Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in South Korea (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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10 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning | $30k–$7M |
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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, Education | $1.6M–$5M |
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel
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4 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Apps, Information Services | $295k–$743k |
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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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Jay Eum
Angel
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3 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Analytics | $85k–$40M |
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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, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.7M–$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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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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Richard Seongho Choi
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed | SaaS, Software, Human Resources | |
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Benjamin Joe
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Angel | Software, Analytics, Credit Bureau | |
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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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Matthew Papakipos
Angel
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2 | United States, South Korea, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel, Series A | Music, Apps, Video | $100k–$286k |
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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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Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Software, Education | |
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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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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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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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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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Mobile, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $798k–$59M |
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Naval Ravikant
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain | $1M–$27M |
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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, Series B | Apps, Mobile, Rental | |
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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, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, FinTech, Analytics | $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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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
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1 | South Korea, Japan | