# Lotte Homeshopping

> Lotte Homeshopping is a VC fund in Seoul backing Content and Content Marketing. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lottehome
- Website: http://www.lottehomeshopping.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lottehomeshopping

Lotte Homeshopping is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Content and Content Marketing. Lotte Homeshopping aims to provide a creative consumer experience by working with customers to build trust and satisfy their needs. It operates businesses in the areas of television shopping, Internet shopping malls, catalogues, and mobile shopping in South Korea and internationally.Lotte Homeshopping is a TV and internet shopping business ownedby multi-billion dollar retail giant Lotte.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $891k–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 2 | 29% |
| Content Marketing | 2 | 29% |
| News | 1 | 14% |
| EdTech | 1 | 14% |
| Fashion | 1 | 14% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hyun Gu Kang | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyun-gu-kang |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brave Company | Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker. | $4.2M | Series B | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Chorokbaem Media | Chorokbaem Media operated in entertainment business. | $67.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| 4by4 | 4by4 is a video production and content management platform that aid small and large business institutions in business development. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 10, 2021 |  |
| Likely | Likely is an online store for women's fashion. |  | Series B | Sep 21, 2020 |  |
| Adapt | Adapt is a brand and content marketing platform that focuses on D2C concept, customer feedback and constant analysis. | $891K | Series A | Nov 20, 2019 |  |
| Skelter Labs | Established in 2015, Skelter Labs develops AI technologies in Conversation, Speech, Vision and Context recognition. Our mission is to innovate machine intelligence for understanding, assisting and improving daily lives, anytime and anywhere. Skelter Labs’ core technology lies with NLU (Natural Language Understanding), where we utilize machinelearning to reveal text meaning and structure. Through our technology, our end-client can extract relevant information from the context of a conversation. Our trained model can answer specific user questions, classify content, support virtual assistants, and much more. Our AIQ.TALK Chatbot demonstrates higher accuracy compared to other engines, especially in the Korean language, with only a small amount of training data compared to competing vendors. Skelter Labs’ product lineup includes: AIQ.TALK Chatbot: AI-based builder for businesses that seek to deploy a virtual customer service; AIQ.TALK STT: Engine that converts voice to text by applying advanced machine learning techniques; AIQ.TALK TTS: Text-to-speech product that can effectively generate human-sounding speech; AIQ.AWARE: Utilize mobile signals to provide deep consumer insights for AdTech and MarTech. | $10M | Series A | Nov 05, 2018 |  |
| Skelter Labs | Established in 2015, Skelter Labs develops AI technologies in Conversation, Speech, Vision and Context recognition. Our mission is to innovate machine intelligence for understanding, assisting and improving daily lives, anytime and anywhere. Skelter Labs’ core technology lies with NLU (Natural Language Understanding), where we utilize machinelearning to reveal text meaning and structure. Through our technology, our end-client can extract relevant information from the context of a conversation. Our trained model can answer specific user questions, classify content, support virtual assistants, and much more. Our AIQ.TALK Chatbot demonstrates higher accuracy compared to other engines, especially in the Korean language, with only a small amount of training data compared to competing vendors. Skelter Labs’ product lineup includes: AIQ.TALK Chatbot: AI-based builder for businesses that seek to deploy a virtual customer service; AIQ.TALK STT: Engine that converts voice to text by applying advanced machine learning techniques; AIQ.TALK TTS: Text-to-speech product that can effectively generate human-sounding speech; AIQ.AWARE: Utilize mobile signals to provide deep consumer insights for AdTech and MarTech. |  | Series A | Feb 06, 2018 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kakao Brain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakaobrain) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kakao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aju IB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aju-ib-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bithumb](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bithumb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bucket Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bucket-studio-44b5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capstone Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capstone-partners-korea) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Lotte Homeshopping invest in?

Lotte Homeshopping invests primarily in Content, Content Marketing and News startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 7 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 Lotte Homeshopping's check size?

Lotte Homeshopping typically joins rounds of $891k–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lotte Homeshopping participates in.

### How do I contact Lotte Homeshopping?

Public channels for Lotte Homeshopping include X (Twitter), the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 Lotte Homeshopping?

The team at Lotte Homeshopping includes Hyun Gu Kang (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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