Mashup Ventures
VC Fund
Seongnam, South Korea
Mashup Ventures is a VC fund in Seongnam focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Mashup Ventures invests in early-stage startups and supports startups to grow quickly through a network of founders.
- Total investments:
- 165
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Mashup Ventures invests in
Stages Mashup Ventures invests in
Countries Mashup Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $228k–$1.7M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$3.2M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$1.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 36 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 26 (16%)
- Information Technology 20 (12%)
- Apps 12 (7%)
- E-Commerce 12 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 132 (80%)
- Pre-Seed 14 (8%)
- Series A 2 (1%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (1%)
- Angel 1 (1%)
Country
- South Korea 133 (81%)
- United States 9 (5%)
- Indonesia 1 (1%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Taekkyung Lee
Founder , CEO & Representative Partner
|
Founder , CEO & Representative Partner | Total investments: 38 | Find email | |
Brian Yoo
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
|
Seung-Gook Lee
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
|
Shin In-mo
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Addit & Ark
|
Adit & Ark operates an AI-powered advertising platform that connects brands with Instagram-based digital magazines and content creators, enabling targeted collaborations and more effective marketing campaigns. | Seed / Aug 04, 2026 | |
Retriever
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Retrvr provides solutions that automate business processes across governance, risk management, and compliance through AI-based technology, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of an organization's GRC operations. | Pre-Seed / Jun 09, 2026 | |
orbt
|
Orbt is an AI systems company that develops intelligent solutions to automate decision-making processes for growing businesses, helping organizations improve efficiency, optimize operations, and make faster, data-driven decisions. | Pre-Seed / May 19, 2026 | |
Midnight Wave
|
Midnight Wave operates as a center of music production and publishing. | Seed / May 12, 2026 | |
Tynapse
|
Tynapse develops artificial intelligence security and governance software focused on monitoring and controlling AI agents in enterprise environments. The company provides a runtime trust layer that evaluates AI-generated outputs, tool usage, and automated actions in real time to identify risks such as hallucinations, prompt injection attacks, dataleakage, and unauthorized behavior. Its platform includes AI guardrails, compliance monitoring, audit logging, and explainability tools designed to support regulatory and operational oversight for AI systems. Tynapse also generates traceability records and trust attestation documentation that organizations can use for governance and compliance processes. The company’s technology integrates between enterprise applications and large language models to inspect requests, enforce policies, and manage sensitive data handling. Its solutions are used in sectors such as finance and enterprise software where AI systems require security controls, monitoring, and accountability mechanisms. | $550.9K / Grant / May 07, 2026 | |
Viologen
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Viologen is a climate tech company focused on developing advanced carbon-free hydrogen production technologies, aiming to enable clean, sustainable energy solutions and accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy. | Pre-Seed / Apr 28, 2026 | |
Khameleon
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Khameleon is a physical AI company that develops housekeeping robots designed for North American hotels. | Pre-Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | |
StealCut
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StealCut is an AI security company that safeguards images against deepfake misuse by embedding invisible adversarial noise into facial images, preventing malicious AI systems from detecting or extracting faces while maintaining the original visual quality. Their AI model disrupts deepfake face-generation systems while preserving the original visualquality, making it virtually impossible for malicious AI to extract or detect faces from protected images. | Seed / Mar 01, 2026 | |
Holoceive
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Holoceive is an AI-based augmented reality (AR) goods platform developer. | Seed / Feb 24, 2026 | |
QSTEM
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Qstem is a biotech business that specializes in stem cell technologies for hair loss treatments and other bio-healthcare solutions. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 20, 2026 | |
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FAQ
What does Mashup Ventures invest in?
Mashup Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 165 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 Mashup Ventures's check size?
Mashup Ventures typically joins rounds of $228k–$1.7M at Seed, $100k–$3.2M at Pre-Seed and $1.4M–$1.7M 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 Mashup Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Mashup Ventures?
Public channels for Mashup Ventures 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 Mashup Ventures?
The team at Mashup Ventures includes Taekkyung Lee (Founder , CEO & Representative Partner), Brian Yoo (Venture Partner) and Seung-Gook Lee (Partner). 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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