Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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7 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Debt Financing | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $223k–$7.5M |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $18k–$30M |
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $223k–$25M |
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AI Angel Club
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical | $74k–$4.8M |
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MYSC
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, China, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce | |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $149k–$29M |
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Mobile, Gaming | $223k–$12M |
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Bass Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $523k–$20M |
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LB Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Health Care, E-Commerce, Software | $3M–$50M |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care | $973k–$50M |
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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $371k–$27M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $347k–$19M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $694k–$35M |
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Wadiz
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding | E-Commerce, Retail, Sales | $1k–$3.3M |
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CJ Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $379k–$21M |
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KB Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $743k–$40M |
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SBVA
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1.7M–$168M |
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $2.1M–$60M |
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HB Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series B, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$23M |
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InfoBank
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $76k–$16M |
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Health Care | $371k–$18M |
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Medical, E-Commerce | $2k–$51M |
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We Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $743k–$19M |
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Apps | $371k–$7M |
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Information Technology, Gaming, Blockchain | $287k–$42M |
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Gaming, Apps | $741k–$35M |
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East Gate Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Software, Information Technology | $223k–$3.7M |
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Russian Federation | Series A, Seed | Software, Gaming, Biotechnology | $1k–$7.8M |
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Kaist Venture Investment Holdings
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Australia | Seed, Angel, Grant | Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $149k–$1.5M |
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TBT
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $678k–$18M |
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IMM Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $3M–$54M |
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Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $74k–$1.8M |
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SBI Investment Korea
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $2.5M–$33M |
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Korea Omega Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Vietnam, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care | $5k–$59M |
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $200k–$19M |
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AIM Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A | Retail, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage | $3M–$5.2M |
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KOSME
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care | $74k–$37M |
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CJ ENM
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Ascendo Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Taiwan | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Medical, Health Care | |
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Translink Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | |
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Korea Investment & Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series B, Series C, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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SK Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Apps, Health Care | |
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Antler
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Content | $678k–$73M |
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Tekton Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech | $1.2M–$30M |
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Kolon Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, India, Indonesia | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology | $3k–$22M |
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KB Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Post-IPO Equity | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $82–$22M |
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, South Africa | Series A, Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $1.4M–$23M |
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Hashed
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$37M |
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TINVESTMENT
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $328k–$26M |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 263
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.9M; Series A $743k–$7.5M; Debt Financing $254k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloto — CLOTHO Co., Ltd. is a South Korean B2B GovTech company that provides operational support for government-funded R&D projects. Their flagship service, "Hello Unicorn" (헬로유니콘), helps startups, SMEs, universities, and research institutes manage research administration, project expenditure, settlement, and documentation — reducingcompliance issues, missing paperwork, deadline risks, and operational gaps from personnel changes through systematized processes.
- 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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.7M; Series A $966k–$10M; 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
- Serpot — Serpot is a production service platform that offers film shooting products and support services.
- Bosalpim —
- Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $223k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
- Green Lamp — Green Lamp is a mobile app that provides reading room.
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $126k–$817k; Angel $74k–$104k; Series A $1.1M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QSTEM —
- 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.
- Salm Clinic — Salm Clinic is a specialized digital healthcare platform that provides comprehensive psychological testing services, offering accessible mental health assessments, personalized evaluations, and technology-driven support for individuals seeking psychological insights and care.
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, China, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
- Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
- Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 285
- Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $2M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
- 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
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 234
- Round size: Seed $223k–$3.1M; Series A $334k–$9.7M; Series B $743k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
- TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $523k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$20M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Clobe ai — Clobe ai is an AI‑powered financial platform that simplifies money management for individuals and small‑to‑medium businesses.
- Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
LB Investment is one of the top VCs in Korea. LB invests in diverse industries ranging from Technology and Contents to Bio and healthcare
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Series A $3M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$42M; Series C $7.4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roai — One Click Controls Robots, Creating Anything You Imagine
- XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 434
- Round size: Seed $973k–$11M; Series A $1.9M–$23M; Series B $2.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- 90days — 90days is an electronic bill-based P2B investment brokerage platform.
- New Id —
- Art Together — Art Together is a crowdfunding platform to buy an artwork.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $2.2M–$7.8M; Series B $1.1M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
- Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
- BRUSH Theatre — BRUSH Theatre is a theatre for live performances.
Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $347k–$4.6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 255
- Round size: Seed $694k–$6.6M; Series A $1M–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AstralQ — AstralQ builds an AI-powered end-to-end materials development cloud lab. It develops Machine-learned Hamiltonian models for large-scale electronic structure computations and Machine-learned Force Field models trained on proprietary DFT datasets. The company operates an automated inorganic synthesis lab to validate AI predictions through physicalexperiments.
- GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
'Best business structure that connects crowdfunding, e-commerce, and brand business', 'Ready to go public on the Korean stock market', 'Accumulated transaction value of more than USD 9.6 billion+', '7.1 mil members, 10 mil monthly visitors', 'More than 18,000 crowdfunding projects in a year','Selected Korea’s Top 10 game changer brand by interbrand'
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Sales
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $74k–$743k; Series A $891k–$3.3M; Equity Crowdfunding $1k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sunnicorn — Sunnicorn develops vegan skincare products designed for sensitive skin, combining plant-based ingredients with minimalist formulations. The company focuses on creating practical daily skincare items such as cleansers, creams, and masks that support balanced skin care routines while emphasizing simple product design and accessible beauty solutions.
- Power Player — Natural Clean Beauty
- KOOZA — KOOZA is a kitchenware brand that offers cookware and household goods and supplies them to department stores, and live commerce companies.
CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $379k–$7.2M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $5.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rootrix — Rootrix is a tree data platform that provides tree-quality maintenance data using 3D scanning and lidar technology.
- MobilTech — MobilTech is an AI-based 3D GIS startup company that supplies 3D spatial information, hardware, and software solutions for smart cities.
- Scone — Scone provides virtual youtuber and video conferencing services.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 378
- Round size: Seed $743k–$7.2M; Series A $1.9M–$36M; Series B $4.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
- 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.
- ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $4M–$60M; Series C $8.9M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- BEJEWEL — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 320
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$30M; Series B $4.1M–$33M; Series C $5.2M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Toss — Toss is a South Korea-based mobile financial service platform operated by fintech startup Viva Republica.Its application offers peer-to-peer money transfers, manages credit scores and bank accounts, access loan and insurance plans, split bill options, QR payment and other similar services that enable users to manage their finance.Toss wasestablished in 2011 by Seunggun Lee in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi.
- MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip operates an online travel booking platform for accommodations, transportation, tours, and activity reservations. The company provides travel itinerary services, ticket booking systems, local experience listings, and payment processing tools used for domestic and international travel planning.
- Sweet Spot — Sweet Spot is a platform for companies and retailers who need space for marketing and sales.
HB Investment Inc. was founded on November 11, 1999 starting with paid-in Capital of KRW 10 billion.Since its foundation, HB Investment Inc. has been investing small and medium businesses that have the potential for steady growth and profitability and helping the invested companies to grow well by giving various consulting services. As a result,HB Investment Inc.constructed comprehensive portfolio out of various industrial areas, such as game, entertainment, as well as representative high-tech industries related to semiconductor, Internet, LCD, and a smart phone, bio, health care. In addition, HB Investment Inc. has experiences in implementing business Success-fully by organizing several partnership funds for recent years.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $3.7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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- Robros — Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life.
- Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $76k–$1.5M; Series A $761k–$9.4M; Series B $8.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
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- Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.
- Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
- Walkie Doki — Walkie Doki provides offline store management customized platform and job recommendations.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $1.1M–$18M; Series B $1.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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- 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.
- Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
- PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.
DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Series A $2k–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$29M; Series C $4.2M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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- IMBiologics — IMBiologics is a biotechnology company that develops immunomodulatory antibody drugs for physiological balance.
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- Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $743k–$4.5M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
- ActionPower — ActionPower is an AI-based startup company that offers speech recognition and natural language processing technology services.
- Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $371k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
- Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
- 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Gaming, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $686k–$6.5M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $287k–$42M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
- Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
- Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $741k–$5.4M; Series A $1.8M–$9.7M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hourplace — Hourplace operates a filming place sharing platform.
- Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that creates a character for animation, game, and comics.
- LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.
East Gate Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investment for businesses.
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $340k–$2.2M; Series A $223k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Humil — Humil is a food manufacturing and processing company that provides food research and development solutions.
- Waggy Days — Waggy Days is a safety leash with an automatic release that detaches if a pet is caught in moving machinery, helping reduce injury risk.
- Peekaboo Labs — Peekaboo Labs perfectly protects the corporate data with 'On-Device AI' without external servers, and experience overwhelming productivity even without the internet. The company eliminates servers and implements AI on 'PC'. Peekaboo Labs empower enterprises in high-compliance sectors (Finance, Healthcare, Defense) to deploypowerful LLMs within air-gapped environments. They carefully select and organize only the information needed from among over 100 documents .
Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- StudioBside — StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
- Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.
- AWESOME Entertainment — AWESOME Entertainment is a media and digital content company that provides YouTube content production, influencer and MCN management, advertising and branded content creation, and media commerce services. The comapny supports brands with campaign planning, viral video production, and distribution across multiple social platforms, while alsooffering production outsourcing and partnership services to maximize audience reach and engagement.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $149k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blue Magnet — Blue Magnet is a startup company that develops technology for treating radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The company specializes in nuclear waste treatment solutions, with a particular focus on developing magnetic materials for collecting and processing radioactive cesium and other contaminants from nuclear facilities.
