Kihong Bae
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Strong Ventures
Los Angeles, United States
Kihong Bae is a seed investor at Strong Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Health Care and Consulting. Kihong Bae is the Managing Partner at Strong Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Industries Kihong Bae invests in
Stages Kihong Bae invests in
Countries Kihong Bae invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 4 (14%)
- Consulting 3 (10%)
- E-Commerce 3 (10%)
- Financial Services 3 (10%)
- Mobile 2 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (72%)
- Series A 5 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
Country
- South Korea 22 (76%)
- United States 2 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Class101 delivers a comprehensive online learning experience with classes spanning arts, hobbies, and practical skills. The platform features structured video lessons, curated materials, and interactive formats designed by expert creators. It enables users to discover new interests, enhance creativity, and build valuable skills at their own pacethrough engaging and accessible content. | $2.4M / Series B / Feb 02, 2025 | ||
| Unastella is an aerospace company developing human spaceflight technologies, including launch vehicles and suborbital tourism systems. The company focuses on advancing reusable rocket technology and future space travel infrastructure for civilian space exploration missions. Unastella aims to support the growth of private human spaceflight andnext-generation aerospace innovation. | $14.6M / Series A / Sep 25, 2024 | ||
| Pay Months is a fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce. It has developed a B2B deferred payment service platform. It allows suppliers to receive advance payment and buyers to secure liquidity by deferring cash expenditures for 30 to 60 days. It also eliminates the risk of uncollectible receivables and manages transaction risksthrough guarantee insurance. | $1.4M / Series A / Feb 01, 2024 | ||
| Ultimate Potential is a sports nutrition company founded on Ascent Sports' experience, and it offers a subscription sports healthcare service that continually controls players' health. | $38.6K / Seed / Dec 26, 2023 | ||
| Ascent Sports is a physical training center that provides nutrition and training for players. | Seed / Dec 26, 2023 | ||
| Unastella is an aerospace company developing human spaceflight technologies, including launch vehicles and suborbital tourism systems. The company focuses on advancing reusable rocket technology and future space travel infrastructure for civilian space exploration missions. Unastella aims to support the growth of private human spaceflight andnext-generation aerospace innovation. | $4.5M / Seed / Jan 30, 2023 | ||
| Korea Proptech Forum is a group of real estate companies and technology startups to create a domestic proptech ecosystem. | Seed / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Tripolygon operates as a 3D modeling software developer. Tripolygon offers 3D modeling software (UModeler), plugins (UModeler X) and more as a subscription service for the metaverse creators. | $5.1M / Series A / May 11, 2022 | ||
| Daily Protein specializes in the sales of protein bars and diet snacks. | $1.7M / Series A / Feb 15, 2022 | ||
| Pay Months is a fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce. It has developed a B2B deferred payment service platform. It allows suppliers to receive advance payment and buyers to secure liquidity by deferring cash expenditures for 30 to 60 days. It also eliminates the risk of uncollectible receivables and manages transaction risksthrough guarantee insurance. | $919K / Seed / Feb 07, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Strong Ventures
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
Strong Ventures Contacts
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Cho Ji-yoon
Chief judge
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Hyerim Yoo
Judge
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John Nahm
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Josh Chung
Limited Partner
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Kihong Bae
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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What does Kihong Bae invest in?
Kihong Bae invests primarily in Health Care, Consulting and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Kihong Bae last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kihong Bae closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 29 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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