# SK Telecom

> SK Telecom is a VC fund in Seoul backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sk-telecom
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SKtelecom
- Website: http://www.sktelecom.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sktworld

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.4M–$113M |
| Corporate Round | $669k–$62M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 16% |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 11% |
| Mobile Apps | 6 | 10% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 12 | 20% |
| Series A | 10 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 15% |
| Seed | 6 | 10% |
| Series C | 6 | 10% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 26 | 43% |
| United States | 16 | 26% |
| China | 2 | 3% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jong Ho Lee | Senior Vice President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jong-ho-lee |
| Shashi Kumar | Entrepreneur In Residence - Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shashi-kumar |
| Hyung Kyu Lim | Vice-Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyung-kyu-lim |
| Jaeshin Lee | VP and Head of Global Business Development | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaeshin-lee |
| Jaeyoo Cho | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaeyoo-cho |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Timetree | 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 | TimeTree keeps families and groups organized. It also helps manage busy lives while sharing calendars, events, and more! | $10.4M | Secondary Market | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Timetree | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Twelve Labs | 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 |  |
| Twelve Labs | 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 |  |
| BitGo Korea | BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Smart Global Holdings | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kakao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mirae Asset Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Atinum Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atinum-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Han River Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/han-river-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hyundai Motor Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyundai-motor-company) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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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 61 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 $669k–$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.

### How do I contact SK Telecom?

Public channels for SK Telecom include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### 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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