Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in South Korea in November 2024

Investor	SaaS South Korea investments
Aviram Jenik	9
Daniel Shin	5
S Cubic Angels	3
Jay Eum	3
Taekkyung Lee	3
Sisun Lee	2
Richard Seongho Choi	2
Pietro Dova	2
Martin Randel	1
Primer Saje	1
Alexander Schill	1
Seongho Choi	1
Shin- jae	1
Paul Wachter	1
Michael Egorov	1
Osuke Honda	1
Kevin Baek	1
Luke Wood	1
Do Kwon	1
Alex Shin	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Byeong-min Yeo	1
Erik Peterson	1
Jong-Il Yoon	1
Bae Yong-Joon	1
Justin Bieber	1
Chester Roh	1
Sebastien Borget	1
Louis Beryl	1
David Lee	1
Benjamin Joseph Levin	1
Park Jong-hwan	1
Perry Tam	1
Han Ki yong	1
Chaehyun Lee	1
David Lee	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
Shin Hyun Sung	1
Ji-woo Song	1
Sangmin Shim	1
Sean (Solme) Kim	1
Yoon Soo-young	1
Tim Draper	1
Sung Cho	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

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.

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

Investment focus

Education, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
KRG Group — KRG Group is a rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology

Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.

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.

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.

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.

Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.

Investment focus

SNS, Software, Content Creators
Seed, Angel
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.

Richard Seongho Choi

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.

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.

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.

Martin Randel - Co-Founder, Board Member and Owner @ Vitamin Well

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

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.

Primer Saje

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Sales, Software
Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

DALPHA — Dalpha develops artificial intelligence technology for the creation of AI models. The company provides data security and ownership through a secure cloud environment and differential privacy technology.
MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI

Alexander Schill

Investment focus

Hardware, Wearables, Health Care
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Dot Inc — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
Lanfranco & Cordova — Lanfranco & Cordova is an independent creative agency.

Choi Seong-ho is the chairman of the AI Angel Club.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Angel, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
ONES Global — ONES Global provides global healthcare solutions and databases for the healthcare market.
MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.

Shin- jae

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Software
Seed, Series A
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Motion2AI — Motion2AI is the all-in-one artificial intelligence AI telematics solution for warehouses to track MHE equipment, manage safety, schedule jobs, and more.
EO Studio — Media and Information platform provides news and other articles on the start-up in Korea
Updream Korea Co — Updream Korea Co offers feminine, senior care.

Paul Wachter has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2015. Since 1997, Wachter has been the Founder and CEO of financial and asset management advisory firm Main Street Advisors in Los Angeles. Prior to forming Main Street Advisors, from 1993 to 1997, Wachter was Managing Director of Schroder & Co. Incorporated, aninvestment banking and asset management company. He has also served on the board of directors of Time Warner Inc., a publicly-traded media company, since 2010 and the board of directors of Avalanche Biotechnologies, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, since 2014. Wachter has served as a Regent on the University of California Board of Regents since 2004. Wachter brings financial expertise and general business experience to our board of directors and his experience as a director of public companies provides our board of directors with valuable insights to assist in achieving our goals.

Investment focus

Sports, News, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

ATTN: — ATTN: is a content network that helps young people understand and impact the world around them. It was launched in June 2014.
Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
Fenway Sports Group — Fenway Sports Group (FSG) is a global sports, marketing, media, entertainment, and real estate platform anchored by two iconic clubs, the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club (LFC).

Michael Egorov is the Founder of Curve DAO Token. He previously worked at NuCypher as a CTO. Michael Egorov attended Swinburne University of Technology.

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.

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.

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.

Korea University, BSc KAIST, MSc U. of Maryland, Entrepreneurship A.T Kearney Research Assistant LOTTE HQ In-house-consultant SK planet RecoPick Biz. Development

Investment focus

Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Draph — Draph provides cloud solutions and services for product image production and automated optimization to enhance product sales and advertising efficiency. Draph is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 2022.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alex Shin

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.

