Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2026
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in South Korea in January 2026
Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
- Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
- SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- 90days — 90days is an electronic bill-based P2B investment brokerage platform.
- Together Funding — Together Funding offers peer-to-peer financial service.
- Geneos Therapeutics — Geneos is developer of a neo-antigen based personalized immunotherapy designed to offer cancer treatment. The company's technology is designed to identify relevant neoantigen targets from individual patient tumors to develop novel treatments for cancer, providing patients with tumor targeted immunotherapies to cure their disease.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
- Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
- Purple AI — Redefining stroke care with FDA-cleared intelligent detection and predictive analytics. From NCCT ICH triage to future multi-modal solutions enabling proactive patient care.
- My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
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- Tacta Systems — Tacta Systems develops robotics with human-like tactile abilities with Dextrous Intelligence, the nervous system for robots.
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
- CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
- Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AutoHands — AutoHands is a South Korea-based mobility company that offers comprehensive integrated mobility services including vehicle buying and selling, management, online used-car auctions, car rentals, extended warranties, residual value guarantees, mobile maintenance, and accident compensation programs.
- Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
- Rootfinders — RouteFinders develops an AI-based media platform to support independent living for visually impaired individuals in an increasingly digital world.
Venture Capital firm in Korea.
We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Oncosoft — Oncosoft develops software solutions with a focus on anti-cancer treatment. Their offerings include an Oncology Information Management Solution (OIMS) and artificial intelligence-based technologies for radiologists. The software aids in the detection of cancer, contributing to the medical community's efforts in precision cancer therapy.
- StudioBside — StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
- Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.
Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
- Retentics — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
- Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.
Founded in July 2015, Elefund is a US-based venture capital firm with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm has invested in several well-known companies whose products and services have benefited millions of people all over the world and created thousands of jobs.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Forward — Embedded payments built by software founders, for software builders
- Powder — AI agents for automating document analysis and data extraction for financial operations and compliance.
- Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc.
Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
- DewCell — Dewcell Biotherapeutics develops synthetic platelets using biomimetic technology. The company's system secures stem cell differentiation technology into megakaryocytes that generate platelets and mass-produces artificial platelets.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
- Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
- MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
- Shippio — Shippio is a service that enables a wide range of collective international logistics arrangements and management solutions via web.The platform features full-service export and import solutions for various international transportation needs; a special dashboard designated for import and export business, shipment, cost analysis, and invoicemanagement; and documentation support.
- NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
- Arobot — Arobot creates robots with HRI-based behavior patterns, allowing consumers to embrace robots more readily and organically.
- Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
- Ttukboka — Ttukboka is a money-making English word quiz app.
- Apollo Studios — Studio is a hub for creating, evolving, and consuming your graph for all members of your team.
SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
- Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
- PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
- SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
- City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
- Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
- Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
- BRUSH Theatre — BRUSH Theatre is a theatre for live performances.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
- Lemonbase — Lemonbase is Australia's Premium Tech Publication. Lemonbase covers the latest news in the world of technology, review new and exciting products, a perspective in the world of technology etc.,.
- CLO Virtual Fashion — Founded in 2009, CLO Virtual Fashion is committed to innovating the way we communicate fashion through our true-to-life 3D garment simulation technology. Our virtual garment solutions and services connect all teams involved in the digital product lifecycle, enabling more direct collaboration and reduced lead time, whilst maintaining the intricaciesof garment design. We envision our garment simulation technology to become not only the tool to create virtual garments, but also the platform to provide valuable data about garments, designs, and trend by virtualizing every garment on Earth. Our products ranging from CLO (3D design software for apparel designers and brands), Marvelous Designer (3D design software for character artists in gaming and animation companies), Benefit by CLO (virtual fitting platform), CLO-SET (Communications and Archiving platform for virtual garments), to Marvelous SDK (Real time draping engine for games) create a new ecosystem for virtual garments. Through these services and our continuing research and development in 3D and garment design, we are transforming the way we produce and consume garments - both tangible (actual garments from brands) and intangible (virtual garments in games and movies), for ones we wear and what our virtual characters wear. For more information, visit www.clo3d.com, www.marvelousdesigner.com.
