# Grand Ventures

> Grand Ventures is a VC fund in Seocho backing Apps, Education and E-Learning. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seocho, South Korea
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://gvc.im

Grand Ventures is a venture capital firm that comprised of Education, Content and tech experts.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $204k–$351k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 3 | 21% |
| Education | 3 | 21% |
| E-Learning | 2 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 14% |
| B2B | 1 | 7% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 57% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Herbbloom | Herbbloom creates and sells skin care products. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Alt – A | Alt – A is developing a “next-generation connected convex mirror” as a smart traffic safety solution. In particular, urban private land (residential, university, hospital) areas lack basic infrastructure typically seen in public spaces such as convex mirrors, street signs and stoplights, creating many blind spots for vehicles and thus causingsignificant safety risks for children and people in general.Alt – A’s first product, the Safety Stick, uses video and sensor technology to indicate to drivers the existence of unseen living objects in advance. In addition, the company’s product allows for data analytics of vehicle/human traffic flows and issue spots for the given land area. |  | Series A | Dec 19, 2025 |  |
| Career Day | Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection. |  | Seed | Aug 08, 2025 |  |
| Additional Company | Additional Company provides tax support services such as regular reporting, late reporting, and correction claims for various tax items to workers, freelancers, and business customers who are in a tax blind spot. |  | Seed | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| User Spoon | User Spoon is a tool designed to streamline and enhance the process of user experience (UX) research by offering features that improve efficiency, such as user testing, feedback collection, and data analysis tools. It supports UX professionals in gathering insights faster and more accurately, ultimately leading to more user-centered designdecisions |  | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| dbd Lab | dbd Lab is an AI-driven research platform that manages 'User Spoon,' a Research Ops Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) designed to assist companies in effectively carrying out User Experience research. By automating the complete process from research design, question formulation, and response gathering to result evaluation, it allows users toeffortlessly apply diverse research methods without the need for specialized expertise. | $350.9K | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Moonda | Moonda's B2B music performance curation platform, Bravi, seems like a valuable service for businesses seeking to enhance their events or spaces with curated live music. |  | Seed | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| iGoGo | iGoGo provides education services for children. |  |  | Dec 27, 2024 |  |
| iGoGo | iGoGo provides education services for children. |  |  | Dec 27, 2024 |  |
| iGoGo | iGoGo provides education services for children. | $203.6K | Seed | Dec 27, 2024 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [VNTG Corp.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vntg-corp) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SmartStudy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smartstudy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Industrial Bank of Korea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industrial-bank-of-korea) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Jeonbuk National University Technology Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeonbuk-national-university-technology-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Juwon Patent Law Firm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joowon-patent-and-law-firm) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KR Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kr-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Grand Ventures invest in?

Grand Ventures invests primarily in Apps, Education and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Grand Ventures's check size?

Grand Ventures typically joins rounds of $204k–$351k 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 Grand Ventures participates in.

### When did Grand Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Grand Ventures closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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