Jung-hee Ryu
Partner and CEO @ FuturePlay
Seoul, South Korea
Jung-hee Ryu is a seed investor at FuturePlay in Seoul focused on Software and Fashion. Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
Last updated:
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Industries Jung-hee Ryu invests in
Stages Jung-hee Ryu invests in
Countries Jung-hee Ryu invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.7M–$5.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (26%)
- Fashion 2 (11%)
- Health Care 2 (11%)
- Medical Device 2 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (58%)
- Angel 2 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
- Convertible Note 1 (5%)
Country
- South Korea 8 (42%)
- United States 5 (26%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics. | Seed / Apr 03, 2024 | ||
| Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology. | Seed / Jul 06, 2023 | ||
| Plumed develops AI-based speech and language assessment technology for healthcare and communication analysis. The company provides voice analysis systems, speech data processing tools, and diagnostic support software used for language evaluation, cognitive assessment, and digital healthcare applications. | Seed / Aug 25, 2022 | ||
| XL8 is an AI company that offers NLP services, specializing in the media localization area including machine translation and ASR. The company accelerates translations of vast amounts of data and content. | $2.7M / Convertible Note / Jul 18, 2022 | ||
| XL8 is an AI company that offers NLP services, specializing in the media localization area including machine translation and ASR. The company accelerates translations of vast amounts of data and content. | $2.7M / Seed / Jul 18, 2022 | ||
| XL8 is an AI company that offers NLP services, specializing in the media localization area including machine translation and ASR. The company accelerates translations of vast amounts of data and content. | Seed / Apr 20, 2022 | ||
| Oscar Futura is a meta-fashion platform that digitally provides fashion items created by connecting collection items from style creators. | Seed / Mar 16, 2022 | ||
| OFOTD "OF+OOTD(OF=Belong,community/OOTD=Outfit)" is a fashion ecosystem of the new era that generates +500 unique high-end collection pieces annually. Powered by the OFOTD union, fashion creators grow into strong brands and reach the aim of infinite brand growth together. | Seed / Mar 16, 2022 | ||
| Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology. | Seed / Sep 09, 2021 | ||
| AvoMD is a no-code software platform that transforms clinical content – guidelines, algorithms, pathways, and checklists - into "virtual clinical consults" available instantly at the point-of-care on standalone web/mobile apps and in the EHR. Leading societies and health systems partner with AvoMD to transform authoritative clinicalexpertise into instant expert guidance at the bedside. Studies show that AvoMD improves outcomes while saving clinicians ~50% of their time in accessing and using information at the point-of-care. | $3M / Seed / Jul 09, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About FuturePlay
FuturePlay is an accelerator and early-stage investor specialized in deep tech startups. Founded in 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, FuturePlay have invested in 55 deep tech, mainly South Korea's startups and about one third of them are US-based startups. FuturePlay is expanding target regions to Southeast Asia like Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It also plays a role of LP of some tech-focused funds like 500 Kimchi (500Startups' Korean Fund) and Zeroth.ai (http://zeroth.ai/). FuturePlay is venture-backed mainly from global enterprises such as CISCO, DeNA, LG, NHN, SK Planet. FuturePlay has two acceleration program, TechUP and TechUP+. TechUP is annual batch program which is a kind of company-building with deep tech engineers. TechUP+ is a co-acceleration program with large enterprise specialized in a particular industry like food, beauty, energy, etc. The first TechUP+ is sponsored by AmorePacific, the number one cosmetic company in Asia, and is running now with 5 beauty tech startups.
FuturePlay Contacts
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Hoseok Jung
CLO
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Choi Jae-woong
Director
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Danny Yoon
CIPO
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Hyeong su Park
Senior Reviewer
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Jung-hee Ryu
Partner and CEO
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FAQ
What does Jung-hee Ryu invest in?
Jung-hee Ryu invests primarily in Software, Fashion and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jung-hee Ryu invest in?
Jung-hee Ryu typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$5.3M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jung-hee Ryu's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jung-hee Ryu took part in.
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When did Jung-hee Ryu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jung-hee Ryu closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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