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Top 50 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (November 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
SBVA
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $878k–$60M
KB Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $737k–$44M
Mashup Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$3.2M
Elefund
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $930k–$40M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence $276k–$44M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Internet $2.1M–$57M
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$40M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $266k–$27M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $89k–$26M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Gaming $441k–$11M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $200k–$15M
Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
2 China, United States, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence $30k–$20M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $741k–$35M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $973k–$50M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Apps $448k–$11M
InfoBank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $85k–$11M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $424k–$20M
Hana Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $273k–$13M
Time Folio Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series B, Series C, Series A Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care $5M–$33M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Software $1.7M–$78M
Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Energy, Textbook, E-Learning
We Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $729k–$19M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $692k–$52M
Quantify
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Content, Publishing, Mobile Apps
Next G Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Content, Fashion $685k–$11M
Mark & Company
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Beauty, Software, Cosmetics $168k–$1.1M
Open Water Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.7M–$21M
SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $125k–$50M
Access Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$29M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $429k–$312M
JB Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence $59k–$6M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$33M
Timepolio Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing $3.4M–$80M
Behi Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Seed, Series B Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing $680k–$7.4M
Block Crafters
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Blockchain, Art, Apps
Idea Bridge
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, Content, FinTech $895k–$8.6M
TheVentures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $72k–$5.1M
NPX Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B Education, E-Learning, Publishing $9M–$21M
SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical $547k–$27M
Play Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Finland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $700k–$26M
111 Percent
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Apps, Gaming, Publishing $8.6M–$13M
Naver Webtoon
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan Seed, Series B, Series A Media and Entertainment, Animation, Content $4.7M–$189M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, Software $418k–$7.5M
500 Startups Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Apps, Banking $201k–$891k
Fast Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer $371k–$7.8M
Redbadge Pacific
VC Fund
1 Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Publishing, AgTech, Logistics $4.1M–$100M
Globivest
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Biotechnology, Software $1M–$16M
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $336k–$31M
Carta Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, Legal $2.5M–$61M
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with a renewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 311
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$9.5M; Series A $1.5M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $23M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — New predictions from the examples in your data, without task-specific retraining.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widest network of service branches in Korea. KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 441
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • GMI Cloud — Run production AI workloads on GMI Cloud. Deploy serverless inference, dedicated GPU clusters, and bare metal AI infrastructure on one scalable platform.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion Battery Technologies is a manufacturing company that offers cathode active materials for lithium batteries.
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Mashup Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Mashup Ventures is a Seoul based early-stage VC led by Taekkyung Lee, co-founder of Daum Communications, focusing on AI, SaaS, and IT.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rosherin — Rosherin is a healthcare startup that researches, develops and manufactures various medical supplies and medical devices.
  • Airbility — Korean anti-drone and counter-drone company founded in 2023 by aerospace, defense and mobility engineers. Team, milestones and careers.
  • NanoForge AI — Nanoforge AI merges AI-driven material design with robotics automation to cut material development time from years to weeks
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Elefund
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Founded in July 2015, Elefund is a US-based venture capital firm with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm has invested in several well-known companies whose products and services have benefited millions of people all over the world and created thousands of jobs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Powder — AI agents for automating document analysis and data extraction for financial operations and compliance.
  • Stackpack — AI-powered visibility and control for your company's vendors and contracts - fully synced with your financial software. Try it risk-free for 30 days today.
  • Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. The firm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 316