- Visionary — Visionary operates as a spatial intelligence infrastructure company for autonomous systems.Visionary is a single data platform for autonomous systems, from registration and processing to search and evaluation.
- K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.
TBT is an Adventure Capital.We are more than your average VC investor; we are always up for an adventure. Investment means more than just transfer of capital for us. We want to be a discussion partner that discovers possibilities beyond risk and aligns growth with progress. We want to share decades of industry knowledge and experience in internetand mobile services to build services and products that can make the world a better place.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $743k–$4.5M; Series A $678k–$18M; Series B $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- COLAVO GROUND — Whether you're a hair stylist or nail artist, you need customers to show off your talent. Everyone who knows that is already on Colavosalon!
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- FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 225
- Round size: Series A $3M–$46M; Series B $5.8M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Dunamu — Dunamu owns and operates a digital asset exchange (UPbit), two investment exchange platforms (Stockplus and U-Stockplus), and an equity management platform (Onboard). UPbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform with presence in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Stockplus is a securities information/trading platform with an activepartnership with 11 broker-dealers. U-Stockplus is an OTC platform providing a trading service for private companies. Onboard helps private companies manage equity electronically for their shareholders.
- Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
- Pure Harvest Smart Farms — Pure Harvest Smart Farms is a regional innovator in sustainable agriculture focused on the production of premium fruits and vegetables in the challenging climates of the Arab Gulf region using world-leading controlled-environment agriculture technologies. Pure Harvest seeks to leverage innovative growing technologies and horticultural bestpractices in order to pioneer year-round production of affordable, premium quality fresh produce.
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
- 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 develops compact AI-powered maskless lithography systems that make semiconductor and microfabrication tools more accessible to research labs, universities, and emerging semiconductor ecosystems. Its platform uses UV-DLP and DMD-based digital patterning to expose high-precision micro/nano patterns directly from digital files withoutphysical photomasks or full cleanroom infrastructure. Plancklab’s technology supports semiconductor education, microfabrication research, MEMS, biochips, microfluidics, 2D material devices, and advanced packaging R&D.
SBI Investment Co., Ltd. has established itself as a true partner of the Republic of Korea venture business development in the past 28 years as a venture capital concept introduced first in Korea in 1986 was even unfamiliar concept of 'venture'. SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a direct excavation domestic / other promising venturesinvestment as well as domestic / external funding attracted through cooperation with institutional investors and technology, marketing, public offering (IPO), the law, adhere to the role which has been providing comprehensive services such as Value-up tax.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$14M; Series B $4.5M–$32M; Series C $8.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
- Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions
- Cenyx Biotech — Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.
Korea Omega Investment Finance is a private equity and venture capital firm
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $743k–$1.5M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $5k–$59M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
- Esol — Esol operates a semiconductor equipment business focused on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. It provides EUV pellicle transmittance and mask phase measurement systems, as well as interference patterning equipment, enabling higher-resolution, denser, and more advanced semiconductor chips.
- MilieMoon — Demi-fine Jewelry for Finer Taste.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $334k–$19M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021
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- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- BacklotCars — Making Wholesale Easy
- Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.
AIM Investment is a private equity fund manager specializing in equity investment, mergers, and acquisitions.
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- Industry: Retail, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Series A $3M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $74k–$2.4M; Series A $743k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudike — Cloudike powers cloud storage. Cloudike helps OEMs, mobile and Internet service providers acquire, retain, and upsell their customers by offering a compelling personal cloud experience under their own brand.
- VivaLabs — VivaLabs is a health tech company that analyzes senior health data with AI technology and implements a personalized exercise prescription system to provide scientific strength training programs.
- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
CJ ENM is a Korean entertainment and mass media company.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PulseAd — PulseAd harnesses the latest in machine learning technology to transform your retail advertising efforts, ensuring each campaign you run is data-driven, highly targeted, and optimized for success across major platforms like Amazon, Walmart, and Target. It's an intelligent advertising solution that empowers your brand to make impactfulconnections with customers, scaling your presence in the global marketplace. With PulseAd, you're not just running ads—you're embracing a strategic partner that propels your brand to new heights with every click and conversion.
- Pozalabs — AI Music Startup
- wavve — wavve is an app for sharing audio from your podcast, music and recordings on social media.
Ascendo Ventures is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm that strives to be a true lifecycle partner for the fastest growing, game-changing Asian tech companies. From the moment we invest in our portfolio companies, we commit to being a long-term partner and ascend together embracing the treme
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Aldavar — ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials that closely resemble human tissues and 3D printing technology.
