# ARK Impact

> ARK Impact is a VC fund in Yeoksamdong backing Medical, Health Care and Apps. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Yeoksamdong, South Korea
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.arkimpact.co.kr/

ARK Impact is a VC fund in Yeoksamdong focused on Medical and Health Care. Impact Investing is an investment approach pursuing social and environmental values as well as financial return.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 2 | 20% |
| Health Care | 2 | 20% |
| Apps | 1 | 10% |
| AgTech | 1 | 10% |
| Gaming | 1 | 10% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Series I | 1 | 10% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 6 | 60% |
| India | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Returnit | RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery. |  | Series A | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| FIRMMIT | FIRMMIT is an ag-tech company that optimizes growth data by securing and analyzing agricultural technology data. | $7.4M | Series B | Oct 04, 2024 |  |
| Caring | Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation. | $30M | Series B | Feb 26, 2024 |  |
| SpaceAdd | SpaceAdd is an advertising and office media company that provides digital signage and media solutions in office buildings and commercial spaces. The company develops and operates media networks in high-traffic areas such as office lobbies, elevator halls, and shared commercial spaces | $5.5M | Series C | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Caring | Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation. | $22.4M | Series A | Aug 31, 2022 |  |
| Netmarble | Netmarble Games Corp. strives to entertain audiences of all ages and around the world by providing a great mobile gaming experience. Established in Korea in 2000, Netmarble is the fastest-growing mobile game company in Asia and consistently ranks as a top mobile developer and publisher worldwide.Netmarble has produced and serviced some of themost successful mobile games, including MARVEL Future Fight, Seven Knights, Raven (Evilbane in U.S.) and Everybody’s Marble. The largest shareholder to SGN, a leading casual game developer, Netmarble has a strategic partnership with CJ E&M Corporation, Asia’s largest entertainment company, Tencent Holdings, Asia’s largest internet company, and NCsoft, a prominent MMO company. | $8.4M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| SpaceAdd | SpaceAdd is an advertising and office media company that provides digital signage and media solutions in office buildings and commercial spaces. The company develops and operates media networks in high-traffic areas such as office lobbies, elevator halls, and shared commercial spaces | $2.9M | Series B | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Hu master | Humaster is a research start-up company that leverages its state-of-the-art technology from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Through our humidity conditioning technology, we plan on supplementing and disrupting the air conditioning market. Our main products are:1. Humicon (Humidity Conditoner): Desiccant-Cooling based all-in-oneIndoor Compound System 2. HuSheet: Dehumidification/Deodorization/anti-bacterial sheet product | $1.9M | Series A | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| G2GBIO | G2GBIO operates to supply good medicines to patients all over the world and practice. | $9.5M | Series B | Jul 24, 2020 |  |
| Swiggy | Swiggy is an on-demand food delivery platform that brings food from neighborhood restaurants directly to customers' doors.The company's food delivery platform lists local restaurants and menu lists on an app for users to order from and track the delivery of its delivery executives, enabling users to order food with speed andconvenience. Its service is used to pick up and drop off a diverse array of items, including laundry and document or parcel deliveries to business clients and retail customers. | $43M | Series I | Apr 06, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Korea Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SV Investment Corp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-investment-corp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hyundai Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyundai-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [KB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lb-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does ARK Impact invest in?

ARK Impact invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Apps startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did ARK Impact last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for ARK Impact closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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