Top 50 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care | $973k–$50M |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $18k–$30M |
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Elefund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $930k–$40M |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $223k–$12M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $743k–$40M |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $76k–$16M |
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SBVA
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1.7M–$168M |
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $200k–$19M |
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Russian Federation | Series A, Seed | Software, Gaming, Biotechnology | $1k–$7.8M |
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Draper Associates
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $1M–$50M |
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Apps | $371k–$7M |
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Gaming, Apps | $741k–$35M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $347k–$19M |
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software | $383k–$25M |
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Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care | |
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | |
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Neoplux
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, India, United States | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Fashion | |
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Next G Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Gaming, Retail, Fashion | |
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SL Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B | Medical, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | |
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We Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Time Folio Asset Management
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series B, Series C, Series A | Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care | $4.8M–$33M |
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Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Series B | Gaming, Casual Games, Mobile Apps | $741k–$82M |
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Mark & Company
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series B | Beauty, Software, Cosmetics | $134k–$1.1M |
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Idea Bridge
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series B, Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Content, Apps | $539k–$7.4M |
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500 Startups Korea
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Apps, Banking | $201k–$891k |
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $223k–$11M |
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Block Crafters
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Art, Apps | |
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SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $125k–$50M |
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Behi Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series B | Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing | $680k–$6.3M |
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Access Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$29M |
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Open Water Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, India, Mexico | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $5k–$20M |
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $223k–$25M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $429k–$312M |
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Software | $2.2M–$45M |
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JB Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, India, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Apps, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence | $59k–$6M |
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KIWOOM SECURITIES
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Indonesia, United States | Series B, Series A | Software, Pharmaceutical, Health Care | $3M–$31M |
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Redbadge Pacific
VC Fund
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1 | Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | Publishing, AgTech, Logistics | $4.1M–$100M |
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NPX Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B | Education, E-Learning, Publishing | $7.8M–$18M |
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Play Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Finland, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Software | $700k–$26M |
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Hungary, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce | $371k–$7.5M |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $750k–$33M |
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111 Percent
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Apps, Gaming, Publishing | $8.6M–$12M |
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $594k–$54M |
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Mirae Asset Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series B, Series A, Series C | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $6k–$255M |
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KT Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $1.7M–$104M |
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Globivest
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Biotechnology, Software | $1M–$16M |
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Fast Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer | $371k–$7.8M |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $297k–$27M |
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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical | $547k–$28M |
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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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 434
- Round size: Seed $973k–$11M; Series A $1.9M–$23M; Series B $2.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- 90days — 90days is an electronic bill-based P2B investment brokerage platform.
- New Id —
- Art Together — Art Together is a crowdfunding platform to buy an artwork.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.7M; Series A $966k–$10M; Series B $18k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Serpot — Serpot is a production service platform that offers film shooting products and support services.
- Bosalpim —
- Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
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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- 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.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 234
- Round size: Seed $223k–$3.1M; Series A $334k–$9.7M; Series B $743k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
- TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 378
- Round size: Seed $743k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$36M; Series B $4.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
- 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
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $76k–$1.5M; Series A $761k–$9.4M; Series B $8.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.
- Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
- Walkie Doki — Walkie Doki provides offline store management customized platform and job recommendations.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $4M–$60M; Series C $8.9M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- BEJEWEL — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $334k–$19M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- BacklotCars — Making Wholesale Easy
- Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.
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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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
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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- 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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $371k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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 — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
- 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $741k–$5.4M; Series A $1.8M–$9.7M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hourplace — Hourplace operates a filming place sharing platform.
- Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that creates a character for animation, game, and comics.
- LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $347k–$4.6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Next G Investment is an investment management company that offers venture capital and consulting services.
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- Industry: Gaming, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Amondz — Amondz is a jewellery ecommerce platform that provides buyers and sellers with quick access to a production list, price quotations for consumers, and customer support.
- iPIXEL — iPIXEL leads exciting exercise experience for wellness presenting Smart Rehab Prescription Solution 'Exercite Care', AI Home Training 'Exercite' to revitalize fitness experience
- Makestar — Makestar is a platform that provides K-culture content and information. Makestar allows artists and production companies to share their visions with a global audience. Makestar brings Hallyu stars and fans from all over the world together. It also offers the opportunity for fans to interact with celebrities and participate in the creation ofcontent.
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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- Industry: Medical, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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)
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- 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 $4.8M–$26M; Series B $11M–$27M; Series C $11M–$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.
Kona Venture Partners is a South Korea-based venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Gaming, Casual Games, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $741k–$6.8M; Series A $2.8M–$19M; Series B $1.5M–$82M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that creates a character for animation, game, and comics.
