# Sejong Venture Partners

> Sejong Venture Partners is a VC fund in Fort Lee backing Software and Biotechnology. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Lee, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.sejongllp.com

Sejong Venture Partners is a VC fund in Fort Lee focused on Software and Biotechnology. Sejong Venture Partners specializes in investments in companies rooted in the Korean consumer services and media industry.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.9M–$5.6M |
| Series B | $3.2M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 28% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 28% |
| Health Care | 4 | 22% |
| Pharmaceutical | 3 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 44% |
| Series A | 7 | 39% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 15 | 83% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ire IS | Ire IS is an IT company that develops, manufactures, and supplies IT software solutions. | $771.6K | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Armored Fresh | Armored Fresh is a food company that produces plant-based cheese from almond milk. It aims to create a more sustainable world by producing cheese that is better for people and animals. It also wanted to create a plant-based cheese that tastes and feels like dairy cheese, and it believes it has accomplished this with its technology. | $21.3M | Series B | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Autotelic Bio | Autotelic Bio is a bio technology company that researches and develops anti-cancer drugs. | $12.7M | Series B | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| Ryton Technology | Ryton Technology is a manufacturing company that produces medical and electronic devices. |  | Seed | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| Jocoos | Jocoos develops fun and engaging platforms to help people share, inspire, and reach their long admired dreams. Jocoos's first product is a mobile application, SURT, created to help artists and musicians show their talent and earn an opportunity to grow as a superstar with connections to an agency, recording company, producers, and fans. | $4.6M | Series B | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| Ryton Technology | Ryton Technology is a manufacturing company that produces medical and electronic devices. |  | Seed | Dec 03, 2021 |  |
| Animal Industry Data Korea | Animal Industry Data Korea is a livestock healthcare solution provider company. | $16.9M | Series B | Nov 03, 2021 |  |
| Mthera Pharma | Mthera Pharma is a biopharmaceutical research and development company. | $2.9M | Series A | Apr 07, 2021 |  |
| FreshCode | FreshCode provides delivery services for healthy salads. | $5.3M | Series A | Mar 25, 2021 |  |
| CARANG | CARANG is an app that provides car maintenance service. CARANG is an application and web service designed to make it easier for customers to manage their cars. This allows a customer to manage their car, use location-based maintenance service/inspection services, maintenance history, and to see records from maintenance site. In the future, acomprehensive car management solution will be provided that utilizes a standard IOT device called OBD to provide preventive maintenance diagnostics, automatic notification of consumable replacement cycles / warnings, and on-site inspection services. | $4.9M | Series A | Mar 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Daesung Private Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daesung-private-equity) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Midas Doang-A Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midas-doang-a-investment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Center for Creative Economy and Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/center-for-creative-economy-and-innovation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dt& Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dt-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gangwon Technology Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gangwon-technology-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hana Financial Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hana-financial-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sejong Venture Partners invest in?

Sejong Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Health Care startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 Sejong Venture Partners's check size?

Sejong Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$5.6M at Series A and $3.2M–$21M 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 Sejong Venture Partners participates in.

### When did Sejong Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sejong Venture Partners closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 18 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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