Top 10 Proptech Angel Investors in South Korea in January 2026
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Proptech startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Proptech companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Proptech Angel Investors in South Korea in January 2026
| Investor | Proptech South Korea investments |
|---|---|
| Bae Yong-Joon | 1 |
| Douglas Guen | 1 |
| Cho Man Ho | 1 |
| Gabriel Fong | 1 |
| Richard Ma | 1 |
| S Cubic Angels | 1 |
| Jong-Il Yoon | 1 |
| Michael Carter | 1 |
| Miguel McKelvey | 1 |
| Alexander Schill | 1 |
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Seed
- Japan, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder of Primer. He previously worked at INICIS as a Founder and CEO. Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.
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Investment focus
- Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
- Soomgo — Soomgo is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
- Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.
Cho Man Ho is the Founder of Musinsa.
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Investment focus
- Hotel, Coworking
- Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Localstitch — Localstitch is a co-working and co-living space for digital nomads, startups, and single-family homes.
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
- LTAI — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
- H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
- RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
- GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
S Cubic Angels
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Investment focus
- Education, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
- MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
- Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Dating
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, South Korea
McKelvey grew up in a "five-mother collective" in Eugene, Oregon.[2] His family started and ran a weekly newspaper called the Eugene Weekly.[3]In a January 2020 interview with Fortune, McKelvey called himself "a wild kid" on the high school basketball court. He said that he found a sense of accountability from his coach, whowas a strict disciplinarian. He said of Coach Stepp, "I didn’t grow up with my father, so I never had someone telling me to keep in line
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Rental, Software
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
- Dongnae — Dongnae provides an online real estate platform that digitizes the rental and home-buying market. The company's platform assists users to find the right house based on their needs and purpose, even find easy transport to work from the resident with the assistance of the brokers, enabling users to save time and energy on finding the right placeto stay in.It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Alexander Schill
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Wearables, Health Care
- Series A, Corporate Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dot Inc. — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
- Lanfranco & Cordova — We are an agency of optimists, for brands that believe anything is possible.
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