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Top 45 Recruiting Startup Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Recruiting startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Recruiting startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce $111k–$6.9M
TheVentures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $74k–$4.8M
Yusung Electronics
VC Fund
3 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Employment, Recruiting $149k–$297k
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $2.1M–$102M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $3k–$7.1M
Storm Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $1.2M–$50M
KTB Network
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $6k–$590M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
Hashed
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$39M
Nextrans
VC Fund
2 Vietnam, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $520k–$11M
Korea Social Investment Foundation
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Grant Pet, FinTech, Information Technology
SparkLabs
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, Shoes $74k–$743k
Bass Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $669k–$15M
Donghoon Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, Information Technology $5k–$44M
Murex Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $6k–$16M
Hallym University Technology Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Recruiting, Human Resources, Service Industry
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $12k–$77M
CVC Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity Software, Retail, Financial Services $59M–$1.5B
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $149k–$29M
KB Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $335k–$40M
D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $149k–$4.5M
Pathfinder H
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Medical, Software $743k–$26M
BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Kuwait Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $4k–$13M
We Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $335k–$15M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $743k–$50M
Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Software $1k–$18M
CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition $446k–$105M
Plan H Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $520k–$3M
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology $17k–$48M
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Australia, United States Seed, Angel, Grant Information Technology, Health Care, Retail $1k–$669k
InfoBank
VC Fund
1 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps $25k–$9.2M
BA Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $2k–$8.4M
Hoban Construction
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Seed Drones, Employment, Industrial $1.9M–$3M
Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Realbizen
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Art, EdTech, Sports
Angel Lounge
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Recruiting, Human Resources, Service Industry
Suprema Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Information Technology
STIC Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $2M–$46M
NHN Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$24M
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Apps $74k–$1.6M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$15M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $300k–$12M
Mark & Company
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $134k–$988k
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 265
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $1M–$8M; Series B $18k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
  • Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
  • TeamElysium — TeamElysium is a medical software development company.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Recruiting 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $750k–$770k; Series A $3M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hifen
  • Amously — Amously builds production-ready process control software for advanced fabs using digital twins, virtual metrology, and run-to-run control to improve stability, yield, and operational efficiency.
  • Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.
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Yusung Electronics
VC Fund · Hwasong, Cholla-bukto, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Apps, Employment, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$297k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting 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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 282
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$22M; Series B $3.7M–$30M; Series C $4.3M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Quizlet — Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning. Its mission is to build great learning tools for every student on the planet. Originally created by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland to study high school French vocabulary. Over 20 million unique visitors per month, fromgrade school to grad school, study a wide range of subjects using Quizlet's web and mobile learning tools and games.
  • Plugo — Indonesia's e-commerce platform for all businesses. Start, manage, and grow your business. Build your own online store website.
  • Channel Talk — Channel Corp. provide a chat platform Channel Talk to create a customer-centric culture.
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.8M; Series A $3k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • Searchdoc — Searchdoc is a large-scale AI startup specializing in advanced document and drawing analysis, leveraging cutting-edge machine learning technologies to extract insights, automate workflows, and enhance data interpretation across various industries.
  • Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
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Storm Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 231
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $4M–$18M; Series B $7M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $220M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flint — Flint AI is an autonomous web platform built for fast-growing marketing and GTM teams. Launch on-brand landing pages in minutes.
  • ShoCard — Enable users to control how they share personal information with your business to remove digital experience friction while more easily leveraging their data.
  • Blueshift — Blueshift is the most agile Customer Engagement Platform for efficiently harnessing customer and content data and orchestrating intelligent personalization.
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KTB Network
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $6k–$30M; Series C $5.7M–$590M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

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.
  • Wantedlab — Wanted provides personalized job recommendations and content programs to empower your lifelong career journey. Wanted is here for you, every step of the way.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 297
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
  • Moyo — Moyo is a phone plan comparison platform that recommends all communication products.
  • Vivid Health — Vivid Health is a platform that provides obesity treatment management services. It provides a convenient platform for users to easily access reviews on obesity medicine products by their specific ingredients.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 266
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
  • IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
  • MiNDCAFE — MiNDCAFE is an online psychological counseling platform.
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Nextrans
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$4.2M; Series A $1.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.
  • Majormap — Applying to university is stressful. Students dont know how! None knows what they want to major in at university when they are just 16 years old! Parents cant help. Teachers cant help. And education consultants are too expensive for most families. We are Major Map and our data driven AI technology platform helps teachers and parents guide highschool students to the right major based on their personality and interests. Since we launched Major Map three years ago over twenty percent of the high school students in South Korea have used our service. The massive amount of data from our user base gives our AI models a huge advantage. Lets connect and I can introduce how we are revolutionizing education counseling with technology.
  • MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
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Korea Social Investment Foundation
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Korea Social Investment Foundation is a business finance and business consulting service firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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SparkLabs
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Shoes
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$743k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
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Donghoon Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Dooghoon Investment is an investment firm that invests in biotechnology and information technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$1.8M; Series A $1.5M–$6.3M; Series B $5k–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

