# Jongho Joo

> Jongho Joo is a Series A investor at Woowa Bros (Seoul) backing iOS, SaaS and Beauty. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Woowa Bros](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/woowa-bros)
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jongho-joo-a223512a/

Jongho Joo is a Series A investor at Woowa Bros in Seoul focused on iOS and SaaS. Jongho Joo - Director and Head of Investment @ Woowa Bros

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| iOS | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Beauty | 1 | 20% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |
| Android | 1 | 20% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 60% |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| South Korea | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beaubble | beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Shin Starr presents | Shin Starr presents create, operate, and franchise Korean cuisine-based QSR and fast-casual dining restaurants built around its proprietary robotic kitchen technology and Korean cuisine excellence.It develops and commercializes SPACE+ Technology™, a spatial technology platform brand created by SHIN STARR presents to enhance cooking and foodservicing quality and efficiency.SPACE+ combines and integrates in-house made robotic and network technologies into a flawless autonomous kitchen platform. | $2.4M | Seed | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| Adriel | The future of digital marketing is here. Take your business to the next level and achieve higher returns on your paid advertising.Adriel’s award-winning technology allows you to manage and optimize all of your digital marketing campaigns in just one place. By centralizing all communication channels and key data into one platform, we help yourbusiness deliver a uniform and efficient promotional message across all channels.Having worked with over 5,000+ companies worldwide, we designed a user-friendly virtual dashboard that allows for a comprehensive yet straightforward overview of your campaigns at just a glance. Discover the true status of your paid advertising. Combine data for cross-platform insights you can’t get anywhere else. Monitor your ROAS and adjust accordingly.Our software also provides real-time insights and suggestions through an alert system to catch green and red signals faster than ever before. Your Instagram campaign is trending today, but Twitter is a little slow? Seize opportunities and redirect your budget towards higher-performing creatives and channels with just a few clicks.We make it our mission to provide data in a format that is easy to understand and help your business reach its full advertising potential. From small business owners to Fortune 500 marketers, everyone achieves more with Adriel. | $5M | Series A | Jun 26, 2019 |  |
| ProtoPie | Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo. | $3.5M | Series A | Jul 05, 2018 |  |
| Intelon Optics | Intelon Optics is a medical device company that focuses on the development and commercialization of the Brillouin Optical Scanner System. | $743K | Series A | Apr 17, 2017 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BA Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ba-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ethos Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethos-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kitchen borie](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kitchen-borie) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kolon Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kolon-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Korea Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mirai Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirai-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Woowa Bros

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

WOOWA BROS (우아한형제들) is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms. Its service portfolio also includes local marketing and web services solutions and products, such as a sports events app and a food delivery app. WOOWA BROS was established in March 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

3 contacts available at Woowa Bros.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bong Jin Kim | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bong-jin-kim |
| Hyeonjoon Yoon | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyeonjoon-yoon |
| Jongho Joo | Director and Head of Investment | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jongho-joo |

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## FAQ

### What does Jongho Joo invest in?

Jongho Joo invests primarily in iOS, SaaS and Beauty startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jongho Joo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jongho Joo closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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