# Korea Angel Investment Association

> Korea Angel Investment Association is a VC fund in Seoul backing Apps and Manufacturing. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://home.kban.or.kr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kbanorg

Korea Angel Investment Association is a small and medium-sized enterprise that supports startups and angel investors.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $78k–$2.3M |
| Angel | $61k–$112k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 3 | 18% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 18% |
| Security | 2 | 12% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 12% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 12% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 71% |
| Angel | 2 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Advance Battery Recycle | Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process. |  | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Linsol | Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology. | $888.9K | Seed | Dec 27, 2024 |  |
| Jan153 Biotech | Jan153 Biotech is a biopesticide development company that develops advanced biological control technology to protect the environment. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 08, 2023 |  |
| Needs | Needs is an online clothing shop and also a distributor. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 24, 2022 |  |
| Binding | Binding is an-energy related manufacturing company that produces solar power generation devices. | $228.8K | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Korea Mobility | Korea Mobility develops refrigerated vehicles, trailers, van racking systems, and welfare vehicle for the disabled. | $533.8K | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Humil | Humil is a food manufacturing and processing company that provides food research and development solutions. | $77.6K | Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| Yolcargo | Digital freight forwarder Yolcargo is a platform that provides competitive price and convenient international logistics service for import and export companies. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| Mammato | Mammato is a producer of food products. | $112.5K | Angel | May 25, 2022 |  |
| Pleisure | Pleasure is the largest tennis, padel, pickleball court booking app and saas service provider from S.Korea. Pleisure provides free SaaS solutions to courts with powerful CRM and facility management. Users can book hundreds of tennis, padel, pickleball courts and register to tournaments while tracking career growth. |  | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AI Angel Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-angel-club) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chonnam National University Technology Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chonnam-national-university-technology-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CNTTECH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cnttech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Commax Venturus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commax-venturus) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Daegu Creative Economy Innovation Center](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daegu-creative-economy-innovation-center) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Korea Angel Investment Association invest in?

Korea Angel Investment Association invests primarily in Apps, Manufacturing and Security startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 17 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 Korea Angel Investment Association's check size?

Korea Angel Investment Association typically joins rounds of $78k–$2.3M at Seed and $61k–$112k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Korea Angel Investment Association participates in.

### When did Korea Angel Investment Association last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Korea Angel Investment Association closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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