Kihong Bae
Advisor @ Brandboom
Los Angeles, United States
Kihong Bae is a seed investor at Brandboom in Los Angeles focused on E-Commerce and Health Care. Kihong Bae is the Managing Partner at Strong Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 25
- 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
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (12%)
- Health Care 3 (12%)
- Financial Services 3 (12%)
- Mobile 2 (8%)
- Payments 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (72%)
- Series A 5 (20%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
Country
- South Korea 19 (76%)
- United States 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Class101
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ascent Sports is a physical training center that provides nutrition and training for players. | Seed / Dec 26, 2023 | |
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Unastella
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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
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Korea Proptech Forum is a group of real estate companies and technology startups to create a domestic proptech ecosystem. | Seed / Jul 11, 2022 | |
UModeler
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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
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Daily Protein specializes in the sales of protein bars and diet snacks. | $1.7M / Series A / Feb 15, 2022 | |
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Pay Months
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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 Brandboom
Brandboom refashioned traditional B2B commerce and wholesale markets, and continues to innovate the industry with its effortless cloud-based Line Sheets, Ordering & Invoicing tools, and the industry-standard Brandboom Link.The Connect Marketplace has also revolutionized wholesale marketing by using AI to find the best matches for brands andretailers. With the introduction of shipping and financial services with flowfy, Brandboom is the complete B2B solution to grow and excel your business.
Brandboom Contacts
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Kihong Bae
Advisor
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Eric Ni
President and CEO
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Ken Leung
Founder & CTO
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FAQ
What does Kihong Bae invest in?
Kihong Bae invests primarily in E-Commerce, Health Care and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Kihong Bae last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kihong Bae closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 25 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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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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