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Top 50 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $743k–$60M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$15M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
Elefund
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $930k–$40M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $371k–$17M
InfoBank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps $74k–$16M
SBVA
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $1.9M–$100M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Seed Software, Gaming, Biotechnology $1k–$7.8M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$19M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Software $371k–$7M
KB Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $743k–$40M
Mark & Company
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Beauty $134k–$988k
Idea Bridge
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Content, Food and Beverage, Gaming $2.2M–$7.4M
500 Startups Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Apps, Banking $201k–$891k
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $223k–$11M
Block Crafters
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Art, Content, Software
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $500k–$31M
SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $125k–$50M
Korea Angel Investment Association
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Manufacturing, Solar, Energy $1k–$1.3B
Behi Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Seed, Series B Logistics, Transportation, SaaS $680k–$4.8M
Access Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$29M
Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing $1k–$27M
Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $45k–$60M
Carta Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, Legal $2.5M–$61M
Open Water Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $5k–$20M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software $860k–$25M
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Neoplux
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Fashion
Next G Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Retail, Fashion
SL Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B Medical, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
We Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $223k–$42M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $429k–$500M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $2.6M–$55M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Apps $743k–$35M
JB Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing $37k–$6.6M
KIWOOM SECURITIES
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Indonesia, United States Series B, Series A Software, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $3M–$31M
Time Folio Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series B, Series C, Series A Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care $4.8M–$33M
Redbadge Pacific
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Publishing, Logistics, E-Commerce $22k–$100M
NPX Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B Education, E-Learning, Publishing $7.8M–$18M
Play Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Finland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $700k–$25M
Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games $743k–$82M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce $111k–$6.9M
111 Percent
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Apps, Gaming, Publishing $8.5M–$12M
Mirae Asset Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $6k–$255M
KT Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $1.7M–$104M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$33M
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 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: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 403
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$26M; Series B $2.6M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Adriel — Adriel provides the necessary tools to handle complex campaigns and reach your advertising goals. Drive results at maximum efficiency with a centralized dashboard.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • I-Sense — i-SENS, Inc. is a global company dedicated to improving the lives of people with diabetes and those who care for them.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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: 224
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.9M; Series A $223k–$11M; Series B $743k–$15M
  • 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.
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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: 271
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$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

  • Soroh
  • Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
  • Specter — Specter is a reputation sharing platform for applicants who are sincere and do their job well, but cannot do enough self-PR in interviews.
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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

  • LandVault — In-Play is a non-intrusive monetization solution for games and digital spaces that puts player experience first.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Pie Insurance — Need workers' compensation or commercial auto insurance for your small business? Pie Insurance makes it as easy as pie.
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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, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • 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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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, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M; Series A $761k–$9.2M; Series B $8.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
  • Cycloid — Cycloid facilitates the easy trading of secondhand two-wheeled vehicles, as well as the safe sale of your two-wheeled vehicle through an expert condition assessment.
  • Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 245
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$44M; Series B $4M–$63M; Series C $8.9M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Syncly — Syncly is an AI-native customer intelligence platform for fast-growing brands. Turn customer conversations into actionable insights to help your brand grow faster.
  • Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
  • Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
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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, 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.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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: 147
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.8M; 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

