Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
Seongnam, South Korea
Smilegate Investment is a VC fund in Seongnam focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companies with promising growth potential.
- Total investments:
- 296
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries Smilegate Investment invests in
Stages Smilegate Investment invests in
Countries Smilegate Investment invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $694k–$6.6M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$15M
- Series B
- $3.6M–$47M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 41 (14%)
- Software 38 (13%)
- Health Care 32 (11%)
- Information Technology 31 (10%)
- Biotechnology 22 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 75 (25%)
- Series A 73 (25%)
- Series B 65 (22%)
- Series C 24 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (4%)
Country
- South Korea 178 (60%)
- United States 28 (9%)
- Vietnam 4 (1%)
- China 2 (1%)
- India 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Hoon-gon Nam
Senior Manager
|
Senior Manager | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Insoo Paik
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Inwoo Kang
General Manager
|
General Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jong Hyuk Park
Executive Vice President
|
Executive Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kimoon Nam
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| RX is a startup that provides an on-site analysis solution for material properties, mainly serving environment, energy, inspection, and testing needs. It also develops technology related to next-generation nuclear power plants and agentic AI, supported by national R&D activity.This company helps industries assess materials and engineeringconditions more efficiently and accurately. | $7.6M / Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles. | $9.4M / Series A / Sep 19, 2026 | ||
| Accorde Entertainment operates as a South Korean virtual entertainment agency. | $1.5M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Cosmos Lab is a battery manufacturer. | $15.5M / Series A / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology. | $33.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 23, 2026 | ||
| Hookable is an AI-based e-commerce detail page automatic generation solution. | Seed / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput. | Seed / Jul 06, 2026 | ||
| Fapis is a repair firm for mobile, handbags, shoes, and cloth services. | Series A / Jul 02, 2026 | ||
| WIRobotics is a Wearable robot that lessen physical demands on your body to safely allow active motion. | $63.5M / Series B / May 15, 2026 | ||
| AstralQ builds an AI-powered end-to-end materials development cloud lab. It develops Machine-learned Hamiltonian models for large-scale electronic structure computations and Machine-learned Force Field models trained on proprietary DFT datasets. The company operates an automated inorganic synthesis lab to validate AI predictions through physicalexperiments. | Seed / May 07, 2026 | ||
| See all 296 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Smilegate Investment invest in?
Smilegate Investment invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 296 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Smilegate Investment invest in?
Smilegate Investment typically joins rounds of $694k–$6.6M at Seed, $1.4M–$15M at Series A and $3.6M–$47M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Smilegate Investment's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Smilegate Investment took part in.
How do I contact Smilegate Investment?
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Who are the partners at Smilegate Investment?
The team at Smilegate Investment includes Hoon-gon Nam (Senior Manager), Insoo Paik (Principal) and Inwoo Kang (General Manager), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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