# Golden Oak Investment

> Golden Oak Investment is a VC fund backing Apps, Wellness and Beauty. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://goldenoakrei.com/

Golden Oak Investment is a VC fund focused on Apps and Wellness. Golden Oak, LLC is a privately held investment company that focuses on the acquisition, development, and management of value-add multifamily real estate.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.7M–$2.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 29% |
| Wellness | 2 | 29% |
| Beauty | 1 | 14% |
| Gaming | 1 | 14% |
| Rental | 1 | 14% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 57% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Travel Wallet | Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks. | $15.1M | Series C | Mar 16, 2023 | https://www.travel-wallet.com |
| Trash Busters | Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes. |  | Seed | Jun 30, 2022 | https://trashbusters.kr |
| Trash Busters | Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes. |  | Seed | Mar 04, 2022 | https://trashbusters.kr |
| LOWE | Lowe is a shared beauty salon platform service that provides a variety of beauty infrastructure such as beauty spaces, facilities and materials, and creates an optimal environment for designers to focus on the essence. | $2.9M | Series A | Nov 22, 2021 | https://lo-we.kr/ |
| Da-gym | Da-gym is the most convenient marketplace platform for searching gyms. | $2.7M | Series A | Nov 05, 2021 | https://www.da-gym.co.kr/home |
| Aconic | Aconic is a fashion, model management, and brand consulting company that develops and produces marketing and brand content production. |  | Series A | Dec 25, 2020 | https://aconic.co.kr/ |
| 5minlab | 'A game development company with superior techniques leading to business growth' 5minlab is a PC/mobile game development company based in Seoul, South Korea. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve brought 5 PC/mobile games, 3 VR games, and 24 hyper-casual games to the global market. In addition, our technical skills have developed overthe years while performing various outsourcing tasks and projects.Since 2018, based on our years' worth of know-how, a PvP game 'Smash Legends' has started developing, which allowed users to participate and gather worldwide. In 2020, 5minlab successfully attracted Series A investment from 4 investors due to the success of the game in 2019.Currently, 5minLab has 70 experts from various backgrounds, from a brilliant developer born in 00 to the art director of ‘Dragon Nest' and ‘Phantom Chaser'. The senior development leader of ‘Dungeon & Fighter'.Starting with 'Smash Legends', which is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2021, 5minlab aims to release the next game in 2024 to become a developer that can create global IP in a chain. | $5.4M | Series A | Jul 01, 2020 | http://5minlab.com |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Strong Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/strong-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Golden Oak Investment invest in?

Golden Oak Investment invests primarily in Apps, Wellness and Beauty startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Golden Oak Investment's check size?

Golden Oak Investment typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$2.9M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Golden Oak Investment participates in.

### When did Golden Oak Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Golden Oak Investment closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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