Series A $3M–$36M; Series B $3.7M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Lala Stations — Lala Stations provides customized live total solutions for brand companies from live content creation and sales centered on live SaaS.
- Contents Technologies — Content Technologies is a content IP-based company builder.
Kudos Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Quester — Quester is working on a high-performance, low-cost hand-tracking glove for use in XR (extended reality) and remote control systems, as well as virtual experiment practice software 'PLAB'. Quester was acknowledged in this round of funding for its technological prowess and creativity in hand-tracking gloves.
- General Idea — General Idea is a contemporary fashion brand renowned for its fusion of streetwear and aesthetics. The brand offers innovative, modern, and casual apparel that appeals to a diverse clientele. It has gained international recognition for its unique designs and collaborations.
- Everyone's Arts and Physical Education — Everyone's Arts and Physical Education focuses on systematising the arts and physical education ecosystem and providing integrated services.
SANG SANG ebiz offers software education and MySQL DBMS consulting services.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- On Journey — On Journey focuses on the production of classical music, comprehensive art opera, extended reality XR contents, and cultural events.
- RealDesignTech — Official Website of RealDesignTech
- Riso Convergence — Riso Convergence is a software company that designs AI based applications for distance measurement and predictions in lawn based sports.
Murex Partners is a VC firm specializing in thesis-driven investing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $1.9M–$10M; Series B $6k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
- Macarong Factory — Macarong Factory is an Android developer that has been active since 2014 and has one app in Google Play. Its app is listed in the category "Auto & Vehicles". It is highly ranked in at least one country and is also one of the more popular apps in Google Play with more than 100 thousand installs.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
- MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
- Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 255
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lysto — How much does culture influence creative thinking?
- Flexity — Flexity provides fast and efficient planning and design services.
- Phi Labs — Blockchain tools that empower and reward builders
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Japan, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
- Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
- Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
- DewCell — Dewcell Biotherapeutics develops synthetic platelets using biomimetic technology. The company's system secures stem cell differentiation technology into megakaryocytes that generate platelets and mass-produces artificial platelets.
Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$18M; Series B $1.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
- Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.
- PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.
Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
- Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Planet Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
- Temple Digital Group — Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets.
Juwon Patent Law Firm specializes in general civil and criminal cases.
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- Industry: B2B, Music, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Moonda — Moonda's B2B music performance curation platform, Bravi, seems like a valuable service for businesses seeking to enhance their events or spaces with curated live music.
CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.
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- Industry: Software, Therapeutics, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
- DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
- ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
iM Investment Partners is an investment firm. It is an affiliate of DGB Finance Group.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Yeoshin — Yeoshin is a skin treatment information platform.
- MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
- SCBIO — SCBIO is a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs with specialized technologies in immuno-oncology. The company discovers and develops novel therapeutics for future medicine.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 290
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
- Ttukboka — Ttukboka is a money-making English word quiz app.
- Apollo Studios — Studio is a hub for creating, evolving, and consuming your graph for all members of your team.
“Union Investment Partners” since its founding in 2000, has been the leading venture capital firm in Korea specializing in contents investment that includes successful investment portfolios of films, animations, games, TV dramas, and live concerts. Union Investment Partners will maintain its role as a major investment partner of venture businessesand contents industry that seeks growth and advancement to the global market.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- EYL — EYL | Quantum Shieldz | QRNG | Quantum | Developed quantum convergence security solution Quantum Shieldz based on ultra-small quantum entropy chip technology
- MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
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- Industry: Music, Content, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Contents Technologies — Content Technologies is a content IP-based company builder.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jackpocket — Order lottery tickets online with Jackpocket Lottery app. Enjoy official lottery games like Powerball & Mega Millions. Over $500 MILLION in lotto prizes won!
- Heyday — Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.It aims to amplify the eCommerce entrepreneurs' marketplace brand. Heyday is backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Arbor Ventures.The San Francisco-based company started in August 2020 and is founded by Sebastian Rymarz and AdamGerchen.
- HowStuffWorks — HowStuffWorks has been explaining how things work to curious minds since 1998. Providing factual, unbiased content that's fun to read and makes difficult topics easy to understand.
