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Top 50 Recruiting VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
5 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $135k–$26M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Mobile $743k–$91M
TheVentures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $72k–$5.1M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, Software $418k–$7.5M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $973k–$50M
Yusung Electronics
VC Fund
3 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Employment, Recruiting $154k–$314k
Donghoon Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, Medical $419k–$44M
Murex Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.7M–$17M
Mechanism Angel Fund
VC Fund
2 South Korea Angel, Seed, Series A Recruiting, Q&A, Apps
Korea Social Investment Foundation
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Grant Pet, FinTech, Information Technology
ENSL Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Convertible Note Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps $74k–$1.1M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $280k–$27M
SparkLabs
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, Shoes $90k–$846k
KTB Network
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce $1.4M–$150M
Antler
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$57M
InfoBank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $85k–$16M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $414k–$15M
Hashed
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$40M
Nextrans
VC Fund
2 Vietnam, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $865k–$15M
Storm Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $1.5M–$50M
Mashup Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$3.2M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $692k–$52M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $229k–$15M
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$40M
BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Kuwait Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $20k–$13M
Seoul Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Software $6k–$18M
Suprema Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Blockchain $69k–$3.4M
Alois Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Parking, Employment, Recruiting $759k–$1.6M
Realbizen
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Angel Art, EdTech, Sports
Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Apps $74k–$1.8M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $150k–$14M
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Australia Seed, Grant, Angel Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $7k–$1.5M
CVC Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Secondary Market Software, Retail, Financial Services $50M–$1.3B
We Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $729k–$19M
Venture Box
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Real Estate, Residential, Apps
KB Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $737k–$44M
Pathfinder H
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $775k–$26M
Hoban Construction
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Seed, Post-IPO Secondary Construction, Home Services, Manufacturing $89k–$4.3M
Mark & Company
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Beauty, Software, Cosmetics $168k–$1.1M
D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $300k–$21M
Angel Lounge
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Medical, Recruiting
Pohang University of Science and Technology
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Hallym University Technology Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Consulting, Recruiting, Health Care
Kenaz
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Recruiting, Communities, Music Streaming
CJ CheilJedang Corp.
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition $508k–$105M
NHN Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$24M
STIC Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology $2M–$47M
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 390
  • Round size: Seed $135k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
  • Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Round size: Series A $743k–$10M; Series B $743k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $852k–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • SK Horizon — SK Horizon is an AI data center (AIDC) infrastructure company whose name reflects its ambition to “open new horizons” in the AIDC sector, will be responsible for expanding its infrastructure to a total capacity of 318 MW, encompassing eight data centers already in operation - Seocho, Ilsan (two locations), Bundang, Gasan, Centum, Yangju, and Pangyo- and new AIDCs currently under construction, including those in Ulsan and Guro.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $72k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Group by — Group by is a recruitment platform for start-up career developer
  • Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
  • Libra Health — Libra Health develops menstrual-cycle-focused sports nutrition products for female athletes.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $418k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 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), YG Entertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 539
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$10M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $4.9M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
  • Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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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 $154k–$314k
  • 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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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, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $419k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$5.9M; Series B $3.7M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Future Connect — Livfarm is an online platform that delivers fresh vegetables and salad samplers.
  • Blue M Tec — Blue M Tec develops a prescription medicine AI platform that offers medical supplies and medical consumables.
  • 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.
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Murex Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$16M; Series A $2.4M–$11M; Series B $3.6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • Purple AI — FDA 510(k)-cleared AI for intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) detection on non-contrast head CT. See how PurpleAI Hyper Insight-ICH fits your stroke workflow.
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Mechanism Angel Fund
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Mechanism Angel Fund supports promising entrepreneurs and startups through investment, mentorship, domestic and overseas networks, and assisting in attracting subsequent investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Q&A, Apps
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AQOOM — AQOOM is a block-chain based social network Q&A platform that provides substantial token compensation to all users.
  • Comento — Commento is creating an online education community centred on interaction and experience to solve learning needs. They provide more diverse opportunities and possibilities for many different people.
  • aha — aha is an online professional knowledge Q&A platform.
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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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ENSL Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivetta — Rivetta provides a web novel translation platform that supports global publishing through translation, distribution, promotion, and settlement services. It enables writers to share their work with international audiences while managing publishing and monetization processes. The platform helps creators grow readership and expand their presenceacross diverse global markets.
  • TalentSeeker — TalentSeeker is an AI-powered recruitment platform developing global talent sourcing and hiring automation solutions. The company provides AI-based candidate search, resume parsing, talent database management, and personalized outreach tools to help businesses streamline recruitment workflows.
  • Meta Energy Frontier — Meta Energy Frontier is a carbon-neutral smart energy solution company utilizing high-transmittance artificial photovoltaics. It contributes to improving building energy ratings through proprietary technology that converts 20% of existing unused lighting light energy into electricity. The company aims to recycle wasted light from indoor LEDlighting and utilize it as a distributed power source in urban areas.
