# Chester Roh

> Chester Roh is a seed investor backing Software, Apps and Beauty. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Feb 2018
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chesterroh
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chester_roh
- Website: http://www.ablar.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chester.roh

Chester Roh is a seed investor focused on Software and Apps. Chester is 13 year-long serial entrepreneur with successes such as IPO and M&A with Google. His current company, Ablar Company, is the fourth start-up with a great vision to connect offline world more into online. He worked as a product manager at Google Korea after his last start-up, Tatter&Company had been acquired by Google in 2008.Before Tatter&Company, he founded two more companies, one of which had successfully done the IPO. He also worked as a product manager at SK Telecom, where he developed intelligent personalization system for mobile phone users. Chester received his bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering from KAIST.He's also been an active angel investor and business mentor in the companies like, Ticket Monster (Recently merged to LivingSocial), Paprika Lab, LIFO interactive, Sha.kr Media, Ultra Caption Corp (klassmate.com), Flyfan (clubvenit.com) and J3T (stylesays.com).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| Beauty | 1 | 25% |
| Comics | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

### Country

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

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Typecast | Neosapience is a startup founded by former Qualcomm engineers and KAIST graduates in 2017. Their goal is to make AI powered virtual humans named Neosapience. They developed core technology to synthesize hyper-realistic and emotional speech from given text script. Currently, they run an AI voice actor service called Typecast based on the technology.Furthermore, they are also developing technologies to generate facial expressions and gestures, so that anyone can cast AI powered virtual voice and video actors and generate videos by just editing text. It would lead to a revolution in the media entertainment industry as creating content can be cheaper and easier. |  | Angel | Feb 01, 2018 | https://typecast.ai |
| AWAIR | Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea. | $2.3M | Seed | Mar 10, 2015 | https://getawair.com |
| Memebox | Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed). Memebox capture emerging trends and turn them into brands people love, connectingproduct, content, and commerce into one seamless experience. | $500K | Seed | Dec 09, 2013 | http://us.memebox.com |
| Tapas Media | Tapas is the “Youtube for story tellers” -- a platform and community for over 50,000 creators, who publish original stories in the form of serialized webcomics and novels. Tapas has over 2 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend 70 million minutes per month on the platform with stories on Tapas having been read over 5 billion timesto date. We co-produce original IPs with our top creators that can be shopped and brokered into the next hit TV series/movies/games/physical books. About 70% of Tapas’s audience are female millennials primarily located in the US. The Tapas app has been downloaded over 2 million times and is one of the top grossing comics apps on iOS and Android. Check out some of the latest news articles about Tapas here: https://tapas.io/site/about | $750K | Seed | Nov 15, 2012 | http://www.tapas.io |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FuturePlay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futureplay-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [R/GA Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/r-ga-connected-devices-accelerator-2013) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SK Planet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sk-planet) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SparkLabs Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparklabs-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Chester Roh invest in?

Chester Roh invests primarily in Software, Apps and Beauty startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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 Chester Roh's check size?

Chester Roh typically joins rounds of $500k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chester Roh participates in.

### How do I contact Chester Roh?

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### When did Chester Roh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chester Roh closed in Feb 2018. 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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