# Korea Investment Partners

> Korea Investment Partners is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 480 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 480
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Fund size: $6.7M
- Last fund: Jul 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/korea-investment-partners
- Website: http://kipvc.com

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$10M |
| Series A | $2.1M–$21M |
| Series B | $4.7M–$52M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 57 | 12% |
| Health Care | 55 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 55 | 11% |
| Medical | 47 | 10% |
| Software | 45 | 9% |

302 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 153 | 32% |
| Series B | 131 | 27% |
| Seed | 66 | 14% |
| Series C | 38 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 20 | 4% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 242 | 50% |
| United States | 38 | 8% |
| China | 30 | 6% |
| Singapore | 8 | 2% |
| Israel | 7 | 1% |

22 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deok Joon Shin | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deok-joon-shin |
| Dong Yeob Kim | Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dong-yeob-kim |
| Kun Ho Kim | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kun-ho-kim |
| Min Q Kim | Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/min-q-kim |
| Richard Cui | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-cui |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Twelve Labs | TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | $100M | Series B | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Xpanner | Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products. | $18M | Series B | May 14, 2026 |  |
| GGWP | GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game. | $15M | Series A | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| All My Anic Dots | All My Anic Dots is a virtual entertainment company dedicated to the creation, development, and management of virtual idols—digital performers brought to life through advanced animation, motion capture, and artificial intelligence technologies. | $4.7M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| FairSquare Labs | FairSquare Labs offers services for digital asset management and Web 3. Blockchain innovations like the security token mainnet, multi-signature and MPC wallets, de-fi, and dex were created by them. They also mine, stake, trade, and fund crypto venture capital initiatives as well. They believe that the strength of their team places us in a uniqueposition to bridge the gap between traditional and digital assets. |  | Series B | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Q-Factor | Q‑Factor is building the physical infrastructure needed to scale quantum computing. They design neutral‑atom quantum systems from the ground up to support millions of qubits.They target the key bottlenecks of control, connectivity, and error correction between today’s prototypes and commercially viable quantum machines. | $24M | Seed | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| Mustbio | MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. | $23.3M | Series C | Mar 13, 2026 |  |
| Refilled | Refilled offers tailored hair loss home care services based on scientific hair loss study findings. The company's products specialize in two patented ingredients, which are nucleic acid proteins that are responsible for signaling between cells, not nutrients that supply nutrients to the scalp and hair, enabling customers to strengthen hairfollicles and enhance growth. | $7.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| BreezeBio | 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 |  |
| Eezee | Singapore’s first & largest industrial marketplace that connects local suppliers to corporate clients, leveraging technology to help both parties make informed decisions.The company offers a secure platform for buyers and sellers to transact.Our aim is to improve the efficiency of business to business (B2B) transactions. We do this byensuring that the process of selecting and purchasing your supplies becomes quicker, more convenient and transparent. We support local suppliers in establishing their presence online, enabling them to be discovered by corporate organisations. | $5M | Series B | Feb 24, 2026 |  |

10 of 480 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [KB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbinvest) — VC Fund, 48 deals together
- [DSC Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsc-investment) — VC Fund, 28 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 28 deals together
- [Mirae Asset Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Industrial Bank of Korea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industrial-bank-of-korea) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [IMM Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imm-investment) — VC Fund, 23 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Korea Investment Partners invest in?

Korea Investment Partners invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 480 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 Investment Partners's check size?

Korea Investment Partners typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$10M at Seed, $2.1M–$21M at Series A and $4.7M–$52M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Korea Investment Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Korea Investment Partners?

Public channels for Korea Investment Partners include LinkedIn and 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 Korea Investment Partners?

The team at Korea Investment Partners includes Deok Joon Shin (Director), Dong Yeob Kim (Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer) and Kun Ho Kim (Principal), among 24 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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