# CJ ENM

> CJ ENM is a VC fund in Seoul backing Software and Music. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cj-mnet-media
- Website: https://www.cjenm.com:9003/index_en.html

CJ ENM is a Korean entertainment and mass media company.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.8M–$10M |
| Series B | $7.4M–$83M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| Music | 3 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| Media and Entertainment | 3 | 18% |
| Apps | 2 | 12% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 41% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 12% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 10 | 59% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kang Ho-seong | CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kang-ho-seong |
| Kang Ho Sung | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kang-ho-sung |
| Steve Chung | Global Chief Growth Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-chung-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| wavve | wavve is an app for sharing audio from your podcast, music and recordings on social media. | $179.5M | Convertible Note | Nov 27, 2024 |  |
| PulseAd | PulseAd harnesses the latest in machine learning technology to transform your retail advertising efforts, ensuring each campaign you run is data-driven, highly targeted, and optimized for success across major platforms like Amazon, Walmart, and Target. It's an intelligent advertising solution that empowers your brand to make impactfulconnections with customers, scaling your presence in the global marketplace. With PulseAd, you're not just running ads—you're embracing a strategic partner that propels your brand to new heights with every click and conversion. |  | Corporate Round | Aug 23, 2024 |  |
| PulseAd | PulseAd harnesses the latest in machine learning technology to transform your retail advertising efforts, ensuring each campaign you run is data-driven, highly targeted, and optimized for success across major platforms like Amazon, Walmart, and Target. It's an intelligent advertising solution that empowers your brand to make impactfulconnections with customers, scaling your presence in the global marketplace. With PulseAd, you're not just running ads—you're embracing a strategic partner that propels your brand to new heights with every click and conversion. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| PulseAd | PulseAd harnesses the latest in machine learning technology to transform your retail advertising efforts, ensuring each campaign you run is data-driven, highly targeted, and optimized for success across major platforms like Amazon, Walmart, and Target. It's an intelligent advertising solution that empowers your brand to make impactfulconnections with customers, scaling your presence in the global marketplace. With PulseAd, you're not just running ads—you're embracing a strategic partner that propels your brand to new heights with every click and conversion. | $300K | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Pozalabs | Pozalabs is a Seoul-based AI music generation startup that serves a mission to ‘create a world where anyone can create and own music.’ The company offers an AI-powered background music generation platform and music sample creation service, utilizing its own proprietary music data created by a team of in-house professional composers. Pozalabs hasimplemented an AI automation system for efficient music sample generation, combination, mixing, and mastering. The company raised Series A funding from South Korea's largest entertainment and media company, CJ ENM, and currently provides music to companies in the media, entertainment, IT, and gaming industries. |  | Series A | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Boosterz | Boosterz is a company that supports the 5Ps of marketing at all stages, from product planning and launch to growth. | $2.8M | Series A | Oct 25, 2022 |  |
| AmazeVR | AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for VR content creation and mass distribution using proprietary technologies. The company provides an end-to-end solution for a radical new way to experience immersive music content with their proprietary technologies—from ultra-high-resolution custom cameras to cloud-based creation tools, to intuitive socialinteractions with friends as avatars.As vertically integrated distribution channels, artists will reach a broad audience with AmazeVR through offline distribution (Amaze Tour) complying with the COVID-19 safety measures and online distribution.AmazeVR was founded in 2015 by the founders and former executives of Kakao, a $27B market cap mobile platform company. | $20M | Series B | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Line | LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games. | $9.7M | Series A | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Line Next | Line Next is committed to advancing and expanding the worldwide NFT industry. LINE NEXT seeks to offer innovative digital experiences and pave the road for the future by utilising blockchain and NFT technology. | $10M | Series A | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| It Communication | It Communication develops Must It, an online retail store focused on selling international designer brand products to its customers. The website features products from a wide range of popular global brands including apparel, accessories, and lifestyle goods. Customers are able to browse through the website and purchase their products and havethem delivered to their door step with a few clicks. | $15.5M | Series C | Jun 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Company K Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-k) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [K Auction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k-auction) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Line Games](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/line-games) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Naver](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/naver-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Naver Webtoon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/naver-webtoon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CJ ENM invest in?

CJ ENM invests primarily in Software, Music and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 17 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 CJ ENM's check size?

CJ ENM typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$10M at Series A and $7.4M–$83M 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 CJ ENM participates in.

### How do I contact CJ ENM?

Public channels for CJ ENM include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. 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 ENM?

The team at CJ ENM includes Kang Ho-seong (CEO), Kang Ho Sung (CEO) and Steve Chung (Global Chief Growth Officer). 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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