# Seung Yoon Lee

> Seung Yoon Lee is a seed investor at Kakao Entertainment (London) backing Software and B2B. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kakao Entertainment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao-entertainment)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seung-yoon-lee-8205a444

Seung Yoon Lee is a seed investor at Kakao Entertainment in London focused on Software and B2B. Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |
| B2C | 1 | 11% |
| Audio | 1 | 11% |
| Music | 1 | 11% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 2 | 22% |
| South Korea | 2 | 22% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |
| India | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Verse8 | Verse8 enables creators to generate fully playable multiplayer games using natural language prompts. | $5M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Aria Protocol Labs | Aria is an investment platform that converts renowned cultural intellectual property assets to digital financial assets. | $15M | Seed | Sep 03, 2025 |  |
| Heritage Distilling | Heritage Distilling is a craft distillery based in Gig Harbor, Washington. HDC is the most awarded craft distillery in North America by the American Distilling Institute 5 years in a row from 2014, 2015 to 2018. Each of the Heritage Distilling product lines and services was developed with a particular story in mind. Some are rooted in the historyand heritage of their company founders, while others are centered on the collective heritage and history they all long to create and share. The company is majority-owned by women and family operated. As a Craft Distillery, they manage the entire process of making their spirits by hand = from identifying and working directly with the farmers growing their grains, to ensure the purity of their water source, to milling the grain, making their own mash and wort and running their own custom made stills. HDC currently has four distillery locations, 2 in Gig Harbor, Washington, 1 in Eugene, Oregon, and their newest facility in Roslyn, Washington. | $223.8M | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 25, 2025 |  |
| Mahojin | Mahojin is a search-to-generate AI platform that instantly provides exact images through an ever-expanding and remixable library. | $5M | Seed | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| SkyArk | SkyArk Chronicles is a Triple-A fantasy JRPG game with interoperable NFTs and a free-to-play blockchain game that lets players own or trade in-game assets. | $15M | Seed | Jan 12, 2024 |  |
| Charan | Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel. | $3.2M | Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Hubble | Hubble is a unified user feedback tool that allows product teams to gather user insights across the entire product development cycle. Hubble offers an arsenal of feedback tools including unmoderated Figma prototype testing as well as contextual in-product surveys to help product builders to understand their users and build user centric products. | $1M | Seed | Nov 18, 2022 |  |
| klikit | klikit, a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, helps restaurants become far more efficient in dine-in and food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants with role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for additional revenue. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Headfone | Headfone is a social audio platform where you can record, listen and share audios. | $3M | Series A | Jan 27, 2021 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Neoclassic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neoclassic-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Kakao Entertainment

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

Kakao Entertainment is a South Korean entertainment, mass media, and publishing company formed from the merger of KakaoPage and Kakao M. Through the merger, Kakao Entertainment will have an unparalleled business portfolio and value chain including 50 subsidiaries and affiliates across all verticals of the entertainment industry. Kakao Page providesa specialized value chain optimized to produce original contents as well as a global platform network while Kakao M provides expertise in creating music, TV series, films, performances as well as a portfolio of Korea's top creative talent.

2 contacts available at Kakao Entertainment.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seung Yoon Lee | Global Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seung-yoon-lee |
| Kim Seong-Soo | Co-Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-seong-soo |

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## FAQ

### What does Seung Yoon Lee invest in?

Seung Yoon Lee invests primarily in Software, B2B and B2C startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Seung Yoon Lee's check size?

Seung Yoon Lee typically joins rounds of $1M–$15M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Seung Yoon Lee participates in.

### When did Seung Yoon Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Seung Yoon Lee closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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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