NPX Capital is a global alternative investment management firm with businesses in venture capital, private equity, and real estate.
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, Publishing
- Series A, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Topco — Topco is a content company.
- Hodoo English — Hodoo English is a quest-based MMORPG with built-in speech recognition and over 300 non-player characters with whom the player must have meaningful conversations in English. The game was designed by videogame giant NCSOFT to address "mute English", a pedagogical problem in which a school system produces students who can read and write inEnglish but cannot speak it.In Hodoo English, learners are immersed in a rich 3D world where they complete quests and interact with different characters by speaking English. Your child is the main character of the story, using his or her growing English vocabulary in a variety of situations.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TokerBud — TokerBud is your premier destination for top-quality cannabis products. Specializing in a wide range of options from classic strains to exotic blends, we ensure a seamless and secure online shopping experience. Our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction makes us the go-to source for all your cannabis needs.
- UberPlug — UberPlug is your premier destination for top-quality cannabis products. Specializing in a wide range of options from classic strains to exotic blends, we ensure a seamless and secure online shopping experience. Our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction makes us the go-to source for all your cannabis needs.
- OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.
Mark & Company is an open innovation platform that provides app traffic, legal, and accounting consulting services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Roai — One Click Controls Robots, Creating Anything You Imagine
- FOBECON — Pobicon offers an auto-estimation solution that analyzes construction blueprints using vision AI and other algorithms to quantify the net quantity of raw materials utilized in construction in three days.
- Nine Dog — Ninedog is a platform that makes it easy to subscribe to high-involvement services even in open market commerce or social media channels.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
- Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
- Remake Digital — They are a group of creatives, marketers, and engineers building CROLO, a creative AI. CROLO totally automates banner ad designs so advertisers can reduce design time/cost while maximizing ad performance through data driven design.
Kona Venture Partners is a South Korea-based venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Casual Games, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
- StudioBside — StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
Redbadge Pacific is the Asia-Pacific arm of Redbadge, the U.S.-based family office of Robert L. Burch. The platform operates as a global alternative asset manager with access to both institutional and regional family office capital.
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Investment focus
- Publishing, Transportation, Communities
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
- Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
- Smart Food Networks — Smart Food Networks is a food commerce company that provides food commerce and logistics services.
Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
- Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Monday OFF — MondayOFF is a mobile games developer and publisher specialized in Hypercasual games. With creativity and constantly evolving methods, we aim to launch your game to the top of the charts and build a worldwide audience to enjoy your games.
- IVIM Technology — Global No.1 solution provider of IntraVital Microscopy
- Point2 Technology — We Develop Innovative, Ultra-Low Power Connectivity SoCs Point2 Technology cloud-optimized range of high-speed SoCs and reference design platforms accelerate deployment of next generation data centers and 5G infrastructure.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- GTL Co., Ltd. — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
- Sky Labs — Our company, Sky Labs, is developing a ring-type Cardio Tracker, CART to help continuous monitoring of atrial fibrillation which is difficult to diagnose even in a hospital in daily life.According to a disease statistics study released in 2004, atrial fibrillation is a very common chronic disease that occurs in 1 out of 4 people in their 40s orolder. As stated in the Atrial Fibrillation Report from the UK's Atrial Fibrillation Association in 2012, the biggest problem is that atrial fibrillation is not diagnosed in 1 in 2 patients because it is not accompanied by severe subjective symptoms and hard to find due to the intermittent properties.To diagnose atrial fibrillation, the following three features of continuous monitoring are essential. Our product, CART, is equipped with these features to fully maximize the benefits of continuous monitoring.1) Comfortability as a wearable device : You can always wear CART on a daily basis. Additionally, it is even water-proof and dust-proof. So, you don't have to take it off while taking a shower, or washing hands.2) No-user intervention : By just wearing it on any finger which fits for you, every measurement is performed on the background basis without any intervention.3) Medical proof & Accuracy : Diagnosis is based on the conventional diagnosis method of cardiologists.By simply wearing CART on user's finger, CART continuously detects atrial fibrillation without any user intervention. CART detects and records atrial fibrillation, so users can track and manage their heart health status. In addition, users can diagnose atrial fibrillation whenever they want and see the results on their smartphone. By merely tapping CART, users can make event logs and analyze atrial fibrillation data at that moment when it occurs. Finally, the collected atrial fibrillation data can be used to help the physician diagnose of the atrial fibrillation.Initial target market is 0.2 million atrial fibrillation patients in Finland. Total target market is 300 million people to diagnose atrial fibrillation and tens of million subjects in clinical trials.Sky Labs is currently conducting clinical trials with the Seoul National University Hospital to verify the device's performance and is analyzing clinical data on heart disease. And, Sky Labs is working with global pharmaceutical company Bayer to make innovative healthcare business.