- Warp Space — Warp Space is a South Korea-based AI entertainment company founded in 2023 that develops and operates CAVEDUCK, a generative AI character chat and interactive storytelling platform. Warp Space focuses on long-term character consistency and contextual storytelling through proprietary memory and context management technologies.
- 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.
Mark & Company is an open innovation platform that provides app traffic, legal, and accounting consulting services.
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- Industry: Beauty, Software, Cosmetics
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $134k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PRTN — PRTN is the company that owns and operates Proteinner, a high-protein fast food brand focused on delivering convenient, nutritious meals designed to support active and health-conscious lifestyles.
- Roai — One Click Controls Robots, Creating Anything You Imagine
- Eleven Corporation — Eleven Corporation creates value for lifestyle and beauty products.
Idea Bridge is an asset management company that specializes in intellectual properties.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Apps
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $539k–$664k; Series A $2.2M–$7.4M; Series B $4.8M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
500 Startups Korea is a venture capital firm.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5.4M; Series B $4.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
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- Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops automotive data platform that provides web-based visualization, filtering, and post-processing of vehicle data.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Art, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
Early stage VC investing into Enterprise Tech, FinTech and BioTech.
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- 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.
Behi Investment is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $680k–$2.3M; Series A $966k–$4.8M; Series B $4.8M–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Intflow — Intflow is an agritech company developing AI-powered livestock management solutions. The company provides computer vision and non-contact monitoring technology for livestock farms, including animal weight measurement, behavior analysis, and farm data monitoring.
- Lutem Bio — Lutem Bio is an online medicine firm that is intended for general health. The company provides medicine for memory, cognition, immunity, gut, joints, and bones, among others, enabling customers to get medicines recommended by a doctor.
- WorkerInSpace — WorkerInSpace is an aerospace startup focused on On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) and In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) technologies for satellites and space infrastructure. The company develops versatile robotic spacecraft capable of satellite refueling, repair, towing, inspection, debris removal, and in-space manufacturing to extendsatellite lifespan and support sustainable space operations.
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- 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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- 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 $1.5M–$2.6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.4M; Series B $5k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Solivis — Solivis is a solid electrolyte company that develops secondary batteries for next-generation electric vehicles.
- 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. '
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $223k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
- Green Lamp — Green Lamp is a mobile app that provides reading room.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$23M; Series B $6.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
- 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.
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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- 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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- Industry: Software, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Series A $3M–$18M; Series B $3.7M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 3billion — 3billion provides genetic testing for rare diseases that includes unlimited reanalysis which takes into account newly discovered diseases until diagnosis.
- BNB Korea — BNB Korea is a cosmetics OEM company famous for its horse oil cream. BNB Korea is engaged in manufacturing skincare, makeup, masks, hair, fragrance and industrial cosmetic products, enabling clients to take care of their skin.
- Park Systems — Park Systems Corp. is a manufacturer of atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems, with a complete range of products for researchers and engineers in the chemistry, materials, physics, life sciences, semiconductor and data storage industries.
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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- 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.
NPX Capital is a global alternative investment management firm with businesses in venture capital, private equity, and real estate.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Publishing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $7.8M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Uplane — Uplane is an AI-powered marketing platform that automates ad creation, campaign management, and performance tracking.
- 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.
- PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
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- Industry: Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Hungary, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $371k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
- Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
- Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
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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- 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.
111 Percent is a small game publishing company.
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- Industry: Apps, Gaming, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $8.6M–$12M
- 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.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 283
- Round size: Seed $594k–$12M; Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
- Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
- Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Series A $6k–$47M; Series B $5.5M–$105M; Series C $14M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
- Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
- Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $5.9M–$104M; Series C $7.4M–$97M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Refilled — Refilled offers tailored hair loss home care services based on scientific hair loss study findings.
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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- 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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 319
- Round size: Seed $297k–$4.2M; Series A $891k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- LifeLabs — LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients.LifeLabs is strongly committed to continual innovation in testingservices. For our patients and healthcare providers, this means we always strive to provide access to the latest specialized clinical tests—to detect cancer for example, to monitor heart disease, identify neurological disorders and pinpoint allergies.LifeLabs is well-positioned to deliver care at home, in the community and across Ontario and British Columbia. We have over 5,400 professionally trained staff members, over 360 conveniently located patient service centres and an extensive network of couriers and mobile phlebotomists on the job.
- MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $547k–$2.3M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $4M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deaver — Deaver is an app for delivery management services.
- Eleven O'Clock — Eleven O'Clock is a space management platform that offers non-face-to-face cleaning of accommodation facilities. The company's platform Keeper innovates space operation and management as the new standard for space management. The efficiency and quality of space management are improved according to the systematic manual of the Keeperplatform. The platform records and communicates every process as data, from management manuals to space status checks.
- Real Estate Planet — Real Estate Planet is an AI-based real estate platform that provides transaction prices, investment, and management information.
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