Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in South Korea (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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9 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence | $74k–$18M |
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Minsik Cho
Angel
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5 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS | |
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Daniel Shin
Angel
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5 | South Korea, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Legal Tech | $1.6M–$5M |
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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4 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Services, Information Technology | $295k–$743k |
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Jay Eum
Angel
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3 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Analytics | $71k–$40M |
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S Cubic Angels
Angel
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3 | South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, Apps, EdTech | $87k–$223k |
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Han Ki yong
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Fitness | |
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Kim Bong-jin
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Home Decor, Architecture, Interior Design | |
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Richard Seongho Choi
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed | SaaS, Software, Human Resources | |
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Matthew Papakipos
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel, Series A | Music, Apps, Video | $100k–$255k |
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Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Software, Education | |
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Alex Shin
Angel
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2 | Canada, South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS | $895k–$12M |
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Kelvin Dongho Kim
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | News, Content, Advertising | $920k–$29M |
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Primer Saje
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $741k–$1.1M |
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Sisun Lee
Angel
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel | SNS, Software, Content Creators | $895k–$3.8M |
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $4M–$15M |
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Pietro Dova
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea | Series A, Seed | Events, Mobile, Sports | $400k–$12M |
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Jung-hee Ryu
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Fashion, Health Care | $2.7M–$5.3M |
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Brian Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Fashion, Medical, Women's | $891k–$6.9M |
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Martin Randel
Angel
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1 | Sweden, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Mobile, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $669k–$59M |
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Naval Ravikant
Angel
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$25M |
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Erik Peterson
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Algeria | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $69k–$20M |
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Sungmoon Cho
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Digital Entertainment, Audio, Music | $275k–$1M |
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Victor Wang
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $150k–$143M |
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Perry Ha
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Rental, FinTech | |
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Do Kwon
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech | $1.2M–$28M |
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Shrishti Sahu
Angel
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1 | India, Singapore, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Financial Services, Apps | $125k–$25M |
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David Lee
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $245k–$25M |
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Alexander Schill
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Corporate Round | Hardware, Wearables, Health Care | |
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Michael Egorov
Angel
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1 | Singapore, South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Benjamin Joseph Levin
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Content, Software, Media and Entertainment | |
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Byeong-min Yeo
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series B | Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps | |
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Park Jong-hwan
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Angel | Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology | |
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Seung Yoon Lee
Angel
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1 | Singapore, India, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, B2B, Productivity Tools | |
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Son Seok-gu
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Apparel, Fashion | |
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Justin Bieber
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Media and Entertainment, Music, Video | $891k–$555M |
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Sean (Solme) Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed | SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum | |
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Yoon Soo-young
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | SNS, Software, Content Creators | |
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
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1 | Japan, South Korea | Seed | Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps | $1M–$1M |
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Perry Tam
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed | Mobile, Consumer, Software | $2.2M–$8M |
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Samuel Ahn
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Child Care, Elder Care, Health Care | |
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Fernando Martinelli
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech | |
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Stani Kulechov
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Tarun Chitra
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | |
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Robert Leshner
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | |
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Bong Jin Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile Apps, Pet, Software | |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | |
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Chaehyun Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Pre-Seed | Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology | |
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Seo Jae-young
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series B | Apps, Dental, EdTech | |
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Kim Won-tae
Angel
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order | |
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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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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $491k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $74k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
- Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
- Outside Board Director, Kakao Corp. (Korea’s Telegram) - (Ex) Senior partner, KPMG Korea - Certified Public Accountant - Business Administration, Seoul National University
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Bitbyte — Fun communication. A happy world. We maximize the value of communication with a mobile keyboard app used by over 600K people.
- Mapiacompany — Official website of Mapiacompany. We are innovate Music-Tech industry and musician's daily life.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Legal Tech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
- Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
Taekkyung Lee co-founded Daum Communications and served as CTO and Head of Communication & Community Services, leading Daum's growth into a major portal service and its KOSDAQ listing. He later facilitated the M&A of D&Shop, a spin-off from Daum, to GS Home Shopping. While contemplating his path as a serial entrepreneur andinvestor, he decided to focus on early-stage investments and began investing in early-stage startups in earnest. He established Mashup Angels (now Mashup Ventures), an early-stage startup investment firm, and as CEO, aims to support portfolio companies' growth and engage in various activities within the startup ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $295k–$743k; Angel $371k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
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.
- Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.
Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $71k–$12M; Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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.
- 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.
- Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
S Cubic Angels
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- Industry: Education, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $87k–$223k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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 proptech and rental finance platform operated by KRG Group that provides “zero-deposit” monthly rental solutions for residential and commercial leases. The service helps tenants reduce or eliminate upfront security deposits while guaranteeing landlords stable monthly rent payments.
- Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
Han Ki-yong is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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.
Baedal Minjok was created in 2010 by founder Kim Bong-jin.
