# Yellowdog

> Yellowdog is a VC fund in Seoul backing Health Care and Food and Beverage. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yellowdogivc
- Website: http://www.yellowdog.kr/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Yellowdog-Impact-Venture-Capital-100155964975084/

Yellowdog is a VC fund in Seoul focused on Health Care and Food and Beverage. Established in 2016, Yellowdog invests in startups, at Pre- series A to series B, which have innovative potentials in four key impact domains - (1) climate actions and environmental solutions, (2) wellness and healthcare, (3) education, and (4) workstyle solutions.They build bridges between the capital market and impact makers.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $520k–$6.6M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$16M |
| Series B | $3.5M–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 19% |
| Food and Beverage | 6 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 16% |
| Apps | 3 | 9% |
| Education | 3 | 9% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 14 | 44% |
| Seed | 6 | 19% |
| Series B | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 22 | 69% |
| United States | 3 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hyunjoo Je | CEO | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyunjoo-je |
| Inwon Park | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inwon-park |
| June Cha | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/june-cha |
| Sonyoung Hong | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sonyoung-hong |
| Soohyun Bae | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soohyun-bae-2882 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Linq | We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning. | $6.6M | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| MY NORMAL | MY NORMAL provides food and services for ketogenic diets. | $1.2M | Seed | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Linq | We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| RideFlux | RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety. | $13.9M | Series A | Dec 27, 2021 |  |
| VoyagerX | VoyagerX offers a speech recognition-based video editor powered by artificial intelligence that cuts down on the time it takes to edit cuts and subtitles. A mobile book scanner that uses artificial intelligence is called vFlat. It is a smartphone app that enables book scanning using smartphones. It can correct crooked photos, recognize text, andeven automatically recognize portions of book pages. Additionally, they offer typefaces made from the actual handwriting of K-pop stars and artificial intelligence-based handwritten font generators. | $26.5M | Series A | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Jellatech | Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| The PlantEat | The PlantEat is a food-tech startup that designs, develops, produces, distributes, and sells a variety of plant-based alternatives powered by food data. It was established to address social issues such as the over-reliance on animal-based diet and global nutrition imbalances. The PlantEat aims to improve and create balanced eating habits to keepeveryone healthy and fit.More Information: www.theplanteat.com | $3.5M | Series B | Mar 30, 2021 |  |
| E Green Global | E Green Global manufactures micro tubers on a commercial scale. | $9M | Series B | Nov 12, 2020 |  |
| FAAI | FAAI is a clothing production management platform for fashion designers and  managers that connects designers and manufacturers. The platform business that combines IT and apparel manufacturing. | $2.5M | Series A | Oct 13, 2020 |  |
| Shiok Meats | Shiok Meats is cellular aquaculture and cell-based meat company. With a mission to bring clean and healthy meats and seafood by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats that are animal-, health- and environment-friendly.Shiok Meats was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Central Region,Singapore. | $12.6M | Series A | Sep 29, 2020 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kakao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Atinum Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atinum-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Yellowdog invest in?

Yellowdog invests primarily in Health Care, Food and Beverage and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 32 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 Yellowdog's check size?

Yellowdog typically joins rounds of $520k–$6.6M at Seed, $1.6M–$16M at Series A and $3.5M–$9M 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 Yellowdog participates in.

### How do I contact Yellowdog?

Public channels for Yellowdog 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 Yellowdog?

The team at Yellowdog includes Hyunjoo Je (CEO), Inwon Park (Investment Manager) and June Cha (Partner). 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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