Top 20 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in December 2024
A list of 20 VC (Venture Capital) 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 20 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in December 2024
Investor | Photography South Korea investments |
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Strong Ventures | 2 |
Altos Ventures | 1 |
Korea Technology Finance Corporation | 1 |
ETRIHOLDINGS | 1 |
Innopolis Partners | 1 |
SmartStudy Ventures | 1 |
Com2uS | 1 |
Coolidge Corner Investment | 1 |
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) | 1 |
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation | 1 |
SB Partners | 1 |
NHN Investment | 1 |
Goodwater Capital | 1 |
LG Electronics | 1 |
BeHigh Investment | 1 |
Pearl Abyss Capital | 1 |
TheVentures | 1 |
Capstone Partners | 1 |
The Peach | 1 |
Bessemer Venture Partners | 1 |
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
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.
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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.
Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.
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- Health Care, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
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- JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
- GhostPass — Personal biometrics in the palm of "My Hand"
- READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
ETRIHOLDINGS is invested money in ventures ,Startup companys, and customized incubation services for start-up teams.
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- FinTech, Real Estate, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
- Lucentblock — Lucentblock is a FinTech and blockchain-based digital real estate securities platform company.
- VideoMonster — Sign up and make high quality videos quickly and easily for free
Innopolis Partners LLC. is a LLC-type venture capital firm in Korea. Partners of Innopolis Partners are former CEO or Representative Fund Manager of leading venture capital firms, such as Korea Technology Investment, STIC Investment, LG Venture Capital, KTB Network. “Innopolis No. 1 Fund” managed by Innopolis Partners is specialized for hi-techstartups in the Daedeok Innopolis complex. Daedeok Innopolis complex is set up based on former Daedeok R&D complex where most of major national R&D institutes, including ETRI, KAITST, KAERI, KRIBB, are located.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
- Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
- Mediwhale — Medi Whale seeks to achieve sustainable healthcare where every eye can truly be the window to one’s health with our world's first-of-its-kind 1-stop AI screening platform solution for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic risk assessment, and eye disease diagnosis. Our AI Platform was developed through several clinical collaborations (Korea,Singapore, India, UK, and other European datasets) using structured longitudinal event-based datasets for the development of our retinal biomarker engines. RetiCVD® (cardiovascular disease risk assessment): Developed using coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, CAC is recognized as the gold standard for precise CVD risk calculation. Our CVD engine predicts the presence of CAC and provides a stratified probabilistic risk based on US ASCVD and EU SCORE guidelines.RetiCKD® (chronic kidney disease risk assessment): Developed using eGFR and full lab panel, our CKD engine has been demonstrated to achieve better predictive capability as compared to eGFR or full panel analysis.RetiEYE®: Referable Eye Disease engine detects and flags common aging-related eye modalities such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract at its referable disease state.Medi Whale retinal-based systemic biomarkers have been clinically demonstrated to be non-inferior to current gold standards and are recognized by clinical and scientific communities with two Lancet Digital Health publications.
SmartStudy Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of global entertainment company SmartStudy.
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- Media and Entertainment, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Live X — Live X is a digital transformation and brand development company that provides media services.
- Space Oddity — Space Oddity is a music company.
- Copper Innovation Technology — CIT Co, Ltd utilizes metal single crystals and the ASE method to ensure the accurate, lossless transmission of every signal.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, South Korea, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Saga.xyz — Saga gives visionaries the high-end tools and support they need to turn their blockchain dreams into reality.
- MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.
- Gameplay Galaxy — From the creators of Trial Xtreme, the blockbuster series that reached over 250,000,000 downloads, comes the next level of competitive extreme sports games ecosystem.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
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- 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.
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation for investing in startups
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Investment focus
- GreenTech, Energy, Events
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Spacebeam — Spacebeam is a startup creating space optical communication technology, a space-to-earth data transfer technique that uses light.
- JIN System — JIN System uses location-based spatial information technology to identify customers' potential needs and offers market-friendly solutions by integrating and converging relevant technologies. They aim to cater to increasing consumer needs in transportation, social welfare, and safety sectors, and expand into the digital twin field.
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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.
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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.
NHN Investment is a specialized investment organization providing investments, loans, and management as well as technological guidance to new technology enterprises and venture businesses.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
- Tembo Money — Need help boosting your budget or accessing lower rates? Voted Best Mortgage Broker 2023 & 2022, our award-winning service is available 7 days a week.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Germany
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- Opt-AI — On-Device AI Optimization on Any Hardware
- Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
- Bear Robotics — From running orders to bussing tables, Servi tackles the small stuff so you can focus on excellent service and create elevated experiences.
BeHigh Investment is a 'pace maker' venture capital that invests in companies with the potential of innovation and grows together.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Transportation, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
- ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
- Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Korea-based investment firm, Investment arm of Pearl Abyss
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, EdTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
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- ReFeed — ReFeed provides innovative IT technology to develop effective solutions for both trash emitters and collectors.
- Amersley — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- AIgement — AIgement enables industrial firms to make data-driven choices, save costs, and improve supplier relationships.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
- TMR Founders — TMR Founders provides a one-stop service that helps prospective entrepreneurs start a start-up in the offline individual start-up market.
The Peach is a drone-based data service company that acquires and analyses drone dynamic data to create information.
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Investment focus
- Events, Retail, Wedding
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Fdding — Fdding provides wedding photography brokerage services.
- Cheongse-Lab — Cheongse-Lab is an e-commerce and retail company.
- Make Some Noise —
We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
- Moonvalley — The imagination research company building ML video and image models that captivate.
- Carr, Riggs & Ingram — Carr, Riggs & Ingram is a full-service accounting and advisory firm committed to cultivating growth through valued relationships.
- The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.
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