Top 5 Retail Angel Investors in South Korea (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kim Chang-won
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce | |
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Seung Yoon Lee
Angel
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1 | Singapore, South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, B2B, B2C | $1M–$15M |
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Sujay Tyle
Angel
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1 | Colombia, United Kingdom, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, B2B | $2.2M–$48M |
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Sean Sohn
Angel
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1 | India, South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Gaming, Apps, Mobile | $2M–$25M |
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Norberts Erts
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Rental, Retail, Leasing | |
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Kim Chang-won
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, B2C
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
- Mahojin — Mahojin is a search-to-generate AI platform that instantly provides exact images through an ever-expanding and remixable library.
- SkyArk — First Triple AAA Fantasy Anime Blockchain RPG from Veteran Studio
Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Colombia, United Kingdom, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$23M; Series A $10M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
- Boosters — Boosters is a brand aggregator that uncovers and acquires high-potential brands that have been hidden for a long time, or discovers commerce businesses that will be appreciated by the public at an early stage. They achieve scale-up by developing tactics that are specific to each brand's attributes. Scale-up is the maximum of sales forBoosters.
- Everything — Everything is a UK-based Fintech firm focused on reinventing premium bonds with a social spin.
Sean Hyunil Sohn is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka, and is the CEO of KRAFTON India of Krafton and also serves as Board Member at Game Developers Association of India. Sean previously worked at PUBG Corporation as a Chief Financial Officer. Sean Hyunil Sohn attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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- Industry: Gaming, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
- GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
- Story Protocol — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
Norberts Erts is the Product Marketing Manager at Sage.
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- Industry: Rental, Retail, Leasing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
- Value Space Co. — Value Space Co. is a space reconstruction company that offers space-optimized services through project development planning.
Retail Angel investor funding in South Korea at a glance
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