- Ugly Lab — Ugly Lab is a waste-tech startup that provides subscription-based waste collection services and consulting.
- H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
- Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.
- Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Inter X — Inter X is an industrial AI and big data analysis company.
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.
SK Securities is a South Korea-based financial service provider that specializes in the securities market. It primarily engaged in securities brokerage, dealing and underwriting businesses, covering stocks, futures, options, government bonds, corporate bonds, foreign exchanges, and financial derivative products. The company also involves in theinvestment banking business, which provides acquisition, project financing services, and wealth management services.SK Securities was founded in 1955.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Total investments: 40
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- DSRV — DSRV, a leading blockchain infrastructure company, offers A-Z solutions across the entire ecosystem for 160+ institutions through vertical integration of technologies such as staking, custody, and validators.
- Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
- Soft Berry — Soft Berry is an electric vehicle charging platform.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
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- Total investments: 683
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Rovers — Global Agricultural IP Company
- Vern — Made with love in Sydney
- Whisper — Whisper offers next-gen, real-time threat intelligence by leveraging a vast semantic graph built from 45 billion interconnected data points.
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $678k–$15M; Series A $2M–$63M; Series B $1.6M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
- Clouted — Clout Kitchen is THE Virality Engine for brands and creators, designing data-driven viral campaigns with distribution marketing.
- Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.
We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $1.8M–$23M; Series B $7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
- Polsia — Polsia is an autonomous software platform that acts as a complete "business-in-a-box" for entrepreneurs. The platform replaces human employees by deploying nine specialized AI agents to manage daily operations. These virtual workers automatically handle critical business tasks like coding, marketing, sales, and customer service. Bylinking these roles together, it allows founders to launch and run an entire company on autopilot. Ultimately, it eliminates the need for solo creators to hire staff or pay for multiple software tools.
- Hosted·AI — Hosted·AI is a software company that offers GPUaaS orchestration, AI tools, and cloud infrastructure solutions.
Kolon Investment, Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in buyouts, mezzanine, corporate restructuring, growth capital, and turnaround investment. It prefers to invest in electronic components, petroleum, energy, computer, and telecommunications equipment. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul,Gyeonggi, Incheon, and Gyeongbuk. Kolon Investment, Inc. was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Source: Businessweek
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Series A $3k–$10M; Series B $4.8M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
- PROMEDIUS — We are on a mission to redefine the way we age.
- XYZ — LoungeLAB is a Retail-tech startup that augments space with technology, using the state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and Robotics technology. LoungeLAB focuses on enhancing the product value and services, and we develop in the field rather than on the desk. We Invent Everyday Technology for All.
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$12M; Series B $4.1M–$22M; Post-IPO Equity $82–$202k
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Korean Air — Korean Air provides passenger air transportation, air cargo logistics, and related travel services through scheduled and charter flight operations. The company transports passengers between international and domestic destinations and manages ticketing, reservations, and in-flight services through its digital platforms and airport operations. Itscargo division handles freight transportation, including general cargo, special shipments, and charter logistics, and supports shipment tracking and electronic air waybill processing. The company also operates integrated logistics services such as trucking connections that link air routes with ground transport networks for cargo delivery. In addition, Korean Air runs programs that allow cargo customers to measure and reduce transportation-related carbon emissions through the use of sustainable aviation fuel initiatives.
- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- Seeann Solution — integrated PSI manufacturer Seeann Solution
Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Series B $4.2M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Intergravity — Intergravity is a company that is developing orbital transportation technologies to support the future of in-space activity. Intergravity is to enable a space environment in which mobility, service, and logistics are seamlessly integrated, creating the framework for long-term operations beyond Earth.
- Amber Road — Amber Road is the creator of an operation management-focused data analysis program. By analyzing the data based on the input data, the company's platform generates a customized AI model and business insight report that requires the input of manufacturing process data.
- De novo Biotherapeutics — De novo Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing mRNA-encoded antibodies and NK cell-engaging antibodies for cancer treatment.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 287
- Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The Trive — The Trive is a car subscription service platform through which users can pay a monthly subscription fee to drive the car they most desire.
- DarcMatter — DarcMatter is a fintech platform that provides cloud based infrastructure for asset managers to better manage, communicate and access investors. By utilizing proprietary structuring and technology, DarcMatter is able to provide a frictionless process for both investors and private issuers while remaining fully compliant of all current financialregulations.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $328k–$26M; Series A $3M–$8.2M; Series B $3.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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.
- To-Day — To-Day is a developer of an online delivery platform to create a same day delivery service.
- Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
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