# History Venture Investment

> History Venture Investment is a VC fund in Seoul backing Media and Entertainment and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://hisstoryventure.co.kr/

History Venture Investment is an accelerator specialized in startup investment.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $388k–$837k |
| Series C | $17M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Media and Entertainment | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Consulting | 2 | 15% |
| Broadcasting | 2 | 15% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 69% |
| Series C | 2 | 15% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The High Edu | The High Edu operates a YouTube channel that telecasts property information, including buying a home and building ownership. It focuses on interpreting complex real estate information in a way that is easy for the general public to understand. The company provides listing information and helps people understand the complexities of real estate. |  | Seed | Dec 26, 2024 |  |
| Gundoli | Gundoli is a military life management platform that provides military-related services. Gundoli offers services tailored to the unique challenges of military life, enabling soldiers and their families to navigate their service period with greater ease and efficiency. |  | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Frism | Frism is an AI-based financial advisory platform that helps users manage and optimize their finances using data-driven insights. It offers solutions for pension planning, tax savings, retirement preparation, and investment management. The platform supports products like CMA, IRP, ISA, and pension savings, enabling users to plan, invest, and tradesecurities efficiently through a unified application. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Cafe Manwolhoe | Manwol produces Manwolhoe drink concentrate based in Yongin, South Korea. The company offers a concentrate base of fruity, sweet, or other flavor profiles that can be mixed with water to create a beverage whenever desired. enabling customers to create flavored drinks such as juices, sodas, or flavored water. |  | Seed | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| DNC Biotechnology | DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices. | $387.7K | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Hexaverse | Hexaverse is a metaverse platform that offers a scalable experience through various content. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| WHYNOT Media | WHYNOT Media provides content IP production, short form drama, web entertainment, branded content, transmedia storytelling, short-form drama, content IP production, branded content, k-drama, and transmedia storytelling services. | $16.8M | Series C | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| Cidermics | Cidermics provides comprehensive financial education through online lectures, seminars, and curated insights on stocks, real estate, and macroeconomics. The platform is designed to simplify complex financial concepts, helping individuals enhance their financial literacy and make well-informed investment decisions with practical and accessiblelearning resources. | $837.4K | Seed | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| eNgine Visual Wave | eNgine Visual Wave develops an imaging and planning virtual platform designed to serve research and development, and movie making. | $8.6M | Series A | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Parking Cloud | Parking Cloud is a cloud-based parking system. | $22.2M | Series C | Mar 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Commax Venturus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commax-venturus) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Korea Asset Investment Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-asset-investment-securities) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does History Venture Investment invest in?

History Venture Investment invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, Software and Consulting startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 13 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 History Venture Investment's check size?

History Venture Investment typically joins rounds of $388k–$837k at Seed and $17M–$22M 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 History Venture Investment participates in.

### When did History Venture Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for History Venture Investment closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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