# AFW Partners

> AFW Partners is a VC fund in Seoul backing Pet, Beauty and Database. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/afw-partners/?originalSubdomain=kr
- Website: https://afwpartners.com

AFW Partners is a technology finance company that provides venture, financial, and capital investment services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pet | 1 | 14% |
| Beauty | 1 | 14% |
| Database | 1 | 14% |
| Metaverse | 1 | 14% |
| Automotive | 1 | 14% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bonil Koo | Managing Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yeoshin | Yeoshin is a skin treatment information platform. | $7.2M | Series C | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| HJ Wave | HJ Wave is a manufacturing comapny that designs and develops millimeter-wave RF band, including radar antennas for autonomous driving. | $31.8M | Series A | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| Pettaverse | Pettaverse is an animal metaverse platform that creates characters using IPs of companion animals. | $7.3M | Series A | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Element Energy | Element Energy, a startup with technology that significantly improves the performance, lifetime, reliability and cost of large battery packs used in a wide range of applications including stationary and renewable energy storage and hybrid and electric vehicles. | $73M | Series B | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Partridge Systems | Partridge Systems develops an automotive data platform that enables real-time data transfer, sharing, and structured data management. The platform offers end-to-end capabilities, including data collection, storage, and deployment pipelines for processing vehicle big data through web-based visualization tools. It allows users to access streamingdata without local downloads and supports seamless collaboration among engineers worldwide. | $379.6K | Seed | Aug 08, 2023 |  |
| Pettaverse | Pettaverse is an animal metaverse platform that creates characters using IPs of companion animals. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| HJ Wave | HJ Wave is a manufacturing comapny that designs and develops millimeter-wave RF band, including radar antennas for autonomous driving. | $6.5M | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ARGES Private Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arges-private-equity) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- bitsensing — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- HL Klemove India — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kakao Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Keyframe Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keyframe-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does AFW Partners invest in?

AFW Partners invests primarily in Pet, Beauty and Database startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact AFW Partners?

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### Who are the partners at AFW Partners?

The team at AFW Partners includes Bonil Koo (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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