# K Ground Ventures

> K Ground Ventures is a VC fund in Gangneung backing Medical and Biotechnology. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gangneung, South Korea
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.kground.co

K Ground Ventures is a science and technology commercialization investment platform.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for K Ground Ventures. Shizune tracks 1 team members at K Ground Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/k-ground-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $223k–$4.2M |
| Series A | $3.7M–$3.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 4 | 21% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 16% |
| Automotive | 2 | 11% |
| Advertising | 2 | 11% |
| Health Care | 2 | 11% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 26% |
| Series A | 4 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 16% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Namhoon Cho | General Partner & CEO | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/namhoon-cho |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Endorobotics | Endorobotics is an educational technology company specializing in exam preparation solutions. Its platform provides automated question generation, adaptive difficulty adjustment, CSAT-style question modeling, and the creation of similar questions based on incorrect answers. The company enables middle and high school educators and students to accesspersonalized mock examinations, enhance learning outcomes, and streamline exam preparation through automation and data-driven insights. | $22.2M | Series C | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| HunetPlus | HunetPlus is a specialty chemicals company with expertise in the display and electronics industries. |  | Series B | Aug 13, 2025 |  |
| Soomvi | Soomvi is an industrial drone market company that provides marine lifesaving system services. | $5.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 23, 2024 |  |
| Kookmin Bio | Kookmin Bio is a biotechnology company that specialises in the development of bio-food and pharmaceutical materials. | $2.4M | Series B | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| searchM | searchM is a digital marketing and advertising company. |  |  | Oct 11, 2024 |  |
| searchM | searchM is a digital marketing and advertising company. |  | Series A | Oct 11, 2024 |  |
| Daton | Daton is an AI company that develops integrated platforms for data analysis, computer vision, and energy-based deep learning. It builds solutions for video analytics, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and energy optimization, helping industries improve monitoring, safety, and operational efficiency through AI-driven systems and dataintelligence technologies. |  | Seed | Jan 12, 2024 |  |
| Grit CIC | Grit CIC operates as a deep-tech hardware company focused on developing UWB radar sensors and semiconductor IC solutions for sensing and embedded applications. The company builds advanced hardware technologies used in detection, monitoring, and signal processing systems. Its solutions are designed to improve accuracy, efficiency, and performance innext-generation sensing and electronic device applications. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Ingenium Therapeutics | Ingenium Therapeutics commercializes NK anti-cancer immunotherapy with clinical impact based on solid basic research. | $4.1M | Series A | Nov 21, 2023 |  |
| Mitoimmune Therapeutics | Mito Immune Therapeutics is a drug research and development biotech company. | $3.9M | Series B | Sep 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capstone Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capstone-partners-korea) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [KNet Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k-net-3fc7) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Laplace Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laplace-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New Paradigm Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-paradigm-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anda Asia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anda-asia-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BMI KOREA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmi-korea) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does K Ground Ventures invest in?

K Ground Ventures invests primarily in Medical, Biotechnology and Automotive startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 K Ground Ventures's check size?

K Ground Ventures typically joins rounds of $223k–$4.2M at Seed and $3.7M–$3.9M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds K Ground Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact K Ground Ventures?

Public channels for K Ground Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at K Ground Ventures?

The team at K Ground Ventures includes Namhoon Cho (General Partner & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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