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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in South Korea (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $211k–$26M
SBVA
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $907k–$60M
KB Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $737k–$39M
Elefund
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $930k–$40M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$17M
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$40M
Mashup Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$3.2M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $280k–$27M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
InfoBank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $88k–$16M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $424k–$20M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $741k–$35M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Apps $448k–$11M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$15M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Gaming $441k–$11M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $973k–$50M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $273k–$13M
Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $100k–$12M
We Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $729k–$19M
KT Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $2M–$124M
Play Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Finland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $700k–$26M
Naver Webtoon
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan Seed, Series B, Series A Media and Entertainment, Animation, Content $4.7M–$189M
Sachin Bhanot
Angel
1 Australia, Singapore, Indonesia Series A, Seed SaaS, Financial Services, FinTech $5M–$30M
Block Crafters
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Blockchain, Art, Apps
Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $83k–$25M
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
Stibee
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed News, Publishing, Advertising
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $223k–$14M
111 Percent
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Apps, Gaming, Publishing $8.6M–$13M
Korea Angel Investment Association
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Manufacturing, Solar, Energy $223k–$2.2M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$33M
Carta Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, Legal $2.5M–$61M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software $383k–$25M
Redbadge Pacific
VC Fund
1 Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Publishing, AgTech, Logistics $4.1M–$100M
500 Startups Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Apps, Banking $201k–$891k
Time Folio Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series B, Series C, Series A Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care $5M–$33M
Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Video Games, Casual Games $741k–$83M
Idea Bridge
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, Content, FinTech $895k–$8.6M
Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Energy, Textbook, E-Learning
Startup-X
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Children, Education, Incubators $83k–$759k
Hanbit Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, Education $2k–$14M
Open Water Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.7M–$21M
Louis Beryl
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1M–$14M
Fast Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer $371k–$7.8M
SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $125k–$50M
Access Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$29M
Globivest
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Biotechnology, Software $1M–$16M
JB Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence $59k–$6M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $429k–$312M
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 376
  • Round size: Seed $211k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
  • Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 280
  • Round size: Seed $907k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $23M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 437
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops multi-joint robotic grippers and robotic hands for precise grasping and manipulation in industrial automation, humanoid robotics, and research.
  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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Elefund
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $930k–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3.5M; Series A $6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Powder — AI agents for automating document analysis and data extraction for financial operations and compliance.
  • Stackpack — AI-powered visibility and control for your company's vendors and contracts - fully synced with your financial software. Try it risk-free for 30 days today.
  • 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.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 295
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.1M; Series A $371k–$11M; Series B $886k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 189
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $5.8M–$30M; Series C $12M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $596M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
  • Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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Mashup Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Mashup Ventures invests in early-stage startups and supports startups to grow quickly through a network of founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Seed $228k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $1.4M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rosherin — Rosherin is a healthcare startup that researches, develops and manufactures various medical supplies and medical devices.
  • Addit & Ark — Adit & Ark operates an AI-powered advertising platform that connects brands with Instagram-based digital magazines and content creators, enabling targeted collaborations and more effective marketing campaigns.
  • Retriever — Retrvr provides solutions that automate business processes across governance, risk management, and compliance through AI-based technology, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of an organization's GRC operations.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 393
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • Sume — Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
  • Peer Robotics — Discover the latest cutting-edge robotics solutions at Peer Robotics. We offer innovative products and services to revolutionize industries.
  • Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $88k–$1.5M; Series A $88k–$9.4M; Series B $8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pmatch — Pmatch is a comprehensive platform designed to provide reliable, accurate medication information to help users make informed decisions about their healthcare. By offering detailed insights into various medications, including their uses, dosages, side effects, and interactions, Pmatch ensures that individuals can use medicines in a smarter and saferway. The platform aims to enhance patient safety, reduce medication errors, and improve overall health outcomes by empowering users with the knowledge they need to manage their treatments effectively. Whether for healthcare professionals or patients, Pmatch serves as a trusted resource for promoting informed decision-making and better health management.
  • A2D2 — A2D2 AI analyzes and organizes tens of thousands of pages of evidence documents.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Round size: Seed $424k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$11M; Series B $4.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $741k–$4.7M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
  • Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
  • Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $448k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M; Series B $2.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $407k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Acro — Main - ACRO
  • Upstage — Upstage AI develops artificial intelligence technologies focused on large language models and document processing systems designed to support enterprise workflows. Its platform includes tools that convert unstructured data such as PDFs, scans, and emails into structured, machine-readable formats, enabling downstream analysis and automation. Thecompany also provides models like its Solar LLM, which are optimized for tasks such as text generation, information extraction, and question answering within business environments. Its solutions are applied across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing to handle tasks like document parsing, data extraction, and workflow automation. Additionally, its services can be deployed through APIs, cloud environments, or on-premise systems to integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure.
  • TippingPoint Biosciences — Pioneering new therapies for diseases of chromatin dysfunction. There is a necessity for new types of treatments in diseases like Pediatric Diffuse Midlines Glioma (DMG). Cancer, Chromatin, Health, new solutions.
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Gaming
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$3.5M; Series A $1.7M–$8.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Deeply — Deeply is a sound AI specialized in the unmanned surveillance industry. It also develops AI voice analysis technology designed to analyze non-verbal sounds and extract information. They serve city surveillance, infrastructure, military, rail, air, and port systems.
  • Red Brick House — Red Brick House is a specialized South Korean indie game publisher dedicated to discovering, supporting, and publishing innovative independent games, helping talented developers bring creative and engaging gaming experiences to players across domestic and global markets.
  • AWESOME Entertainment — AWESOME Entertainment is a media and digital content company that provides YouTube content production, influencer and MCN management, advertising and branded content creation, and media commerce services. The comapny supports brands with campaign planning, viral video production, and distribution across multiple social platforms, while alsooffering production outsourcing and partnership services to maximize audience reach and engagement.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 520
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$10M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $4.7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
  • Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $273k–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $882k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
  • Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 35 in the past 12 months

Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 519
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $2.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
  • Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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We Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $729k–$4.3M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GraphAI — GraphAI AI enables seamless integration of diverse data sources for fast and user-friendly AI-powered Business Intelligence (BI).GraphAI-A leverages neural networks to maintain a comprehensive graph view and swiftly reveals valuable insights from enterprise data, facilitating trend analysis and a 360-degree customer perspective. This is achievedthrough In-DB AI technology with an intuitive low-code interface.GraphAI-T delivers accelerated and robust BI analytics by leveraging the valuable insights obtained from GraphAI-A. It further facilitates transaction processing on business data through structured queries like SQL and Cypher.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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KT Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$26M; Series B $6.7M–$124M; Series C $8.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
  • Twinny — Twinny specializes in the development of self-driving robots.
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Play Ventures
VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.9M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.5M; Series A $6.1M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
  • Arya — Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship.
  • Surge Games — Surge Games is a mobile game development studio that creates hybrid-casual puzzle applications. The company focuses on utilizing AI-native technologies to design and build digital experiences for global mobile platforms.
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Naver Webtoon
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Naver Webtoon specializes in content research and development, design, business support, and technology services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Animation, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $4.7M–$11M; Series A $9.7M–$10M; Series B $12M–$189M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MstoryHub — MstoryHub is the provider of digital content intended to entertain and engage audiences through diverse storytelling mediums. The company offers a wide range of products, including webtoons, web novels, anime videos, and other digital content, enabling entertainment enthusiasts to access captivating narratives and immersive experiences.
  • Yeolhyeol Gangho — Yeolhyeol Gangho is dedicated to expanding the universe of the long-running martial arts comic through IP licensing, multimedia content, and brand collaborations. The company focuses on creating new content across various media platforms, including webtoons, web novels, films, and animations. It aims to deliver diverse and engaging experiences tothe audience.
  • Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.
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Sachin Bhanot
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Sachin Bhanot serves as the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $6.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
  • Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
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Block Crafters
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Art, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YayLabs — YayLabs operates an NFT platform that connects the digital and physical worlds. With the merging of Web3, Web2, and the real world, YayLabs can transform a wide range of industries such as art, gaming, finance, and fashion, enabling a fast-growing market and potential applications in multiple fields.
  • Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.
  • Yae Labs — Yae Labs an art platform which connects artists and collectors through interactive content.
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $83k–$4.1M; Series A $1.7M–$25M; Series B $3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
  • MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
  • 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
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Stibee
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Stibee is an internet marketing service company that offers content monetization and A/B testing services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Publishing, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coffee Pot — Coffee Pot is a news publishing platform that provides newsletters covering various topics.
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.1M; Series A $891k–$5.4M; Series B $7.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.9M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
  • Plantner — PLANTNER develops environmentally friendly polymers that utilizes the controlled-release characteristics of alginate, a polymer derived from seaweed, along with natural controlled-release fertilizers to substitute current chemical products. Concurrently, the company is engaged in research and development as well as local field trials in Korea andVietnam. These innovations are directly aimed at promoting low-input sustainable agriculture. The organization is committed to tackling the unsustainable practices prevalent in conventional agriculture through the use of slow-release fertilizers, aspiring to foster eco-friendly advancements rooted in natural materials, beginning with agriculture, which is the cornerstone of the industry. In traditional agricultural settings, the significant loss of chemical fertilizers has resulted in nutrient depletion, leading to soil degradation issues such as acidification. This reduction in soil productivity compels farmers to resort to even greater quantities of chemicals to enhance yields, thereby perpetuating a detrimental cycle of increasing overuse. As a response, coated slow-release fertilizers have been introduced; however, their synthetic polymer coatings have contributed to the buildup of microplastics in the soil, harming the habitats of beneficial microorganisms and generating additional environmental challenges. To mitigate these concerns, ongoing research and development efforts are focused on substituting the conventional coating materials of slow-release fertilizers which are responsible for environmental issues like residual microplastics with alginate, a biodegradable polymer sourced from seaweed.
  • Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops an automotive data platform that enables real-time data transfer, sharing, and structured data management. The platform offers end-to-end capabilities, including data collection, storage, and deployment pipelines for processing vehicle big data through web-based visualization tools. It allows users to access streamingdata without local downloads and supports seamless collaboration among engineers worldwide.
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111 Percent
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

