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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
8 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$39M
Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Health Care $371k–$18M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$15M
InfoBank
VC Fund
5 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps $25k–$9.2M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $669k–$15M
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
3 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $335k–$40M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $510k–$48M
SBVA
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $1.9M–$100M
POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $149k–$13M
HOF Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $385k–$57M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$15M
Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $1.2M–$22M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $2.1M–$102M
SK Networks
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, The Netherlands Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Blockchain, Retail $2.2M–$100B
DS Asset Management
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce $2k–$65M
OKX Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $2M–$38M
ActnerLab
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Angel Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $37k–$111k
Honest Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $743k–$20M
TS Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, India Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services $1k–$27M
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
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $743k–$15M
Pathfinder H
VC Fund
2 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Medical, Software $743k–$26M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce $111k–$6.9M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
SOSV
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Hong Kong, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile Apps, Biotechnology $2k–$14M
Samsung NEXT
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.6M–$100M
L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software $594k–$37M
DWF Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $1.2M–$7M
SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage $2k–$24M
Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Medical $1k–$13M
The Wells Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1k–$14M
Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $450k–$7.8M
Premier Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$45M
Central Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Real Estate, Online Portals
100x Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, Hong Kong, Singapore Series A, Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
NAVER Z
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, Denmark Seed, Series A 3D Technology, Software, Gaming
KuCoin
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Karen Ventures
VC Fund
1
Superscrypt
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Dattoz Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Taiwan Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Neowiz
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series B Gaming, Software, Blockchain
LG Uplus
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Corporate Round Software, Information Technology, Apps
YG PLUS
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
S Cubic Angels
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Angel Information Technology, Education, Apps
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
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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: 265
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $1M–$8M; Series B $18k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
  • Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
  • TeamElysium — TeamElysium is a medical software development company.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 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: 266
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

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.
  • IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
  • MiNDCAFE — MiNDCAFE is an online psychological counseling platform.
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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: 43
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$18M; Series B $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.
  • PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.
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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: 222
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.9M; Series A $223k–$11M; Series B $743k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
  • Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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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, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$150k; Series A $761k–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • All Conec — All Conec is a digital platform that connects dental clinics and laboratories around the world. The platform also provides dental equipment shopping. The user can plan implant surgery quickly and precisely through the platform.
  • Openull — Openull offers BNPL products and services.
  • Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 4 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 297
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$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

  • Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
  • Moyo — Moyo is a phone plan comparison platform that recommends all communication products.
  • Vivid Health — Vivid Health is a platform that provides obesity treatment management services. It provides a convenient platform for users to easily access reviews on obesity medicine products by their specific ingredients.
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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: 267
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$19M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Chronicled — Automating business rule enforcement in the life sciences industry through the blockchain-powered MediLedger Network
  • Filament — Automating vehicle usage history and vehicle payments for Automakers, OEMs and Enterprise Fleets.
  • Brave — The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 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: 117
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • 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.
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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: 202
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
  • MAKEUS — MAKEUS provides advertising solutions based on digital media in seoul.
  • Brandi — Brandi sells clothes, cosmetics, and home interior products.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 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, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 321
  • Round size: Seed $335k–$7M; Series A $1.5M–$36M; Series B $3.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logpresso — Logpresso is an automated security operation platform that integrates on-premise, cloud, and SaaS environments.
  • AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
  • Gomi Corporation — Gomi Corporation is a Overseas market.
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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: 281
  • Round size: Seed $510k–$7.7M; 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
  • Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
  • 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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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: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 241
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$44M; Series B $4M–$63M; Series C $8.9M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
  • Syncly — Syncly is an AI-native customer intelligence platform for fast-growing brands. Turn customer conversations into actionable insights to help your brand grow faster.
  • Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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: 82
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$5M; Series A $1.1M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UBATT — UBATT manufactures polymorphic thin lithium batteries using flame-retardant polymer solid electrolytes and uniform, large-capacity anode technology to produce polymer solid-state batteries, electrolytes, and lithium metal conductors, enabling companies to procure batteries for electric mobility and other uses.
  • Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
  • Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.
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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: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $385k–$5.5M; Series A $10M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cassidy — Create customized AI-assistants to streamline tasks, enhance productivity, and adopt AI across your entire organization.
  • Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
  • BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
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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: 143
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M; Series A $334k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
  • DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
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Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund · Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$16M; Series B $4.1M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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.
  • 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.
  • Market Designers — Market Designers is a matching platform designed to provide effective resource sharing and distribution.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 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: 282
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$22M; Series B $3.7M–$30M; Series C $4.3M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.
  • Sweet Spot — Sweet Spot is a platform for companies and retailers who need space for marketing and sales.
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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, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$27M; Series B $2.2M–$100B; Series C $6.2M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
  • Source.ag — We're Source.ag and we're on a mission to empower growers through artificial intelligence-based software solutions.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
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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, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Series A $2k–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$50M; Series C $4.2M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AIMEDBIO — AIMEDBIO provides therapeutic solutions to patients with serious brain diseases.
  • Labrador Labs
  • Graphene Square — Graphene Square is a pioneer in the commercialization of graphene material and graphene films for use as a transparent conductor and in other electronics applications. Established as a spin-off of the research of Prof. Byung Hee Hong at Seoul National University and with headquarters in Seoul, Korea. Graphene Square will continue to stay as theworld leader of the graphene commercialization research, also will continue to provide the best quality graphene and equipment to all over the world for the continuous development of carbon and 2D materials for the bright future of the science and technology for mankind.
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund · Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $3.5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DEXTools — DEXTools, the gateway to DEFI, real-time charts, history and all token info from blockchain.
  • CARV — CARV enables AI Beings to live, evolve, and govern as sovereign intelligences on-chain; not as tools, but as beings that act, learn, and lead.
  • Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
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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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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, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$4.5M; Series A $743k–$3M; Series B $7.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soomvi — Soomvi is an industrial drone market company that provides marine lifesaving system services.
  • 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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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: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$2.2M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $5.9M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
  • Uneedcomms — We create communication between the shopping mall and customers. We offer mobile shopping malls, dynamic advertising systems, message automation solutions and global image hosting services based on advanced technology. Uneedcomms is moving toward the next generation of marketing that the global E-Commerce market needs with the power of software.
  • Shinto Excursion Group — Shinto is a content expert that produces personalized content and promotes styles.
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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: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$16M; Series B $4.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
  • 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.
  • Holiday Robotics — Meet FRIDAY, the world's most advanced humanoid robot with 63 DoF and dexterous hands. Powered by Holiday Sim and World Model AI technology.
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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
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $743k–$7.4M; Series B $743k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010

