# SPK AI Travel Tech

> SPK AI Travel Tech is a VC fund backing Travel, Big Data and Analytics. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Dec 2019
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

SPK AI Travel Tech is an investment arm of Lazard Korea.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $7M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 2 | 100% |
| Big Data | 2 | 100% |
| Analytics | 2 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FREED GROUP LIMITED | Freed Group utilizes Artificial Technology (AI), Big Data, and Machine Learning technologies to provide end-2-end digital solutions. Primarily, the company aims to tackle fast-growing Asia Travel and local lifestyle markets. Freed Group enriches and expands its partners’ service scope and service level, turn traffic into tangible and intangiblebenefits, hence, increasing their capability to monetize and engage with their existing user base. It builds consumer-facing digital platforms that combine vendor resources, inventory management, and AI recommendation system into one solution. Its signature AI Digital Solutions including Travel Concierge Chatbot and inventory management consolidator effectively increases revenue streams and improves customer engagement through multiple digital channels like social media platforms, official websites, mobile apps, and so on. At the back-end, its fast-growing database is powered by 20M+ weekly unique data points with its home-grown Machine Learning capabilities like data collection, analysis, and reporting. | $7M | Series A | Dec 16, 2019 |  |
| FreeD Group | FreeD Group is committed to creating barrier-breaking, customer-centric, data-driven ways of interaction between consumers and brands via our award-winning, proprietary Hybrid SaaS solutions and services like end-2-end AI Digital Transformation, Smart Merchandising and Smart Marketing. As one of the fastest-growing Tech start-ups headquartered inHong Kong with more than 10 offices globally, FreeD Group supports 200+ business partners worldwide, including major names such as Samsung, China Mobile, SingTel, Marriott, and Match Hospitality, BMW and LG to mention but a few. FreeD Group is also the winner of the 2021 Deloitte Technology Rising Start Award, 2021 United Nations UNWTO Global Start-up Competition and 2018 APAC ICT Grand Award, among many others. | $7M | Series A | Dec 16, 2019 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Artesian VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artesian-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chinaccelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chinaccelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Linear Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linear-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SPK AI Travel Tech invest in?

SPK AI Travel Tech invests primarily in Travel, Big Data and Analytics startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hong Kong. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SPK AI Travel Tech's check size?

SPK AI Travel Tech typically joins rounds of $7M–$7M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SPK AI Travel Tech participates in.

### When did SPK AI Travel Tech last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for SPK AI Travel Tech closed in Dec 2019. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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