# Jong-Il Yoon

> Jong-Il Yoon is a seed investor at BonAngels Venture Partners backing Artificial Intelligence. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BonAngels Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bon-angels)
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://kr.linkedin.com/pub/jong-il-yoon/25/945/1b0

Jong-Il Yoon is a seed investor at BonAngels Venture Partners focused on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $336k–$6.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 19% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 19% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 69% |
| Angel | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 11 | 69% |
| United States | 2 | 13% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TIDEPOOL | Tidepool(500 Global selected) DBA Fishscope, powerful AI Fish & Feed Monitoring solution that solves periodic sampling and fish health diagnosis that requires human labor through Computor vision tech for BioMass Measurement, Fish Healthcare, and Feeding Optimization. - 10+ partnerships including GS E&C(Fortune 500 GS Group Subsidiary) andmany major government arms based in APAC - 90% or more accuracy for weight estimation of live fish in water - Demo: http://fishscope.tidepool.kr/ | $1M | Seed | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| GlucoFit | GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily. | $900.7K | Seed | Feb 26, 2024 |  |
| TIDEPOOL | Tidepool(500 Global selected) DBA Fishscope, powerful AI Fish & Feed Monitoring solution that solves periodic sampling and fish health diagnosis that requires human labor through Computor vision tech for BioMass Measurement, Fish Healthcare, and Feeding Optimization. - 10+ partnerships including GS E&C(Fortune 500 GS Group Subsidiary) andmany major government arms based in APAC - 90% or more accuracy for weight estimation of live fish in water - Demo: http://fishscope.tidepool.kr/ |  | Seed | Apr 11, 2023 |  |
| WADDLE | Meet Gentoo: an AI Concierge that turns hesitation into conversion—like an in-store sales assistant. Unlike in offline stores, online shoppers are left struggling with search bars and filters—with no one to step in when they hesitate. Gentoo is an AI Concierge that transforms these moments of hesitation into conversion by delivering guidedexperiences on your storefront. Trained on your product catalog, Gentoo recognizes hesitation and initiates a conversation—just like an in-store assistant—to truly understand needs and guide users to products that genuinely fit. | $335.8K | Seed | Oct 07, 2021 |  |
| Lemonbase | Lemonbase is Australia's Premium Tech Publication. Lemonbase covers the latest news in the world of technology, review new and exciting products, a perspective in the world of technology etc.,. | $5.7M | Seed | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| Vueron | On a mission to “make people safer with our technology,” Vueron is a technology-driven company specializing in LiDAR solutions for autonomous driving and smart infrastructure. Its core products include VueOne, optimized for mass production in vehicle autonomy; VueTwo, designed for smart city safety and traffic systems; and VueX, an AI-basedperception platform that enables scalable, data-driven development and validation of LiDAR software across diverse environments. Recognized for achieving the world’s first LiDAR-only autonomous driving license, Vueron continues to collaborate with major automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers worldwide, driving the future of safer and smarter mobility. |  | Seed | May 30, 2020 |  |
| Volla | Volla is a realtime shopping app for women. |  | Seed | Mar 26, 2020 |  |
| Kurvv | Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2019 |  |
| ImpriMed | ImpriMed is a company that creates individualized drug response prediction technology to help veterinarians fight lymphoma. The company's technology provides precision medicine techniques that allow veterinary oncologists to find appropriate anticancer drugs by developing a patient-derived database for pet cancer treatment that can eventuallybe translated into human cancer care, allowing doctors to decide on a final treatment regimen based on a data-driven prediction of response success in each individual patient's body. | $3.7M | Seed | Dec 18, 2018 |  |
| MeasureChina | We are developing AI powered software for China marketing. We try to solve challenges in understanding 1.3B Chinese consumers within seconds for the international brand marketer. There are few challenges that brands face when entering China market; which is understanding of Chinese consumer. This is because China market is too broad, too manydifferent social, e-commerce and forum channels with scattered data. It is very hard for a brand to gather every user’s voice in online, moreover, it is impossible to view how competitors are doing.

We proceed complete observation by gathering every single data from social, e-Commerce purchase, consumer reviews, forums and other publicly opened sources. Then analyze those data through deep learning algorithm. Thus, we could find consumers sentiment of specific brands. Not only finding brand perception as a whole, from segmented aspects brands are now possible to understand details on consumer perception towards to certain topics such as design, brand loyalty and much more.It is possible to apply into different field such as in product development, social marketing, evaluate model or ambassador, and in risk-managements by utilizing deep learning algorithms. Our clients are now possible to read the overall trend in different industries within seconds with our AI powered software in the cloud without in need of having any background data, and having a data-scientists. | $530K | Seed | Apr 10, 2017 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FuturePlay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futureplay-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Translink Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sema-translink-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [D·CAMP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banks-foundation-for-young-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bass Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bass-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Black Mountain Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-mountain-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blue Bear Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-bear-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BonAngels Venture Partners

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

BonAngels Venture Partners provides early-stage startups (seed ~ pre-series A) with initial investment and operational support.

5 contacts available at BonAngels Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jong-Il Yoon | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jong-il-yoon |
| Byeong-gyu Jang | partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byeong-gyu-jang |
| Hyunhwak Kim | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyunhwak-kim |
| Jiyoung Park | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jiyoung-park |
| KwangSoo Kim | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kwangsoo-kim-050c |

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## FAQ

### What does Jong-Il Yoon invest in?

Jong-Il Yoon invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 16 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 Jong-Il Yoon's check size?

Jong-Il Yoon typically joins rounds of $336k–$6.9M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jong-Il Yoon participates in.

### When did Jong-Il Yoon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jong-Il Yoon closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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