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 420
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
  • A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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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 $90k–$846k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sendtime — SendTime is a web-based automation tool that helps users schedule and send WhatsApp messages and status updates in advance. It allows you to plan messages, set exact timing, and automate delivery even when your device is offline, using a cloud-based system accessible from any browser.
  • 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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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, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$17M; Series B $7.4M–$30M; Series C $11M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NYOU — NYOU is a game development company that develops games for recreational purposes.
  • Soelect — Soelect creates cutting-edge engineering solutions for anode technology and solid-state electrolyte materials, enabling safe, high-energy-density batteries for use in electric vehicles, portable electronics, power tools, drones, aircraft, spacecraft, and tactical defense equipment. Soelect's LiX technology is a lithium metal anode for fastcharging of all advanced and solid-state batteries.
  • 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.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2387
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • Plouton AI —
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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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 405
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$27M; Series B $4.2M–$35M; Series C $5.2M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $350M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Soraban — The cloud-based platform modernizing and automating menial work for tax firms.
  • PureSpace — Shelf-Life Extension Technology: Remarkably effective ethylene scrubber designed to keep fruits and vegetables fresher for longer. 50% food waste reduction in the supply chain. Explore more.
  • Branders.com — Branders.com sells instantly customizable promotional items suchs as pens, hats, magnets, etc for marketing, sales, and event planning. They provide a single source to locate, design, order, and track promotional items online. Branders.com experience also offers you the following benefits to help you with your purchase: - Provides aone-stop shop for customizing merchandise - Aids in product selection with advanced, custom search and recommendation services - Allows you to customize and decorate your own products online and in real-time - Reduces fulfillment activities - Improves corporate identity management
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 2 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$1.5M; Series A $88k–$9.4M; Series B $8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pmatch — Pmatch is a comprehensive platform designed to provide reliable, accurate medication information to help users make informed decisions about their healthcare. By offering detailed insights into various medications, including their uses, dosages, side effects, and interactions, Pmatch ensures that individuals can use medicines in a smarter and saferway. The platform aims to enhance patient safety, reduce medication errors, and improve overall health outcomes by empowering users with the knowledge they need to manage their treatments effectively. Whether for healthcare professionals or patients, Pmatch serves as a trusted resource for promoting informed decision-making and better health management.
  • A2D2 — A2D2 AI analyzes and organizes tens of thousands of pages of evidence documents.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
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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 venture capital firm based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$6.9M; Series A $2.2M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • BioNexus — BioNexus is an artificial intelligence (AI) biotechnology startup that specializes in automating the early stages of biomedical research and drug discovery.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups, 8 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$37M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Oh — Chat live with uncensored AI girlfriends and digital twins of top creators. Flirty, personalised conversations, voice, and steamy images. Discover your favourite companion on OhChat.
  • Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
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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, Series B
  • Geography: Vietnam, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $865k–$4.5M; Series A $1.9M–$14M; Series B $9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Qymune — Qum Therapeutics Develops immunotherapies that target pathogenic cells. The company designs treatments to engage the patient’s immune system and control disease progression. Its approach focuses on precision targeting and minimizing side effects. The technology is applied to cancer and other diseases that involve pathogenic cells.
  • KaliVir Immunotherapeutics — multiple therapies, one virus.KALIVIR is developing cutting edge, next-generation oncolytic viral immunotherapy programs for treatment of cancer. LEARN MORE NEWS AND EVENTSAugust 19, 2026 - KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Closing of $14 Million Series A Extension Financing READ MORE November 19, 2025 - KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement with Roche to Evaluate
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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 and lived 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: 281
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M; Series A $4M–$18M; Series B $7.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $220M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flint — Flint helps marketers drive breakthroughs in conversion and CAC, by creating one closed loop of learning between ads and pages.
  • Aron — Aron provides a procurement platform designed to analyze, benchmark, and automate negotiations for indirect spending.
  • Aron — Aron develops AI-powered procurement software that acts as a chief of staff for procurement teams. The platform handles sourcing, RFQs, supplier follow-ups, contract redlining, supply-risk monitoring, and invoice checking. Aron works with existing procurement files and workflows without requiring integrations, serving mid-market and Fortune 500 procurement teams.
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Mashup Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $225k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rosherin — Rosherin is a healthcare startup that researches, develops and manufactures various medical supplies and medical devices.
  • Addit & Ark — Adit & Ark operates an AI-powered advertising platform that connects brands with Instagram-based digital magazines and content creators, enabling targeted collaborations and more effective marketing campaigns.
