# Jung-hee Ryu

> Jung-hee Ryu is a seed investor at FuturePlay (Seoul) backing Software and Fashion. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FuturePlay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futureplay-co)
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jung-hee-ryu-5376623/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ubeongee

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.7M–$5.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 26% |
| Fashion | 2 | 11% |
| Health Care | 2 | 11% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 11% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 58% |
| Angel | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 8 | 42% |
| United States | 5 | 26% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Raion Robotics | Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics. |  | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Inertia | Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology. |  | Seed | Jul 06, 2023 |  |
| Plume.D | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Inertia | Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology. |  | Seed | Sep 09, 2021 |  |
| AvoMD | 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 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atinum Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atinum-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dunamu & Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dunamu-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mirae Asset](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-global-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mount Sinai Innovation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mount-sinai-innovation-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Springcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spring-camp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [World Trade Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/world-trade-ventures-wtv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About FuturePlay

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

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.

5 contacts available at FuturePlay.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hoseok JUNG | CLO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoseok-jung |
| Choi Jae-woong | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/choi-jae-woong |
| Danny Yoon | CIPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-yoon |
| Hyeong su Park | Senior Reviewer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyeong-su-park |
| Jung-hee Ryu | Partner and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jung-hee-ryu |

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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 is Jung-hee Ryu's check size?

Jung-hee Ryu typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$5.3M 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 Jung-hee Ryu participates in.

### 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.

### 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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