111 Percent is a small game publishing company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Gaming, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $8.6M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
  • Supercent — Supercent develops and publishes hyper-casual mobile games.
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Korea Angel Investment Association
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Korea Angel Investment Association is a small and medium-sized enterprise that supports startups and angel investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Solar, Energy
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
  • Jan153 Biotech — Jan153 Biotech is a biopesticide development company that develops advanced biological control technology to protect the environment.
  • Advance Battery Recycle — Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process.
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Shorooq Partners is the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
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Carta Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$3M; Series A $17M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $383k–$7.9M; Series A $1.9M–$25M; Series B $1.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.
  • Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
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Redbadge Pacific
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Publishing, AgTech, Logistics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$26M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AgriAku — AgriAku is a technology-based local agribusiness company that enables traders & farm shop owners to get saprotan(agriculture production facilities) at affordable prices through it's apps - Agroaku Mitra app, and Agroaku Hub app. AgriAku offers full-stack agriculture services for small and medium-sized businesses and farmers. AgriAku offerscomplete agricultural equipment such as seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals to agro equipment.
  • Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
  • Apeel Sciences — Apeel Sciences' plant-derived solution for fresh food providers doubles the lifespan of harvested fruits and vegetables even without refrigeration. It develops low-cost, natural technologies to help to eliminate food spoilage, reduce water and energy use, and preserve natural ecosystems.Apeel's private investors and philanthropicpartners include Andreessen Horowitz, Viking Global Investors, Upfront Ventures, S2G Ventures, Powerplant Ventures, DBL Partners, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.Apeel Sciences was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
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500 Startups Korea
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

500 Startups Korea is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Apps, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $201k–$891k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
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Time Folio Asset Management
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Time Folio Asset Management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$26M; Series B $13M–$28M; Series C $12M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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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Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Kona Venture Partners is a South Korea-based venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Casual Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $741k–$6.8M; Series A $2.9M–$11M; Series B $1.5M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cave Duck — Caveduck is an AI character chat platform where you can create, customize, and talk to virtual characters across web and mobile (iOS and Android). It focuses on AI character chats rather than general-purpose Q&A, letting you pick or design personas with specific traits, backstories, and moods.
  • Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
  • Warp Space — Free Trial! Create your own unique AI friend.
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Idea Bridge
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Idea Bridge is an asset management company that specializes in intellectual properties.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $895k–$8.6M; Series B $5.8M–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Style Bot — Solving Fashion Styling Problems with AI.
  • EnhancedBio — EnhancedBio is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and provides anti-cancer therapeutics.
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Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency supports and promotes social enterprises to expand social services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Textbook, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solvook — Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services.
  • VPP — Providing clean energy to wherever it is needed
  • The Solve — Business facility management, business support and rental services
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Startup-X
VC Fund · Mapo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Startup-X is a global business development, angel investors, and investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Children, Education, Incubators
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $83k–$759k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • My Workspace — My Workspace is an affordable premium shared office space serving startups and freelancers at three locations in the heart of Seoul’s tech hub. We are seeking to collaborate with the right partners to optimally incubate startups of all industries, presently with a particular focus on the current Blockchain, AI, and Bio markets.
  • Cinnamon Company — Cinnamon Company specializes in early childhood education content.
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Hanbit Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Hanbit Investment is a Korean venture capital firm that provides its users with consumer services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $896k–$8.3M; Series B $2k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Marpple — Marpple offers products with creative content and prints such as custom t-shirts, mobile covers and cups.
  • Goi — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Law&Good — Law&Good is a law and consulting firm.
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Open Water Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

