Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in South Korea
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Saas startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in South Korea
Investor | SaaS South Korea investments |
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Aviram Jenik | 9 |
Daniel Shin | 5 |
S Cubic Angels | 3 |
Taekkyung Lee | 3 |
Jay Eum | 3 |
Richard Seongho Choi | 2 |
Sisun Lee | 2 |
Pietro Dova | 2 |
Perry Tam | 1 |
Lee Dong seok | 1 |
Jimmy Iovine | 1 |
Ed Sheeran | 1 |
Hyunjae Lee | 1 |
Jung-hee Ryu | 1 |
Kim Chang-won | 1 |
Hwang Seong-hyeon | 1 |
Son Seok-gu | 1 |
Kim Won-tae | 1 |
Justin Lubliner | 1 |
Douglas Guen | 1 |
Seung Yoon Lee | 1 |
Fernando Martinelli | 1 |
Sunghwan Choi | 1 |
Han Ki yong | 1 |
Luke Wood | 1 |
Shin Hyun Sung | 1 |
Ji-woo Song | 1 |
Sachin Bhanot | 1 |
Sangmin Shim | 1 |
Do Kwon | 1 |
Michael Egorov | 1 |
Sam Kazemian | 1 |
Stani Kulechov | 1 |
Tarun Chitra | 1 |
Robert Leshner | 1 |
Alex Shin | 1 |
Osuke Honda | 1 |
Matthew Papakipos | 1 |
Hesham Zreik | 1 |
David Lee | 1 |
Victor Wang | 1 |
Michael Yang | 1 |
Seojoon Kim | 1 |
Martin Randel | 1 |
Blaine Vess | 1 |
Jae-sik Shin | 1 |
Louis Beryl | 1 |
Brian Kim | 1 |
Seo Jae-young | 1 |
Bong Jin Kim | 1 |
Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur.
Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
- illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities
Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Experience every payment in the world with one line of code
- Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.
S Cubic Angels
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Investment focus
- Education, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
Taekkyung Lee is the Founder , CEO and Representative Partner of Mashup Ventures. He previously worked at Primer Season2 as a Founding Partner. Taekkyung Lee attended Yonsei University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
- 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
- DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- boam.ai — The easy way to find your next meal. Combines your favorite review sites, restaurant platforms, and tools in one place.
- Merit — A software platform for verified digital credentials for government, organizations, people, and communities.
- Opaper — Bikin toko online dalam 2 menit! Terima pembayaran, pesan kurir semua disatu aplikasi memudahkan penjualan manualmu yang dari WhatsApp dan sosial media.
Richard Seongho Choi
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Human Resources
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
- Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.
Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Seed, Angel
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
- Series A, Seed
- United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
- Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
- Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
Perry Tam is the Co-Founder and Managimg Partner of Locus Ventures. Took up B.S., Computer Science at Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Consumer
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
Lee Dong -seok serves as Chairman at Coolidge Corner Investment.
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Investment focus
- Incubators, Crowdfunding, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- OpenTrade — OpenTrade (오픈트레이드) is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Having identified lack of communication as the biggest stumbling block in attracting investments, the company has developed the platform to enable transparent communication between entrepreneurs, startups, andinvestors.OpenTrade’s crowdfunding platform enables startups to have ongoing communication with investors and thereby build a long-term relationship based on trust. OpenTrade also provides mentoring facilities in the areas of management, marketing, and finance.