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.
  • Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
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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, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$3.1M; Series A $3.1M–$13M; Series B $2.2M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EASYWITH — Easywith is a media research and development company design and produces creative content using new visuals and ideas.
  • MediQStar — MediQStar is a startup developing a generative AI
  • Elpis Cell Therapeutics — Elpis Cell Therapeutics develops individualized cell therapy to cure incurable diseases.
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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: 61
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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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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: 361
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $2.3M–$21M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MightyFly — MightyFly is enabling worldwide access to goods with fast, on-demand delivery services for businesses and consumers. We’re putting the infrastructure in place to connect remote locations together with long range, heavy cargo aircraft. Many areas in the world today suffer from an inability to obtain critical and often urgently needed goods andsupplies at an affordable cost. Our goal at MightyFly is to solve this problem through express, customized aerial drone delivery services. MightyFly drones will transport cargo to multiple locations in a single flight across hundreds of miles of remote terrain that is difficult if not impossible to cross with trucks or other ground vehicles. We are developing vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) drones that fly more than 300 miles, and carry payloads in excess of 50 pounds at a fraction of the cost of helicopters. Featuring automated cargo loading and unloading, and requiring no launch or recovery infrastructure, MightyFly drones will accommodate ad-hoc deliveries to undeveloped sites as well as servicing locations along established routes.
  • Gradescope — Grade your existing paper-based assignments in half the time and see exactly what your students learned, for free.
  • Autolane — Autolane creates the operating system for curbside autonomy, which uses cutting-edge hardware and SaaS infrastructure to authenticate, park, load, and dispatch ride-hail and delivery trucks without the need for human interaction.
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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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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, Mobile Apps, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $3k–$13M; Series A $4k–$14M; Series B $2k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 33M2 — 33M2 is a housing rental platform.
  • 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.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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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: 323
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$17M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BlazingDB — We decided to create a new way of learning to make it attractive, flexible, and accessible to as many people as possible. Since then, we've helped millions of people around the world unlock modern technical skills and reach their full potential with code.
  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • HealthifyMe — HealthifyMe is an application that allows its users to achieve their fitness and weight loss goals from their computers and smartphones.The application enables its users to track their calories, nutrition, and fitness activities; track their weight and determine if they are healthy; set healthy goals and work toward meeting them; share theirdata with experts; and get expert advice and suggestions on their lifestyles.HealthifyMe was developed and launched by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness trainers in 2012. It is based in Bangalore, India.
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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: 103
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$4.7M; Series A $1.4M–$8.2M; Series B $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference 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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DWF Labs
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 9 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Pre-Seed $5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Depinsim — DepinSim is a blockchain-based eSIM platform that lets users access global mobile data and earn rewards.
  • Block Street — Blockstreet is a multichain platform driving USD1 stablecoin adoption, smart contract deployment, and cross-chain DeFi growth tools.
  • ZenChain — ZenChain is a Layer-1 blockchain focused on secure, EVM-compatible smart contracts and cross-chain interoperability.
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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: 7% lead, 93% 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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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$5.4M; Series A $2k–$7.4M; Series B $1k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical's AI-powered platform reduces MRI scan times by up to 50%, improves image quality, and delivers deeper clinical insights. Trusted by 1,700+ institutions across 40+ countries.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $289k–$696k; Series A $1k–$3.7M; Series B $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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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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: 15% lead, 85% 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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Premier Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 7 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: 139
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $5.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $82M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mediwhale — Mediwhale develops AI medical devices that analyze retinal images to predict cardiovascular, kidney, and eye disease risks early.
  • Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
  • Connext — Connext is developing biological therapeutics in the field of immuno-oncology and regenerative medicine.
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Central Investment Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Central Investment Partners is a financial service provider company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Real Estate, Online Portals
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Factosquare — Factosquare develops goods and brands, manufactures them in-house, and innovates the factory manufacturing process.
  • Estate Cloud — Estate Cloud provides online real estate services for buying and selling properties.
  • TODOC — Explore advanced neural solutions and hearing technologies by Todoc, including innovative cochlear implants and healthcare innovations for better communication.
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100x Ventures
VC Fund · Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

100x Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of 100x Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: India, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TabTrader — TabTrader - Cryptocurrency trading terminal. Over 20K+ trading instruments on 20+ major exchanges in one app.
  • Sparrow — Sparrow is the leading options trading platform, providing the simplest way to control risk and monetize digital assets. This revolutionary platform empowers institutions and individuals to trade options that are settled by smart contract. Headquartered in Singapore, Sparrow offers fully-customizable options settled by smart contract in anintuitive and easy-to-use trading interface. Professional traders can use Sparrow trading APIs for maximum performance. Sparrow serves the needs of all traders by providing a wide range of industry-leading trading tools.Sparrow is backed by renowned organizations such as: Signum Capital, Hyperchain Capital, Kyber Network, LuneX Ventures, Arrington XRP Capital, Digital Currency Holdings, Du Capital, The Yozma Group, QCP Capital, 256 Ventures and Jubilee Capital who firmly believe in the project and have committed to use Sparrow as their preferred hedging partner.
  • League of Traders — The one-stop-shop to maximize your profits, see all of your exchanges in one portfolio, Copy Trade the best Traders, and compete in trading competitions to win cash prizes! Sign up now and become a member of the League of Traders.
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NAVER Z
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Technology, Software, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rokoko — Rokoko | Affordable high-end motion capture and animation tools for body, hand, and face capture + software with native integrations for all major animation software and game engines
  • Cinamon — Cinamon provides a visual story platform designed for casual games. In 2018, the company began as a joint venture with Naver Webtoon. Since our first project, an interactive stories app called "Maybe," the company has continued to broaden its scope in the field of visual storytelling. The company is currently working on two projects: a 2Dand a 3D UGC story platform.
  • Line Next — Line Next is committed to advancing and expanding the worldwide NFT industry. LINE NEXT seeks to offer innovative digital experiences and pave the road for the future by utilising blockchain and NFT technology.
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KuCoin
VC Fund · Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Karen Ventures
VC Fund · Isfahan, Esfahan, Iran · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Karen Ventures’ team of experts know how to deploy a global approach of investment strategies in thorough compatibility with economic and legal environment of Iran. To reduce investors’ concerns of starting a new venture in a new market they deal with internal systems and arrangements in Iran and they are here to help you and simplify your pathtoward this advantageous field.