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.
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Murex Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Murex Partners is a VC firm specializing in thesis-driven investing.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $1.9M–$10M; Series B $6k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • Macarong Factory — Macarong Factory is an Android developer that has been active since 2014 and has one app in Google Play. Its app is listed in the category "Auto & Vehicles". It is highly ranked in at least one country and is also one of the more popular apps in Google Play with more than 100 thousand installs.
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Hallym University Technology Holdings
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Hallym University Technology Holdings operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • QSTEM
  • Group by — Group by is a recruitment platform for start-up career developer
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 236
  • Round size: Seed $12k–$12M; Series A $1.2M–$31M; Series B $3.7M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • Jai Kisan — Jai Kisan provides Instant credit options for rural India. Trusted by farmers, retailers, and businesses. Instant Credit & supply chain financing Apply for Credit Now!
  • EPD Biotherapeutics — EPDBio is a platform technology-based biotech company that provides research and product development services.
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CVC Capital Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Retail, Financial Services
  • Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Private Equity $59M–$1.5B; Post-IPO Equity $145M–$855M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Lipton — Lipton is a distributor of Tea such as green tea, herbal tea, black tea, red tea, white tea, tea information, tea health, and more. The company was founded in 1890 and is based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
  • DealStack — Dealstack is the operating system for private capital, built for private capital, by private capital professionals.
  • Hellenic Healthcare Group — Hellenic Healthcare Group is the private health care group in Greece.
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M; Series B $4.9M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • 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.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 321
  • Round size: Seed $335k–$7M; Series A $1.5M–$36M; Series B $3.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logpresso — Logpresso is an automated security operation platform that integrates on-premise, cloud, and SaaS environments.
  • AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
  • Gomi Corporation — Gomi Corporation is a Overseas market.
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$2M; Series A $1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • UBATT — UBATT manufactures polymorphic thin lithium batteries using flame-retardant polymer solid electrolytes and uniform, large-capacity anode technology to produce polymer solid-state batteries, electrolytes, and lithium metal conductors, enabling companies to procure batteries for electric mobility and other uses.
  • RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
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Pathfinder H
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$3.1M; Series A $3.1M–$13M; Series B $2.2M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EASYWITH — Easywith is a media research and development company design and produces creative content using new visuals and ideas.
  • MediQStar — MediQStar is a startup developing a generative AI
  • Elpis Cell Therapeutics — Elpis Cell Therapeutics develops individualized cell therapy to cure incurable diseases.
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$4.8M; Series A $4k–$9.3M; Series B $5k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
  • AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
  • Korea Precision Materials Industry — Korea Precision Materials Industry is a manufacturer of next-generation composite materials used for weight reduction.
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We Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $335k–$4.5M; Series A $1.2M–$12M; Series B $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 33M2 — 33M2 is a housing rental platform.
  • Grepp — Grepp, Inc. supports all activities for education, exchange and problem solving to enhance developers' competitiveness and helps everyone participate in software development. they also teach their children to understand and use the value of software to develop creative problem solving skills. Helping developers find the right career path fortheir dreams and helping them find valuable people to create software that can deliver the highest value to their customers. Excellent and enthusiastic developers and companies can meet and help us realize their dreams.
  • Sapien Semiconductors — Sapien Semiconductors is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company that specializes in display driver ICs for micro‑LED and OLED technologies. The company develops custom ASICs and silicon‑proven IPs, including CMOS backplane drivers for AR/MR micro‑LED and pixel‑level driver ICs for TVs and digital signage. The firm also providesdisplay‑driver IP licensing and chip customization services.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$30M; Series B $2.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • New Id
  • viAct — viAct optimises construction safety, productivity and environmental compliance. Ensuring higher ESG preposition with AI. Offering services for construction industry of Asia & Europe & operational in China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
  • Prokarium — Prokarium is pioneering the field of microbial immunotherapy. Our pipeline is designed to unlock the next level of immuno-oncology by building on the most recent advances in cancer immunology. Prokarium’s lead program is focused on transforming the treatment paradigm in bladder cancer by orchestrating immune-driven, long-lasting antitumor effects.
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Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$3M; Series A $1k–$11M; Series B $6k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
  • Nine Biopharm — Nine Biopharm is biotechnology company that develops new peptidomimetic materials, compound new materials, and drug repositioning.
  • Eurobotics — Eurobotics is a cutting-edge startup focused on developing autonomous walking robot technology capable of navigating and operating effectively in irregular, complex, or unpredictable environments.
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CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