  • Round size: Seed $276k–$3.1M; Series A $442k–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $458k–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • Intellicia — AI-powered Synthetic Consumers platform for market research. 91.2% Spearman Correlation, 93.6% accuracy validated across 120+ PoC projects.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 415
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$26M; Series B $4.1M–$35M; Series C $5.2M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $350M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Soraban — The cloud-based platform modernizing and automating menial work for tax firms.
  • PureSpace — Shelf-Life Extension Technology: Remarkably effective ethylene scrubber designed to keep fruits and vegetables fresher for longer. 50% food waste reduction in the supply chain. Explore more.
  • Branders.com — Branders.com sells instantly customizable promotional items suchs as pens, hats, magnets, etc for marketing, sales, and event planning. They provide a single source to locate, design, order, and track promotional items online. Branders.com experience also offers you the following benefits to help you with your purchase: - Provides aone-stop shop for customizing merchandise - Aids in product selection with advanced, custom search and recommendation services - Allows you to customize and decorate your own products online and in real-time - Reduces fulfillment activities - Improves corporate identity management
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $5M–$29M; Series C $12M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $596M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Hurotics — Hurotics is a company with deep-tech technology related to human-robot fusion.Hurotix's wearable robots, notably the 'H-Flex', are modular and give personalized support based on the user's demands, assisting users in overcoming physical restrictions.
  • Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 430
  • Round size: Seed $266k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
  • Corologic — Korologic develops cardiovascular imaging AI solutions for medical procedures.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 395
  • Round size: Seed $89k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
  • Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Deeply — Deeply provides AI-powered sound analysis solutions for real-time monitoring across manufacturing, industrial safety, and security environments.
  • Red Brick House — Red Brick House is a specialized South Korean indie game publisher dedicated to discovering, supporting, and publishing innovative independent games, helping talented developers bring creative and engaging gaming experiences to players across domestic and global markets.
  • AWESOME Entertainment — AWESOME Entertainment is a media and digital content company that provides YouTube content production, influencer and MCN management, advertising and branded content creation, and media commerce services. The comapny supports brands with campaign planning, viral video production, and distribution across multiple social platforms, while alsooffering production outsourcing and partnership services to maximize audience reach and engagement.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $264k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Concorda — Concorda is a legal tech platform helping teams manage contracts, automate workflows, and streamline business operations.
  • Airbility — Korean anti-drone and counter-drone company founded in 2023 by aerospace, defense and mobility engineers. Team, milestones and careers.
  • Pascal — Pascal, founded in 2023, develops innovative low-pressure solid refrigerant systems for cooling applications including air conditioning and industrial uses. Join us in building better cooling solutions.
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 32 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: China, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 577
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Convertible Note $30k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • i4TECH — Modular, scalable, fully managed manufacturing digital solutions that enable your AI adoption. Moving Industry 4.0 forwards with a unified, comprehensive data driven approach
  • Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
  • openmed — OpenMed provides digital healthcare services, telemedicine, pharmacy products, diagnostics, and medication delivery.
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
  • Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
  • Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YG Entertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 548
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$10M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $4.9M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
  • Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $448k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$7M; Series B $2.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$1.5M; Series A $88k–$9.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pmatch — Pmatch is a comprehensive platform designed to provide reliable, accurate medication information to help users make informed decisions about their healthcare. By offering detailed insights into various medications, including their uses, dosages, side effects, and interactions, Pmatch ensures that individuals can use medicines in a smarter and saferway. The platform aims to enhance patient safety, reduce medication errors, and improve overall health outcomes by empowering users with the knowledge they need to manage their treatments effectively. Whether for healthcare professionals or patients, Pmatch serves as a trusted resource for promoting informed decision-making and better health management.
  • Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
  • Peer Robotics — Discover the latest cutting-edge robotics solutions at Peer Robotics. We offer innovative products and services to revolutionize industries.
  • Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.
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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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $424k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$11M; Series B $4.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
  • Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.
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Time Folio Asset Management
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Time Folio Asset Management

