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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2026

Investor Payments South Korea investments
Strong Ventures 11
Hashed 8
Bokwang Investment 6
Capstone Partners 6
InfoBank 4
Bass Investment 4
Kakao Ventures 4
DSC Investment 4
Digital Currency Group 3
SBVA 3
KB Investment 3
Draper Associates 2
OKX Ventures 2
Stonebridge Capital 2
Altos Ventures 2
Hansae Yes 24 Partners 2
SOSV 2
Kiwoom Investment 2
Pathfinder H 2
Premier Partners 2
Pietro Dova 2
DS Asset Management 2
Stone Bridge Ventures 2
TS Investment 2
DWF Labs 2
OKX Ventures 2
Korea Technology Finance Corporation 2
The Wells Investment 2
Pantera Capital 2
Fast Ventures 2
Honest Ventures 2
SK Networks 2
Samsung NEXT 2
HOF Capital 2
ActnerLab 2
L&S Venture Capital 2
SJ Investment Partners 2
POSCO CAPITAL 2
Daekyo Investment 2
Sazze Partners 2
Forest Partners 1
Cadenza Ventures 1
KTB Network 1
Superscrypt 1
AC Capital 1
Danal Co Ltd 1
Atinum Investment 1
Kolon Investment 1
YG PLUS 1
Quassar Capital 1

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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
  • Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
  • UModeler — UModeler is a Unity3D editor extension to empower you to designer your level and mesh without leaving Unity.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Ad-Shield — Start measuring revenue lost to ad blockers and learn how to get additional revenue through Ad-Shield Recovery today
  • Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
  • Decentralised Gaming Ventures — D.G.Pals is a virtual pet, NFT Game Project that focuses on Squad-battler (PvP and Competitive), Siege Defence, Clan System, and various types of genre revolving around the IP as part of the ecosystem in the D.G.Verse.
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Software, Payments
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
  • Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
  • Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
  • 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
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea

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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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • AutoHands — AutoHands is a South Korea-based mobility company that offers comprehensive integrated mobility services including vehicle buying and selling, management, online used-car auctions, car rentals, extended warranties, residual value guarantees, mobile maintenance, and accident compensation programs.
  • Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
  • Rootfinders — RouteFinders develops an AI-based media platform to support independent living for visually impaired individuals in an increasingly digital world.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • PRTN — PRTN is the company that owns and operates Proteinner, a high-protein fast food brand focused on delivering convenient, nutritious meals designed to support active and health-conscious lifestyles.
  • Money Walk — The step-counting app that rewards you with cash for every step
  • Cuckoo — Cuckoo is an always-available, in-house realtime translator. Cuckoo instantly learns the technical details of your conversation from your keywords and documents and interprets into over 20 languages—customized for your specific industry and organization. Global teams like Snowflake, PagerDuty, Weights & Biases, dbt Labs, and SeAH rely onCuckoo for multilingual meetings, events, business trips, and more.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

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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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SeedN — SeedN provides air conditioning system temperature management solutions for office spaces.
  • Portrai — Portrai leverages cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to reveal unprecedented biological insights, transforming target discovery into transformative therapies.
  • Intelon Optics — Intelon Optics is a medical device company that focuses on the development and commercialization of the Brillouin Optical Scanner System.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
  • Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
  • PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
  • Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
  • FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, 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.
  • Eridu — Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Seer — AIs for Authenticating Information. AI Seer is on a mission: To Check Untruths before they become Powerful through an Antivirus for Mal-information, Dis-information and Misinformation.
  • Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
  • Aurelius Systems — Aurelius Systems is a defense technology company pioneering the future of defense with the development of edge-deployed, AI-powered laser systems designed to counter unmanned aerial systems (UAS) threats.
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund · Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • zkMe — zkMe delivers reusable zero-knowledge KYC, zkKYA (Know Your Agent) and zkKYC for the agentic economy. Verify the human principal behind every AI agent.
  • Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
  • Legend of Arcadia — Legend of Arcadia is a mobile card-based RPG inspired by Kingdom Hearts, leveraging blockchain technology for immersive gameplay. Players can engage in real-time PvP modes, trade highly composable NFTs, and earn rewards through strategic gameplay.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
  • iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
  • Ace Engineering — Ace Engineering company manufactures containers for aerospace, semiconductors, military, and other industries. Its product line includes aircraft parts, cryogenic refrigeration, bulletproof containers, and energy storage containers, as well as equipment designed for marine and aviation special projects.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States

We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Kueski — Kueski is the online lender for the Middle Class of Mexico and Latin America. The company uses big data and advanced analytics to approve and deliver loans in a matter of minutes. Simple, paperless and available 24/7, Kueski is the most convenient lending platform for those who need an immediate loan. The company has become the fastest growingplatform of its kind in the region and has already granted thousands of loans.
  • Testlio — Tackle the most demanding software testing challenges with Testlio in any location, on any device, in any language, or on any payment system.
  • Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
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Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
  • Wilco — Wilco a start-up specialized in thermal management of electronic products and new space era.
  • KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund · Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Japan, Germany

