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Top 30 Platforms VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Platforms startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Platforms startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Murex Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $6k–$16M
HB Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $1.1M–$23M
Intops Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, China, Indonesia Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software $1k–$24M
Kolon Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, India, Indonesia Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical $3k–$22M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Seed Software, Gaming, Biotechnology $1k–$7.4M
Com2uS
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series C Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games $900k–$425M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
Korea Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Angel Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $1k–$1.3B
KDB Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $11k–$44M
LINE Plus Corporation
VC Fund
1 Thailand, South Korea Seed, Series B iOS, Mobile, Android
Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $223k–$4.5M
IBK Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Gaming $669k–$22M
LB Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, China, United States Series B, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Health Care, Software $29k–$59M
STIC Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $2M–$46M
Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Apps $74k–$1.6M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$15M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $669k–$15M
Vela Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, Japan Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$32M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $743k–$50M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $817k–$47M
InfoBank
VC Fund
1 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps $25k–$9.2M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $12k–$77M
SBVA
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $1.9M–$100M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $743k–$15M
POSCO Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.7M–$44M
BSK Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.7M–$60M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $371k–$19M
WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $4k–$16M
Kakao Mobility
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Software, Automotive, Information Technology $12M–$17M
DT Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 China, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $1.4M–$92M
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Murex Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Murex Partners is a VC firm specializing in thesis-driven investing.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $1.9M–$10M; Series B $6k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • Macarong Factory — Macarong Factory is an Android developer that has been active since 2014 and has one app in Google Play. Its app is listed in the category "Auto & Vehicles". It is highly ranked in at least one country and is also one of the more popular apps in Google Play with more than 100 thousand installs.
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HB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

HB Investment Inc. was founded on November 11, 1999 starting with paid-in Capital of KRW 10 billion.Since its foundation, HB Investment Inc. has been investing small and medium businesses that have the potential for steady growth and profitability and helping the invested companies to grow well by giving various consulting services. As a result,HB Investment Inc.constructed comprehensive portfolio out of various industrial areas, such as game, entertainment, as well as representative high-tech industries related to semiconductor, Internet, LCD, and a smart phone, bio, health care. In addition, HB Investment Inc. has experiences in implementing business Success-fully by organizing several partnership funds for recent years.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$14M; Series B $2.2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Robros — Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life.
  • 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.
  • BOS Semiconductors — Driving the Future of Automotive, BOS Semiconductors
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Intops Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Intops Investment is a financial investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, China, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$8M; Series A $4k–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fanding — Fanding is a fan membership platform for content creators.
  • Glovv — Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
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Kolon Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Kolon Investment, Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in buyouts, mezzanine, corporate restructuring, growth capital, and turnaround investment. It prefers to invest in electronic components, petroleum, energy, computer, and telecommunications equipment. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul,Gyeonggi, Incheon, and Gyeongbuk. Kolon Investment, Inc. was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Source: Businessweek

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Series A $3k–$9.3M; Series B $17k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • RafiQ Cosmetics — RafiQ Cosmetics uses cosmetic raw material technology that eliminates the need to use extracts or wash off plant plant.
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Karis Bio — Karis Bio develops innovative cell therapy for cardiovascular disease.
  • StudioBside — StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
  • Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.
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Com2uS
VC Fund · El Segundo, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Leading Global Mobile Game Company Com2uS! Check out our top games and latest news!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$33M; Series A $900k–$100M; Series C $7.4M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saga.xyz — Saga is a hyperscaling platform for AI and crypto applications. Where the crazies dare to dream their craziest dreams.
  • Ace Project — Ace Project (에이스프로젝트) is a Korean that provides baseball game management systems, content development services, and mobile games for smartphones. It was established in July 2011 in Seoul, Korea.
  • Offbeat Play — Offbeat is a development company that is developing a game based on the IP of the famous web novel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms 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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Korea Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Korea Science and Technology Holdings specializes in technology commercialization services by government-funded research institutes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $3k–$1.3B; Series A $1k–$6k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • OASYS STUDIO — ​OASYS STUDIO is a cloud-native visual effects company that integrates VFX pipeline services and production within a cloud environment. They offer scalable and efficient production solutions, fostering stable collaboration structures for clients.
  • Thermoeye — Thermoeye provides thermal imaging systems utilizing temperature analysis technology.
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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.3M; Series A $1.1M–$8.8M; Series B $11k–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Tefa Robotics — The aim of Tefa Robotics is to alleviate the lack of qualified robotics engineers. One of the main components of the fourth industrial revolution is industrial robots, however, their effective deployment was hampered by technical limitations. This is one of the major barriers to the adoption of industrial robots, and Tefa Robotics is working toovercome it by creating a low-code solution in an effort to make things simpler and more effective.
  • Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
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LINE Plus Corporation
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