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Monday OFF — MondayOFF is a mobile games developer and publisher specialized in Hypercasual games. With creativity and constantly evolving methods, we aim to launch your game to the top of the charts and build a worldwide audience to enjoy your games.
  • IVIM Technology — Global No.1 solution provider of IntraVital Microscopy
  • Point2 Technology — We Develop Innovative, Ultra-Low Power Connectivity SoCs Point2 Technology cloud-optimized range of high-speed SoCs and reference design platforms accelerate deployment of next generation data centers and 5G infrastructure.
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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: Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$23M; Series B $4.5M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
  • Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
  • Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
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Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GraphAI — GraphAI AI enables seamless integration of diverse data sources for fast and user-friendly AI-powered Business Intelligence (BI).GraphAI-A leverages neural networks to maintain a comprehensive graph view and swiftly reveals valuable insights from enterprise data, facilitating trend analysis and a 360-degree customer perspective. This is achievedthrough In-DB AI technology with an intuitive low-code interface.GraphAI-T delivers accelerated and robust BI analytics by leveraging the valuable insights obtained from GraphAI-A. It further facilitates transaction processing on business data through structured queries like SQL and Cypher.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

A fundamental investment philosophy of ‘Building on principles’ guides us at Mirae Asset. Over the years, these principles have enabled us to become Asia’s premier financial group and created new trends in the Asian capital market. Above all, we put our clients’ interests first, always adhering to high ethical standards. Because our success clearly comes from their success, we use fundamental investment principles to identify opportunities that generate value and lasting profits. We are strong believers in teamwork and are determined to recruit the best and brightest people as we open new horizons in Asia and expand globally. Just as we strive to continually improve our own performance, Mirae Asset is committed to helping every community it joins. On behalf of the entire Mirae Asset Financial Group, I would like to convey the sense of responsibility your trust in us merits and pledge to do all that we can to exceed your expectations.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 344
  • Round size: Seed $692k–$14M; Series A $2M–$40M; Series B $5M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $118M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • NanoForge AI — Nanoforge AI merges AI-driven material design with robotics automation to cut material development time from years to weeks
  • The Pant Project — The Pant Project is an e-tailoring company that specializes in customizing pants according to individual fit and style. They offer a curated range of premium fabrics including poly viscose, knit, and wool. The company also provides a 4-way stretch technology in their formal pants for enhanced comfort and mobility. Customers can track their ordersthrough the company's website.
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Quantify
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Quantify Incubator is a startup accelerator and investment platform that supports early-stage companies through a data-driven evaluation model. It provides funding, incubation, and strategic growth programs to help startups scale efficiently. The organization focuses on identifying high-potential ventures and supporting their development throughstructured mentorship and global expansion opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Publishing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivetta — Rivetta provides a web novel translation platform that supports global publishing through translation, distribution, promotion, and settlement services. It enables writers to share their work with international audiences while managing publishing and monetization processes. The platform helps creators grow readership and expand their presenceacross diverse global markets.
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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: Artificial Intelligence, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $685k–$1.8M; Series A $3.2M–$10M; Series B $5.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Dexter Studios — Dexter Studios is a total contents production company that can develop and produce variable motion pictures and TV contents, and also, provide state-of-the-art visual effects from the Asia’s largest visual effects production.
  • CoreTissue BioEngineering — CoreTissue BioEngineering is a development of an artificial ligament for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in Japan.
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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: Beauty, Software, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $168k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
  • MOCRES — EASY CLASSIC BEAUTY
  • UNX — UNX is an emerging AI entertainment technology startup that develops fully autonomous AI Creators capable of running 24 hour live streams and interacting with vast online audiences simultaneously.
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Open Water Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

