# CJ Corporation

> CJ Corporation is a VC fund in Seoul backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/c-j-corporation
- Website: http://www.cj.net/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cjdonorscamp

CJ Corporation is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Software and Enterprise Software. CJ Corp. is a holding company which engages in managing investments. Its products include food and food services, entertainment and media, homeshopping and logistics, bio and pharma, and infrastructure. The company was founded on August 1, 1953 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $14M–$71M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Mobile | 1 | 17% |
| Database | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 1 | 17% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 17% |
| South Korea | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Byung-chul Lee | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byung-chull-lee |
| Eun Seok Choi | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eun-seok-choi-081a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Video Rebirth | Video Rebirth Limited is a private limited company that is established with shares. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| bemyfriends | Founded in 2021 by K-Pop global fandom gurus, bemyfriends develops cutting-edge software solutions to unleash the power of fandom, creating a sustainable business for what you love with whom you love. From content sharing, e-commerce, data analysis, loyalty program to global shipment and payment, we build a holistic, end-to-end infrastructure thathelps teams design with purpose and build personal relationships with their fans. Whether you are an artist, influencer, creator, professional athlete, or brand manager, we are here to boost the value of your work, and your fandom. | $17.5M | Series A | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Green Rebel Foods | Green Rebel Foods is the operator of a company that produces products that resemble meat but aren't made from animals and are vegan. In contrast to animal goods, their food items are higher in protein, contain no cholesterol, less saturated fat, and use fewer natural resources, allowing consumers to enjoy protein-rich meat products withminimal environmental impact. | $7M | Seed | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Nuritas | Nuritas is revolutionising the discovery of novel, natural and scientifically proven active ingredients that can manage and improve human health. The company’s disruptive computational approach to discovery uses artificial intelligence and genomics to, for the first time ever, rapidly and efficiently predict and then provide access to the mosthealth-benefiting components hidden within food, called bioactive peptides. | $45M | Series B | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| GridGain | GridGain Systems is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering an in-memory computing platform built on Apache® Ignite™. GridGain solutions are used by global enterprises in financial, software, e-commerce, retail, online business services, healthcare, telecom and other major sectors, with a client list that includes ING,Sberbank, Finastra, IHS Markit, Workday, and Huawei. GridGain delivers unprecedented speed and massive scalability to both legacy and greenfield applications. Deployed on a distributed cluster of commodity servers, GridGain software can reside between the application and data layers (RDBMS, NoSQL and Apache ™ Hadoop®), requiring no rip-and-replace of the existing databases, or it can be deployed as an in-memory transactional SQL database. GridGain is the most comprehensive in-memory computing platform for high-volume ACID transactions, real-time analytics, web-scale applications, continuous learning and HTAP. For more information, visit gridgain.com. | $13.5M | Series C | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Barogo | Barogo provides a last-mile delivery platform to clients in order to generate new and creative business opportunities. It focuses on the ecosystem of connectivity and connects all possible businesses and customers. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. | $70.5M | Series C | Jun 17, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [11Street](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/11street-0969) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AgFunder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agfunder) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Almaz Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almaz-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AMD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amd-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Better Bite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-bite-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CJ CheilJedang Corp.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cj-cheiljedang-corp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does CJ Corporation invest in?

CJ Corporation invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CJ Corporation's check size?

CJ Corporation typically joins rounds of $14M–$71M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CJ Corporation participates in.

### How do I contact CJ Corporation?

Public channels for CJ Corporation include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at CJ Corporation?

The team at CJ Corporation includes Byung-chul Lee (Founder) and Eun Seok Choi (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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