- Quantum Aero — Quantum Aero is a Defense artificial intelligence company.
Neoplux Co., Ltd. is the investment arm of Doosan Corp. It typically invests in the infant industries focusing on the pre IPO, growth, and mature companies. The firm provides business consulting and project management services in Korea, as well as investments in electronic component, software, electricity, metal and non-metal, machinery andequipment. It primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Incheon, Chungbuk, Chungnam, and Gyeongbuk province. The firm offers performance improvement and cost reduction services. The firm is involved in the construction of systems for roll-out by clients; establishment of systems for optimal operational process; and performance within client companies. It seeks control in its investments. Neoplux Co., Ltd was founded in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MyGlamm — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process portal for stakeholders. Access important documents, claim forms, and NCLT orders.
- Ninjacart — Ninjacart is India's largest tech-driven supply chain platform that connects farmers of fresh vegetables and fruits with kiranas and businesses.
- UPRISE — UPRISE creates self-driving investment services.
Sachin Bhanot serves as the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, SaaS, Cloud Security
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Australia, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Neara — Predictive modeling software for proactive network governance. Quantify and prove network needs in any scenario. Run precise analyses in hours and days instead of months or years in the field.
- Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
- Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
KT Investment, established in 2015 as the venture capital arm of KT Group, is dedicated to driving social impact while achieving maximum investment returns. We stand with founders every step of the way, providing the support and resources necessary to transform innovative ideas into impactful ventures. By partnering with promising startups andventure companies, we create win-win opportunities that pave the way for long-term success. With a global perspective, we actively seek value-driven investments that shape the future.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Medipal — Medipal provides personal health for a health consultation. It provides subscription-based personal nurse service for patients.
- Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
- Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
500 Startups Korea is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Publishing, Developer Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Finda — Finda is an online financial comparison platform across various financial products.
- Mommom — Mommom gathers and analyzes online meta data, as well as a list of national items categorized by objective group. Mommom is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
- Medb Korea — Medb Korea is a medical consumer, hospital, and pharmacy-focused online medical care and prescription drug delivery platform.. Medb Korea is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
Carta wants to accelerate (and even instigate, as we’ll see) companies that add to its own platform, making investing and participating in the private markets a bit more limpid and simple — two things that the world of private capital and its constituent bets have never had in abundance.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Legal
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Japan, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.
- Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
- PostCoffee — PostCoffee is an online coffee platform that provides coffee subscription and delivery services.
Mirae Asset Capital Market is a leading global investment banking, securities and institutional business firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
- Aim Intelligence — Leading AI Security & Safety Solutions Provider - Specializing in AI Risk Detection, Mitigation, and Elimination through Advanced Red Teaming and Defensive Systems | Leading provider of AI Security, Safety, and Compliance solutions
- Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
SL investment (SLi) aims at a company with global standards through management by principle and transparency.SLi is a venture capital firm founded in February 2000 and has widely invested in the companies from early to mezzanine stage, in the field of semiconductors, display (AMOLED, LED, LCD), renewable energy, and health care industry.Since its incorporation, SLi has recorded black-ink balances for 12 consecutive years with zero debt and also has successfully dissolved all the five funds with outstanding earning rates.SLi tries to raise the value of venture companies not only by offering funds but by supporting the management omnidirectionally after its investment. Consequently, 31 companies have been successfully listed in KOSDAQ market for 12 years and all the companies have positioned as leading firms in their specific fields.
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- Medical, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
- SCBIO — SCBIO is a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs with specialized technologies in immuno-oncology. The company discovers and develops novel therapeutics for future medicine.
- AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
- Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
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- EMCRAFTS — EMCRAFTS specializes in the manufacturing and designing of scanning electron microscopes.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Novelty Nobility — Novelty Nobility Inc. is a private biotech company. They are currently focused on the research of novel angiogenesis targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics in ophthalmology and oncology, where angiogenesis plays a key pathogenic role.In ophthalmology, Novelty Nobility first discovered a novel angiogenesis target, Stem Cell Factor(SCF)and c-KIT, which was initially known for its engagement with proliferation and survival of primitive hematopoietic stem cells for a couple of past decades. We believe that anti-SCF/c-KIT could effectively address the unmet medical needs, mostly caused by inherent limitations of anti-VEGFs, in terms of treatment efficacy and long-term safety. Our target discovery is widely and strongly patent-protected in US/KOR and the lead pipeline, NN2101(a full-human monoclonal antibody), is currently under preclinical development.
Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.
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- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
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- wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using...
- Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
- C2N Diagnostics — C2N Diagnostics, LLC is a privately held protein diagnostic and therapeutic discovery company targeting progressive neurodegeneration. They formed in late 2007 by scientific co-founders Drs. David Holtzman and Randall Bateman of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and LifeTech Research, a Maryland-based technology research andcommercialization firm (www.lifetechresearch.com). They reside at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis.
111 Percent is a small game publishing company.
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- Apps, Gaming, Publishing
- Seed
- South Korea
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
- 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.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
Idea Bridge is an asset management company that specializes in intellectual properties.
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- Content, Food and Beverage, Gaming
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea
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- Hudson AI — Hudson AI is an enterprise that delivers AI-based dubbing solutions. It supports the development of dubbed content, which is the core of content localization, using voice and video AI technologies.
- EnhancedBio — EnhancedBio is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and provides anti-cancer therapeutics.
- HN Novatech — HN Novatech is a food ingredient company that makes foods through seaweed-extracted heme molecules-based alternative meat.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, South Korea
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- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
- Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.
Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.
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- FinTech, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Iyris — iyris develops optical additives that tune sunlight. We help products perform in real-world heat while keeping light where it matters.
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
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- MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
- MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
- Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
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- Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
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Behi Investment is an investment firm.
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- Logistics, Transportation, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea
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- Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
- Green Dot — Green Dot runs an E-MaaS (Energy-Mobiliy as a Service) platform, which integrates mobility and energy. Since its inception, the service has drawn attention due to its rapid construction of Green Dot Zones, which provide energy and transportation All-in-One services in the heart of Seoul and the metropolitan area.
- Thermo Lab Korea — Thermo Lab korea supplies eco-friendly packaging optimized for the cold chain to customers.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore, India
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- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia
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- Corgea — Corgea is an AI-native security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
- Triple-A — TripleA helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts, leveraging on the fast-growing 300m+ people using cryptocurrencies.With its white-label, easy setup, instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rate, real-time fiat conversion, and no chargeback crypto payment solution, TripleA meets the needs of e-commercemerchants, retailers, game providers, PSPs, fintech, and marketplaces.TripleA was founded in Singapore in 2017 by Eric Barbier, a repeat entrepreneur in FinTech. The company is licensed by MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore's Central Bank), allowing partners to operate in a fully compliant and regulated environment.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
Block Crafters provides consulting services for enterprises, acceleration program for startups, and integrated marketing program to build on/offline presence Block Crafters accelerates market success in all aspects of blockchain business from founding a company to building business leveraging knowledge and experiences from economics, media,technology and law. Based on the expertise of a blockchain media formerly known as "Soso Media Lab", Block Crafters provides marketing services including but not limited to strategic planning, community management, digital marketing, PR, contents creation, and influencer marketing. Block Crafters bridges the blockchain knowledge gap by providing high-quality education to individuals and corporates.
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- Art, Content, Software
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- ClueMetic — ClueMetic is a non-face-to-face cosmetic service platform for marketing services and brands.
- Ill School — Ill School operates the hip-hop beat trading platform.
- Yae Labs — Yae Labs an art platform which connects artists and collectors through interactive content.
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