# POSCO Venture Partners

> POSCO Venture Partners is a VC fund in Seoul backing Mobile, Cosmetics and Lifestyle. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.poscoventure.co.kr

POSCO Venture Partners is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Mobile and Cosmetics. POSCO Venture Partners strives to contribute to supporting young entrepreneurs through its course of policies that will develop and benefit them as the new success of Korea's economy. Toward this goal, they actively promote diverse range of supporting plans, offer management consulting services and working while while encouraging theirbusiness ideas to take a stronger leap towards the center of the market. Intention of this project is to provide an open environment to animate a wide range of success among young entrepreneurs that will widely spread the spirit to benefit every aspect of society.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 50% |
| Cosmetics | 1 | 50% |
| Lifestyle | 1 | 50% |
| Marketing | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Althea | Althea is Korea's premier beauty e-commerce platform that provides the latest beauty products, trends and lifestyle to consumers in Southeast Asia. | $3.5M | Series A | May 26, 2016 |  |
| Spoqa | Spoqa is a Korean startup developing mobile marketing solutions. Spoqa operates Dodo Points, a tablet-based loyalty solution for local merchants. Store customers volutarily input their phone numbers into Dodo tablets that are installed facing customers on store counters to receive membership benefits, without having to sign up or download apps.Since its launch in April 2012, Spoqa now offers analytical customer management interface "Dodo Insight", marketing automation service "Dodo Message" and targeting advertising service "Dodo Ads" to a wide variety of businesses ranging from small coffee shops to major hotel brands. | $891K | Series A | Dec 01, 2012 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cherubic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherubic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GS Shop](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gs-shop) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mirae Asset Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tekton Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tekton-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does POSCO Venture Partners invest in?

POSCO Venture Partners invests primarily in Mobile, Cosmetics and Lifestyle startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did POSCO Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for POSCO Venture Partners closed in May 2016. Shizune tracks 2 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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