Jimmy Iovine is a legendary figure in the music industry and a forward-thinking visionary, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy, the Iovine and Young Center, Interscope Records, and Beats by Dre. Jimmy’s influential career began at Record Planet in New York City. Early on, Jimmywas a recording engineer for the likes of John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen before becoming a recording producer for Patti Smith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Stevie Nicks, Dire Straits, The Pretenders, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, and U2. Jimmy co-founded Interscope Records in 1990, launching artists such as Dr. Dre, Nine Inch Nails, Mary J. Blige, No Doubt, The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, 50 Cent, and Lady Gaga. Jimmy and hip-hop producer and trailblazer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young co-founded Beats By Dr. Dre, a leading, high-performance headphone and speaker company in 2006. Thanks to the sleekly designed headphones, and expansion into smartphones and car audio systems, Beats By Dr. Dre secured the No. 1 spot in the billion dollar-plus premium headphones industry. In 2014, Jimmy and Dr. Dre expanded the Beats brand into the digital music space with Beats Music—the first streaming music service delivering contextually and culturally relevant playlists personalized for each user. Beats by Dr. Dre and Beats Music were acquired by Apple in 2014. In 2013, Jimmy and Dr. Dre teamed up again to establish and fund the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California. The pair endowed the Academy with a $70 million donation to help forge the futures of technologists, entrepreneurs, designers, and innovators working toward purpose-driven societal change. The signature integrated learning framework offers a different type of education, with undergraduate and graduate degrees focusing on technology, communication, entrepreneurship, and human-centered design. Jimmy and Dr. Dre wanted to extend the Academy’s curriculum to high school students across the U.S. The inaugural Iovine and Young Center (IYC) opened its doors in Los Angeles in 2022. The Iovine and Young Center at Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta is set to open in August 2024. Jimmy is a board member for several companies and organizations, including Live Nation Entertainment, XQ Institute, NTWRK, and Rosewood Creative. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Software, Beauty, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
- Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
- Handle — 15 minute delivery by students for students
Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project.
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Investment focus
- Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
Hyunjae Lee serves as Director of Public Policy at Woowa Brothers.
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Investment focus
- Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Fashion, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
- Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
- Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
Kim Chang-won
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
Hwang Seong-hyeon
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Investment focus
- Software, Education
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.
Son Seok-gu is an Actor.
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Investment focus
- Apparel, Fashion
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Lerici — The Lerici is an atelier that creates the most exquisite and valuable garments in the world. Based on 20 years of accumulated craftsmanship and a unique sense of aesthetics, we are launching a high-end brand that offers a completely new experience.
Kim Won-tae
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Investment focus
- Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
- Seed
- South Korea
Justin Lubliner is a CEO of the Darkroom.
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Investment focus
- Content, Software, Digital Media
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
- Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.
Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder at PrimerSerial. Entrepreneur and the friend of Startups. He is a Founder and CEO of Primer (2010-now), Founder and CEO of INICIS, INITECH others (1997-2008). Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.
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Investment focus
- Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Soomgo — Soomgo is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
- Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.
Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, Productivity Tools
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
- Hubble — Hubble helps to create world class products by gathering high quality contextual feedback. Use Hubble to start collecting in-product UX insights from your own targeted users.
- SkyArk — First Triple AAA Fantasy Anime Blockchain RPG from Veteran Studio
Fernando Martinelli is the Co-Founder and CEO at Balancer Labs. He was the Co-Founder of Brasil Mate before that.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
- Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Sunghwan Choi
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
- CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
- Sequin — Sequin is on a mission to fight the Pink Tax with cashback rewards & money education.
Han Ki-yong is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Fitness
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bolta — Volta Corporation offers 'Volta,' a solution that eliminates the inefficiencies and hassle of e-tax invoice issuance and maintenance. Volta allows users to effortlessly issue electronic tax bills and manage them after they have been sent. Companies may dramatically enhance job efficiency by reducing unnecessary labor and time waste.
- Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
- Business Canvas — An easy-to-use workspace that transforms scattered information into your knowledge.
Wood began his career with Geffen Records in 1991 as a Director of Publicity, representing such bands as Nirvana and Sonic Youth. He subsequently served as Geffen’s Director of Marketing, and later as Vice President of A&R at DreamWorks Records. In 2003, Wood joined Interscope Records (as part of its merger with DreamWorks) as Executive VicePresident of A&R, having signed such artists as Jimmy Eat World, Elliott Smith and AFI. He also developed label deals with Downtown Records and signed artists such as TV on the Radio, All Time Low and Yelawolf.A lifelong producer, songwriter and musician, Wood signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Group in 1996 and that same year his band, Sammy, released its third album, Tales of Great Neck Glory, on Geffen/DGC Records. Wood earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University with a major in American Studies.