Formation 8 is a venture capital firm. We support top entrepreneurs to build market leading smart enterprise and energy technology companies. We bring operational expertise to help our portfolio companies achieve global scale.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Big Data
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $850k–$3.6M; Series A $5M–$16M; Series B $12M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Versive — Versive finds the threats that matter inside the noise that doesn’t.The Versive Security Engine is the critical missing piece in a company’s security portfolio: it identifies bad actors who’ve breached or accessed the network by automatically understanding core activities they can’t avoid and linking them into readily actionable maps of unfoldingadversary campaigns, before it’s too late.Regardless of whether your assets are on-premises, in the cloud, or both, VSE acts as your network’s last line of defense, detecting the most difficult, dangerous internal and external adversaries regardless of what new tools, tactics, or exploits they use.
- Fieldwire — The Construction Management App For The Field
- Bolt — Bolt is a materials company that invents and scales materials that put the planet on a path towards a better future. Biofabricated silk fibers MicrosilkTM - based on proteins found in nature, produced using Bolt Threads proprietary technology and revolutionary bioengineering concepts. Next-generation of performance fibers, fabrics and luxuryproducts that represent cutting-edge technology in science, while raising the bar for quality, performance, and design.
Eugene Investment is a finance company that provides venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, mutual funds and online trading service.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
- Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
- LC Square — LC Square is a micro-LED display core component and technology company that manufactures signage, TV, and wearable micro-LED displays.
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
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Security
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Angel $425k–$1.4M; Series A $1.4M–$25M; Series B $2.8M–$600M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
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.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 236
- Round size: Seed $12k–$12M; Series A $1.2M–$31M; Series B $3.7M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- Jai Kisan — Jai Kisan provides Instant credit options for rural India. Trusted by farmers, retailers, and businesses. Instant Credit & supply chain financing Apply for Credit Now!
- EPD Biotherapeutics — EPDBio is a platform technology-based biotech company that provides research and product development services.
Groom Investment is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, EdTech
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
eBest is a brokerage firm.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Biopharma, Apps
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series D
- Geography: South Korea, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series B $13M–$99M; Series C $8k–$19M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clesson — Clesson is a music edtech company.
- Primemas Inc. — Primemas delivers pre-built SoC hub chiplets to accelerate semiconductor development.
- Wellmarker Bio — Their Company has developed a biomarker-based cancer drugs based on accumulated developmental experience and know-how. They have a new drug development institute including synthetic and bio-research and management support center.Utilizing R&D infrastructure from Asan Medical Center in Seoul Republic of Korea they are focusing on developingnew drugs that overcome resistance of existing therapeutic approaches.Additionally they are focusing on developing first-in-class biomarker-based drugs for medical unmet needs in various cancers such as colon cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5.2M; Series A $2.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XR Games — XR Games (based in Leeds, England) makes both console and mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) games for world famous Intellectual Properties. XR Games is an innovative start-up with Venture Capital funding.
- Novatus Global — Novatus helps Financial Services Firms to Lead, Solve and Redefine with our expert Technology and Consulting Solutions.
- Alderley Lighthouse Labs — Alderley Lighthouse Labs is a laboratory-based testing facility, specializing in human diagnostics.
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $335k–$4.5M; Series A $1.2M–$12M; Series B $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 33M2 — 33M2 is a housing rental platform.
- Grepp — Grepp, Inc. supports all activities for education, exchange and problem solving to enhance developers' competitiveness and helps everyone participate in software development. they also teach their children to understand and use the value of software to develop creative problem solving skills. Helping developers find the right career path fortheir dreams and helping them find valuable people to create software that can deliver the highest value to their customers. Excellent and enthusiastic developers and companies can meet and help us realize their dreams.
- Sapien Semiconductors — Sapien Semiconductors is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company that specializes in display driver ICs for micro‑LED and OLED technologies. The company develops custom ASICs and silicon‑proven IPs, including CMOS backplane drivers for AR/MR micro‑LED and pixel‑level driver ICs for TVs and digital signage. The firm also providesdisplay‑driver IP licensing and chip customization services.
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