# SK Hynix

> SK Hynix is a VC fund in Seoul backing Semiconductor and Electronics. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/19120
- Website: http://www.skhynix.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SKhynixGlobal/about

SK Hynix is a manufacturing company that specializes in producing and selling semiconductor devices for various sectors. It has consistently led the industry with smaller, faster, and lower-power semiconductors.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 12 | 44% |
| Electronics | 9 | 33% |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 26% |
| Hardware | 6 | 22% |
| Software | 6 | 22% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 30% |
| Series C | 5 | 19% |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |
| Seed | 1 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 63% |
| China | 4 | 15% |
| Israel | 2 | 7% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hongsok Choi | VP of NAND Development and Design | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hongsok-choi |
| Joe Lee | Director of Sales, Automotive Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-lee-dcb0 |
| Noh-Jung Kwak | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noh-jung-kwak |
| Paul Fahey | VP Technology, Technical Marketing and FAE | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-fahey |
| Rene Chostner | Director of Venture Investment team | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rene-chostner |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Etched | Etched.ai designing specialized chips for language model inference. | $300M | Series C | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $50B | Series H | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Semidynamics | Semidynamics is a bandwidth core with vector units targeted at machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. They provide services in design, verification, FPGA acceleration, architecture, and performance analysis. |  | Corporate Round | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Hubei Xingfu Electronic Materials | Hubei Xingfu Electronic Materials provides research, development, production and sales of electronic chemicals. |  | Corporate Round | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Fabric8Labs | Fabric8Labs developed a unique process that is an intuitive combination of two mature technologies: Stereo-Lithography and Electro-Deposition. | $56M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Avicena Tech | It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects. | $65M | Series B | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Eliyan | Eliyan manufactures semiconductor interconnects to accelerate chiplet-based systems. | $60M | Series B | Mar 25, 2024 |  |
| Movellus | Movellus develops process portable and ultra-low power analog IPs. Its roducts include PLLs, DLLs, and LDOs, that are optimized per design. | $23M | Series B | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| Pliops | Today’s explosive data growth and rapidly expanding application workloads threaten to overwhelm datacenters, preventing organizations from harnessing AI/ML, 5G, big data analytics, IoT, and other modern applications they need to achieve their business goals.Accelerating these data-hungry, storage-intensive applications requires moreapplication speed, storage capacity, data efficiency, and scalability than most organizations can afford, no matter how many CPUs and SSDs they add, or how much they expand their datacenter footprint.Just as GPUs overcome processing inefficiencies to accelerate artificial intelligence and advanced analytics performance, the breakthrough Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) overcomes storage inefficiencies to massively accelerate performance and dramatically reduce overall infrastructure costs for databases, analytics, and machine learning. Delivered on an easy-to-deploy, low-profile PCIe card, the Pliops XDP radically simplifies the way data is processed and flash storage is managed.The result is an exponential increase in performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency— multiplying the effectiveness of organizations’ infrastructure investments. | $100M | Series D | Aug 16, 2022 |  |
| NeuReality | NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up that designs AI-as-a-service infrastructure. It addresses the challenges posed by the growing deployment of AI in the cloud, edge, and fog systems. | $35M | Series A | Jun 20, 2022 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Samsung Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsung-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Prosperity7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosperity7-ventures-d527) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TSVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsvcap) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cleveland Avenue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cleveland-avenue) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Glory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glory-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SK Hynix invest in?

SK Hynix invests primarily in Semiconductor, Electronics and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at SK Hynix?

The team at SK Hynix includes Hongsok Choi (VP of NAND Development and Design), Joe Lee (Director of Sales, Automotive Business Development) and Noh-Jung Kwak (CEO), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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