A global lifestyle company that creates health, happiness and convenience

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $446k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$22M; Series B $18M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Michroma — Michroma is a biotech platform producing natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. We are using synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.
  • New Culture — New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • AQUA Cultured Foods — Whole muscle-cut sustainable seafood alternatives made using biomass fermentation. Our product looks and tastes just like traditional seafood.
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Plan H Ventures
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Plan H Ventures is an investment company that invests in businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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.
  • EcoRemix — EcoRemix-Sustainable Concrete Solution
  • Livit — Livit is a SaaS based platform that offers carbon emission management solutions for the manufacturing and construction industries.
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$24M; Series B $17k–$48M; Series C $11M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
  • Rapport Labs — Rapport Labs create a service that will change the online shopping experience that created the 4050 fashion platform.
  • De novo Biotherapeutics — De novo Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing mRNA-encoded antibodies and NK cell-engaging antibodies for cancer treatment.
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Kaist Venture Investment Holdings
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Kaist Venture Investment Holdings is a startup company that invests in startups that solve social problems through innovative technologies. They invest in businesses that maximize synergy by pursuing both social and financial values at the same time. It focuses on five sectors including health, environment, education, elimination of inequality, andsocial infrastructure. Kaist Venture Investment Holdings was founded on October 31, 2014, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
  • Geography: South Korea, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$669k
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grayzip — Grayzip, is an online investment platform enabling fractional investments in prime apartments. Investors can participate, earning monthly interest with potential additional returns linked to property value appreciation. It offers both market-linked and fixed-rate investment options, enhancing accessibility to real estate investments.
  • Tripsoda — Tripsoda is a travel agency that offers recruiting travel companions, planning trips, and booking travel products.
  • CHOOPERMARKET — Choopermarket sells winery and gift products.
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$150k; Series A $761k–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • All Conec — All Conec is a digital platform that connects dental clinics and laboratories around the world. The platform also provides dental equipment shopping. The user can plan implant surgery quickly and precisely through the platform.
  • Openull — Openull offers BNPL products and services.
  • Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.
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BA Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

BA Partners

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.9M; Series B $2k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

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.
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Hoban Construction
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Drones, Employment, Industrial
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AEOL — AEOL is a ventilation and air purifier products manufacturing company.
  • ViewMagine — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
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Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Realbizen
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Realbizen creates successful business with pre-seed, seed, and series A stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, EdTech, Sports
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
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Angel Lounge
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Angel Lounge is a financial service agency that provides angel investment services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Group by — Group by is a recruitment platform for start-up career developer
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Suprema Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Suprema Inc. is a leading global provider of biometrics technology and identity management solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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STIC Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

STIC Ventures invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$22M; Series B $5.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wavelord
  • Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.
  • 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.
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NHN Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.4M; Series A $1M–$18M; Series B $3M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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

Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
  • Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
  • Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
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Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
  • Digital Natives — Digital Natives is an advertising agency that develops digital advertising transaction comparison platform for marketers.
  • H Charging Research Institute — H Charging Research Institute is an electric vehicle company. Aside from fire prevention and PNC (Plug & Charge) charging services, the company plans to build a V2G power business using electric vehicles by using advanced charging technology. The company distributes PLC-embedded charger H chargers to the market and diversifies futurebusinesses, including V2G, in order to create the future of electric vehicle charging.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M; Series A $334k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
  • DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
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Mark & Company
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$988k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PRTN — PRTN is the company that owns and operates Proteinner, a high-protein fast food brand focused on delivering convenient, nutritious meals designed to support active and health-conscious lifestyles.
  • Zimlala — Zimlala is a logistics company that specializes in relocation and cargo services.
  • Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
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Recruiting Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 66 deals from 96 investors.

96
investors
in South Korea Recruiting startups
66
deals
in South Korea Recruiting startups
$1.5M
median round
in South Korea Recruiting startups
21%
lead investors
lead at least one round
61%
Seed
most common funding stage
100/0
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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