# IMM Private Equity

> IMM Private Equity is a VC fund in Seoul backing Software and Apps. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Fund size: $1.3B
- Last fund: Jul 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/imm-private-equity
- Website: http://www.immpe.com/eng/main.html

IMM Private Equity (“IMM PE”) is an independent private equity firm specializing in significant minority investment and middle market buyout. For the past 10 years, IMM PE has logged an unblemished record of outstanding growth and returns, and maintained its position at the top of Korea’s private equity industry.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Cosmetics | 2 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 15% |
| Pet | 1 | 8% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 23% |
| Private Equity | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 15% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 10 | 77% |
| United States | 2 | 15% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| I.J. Song | CEO & Senior Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i-j-song |
| Sung - Bae JI | Senior Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sung-bae-ji |
| Timothy Dong - Woo CHANG | CEO & Senior Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/timothy-dong-woo-chang |
| Young - Ho Kim | CIO & Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/young-ho-kim |
| Hae-Joon Joseph Lee | Partner and Chief Investment Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hae-joon-joseph-lee |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Goodai Global | Goodai Global is a K beauty distribution and marketing platform company. | $586.3M | Private Equity | Jun 27, 2025 |  |
| MegazoneCloud | MEGAZONECLOUD, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea is established in 2018 as spun out the cloud business of Megazone Corporation that was founded in 1998 with U$45M Series-A investment.We are a customer-centric company dedicated to empowering customers with cloud-optimized technology, people and process as we believe Cloud is the optimizeddigital transformation platform today. We provide a broad and rich set of consulting services and technology solutions for businesses' cloud adoption and digital transformation based on a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services(AWS) and 100+global technology partners.We have been trusted by more than 1500 enterprise, mid-market, and SME customers, including large Korean enterprises like Samsung, LG, Lotte Group, with diverse use cases ranging from simple migration to the most complex application projects. Our in-depth technical expertise and years of experience working with customers of different sizes and industries have proven us to be the largest premier consulting partner of AWS in Asia Pacific. Outside Korea, we currently have offices in Palo Alto, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hanoi aggressively expanding our presence in the global market. | $347M | Series C | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| IMDT | IMDT develops companion animal services focused on animal hospitals for both veterinarians and guardians. They create a platform that enables guardians to make simple, data-driven decisions. | $5.9M | Series A | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Bear Robotics | Bear Robotics addresses the increased pressure faced by the restaurant industry around wages, labor supply, and cost efficiencies. It aims to revolutionize the restaurant and food service industry using robotics and AI. The company makes robots that help customers receive an improved dining experience, employees with greater job satisfaction, andowners of restaurants with an increase in profits. | $81M | Series B | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Hanssem | Hanssem is a home interior distribution company that provides furniture, appliances, household accessories, and fabric products. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| APRINOIA Therapeutics | APRINOIA is a late-stage biotechnology company committed to protecting patients' brain health and changing outcomes of neurodegenerative diseases through first-in-class and best-in-class diagnostic tools and novel therapies. The company aims to bring precision medicine to neuroscience by identifying and targeting the protein aggregates of tau,alpha-synuclein and other proteins that play a critical role in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases. The company currently has operations in Hong Kong, Suzhou, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Boston. | $40M | Series C | Dec 28, 2021 |  |
| Pet Friends | Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| CARVI | - CARVI is the only company that offers "Vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) + Contextual Data Platform based on Driver Behaviors and 3D road data“ - CARVI helps safe driving by eliminating the risk of accidents while driving and analyzing/managing the driver's habits. - CARVI also supports Smoke detection, DrunkDriving detection, Parking Violation detection and Keyless lock/unlock solution for Insurance, Fleets and Car-sharing services. - CARVI has experienced vision-based ADAS as an OEM to the car manufacturer, and now focuses on Telematics which has a market share of 100B dollars on 2025. - The "Camera-based driving, driver's habits, road conditions and environment" data acquired by CARVI has core values such as 3D road Map for self-driving cars. | $16.5M | Series B | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Socar | Socar is a Korean eco-friendly car sharing community that allows travelers to share cars with others who are traveling the same route.Socar has raised an $18 million round of funding in 2015 which was one of the highest funding deals for a South Korean startup to date. Most notably, it was led by a US investor: Bain Capital, a private investmentfirm with $80 billion in assets under management.Socar was founded in March 2012, and it has a website and smartphone apps that let users book cars for their own use. Service has over 1,700,000 registered users, 50,000 of whom use the service each month. Around 80,000 transactions per month — that’s more than one car booking each 30 seconds. | $44.6M | Series C | Apr 09, 2018 |  |
| Soomgo | Soomgo supports interactions across categories such as education, home maintenance, event-related work, and personal services. It enables users to search for and engage providers for specific tasks, while service providers list and manage their offerings through the platform. Soomgo is a local services marketplace. | $2.7M | Series A | Mar 12, 2018 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cleveland Avenue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cleveland-avenue) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Premier Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/premier-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Company K Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-k) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Devsisters Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devsisters-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DSC Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsc-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does IMM Private Equity invest in?

IMM Private Equity invests primarily in Software, Apps and Cosmetics startups, most often at Series C and Private Equity 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.

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### Who are the partners at IMM Private Equity?

The team at IMM Private Equity includes I.J. Song (CEO & Senior Partner), Sung - Bae JI (Senior Partner) and Timothy Dong - Woo CHANG (CEO & Senior Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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