WE LIKE CREATIVE BUSINESS THAT COULD CHANGE THE WORLD

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Solivis — Solivis is the manufacturer of solid-state batteries designed for next-generation battery packs. The company's product is used as a secondary battery for electric vehicles and has developed a wet synthesis method that can mass-produce a sulfide-based solid electrolyte with homogeneous high ionic conductivity, enabling clients to significantlyimprove productivity by reducing process costs and shortening the synthesis time.
  • Quantum Aero — Quantum Aero is a Defense artificial intelligence company.
  • Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
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SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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JB Ventures
VC Fund · Dongan, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
  • Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
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Timepolio Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Timepolio Asset Management is an asset management firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Series A $3.4M–$17M; Series B $5.2M–$24M; Series C $10M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • HEM Pharma — HEM Pharma is a biotechnology firm that focuses on personalized microbiome healthcare, live biotherapeutic drug (LBP) development, microbiome analysis, and health-functional food manufacturing. The company leverages proprietary microbiome technologies to develop individualized health solutions and next-generation microbiome-based therapeutics. andsupporting personalized microbiome solutions and functional nutrition products. HEM Pharma has expanded internationally through its Japanese subsidiary and global research partnerships.
  • Next Securities — The Next Generation AI-driven Brokerage Services
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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, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$5.5M; Series B $4.8M–$7.4M
  • 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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Block Crafters
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Block Crafters provides consulting services for enterprises, acceleration program for startups, and integrated marketing program to build on/offline presence Block Crafters accelerates market success in all aspects of blockchain business from founding a company to building business leveraging knowledge and experiences from economics, media,technology and law. Based on the expertise of a blockchain media formerly known as "Soso Media Lab", Block Crafters provides marketing services including but not limited to strategic planning, community management, digital marketing, PR, contents creation, and influencer marketing. Block Crafters bridges the blockchain knowledge gap by providing high-quality education to individuals and corporates.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hudson AI — Hudson AI is an enterprise that delivers AI-based dubbing solutions. It supports the development of dubbed content, which is the core of content localization, using voice and video AI technologies.
  • Style Bot — Solving Fashion Styling Problems with AI.
  • EnhancedBio — EnhancedBio is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and provides anti-cancer therapeutics.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $72k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
  • AnyBridge AI — AnyBridge is an enterprise AI platform that helps businesses deploy, manage, and scale AI agents using a unified software stack. It supports multiple AI models, including open-source and commercial models, through a single gateway. The platform optimizes AI workloads across different hardware infrastructures to improve performance, reduce costs, and simplify operations.
  • Smoking Tiger — Smoking Tiger is a korean concept cafe enabling customers to experience Korean culture and heritage via food, drinks, and environment.
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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 $9M–$21M
  • 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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SJ Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $547k–$2.7M; Series A $1.6M–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DevD — DevD is a startup that provides 1:1 customized content and recommendation services based on self-developed lifestyle AI algorithms.
  • Dnotitia — VDPU is a PCIe card that offloads vector index building and search from your CPUs and GPUs. It works with the vector database you already run.
  • 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.
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Play Ventures
VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

111 Percent is a small game publishing company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
  • Supercent — Supercent develops and publishes hyper-casual mobile games.
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Naver Webtoon
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $418k–$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.
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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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Fast Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
  • Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
  • Remake Digital — They are a group of creatives, marketers, and engineers building CROLO, a creative AI. CROLO totally automates banner ad designs so advertisers can reduce design time/cost while maximizing ad performance through data driven design.
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Redbadge Pacific
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Redbadge Pacific is the Asia-Pacific arm of Redbadge, the U.S.-based family office of Robert L. Burch. The platform operates as a global alternative asset manager with access to both institutional and regional family office capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AgriAku — AgriAku is a technology-based local agribusiness company that enables traders & farm shop owners to get saprotan(agriculture production facilities) at affordable prices through it's apps - Agroaku Mitra app, and Agroaku Hub app. AgriAku offers full-stack agriculture services for small and medium-sized businesses and farmers. AgriAku offerscomplete agricultural equipment such as seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals to agro equipment.
  • Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
  • Apeel Sciences — Apeel Sciences' plant-derived solution for fresh food providers doubles the lifespan of harvested fruits and vegetables even without refrigeration. It develops low-cost, natural technologies to help to eliminate food spoilage, reduce water and energy use, and preserve natural ecosystems.Apeel's private investors and philanthropicpartners include Andreessen Horowitz, Viking Global Investors, Upfront Ventures, S2G Ventures, Powerplant Ventures, DBL Partners, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.Apeel Sciences was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
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Globivest
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 1 investments in South Korea Publishing startups

Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
  • Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
  • BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
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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: 550
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $336k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Karrot Market — Karrot is the largest local community marketplace to buy, sell and trade new and used home decor, furniture, fashion and more. Join our growing community of over 10 million verified users!
  • Koala Go — Your student's favorite online classroom. 24/7 live support. Co-browser. Gamified teaching environment. Worldwide invoicing. Interactive whiteboard.
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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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Publishing VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 97 deals from 129 investors.

129
investors
in South Korea Publishing startups
97
deals
in South Korea Publishing startups
$1.5M
median round
in South Korea Publishing startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
40%
Seed
most common funding stage

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