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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in South Korea (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
11 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
Hashed
VC Fund
9 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$37M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $297k–$27M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$12M
Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Health Care $371k–$18M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $523k–$20M
InfoBank
VC Fund
5 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $76k–$16M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $594k–$47M
KB Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $743k–$40M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$48M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $2.1M–$60M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $1.2M–$33M
SBVA
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.7M–$168M
Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Hong Kong, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps $7k–$13M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
Mashup Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $160k–$3.2M
Kakao Pay
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Malaysia Series A, Series B, Seed Finance, Financial Services, FinTech $1.4M–$20M
BlissVine Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, FinTech $200k–$4.3M
Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $450k–$7.8M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$19M
Pathfinder H
VC Fund
2 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $743k–$21M
Premier Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$45M
Pietro Dova
Angel
2 United States, South Korea Series A, Seed Events, Mobile, Sports $400k–$12M
Honest Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $547k–$20M
Sunghwan Choi
Angel
2 United States, Hong Kong, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Pharmaceutical $4M–$15M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Mobile $743k–$33M
DS Asset Management
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Medical, E-Commerce $2k–$51M
SK Networks
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, The Netherlands Series A, Series C, Series B Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$150M
ActnerLab
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Angel Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $37k–$111k
SOSV
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software $594k–$39M
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.4M–$23M
OKX Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $2M–$50M
HOF Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services $1.4M–$863M
POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $149k–$11M
Samsung NEXT
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.9M–$100M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce $371k–$7.5M
TS Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, India Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Financial Services $1k–$27M
DWF Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $1.1M–$40M
Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Medical $1k–$15M
The Wells Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software $289k–$11M
SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage $2k–$24M
AC Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Canada Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Danal Co Ltd
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B Internet, Blockchain, Snack Food
Atinum Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Kolon Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Indonesia, United States Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
YG PLUS
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
Quassar Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 11 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 301
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.7M; Series A $966k–$10M; Series B $18k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Serpot — Serpot is a production service platform that offers film shooting products and support services.
  • Bosalpim
  • Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Trive — The Trive is a car subscription service platform through which users can pay a monthly subscription fee to drive the car they most desire.
  • DarcMatter — DarcMatter is a fintech platform that provides cloud based infrastructure for asset managers to better manage, communicate and access investors. By utilizing proprietary structuring and technology, DarcMatter is able to provide a frictionless process for both investors and private issuers while remaining fully compliant of all current financialregulations.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 7 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 319
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.2M; Series A $891k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • LifeLabs — LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients.LifeLabs is strongly committed to continual innovation in testingservices. For our patients and healthcare providers, this means we always strive to provide access to the latest specialized clinical tests—to detect cancer for example, to monitor heart disease, identify neurological disorders and pinpoint allergies.LifeLabs is well-positioned to deliver care at home, in the community and across Ontario and British Columbia. We have over 5,400 professionally trained staff members, over 360 conveniently located patient service centres and an extensive network of couriers and mobile phlebotomists on the job.
  • MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.1M; Series A $334k–$9.7M; Series B $743k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
  • TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
  • Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $1.1M–$18M; Series B $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
  • PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $523k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$20M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Clobe ai — Clobe ai is an AI‑powered financial platform that simplifies money management for individuals and small‑to‑medium businesses.
  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $76k–$1.5M; Series A $761k–$9.4M; Series B $8.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • Walkie Doki — Walkie Doki provides offline store management customized platform and job recommendations.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.1M; Series A $1.5M–$17M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FastView — FastView provides content commerce services and online marketing services.
  • Clobe AI — Clobe AI is a SaaS-based financial management platform designed for businesses to monitor and manage cash flow and financial operations. The company provides services such as real-time aggregation of financial data from bank accounts, corporate cards, and tax invoices, along with automated accounting and tax handling. The platform also supportscash flow tracking, profit and loss analysis, and automated settlement workflows, including transaction mapping and invoice processing, enabling centralized financial reporting and operational control.
  • Kong Studios, Inc. — We truly believe in Gameplay First. Kong Studios is a U.S game developer, and a 'Unicorn' valued at 1B USD.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$36M; Series B $4.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Polkadot — Polkadot is a dedicated community that envisions a web where users own their digital identities and data, restoring their authority.
  • Solana Company
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 320
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$30M; Series B $4.1M–$33M; Series C $5.2M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Toss — Toss is a South Korea-based mobile financial service platform operated by fintech startup Viva Republica.Its application offers peer-to-peer money transfers, manages credit scores and bank accounts, access loan and insurance plans, split bill options, QR payment and other similar services that enable users to manage their finance.Toss wasestablished in 2011 by Seunggun Lee in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi.
  • MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip operates an online travel booking platform for accommodations, transportation, tours, and activity reservations. The company provides travel itinerary services, ticket booking systems, local experience listings, and payment processing tools used for domestic and international travel planning.
  • Sweet Spot — Sweet Spot is a platform for companies and retailers who need space for marketing and sales.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 298
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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
  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund · Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$14M; Series B $3.3M–$22M; Series C $11M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
  • MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 252
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $4M–$60M; Series C $8.9M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BEJEWEL — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$13M; Series A $445k–$8.5M; Series B $7k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • UCONNEC
  • Redrob — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
  • Peer Robotics — Discover the latest cutting-edge robotics solutions at Peer Robotics. We offer innovative products and services to revolutionize industries.
  • Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.
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Mashup Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 21 in the past 12 months