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
  • DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
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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: 371
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $2.3M–$21M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
  • CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
  • Gradescope — Grade your existing paper-based assignments in half the time and see exactly what your students learned, for free.
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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, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
  • Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
  • 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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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 346
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Series B $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
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Mark & Company
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Mark & Company is an open innovation platform that provides app traffic, legal, and accounting consulting services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$988k
  • 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.
  • Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
  • Eleven Corporation — Eleven Corporation creates value for lifestyle and beauty products.
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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: Content, Food and Beverage, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$7.4M; Series B $4.8M–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
  • EnhancedBio — EnhancedBio is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and provides anti-cancer therapeutics.
  • HN Novatech — HN Novatech is a food ingredient company that makes foods through seaweed-extracted heme molecules-based alternative meat.
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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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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: 111
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5M; Series B $4.5M–$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.
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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: Art, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ClueMetic — ClueMetic is a non-face-to-face cosmetic service platform for marketing services and brands.
  • Ill School — Ill School operates the hip-hop beat trading platform.
  • Yae Labs — Yae Labs an art platform which connects artists and collectors through interactive content.
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 486
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
  • Kinderpass — With Kinderpass you can skip the travel, and access therapy online. KinderPass has a large team of specialists who can help a child across areas of development all under the same roof. Their holistic approach ensures that they focus on building not just academic skills but also essential life skills. Sessions are designed to make learning enjoyablefor the child, in a language they are comfortable in. With online sessions, you can access therapy from the comfort of your home and at a time of your convenience.
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SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$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
  • Metadata — Metadata is an autonomous demand generation platform that automates the most critical but often tedious tasks in marketing to help companies efficiently scale their demand generation efforts. Through machine learning, a proprietary corporate-to-personal identity graph, and automatic optimization to revenue KPIs, Metadata’s platform generates demandfrom target accounts and converts them to customers much faster than legacy methods. Innovative B2B marketers at Zoom, RingCentral, Slack, Thoughtspot and Vonage rely on Metadata to generate predictable velocity of inbound pipeline from target accounts. 3 USPTO patents.
  • Cranston AI — Cranston AI offers an AI-powered platform for accounting and bookkeeping services.
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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 $1k–$1.3B
  • 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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Behi Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Behi Investment is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Transportation, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$2.2M; Series A $966k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
  • Green Dot — Green Dot runs an E-MaaS (Energy-Mobiliy as a Service) platform, which integrates mobility and energy. Since its inception, the service has drawn attention due to its rapid construction of Green Dot Zones, which provide energy and transportation All-in-One services in the heart of Seoul and the metropolitan area.
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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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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.8M; Series B $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
  • Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
  • BRUSH Theatre — BRUSH Theatre is a theatre for live performances.
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 10 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$60M; Series A $1.6M–$25M; Series B $3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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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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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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: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.4M; Series B $5k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sky Labs — Our company, Sky Labs, is developing a ring-type Cardio Tracker, CART to help continuous monitoring of atrial fibrillation which is difficult to diagnose even in a hospital in daily life.According to a disease statistics study released in 2004, atrial fibrillation is a very common chronic disease that occurs in 1 out of 4 people in their 40s orolder. As stated in the Atrial Fibrillation Report from the UK's Atrial Fibrillation Association in 2012, the biggest problem is that atrial fibrillation is not diagnosed in 1 in 2 patients because it is not accompanied by severe subjective symptoms and hard to find due to the intermittent properties.To diagnose atrial fibrillation, the following three features of continuous monitoring are essential. Our product, CART, is equipped with these features to fully maximize the benefits of continuous monitoring.1) Comfortability as a wearable device : You can always wear CART on a daily basis. Additionally, it is even water-proof and dust-proof. So, you don't have to take it off while taking a shower, or washing hands.2) No-user intervention : By just wearing it on any finger which fits for you, every measurement is performed on the background basis without any intervention.3) Medical proof & Accuracy : Diagnosis is based on the conventional diagnosis method of cardiologists.By simply wearing CART on user's finger, CART continuously detects atrial fibrillation without any user intervention. CART detects and records atrial fibrillation, so users can track and manage their heart health status. In addition, users can diagnose atrial fibrillation whenever they want and see the results on their smartphone. By merely tapping CART, users can make event logs and analyze atrial fibrillation data at that moment when it occurs. Finally, the collected atrial fibrillation data can be used to help the physician diagnose of the atrial fibrillation.Initial target market is 0.2 million atrial fibrillation patients in Finland. Total target market is 300 million people to diagnose atrial fibrillation and tens of million subjects in clinical trials.Sky Labs is currently conducting clinical trials with the Seoul National University Hospital to verify the device's performance and is analyzing clinical data on heart disease. And, Sky Labs is working with global pharmaceutical company Bayer to make innovative healthcare business.
  • Quantum Aero — Quantum Aero is a Defense artificial intelligence company.
  • 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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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: 90
  • Round size: Seed $860k–$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.
  • Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
  • Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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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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Atinum Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 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, 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.
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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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Neoplux
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Neoplux Co., Ltd. is the investment arm of Doosan Corp. It typically invests in the infant industries focusing on the pre IPO, growth, and mature companies. The firm provides business consulting and project management services in Korea, as well as investments in electronic component, software, electricity, metal and non-metal, machinery andequipment. It primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Incheon, Chungbuk, Chungnam, and Gyeongbuk province. The firm offers performance improvement and cost reduction services. The firm is involved in the construction of systems for roll-out by clients; establishment of systems for optimal operational process; and performance within client companies. It seeks control in its investments. Neoplux Co., Ltd was founded in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Next G Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Next G Investment is an investment management company that offers venture capital and consulting services.