LINE Plus Corporation was established in March 2013 in South Korea as a subsidiary of LINE Corporation. It supports LINE’s global business development with programmers, designers, marketers, sales personnel, and PR managers of 50 different nationalities working together.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Mobile, Android
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Thailand, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
  • DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
  • LINE MAN Wongnai — Line Man is an on-demand delivery startup that offers a variety of services, including food delivery, convenience goods delivery, and parcels, in addition to the messenger and taxi-hailing services.
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Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund · England, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Check out this GoDaddy hosted webpage! http://evergreeninvestmentpartners.com.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
  • Inventera Pharmaceuticals — Inventera Pharmaceutical is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of imaging diagnostic contrast agents.
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

IBK Capital has established an enviable track record as an independent Canadian investment banking firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$1.2M; Series A $1.2M–$15M; Series B $13M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HJ Wave — HJ Wave is a manufacturing comapny that designs and develops millimeter-wave RF band, including radar antennas for autonomous driving.
  • MetaFines — MetaFines is researching and developing anti-cancer drugs using cancer metabolism.
  • SeaVantage — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions
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LB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

LB Investment is one of the top VCs in Korea. LB invests in diverse industries ranging from Technology and Contents to Bio and healthcare

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Series A $29k–$44M; Series B $3.9M–$42M; Series C $3.7M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klleon — Revolutionizing AI-Human Interactions with Real-Time Digital AvatarsEstablished in 2019, Klleon pioneers a fresh dimension in AI-human relations through its real-time digital avatar video chat. Recognized by industry giants like NVIDIA, AWS, and Microsoft, Klleon's unique technologies facilitate emotionally resonant AI digital avatarinteractions. Features include rapid-response digital human animations and optimized GPT processing, ensuring efficiency in both time and cost. By creating lifelike digital avatars from just a facial snapshot and 30 seconds of voice, Klleon transcends physical, temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries. With Klleon, your digital twin can converse globally, anytime, in any language.
  • Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
  • onepredict — We offer a digital solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
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STIC Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

STIC Ventures invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$22M; Series B $5.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wavelord
  • Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
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Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
  • Digital Natives — Digital Natives is an advertising agency that develops digital advertising transaction comparison platform for marketers.
  • H Charging Research Institute — H Charging Research Institute is an electric vehicle company. Aside from fire prevention and PNC (Plug & Charge) charging services, the company plans to build a V2G power business using electric vehicles by using advanced charging technology. The company distributes PLC-embedded charger H chargers to the market and diversifies futurebusinesses, including V2G, in order to create the future of electric vehicle charging.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms 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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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms 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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Vela Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Vela Partners is an AI-enabled venture investor based in San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vieu — Learn about us, our team, our backers and the story behind Vieu.
  • ReFiBuy — The NC Tweener Fund, Powered by NC IDEA strategy is to build an index: smaller investments in a relatively large number of NC-based companies. At the current fund size, this translates to 10-15 investments a quarter, or 40-60 a year.
  • Axiom Cloud — Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaSfees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$30M; Series B $2.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • New Id
  • viAct — viAct optimises construction safety, productivity and environmental compliance. Ensuring higher ESG preposition with AI. Offering services for construction industry of Asia & Europe & operational in China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
  • Prokarium — Prokarium is pioneering the field of microbial immunotherapy. Our pipeline is designed to unlock the next level of immuno-oncology by building on the most recent advances in cancer immunology. Prokarium’s lead program is focused on transforming the treatment paradigm in bladder cancer by orchestrating immune-driven, long-lasting antitumor effects.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $817k–$6.8M; Series A $1M–$16M; Series B $3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Freewheelin — Freewheelin is an edtech company developing AI-powered tools to personalize math education. Their platform offers services such as generating homework books, integrating with textbooks, managing student errors, and analyzing performance data to assist educators in course preparation. The company has curated a database of math resources inpartnership with textbook publishers, ensuring teachers can use materials without copyright concerns.​
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms 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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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 236
  • Round size: Seed $12k–$12M; Series A $1.2M–$31M; Series B $3.7M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • Jai Kisan — Jai Kisan provides Instant credit options for rural India. Trusted by farmers, retailers, and businesses. Instant Credit & supply chain financing Apply for Credit Now!
  • EPD Biotherapeutics — EPDBio is a platform technology-based biotech company that provides research and product development services.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms 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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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms 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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POSCO Venture Capital
VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

