# Samsung Securities

> Samsung Securities is a VC fund in Seoul backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 29 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/samsungpop
- Website: http://www.samsungsecurities.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youngrichclub

Samsung Securities is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Samsung Securities provides personalized asset management service to individual investors

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 7% |
| Health Care | 2 | 7% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 21% |
| Series A | 4 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |
| Series F | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 13 | 45% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fore Biotherapeutics | We are a precision oncology company pioneering the development of cancer therapies guided by our proprietary functional genomics. | $67.4M | Series D | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Linq | We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning. | $22M | Series A | Jul 02, 2026 |  |
| Dunamu | Dunamu owns and operates a digital asset exchange (UPbit), two investment exchange platforms (Stockplus and U-Stockplus), and an equity management platform (Onboard). UPbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform with presence in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Stockplus is a securities information/trading platform with an activepartnership with 11 broker-dealers. U-Stockplus is an OTC platform providing a trading service for private companies. Onboard helps private companies manage equity electronically for their shareholders. | $409.9M | Secondary Market | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Automata | Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions | $7.1M | Series A | Apr 24, 2026 |  |
| Snap Company | Snap Company specializes in providing tailored e-commerce solutions that integrate advanced AI technology and customer data analytics. By harnessing these capabilities, Snap Company enables e-commerce businesses to gain deep insights into their marketing efforts and operational workflows. Their customized solutions are designed to help clientsoptimize performance, improve targeting, increase efficiency, and ultimately drive growth in competitive online markets. Through its innovative approach, Snap Company supports businesses in making data-driven decisions to enhance both customer engagement and overall operational success. | $14.7M | Series B | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Select Star | Select Star is an artificial intelligence-based crowd-sourcing platform for the annotation of data and it acquires data collection pools and large sets of data. It develops 'Datumo Eval,' a solution for building AI training data and verifying AI reliability. The company is involved in AI data and reliability evaluation. It automaticallybuilds a data catalog, lineage maps, and documentation so teams can see where data comes from and how it is used across tools and databases. | $14.8M | Series B | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Datumo | Datumo got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many AI labs/companies. To solve this problem, Datumo provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologies forthe optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. Datumo was founded in 2018. | $15.5M | Series B | Aug 11, 2025 |  |
| MayMust | Maymust is an AI specialist company that provides AI full-stack infrastructure platform consulting based on generative AI infrastructure solutions. The company provides hardware, software, AI ​​full-stack infrastructure, and consulting solutions. It also delivers solutions optimized for customers by utilizing advanced technology-basedinfrastructure. | $4.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 26, 2024 |  |
| Tenstorrent | Tenstorrent is enabling a new era in AI and deep learning with its breakthrough processor architecture and software. The company’s mission is to deliver orders of performance and efficiency for AI workloads from the data center to the edge of the Cloud by co-designing hardware, software, and AI algorithms with their technology.Tenstorrent’sarchitecture scales from datacenter servers to IoT devices with improved efficiency, flexibility, programmability compared to legacy accelerators including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and TPU-type processors. It is developed by their team with expertise in computer architecture, hardware design and verification, systems engineering, compilers, software development, and machine learning algorithms.Tenstorrent is backed by Venture Capital firms including Real Ventures and Eclipse Venture Capital, as well as prominent industry luminaries. | $693M | Series D | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| TeraView | TeraView is the world’s first company devoted to the application of Terahertz light for imaging and spectroscopy. TeraView’s proprietary platform uses the Terahertz spectrum between light and radio waves and offers the advantage of being non-invasive and non-destructive. A key application of the technology is the detection of faults and qualityvariations in semiconductor integrated circuits. In addition, studies have demonstrated how Terahertz uniquely and non invasively provides 3 dimensional structural and chemical information in a diverse range of applications, including weapons/explosives hidden below clothing, the contents of tablets and capsules in the pharmaceutical industry, and other objects normally invisible to conventional detection techniques. Other markets for the technology exist in medical imaging of cancer and industrial inspection which are explored via commercial partners. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, TeraView was spun-out of the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory in April 2001. Sales and support are available throughout Europe, North America and the Far East either directly or through a network of distributors. | $7.2M | Private Equity | Nov 29, 2024 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SR One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sr-one) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Kiwoom Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiwoom-investment) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Samsung Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsung-securities-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SBI Investment Korea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-investment-korea) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hana-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Samsung Securities invest in?

Samsung Securities invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 Samsung Securities last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Samsung Securities closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 29 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?

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