Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
Youidodong, South Korea
Kiwoom Investment is a VC fund in Youidodong focused on Information Technology and Software. Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
- Total investments:
- 110
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Kiwoom Investment invests in
Stages Kiwoom Investment invests in
Countries Kiwoom Investment invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
3 more contacts available
Round size
- Series A
- $1.7M–$14M
- Series B
- $4.2M–$22M
- Series C
- $11M–$33M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 22 (20%)
- Software 20 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 18 (16%)
- Biotechnology 16 (15%)
- Health Care 10 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 36 (33%)
- Series A 33 (30%)
- Series C 9 (8%)
- Funding Round 8 (7%)
- Seed 6 (5%)
Country
- South Korea 78 (71%)
- United States 3 (3%)
- Japan 2 (2%)
- Germany 1 (1%)
- Vietnam 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Jang-Soo Noh
Chief Investment Officer
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Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Young-jae Jung
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Featuring
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Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging The number of influencers is explosively increasing. Featuring allows brands and marketers to discover product-fit influencers andhelps matching based on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring, and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia, including Japan and China. | $10.2M / Series B / May 19, 2026 | |
Dnotitia
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Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology. | $63.4M / Series A / Apr 21, 2026 | |
MangoBoost
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Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver. | $6.7M / Series B / Apr 21, 2026 | |
PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY
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PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas. | $9.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 07, 2026 | |
Ark
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Ark is an AI-based early screening company focused on identifying and preventing complications associated with chronic diseases, developing and supplying advanced medical AI solutions that enable early detection, risk assessment, and proactive disease management to support healthcare providers in delivering more precise and timely care. | $13.5M / Series A / Mar 05, 2026 | |
BreezeBio
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GenEdit was founded to transform the delivery of gene therapies and enable the next generation of non-viral, gene editing-based therapeutics. GenEdit’s proprietary technology, NanoGalaxy™ platform solves current delivery challenges by systematically screening its nanoparticle library and providing safer and efficient delivery to target tissues. Thecompany's tool makes therapeutic gene editing possible and is easier to use, faster and more accurate than previous gene-editing techniques and thus has the potential for a wide range of therapeutic applications, enabling physicians to cure incurable genetic diseases. | $60M / Series B / Feb 25, 2026 | |
Nine Labs
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Nine Labs is a technology company developing direct liquid cooling (DLC) solutions for semiconductor chipsets and data centers. The company provides cooling systems, including cold plate technology for GPU and CPU environments, helping improve thermal management. | $3.5M / Series A / Dec 26, 2025 | |
Redrob
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McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company. | $8.5M / Series A / Nov 20, 2025 | |
HITS
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HITS is a biotech company that creates digital solutions to accelerate drug development and introduce a new drug discovery paradigm. The company creates a cloud-based drug development platform that connects AI models with docking and molecular dynamics. | $7M / Series A / Nov 13, 2025 | |
Gadget Korea
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Gadget korea offers data roaming services. | $7.7M / Series A / Oct 27, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Kiwoom Investment invest in?
Kiwoom Investment invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 110 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 Kiwoom Investment's check size?
Kiwoom Investment typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$14M at Series A, $4.2M–$22M at Series B and $11M–$33M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kiwoom Investment participates in.
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Who are the partners at Kiwoom Investment?
The team at Kiwoom Investment includes Jang-Soo Noh (Chief Investment Officer) and Young-jae Jung (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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