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.
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Pathfinder H
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Medical, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
  • CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
  • EASYWITH — Easywith is a media research and development company design and produces creative content using new visuals and ideas.
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Premier Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Premier Partners (프리미어 파트너스) is a Korean domestic funds management company. It provides investment services for individuals and businesses. Premier Partners was established in September 2005 in Seoul, Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Celltrio — Celltrio is a manufacturer of cell culturing automation and biobanking solutions.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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Pietro Dova
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States

Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Events, Mobile, Sports
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
  • Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
  • Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investment in the past 12 months

DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • AIMMO — AIMMO is the developer of a data annotation platform with custom workflow designs, labeler analytics, and real-time communication functions. The company was founded in 2016 by SeungTaek Oh and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
  • AIMEDBIO — AIMEDBIO provides therapeutic solutions to patients with serious brain diseases.
  • Graphene Square — Graphene Square is a pioneer in the commercialization of graphene material and graphene films for use as a transparent conductor and in other electronics applications. Established as a spin-off of the research of Prof. Byung Hee Hong at Seoul National University and with headquarters in Seoul, Korea. Graphene Square will continue to stay as theworld leader of the graphene commercialization research, also will continue to provide the best quality graphene and equipment to all over the world for the continuous development of carbon and 2D materials for the bright future of the science and technology for mankind.
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NEWEN AI — RSN provides solutions that analyze changes in social awareness and trends in the flow of digital information and suggest their meaning.
  • MobilTech — MobilTech is an AI-based 3D GIS startup company that supplies 3D spatial information, hardware, and software solutions for smart cities.
  • De novo Biotherapeutics — De novo Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing mRNA-encoded antibodies and NK cell-engaging antibodies for cancer treatment.
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TS Investment
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

TS Investment is an Investment firm specializing in engineering, real estate, and food and beverage through various group companies. They identifying, analyzing, and developing real opportunities across multiple disciplines. The firm aims to become a top tier diversified holding company offering its subsidiaries the necessary financial,operational, and managerial support to ensure each transcends its customer’s expectations, meets its employees' contentment, and exceeds its responsibilities to its stakeholders.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
  • Uneedcomms — We create communication between the shopping mall and customers. We offer mobile shopping malls, dynamic advertising systems, message automation solutions and global image hosting services based on advanced technology. Uneedcomms is moving toward the next generation of marketing that the global E-Commerce market needs with the power of software.
  • Shinto Excursion Group — Shinto is a content expert that produces personalized content and promotes styles.
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DWF Labs
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

DWF Labs is the leading crypto venture capital company, market maker & liquidity provider. We help build strong web3 companies.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Depinsim — DepinSim is a blockchain-based eSIM platform that lets users access global mobile data and earn rewards.
  • Block Street — Blockstreet is a multichain platform driving USD1 stablecoin adoption, smart contract deployment, and cross-chain DeFi growth tools.
  • ZenChain — ZenChain is a Layer-1 blockchain focused on secure, EVM-compatible smart contracts and cross-chain interoperability.
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund · Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 2 investments in the past 12 months

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
  • Momentum — Momentum is a move central liquidity engine with multi-sig treasury management, token vesting, and liquidity provisioning.
  • Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea

Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Manufacturing, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical's AI-powered platform reduces MRI scan times by up to 50%, improves image quality, and delivers deeper clinical insights. Trusted by 1,700+ institutions across 40+ countries.
  • AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.
  • Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.
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The Wells Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

VC, Venture Capital

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Honored — Honored is a tour operator that operates the domestic travel services.
  • Milliway — Milliway is an infrastructure digitalization startup that uses vehicle sensor data to detect and manage road damage in real time. It offers solutions for monitoring city and road events and provides tools to enhance productivity in city and road management.
  • AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gondi — Gondi is a non-custodial decentralized NFT lending protocol designed to build the most effective NFT credit market. The protocol allows for ongoing underwriting and full and partial refinancing of all outstanding loans, resulting in a more dynamic and liquid market.
  • Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, Hungary, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • 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.
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Honest Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Honest Ventures invests in biotechnology, healthcare, manufacturing, software, and information and communications technology. They support the growth of businesses and believe investing is a collaboration.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
  • Soomvi — Soomvi is an industrial drone market company that provides marine lifesaving system services.
  • Safetics — Safetics has developed a solution that analyzes and predicts the safety of collaborative robots only through simulation without physical collision experiments.
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SK Networks
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