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Investment focus
- Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
Shin Hyun Sung
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Computer, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Toss Lab — Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tools. The company's platform JANDI, a group-oriented messaging platform with an integrated suite of collaboration tools that is tailor-made for workplaces in Asia. It also offers messaging and group chats. The platform serves companies rangingfrom small to mid-sized businesses to large enterprises with thousands of employees.Toss Lab was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with offices in Taiwan, Dubai, Malaysia, and Japan.
- LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.
Song Ji-woo serves as CEO at Jiwoo Company.
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Investment focus
- Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Sachin Bhanot serves as the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, SaaS, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Neara — Neara electric utility software is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets. Request a demo.
- Quotabook — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
- Kismet — Find the best disability or healthcare service to support your journey
Sangmin Shim was the CEO and Founder of HogangNono. Sangmin Shim is the current CEO of Cafe Nono.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Real Time, Scheduling
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- FlareLane — Engage with both first-time and returning app/web visitors through interactive push notifications and boost user retenion and revenue. Push, Interact, Grow.
Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Treehouse Finance — Building the most powerful DeFi data engine to deliver analytic tools and risk management solutions to investors and institutions.
Michael Egorov is the Founder of Curve DAO Token. He previously worked at NuCypher as a CTO. Michael Egorov attended Swinburne University of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Defi.money — Welcome to a new era of $MONEY
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nuffle Labs — Nuffle Labs develops NEAR Data Availability (DA) and the NEAR Fast Finality Layer (NFFL).
- Wasabi — The Decentralized NFT Options Protocol
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- Llama — Llama is a fullstack platform for onchain access control and governance. Llama enables protocols to securely take action using onchain policies and custom execution strategies.
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Tarun Chitra is Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. His research in DeFi includes the first peer-reviewed papers proving the economic security properties ofUniswap and Compound. He previously worked in high frequency trading for Vatic Labs and was a scientific programmer at D. E. Shaw Research.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Inco — Bringing confidentiality to Web3 through the fhEVM
- Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
- Bonsai — An experimental, mixed ERC-20 / ERC-721 implementation with native liquidity, fractionalization and unique art. 100000 $BONSAI Token is linked to 1 BONSAI NFT!
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Alex Shin
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, SNS, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- EthSign — EthSign is an e-signing platform that utilizes blockchain technology to offer a decentralized, customizable and transparent version of traditional signature service. EthSign aims to tackle data security issues caused by an over-reliance on centralized providers and build back trust in electronic signature services. With its Web3 technology(decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks), the platform enables users to comment on, edit and access each version of an electronic agreement seamlessly and securely.
- Big Whale Labs — We build the future while everybody else lives in the past
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Osuke Honda is a General Partner at DCM Ventures, Osuke previously worked at Mitsubishi Corporation and then at Apax Globis Partners & Co (now GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS & Co.). Having assumed the position of Outside Director of Sansan, Inc. in April 2018, he draws on his extensive experience of investment and business management in makinggeneral management recommendations.Osuke Honda attended Hitotsubashi University, The Wharton School, and Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Japan, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- Picsart — Picsart is the largest all-in-one creative platform of photo, video editing, and design tools. An ecosystem of free-to-use content and inspiration from other creators.
- Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
Matthew Papakipos
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Investment focus
- Music, Apps, Video
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- OP.GG — The Best LoL Champion Builds and Summoner Stats by OP.GG - Learn champion builds, runes, and counters. Search any summoner name for stats of all game modes.
- Ozarka — Milieuvriendelijke maaltijd verpakkingen nodig? Ontdek onze milieuvriendelijke verpakking. Herbruikbare en duurzame oplossing voor take away.
- Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish.
Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups.
During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded:
- co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components.
- invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content.
- invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization
- invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered.
- invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer
- invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators.
- invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV
- He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.
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- Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
- AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
- Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.
