# Access Ventures

> Access Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 29%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Aug 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessventuresllc/
- Website: http://www.accessvc.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AccessVenturesLLC/

Access Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage technology companies in Vietnam, Indonesia and Korea. They provide strategic expertise to their founders and access to their unique network of executives and technology professionals. Leveraging their robust network of strategic investors, they also focus their attention on creatingand executing sound exit strategies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$3.4M |
| Series A | $297k–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 23% |
| SaaS | 6 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 17% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 31% |
| Series A | 8 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 17% |
| Series B | 5 | 14% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 9 | 26% |
| Vietnam | 6 | 17% |
| Singapore | 6 | 17% |
| Indonesia | 4 | 11% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Rim | General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-rim |
| John Chang | General Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-chang-767e |
| Daniel Song | Senior Associate | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-song |
| Josh Yongmin Jung | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-yongmin-jung |
| Long Leo Pham | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/long-leo-pham |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yulift | Yulift is an edtech company that develops AI and coding education platforms for beginners and aspiring developers. The company operates AI Coding Valley, a mobile-based learning platform that provides programming and artificial intelligence education content for beginners and students. | $3M | Series A | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| Yulift | Yulift is an edtech company that develops AI and coding education platforms for beginners and aspiring developers. The company operates AI Coding Valley, a mobile-based learning platform that provides programming and artificial intelligence education content for beginners and students. | $2M | Seed | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| PeopleFund | Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr. | $20M | Series C | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| PeopleFund | Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr. | $20M | Series C | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Plugo | Plugo is an all-in-one e-commerce platform that empowers anyone who wants to start an online business. Plugo lets users personalize their online stores with custom website templates, payment and courier integrations, omnichannel, SEO, and marketing tools. Plugo is entirely cloud-based and hosted, allowing users to access and manage their businessfrom anywhere, at any time, while on the go. | $9M | Series A | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Seoul Robotics | Seoul Robotics brings the most advanced AI to all 3D sensors technology that leverages a mesh network of sensors and computers to enable autonomous vehicle navigation, offering features such as controlled area navigation and obstacle detection across diverse environments, enabling businesses to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance safetyin vehicle marshaling and parking operations. | $25M | Series B | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| VAPAR | VAPAR is a developer of an engineering software intended for pipe asset management. The company's software speeds up the repair and maintenance of water pipes by automating pipe fault detection and infrastructure mapping using AI and GIS integration, saving clients time and money in repair and maintenance work. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 09, 2022 |  |
| double jump.tokyo | double jump.tokyo Is a blockchain game developer and NFT solution provider for large-scale enterprises in the gaming and entertainment sector. | $23.4M | Series C | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Pion | Pion Corporation is an Martech focused video intelligence company. We provide “Vispot”, a video creation and ad-automation platform powered by AI. | $3.4M | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Palexy | We develop Visual AI SaaS platform to transform your existing siloed retail data, including CCTV footages, POS data, staff scheduling data, inventory data, etc. into powerful & actionable data intelligence.Our enterprise-grade AI solutions empower retail business to boost conversion rates, optimize operational efficiency, and also enhanceshopper experience.Recognized as one of the top 10 Indoor Mapping Analytics Vendors by CBInsights in 2021, we have deployed our AI solutions to 100+ retailers from 6 countries. | $1M | Seed | Dec 11, 2020 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Access Ventures invest in?

Access Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 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 Access Ventures's check size?

Access Ventures typically joins rounds of $200k–$3.4M at Seed and $297k–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Access Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Access Ventures?

Public channels for Access Ventures include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Access Ventures?

The team at Access Ventures includes Charles Rim (General Partner), John Chang (General Partner) and Daniel Song (Senior Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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