SK Networks has created customer values in various business areas.(ICT Marketing) SK is the Korea’s No.1 mobile phone distributor based on the largest sales network and nationwide distribution system in the domestic market. We also have launched various ICT products to ease customers’ digital life and established the ecosystem of used phonerecycling.(Home appliance) SK magic (subsidiary of SK Networks) is a premium kitchen appliance company by introducing the gas oven to the Korean market in 1985, and it is expanding its business area to gas/electric ranges, electric ovens, dishwashers, water purifiers, air purifiers and bidets. (Rent-a-car) SK rent-a-car (subsidiary of SK Networks) is an automotive company that leads the total automotive after market and runs about 170 nationwide network points and consumes about 20.7% market share. (Trading) With 28 global out posts, our trading business is expanded all over the world. Through international experience amassed over more than 50 years, we have secured outstanding global sourcing ability, market intelligence and strategic networking on steel/chemical/automotive industries around the world that gives us a distinct competitive edge and stable profit structure.(Hotel) Walkerhill Hotels & Resorts is a pioneer of the Korean hotel industry that provides the best experience in the overall lifestyle including leisure, culture, and food, as well as comfortable rest in the nature.(Investments) SK Networks is looking for investment opportunities that can bring disruptive innovation to its existing businesses. Since 2018, SK Networks has been actively investing in Venture Capitals/Start-ups mostly in Silicon Valley and in Korea as well.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Blockchain, Retail
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
  • Source.ag — We're Source.ag and we're on a mission to empower growers through artificial intelligence-based software solutions.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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Samsung NEXT
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
  • Healthy.io — Delivering home urinalysis and digitised wound care in minutes
  • Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
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HOF Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States

HOF Capital is a global technology investment firm that leverages its global limited partner network to help founders build massive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Cassidy — Create customized AI-assistants to streamline tasks, enhance productivity, and adopt AI across your entire organization.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Motion — Automatically prioritize tasks, schedule meetings, and resolve calendar conflicts. Used by over 10k CEOs and professionals to improve focus, get more done, and streamline workday.
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ActnerLab
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

ActnerLab is a venture capital and accelerator that helps hardware, IoT and biotech startups establish their initial foothold and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • AltMedical — AltMedical is a research institute jointly established with Dong-A University and aims to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
  • Chain Lightning — Chain Lightning is an electric vehicle charging station that provides electric vehicle care payment and charge management services.
  • NAiEEL Technology — NAiEEL Technology offers energy and environmental technology solutions.
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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
  • 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
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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States

SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
  • Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
  • CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investment in the past 12 months

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Neuromeka — Neuromeka specializes in robot technology and creates a robot platform business for manufacturing companies.
  • H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
  • Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile Apps, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • 33M2 — 33M2 is a housing rental platform.
  • TeraView — TeraView is the world’s first company devoted to the application of Terahertz light for imaging and spectroscopy. TeraView’s proprietary platform uses the Terahertz spectrum between light and radio waves and offers the advantage of being non-invasive and non-destructive. A key application of the technology is the detection of faults and qualityvariations in semiconductor integrated circuits. In addition, studies have demonstrated how Terahertz uniquely and non invasively provides 3 dimensional structural and chemical information in a diverse range of applications, including weapons/explosives hidden below clothing, the contents of tablets and capsules in the pharmaceutical industry, and other objects normally invisible to conventional detection techniques. Other markets for the technology exist in medical imaging of cancer and industrial inspection which are explored via commercial partners. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, TeraView was spun-out of the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory in April 2001. Sales and support are available throughout Europe, North America and the Far East either directly or through a network of distributors.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States

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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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
  • Retentics — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
  • Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.
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Forest Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Forest Partners is a leading alternative investment firm based in Korea focused on investing in high growth companies to deliver exceptional value to founders and investors. Our firm operates Venture Capital and Private Equity divisions so that we can invest in bold ideas across multiple strategies and help drive hypergrowth of our portfoliocompanies.Our robust network and team of experts with decades of combined investment and operating experience guides our portfolio companies on the path to global expansion so we can also deliver outsized returns back to our investors.Our vision is to grow together with great companies so that we can continue to be the go-to alternative investment firm in Asia.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Real Time
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Utransfer — Utransfer is a platform that offers overseas money transfer services.
  • Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.
  • December & Company — December & Company offers customized asset management services to a broad population.
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Cadenza Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
  • Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
  • Moon Mortgage — Crypto backed mortgage provider
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KTB Network
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Korea Technology Development Company, a government-funded investment vehicle specializing in technology-related investment opportunities, KTB Financial Group(“KTB”) has since grown into a comprehensive financial group offering a wide range of financial services, including securities, asset management, venture capital, and private equity.KTB alsohas expanded our global network by actively entering overseas markets includes the United States, China, and Thailand.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • NYOU — NYOU is a game development company that develops games for recreational purposes.
  • Soelect — Soelect provides engineering solutions and develops solid-state battery components for electric vehicles, power tools and electronics.
  • CoLearn — Aplikasi belajar online yang bantu belajar Matematika, Fisika, Kimia jadi lebih cepat dimengerti. Ada beragam fitur aplikasi mulai dari bantuan mengerjakan PR dengan foto soal sampai bimbel untuk SD, SMP, SMA.
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Superscrypt
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 10 investments in the past 12 months

