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Top 15 Photography Startup Investors in South Korea

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 15 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Photography startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Photography Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor	Photography South Korea investments
Strong Ventures	2
Altos Ventures	1
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation	1
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)	1
Capstone Partners	1
SB Partners	1
JTBC Studios	1
NHN Investment	1
Pearl Abyss Capital	1
LG Electronics	1
TheVentures	1
Coolidge Corner Investment	1
Korea Technology Finance Corporation	1
Bessemer Venture Partners	1
Goodwater Capital	1

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Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.

The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation for investing in startups

Investment focus

GreenTech, Energy, Events
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Aeonus — Aeonus is a carbon neutral startup company that offers eco-friendly power source to replace diesel generators.
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Better Than Surf — Better Than Surf produces and sells apparel, headwear, surf, surfboard, coffee, camping, goods, and accessories.

Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.

SB Partners is an investment firm in South Korea. Its major businesses include new technology business and Finance Business. It was established on December 11, 2017.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, India

Portfolio highlights

infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
Sharetreats — Share Treats Innovation introduces a 'Casual O2O Commerce' dedicated to South East Asia. It has a vision to create a cultural movement whereby anyone can interact more through casual treats.
BlockOdyssey — BlockOdyssey is a tech start-up that provides 'blockchain-based B2B solutions'.Currently, the main solution is supplying 'blockchain-based anti-counterfeiting solution', and logistics & distribution history management is in progress with blockchain. It has received investment from Asia's largest cosmetic company, andis conducting business with French pharmaceutical companies.

JTBC Studio is a studio in Korea that encompasses all value chains of the content business.

Investment focus

Content, Commercial, Photography
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

VA Corporation — VA Corporation provides storytelling, content creation, and planning services for virtual production, VFX, branding, and digital marketing.

NHN Investment is a specialized investment organization providing investments, loans, and management as well as technological guidance to new technology enterprises and venture businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, South Korea, Israel

Portfolio highlights

tru.ID — APIs for fast & frictionless mobile verification. Sign up today to see how tru.ID can turbocharge your user onboarding, conversion, security and experience.
Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
VA Corporation — VA Corporation provides storytelling, content creation, and planning services for virtual production, VFX, branding, and digital marketing.

Korea-based investment firm, Investment arm of Pearl Abyss

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, EdTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
Intella X — The Next Generation of Web3 Gaming Platform
Plugo — Indonesia's e-commerce platform for all businesses. Start, manage, and grow your business. Build your own online store website.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hej home — Hej home is the largest smart home IoT brand in Korea under GoQual Co. Ltd. Hej Home is a company that aims to create a comfortable and transformed daily life that people may not have experienced before. It turns uncomfortable moments into enjoyable ones, making everyone's dream house a part of their everyday lives.
Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is enabling a new era in AI and deep learning with its breakthrough processor architecture and software. The company’s mission is to deliver orders of performance and efficiency for AI workloads from the data center to the edge of the Cloud by co-designing hardware, software, and AI algorithms with their technology.Tenstorrent’sarchitecture scales from datacenter servers to IoT devices with improved efficiency, flexibility, programmability compared to legacy accelerators including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and TPU-type processors. It is developed by their team with expertise in computer architecture, hardware design and verification, systems engineering, compilers, software development, and machine learning algorithms.Tenstorrent is backed by Venture Capital firms including Real Ventures and Eclipse Venture Capital, as well as prominent industry luminaries.
Bear Robotics — From running orders to bussing tables, Servi tackles the small stuff so you can focus on excellent service and create elevated experiences.

TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

Loanfra — Loanfra delivers mortgage loan options within 10 minutes and approves loans the following day.
Reppley — Reppley is an AI chat tool that generates a daily conversation chatbot based on previous KakaoTalk talks.
Zetic.ai — ZETIC.ai presents Zero-cost AI with Server-less, On-device optimized AI with fully utilized target hardware.

Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
GhostPass — GhostPass is a startup that develops a biometric payment solution with A.I. and Self-Sovereign Identification technologies.
Spaceport — Spaceport is a Logitech startup that develops innovative services that converge IT technology and logistics expertise.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Plenful — Plenful increases efficiency, ROI, and data accuracy around manual, administrative healthcare operational workflows.
Voxel51 — We build software that enables ML engineers to build better models, more quickly. Try FiftyOne, our powerful platform for dataset curation, analysis, and model development.
Coactive AI — Coactive unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Stanly — Stanly is a all-access digital fan club, empowering fans worldwide to connect, have fun, and earn rewards.
Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

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