# DAOL Investment

> DAOL Investment is a VC fund backing Software, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

DAOL Investment is a venture capital investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1k–$23M |
| Series B | $6k–$27M |
| Series C | $11M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 14% |
| Mobile | 2 | 9% |
| Lifestyle | 2 | 9% |
| Consulting | 2 | 9% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 32% |
| Series A | 6 | 27% |
| Series C | 6 | 27% |
| Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 15 | 68% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ascent Korea | Ascent Korea provides listening mind technology, intent marketing, content strategy, search engine optimization, and japan marketing services. They also provide marketing and digital marketing services. | $22.8M | Series A | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Onconic Therapeutics | Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments. | $19.9M | Series B | Dec 09, 2022 |  |
| Balaan | Balaan is a platform that allows you to get the latest luxury goods in just 3 days at a lower price than overseas fasting by contract with European local boutique | $17.3M | Series C | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Qli5 Therapeutics | Qli5 Therapeutics develops a new class of proteasome inhibitors with high selectivity and unique, non-covalent binding properties. | $10M | Series A | Sep 07, 2022 |  |
| Rusk Media | Rusk Media is a full-stack, mobile-first digital entertainment company that makes serialized video content and social-gaming experiences aimed at young adult audiences. The company produces both scripted fiction and unscripted formats, micro-dramas, live events, and branded content. It owns many of its intellectual properties and distributes themvia its own channels, partner networks, and OTT/social media platforms. It also offers interactive and gaming formats (including UGC gaming and branded ad-games), and leverages data-driven and AI-enabled workflows in production and content strategy. | $9.5M | Series A | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| TeamFresh | TeamFresh is a cargo and freight company that provides logistics services. | $123.8M | Series D | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| Apartmentary | Apartmentary provides apartment mentoring service. It creates a framework that allows the customer to find the most personal life in their apartment. They record their stories in different colors. It finds ways to make every customer's home beautiful. | $23.7M | Series C | May 19, 2022 |  |
| onepredict | Established in 2016, OnePredict is a leader in industrial AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology and 9 time winner of the 'Global PHM Data Challenge' for the best industrial AI based Machine Digitalization & Intelligence solutions. OnePredict provides advanced AI solutions, the GuardiOne® Series, Cells, Edge, and Cloud solutions.GuardiOne® specializes in industrial AI solutions such as bearings, turbines, wind (wind farm), transformers, robots, and motors, and is expanding to various other industries. | $25M | Series C | Feb 04, 2022 |  |
| HUINNO | HUINNO, founded in 2014, is a 500 Startups and venture-backed digital healthcare company with offices in Boston, New York, and Seoul. They are focusing on changing the way clinicians and patients manage chronic cardiac diseases using their proprietary breakthrough technologies in wearable devices and AI-based analytics cloud.HUINNO'sclinically-tested platform is capable of continuously measuring a variety of vital health data in real-time with clinical-grade accuracy. --By combining wrist and chest wearables with artificial intelligence, HUINNO provides superior real-time cardiac biometrics including ECG, Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, SpO2. Delivering healthcare providers with an effective remote patient monitoring solution that drastically improves chronic cardiac disease prevention while lowering readmission rate compared to the existing standard of care. HUINNO's app and cloud-based eco-system also allow consumers to access longitudinal trend analysis of blood pressure, medication compliance, and nutritional / exercise habits as well as coaching and medication titration from HUINNO's clinical experts. | $36.6M | Series C | Dec 28, 2021 |  |
| Balaan | Balaan is a platform that allows you to get the latest luxury goods in just 3 days at a lower price than overseas fasting by contract with European local boutique | $27.3M | Series B | Oct 07, 2021 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [KB Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kb-securities) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kdb-industrial-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KTB Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ktb-network-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SBVA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-ventures-korea) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Stonebridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stonebridge-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does DAOL Investment invest in?

DAOL Investment invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 22 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 DAOL Investment's check size?

DAOL Investment typically joins rounds of $1k–$23M at Series A, $6k–$27M at Series B and $11M–$37M 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 DAOL Investment participates in.

### When did DAOL Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for DAOL Investment closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 22 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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