# Janice Jihye Sa

> Janice Jihye Sa is a seed investor at Z Venture Capital backing Gift and Finance. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Z Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z-venture-capital)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janice-jihye-sa-69a55957/

Janice Jihye Sa is a Principal at Z Venture Capital

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gift | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Insurance | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 1 | 33% |
| Singapore | 1 | 33% |
| South Korea | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Habit Factory | Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions. | $24.4M | Series D | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Popokii | PoPoKii focuses on online gifting, highlighting premium Korean brands through platforms like LINE Gift, selective offline distribution, and operates IP/content businesses, including character IPs. |  | Seed | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| Seedflex Technologies | Seedflex Technologies is a cashless commerce platform developer that helps businesses prepare for huge unforeseen expenses, emergency repairs, or urgent replacements. Its platform provides a pay-as-one-sell advance mechanism for online merchants. | $3.2M | Seed | May 07, 2025 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Smilegate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smilegate-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IBK Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibk-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Industrial Bank of Korea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industrial-bank-of-korea) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Iterative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iterative-capital-e970) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbinvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Z Venture Capital

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

5 contacts available at Z Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gyu-ho Chae | Chief | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gyu-ho-chae |
| Hogil Doh | Director & Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hogil-doh-379f |
| James Han | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-han-bd45 |
| James Lim | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-lim-b1e2 |
| Janice Jihye Sa | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janice-jihye-sa |

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## FAQ

### What does Janice Jihye Sa invest in?

Janice Jihye Sa invests primarily in Gift, Finance and Insurance startups, most often at Seed and Series D stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Janice Jihye Sa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Janice Jihye Sa closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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