Top 5 Retail Angel Investors in South Korea in January 2026
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Retail Angel Investors in South Korea in January 2026
| Investor | Retail South Korea investments |
|---|---|
| Sujay Tyle | 1 |
| Kim Chang-won | 1 |
| Seung Yoon Lee | 1 |
| Sean Hyunil sohn | 1 |
| Norberts Erts | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, Mexico, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
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- Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.
Kim Chang-won
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- Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Seed
- South Korea
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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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, Productivity Tools
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, South Korea
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
Sean hyunil sohn
is CEO of KRAFTON since 2020.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, E-Commerce, Art
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
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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Investment focus
- Rental, Retail, Leasing
- Seed
- South Korea
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.
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