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Top 35 Recruiting Startup Investors in South Korea

A list of 35 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Recruiting Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor Recruiting South Korea investments
Strong Ventures 3
Yusung Electronics 3
TheVentures 3
Donghoon Investment 2
Altos Ventures 2
Nextrans 2
Fast Ventures 2
Hashed 2
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 2
Korea Social Investment Foundation 2
SparkLabs 2
Kakao Ventures 2
Bass Investment 2
CVC Capital Partners 1
KTB Network 1
Plan H Ventures 1
Hoban Construction 1
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) 1
KB Investment 1
Storm Ventures 1
BA Partners 1
Mark & Company 1
D3 Jubilee 1
Translink Investment 1
Suprema Investment 1
Seoul Investment Partners 1
Kenaz 1
Murex Partners 1
Realbizen 1
Industrial Bank of Korea 1
Yoonmin Foundation 1
Pathfinder H 1
Atinum Partners 1
Pohang University of Science and Technology 1
NHN Investment 1
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Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
  • Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
  • ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.
Yusung Electronics VC Fund · Hwasong, Cholla-bukto, South Korea
Yusung Electronics is a SMT specialized company based on EMS technology that manufactures electrical and electronic devices and parts.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Employment, Recruiting
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.
TheVentures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Loanfra — Loanfra delivers mortgage loan options within 10 minutes and approves loans the following day.
  • Reppley — Reppley is an AI chat tool that generates a daily conversation chatbot based on previous KakaoTalk talks.
  • Zetic.ai — ZETIC.ai presents Zero-cost AI with Server-less, On-device optimized AI with fully utilized target hardware.
Donghoon Investment VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Dooghoon Investment is an investment firm that invests in biotechnology and information technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
  • NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
  • Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
Altos Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
  • KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
  • PI Corporation — PI Corporation is a new media and entertainment firm.
Nextrans VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nextrans is a Korean-based venture capital firm invest in early-stage startups in Vietnam, Korea and the US. Our mission is to create a global network of talented and passionate founders pursuing world-changing impact.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Vietnam, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
  • Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
  • Colosseum — Colosseum is a logistics company that provides e-commerce logistics services to various locations.
Fast Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
Hashed VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 27 investments in the past 12 months
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
  • KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
  • Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Gloud — Gloud offers dental digital and digital practice transformation services.
  • Suppor-T — Suppor-T is an entrepreneur-focused growth management tool
  • Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
Korea Social Investment Foundation VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Social Investment Foundation is a business finance and business consulting service firm.
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Investment focus
  • Pet, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Grant
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Hubriz — Hubriz is a babysitter hiring company.
  • Hubris.io — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
SparkLabs VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
SparkLabs Group is a network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 350 startups since 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Hospitality, Retail Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Sendtime — Sendtimes is an automated B2B tool that offers a software platform for schedule management.
  • Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.
  • Impactus — Impactus is a social enterprise that runs a career and edutech platform. Impactus offers student-tailored major programs as well as public education courses to assist teenage students in discovering and developing occupations and aptitudes that are a good fit for them.
Kakao Ventures VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 17 investments in the past 12 months
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • 1000jobs — 1000jobs provides job training opportunities regardless of age or experience.
  • WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
  • 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.
Bass Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Uncommon Home — Uncommon Home delivers a pleasant life experience and creates a Beauty & Lifestyle brand that leads the culture that consumers aspire to.
  • Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
  • Paradigm Shift — Paradigm Shift created an exercise diary platform to help people stay fit. The company's website allows mothers to upload activity diaries, encourage one another, and win incentives, enabling them to grow through motivating support.
CVC Capital Partners VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 3 investments in the past 12 months
CVC has seven complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Retail
  • Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Hempel — We help you protect your most valuable assets with our high-quality coatings
  • TOPdesk — TOPdesk is an independent, international provider of service management solutions based in Antwerp. We are a proud, young, innovative organization with commitment, trust and respect for each other and our customers. We help our customers to satisfy their customers. TOPdesk delivers user-friendly products and targeted services that bring complexservice processes to the essence. This enables service organizations to better focus on their core business and supporting role. TOPdesk was founded in 1993 as a manufacturer of service management software. Over the past twenty years, TOPdesk has turned out to be an independent, reliable company that has developed into a major, well-known player in the service management market. At that time, the company has grown into an international company with eight foreign offices and more than 500 employees.
  • Sunday Natural — Sunday Natural develops various kinds of organic, plant-based, and healthy products. It offers vitamins, supplements, fruits, vegetables, tea, skincare items and cosmetics that are made with scientific and clinical research. Sunday Natural is based in Berlin, Germany.
KTB Network VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Korea Technology Development Company, a government-funded investment vehicle specializing in technology-related investment opportunities, KTB Financial Group(“KTB”) has since grown into a comprehensive financial group offering a wide range of financial services, including securities, asset management, venture capital, and private equity.KTB alsohas expanded our global network by actively entering overseas markets includes the United States, China, and Thailand.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • NYOU — NYOU is a game development company that develops games for recreational purposes.
  • Soelect — Soelect provides engineering solutions and develops solid-state battery components for electric vehicles, power tools and electronics.
  • CoLearn — Aplikasi belajar online yang bantu belajar Matematika, Fisika, Kimia jadi lebih cepat dimengerti. Ada beragam fitur aplikasi mulai dari bantuan mengerjakan PR dengan foto soal sampai bimbel untuk SD, SMP, SMA.
