# LG Uplus

> LG Uplus is a VC fund in Seoul backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lguplus
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/LGUplus
- Website: http://www.uplus.co.kr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LGUplus

LG Uplus is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. LG Uplus Corp is a South Korean telecommunications and Mobile phone operator controlled by the LG Group, one of the country's largest chaebol. It was formerly known as LG Telecom.LG Telecom became one of the first companies to launch a commercial 3G service using PCS technology. In 1997, this was followed up by launching the second PCSnetwork, offering greatly increased data transmission speeds.LG Telecom also offers a variety of mobile services. BankOn is one of the most popular Mobile banking services in South Korea and MusicOn is an on-line music store.In July 2006, the South Korean government has cancelled LG Telecom's business license for a W-CDMA wireless communications system after the company opted not to develop the technology. LG Telecom will instead continue investing and upgrading in its CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. A network.In January 2010, LG Telecom merged with LG Dacom and LG Powercom.As of 1 July 2010, LG Telecom changed its name to "LG U+".On July 17th 2013 LG Uplus launched LTE-A service and introduced Galaxy S4 LTE-A, the world’s first "100% LTE" smart mobile phone that can utilize data, voice and text with LTE and not fall back to CDMA. Starting from 2014 LG Uplus plans to release only "100% LTE" phones.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $73k–$2.1M |
| Series A | $1.7M–$11M |
| Series B | $200k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 26% |
| Software | 6 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 15% |
| Apps | 4 | 12% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 29% |
| Seed | 5 | 15% |
| Series B | 5 | 15% |
| Corporate Round | 5 | 15% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 26 | 76% |
| United States | 4 | 12% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hyeon-hoe Ha | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyeon-hoe-ha |
| Kim Ji-hoon | Chief Strategy Officer | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jihoon-kim-f5e0 |
| Kwon Yong-hyun | CSO, General Manager, and Head of the Corporate Division. | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kwon-yong-hyun |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LeMong | LeMong automates comments on content assistants using AI technology. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Fairy | Fairy is a B2B SaaS firm that helps organizations engage with their customers more effectively by providing solutions that improve knowledge of the user context. Fairy's solution protects sensitive user privacy and features a developer-friendly framework that elegantly adapts to the needs of individual users. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| TEN Inc | TEN Inc. provides an MLops platform (AI workload orchestration) for efficient operation of AI infrastructure. | $5.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Ten | TEN is an AI Infrastructure Solution Company that provides tools designed to reduce technological barriers, thereby enabling even those without a development background to access AI. Leveraging its technology for optimizing GPU-centric infrastructure utilization, Ten is playing a significant role in laying the groundwork for AI adoption acrossdiverse industries. The company's flagship product, AI Pub, facilitates flexible and efficient infrastructure operations by allowing a single GPU to be divided or multiple GPUs to be combined based on the workload and operating environment. This innovative technology is essential for expediting corporate AI development while simultaneously lowering costs. Ten boasts a tailored infrastructure configuration system that utilizes experimental data to automatically suggest the most appropriate computing resources in accordance with the characteristics and intended use of AI models. This capability for empirical analysis in model-resource matching is garnering attention as a unique competitive advantage within the industry, positioning Ten as a preferred choice for both companies currently engaged in AI and those contemplating its adoption. | $5.7M | Series A | May 16, 2025 |  |
| 42Maru | 1) What we do • We develop a deep learning based QA(Question Answer) system that understands the true intention of the question and provide a Unique Correct Answer2) Why • AI based Smart machines are penetrating into our everyday lives, there are signals of paradigm shift from the traditional web search system to QA system.3) Market Size• Globally expecting a $50bn market size by year 2025 (+50% YoY). • 50% of all searches will be done by voice searches by year 2020.4) Technology • We have core technologies in IR(Information Retrieval), Triple, MRC(Machine Reading Comprehension), Paraphrasing, NLU/NLP(Natural Language Understanding/Processing) etc.5) Core Competency • Our system is different to the existing system because we have a high accuracy, self expansion of KB(knowledge base), low GPU cost, quick response. • This is the reason why we have the globally the first deep learning based QA commercial version in Korean. • We have experience in a commercial version of sematic search which has similar logics with QA system and also have multi-language web-search experience as well. • Strong team with CEO having +20yrs of related work experience.6) Target Markets • Connected Cars, Smart Speakers, Home IoT, Home Robots, Smart Toys, Personal Assistants, Chatbot Apps, Intranet, KMS.7) Business Model • Planning B2C penetration through B2B2C Alliance and set for global expansion with multi-language support.8) References • B2B projects with some major TELCOs in Korea, such as LG and Korea Telecom, and also with big ship building industries and financial institutions.9) Competitors• Competitors have QA systems based on either Rule-based or Inference based which has limitations on commercialization.10) Team • CEO: Pioneer in the search engine industry with +20 years of experiences, deep learning expert • Total member of 27 (22 QA specialists) (hiring currently more) | $7.6M | Corporate Round | Jan 03, 2024 |  |
| Allganize | Allganize provides Natural Language Understanding API and conversational AI for enterprises. It also helps businesses automate workflows through natural language understanding AI. It provides insight into what your teammates are working on, as well as overarching work patterns/trends in your team. They leverage deep learning-based,high-performance NLU technology to enable companies of all sizes to apply AI technology to develop their own AI systems and services. The company provides real-time customer and project-related information. | $199.5K | Series B | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| growV | GrowV Labs develops AI-based educational technology platforms focused on interactive learning and child development. The company provides digital learning content, voice-based interaction systems, and data collection tools used for educational applications, language learning, and child-focused AI model development through multimedia and interactiveplatforms. | $7.4M |  | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Jaedam Media | Jaedam Media is a webtoon production company that focuses on both content creation and content marketing. It operates across the full range of webtoon production activities, including copyright agency services for webtoon artists, as well as collaborative planning and investment production. The company also publishes webtoon books, which compilewebtoons into individual volumes; comic books, which release both domestic and international comics as standalone volumes; genre novels and web novels, which act as the original sources for all content; and distributes these works as e-books. | $2.2M | Corporate Round | Sep 07, 2023 |  |
| Vetching | Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching. | $6M | Series A | Aug 28, 2023 |  |
| Somsidang Company | Somsidang Company is an online learning platform that offers baking and pottery painting training services. | $2.2M | Corporate Round | Jul 27, 2023 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Korea Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SV Investment Corp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-investment-corp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ascendo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascendo-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capstone Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capstone-partners-korea) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CRIT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crit-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does LG Uplus invest in?

LG Uplus invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 34 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 Uplus's check size?

LG Uplus typically joins rounds of $73k–$2.1M at Seed, $1.7M–$11M at Series A and $200k–$11M 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 Uplus participates in.

### How do I contact LG Uplus?

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### Who are the partners at LG Uplus?

The team at LG Uplus includes Hyeon-hoe Ha (CEO), Kim Ji-hoon (Chief Strategy Officer) and Kwon Yong-hyun (CSO, General Manager, and Head of the Corporate Division.). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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