Mashup Ventures invests in early-stage startups and supports startups to grow quickly through a network of founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $228k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $160k–$3.2M; Series A $1.4M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • orbt — Orbt is an AI systems company that develops intelligent solutions to automate decision-making processes for growing businesses, helping organizations improve efficiency, optimize operations, and make faster, data-driven decisions.
  • Midnight Wave — Midnight Wave operates as a center of music production and publishing.
  • Retriever — Retrvr provides solutions that automate business processes across governance, risk management, and compliance through AI-based technology, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of an organization's GRC operations.
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Kakao Pay
VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Kakao Pay is the financial technology division of Kakao. It allows over-counter payments, peer-to-peer transactions, bill payment, web banking and more, and it will move to offer financial services such as loans and financing. Kakao Pay is a platform that aims for a new financial effortless that is completely different from the existing anddifficult and cumbersome finance beyond just cashless and wallet less life without cash or wallet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
  • Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
  • CC Media Service — CC Media Service is an IT company that specializes in data modelling, web analysis, and bigdata consulting solutions.
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BlissVine Ventures
VC Fund · Yongsan, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

BlissVine Ventures is an investment company that offers venture capital and financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3.4M; Series A $1.5M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gongcar — Gongcar is a B2B service startup that provides innovative solutions and operational support to rental car operators, helping them streamline fleet management, improve customer service, and enhance overall business efficiency.
  • Forest Jalan — Forest Jalan is a fintech firm that allows small restaurants, cafes, and stores in Southeast Asia access financial services at moderate rates, rather than high-interest loans.
  • Tommoro Robotics — Tommoro Robotics is an AI robotics company spun out from Seoul National University, developing Robot Foundation Models (RFM) for humanoid robots. It builds the HABILIS platform enabling robots to understand language, perceive environments, and perform tasks autonomously. The company focuses on Physical AI, aiming to create scalable humanoidworkforce solutions for real-world industrial and service applications.
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Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2.2M; Series A $1.5M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

