# GU Equity Partners

> GU Equity Partners is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

GU Equity Partners is an investment firm that offers private equity investment services. The firm provides risk capital investment, company mergers, company acquisitions, and other related services.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.6M–$70M |
| Series B | $16M–$63M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 33% |
| Software | 4 | 22% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 22% |
| Semiconductor | 3 | 17% |
| Robotics | 2 | 11% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 50% |
| Series B | 4 | 22% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 11 | 61% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kang-Woon Lee | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kang-woon-lee |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WIRobotics | WIRobotics is a Wearable robot that lessen physical demands on your body to safely allow active motion. | $63.5M | Series B | May 15, 2026 |  |
| Qunova Computing, Inc. | Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services. | $10M | Series A | Aug 18, 2025 |  |
| SurroMind | SurroMind is an artificial intelligence firm that creates and supplies application software essential for corporate research, manufacturing, and management activities. Recently, by utilizing generative AI application software, it integrates internal documents and data to facilitate information retrieval, analysis, organization, and the automatedgeneration and management of reports necessary for planning, finance, and management. This significantly enhances the efficiency of corporate operations. SurroMind provides an AI Square platform designed to assist users in efficiently exploring and selecting the AI models they require, offering features to evaluate the performance, capabilities, and practical application cases of AI models. Through this platform, users can conveniently search for appropriate models and implement them in their projects, akin to the experience of online shopping. | $3.6M | Series A | Nov 08, 2024 |  |
| Gwanak Analog | Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products | $15.9M | Series B | Jul 15, 2024 |  |
| ARPI | ARPI builds AI-powered video analytics and monitoring solutions that deliver real-time operational insights. The company focuses on intelligent data processing systems that analyze visual information for security, management, and automation purposes. Its technology enables organizations to improve decision-making, enhance operational visibility,and streamline monitoring workflows across various environments. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| WIRobotics | WIRobotics is a Wearable robot that lessen physical demands on your body to safely allow active motion. | $9.6M | Series A | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Lion Rocket | LionRocket develops generative AI tools for image, video, and webtoon content production. The company provides AI-based character generation, pose control, voice synthesis, and digital human technologies through platforms used for content creation, visual storytelling, and media production workflows. | $4.5M |  | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Lion Rocket | LionRocket develops generative AI tools for image, video, and webtoon content production. The company provides AI-based character generation, pose control, voice synthesis, and digital human technologies through platforms used for content creation, visual storytelling, and media production workflows. | $4.6M | Convertible Note | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Gwanak Analog | Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products | $7M | Series A | Mar 04, 2023 |  |
| AFI | AFI  (에이에프아이) offers innovative technology solutions for its clients. It is an environment-oriented company. AFI was established on December 23, 2013 in Seoul, Korea. | $3.9M | Series A | Sep 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kakao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Company K Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-k) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [KDB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kdb-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does GU Equity Partners invest in?

GU Equity Partners invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 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 GU Equity Partners's check size?

GU Equity Partners typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$70M at Series A and $16M–$63M 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 GU Equity Partners participates in.

### How do I contact GU Equity Partners?

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### Who are the partners at GU Equity Partners?

The team at GU Equity Partners includes Kang-Woon Lee (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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