  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 341
  • Round size: Seed $692k–$14M; Series A $2M–$40M; Series B $5M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $118M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Hurotics — Hurotics is a company with deep-tech technology related to human-robot fusion.Hurotix's wearable robots, notably the 'H-Flex', are modular and give personalized support based on the user's demands, assisting users in overcoming physical restrictions.
  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 347
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$2.9M; Series A $881k–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $884k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
  • S-Innovations — S-Innovations is a robotics software company that develops SynK, a cyber-physical AI operating system for robot deployment, integration, and recovery across different robot brands and industrial facilities. The company provides automation software that enables faster robot setup, system connectivity, and operational management for sectors usingautonomous mobile robots
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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, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 193
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $5.8M–$29M; Series C $12M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $596M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Hurotics — Hurotics is a company with deep-tech technology related to human-robot fusion.Hurotix's wearable robots, notably the 'H-Flex', are modular and give personalized support based on the user's demands, assisting users in overcoming physical restrictions.
  • Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups, 7 in the past 12 months

BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$5.5M; Series A $1.5M–$9M; Series B $20k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Leesol — Leesol is a sleep technology company engaged in the production of AI based neuromodulation devices for the prevention and treatment solutions for modern-day people’s healthy brains. The company's product range includes the sleepisol which is a functional smart wearable device that utilizes CES (Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation) and is aneffective product for the customer’s quality of sleep and life. The product can also be used with a user-oriented data based App.
  • GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
  • Camello Tech Co. — Camello Tech Co. is an agricultural products company that sells tea capsules and aloesonic pills.
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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: 64
  • Round size: Seed $266k–$3.1M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $6k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $16M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
  • MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
  • 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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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 — Bring your story to life
  • Dot Connect — Dot Connect specializes in the development of complete software-based IMS, SIP Client and Client Engine.
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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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Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center is a Business management consultant in Seongnam.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $69k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Factagora — Eliminate AI hallucinations with the world's first Knowledge Graph verification engine. Build your Temporal Knowledge Graph for explainable fact-checking and multi-hop reasoning.
  • Forest Jalan — Forest Jalan is a fintech firm that allows small restaurants, cafes, and stores in Southeast Asia access financial services at moderate rates, rather than high-interest loans.
  • Testify — Testify provides software quality assurance and testing services that assess and validate applications across platforms such as PC, mobile, smart TV and VR. The company conducts software testing using a range of tools to evaluate performance and functional quality and offers consulting to tailor quality activity frameworks for different softwarecharacteristics. Testify also supports software market management by guiding adaptation to platform-specific policies. Its services are designed to help clients identify defects and improve software behavior before release.
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Alois Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Alois Ventures is an investor in the field of startup, we believe new startups and founders are just like those unfamiliar species and resources in Antarctica

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Parking, Employment, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $759k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • Kowork — Kowork is an IT company that offers valuable information to all foreigners, whether domestic or international, who aspire to secure employment in Korea. In addition to serving as a job search platform for foreigners, the firm offers a comprehensive array of services designed to facilitate a stable K-LIFE for expatriates, which includes assistancewith visas, studying abroad, and adapting to life in Korea. The company provides personalized job information that is specifically tailored to the requirements, along with support for resume reviews, interview preparation, and visa processing assistance.
  • sherpas — Sherpas offers SMPLY, a data-based SaaS and IT management service, which uses AI for IT asset management. It simplifies tracking of applications and devices, analyzes business size and usage patterns, and recommends the most suitable solution for each company
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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, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
  • Tyrell — Welcome to Tyrell Inc., pioneers in hyper-personalized AI services. Experience Clapy, our flagship Personal AI built on a proprietary NLP engine, designed to learn, adapt, and safeguard your privacy. Discover a world where personalization meets privacy.
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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, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Semonyeo — Semonyeo is a senior lifestyle brand dedicated to enhancing the dining experience of older adults. The company designs, develops, and sells specialized tableware tailored to the unique needs of seniors, focusing on comfort, safety, and ease of use.
  • Plancklab — Plancklab is a professional stereolithography company. We Provide customized 3D printing system, DLP printer, and Micro Projection Stereolithography Technology based machines.
  • Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services. It is a online wholesale marketplace that connects buyers with products from major Korean shopping districts. It allows users to browse and order items directly from multiple vendors in one place.
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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: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $162k–$1.5M; Grant $7k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metealth — Metealth is a company that provides simple, non-invasive genetic testing and personalized healthcare solutions using fingernails. It focuses on pain-free genetic testing and health monitoring by extracting high-quality DNA from 0.05g of fingernails rather than blood or saliva.
  • SnapScale — SnapScale develops an ontology-driven, agentic AI platform designed to automate FEED-EPC design and document verification processes for the plant engineering industry. Operating entirely on-premise to protect proprietary data, the system utilizes specialized engineering knowledge graphs to autonomously modify CAD drawings, execute hydrauliccalculations, and verify cross-document consistency. This approach eliminates structural data mismatches and slashes engineering verification cycles from weeks to a single day, preventing costly project delivery penalties.
