# Insoo Paik

> Insoo Paik is a Series A investor at Smilegate Investment backing Artificial Intelligence. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Smilegate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smilegate-investment)
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/insoo-paik-4a48a734/
- Website: http://www.smilegateinvestment.com

Insoo Paik is a Series A investor at Smilegate Investment in Seoul focused on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile. Insoo Paik

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Mobile | 2 | 15% |
| Health Care | 2 | 15% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| Travel | 1 | 8% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 38% |
| Series B | 4 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 4 | 31% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HUINNO | HUINNO, founded in 2014, is a 500 Startups and venture-backed digital healthcare company with offices in Boston, New York, and Seoul. They are focusing on changing the way clinicians and patients manage chronic cardiac diseases using their proprietary breakthrough technologies in wearable devices and AI-based analytics cloud.HUINNO'sclinically-tested platform is capable of continuously measuring a variety of vital health data in real-time with clinical-grade accuracy. --By combining wrist and chest wearables with artificial intelligence, HUINNO provides superior real-time cardiac biometrics including ECG, Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, SpO2. Delivering healthcare providers with an effective remote patient monitoring solution that drastically improves chronic cardiac disease prevention while lowering readmission rate compared to the existing standard of care. HUINNO's app and cloud-based eco-system also allow consumers to access longitudinal trend analysis of blood pressure, medication compliance, and nutritional / exercise habits as well as coaching and medication titration from HUINNO's clinical experts. |  | Series B | Dec 21, 2020 |  |
| MyRealTrip | MyRealTrip operates an online travel booking platform for accommodations, transportation, tours, and activity reservations. The company provides travel itinerary services, ticket booking systems, local experience listings, and payment processing tools used for domestic and international travel planning. | $30.7M |  | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| MyRealTrip | MyRealTrip operates an online travel booking platform for accommodations, transportation, tours, and activity reservations. The company provides travel itinerary services, ticket booking systems, local experience listings, and payment processing tools used for domestic and international travel planning. | $36M | Series D | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| Vuno | Vuno offers artificial intelligence-based medical solutions for doctors and patients that provides a platform and consulting services for medical data analysis.Vuno develops automatic algorithm against various problems that occurs in medical sites as well as it develops diagnostic and quantification assisting software. The clients of the companyare Asan Medical Center and HYUNDAI. The company offers VunoMed that provides different forms of data analyzation for medical videos, ECGs, brain waves, and EMR data.Vuno is located in South Korea and the company was founded in 2014 by Yeha Lee, Kyu-Hwan Jung, and Dannis Kim. | $12M | Series B | Nov 20, 2018 |  |
| Wishket | Wishket (위시켓) is a Korean outsourcing platform for companies and freelancers to post projects, outsource work, or search for jobs online. Through its website, Wishket enables companies to find suitable freelancers for development work in a secure and cost effective manner. Companies can sign up and simply post projects and wait for responsesfrom freelancers. Wishket also enables freelancers to find new projects and opportunities. | $2.2M |  | Oct 23, 2018 |  |
| MyRealTrip | MyRealTrip operates an online travel booking platform for accommodations, transportation, tours, and activity reservations. The company provides travel itinerary services, ticket booking systems, local experience listings, and payment processing tools used for domestic and international travel planning. | $5.2M | Series C | Oct 19, 2017 |  |
| Fount | Fount Inc. Is an asset management Robo-Advisor startup founded in 2015. Their investing algorithm based on BigData Technology helps you plan for every event of your life. fount team believes in passive investing, which takes the right level of risk for your goal's time horizon, and allows their advanced computer algorithms do all the work. | $2.8M | Series A | Jan 03, 2017 |  |
| Vuno | Vuno offers artificial intelligence-based medical solutions for doctors and patients that provides a platform and consulting services for medical data analysis.Vuno develops automatic algorithm against various problems that occurs in medical sites as well as it develops diagnostic and quantification assisting software. The clients of the companyare Asan Medical Center and HYUNDAI. The company offers VunoMed that provides different forms of data analyzation for medical videos, ECGs, brain waves, and EMR data.Vuno is located in South Korea and the company was founded in 2014 by Yeha Lee, Kyu-Hwan Jung, and Dannis Kim. | $3M | Series A | Oct 01, 2016 |  |
| Wishket | Wishket (위시켓) is a Korean outsourcing platform for companies and freelancers to post projects, outsource work, or search for jobs online. Through its website, Wishket enables companies to find suitable freelancers for development work in a secure and cost effective manner. Companies can sign up and simply post projects and wait for responsesfrom freelancers. Wishket also enables freelancers to find new projects and opportunities. | $1M | Series A | Sep 30, 2015 |  |
| MyRealTrip | MyRealTrip operates an online travel booking platform for accommodations, transportation, tours, and activity reservations. The company provides travel itinerary services, ticket booking systems, local experience listings, and payment processing tools used for domestic and international travel planning. | $2M | Series B | Aug 24, 2015 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [IMM Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imm-investment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Capstone Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capstone-partners-korea) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FuturePlay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futureplay-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mega Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mega-investment-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Smilegate Investment

VC Fund · Seongnam, South Korea

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.

5 contacts available at Smilegate Investment.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hoon-gon Nam | Senior Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoon-gon-nam |
| Insoo Paik | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insoo-paik-b279 |
| Inwoo Kang | General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inwoo-kang |
| Jong Hyuk Park | Executive Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jong-hyuk-park |
| Kimoon Nam | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kimoon-nam |

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## FAQ

### What does Insoo Paik invest in?

Insoo Paik invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B 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.

### When did Insoo Paik last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Insoo Paik closed in Dec 2020. 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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