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Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • D'CENT — D'CENT provides cryptocurrency hardware wallet for keeping crypto assets secure.
  • Ceres F&D — Ceres F&D is a biopharmaceutical company that manufactures immunosuppressants and antibiotic drug substances.
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Superscrypt
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Superscrypt is a blockchain investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.
  • Pointsville — Empowering businesses to efficiently create, manage and service digital assets and loyalty programs, driving innovation and inclusion.
  • Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
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Dattoz Partners
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Dattoz is based on the experience of successfully leading M&A for small and medium-sized companies at home and abroad for many years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Moiin — Moiin is a VR hardware company based in South Korea and led by Mr. Jae Yoon Ok, a VR pioneer with over a decade of experience building immersive VR equipment. Currently, Moiin is leading the construction of Oasis City, the world's first fully immersive VR ecosystem. Moiin's first mass consumer product, the FBG suits and gloves, will beavailable for sale in 2020.
  • CompanyWe — CompanyWe provide platform maintenance and consignment operation services. The company creates VPP systems for a variety of customers, as well as platform SW.
  • Peach Grove — Peach Grove is an operator of a shared service platform intended for split subscriptions.
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Neowiz
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

Neowiz Corp. provides Internet access and other related services in Japan. The company offers community services, game services, and music services. The company, through sayclub.com, offers chatting services, as well as free email, and community and board services. Neowiz, through pamng.com, an online game site, offers gaming services. The companyalso provides Internet push service, automatic Internet access service, and online portal paying service. Neowiz was founded in 1997 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Software, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Iskra — Iskra is the premier destination for web3 gaming and innovation. Play and earn Web3 Games where everybody wins. The future of play happens here.
  • Epic League — Epic League is a company specializing in Online RPG and blockchain ecosystem.
  • Brassica Finance — Brassica Finance develops an investment infrastructure for private securities and digital assets. Its API-forward solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate with the existing infrastructure of the investment platform.
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LG Uplus
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

LG Uplus Corp is a South Korean telecommunications and Mobile phone operator controlled by the LG Group, one of the country's largest chaebol. It was formerly known as LG Telecom.LG Telecom became one of the first companies to launch a commercial 3G service using PCS technology. In 1997, this was followed up by launching the second PCSnetwork, offering greatly increased data transmission speeds.LG Telecom also offers a variety of mobile services. BankOn is one of the most popular Mobile banking services in South Korea and MusicOn is an on-line music store.In July 2006, the South Korean government has cancelled LG Telecom's business license for a W-CDMA wireless communications system after the company opted not to develop the technology. LG Telecom will instead continue investing and upgrading in its CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A network.In January 2010, LG Telecom merged with LG Dacom and LG Powercom.As of 1 July 2010, LG Telecom changed its name to "LG U+".On July 17th 2013 LG Uplus launched LTE-A service and introduced Galaxy S4 LTE-A, the world’s first "100% LTE" smart mobile phone that can utilize data, voice and text with LTE and not fall back to CDMA. Starting from 2014 LG Uplus plans to release only "100% LTE" phones.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Corporate Round
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • growV — growV offers educational services by using learning technology.
  • Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.
  • Somsidang Company — Somsidang Company is an online learning platform that offers baking and pottery painting training services.
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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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S Cubic Angels
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

S Cubic Angels is an investment firm that helps to discover startups and prospective entrepreneurship teams.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Education, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Inabooth — Inabooth is a character licensing platform that connects character IP owners and character IP users.
  • Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
  • Junction Med — Junction Med develops and operates CareBom, a child-based senior healthcare communication service.
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Payments startups

CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
  • Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
  • Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
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Payments VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 77 deals from 112 investors.

112
investors
in South Korea Payments startups
77
deals
in South Korea Payments startups
$1.7M
median round
in South Korea Payments startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
58%
Seed
most common funding stage

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