# HG Initiative

> HG Initiative is a VC fund in Seongdong backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongdong, South Korea
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hg-initiative
- Website: http://www.hginitiative.com/

HG Initiative is a VC fund in Seongdong focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $360k–$7.7M |
| Series A | $1M–$8.2M |
| Series B | $3.8M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 11 | 22% |
| Health Care | 10 | 20% |
| Medical | 7 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 10% |

79 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 18 | 37% |
| Seed | 17 | 35% |
| Series B | 9 | 18% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 36 | 73% |
| United States | 4 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jeong Kyung-seon | CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeong-kyung-seon |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumora | Lumora is an Independent Power Producer (IPP) specializing in transforming idle land into renewable energy assets by developing, owning, and operating sustainable power generation projects that maximize land value while supporting clean energy production. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Sankun | Sankun is a Seoul-based construction data and AI platform. It connects buyers, vendors, and contractors through databases for projects, bidding, and construction analytics. The company offers enterprise data, site intelligence, and bidding insights, helping firms improve decision-making and streamline construction workflows using real-time data andAI tools. | $34.7K | Series A | Dec 30, 2025 |  |
| ASWEMAKE | ASWEMAKE is a provider of digital transformation management solutions, dedicated to creating a customer experience that makes purchasing daily necessities online as satisfying as buying them in person. By focusing on developing online sales infrastructure within competitive nationwide food ingredient markets and collaborating with local offlinepartners, the company aims to achieve 'Today's Shopping,' where orders made today are delivered the same day throughout the country, leveraging logistics and distribution services. It operates 'Q Market,' an application for same-day delivery from local grocery stores. Q Market serves as an O2O service that links consumers residing within a 3km radius of medium-to-large offline supermarkets, using city center supermarkets as delivery hubs to ensure that orders reach customers' doorsteps on the same day. The company is committed to offering consumers a fresher 'Convenience Premium' (Convenience + Premium) by setting itself apart through the use of logistics warehouses associated with supermarkets, ensuring that the products customers require are delivered as quickly as possible. |  | Series C | Dec 22, 2025 |  |
| Realteeth | Realteeth offers dental treatments to help patients improve their oral health and comfort. It focuses on developing AI-powered smart manufacturing solutions to improve dental care quality. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Goi | Goi provides funeral service support solutions that enables organizations to manage employee welfare and memorial arrangements efficiently. The company delivers an integrated suite of services, including real-time funeral coordination, cost control, customized memorial products, nationwide delivery, administrative assistance, and transparentpricing. This approach allows corporations and institutions to optimize employee benefit programs while ensuring families receive accessible, reliable, and dignified end-of-life services, reducing both financial burden and operational complexity. | $6.1M | Series A | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| BigTech Plus | BigTech Plus is a real estate information based fintech company. | $4M | Series A | Oct 27, 2025 |  |
| 276 Holdings | 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies. | $2.1M | Series A | Sep 11, 2025 |  |
| Glovv | Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform. | $2.2M | Series A | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| PAWCHI | PAWCHI is a pet insurance company. | $4.2M | Series A | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| ASWEMAKE | ASWEMAKE is a provider of digital transformation management solutions, dedicated to creating a customer experience that makes purchasing daily necessities online as satisfying as buying them in person. By focusing on developing online sales infrastructure within competitive nationwide food ingredient markets and collaborating with local offlinepartners, the company aims to achieve 'Today's Shopping,' where orders made today are delivered the same day throughout the country, leveraging logistics and distribution services. It operates 'Q Market,' an application for same-day delivery from local grocery stores. Q Market serves as an O2O service that links consumers residing within a 3km radius of medium-to-large offline supermarkets, using city center supermarkets as delivery hubs to ensure that orders reach customers' doorsteps on the same day. The company is committed to offering consumers a fresher 'Convenience Premium' (Convenience + Premium) by setting itself apart through the use of logistics warehouses associated with supermarkets, ensuring that the products customers require are delivered as quickly as possible. | $8.3M | Series B | Sep 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [JB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jb-investment) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Daesung Private Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daesung-private-equity) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [MYSC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mysc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BonAngels Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bon-angels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Industrial Bank of Korea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industrial-bank-of-korea) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does HG Initiative invest in?

HG Initiative invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 49 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 HG Initiative's check size?

HG Initiative typically joins rounds of $360k–$7.7M at Seed, $1M–$8.2M at Series A and $3.8M–$13M 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 HG Initiative participates in.

### How do I contact HG Initiative?

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### Who are the partners at HG Initiative?

The team at HG Initiative includes Jeong Kyung-seon (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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