SK Telecom
VC Fund
Seoul, South Korea
SK Telecom is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseastelecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.
- Total investments:
- 63
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries SK Telecom invests in
Stages SK Telecom invests in
Countries SK Telecom invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $1.4M–$113M
- Corporate Round
- $766k–$62M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (21%)
- Information Technology 10 (16%)
- Manufacturing 7 (11%)
- Mobile Apps 6 (10%)
Stage
- Corporate Round 12 (19%)
- Series A 10 (16%)
- Funding Round 9 (14%)
- Seed 7 (11%)
- Series C 6 (10%)
Country
- South Korea 26 (41%)
- United States 16 (25%)
- China 2 (3%)
- Japan 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jong Ho Lee
Senior Vice President
|
Senior Vice President | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Shashi Kumar
Entrepreneur In Residence - Mentor
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Entrepreneur In Residence - Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hyung Kyu Lim
Vice-Chairman
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Vice-Chairman | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jaeshin Lee
VP and Head of Global Business Development
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VP and Head of Global Business Development | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jaeyoo Cho
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
BitGo Korea
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BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 20, 2026 | |
| TimeTree keeps families and groups organized. It also helps manage busy lives while sharing calendars, events, and more! | $10.4M / Series F / Nov 05, 2025 | ||
| TimeTree keeps families and groups organized. It also helps manage busy lives while sharing calendars, events, and more! | $14.9M / Corporate Round / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| V&Co platform integrates skin microbiome research data and offers a range of services, including medical supplies, health supplements, and precision devices, enabling healthcare providers and beauty professionals to deliver innovative treatments and enhance overall client satisfaction through scientifically backed methodologies. | $2.4M / Series B / Apr 25, 2025 | ||
| RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments. | $14.8M / Seed / Apr 14, 2025 | ||
| TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | Dec 12, 2024 | ||
| TwelveLabs develops artificial intelligence models and infrastructure for understanding, searching, and analyzing video content. Its platform enables applications to interpret visual, audio, and spoken information within videos, allowing users to perform semantic search, generate summaries, identify events and objects, and extract insights fromvideo data. The company provides APIs and multimodal AI models that support use cases across media, entertainment, security, enterprise knowledge management, and other video-intensive applications. It also conducts research in video understanding and machine learning to improve how AI processes and reasons over video content. | $30M / Series A / Dec 12, 2024 | ||
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BitGo Korea
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BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers. | Corporate Round / Sep 03, 2024 | |
| SMART is an independent designer, manufacturer and supplier of electronic subsystems to OEMs engaged in the computer, industrial, networking, telecommunications, aerospace and defense markets. Taking innovations from the design stage through manufacturing and supply, SMART Modular Technologies has developed a comprehensive product line thatincludes DRAM and Flash memory technologies across various form factors. | $200M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 15, 2024 | ||
| Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence. | $10M / Corporate Round / Jun 14, 2024 | ||
| See all 63 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does SK Telecom invest in?
SK Telecom invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Corporate Round and Series A stage. Most of the 63 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 SK Telecom's check size?
SK Telecom typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$113M at Series A and $766k–$62M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SK Telecom participates in.
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Who are the partners at SK Telecom?
The team at SK Telecom includes Jong Ho Lee (Senior Vice President), Shashi Kumar (Entrepreneur In Residence - Mentor) and Hyung Kyu Lim (Vice-Chairman), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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