WE LIKE CREATIVE BUSINESS THAT COULD CHANGE THE WORLD

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2.6M; Series A $1.8M–$3.9M; Series B $4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solivis — Solivis is the manufacturer of solid-state batteries designed for next-generation battery packs. The company's product is used as a secondary battery for electric vehicles and has developed a wet synthesis method that can mass-produce a sulfide-based solid electrolyte with homogeneous high ionic conductivity, enabling clients to significantlyimprove productivity by reducing process costs and shortening the synthesis time.
  • Quantum Aero — Quantum Aero is a Defense artificial intelligence company.
  • Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
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Louis Beryl
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AnchorUSD — Unlike competing stablecoins, AnchorUSD holds all deposits in US-domiciled bank accounts. Because USDX can always be created for $1 or redeemed for $1, investors can trade with confidence and avoid the volatility of unbacked cryptocurrencies. We undergo regular audits to ensure that the number of USDX in circulation is exactly equal to the numberof dollars in our bank account.
  • Names & Faces — Names & Faces makes it easy for you to transform your employee data into a world class visual employee directory and org chart in minutes that help everyone from the CEO to the new joiner recognise team members and understand where they fit in.
  • Rescue Forensics — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
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Fast Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Fast Investment

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$7.8M; Series A $1.6M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
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SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Early stage VC investing into Enterprise Tech, FinTech and BioTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $125k–$500k; Series A $17M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Allus AI — Allus AI - Vision Foundation Model for Manufacturin
  • Cranston AI — Cranston AI offers an AI-powered platform for accounting and bookkeeping services.
  • Crimson — Crimson is a AI productivity platform that allows litigation lawyers to answer case specific questions.
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Access Ventures
VC Fund · Louisville, Kentucky, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Explore how Access Ventures leverages catalytic capital to drive economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental sustainability in communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$100k; Series A $2M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Staffinc — Staffinc is a platform that provides workers and workforce management services for businesses.
  • Rhome — Rhome is a global homeownership platform that offers co-ownership as a flexible and accessible alternative to traditional real estate. Designed to address modern housing challenges, Rhome empowers individuals to buy, share, swap, and sell portions of homes seamlessly.Rhome simplifies real estate transactions, offering co-buyer matching, seamlessequity maintenance, and the ability to swap properties while retaining equity. Unlike competitors focused on secondary homes or temporary markets, Rhome targets primary residences, offering first-time homebuyers a way to build wealth and enjoy mobility without traditional barriers. Rhome is committed to making homeownership flexible, equitable, and scalable for a new generation of buyers.
  • RADICL Defense — RADICL cyber threat and compliance virtual SOC gives small-to-mediuam sized businesses access to enterprise-grade cybersecurity.
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Globivest
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
  • Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
  • BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
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JB Ventures
VC Fund · Dongan, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

JB Ventures is a venture capital investment firm and startup accelerator that aims to support startups in the Chungcheongnam-do region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, India, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $59k–$743k; Series A $3M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
  • Incera Solution — Incera Solution specializes in manufacturing high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors, critical equipment for laser-based space optical communications, and sophisticated military systems.
  • Seoul Beauty Global — Your gateway to premium K-beauty experiences in Seoul. Book top-rated salons and clinics.
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$28M; Series A $3.3M–$156M; Series B $429k–$312M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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Publishing Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 90 deals from 125 investors.

125
investors
in South Korea Publishing startups
90
deals
in South Korea Publishing startups
$1.6M
median round
in South Korea Publishing startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage
100/0
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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