Top 50 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in July 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in July 2025
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.
- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
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
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
- Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
- SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
- My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, China, France
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.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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.
Wadiz is Asia's largest crowdfunding platform company.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Sales
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
- 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.
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
- Potts Company — Potts Company develops manufacturing technologies for sustainable plastic circulation & leads the resource recycling market for consumption.
- ICU Corporation — ICU Corporation offers skilled and high-level optics from opticians with master's and doctoral degrees in optics, ensuring ease and sharp vision, which is the essence of glasses.
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
- Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Mommom — Mommom gathers and analyzes online meta data, as well as a list of national items categorized by objective group. Mommom is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
- Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
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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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
- Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
- DAAN Biotherapeutics — DAAN Biotherapeutics develops novel treatments for cancer patients. The company conducts cancer treatment research and development, including cell therapies, antibodies, and small molecule inhibitors.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
- Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
- My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Imagoworks — Imagoworks Inc. offers a Web-based Dental CAD solution using AI, streamlining the digital workflow for dental professionals. Together with world-class technology, we are setting new standards for digital dentistry in the global market. Our mission is to <Making the future of digital medicine for everyone>.While we have accumulatedtechnological expertise in the medical field for over 10 years, specializing in AI-based automation, 3D geometric modeling and mesh processing, and software as a service (SaaS), we now turn our focus to commercializing our innovative technologies and transforming the field of digital dentistry. By cooperating with and licensing to leading global dental companies, we are seeing great success as we find ourselves in the industry spotlight.Imagoworks currently offers Dentbird Crown which automatically generates optimal crown designs with a single click and without any software installation required. As we continue to expand our services, Imagoworks aims to be recognized as a chairside design solution for dentists worldwide.
- ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
- Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AIMMO — AIMMO is the developer of a data annotation platform with custom workflow designs, labeler analytics, and real-time communication functions. The company was founded in 2016 by SeungTaek Oh and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
- AIMEDBIO — AIMEDBIO provides therapeutic solutions to patients with serious brain diseases.
- IDID — IDID provides an entertainment platform designed to host short-form entertainment content. The company provides a short-form social entertainment platform that can generate content by superimposing different images on different sound sources.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
- Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.
- Minxin Technology — Minxin Technology focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sales of photo- and thermal-curing functional materials and electronic-grade wet chemicals.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
- Donut — Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents.
- OnlinePajak — Kelola Pajak Online dengan Hitung, Setor & Lapor secara terintegrasi dalam 1 Aplikasi Pajak Online kami. Praktis & gratis Selamanya, Coba Sekarang!
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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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
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.
- Lucas — Medical AI Solution, MONCAD Monitor Corporation aim to achieve innovation in the field of medical imaging through artificial intelligence technology.
- ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Z.Ai — Z.Ai provides personalized recommendations using AI based on user behavioral data.
- Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
- Rootfinders — RouteFinders develops an AI-based media platform to support independent living for visually impaired individuals in an increasingly digital world.
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
- Information Technology, Retail, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Grant
- South Korea, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Podonos — Podonos evaluates the effectiveness and performance of AI models for speech and audio. You get the evaluation result within 12 hours from global evaluators.
- Risorious — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.
- K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.
Korean alternative asset investment firm
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
- Cellid — Cellid developing the waveguide-architecture display module for AR glasses and high-performance spatial recognition software.
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Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
- Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Beauty
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
- Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.
Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
- Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
- Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
- Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
- Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Mepsgen — Mepsgen is a biotechnology research organization that focuses on pharmaceutical services and drug development.
- Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
- Studio Lab — Studio Lab offers artificial intelligence technology for the fashion industry.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Oncosoft — Oncosoft develops software solutions with a focus on anti-cancer treatment. Their offerings include an Oncology Information Management Solution (OIMS) and artificial intelligence-based technologies for radiologists. The software aids in the detection of cancer, contributing to the medical community's efforts in precision cancer therapy.
- Sorcerics — Our mission is to empower people to live more productively by lowering the learning curve of smart devices.
- 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.
CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Therapeutics, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
- ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
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- Tacta Systems — Tacta Systems develops robotics with human-like tactile abilities with Dextrous Intelligence, the nervous system for robots.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
- Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
- Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
- Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.
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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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
- Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Medical, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
we ventures is a VC industry with innovative venture capitalists, who invest in creative, honest, and outstanding entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
- WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
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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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
- Higher Diversity — Higher Diversity provides foreigners with a platform for administrative and convenient services.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
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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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Boosterz — Boosterz is a company that supports the 5Ps of marketing at all stages, from product planning and launch to growth.
- Micro-one — Micro-One is an air functionality expert company that manufactures incinerators, ecological infrastructure, and advanced dust filters.
- Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Perceptis AI — Perceptis is AI-powered service for creating professional business proposals. Create winning multimillion-dollar proposals - fast. Our models are trained on proposals generated by elite consultants.
- Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
- Flywl — Flywheel Dynamix is a cloud meta-marketplace transforming how enterprises buy and sell cloud software with unmatched trust, visibility, and efficiency.
CJ ENM is a Korean entertainment and mass media company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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.
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ControlM — ControlM is a food technology company that provides optimum AI solutions to F&B and franchise operators.
- Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
- Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked
Korea Omega Investment Finance is a private equity and venture capital firm
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
- MilieMoon — Demi-fine Jewelry for Finer Taste.
- CrossPoint Therapeutics — CrossPoint Therapeutics is a therapeutics company that specializes in drug development by using Stealth-Body with antibody source technology.
KOREA INVESTMENT & SECURITIES is a financial investment company that offers brokerage, asset management, and investment banking services.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cupix — Cupix is a cloud-based software company founded in late 2015. It develops and markets a state-of-the-art photogrammetry solution that can create a 3D scene automatically using 360-degree photos as a primary user input. Two main areas it is focusing on are the construction site 3D documentation and the real estate virtual tour authoring tool.
- 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.
East Gate Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investment for businesses.
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- Gaming, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
- Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
- 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.
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, India, United States
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- Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
- Panmnesia — Innovate AI Infrastructure with Panmnesia's Link Solution. Empowering true composability in modern AI infrastructure.
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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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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
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- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- Nurihaus — Nurihaus is a community commerce firm that provides a platform to shop based on Korean influencer's products.
- Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
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- RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
- ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- South Korea, United States
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- INVAIZ — INVAIZ sells macro input keyboards, plug-ins, and accessories.
- Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
- FOBECON — Pobicon offers an auto-estimation solution that analyzes construction blueprints using vision AI and other algorithms to quantify the net quantity of raw materials utilized in construction in three days.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
- Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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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- Information Technology, Apps, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
- K-Rangers — K-Rangers empowers businesses, fosters relationships, and realizes dreams through apps. The company created ohmyapp, a custom web-based build-and-manage solution that makes it easy to build and manage native apps without the need to hire expensive developers.
- Soft Berry — Soft Berry is an electric vehicle charging platform.
IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, India, United States
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- Dime Bio — Dime Bio is a drug development company for novel dementia treatments.
- Gole Robotics — Gole Robotics is an intelligent robotics company that focuses on developing robots specially to transporting construction materials to help on-site workers.
- Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore, India
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- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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