# Maple Investment Partners

> Maple Investment Partners is a VC fund in Busan backing Artificial Intelligence and Health Care. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Busan, South Korea
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://mapleinvest.co.kr

Maple Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in small and medium-sized venture companies. Maple Investment Partners presents the optimal deal structure for each stage of growth of SMEs and executes investments through the formation and management of funds such as SME Startup Investment Association and Korea Venture InvestmentAssociation.In addition to venture investment, Maple Investment Partners carries out various investment activities such as Private Equity (PE) and has professional manpower responsible for such investment.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$4.7M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$11M |
| Series B | $4.7M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 24% |
| Health Care | 5 | 20% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 16% |
| Software | 3 | 12% |
| Therapeutics | 3 | 12% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 44% |
| Series B | 8 | 32% |
| Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 21 | 84% |
| United States | 2 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dnotitia | Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology. | $63.4M | Series A | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Cave Duck | Caveduck is an AI character chat platform where you can create, customize, and talk to virtual characters across web and mobile (iOS and Android). It focuses on AI character chats rather than general-purpose Q&A, letting you pick or design personas with specific traits, backstories, and moods. | $2.8M | Series A | Apr 02, 2026 |  |
| Warp Space | Warp Space is a South Korea-based AI entertainment company founded in 2023 that develops and operates CAVEDUCK, a generative AI character chat and interactive storytelling platform. Warp Space focuses on long-term character consistency and contextual storytelling through proprietary memory and context management technologies. | $2.9M | Series A | Apr 02, 2026 |  |
| Illimis Therapeutics | Illimis Therapeutics is a platform-based biotech company that develops a chimeric fusion protein platform for neurodegenerative diseases. The company's proprietary GAIA (Gas6-mediated Anti-Inflammatory Adaptor) platform is designed to harness the therapeutic potential of TAM (Tyro3, Axl, Mer) receptor biology, a critical pathway involved inregulating inflammation and immune responses. | $41.9M | Series B | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Brave Company | Brave company is a wellness company that creates consumer goods brands such as chicken breast and diet convenience foods. Brave Company aims to revolutionize the world's everyday health by infiltrating the daily routines of exercising, eating, and enjoying together with creators. | $2.9M | Series A | Nov 08, 2024 |  |
| Algocare | Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations. | $11.3M | Series A | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| InHandPlus | We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights. | $2.2M | Series A | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| Breezytail | Breezytail is a pet service that offers pet lifestyle products. | $4.7M | Series B | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| ProxiHealthcare USA | ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization. | $6.2M | Series A | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| Daejin Advanced Materials Co. | Daejin Advanced Materials Co. is a research institute that manufactures fullerene, electric, and thermally conductive polymer materials. | $11.1M | Series D | Jun 09, 2022 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DSC Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsc-investment) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [KB Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kb-securities) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Korea Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Company K Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-k) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Maple Investment Partners invest in?

Maple Investment Partners invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 25 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 Maple Investment Partners's check size?

Maple Investment Partners typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$4.7M at Seed, $2.2M–$11M at Series A and $4.7M–$42M 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 Maple Investment Partners participates in.

### When did Maple Investment Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maple Investment Partners closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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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