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- Industry: Home Decor, Architecture, Interior Design
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kimcaddie — Kimcaddie, a screen golf platform, which is providing End to End golf experience.
- Staybility — THE CULTURE OF SPACES
Richard Seongho Choi
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Matthew Papakipos
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- Industry: Music, Apps, Video
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $100k–$255k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ozarka — Why Just Eat When You Can Inspire? Beautiful Reusables for Caterers Who Lead. Save money, time, and storage space with reusables services. Ozarka reusables are not just a sustainable choice
- 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.
- Snibbe Studio — Snibbe Studio is pioneering a new interactive music platform for people to socially engage with visual music. Based in the lessons learned from making bestselling bespoke music apps, we are currently in stealth mode, building a mass-market mobile product to release this Fall.
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- Industry: Software, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.
Alex Shin
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $895k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saga.xyz — Saga builds AI agents that turn characters, brands, and worlds into living digital participants that can engage, adapt, and grow across the internet.
- Infrared Finance — Infrared simplifies interacting with Proof of Liquidity with liquid products.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Kelvin Dongho Kim is the founding Chief Executive of Korea Credit Data (KCD), a leading provider of essential digital services for small and medium-sized businesses in South Korea. KCD’s offerings span business management software, credit scoring, POS and payments infrastructure, as well as a marketplace platform. Together with its fivesubsidiaries, the company currently supports over 3 million businesses, establishing itself as a dominant force in the Korean SME services landscape.A recognised figure in Korea’s start-up ecosystem, Kelvin is a serial entrepreneur whose first major success was Opensurvey, a mobile-based consumer data and insights platform.In 2025, Kelvin was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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- Industry: News, Content, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $920k–$29M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
- Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.
- The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
Primer Saje
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $741k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Jiro — By simplifying video creation, we enable people around the world to tell their stories more successfully.
- Doctornow — Doctornow is a leading digital healthcare platform in South Korea and the pioneer of the nation's first remote medical consultations & drug delivery services. Doctornow offers a range of services, including medical AI assessments and real-time consultations with medical practitioners.
Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $895k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hamming AI — Complete voice & chat agent QA platform. Auto-generate scenarios, replay production calls, 50+ metrics. SOC 2 certified. Start in under 10 minutes.
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Sunghwan Choi
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $4M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
- Pilotly — Gain insight into any video or creative asset by using Pilotly to create and field studies that will help you discover what your consumer really thinks.
- BOOQED — Transform any underutilized areas into co-working spaces with QUBIC booths and software. People can book them as work pods for meeting rooms, office spaces, hot desks, access control system included.
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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- Industry: Events, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $400k–$800k; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
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
Brian Kim is Founder & Chairman at Kakao.
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- Industry: Fashion, Medical, Women's
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $891k–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neuroventi — Neuroventi is a biotechnology venture that focuses on creating therapies for neurological disorders. It is engaged in the development of small molecule medications targeting neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and depression, while also performing preclinical contractdevelopment and research organization (CDRO).
- Malama Health — Personalized support through Diabetes in Pregnancy. Download our App on the App Store and Google Play. We help moms diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes log and track glucose levels, snap pictures of meals for automatic ingredient tagging, record exercise, stress and medication, and share reports wi
- 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.
Martin Randel is the Co-founder, Executive Board Member, and Owner of Unifaun. He previously worked as an Owner and CEO at Öregard AB. He attended Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $669k–$59M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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 protects digital banking users from account takeover and man-in-the-middle attacks using true out-of-band, passwordless authentication.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Algeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$20M; Equity Crowdfunding $69k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — Pioneering the first oral drug for FSHD and advancing cancer treatment solutions.
Sungmoon Cho is based out of San Mateo, California, and is the Founder and CEO of Chartmetric. Sungmoon previously worked at Oracle as a Principal Product Manager. Sungmoon Cho attended Seoul National University.
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- Industry: Digital Entertainment, Audio, Music
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $275k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saarey — The world's largest online collection of South Asian classical music, with ustads and pandits exclusively performing rare renditions in khayal, dhurpad, thumri and more.
- 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.
Victor Wang is based out of New York, New York and is the Partner of HOF Capital. Victor previously worked at Stanford University as a Researcher. Victor Wang attended the University of California, Berkeley. Victor Wang has received Principal’s Award for Academic Excellence.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $150k–$14M; Series A $10M–$26M; Series B $55M–$143M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
- Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
- Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat
Perry Ha is the founder of DFJ Athena, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson affiliate venture fund focused on investments in Korea and the US.He has been an active investor since 1998 when he founded Athena Technology Ventures.He has invested in and/or served on the board of many successful companies including Ipivot (INTC), Demandtec (DMAN),Imparto Software (PKS), ProfitLogic (ORCL), and Zantaz (AUTNF).He also served as an interim CEO at two companies. He currently serves on the board of several companies in Korea and the US.Prior to his venture capital career, he led the Technology Management Practice at Gemini Consulting, a global management consultancy, helping Fortune 1000 clients to manage technology portfolios and develop new products. Prior to that, he managed an R&D Group at Amicon, a life science devices company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994. He was granted two patents during his tenure at Amicon.He serves on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), on the Visiting Committee at MIT, and on the Leadership Board of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Apps, Rental, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
- Precursor Energetics — Precursor Energetics utilizes state-of-the-art inorganic and organometallic chemistry, coupled with advanced process engineering and materials science, to satisfy the need for high value advanced materials within the electronics and energy markets. Our technology can fundamentally change the way that many of these materials are produced.Precursor Energetics’ proprietary molecular precursor ink technology provides atomic-level control over material structure and composition. It thereby improves material uniformity, performance, and yield while enabling high-throughput manufacturing processes using low-cost printing and coating methods.Our technology platform is applicable to a wide range of markets, including thin film solar, Li-ion batteries, transparent conductors, LED lighting, and others.
