# SBVA

> SBVA is a VC fund in Seoul backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 264 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 264
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last fund: Aug 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softbankventuresasia/
- Website: http://www.softbank.co.kr

SBVA is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $907k–$10M |
| Series A | $2M–$38M |
| Series B | $3.7M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 30 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 27 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 26 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 25 | 9% |
| Machine Learning | 19 | 7% |

227 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 76 | 29% |
| Series B | 68 | 26% |
| Seed | 29 | 11% |
| Series C | 29 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 95 | 36% |
| United States | 30 | 11% |
| China | 11 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 9 | 3% |
| Singapore | 9 | 3% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Kang | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-kang |
| Eunwoo Lee | Managing Director & Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eunwoo-lee |
| Jay Choi | Vice President | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-choi-2 |
| Tony Lyu | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-lyu |
| Ben Weiss | Venture Partner | 29 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-weiss-4 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nums AI | Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense. | $2.7M | Seed | Jul 20, 2026 |  |
| Dentlink | Dentlink aims to advance human oral health care by integrating digital technology. | $7.8M | Series B | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| WIRobotics | WIRobotics is a Wearable robot that lessen physical demands on your body to safely allow active motion. | $63.5M | Series B | May 15, 2026 |  |
| All My Anic Dots | All My Anic Dots is a virtual entertainment company dedicated to the creation, development, and management of virtual idols—digital performers brought to life through advanced animation, motion capture, and artificial intelligence technologies. | $4.7M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| TelePIX | TelePIX is a leading global provider of high-resolution electro-optics payload solutions, serving the needs of earth observation, surveillance, and tracking applications.With a mission to extract and deliver space-derived insights to inspire and create value for all, TelePIX, a NewSpace Startup, engages in ventures encompassing ultrahigh-resolution multispectral EO/IR nanosatellites, satellite image big data analytics software and services, as well as ground station operations. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| Advanced Machine Intelligence | Advanced Machine Intelligence develops artificial intelligence systems that model real-world environments using sensor data. The organization focuses on building machine learning architectures that form abstract representations of physical and digital environments, allowing systems to reason, predict outcomes, and plan sequences of actions. Itsresearch includes world models that process continuous and complex data while filtering unpredictable elements to support structured decision making. The technology is designed to enable AI agents to evaluate the consequences of actions and operate under defined safety and control mechanisms. Advanced Machine Intelligence collaborates with industry and research communities to explore applications of these systems in areas such as industrial automation, robotics, wearable technology, and healthcare. The company also publishes research and develops software frameworks that support experimentation, deployment, and evaluation of intelligent systems. | $1B | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Eridu | Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI. | $200M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Mythic | Mythic is a diverse group of individuals focused on developing cutting-edge analog matrix processors based on our unique analog compute-in-memory. Their products are the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor, MP10304 Quad-AMP PCIe Card, and MM1076 M.2 M Key Card. They offer AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device. | $125M | Series D | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Clairo Robotics | CLE provides software packages, scanning, 3D reconstruction, and modeling services for factory automation. | $11.2M | Series A | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| Charan | Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel. | $12.2M | Series B | Sep 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 264 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Mirae Asset Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirae-asset-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
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- [Capstone Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capstone-partners-korea) — VC Fund, 11 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SBVA invest in?

SBVA invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 264 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 SBVA's check size?

SBVA typically joins rounds of $907k–$10M at Seed, $2M–$38M at Series A and $3.7M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SBVA participates in.

### How do I contact SBVA?

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### Who are the partners at SBVA?

The team at SBVA includes Daniel Kang (Managing Director), Eunwoo Lee (Managing Director & Partner) and Jay Choi (Vice President), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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