LG Electronics
VC Fund
Seoul, South Korea
LG Electronics is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. LG is a South Korean multinational company that includes LG Electronics. LG Englewood Cliffs is a new building initiative that protects the Palisades and creates homes for the growing U.S. workforce. The company is focused on delivering products and services that make lives better, easier, and happier through increased functionality and fun. Itstrives for greatness in product leadership, market leadership, and people leadership to realize our growth strategies.
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries LG Electronics invests in
Stages LG Electronics invests in
Countries LG Electronics invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $219k–$8.7M
- Series A
- $743k–$35M
- Series B
- $3.7M–$58M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (19%)
- Software 9 (17%)
- Robotics 7 (13%)
- Automotive 7 (13%)
- Information Technology 7 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (23%)
- Series B 8 (15%)
- Series A 7 (13%)
- Funding Round 5 (9%)
- Corporate Round 5 (9%)
Country
- South Korea 20 (38%)
- United States 16 (30%)
- Germany 2 (4%)
- China 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Bruce Sher
Head Of Business Development
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Head Of Business Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Cho Joo-wan
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Franklin Jones
Head of Learning & Talent Development, North America
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Head of Learning & Talent Development, North America | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Havis Kwon
EVP & CEO - Home Entertainment Company
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EVP & CEO - Home Entertainment Company | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Hwang Jeong-hwan
Head of R&D Laboratory of Home Entertainment
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Head of R&D Laboratory of Home Entertainment | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
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PASQAL is developing a full-stack quantum computer that will be used to simulate complex phenomena for scientific discovery and to address general problems such as optimization, drug discovery, and machine learning. The company's quantum processing units are made up of hundreds of atomic qubits in 2D and 3D arrays, and their programmingenvironment, to address our customers' needs in quantum computing and simulation. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 29, 2025 | |
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Laundrygo is an on-demand laundry service. The company operates unmanned smart laundromats under the Laundry24 brand. It also provides Laundrygo Hotel and Business services for commercial clients. It aims to establish itself as a comprehensive laundry tech company. | $7M / Corporate Round / Oct 23, 2025 | |
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Apartmentary provides apartment mentoring service. It creates a framework that allows the customer to find the most personal life in their apartment. They record their stories in different colors. It finds ways to make every customer's home beautiful. | Corporate Round / Oct 16, 2025 | |
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Zhiyuan Robotics mainly integrates AI and robots deeply, develops and produces general-purpose humanoid robots and embodied intelligence, and other products. | Seed / Aug 01, 2025 | |
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RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments. | $14.8M / Seed / Apr 14, 2025 | |
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Apex.AI specializes in developing operating systems for autonomous vehicles. Its software products are based on open-source software such as ROS or Eclipse iceoryx. | Series B / Feb 20, 2025 | |
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Rinse is building the first and largest national (and global) brand in clothing care. It is addressing a massive consumer problem and creating a significantly better (and more standardized) dry cleaning and laundry experience through the combination of "smart scheduling" and best-in-class quality, all supported by a strong technologybackbone that allows it to effectively manage the operational complexity that comes with scale. Its services include Dry Cleaning, Launder & Press, Wash & Fold, Hang Dry, Repairs, Leather Cleaning, and it even takes Clothing Donations. | $23M / Series D / Feb 20, 2025 | |
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Tenstorrent is enabling a new era in AI and deep learning with its breakthrough processor architecture and software. The company’s mission is to deliver orders of performance and efficiency for AI workloads from the data center to the edge of the Cloud by co-designing hardware, software, and AI algorithms with their technology.Tenstorrent’sarchitecture scales from datacenter servers to IoT devices with improved efficiency, flexibility, programmability compared to legacy accelerators including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and TPU-type processors. It is developed by their team with expertise in computer architecture, hardware design and verification, systems engineering, compilers, software development, and machine learning algorithms.Tenstorrent is backed by Venture Capital firms including Real Ventures and Eclipse Venture Capital, as well as prominent industry luminaries. | $693M / Series D / Dec 02, 2024 | |
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Opt-AI is an edge AI company that provides engineering services and AI-agent hardware-aware software solutions for the optimization and deployment of AI models on edge devices.Our goal is to support customers in securing AI inference performance, reducing development costs, and accelerating market launch by providing 1) model building, 2) modelcompression, 3) embedded system optimization technologies, and 4) a HW-aware SW analysis system that can automatically perform optimization in various HW environments for the deployment of on-device AI. Opt-AI ensures effective performance on any hardware and processor through our HW-aware SW Profiling System. Opt-AI has secured high-level technical and business achievements with major tech companies, such as LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor, HL Mando, Hanhwa Systems, and Hanhwa Aerospace. We are collaborating with multiple clients in the mobility sector, which demands the highest level of optimization technology. We support customers in focusing solely on model development by building development workflows specific to target hardware. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | |
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Sinseongo develops smart refrigerator systems using IoT and mobile tech to help users manage food storage efficiently. | Pre-Seed / Jul 22, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does LG Electronics invest in?
LG Electronics invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 53 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 LG Electronics's check size?
LG Electronics typically joins rounds of $219k–$8.7M at Seed, $743k–$35M at Series A and $3.7M–$58M 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 LG Electronics participates in.
How do I contact LG Electronics?
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Who are the partners at LG Electronics?
The team at LG Electronics includes Bruce Sher (Head Of Business Development), Cho Joo-wan (CEO) and Franklin Jones (Head of Learning & Talent Development, North America), among 17 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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