# ATU Partners

> ATU Partners is a VC fund in Gangneung backing Gaming, Software and Information Technology. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gangneung, South Korea
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://kr.linkedin.com/company/atupartners
- Website: https://atupartners.com/kr

ATU Partners is a private equity fund operator specializing in lifestyle investments such as media, esports, and K-Beauty.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.1M–$63M |
| Series B | $6.1M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Shoes | 1 | 13% |
| Video | 1 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thinkfree | Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| INTAKE foods | INTAKE foods (인테이크푸즈) is a company focused on food content development and food branding, specialized in the innovation of leading food brands. It is focused on brand development, content development and publishing, such as food activities, intake of foods, and a food culture of innovation. | $6.1M | Series B | Jul 03, 2023 |  |
| Anipen | ANIPEN (애니펜) is a Korean 3D content development platform that enables enterprises to develop video communication and entertainment platforms. | $11.9M | Series B | Oct 17, 2022 |  |
| Perfitt | Perfitt renovates the dynamics of footwear shopping for everyone. We enable a zero-concern shoe purchases on online by providing a personalized perfect size recommendation. Perfitt’s easy-to-use mobile app and devices is powered by deep learning and image processing technology. | $3.1M | Series A | Apr 28, 2022 |  |
| Fertilerains Communications | Fertilerains Communications provides digital marketing, video production, motion graphic, and game marketing. | $63M | Series A | Dec 30, 2021 |  |
| LUXROBO | LUXROBO is a venture company specializing in robotics. Based on its robot technology, LUXROBO creates products that make electrical appliances smarter and easier to use. The company develops educational robots, IoT platform, and modular robotics kit. It also provides technology consulting services. | $15.5M | Series B | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| OP.GG | OP.GG creates profiles for gamers by analyzing game data from the games they play. Through these profiles, gamers can improve their gameplay and see the game performance of their opponents and friends. Currently OP.GG has services for League of Legends, Overwatch and PUBG with over 28 million monthly users from around the world. | $20M | Series B | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| EJN | EJN is an IT company that develops & provides services for streamers and gamers. |  | Series A | Nov 25, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accord Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accord-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ace Investment Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ace-investment-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Almers Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almers-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BNH Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnh-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capstone Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capstone-partners-korea) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Daishin Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daishin-securities) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does ATU Partners invest in?

ATU Partners invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 ATU Partners's check size?

ATU Partners typically joins rounds of $3.1M–$63M at Series A and $6.1M–$20M 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 ATU Partners participates in.

### When did ATU Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for ATU Partners closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 8 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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