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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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $334k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
  • BacklotCars — Making Wholesale Easy
  • Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.
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Pathfinder H
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$6M; Series A $3.1M–$13M; Series B $2.2M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ASET — ASET is a technology-based startup developing all-solid-state, composite electrolyte membrane technology that simultaneously improves fire safety and energy density.
  • Beamworks — Beamworks is a research-centered company in medical imaging and conversational AI, that enables expert-level cancer diagnosis anywhere in the world and providing reliable medical consultations at any time. The company's platform utilizes an on-device AI system that processes ultrasound data in real-time without the need for serverconnectivity, achieving detection sensitivity and differential diagnosis performance, enabling healthcare providers to offer precise and timely diagnostics and improve patient outcomes, and reduce unnecessary procedures.
  • Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
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Premier Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 13 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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $5.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $82M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
  • Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
  • Akisostem BioStrategies — Archisostem BioStrategies is a research and development company.
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Pietro Dova
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Events, Mobile, Sports
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$800k; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Honest Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $547k–$4.5M; Series A $743k–$2.6M; Series B $7.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
  • ST.RETAIL — ST.RETAIL provides an all-in-one solution, from development to distribution of low-sugar products utilizing local agricultural products and stevia.
  • Livit — Livit is a SaaS based platform that offers carbon emission management solutions for the manufacturing and construction industries.
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Sunghwan Choi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
  • CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
  • Sequin — Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Series A $743k–$10M; Series B $743k–$15M; Series C $743k–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Design and Practice
  • Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series A $2k–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$29M; Series C $4.2M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IMBiologics — IMBiologics is a biotechnology company that develops immunomodulatory antibody drugs for physiological balance.
  • Labrador Labs
  • Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
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SK Networks
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$27M; Series B $2.2M–$72M; Series C $6.2M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CHABOT MOBILITY — CHABOT MOBILITY is an automotive concierge platform that provides finance, insurance and automotive services.
  • PhnyX Lab — Cheiron is a domain-tuned AI engine for biomedical and pharmaceutical professionals, delivering fast, verifiable, and context-aware insights across research, clinical, medical affairs, and regulatory workflows.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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ActnerLab
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $37k–$74k; Angel $74k–$111k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 75 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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$4.5M; Series A $1.9M–$8.2M; Series B $3.7M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
  • Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • 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.
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Series B $4.2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Intergravity — Intergravity is a company that is developing orbital transportation technologies to support the future of in-space activity. Intergravity is to enable a space environment in which mobility, service, and logistics are seamlessly integrated, creating the framework for long-term operations beyond Earth.
  • Amber Road — Amber Road is the creator of an operation management-focused data analysis program. By analyzing the data based on the input data, the company's platform generates a customized AI model and business insight report that requires the input of manufacturing process data.
  • 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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OKX Ventures
VC Fund · Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $3.5M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAEX — CAEX is a crypto asset exchange operator. CAEX builds transparent and secure crypto asset trading platform for investors.
  • Coinone — Coinone is the cryptocurrency exchanges. Under the vision to ‘Bring Blockchain into the World,’ they aspires to lead the new world of finance through blockchain technology. They currently operates the third largest exchange. They prioritizes the protection of clients’ assets and is dedicated to providing the most secure investing environment.
  • townsquare — TownSquare is a DeFi platform for cross-chain lending, leveraged yields, and on-chain asset strategies.
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HOF Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Series A $10M–$52M; Series B $20M–$863M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Bugatti Rimac — Bugatti Rimac is a Motor Cycle Manufacturing Company.
  • Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.
  • Rimac Group — Rimac Automobili is a technology powerhouse manufacturing electric hypercars and providing full technology solutions to global automotive manufacturers.
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$6.1M; Series A $1.1M–$8.2M; Series B $3.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
  • Superb AI — Automate data preparation, label and manage images and videos, and find annotation services with one training data platform. Fast, precise, and easy to use.
  • Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
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Samsung NEXT
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 374
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$18M; Series A $6M–$36M; Series B $11M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
  • Healthy.io — Delivering home urinalysis and digitised wound care in minutes
  • Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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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TS Investment
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$2.2M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $5.8M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datable — Datable is a developer of influencer marketing mobile applications.
  • Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
  • Brightonix Imaging — Brightonix Imaging provides innovative biomedical imaging devices and solutions.
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DWF Labs
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $5M–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Depinsim — DepinSim is a blockchain-based eSIM platform that lets users access global mobile data and earn rewards.
  • Superset
  • ZenChain — ZenChain is a Layer-1 blockchain focused on secure, EVM-compatible smart contracts and cross-chain interoperability.
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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$4.1M; Series A $2k–$7.4M; Series B $7k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sodamsodam — Sodamsodam is a meat processing and home meal replacement (HMR) manufacturing company. They secure cost competitiveness by directly deboning and shaping beef and pork, utilizing all parts. They produce their products using a combination of cast-iron pot heating and modern equipment.
  • Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.
  • Intergravity — Intergravity is a company that is developing orbital transportation technologies to support the future of in-space activity. Intergravity is to enable a space environment in which mobility, service, and logistics are seamlessly integrated, creating the framework for long-term operations beyond Earth.
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The Wells Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

VC, Venture Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $289k–$1.8M; Series A $891k–$4.3M; Series B $2.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

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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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $2k–$24M; Series B $4k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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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AC Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, Blockchain, Snack Food
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 11 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
  • Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
  • Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
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Payments Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 91 deals from 130 investors.

130
investors
in South Korea Payments startups
91
deals
in South Korea Payments startups
$2.2M
median round
in South Korea Payments startups
35%
lead investors
lead at least one round
52%
Seed
most common funding stage
98/2
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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