  • K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.
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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, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Private Equity $50M–$1.3B; Post-IPO Equity $145M–$855M; Secondary Market $293M–$585M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $3.4B in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
  • Rayner Surgical Group — Rayner is a British manufacturer of ophthalmic medical products, including intraocular lenses (IOLs) and eye drops to support ocular health
  • International Schools Partnership — The International Schools Partnership is an ever-growing global education family of only the best independent schools.
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Residential, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyTask — EasyTask is an HR support services company. It provides office support services for hiring administrative support staff within 30 minutes. The company's workforce support handles and takes responsibility for overall performance.
  • Junction Med — Junction Med develops and operates CareBom, a child-based senior healthcare communication service.
  • Prelude Studio — Prelude Studio is a music studio that offers a range of services such as Offline Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Details. It also features a Musician Hub that facilitates connections between session musicians and producers, as well as Untact Producing for remote recording and online studio sessions. Additionally, it distributes audio samplesutilized in K-pop music and is in the process of developing 'AdPrism,' a service dedicated to the distribution of K-pop music samples. AdPrism serves as a platform that offers a variety of music samples suitable for composition and creative endeavors. Its target audience includes global users involved in music creation, such as composers, performers, and engineers.
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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 widest network of service branches in Korea. KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 440
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • GMI Cloud — Run production AI workloads on GMI Cloud. Deploy serverless inference, dedicated GPU clusters, and bare metal AI infrastructure on one scalable platform.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion Battery Technologies is a manufacturing company that offers cathode active materials for lithium batteries.
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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, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$13M; Series B $2.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services. It is a online wholesale marketplace that connects buyers with products from major Korean shopping districts. It allows users to browse and order items directly from multiple vendors in one place.
  • Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
  • Camello Tech Co. — Camello Tech Co. is an agricultural products company that sells tea capsules and aloesonic pills.
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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: Construction, Home Services, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Post-IPO Secondary
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $89k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EUM — EUM offers a platform service for smart residential life as well as for house management.
  • 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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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: Beauty, Software, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $168k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PRTN — PRTN is the company that owns and operates Proteinner, a high-protein fast food brand focused on delivering convenient, nutritious meals designed to support active and health-conscious lifestyles.
  • MOCRES — EASY CLASSIC BEAUTY
  • UNX — UNX is an emerging AI entertainment technology startup that develops fully autonomous AI Creators capable of running 24 hour live streams and interacting with vast online audiences simultaneously.
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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 high socio-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, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$4.3M; Series B $3.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
  • Metal Link — Rio MNC is a company that has grown by focusing on steel wire for submarine cable sheathing.
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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: Biotechnology, Medical, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • RNAgene — RNAgene is a company that focuses on the development of therapeutics based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). The mission is to create innovative biopharmaceuticals for incurable diseases, fostering a symbiotic relationship with the field to create new value.
  • Group by — Group by is a recruitment platform for start-up career developer
  • BIONT — BioNT Co., Ltd. is a company possessing bio-material convergence technology centered on biocompatible polymers. We aim to become a global standard company that develops new drugs and creates new markets through creative ideas, exceptional expertise, and a differentiated pipeline. The company focuses on biomaterial convergence technology usingbiocompatible polymers and delivers drugs into the body through multi-encapsulation and mass production of microspheres of the desired size with a high yield, enabling the pharmaceutical industry to provide effective substance products globally.
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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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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: Consulting, Recruiting, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • QSTEM — Qstem is a biotech business that specializes in stem cell technologies for hair loss treatments and other bio-healthcare solutions.
  • TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
  • Group by — Group by is a recruitment platform for start-up career developer
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Kenaz
VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Recruiting startups

Kenaz is a webtoon creation studio that offers production services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Communities, Music Streaming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Heavenly — Platform dedicated to female-oriented content, encompassing BL, GL, LGBTQ+ themes, romance, drama, webtoons, audio, movies, and a community
  • ONOMA AI — Bring your story to life
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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: 17
  • Round size: Seed $508k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $18M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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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, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.7M; Series A $1M–$18M; Series B $3M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.
  • Parking Cloud — Parking Cloud is a cloud-based parking system.
  • 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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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$44M; Series B $8.8M–$47M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $172M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
  • Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • Pebble Square — Pebble Square's new Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architecture is a significant advancement for AI performance and power efficiency.
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Recruiting VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 120 deals from 138 investors.

138
investors
in South Korea Recruiting startups
120
deals
in South Korea Recruiting startups
$771k
median round
in South Korea Recruiting startups
27%
lead investors
lead at least one round
54%
Seed
most common funding stage

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