Hesham Zreik is the Founder and CEO of FasterCapital, an online accelerator and incubator. He has co-founded over 100 startups as a technical co-founder and invested in them as an angel investor. Under his leadership, FasterCapital has expanded its network to include over 1,000 regional partners, 1,000 mentors, and 200 partnerships with incubators,accelerators, and venture funds. The organization has helped over 300 startups raise more than $1 billion.Zreik began programming in 1989 with Basic, transitioning to QBasic in 1992. He ranked 7th in the Baccalaureate exams and earned an engineering degree at HIAST, followed by a DBA at Edinburgh Business School and a Master’s in Computer Information Science from AABFS.In 2018, Forbes ranked him #39 among the top 50 investors based on his investment activity and successful exits. He has invested in over 100 startups, co-founded more than 40, and has served as a mentor and board member for various companies. Zreik's investment interests include AI, fintech, blockchain, e-commerce, IoT, HR, and B2B startups.His portfolio includes companies such as Twitter, Zomato, and SpaceX. In 2002, he founded ZGroup Mobile, growing it to a valuation of $2.5–$3.25 million by 2005. The company was a candidate for acquisition by Incagold plc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Tikkno — Tikkno is a dynamic and innovative company offering an extensive portfolio of 100 high-quality services across key sectors such as technology, marketing, education, training, management, and design. Our mission is to empower businesses and individuals by providing cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique needs.In technology, Tikknodelivers comprehensive IT services that streamline operations, boost efficiency, and enhance digital transformation. From software development to cybersecurity, our solutions are built to keep businesses ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.In marketing, we craft data-driven strategies designed to maximize brand visibility, engagement, and growth. Our team excels in digital marketing, SEO, social media management, and advertising, helping businesses connect with their target audiences effectively.Our education and training services focus on upskilling teams and individuals through tailored programs that combine industry-leading knowledge with practical application. We offer specialized training to ensure that clients stay competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.Management and design services from Tikkno ensure that businesses operate efficiently while presenting a strong visual identity. Our management consulting aids in optimizing workflows and strategic planning, while our design services deliver creative, visually compelling solutions that resonate with audiences.Investing in Tikkno means investing in a forward-thinking company that is dedicated to delivering measurable value, innovative solutions, and long-term growth. With a commitment to excellence and a proven track record of success, Tikkno is positioned to become a key player in driving business success across various industries.
Accel Growth — Accel Growth has created an amazing super oxygenation machine that uses a radical technique to supersaturate water with oxygen by forming new chemical interactions with the minerals in the water.
Intech Research Group — Welcome to the world of TROT FTRs. Empowering the world like never before. Opens up many new business opportunities. And opportunities for the businesses. The opportunities you can’t afford to miss. An ideal for investors. TROT FTRs enjoy huge potential to become a trillion-dollar business. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Robust, sustained revenuestreams. Saves on future inflation for the global households. Year after year, Plan your budget without worrying. Hedge your costs or sell the rights for a good profit. Save big on your vacation, buying a home, children's education, healthcare. And many more. Why not earn while hedging? Good returns. Anytime liquidity, High Safety. Buy, sell, redeem, gift – all from your home comfort. No brokers. FTRs sold by vetted, reputed businesses. Blockchain registered. Legally compliant. Many Govt. corporations may soon offer their FTRs. Tourism, healthcare, agriculture, real estate, education, lifestyle, and many others. Freely tradable on TROT Exchange. ideal investment for households and businesses alike. FTRs for HNIs as the Market Makers. Multiply your returns. Minimal risk. One platform to weave the world's largest and the best network of all the participants – from businesses to households to the service providers An ideal solution for businesses. Meet all your finance needs. No ownership sharing. Think big. Plus, a huge marketing boost. Market Maker support as the up-front buyers.

Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
United States, Canada, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jong-Il Yoon - Venture Partner @ BonAngels Venture Partners

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.

Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.

Investment focus

Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
Seed
Japan, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.

Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop musician, actor, and singer-songwriter. He was discovered in 2008 by American talent manager Scooter Braun and has since driven over 3 billion views to YouTube, gained nearly 81M followers on Twitter, 68M followers on Instagram, and 77M fans on Facebook.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stari — Stari is an entertainment tech platform that connects stars and fans through personal stories.
Legacy — Take charge of your health & invest in your future. Analyze and freeze your sperm from the comfort of home. $0 out of pocket with insurance & fertility benefits.
MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.

Chester is 13 year-long serial entrepreneur with successes such as IPO and M&A with Google. His current company, Ablar Company, is the fourth start-up with a great vision to connect offline world more into online. He worked as a product manager at Google Korea after his last start-up, Tatter&Company had been acquired by Google in 2008.Before Tatter&Company, he founded two more companies, one of which had successfully done the IPO. He also worked as a product manager at SK Telecom, where he developed intelligent personalization system for mobile phone users. Chester received his bachelorâ€™s degree in Management Engineering from KAIST.He's also been an active angel investor and business mentor in the companies like, Ticket Monster (Recently merged to LivingSocial), Paprika Lab, LIFO interactive, Sha.kr Media, Ultra Caption Corp (klassmate.com), Flyfan (clubvenit.com) and J3T (stylesays.com).

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Beauty
Seed, Angel
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

AWAIR — Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea.
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).
Typecast (aka Neosapience) — The online AI voice generator that can turn your text into life-like speech. Our extensive selection of hyper-realistic voices. Create your content just the way you want it!

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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 “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

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.
Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.

Benny Blanco is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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.

Park Jong-hwan is a Founder and CEO at LOC&ALL.

Investment focus

Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology
Angel
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.

Perry Tam is the Co-Founder and Managimg Partner of Locus Ventures. Took up B.S., Computer Science at Cornell University.

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.

Han Ki-yong is an individual investor.

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.

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH NASA Ames Research Center Research Intern LG Uplus Next Browser Dev. Naver Search Engine Crawler Dev. SK planet RecoPick founder & Team Leader

Investment focus

Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Draph — Draph provides cloud solutions and services for product image production and automated optimization to enhance product sales and advertising efficiency. Draph is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 2022.

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 “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc

Investment focus

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.

Kim Chang-won

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

TMM — TMM is a mail-order platform that helps anyone to easily conduct mail-order and field sales.
Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.

Justin Lubliner is a CEO of the Darkroom.

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.

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.

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

Shin Hyun Sung

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.

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.

Sangmin Shim was the CEO and Founder of HogangNono. Sangmin Shim is the current CEO of Cafe Nono.

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.

Solme Kim is President and Chief Product Officer at Kajabi. He attended The University of Texas at Austin.

Investment focus

SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum
Seed, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

StormX — Earn crypto shopping at your favorite stores. Get up to 87.5% Crypto Cashback with each purchase. Download the StormX App & Extension today.
Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.

Yoon Soo-young - CEO @ Trevari

Investment focus

SNS, Software, Content Creators
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
SUN ZU Lab — SUN ZU Lab is a leading independent provider of Quantitative Analytics for Crypto Professionals.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

Founder and CEO of Chartmetric.io, a data analytics company dedicated to serve the music industry, by solving the complex problem by tracking a large amount of data and meeting the industry needs around playlist marketing.Most recently he worked as Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was first employee/engineerat Gamevil (KQ:063080, Market Cap: $400MM), where he initiated mobile game development and eventually positioned the company as a leading mobile game developer. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Social Media
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OPENSURVEY Incorporated — • Founded in 2011, the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
MoxieJam — MoxieJam will be a consumer app targeted to fans of entertainment. During this time of exploding choice in media content, there is a good news / bad news situation for consumers. They have access to an incredible supply of music, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books, but that also brings a significant source of frustration. There is just nogood way to help fans organize their own playlists and watchlists, to share their interests with other fans and to discover new things that they might enjoy. MoxieJam will help fans do just that.
Kurvv — Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening.