Sungjae Hwang
Venture Partner & Co-founder @ FuturePlay
Soeul, South Korea
Sungjae Hwang is a pre-seed investor at FuturePlay in Soeul focused on Art and FinTech. Sungjae Hwang is the Founder and CEO of Lounge Lab. He earned his doctorate and master's degree at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and his bachelor's degree at Kwangwoon University.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Sungjae Hwang invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Art 1 (100%)
- FinTech 1 (100%)
- Peer to Peer 1 (100%)
- Trading Platform 1 (100%)
- Financial Services 1 (100%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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TESSA
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TESSA is an alternative investment platform for the purchase, sale, and trade of fractionalized ownership interests in investment-grade blue-chip artwork (such as Warhol, Picasso, Kusama, Basquiat, etc.) with the accessibility and liquidity of public markets. The platform enables white-listed “micro-collectors” to co-own fractional ownershipinterests in curated blue-chip artwork represented in digital form on a public blockchain. TESSA manages all maintenance and administrative services relating to the artwork which is publicly promoted and displayed to enhance its value and broaden its exposure to the art-viewing public.The platform provides transparent and safe management of ownership certificates, transaction history, and transfer status through a blockchain network and secure third-party service providers. | $30K / Pre-Seed |
About FuturePlay
FuturePlay is an accelerator and early-stage investor specialized in deep tech startups. Founded in 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, FuturePlay have invested in 55 deep tech, mainly South Korea's startups and about one third of them are US-based startups.FuturePlay is expanding target regions to Southeast Asia like Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan,and Hong Kong. It also plays a role of LP of some tech-focused funds like 500 Kimchi (500Startups' Korean Fund) and Zeroth.ai (http://zeroth.ai/). FuturePlay is venture-backed mainly from global enterprises such as CISCO, DeNA, LG, NHN, SK Planet.FuturePlay has two acceleration program, TechUP and TechUP+. TechUP is annual batch program which is a kind of company-building with deep tech engineers. TechUP+ is a co-acceleration program with large enterprise specialized in a particular industry like food, beauty, energy, etc. The first TechUP+ is sponsored by AmorePacific, the number one cosmetic company in Asia, and is running now with 5 beauty tech startups.
FuturePlay Contacts
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Hoseok JUNG
CLO
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Choi Jae-woong
Director
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Danny Yoon
CIPO
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Hyeong su Park
Senior Reviewer
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Jung-hee Ryu
Partner and CEO
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What does Sungjae Hwang invest in?
Sungjae Hwang invests primarily in Art, FinTech and Peer to Peer startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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