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Investment focus

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

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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Investment focus

  • 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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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, 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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Hana Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 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, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$4.1M; Series A $1.4M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Sasung power — Sasung power enhances energy storage performance using advanced structural battery source technology, developing new batteries for structural support and eco-friendly lightweight structures.
  • 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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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: 77
  • Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CUSTA
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$55M; Series B $2.8M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$6.1M; Series A $1.8M–$7.7M; Series B $1.9M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
  • infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
  • Fine Stay
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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, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, India, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $37k–$1.5M; Series A $3M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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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KIWOOM SECURITIES
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Security Company in Korea

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$18M; Series B $3.7M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ticaros — Ticaros is a biotech company that develops immune anti-cancer drugs.
  • 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.
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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 $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.
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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, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$26M; Series B $22k–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
  • Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
  • Smart Food Networks — Smart Food Networks is a food commerce company that provides food commerce and logistics services.
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NPX Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

NPX Capital is a global alternative investment management firm with businesses in venture capital, private equity, and real estate.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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: 128
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • move.ai — FREE YOUR MOTION. CAPTURE YOUR IMAGINATION. No more suits, no more restrictions. High fidelity motion capture made easy
  • Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
  • Move Ai — Move AI is revolutionizing the motion capture industry by enabling anyone to capture high-quality motion data using just a phone. With its patented artificial intelligence and computer vision technology, Move AI eliminates the need for complex equipment, suits, or markers, making motion capture accessible to 3D animators, content creators, anddevelopers across the globe.By using Move’s app, users can record motion in any environment, and the software will analyze the video, extract natural human motion, and deliver precise motion data in minutes. This breakthrough technology, grounded in biomechanics and physics, simplifies the process of translating human movement into digital data, fostering creativity in gaming, film, and other industries reliant on digital animation.
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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, Mobile Apps, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$5M; 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.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Hungary, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
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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 $8.5M–$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.
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Mirae Asset Capital
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Mirae Asset Capital Market is a leading global investment banking, securities and institutional business firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Series A $6k–$63M; Series B $5.5M–$123M; Series C $14M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AITRICS — AITRICS is taking on the ultimate role of giving everyone access to the power of data-driven health intelligence by developing advanced clinical solutions that will revolutionize their lives. With a shared vision and a common purpose, passionate and dedicated professionals from diverse backgrounds came together to create the most exceptional team.
  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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KT Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$26M; Series B $5.9M–$104M; Series C $11M–$97M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medipal — Medipal provides personal health for a health consultation. It provides subscription-based personal nurse service for patients.
  • 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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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: 169
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$11M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • OneLoad — OneLoad is an online service that enables users to easily buy prepaid vouchers for all mobile companies, pay utility bills and transfer balance to others.
  • Ad-Shield — Start measuring revenue lost to ad blockers and learn how to get additional revenue through Ad-Shield Recovery today
  • MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
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Publishing VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 76 deals from 126 investors.

126
investors
in South Korea Publishing startups
76
deals
in South Korea Publishing startups
$2.1M
median round
in South Korea Publishing startups
21%
lead investors
lead at least one round
45%
Seed
most common funding stage

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