POSTECH Venture Capital Corporation(POSTECH VC) was founded and financed by POSCO to participate in SME(small and medium enterprise) Revitalization Policy in 1997 for the National Economy Restoration.We seek investment opportunities in diverse markets including Information Technologies, Advanced Materials, Bio Technologies, Renewable Energy,and Life Sciences.And we are to accelerate the commercialization of the valuable technologies from POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), RIST(Research institute of Industrial Science and Technology), and other institutes in Korea. More than 200 professors in POSTECH help POSTECH VC evaluate the technologiesPOSTECH VC is comprised of a team consisted of experienced venture capitalists who has previous experiences in successful startups, consulting firms, and executive management.We are currently investing from our several funds and manage over 60 billion Won.Our recent primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in renewable energy such as bio-diesel and photovoltaic technologies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$5.5M; Series B $2.6M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
  • Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.
  • NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.
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BSK Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

BSK Investment is a private equity investment company that invests in unlisted companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$60M; Series B $2.7M–$25M; Series C $13M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
  • Connecteve — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.
  • BOS Semiconductors — Driving the Future of Automotive, BOS Semiconductors
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mustbio — MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
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WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Wonik Investment Partners, formerly known as Hanmi Technology Investment Co., Ltd., is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, start-up, early and mid-stage companies, growth capital and corporate restructuring. The firm prefers to invest in gaming contents, electronic components, computer,telecommunications equipment, petroleum, energy, machinery and equipment industries. It seeks to exit through an IPO or merger and acquisition. Wonik Investment Partners was established in 1997 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $817k–$6.3M; Series A $4k–$16M; Series B $497k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BrainU — BrainU is a medical equipment manufacturing company taht developer of medical monitoring device designed to monitor brain activity. BrainU device measures the depth of anaesthesia during surgery by analysing and quantifying the entire EEG, biocompatibility, and applying a hypoallergenic, simple sensor.
  • Mustbio — MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
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Kakao Mobility
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

Kakao Mobility provides online taxi-hailing and parking services. Kakao Mobility brands include Kakao Taxi, Kakao Driver, and Kakao Navi. Kakao Mobility also provides its services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ThorDrive — ThorDrive is a company that develops software solutions related to automated and unmanned technology. ThorDrive provides an automated and unmanned platform and associated products as well as intellectual properties that can be applied to other areas.
  • Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
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DT Capital Partners
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in South Korea Platforms startups

DT Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to early and expansion stage companies. They invest in dynamic businesses that have high growth potential, strong management teams, and demonstrated revenue models in both technology-based and traditional industries. DT Capital Partners currently manages overUSD$500 Million in capital across multiple US dollar and RMB funds, and also has a close affiliation with Madrone Capital in the US, the investment entity for members of the Walton family.In addition to funds, the invested company also benefits from their extensive experience in operating capital markets across the country, close relationships with local governments and companies, and synergies with other investment companies.DT Capital Partners was awarded the “Top 10 China's Best Return Venture Capital Institution” in 2016, and the founding partners of Detong Capital, Shao Jun and Tian Lixin. DT Capital Partner was founded in 2006 and is based in Shanghai, China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$28M; Series B $2.8M–$90M; Series C $16M–$92M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $277M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Aijie Boya — Aijie Boya is a medical instrument and magnetic solid-phase material company.
  • CiMicro.Ai — CiMicro.ai is an AI‑chip startup building compute‑in‑memory (CiM)‑based heterogeneous accelerators for high‑efficiency, low‑cost large‑language‑model inference.
  • Villanelle Life — Villanelle Life is a biotechnology company that specializes in creating AI drugs, early screening, and auxiliary diagnosis platforms to solve complex diseases.
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