Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2025
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 2025
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Atlo — Ato is designed to be available at any time and place on the web, ready to engage with users.
- Roovook — Room + Venue + Booking = Roovook! Provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels.Even though hotel banquet/event segment is big part of MICE industry, still customers are having hard timefinding right venue to hold their events. So Roovook provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. As a fast growing start-up, we are acknowledged by one of the best accelerator in Korea, called Primer and VC TBT(Naver). Thanks to our trustworthy partner hotels like IHG, Marriott, and Accor, we are no.1 hotel venue reservation platform in Korea and keep expanding our service to global market. We are making Roovook as "Expedia for event spaces" We are looking for our future teammates to make our vision and dream together!
- Lunch Lab — Lunch Lab is a startup that provides regular in-house meal services to various companies that have difficulty eating out or having trouble solving lunch issues.
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
- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
- Kite AI — Kite AI is a purpose-built, EVM-compatible L1 designed to power the AI economy.
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
- Software, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
- Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
- Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.
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
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- NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
- Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
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
- OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
- Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
- Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
- 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.
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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
- Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
- MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
- Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
- Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
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
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
- HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
- Gole Robotics — Gole Robotics is an intelligent robotics company that focuses on developing robots specially to transporting construction materials to help on-site workers.
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
- Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
- Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
- Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
- Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
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
- Ceramic.ai — Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models
- Ceramic — Next generation AI training systems for better models with less compute, less time, and lower costs.
- Primus Labs — Primus connects Web2 data to Web3, offering verified information to AI models while ensuring user privacy.
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
- GenLogs — Get ready to have your operations supercharged! Our real-time data on all trucks in America helps you find the right capacity at the right time.
- Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
- Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
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, Software, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
- AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
- 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.
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
- MOTH — Propel the vessels of tomorrow
- Dexelion — Dexelion - Ultimate Depth and Image Sensing Solution
- Chain Lightning — Chain Lightning is an electric vehicle charging station that provides electric vehicle care payment and charge management services.
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.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
- AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
- Nanosilicon — Nano Silicon is a company that manufactures silicon anodes, which are important materials for secondary batteries in the electric vehicle sector.
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
- PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
- Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
- Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
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
- Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
- Cygnus Finance — Cygnus is a tool that helps different blockchains work together by allowing to share security and keep their networks safe.
Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- 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, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
- 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.
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, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Domin Network — Domin Network is a decentralized business network that connects software and hardware in many business situations using the NFT middleware protocol and DePIN rollup technology.
- Bidask Protocol — Bidask Protocol is a buying and selling platform that works on the TON blockchain that helps people trade more easily.
- World Liberty Financial — World Liberty Financial intends to function as a cryptocurrency platform primarily focused on stablecoins, which are digital currencies fixed to a constant value, often $1. The network is supposed to offer services such as borrowing and lending, with a new cryptocurrency called $WLFI at its basis.
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
- 1Fort — Get peace of mind from digital threats with combined cyber insurance and security. All in a few clicks - no tech expertise needed.
- myco — myco is a content streaming super dApp that smoothly integrates AVOD and SVOD capabilities into a decentralized ecosystem.
- Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response.
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.
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
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
- Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
- Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.
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.
Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- 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.
- Cool Sign — Coolsign is an EV specialist that offers a complete set of hardware and platforms based on its own technology for the reliable operation of electric car charging stations.
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
- Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
- Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
- 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.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Urban Sky — Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.
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- Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
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.
VC, Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
- Honored — Honored is a tour operator that operates the domestic travel services.
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Soomvi — Soomvi is an industrial drone market company that provides marine lifesaving system services.
- Enliple — Enliple is an online advertising platform that provides AI business and B2C app services.
- EnergyX — Energy X is an AI-driven online energy platform company based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Energy X connects various energy market participants from individual households to EPC contractors and investors via its online and mobile Social Energy Platform. Backed by socially responsible venture capital investors, Energy X strives to become the globalstandard for clean energy development and energy securitization.
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
- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
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.
- GOPIZZA — GOPIZZA is a food and beverage company based in Mapo.
- IDID — IDID provides an entertainment platform designed to host short-form entertainment content. The company provides a short-form social entertainment platform that can generate content by superimposing different images on different sound sources.
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
- Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
- Azra Games — Azra Games is a blockchain-based developer of collectable combat role-playing games for core gamers. Azra Games is led by Mark Otero, a world-renowned online strategy game developer whose most recent game generated over $1 billion in sales. Their crew has over 70 years of combined gaming industry expertise. They are now providing the core gamingexperience that core gamers desire to Web3. Azra Games is headquartered in Sacramento, United States.
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
Daekyo Investment is a venture capital firm specialized in development of venture industry.
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- Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, Hong Kong
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- VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
- Mediver — Mediver focuses on medical and cosmetic devices, providing new solutions to the healthcare and beauty industries worldwide.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
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- 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.
- 23rd Century Children — THE NEXT ENTERTAINMENT
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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- Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, The Netherlands
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- 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.
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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- Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
- Series A, Seed
- United States, South Korea
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- 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.
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, Japan, Germany
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- 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.
South Korean investment firm, headquartered in Seoul.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, South Korea, India
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- EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
- Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
- ROME Therapeutics — ROME Therapeutics is developing novel therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases by harnessing the power of the repeatome – vast stretches of uncharted genetic material that have long been dismissed as “junk DNA.” With several drug targets identified and multiple discovery programs underway, ROME is moving rapidly to leverage this new frontier inbiology. To lead this exploration, ROME has assembled a team of world-class leaders across fields including oncology, immunology, virology and machine learning.
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Singapore
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- Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
- LiveArtX — LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.
- Coinshift — Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.
Mainstreet Investment is a privately held investment firm dedicated to advancing the world by allocating capital, talent, and ideas to missions that allow us to travel to the future.
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- E-Commerce, Sales, AgTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Weclassic — Weclassic is a music company that teaches classic music to students.
- Fanagement — Introducing Fanddle to all K-Wave fans!
- Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
Finngram is a decentralised investment platform based on blockchain technology for decentralised transfer. We intend to create a peer-to-peer investment and financing ecosystem that transcends countries and currencies, resulting in a global flow of funds. Our goal is to improve value chains in the investment and financing markets and providereliable and reasonable opportunities to all participants.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- South Korea
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- 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.
“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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- Fashion, FinTech, Publishing
- Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Kigle — KIGLE, KIDS' FIRST PLAYGROUND
- Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
- Fassker — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, United Kingdom, Australia
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- AutoLayer — All LRTfi. One Interface.
- Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
- E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.
Rising S Ventures is a venture investment company specializing in early-stage technology start-ups.
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- Payments, Security, Recycling
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
- Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
- Carbon Energy — Carbon Energy was founded as a direct air capture (DAC) solution startup. With the use of direct carbon capture (DAC) technology, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is directly extracted and either buried underground or recycled into new resources. Beyond the current DAC technology, Carbon Energy is claimed to possess a special technology thatsimultaneously produces renewable energy and lowers carbon dioxide.
Korea Small and Medium Business Venture Promotion Corporation supports small and medium-sized businesses.
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- Advice, Internet, Logistics
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- Cartius — Cartius offers engaging interactions with children for language development and imaginative growth.
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
- GhostPass — GhostPass is a startup that develops a biometric payment solution with A.I. and Self-Sovereign Identification technologies.
NexusOne is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Service Industry
- Seed
- South Korea
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- ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
- 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.
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