HB Investment
VC Fund
Seoul, South Korea
HB Investment is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Software and Biotechnology. HB Investment Inc. was founded on November 11, 1999 starting with paid-in Capital of KRW 10 billion. Since its foundation, HB Investment Inc. has been investing small and medium businesses that have the potential for steady growth and profitability and helping the invested companies to grow well by giving various consulting services. As a result, HB Investment Inc. constructed comprehensive portfolio out of various industrial areas, such as game, entertainment, as well as representative high-tech industries related to semiconductor, Internet, LCD, and a smart phone, bio, health care. In addition, HB Investment Inc. has experiences in implementing business Success-fully by organizing several partnership funds for recent years.
- Total investments:
- 180
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries HB Investment invests in
Stages HB Investment invests in
Countries HB Investment invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.8M–$15M
- Series B
- $3.6M–$25M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $941k–$23M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 26 (14%)
- Biotechnology 26 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 21 (12%)
- Health Care 20 (11%)
- Manufacturing 14 (8%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 46 (26%)
- Series B 45 (25%)
- Series A 38 (21%)
- Seed 16 (9%)
- Funding Round 13 (7%)
Country
- South Korea 131 (73%)
- United States 4 (2%)
- Vietnam 2 (1%)
- Singapore 2 (1%)
- India 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hwang Yu-sun
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Park Ha-jin
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing. | $37.1M / Series A / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Destin Power manufactures power conditioning products designed to improve energy management and safety. The company created the ESS system by utilizing core power electronics technology such as control technology for energy storage systems, static and dynamic grid support technology, and micro-grid inverter technology. | $7.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications. | $22.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life. | $6.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 27, 2026 | ||
| Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology. | $63.4M / Series A / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| BOS Semiconductors is a fabless semiconductor firm specializing in automotive-grade System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions and high-performance computing platforms. Its technologies support advanced driver assistance, autonomous driving, and centralized in-vehicle computing systems. | $60.3M / Series A / Feb 23, 2026 | ||
| Persona AI is a Korean artificial intelligence company that develops its own NLP-based conversational AI engine and AI contact center (AICC) solutions for businesses. It provides enterprise AI services such as chatbots, callbots, and automation platforms designed to improve customer communication and support operations. The company focuses onbuilding scalable AI infrastructure including edge AI and generative AI tools used across industries like healthcare, finance, and customer service. | $8.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 02, 2026 | ||
| NaruSecurity provides security architecture to prevent recurrence and analysis based on the cyber kill chain. The company has pioneered the development of technologies designed to detect attacker movements after they infiltrate the internal network. They have supplied these solutions across diverse sectors, particularly supporting government anddefense organizations with high-level threat analysis that traditional security teams often find challenging—such as identifying internal threats, investigating incidents, and detecting signs of targeted attacks. Naru Security is dedicated to protecting the assets and services and are committed to continuous technological innovation and exceptional support to respond faster and more accurately to evolving threats in the cyber domain. | Series B / Dec 12, 2025 | ||
| Neosapience is a startup founded by former Qualcomm engineers and KAIST graduates in 2017. Their goal is to make AI powered virtual humans named Neosapience. They developed core technology to synthesize hyper-realistic and emotional speech from given text script. Currently, they run an AI voice actor service called Typecast based on the technology.Furthermore, they are also developing technologies to generate facial expressions and gestures, so that anyone can cast AI powered virtual voice and video actors and generate videos by just editing text. It would lead to a revolution in the media entertainment industry as creating content can be cheaper and easier. | $11.2M / Dec 09, 2025 | ||
| mangrove is a real estate and rental services provider. | $8.9M / Series B / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does HB Investment invest in?
HB Investment invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series B stage. Most of the 180 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 HB Investment invest in?
HB Investment typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$15M at Series A, $3.6M–$25M at Series B and $941k–$23M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not HB Investment's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds HB Investment took part in.
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Who are the partners at HB Investment?
The team at HB Investment includes Hwang Yu-sun (CEO) and Park Ha-jin (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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