# Hanwha Asset Management

> Hanwha Asset Management is a VC fund backing Financial Services. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwha-asset-management
- Website: http://eng.hanwhafund.co.kr/web/main/main.jsp

Hanwha Asset Management is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence. Hanwha Asset Management has often been called Korea’s silent power in the field of asset management. This means that we are not swayed by short-term, temporary trends.Instead, we are famed for holding fast to our management principles and philosophy. You can trust Hanwha Asset Management to manage your assets with confidence and trust. HanwhaAsset Management believes in long-term decision-making. At the same time, we are always on the lookout for new investment opportunities.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6k–$300M |
| Series B | $6.4M–$503M |
| Series C | $5.4M–$400M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 20% |
| Robotics | 5 | 17% |
| FinTech | 4 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 13% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 30% |
| Series B | 9 | 30% |
| Series C | 7 | 23% |
| Series D | 2 | 7% |
| Seed | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 33% |
| South Korea | 8 | 27% |
| Singapore | 4 | 13% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Notaro | Associate Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-notaro |
| Seungdo Keum | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seungdo-keum |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aurelius Systems | Aurelius Systems is a defense technology company pioneering the future of defense with the development of edge-deployed, AI-powered laser systems designed to counter unmanned aerial systems (UAS) threats. | $40M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Performance Drone Works | PDW is a family of small autonomous platforms designed for the modern warfighter. It has a record of developing novel technology across a large stack in suas design. Its systems share the common design in electronics and software across three different sized platforms. | $110M | Series B | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Haply | Haply is a robotics company that provides haptic devices, prototyping, firmware, and virtual learning assistance. | $11.7M | Seed | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Superb AI | Superb AI is a company that develops computer vision and MLOps solutions designed to support AI deployment across industries such as manufacturing, logistics, physical security, and autonomous systems. Its platform provides tools for data annotation, model training, deployment, monitoring, and dataset management to help organizations manage AIworkflows more efficiently. The company also develops industry-focused Vision AI technologies, including foundation models and video analytics systems that can be applied to industrial and operational environments. Superb AI works with enterprises in sectors including automotive, electronics, energy, and infrastructure, supporting applications such as defect detection, surveillance analysis, and autonomous driving data processing. In addition to its software platform, the company conducts research and development in areas such as data-centric AI, physical AI, and spatial recognition technologies. The company helps enterprises accelerate AI adoption through automated data labeling, model training, and continuous AI performance optimization. | $9.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Forterra | Forterra delivers autonomous mission systems for defense. From self-driving land systems to coordinated swarms of robotic platforms, the company builds scalable, robust, mission-critical hardware and software designed to empower customers to deploy autonomy as a force multiplier - extending reach, survivability, and effectiveness across thebattlespace and industrial domains. | $188M | Series C | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Temporal Technologies | Temporal Technologies is a computer software company that enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives. It specializes in the fields of information technology, software development, and computer software. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $146M | Series C | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| H3X Technologies | H3X Technologies manufactures the lightest electric aircraft propulsion systems in the world to enable sustainable aviation. H3X was founded by Jason Sylvestre, Eric Maciolek, and Max Liben in 2020. | $20M | Series A | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Mistral AI | Mistral AI is a platform that assembles team to develop the generative AI models. | $502.6M | Series B | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| ThayerMahan | ThayerMahan is a maritime technology company dedicated to providing its clients with turn-key autonomous marine solutions, including deployment, operations, data gathering, and analysis services, using state-of-the-art acoustic and electronic sensors integrated on a variety of host platforms tailored to customers missions. | $20M | Series C | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| Funds | Funds is a loan investment firm that lends money to businesses. It enables companies to invest in funds for business financing in 1 yen increments through silent partnership agreements. | $26.8M | Series D | Mar 14, 2023 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tokai-tokyo-financial-holdings) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AE Industrial Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ae-industrial-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arbor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arbor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hanwha Asset Management invest in?

Hanwha Asset Management invests primarily in Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hanwha Asset Management's check size?

Hanwha Asset Management typically joins rounds of $6k–$300M at Series A, $6.4M–$503M at Series B and $5.4M–$400M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hanwha Asset Management participates in.

### How do I contact Hanwha Asset Management?

Public channels for Hanwha Asset Management include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Hanwha Asset Management?

The team at Hanwha Asset Management includes Michael Notaro (Associate Vice President) and Seungdo Keum (Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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