# Sungjae Hwang

> Sungjae Hwang is a pre-seed investor at FuturePlay (Soeul) backing Art and FinTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FuturePlay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futureplay-co)
- Location: Soeul, South Korea
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanticjay/

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Art | 1 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Peer to Peer | 1 | 100% |
| Trading Platform | 1 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TESSA | 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 |  |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About FuturePlay

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

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.

5 contacts available at FuturePlay.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hoseok JUNG | CLO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoseok-jung |
| Choi Jae-woong | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/choi-jae-woong |
| Danny Yoon | CIPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-yoon |
| Hyeong su Park | Senior Reviewer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyeong-su-park |
| Jung-hee Ryu | Partner and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jung-hee-ryu |

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## FAQ

### 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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