Plan H Ventures VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Plan H Ventures is an investment company that invests in businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Noise-X — Noise-X delivers space-specific noise solutions based on noise source analysis and creates a personalized sound environment by allowing customers to create a noise-free environment.
  • ViewMagine — ViewMagine is a lunatic image-processing AI company developer of an AI drone inspection system. They were designed to inspect pipelines for the oil and gas and infrastructure industries. They also deliver using an autonomous drone. Their objective is to influence the future of industry through image processing and AI for businesses that contributeto a better society.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Hoban Construction VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Hoban Construction operates a housing construction business. The Company builds high-rise residential buildings, low-rise apartments, villas, and others.
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Employment, Industrial
  • Series A, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • AEOL — AEOL is a ventilation and air purifier products manufacturing company.
  • ViewMagine — ViewMagine is a lunatic image-processing AI company developer of an AI drone inspection system. They were designed to inspect pipelines for the oil and gas and infrastructure industries. They also deliver using an autonomous drone. Their objective is to influence the future of industry through image processing and AI for businesses that contributeto a better society.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Seoul Business Agency(SBA) VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
  • Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 36 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
  • Hypersonic Laboratories — Hypersonic Laboratories is a venture startup building HELIX, a high-fidelity metaverse.
  • Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
Storm Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Storm Ventures is a $600m (TAM) VC firm 100% focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments. We've been founders ourselves, of enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). We've had to go without pay as CEOs ourselves to make payroll. We've gone from $0 to $100m in ARR andlived all the stages in between. We've here to help, and add some strategic capital and insights. And not be in the way when we're not needed.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, South Korea, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • AirMDR — AirMDR provides a new approach to managed detection & response with an AI powered virtual security analyst for threat investigation, triage and response.
  • Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
  • Compa — Compa is software for Talent Acquisition teams who need to convert more candidates in competitive markets.
BA Partners VC Fund
BA Partners
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
  • Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
  • Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
Mark & Company VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Mark & Company is an open innovation platform that provides app traffic, legal, and accounting consulting services.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • ONOMA AI — ONOMA AI develops artificial intelligence technologies for multimodal, NLP, and CV services.
  • Feat Paper — Motion PDF and Analytics
  • Iroun & Company — Iron & Company offers solutions that enable businesses to employ artificial intelligence to boost production and efficiency secand easilyly.
D3 Jubilee VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
  • Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
  • Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
Suprema Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Suprema Inc. is a leading global provider of biometrics technology and identity management solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 12cm — 12cm operates echoss, a cloud O2O service platform that provides offline to mobile connection services. The company also offers echoss stamp products.12cm’s platform also includes a service mobile plugin, commerce service, and coupon service components. In addition, its echoss platform is applied and extended to O2O service, includingmembership, promotion, mobile certification, commerce, and utility. It is based in Bundangdong, Kyonggi-do.
  • ONOMA AI — ONOMA AI develops artificial intelligence technologies for multimodal, NLP, and CV services.
  • Dot Connect — Dot Connect specializes in the development of complete software-based IMS, SIP Client and Client Engine.
Seoul Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
  • Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Kenaz VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea
Kenaz is a webtoon creation studio that offers production services.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • ONOMA AI — ONOMA AI develops artificial intelligence technologies for multimodal, NLP, and CV services.
Murex Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Murex Partners is a VC firm specializing in thesis-driven investing.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Redrob — Redrob empowers sales, recruitment, and networking around the world. B2B Lead Search, Talent Search, Online Skill Tests, Employer of Record and more.
  • Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
  • Algocare — Algocare is a AI based healthcare startup that offers specialised Nutrition as a Service (NaaS) to people and organisations.
Realbizen VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Realbizen creates successful business with pre-seed, seed, and series A stage companies.
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Investment focus
  • Art, EdTech, Sports
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Begin Lab — Begin Lab is an online learning platform that educates bioinformatics and human resources courses.
  • Locle — Locle is a platform designed specifically for academies and variety of classes including music, dance, arts, crafts, and sports.
  • Private Class — Private Class is a job consulting company that provides job competency courses.
Industrial Bank of Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 26 investments in the past 12 months
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
  • WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
  • MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
Yoonmin Foundation VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • zetciti — A one pager template for Entertaining companies aiming at striking their online presence with their events or conferences.
  • Horang Edu — Horang Edu offers coding education classes at different educational institutions.
  • Euler Robotics — Euler Robotics manufactures industrial robot arms used for box loading and unloading. The company offers robot automation services for developing, deploying, and managing robots that mimic human movements, allowing businesses to perform anything from design to manufacturing and after-sales service.
Pathfinder H VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Cool Sign — Coolsign is an EV specialist that offers a complete set of hardware and platforms based on its own technology for the reliable operation of electric car charging stations.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
  • Elpis Cell Therapeutics — Elpis Cell Therapeutics develops individualized cell therapy to cure incurable diseases.
Atinum Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
  • MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
  • 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.
Pohang University of Science and Technology VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
  • Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.
  • Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
NHN Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
NHN Investment is a specialized investment organization providing investments, loans, and management as well as technological guidance to new technology enterprises and venture businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States, South Korea, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • tru.ID — APIs for fast & frictionless mobile verification. Sign up today to see how tru.ID can turbocharge your user onboarding, conversion, security and experience.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
  • VA Corporation — VA Corporation provides storytelling, content creation, and planning services for virtual production, VFX, branding, and digital marketing.
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