Han River Partners
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Han River Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an office in Seoul, South Korea. The firm invests in technical founders building globally ambitious companies across AI, consumer, and frontier technology, with a particular focus on the "Korea Graph" — the transnational network of talent, technology, and market signals that originate in or intersect with Korea but compete globally. Han River has deployed Fund I ($100M, ~20 portfolio companies) and is currently investing from Fund II. The firm is managed by Managing Partner Jeffrey Lee (previously 20 years at Northern Light Venture Capital), Young Chung (previously Managing Partner of DAG Ventures) and Chris Koh (co-founder and former COO of Coupang).
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
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Industries Han River Partners invests in
Stages Han River Partners invests in
Countries Han River Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.4M–$60M
- Series B
- $7.3M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (31%)
- Information Technology 5 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (19%)
- Internet 2 (13%)
- E-Commerce 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (44%)
- Series B 4 (25%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- South Korea 10 (63%)
- United States 2 (13%)
- Luxembourg 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christopher Koh
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ImpriMed is a company that creates individualized drug response prediction technology to help veterinarians fight lymphoma. The company's technology provides precision medicine techniques that allow veterinary oncologists to find appropriate anticancer drugs by developing a patient-derived database for pet cancer treatment that can eventuallybe translated into human cancer care, allowing doctors to decide on a final treatment regimen based on a data-driven prediction of response success in each individual patient's body. | $10M / Series A / Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Picky is a mobile-first community that enables consumers to discover the best skincare and beauty brands and products that are right for them through extensive user reviews, educational content, and experts’ contributions. With a focus on authenticity, education, and personalization, its community creates and consumes content about skincare andbeauty, including K-beauty. Picky’s platform includes a Skin Type Analyzer, a one-minute tool that determines skin type with 14 easy questions. Based on the answers, users can discover the characteristics of their personal skin type and select what works best for them. The database, which is updated regularly, includes over 40,000 products from evergreen favorites to newly-launched indie K-beauty brands. | $1.4M / Series A / Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| AITRICS delivers AI-powered medical software designed to support clinicians in detecting and preventing critical patient deterioration. The company’s core product, AITRICS‑VC (VitalCare), continuously monitors data from electronic medical records (EMRs), including vital signs, lab tests, consciousness levels, and other relevant clinicalmeasurements to predict adverse events such as sepsis, cardiac arrest, unexpected ICU transfers, or mortality several hours before they occur.AITRICS-VC operates in real time, delivering risk scores and alerts to clinicians to enable earlier intervention and better resource allocation in hospital settings. The platform has been certified by the relevant regulatory authority in its home country and is classified as an “innovative medical device,” reflecting regulatory recognition of its predictive-analytics capabilities. In addition to monitoring and prediction, AITRICS engages in ongoing clinical validation and research; it publishes studies in peer-reviewed journals and presents its work in international AI conferences, indicating a commitment to evidence-based development and transparency in performance. | $23.8M / Series C / Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| The goal of DSRV is to give participants in this ecosystem a strong basis so they can profit from its advantages in a secure and assured manner.We anticipate your demands by providing incredibly simple, ready-to-use solutions with a product suite designed to accommodate a multi-chain future. To ensure that your ideas are realized to their fullpotential, the company is here. | $9.8M / Series B / Oct 17, 2025 | ||
| Realry is an AI-powered fashion search and price comparison platform that aggregates products from thousands of global retail sites. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Seoul, it enables users to discover, compare, and shop clothing, accessories, and beauty items while tracking deals, coupons, and price changes across brands and marketplaces. | $4.6M / Series A / Jun 24, 2025 | ||
| TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | Dec 12, 2024 | ||
| TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | $30M / Series A / Dec 12, 2024 | ||
| Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world. | $1.4M / Series A / Nov 25, 2024 | ||
| Makestar is a platform that provides K-culture content and information. Makestar allows artists and production companies to share their visions with a global audience. Makestar brings Hallyu stars and fans from all over the world together. It also offers the opportunity for fans to interact with celebrities and participate in the creation ofcontent. | $22.4M / Series D / Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Gcore is the first class web service with cutting-edge features and advanced security. It provides efficient services for all modern web needs: CDN, hosting, storage, streaming platform, DNS, security, and cloud. The company oversees a global infrastructure that delivers edge and cloud-based services to enterprise-level businesses. | $60M / Series A / Jul 22, 2024 | ||
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FAQ
What does Han River Partners invest in?
Han River Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Han River Partners invest in?
Han River Partners typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$60M at Series A and $7.3M–$20M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Han River Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Han River Partners took part in.
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The team at Han River Partners includes Christopher Koh (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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