# Bora Chung

> Bora Chung is a pre-seed investor in Palo Alto backing Software and Food and Beverage. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/borachung/

Bora Chung is a pre-seed investor in Palo Alto focused on Software and Food and Beverage. Bora Chung

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$5.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 100% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Events | 1 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Playad.ai | Playad.ai develops an AI-native marketing platform for advertisers and marketing teams. The platform supports multi-agent workflows that plan, generate, and optimize ad campaigns across formats. GIGR focuses on AI-powered ad creative generation, testing, and refinement based on what already works in each market. Its tools include creativepipelines, interactive ad editing, and credit-based pricing for downloaded outputs. GIGR serves organizations that want to scale ad production with automation while keeping control over final assets. | $5.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| boam.ai | The world’s first Restaurant Intelligence Platform - built specifically for the food vertical - with cutting-edge AI, unrivaled proprietary data, and deep industry expertise. On a mission to revolutionize B2B relationships with data & AI — so every potential partner can feel truly understood. Start smarter, today. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Opaper | Opaper offers solutions to automate the operational processes of restaurants and cafes, from receiving and making orders to eating on the spot, taking, or sending them. Clients can save operational expenses and optimize existing human resources by utilizing Opaper's operational system. Clients can use Opaper to increase sales, streamlinebusiness operations, and gain more loyal customers. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| SimplyCircle | SimplyCircle helps parent communities and other groups connect, communicate and organize. It's the only group communication platform that combines the instant reach of an email distribution list with the engagement and security of a private social network. Group leaders create private groups called "circles" to plan and scheduleevents, manage volunteer signups, post announcements, share documents and photos, and send private direct messages to each other. Group members get convenient summaries and reminders for all of their circles, so that they never miss another important event or notification from their group. The platform was quickly adopted by many educational and parent communities such as classrooms, PTAs, preschools and scout groups, and is now increasingly being used by other types of groups such as interest-based organizations and professional communities. Create your FREE circle at www.SimplyCircle.com and start communicating with your group! | $1.1M | Angel | Feb 01, 2015 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BRV Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brv-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dorm Room Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dorm-room-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Krew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krew-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ligature VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ligature-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mirae Asset Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Bora Chung invest in?

Bora Chung invests primarily in Software, Food and Beverage and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Bora Chung's check size?

Bora Chung typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bora Chung participates in.

### When did Bora Chung last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bora Chung closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 4 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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