# Honggyu Nam

> Honggyu Nam is a seed investor at Klim Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Klim Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klimventures)
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 92%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/honggyu-nam-namong/

Honggyu Nam is a seed investor at Klim Ventures in Seoul focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Honggyu Nam is the current CEO of Klim Ventures. He previously worked at ARTIQ on a Board of Directors. Honggyu Nam attended Seoul National University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 33% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 8 | 67% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wessist | Wishist provides AI-powered marketing management systems solutions. |  | Seed | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Rubix | AI creator platform that enables users to create their own AI and share. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 21, 2023 |  |
| Gobi | Personal Intelligence | $385.8K | Pre-Seed | Nov 21, 2023 |  |
| AI Like Me | AI Like Me is a generative AI chatbot startup. | $771.4K | Seed | Nov 17, 2023 |  |
| Conpapa | Conpapa is developing a product that implements a new process for webtoon production. | $308.4K | Seed | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Branch and Bound | Branch and Bound is a coding platform. | $783.8K | Seed | May 18, 2022 |  |
| Whoyaho | Whoyaho develops mobile games for the alpha generation. | $416.7K | Seed | Feb 11, 2022 |  |
| Levit | Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience | $9.6M | Series A | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Levit | Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience | $421.6K | Seed | Oct 18, 2021 |  |
| Fainders.AI | Fainders.AI is a computer vision that is developing unmanned store technology. Their solution offers a checkout-free shopping experience in the store. They provide convenience to store customers while increasing profitability for distributors and store owners. AI provides retail automation solutions based on computer vision and AI. They makein-store customers while increasing profits for offline stores. | $524.3K | Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Draglim Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draglim-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbinvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mirae Asset Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Klim Ventures

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

Klimventures is a startup accelerator for early-stage startups and aspiring entrepreneurs.

2 contacts available at Klim Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Honggyu Nam | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/honggyu-nam-78c5 |
| Jin Ah Kim | Partner & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jin-ah-kim-d566 |

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## FAQ

### What does Honggyu Nam invest in?

Honggyu Nam invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Honggyu Nam last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Honggyu Nam closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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