David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek
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- Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Right Rice — RightRice is a tasty new rice grain that's made from vegetables. It's what they all love about rice, but made even right-er. RightRice is a complete, plant-based protein that's delicious, nutritious, and easy to cook. Every bowl of RightRice has more than double the protein, five times the fiber, and almost 40 percent fewer net carbsthan a bowl of white rice. Just like rice, RightRice soaks up your favorite flavors and sauces. Original RightRice is ready to season your own way, or you can try one of their delicious, already seasoned varieties like Lemon Pepper, Spanish or Garlic Herb—all using real herbs and spices, nothing artificial, non-GMO, vegan, and a complete source of protein, all with a low glycemic index.
- The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Victor Wang is a technology-focused VC investor interested in helping extremely brilliant, ambitious, relentless founders build category-defining companies.
Earlier in his career, Victor conducted genomic research at Stanford University and earned a B.A. in Molecular & Cell Biology with a Minor in Nutritional Sciences from UC Berkeley.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Alethea AI — Alethea AI is an R&D studio building at the intersection of two of the most transformative technologies of our time - Generative AI and Blockchain.
- Dialect — Dialect enables a more engaging dapp experience with timely, targeted messages and notifications.
- Explorex Technologies, Inc. — The Indian restaurant industry has already adopted technology to adapt to the growing demands and match the expectations of today's customers but the absence of a full-stack cloud-based software is extremely frustrating to business owners today. The existing systems lack modularity, lack the ability to integrate with services, and hencearen't plug and play. Also, Restaurants are extremely frustrated with all the 5-6 independent systems that don't talk to each other. We are solving these problems by building a full-stack solution for the 30 million+ restaurants in India, by solves order management, operations management, online delivery, payment processing, reports & analytics, and guest identification and re-engagement all using one system - Explorex.
Michael founded users. Michael and the team successfully raised $30M in venture capital investment from investors such as Brentwood, Sprout, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, and Transcosmos Corporation. In February of 2000, mySimon was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M.Prior to mySimon.com, Michael held positions at Xerox Corp., Intergraph Corporation, TeleVideo, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Jazz Multimedia, Inc. Michael has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University. Michael holds a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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- SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
Seojoon Kim (서준 김) is a co-founder and vice president of KnowRe, an education technology company that develops digital learning platforms.Kim’s previous career portfolio includes his time as an intern at Sun Microsystem; intern at Olaworks; manager at ½ project; and project manager at Mozzet. He was also the co-founder of edueyes. Aftergraduating from Seoul Science High School, Kim went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology.
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Martin Randel - Co-Founder, Board Member and Owner @ Vitamin Well
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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, South Korea
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- Reve — Tipser is the global leader in embedded commerce, turning any digital surface into a point of sale. Discover a better way to monetize traffic.
- Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values within their respective segments.
- Covr Security AB — Covr Security meet the growing demand for highly secure, user-centric control over mobile security and digitized personal information. Covr is founded by serial entrepreneurs, including the developers of the digital verification standard currently used by the Swedish banking system.
Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. Attended at Y Combinator.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
- Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.
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- Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Stelo Labs — Read the lastest on web3 security from Stelo
- OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.
- Meez Culinary Solutions — Organize, Train, Cost, Iterate, Collaborate, and Share your recipes and process.
Brian Kim is Founder & Chairman at Kakao.
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- Fashion, Cosmetics, Lifestyle
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Art and Design International — Art and Design International(ADI) is a Korea-based global manufacturer & distributor, with large customer base mainly in Korea, China, North America, and other countries. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, the firm provides a comprehensive range of cosmetic products including face/body/hair products, and it extends its business intolifestyle products and services.
Seo Jae-young is the managing director of NH Investment & Securities.
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- Apps, Dental, EdTech
- Seed, Series B
- South Korea
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- Gloud — Gloud offers dental digital and digital practice transformation services.
- WizSchool — We employ real-time user code analysis algorithm based on compiler technology to diagnose learners’ levels and status of the software education. And our AI tutor for coding education using deep learning technology offers learner-centered customized learning contents to the users. Aiming for the global market, we are developing and growing ourbusiness to solve the shortage problem of software education instructors and also provide the market with the best quality software education service.
Bongjin is the CEO & Co-Founder of Woowa Brothers.
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- Mobile Apps, Pet, Software
- Seed
- South Korea
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