# Han River Partners

> Han River Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Han River Partners is a venture capital firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.4M–$60M |
| Series B | $7.3M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce Platforms | 2 | 13% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 47% |
| Series B | 4 | 27% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 10 | 67% |
| United States | 2 | 13% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Koh | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-koh-dcc5 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Picky | 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 | 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 |  |
| DSRV | 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 | 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 |  |
| Twelve Labs | 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 |  |
| Twelve Labs | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| AITRICS | 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. | $20.3M | Series B | Mar 21, 2024 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SK Telecom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sktelecom) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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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 15 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 Han River Partners's check size?

Han River Partners typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$60M at Series A and $7.3M–$20M 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 Han River Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Han River Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Han River Partners?

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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