# Yanolja

> Yanolja is a VC fund in Seoul backing Travel and Software. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yanolja/
- Website: https://yanolja.in/ko/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yanolja/

Yanolja is a leisure platform that provides online accommodation and travel services. Its platform offers information regarding all aspects of travel including accommodation, leisure, and transportation that allow clients to book every type of hotel room from overseas. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Yanolja. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Yanolja. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/yanolja?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $443k–$4M |
| Series B | $9.1M–$60M |
| Corporate Round | $2.2M–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 4 | 18% |
| Software | 4 | 18% |
| Real Estate | 3 | 14% |
| FinTech | 2 | 9% |
| Big Data | 2 | 9% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 32% |
| Seed | 6 | 27% |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 18% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 12 | 55% |
| India | 2 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChanSeok Choi | President, Corporation (Holdings) | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chanseok-choi |
| Jong Kim | CEO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jong-yoon-kim-a442 |
| Lee Sujin | CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lee-sujin |
| Andrew Kim | director of global solutions business | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-kim-4929 |
| Kim Se- joon | Head of global business unit | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-se-joon |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trustay | Trustay is a real estate asset management company. |  | Series B | Apr 13, 2025 |  |
| bizplay | Bizplay is a mobile app that processes credit card transactions for businesses. | $2.2M | Corporate Round | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| bizplay | Bizplay is a mobile app that processes credit card transactions for businesses. | $2.2M | Series A | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| Redrob | Redrob is a people discovery platform that employs artificial intelligence to restructure the people data into a intelligible manner, enabling global sales, networking, and recruitment. | $4M | Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Redrob | McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company. | $4M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Big Value | Big Value is a price analysis for multiplex houses. |  | Series B | Jan 04, 2023 |  |
| InnKey | Innkey PMS is a cloud based hotel management system. |  | Corporate Round | May 04, 2022 |  |
| InnKey | Innkey PMS is a cloud based hotel management system. |  | Corporate Round | May 04, 2022 |  |
| SMARTIX | SMARTIX is a BPO, TCM service development and operation agency service provider company. |  | Seed | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| HotelOnline | HotelOnline is the #1 revenue partner for the hospitality sector in Africa. More than 5,000 accommodation and restaurant partners in 24 countries have increased their revenue, and improved their customer experience with HotelOnline's technology-driven solutions. The HotelOnline Group includes Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network. |  | Corporate Round | Apr 04, 2022 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DS&Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ds-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Murex Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/murex-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DSC Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsc-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [KB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Market Kurly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/market-kurly) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MUSINSA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/musinsa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Yanolja invest in?

Yanolja invests primarily in Travel, Software and Real Estate startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 Yanolja's check size?

Yanolja typically joins rounds of $443k–$4M at Seed, $9.1M–$60M at Series B and $2.2M–$9M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yanolja participates in.

### How do I contact Yanolja?

Public channels for Yanolja include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Yanolja?

The team at Yanolja includes ChanSeok Choi (President, Corporation (Holdings)), Jong Kim (CEO) and Lee Sujin (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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