- Zeuss Technologies — Zeuss Technologies develops next generation blockchain-based Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) technology for cash intensive industries. Zeuss’ software non-intrusively monitors and verifies all financial activity across industries and efficiently fulfills federal regulatory compliance obligations.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$18M; Series A $5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Levana — $LVN community airdrop is open. Early supporters get rewarded
- 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.
entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)
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- Industry: Internet, Financial Services, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Singapore, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1M; Series A $3.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
- Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
- Thermoflyde — Refractory
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
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $245k–$2.4M; Angel $1.7M–$10M; Series A $2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bolt Labs — Our mission at Bolt Labs is to build a usable, secure, and scalable infrastructure to enable everyone to securely store their assets while preserving the privacy of their transactions. Bolt’s secure computation solutions (or MPC) allow you to protect your user’s assets while providing confidentiality, ensuring integrity, and preventing misuse ortheft. A technology that is fast becoming the standard for digital asset security, MPC enables these benefits by federating trust across multiple parties and allowing evaluation of functions without decrypting private inputs. Bolt is also developing the zkChannels L2 protocol - a scalable and usable privacy-preserving payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including but not limited to public blockchains. We believe zkChannels will set a new standard for secure payments in online services, giving merchants a seamless way to comply with emerging privacy regulations and delight their customers with cryptographically rigorous respect for their privacy.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
- The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
- The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
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- Industry: Hardware, Wearables, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dot — 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 — We are an agency of optimists, for brands that believe anything is possible.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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Yeo Byeong-min serves as CEO at DTR Partners.
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Park Jong-hwan is a Founder and CEO at LOC&ALL.
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- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Information Technology
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Gametales — Gametales is a mobile, online, and PC game development company.
Seung-yoon Lee is a Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment. He attended University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, Productivity Tools
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
- Mahojin — Mahojin is a search-to-generate AI platform that instantly provides exact images through an ever-expanding and remixable library.
- SkyArk — First Triple AAA Fantasy Anime Blockchain RPG from Veteran Studio
Son Seok-gu is an Actor.
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- Industry: Apparel, Fashion
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Music, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $891k–$2.7M; Series A $87M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Legacy — Founded by a team of healthcare and fertility experts at Harvard, Legacy (YC S19) is changing outdated views around fertility and family planning by building a digital fertility clinic for men.As the leader in this space, we work with leading insurers, leading military partners, and leading fertility benefits providers partners in addition to ourdirect to consumer offering - simply order a kit online and have it shipped directly to your door. Organizations we work with include the Navy SEALs, Carrot, Kindbody, UnitedHealthCare, Aetna, Cigna, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and others. Investors include FirstMark Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, Section 32, TQ Ventures, and Tribe Capital and the company has raised over $20M in funding. You can learn more about the company in recent coverage by the Washington Post, Economist, New York Times, CNBC, and others.Meet us at https://www.givelegacy.com/team. While we might be a male fertility company, we're a majority-female company!
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
Solme Kim is President and Chief Product Officer at Kajabi. He attended The University of Texas at Austin.
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- Industry: SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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
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- Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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- Industry: Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Mobile, Consumer, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- Eunice — Eunice combines extensive on-chain data with powerful off-chain insights to provide a customisable, AI-driven due diligence and monitoring solution
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Browse database — It's Free!Samuel Ahn is the current Chief Innovation Officer of Match Group. He attended Seoul National University.
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- Industry: Child Care, Elder Care, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- VivaLabs — VivaLabs is a health tech company that analyzes senior health data with AI technology and implements a personalized exercise prescription system to provide scientific strength training programs.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
- 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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Bongjin is the CEO & Co-Founder of Woowa Brothers.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Pet, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ban Life — Ban Life is a mobile application that provides real-time information related to pet accommodations nationwide.
- Vendys — Vendys offers mobile meal management solution for office workers.
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.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
- Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
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
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- Industry: Consulting, Professional Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Seo Jae-young is the managing director of NH Investment & Securities.
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- Industry: Apps, Dental, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Kim Won-tae
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- Industry: Mobile, PC Games, Made to Order
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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