Superscrypt is a blockchain investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.
  • Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
  • Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
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AC Capital
VC Fund · 1 investment in the past 12 months

AC Capital is a venture firm focusing on block-chain and fin-tech Industry, dedicated to discovering unicorns and expanding the development and adoption of block-chain technology through investments and marketing services.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaBeat — The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.
  • Metabase — Play Blockchain Games and Use Axie Infinity Guild Tools
  • Mecha Morphing — Mecha Morphing is a browser-based, decentralized, play-to-earn ARPG game. They offer PVE, PVP loot mode, PVP arena, and bounties. They also provide weapons, mecha armour pieces, land, and characters.
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Danal Co Ltd
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States

Danal Co., Ltd. provides digital entertainment services in Korea and internationally. The company operates through four divisions: Commerce, Contents, Media, and Internet. The Commerce division offers integrated payment solutions and services, including payment services through telephone, payment services using mileage, and financial paymentservices. It also involves in mobile Internet billing, as well as operates as an online payment proxy company. This division exports its products to China and Taiwan. The Contents division offers digital entertainment services.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Blockchain, Snack Food
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaviar — Kaviar is an Restaurant Meal Replacement business that collects a wide range of dishes from illustrious chefs and eateries.
  • Parameta — ICONLOOP, Inc. is a blockchain-specialized tech company based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in May 2016, ICONLOOP provides the entire technical support to the leading global blockchain project, ICON. ICONLOOP aims to acquire both scalability and security in existing platforms and maximize the utility of blockchain technology with SCORE SmartContract, LFT Algorithm, Tiered System, Multi Channel and Modular Architecture. Based on self-developed blockchain engine, loopchain, ICONLOOP, as a technology partner of Korea Financial Investment Association, Kyobo Life Insurance, and P-HIS consortium, leads diverse innovations in financial transactions, digital currency and IoT(Internet of Things).
  • Jeongri Habit — Jeongri Habit is a home improvement and wellness company that allows users to organize residential houses and self routines.
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Atinum Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months

Atinum Investment Co., Ltd. is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in the information technology and communication, materials for Information technology, renewable energy, metal and non-metal, distribution, media and contents, materials and components, and biotechnology and life science industries

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • XL8 — XL8 Provides Professional Machine Translation Solutions for Your Business. Automate Your Localization Process and Focus on What Matters Most.
  • CryptoQuant — CryptoQuant is a community-driven analytics platform to lower hurdles of data-based decisions. Crypto investors often fail to make data-based decisions due to a lack of time and knowledge. We lower the hurdles of data-based decisions by saving research time and decreasing the knowledge gap.
  • Rapport Labs — Rapport Labs create a service that will change the online shopping experience that created the 4050 fashion platform.
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Kolon Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Kolon Investment, Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in buyouts, mezzanine, corporate restructuring, growth capital, and turnaround investment. It prefers to invest in electronic components, petroleum, energy, computer, and telecommunications equipment. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul,Gyeonggi, Incheon, and Gyeongbuk. Kolon Investment, Inc. was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Source: Businessweek

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Boosterz — Boosterz is a company that supports the 5Ps of marketing at all stages, from product planning and launch to growth.
  • ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
  • 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.
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YG PLUS
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

YG PLUS is an investment platform that develops YG's capabilities into the concept of entertainment content and lifestyle to create a valuable business for the people around the world. Making valuable changes in life is the ultimate goal of the YG family.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Webling — Weebling is concentrating on infrastructure investment for service differentiation in addition to introducing high-end DTG (Direct to Garment) printing technology from Cornit, Israel for the first time in the domestic POD sector to increase the printing quality of its key product, apparel.
  • I-Aurora — I-Aurora is a fintech startup that operates the Namane Card
  • WizSchool — We employ real-time user code analysis algorithm based on compiler technology to diagnose learners’ levels and status of the software education. And our AI tutor for coding education using deep learning technology offers learner-centered customized learning contents to the users. Aiming for the global market, we are developing and growing ourbusiness to solve the shortage problem of software education instructors and also provide the market with the best quality software education service.
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Quassar Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States

Quassar Capital is a hedge fund with a broad presence in the United States with offices in New York and London. We are widely respected for our asset management approach globally but more importantly for our innovative operating methodology that allows us to maintain exceptional management of advanc

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Investment focus

  • Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A
  • South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
  • Orbiaz Healthcare — Instruments for healthcare facilities
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