# A Ventures

> A Ventures is a VC fund in Seoul backing Apps, Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

A Ventures is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Apps and Manufacturing. A Ventures is one of the most active venture capital companies in South Korea.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$15M |
| Series B | $3.8M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 4 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 10% |
| Pharmaceutical | 3 | 10% |
| Retail | 2 | 7% |
| Content | 2 | 7% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 28% |
| Seed | 6 | 21% |
| Series B | 5 | 17% |
| Series C | 3 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 17 | 59% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| First FNC | First FNC is an e-commerce platform selling fashion apparel and official K-pop merchandise online. |  | Series A | Nov 01, 2025 |  |
| Impactive AI | Impactive AI is a software company that offers artificial intelligence-powered enterprise prediction solutions. Impactive AI is a company that develops enterprise AI solutions. It provides a decision support system that applies world-class AI prediction models to the entire product cycle from launch to discontinuation, enabling a proactive responsesystem based on predictions. The company helps industries like manufacturing, retail, and supply chain to cut costs, improve decision-making accuracy, and increase operational efficiency through AI-driven predictions. | $5.9M | Series A | Aug 11, 2025 |  |
| Mass Adoption | Mass Adoption is web development and Saas Toolkit development platform. | $1.6M | Series A | Jul 21, 2025 |  |
| Illimis Therapeutics | Illimis Therapeutics is a platform-based biotech company that develops a chimeric fusion protein platform for neurodegenerative diseases. The company's proprietary GAIA (Gas6-mediated Anti-Inflammatory Adaptor) platform is designed to harness the therapeutic potential of TAM (Tyro3, Axl, Mer) receptor biology, a critical pathway involved inregulating inflammation and immune responses. | $41.9M | Series B | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| ASWEMAKE | ASWEMAKE is a provider of digital transformation management solutions, dedicated to creating a customer experience that makes purchasing daily necessities online as satisfying as buying them in person. By focusing on developing online sales infrastructure within competitive nationwide food ingredient markets and collaborating with local offlinepartners, the company aims to achieve 'Today's Shopping,' where orders made today are delivered the same day throughout the country, leveraging logistics and distribution services. It operates 'Q Market,' an application for same-day delivery from local grocery stores. Q Market serves as an O2O service that links consumers residing within a 3km radius of medium-to-large offline supermarkets, using city center supermarkets as delivery hubs to ensure that orders reach customers' doorsteps on the same day. The company is committed to offering consumers a fresher 'Convenience Premium' (Convenience + Premium) by setting itself apart through the use of logistics warehouses associated with supermarkets, ensuring that the products customers require are delivered as quickly as possible. | $7.4M | Series C | Jun 05, 2025 |  |
| Relay | Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| Fanding | Fanding is a fan membership platform for content creators. | $3.4M | Series A | Apr 04, 2025 |  |
| Boosterz | Boosterz is a company that supports the 5Ps of marketing at all stages, from product planning and launch to growth. | $7.1M | Series B | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| VESSL AI | VESSL AI enables machine learning teams to develop state-of-the-art models at scale without the complex and repetitive process of setting up pipelines and infrastructures.In addition to a centralized dashboard and workflow management, VESSL AI offers enterprise-grade infrastructure equipped with automated resource provisioning, and powerfultraining modes with automated hyperparameter optimization and multi-node distributed training. | $12.2M | Series A | Oct 07, 2024 |  |
| ASWEMAKE | ASWEMAKE is a provider of digital transformation management solutions, dedicated to creating a customer experience that makes purchasing daily necessities online as satisfying as buying them in person. By focusing on developing online sales infrastructure within competitive nationwide food ingredient markets and collaborating with local offlinepartners, the company aims to achieve 'Today's Shopping,' where orders made today are delivered the same day throughout the country, leveraging logistics and distribution services. It operates 'Q Market,' an application for same-day delivery from local grocery stores. Q Market serves as an O2O service that links consumers residing within a 3km radius of medium-to-large offline supermarkets, using city center supermarkets as delivery hubs to ensure that orders reach customers' doorsteps on the same day. The company is committed to offering consumers a fresher 'Convenience Premium' (Convenience + Premium) by setting itself apart through the use of logistics warehouses associated with supermarkets, ensuring that the products customers require are delivered as quickly as possible. | $8.3M | Series B | Sep 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hana-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does A Ventures invest in?

A Ventures invests primarily in Apps, Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is A Ventures's check size?

A Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7M at Seed, $1.6M–$15M at Series A and $3.8M–$42M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds A Ventures participates in.

### When did A Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for A Ventures closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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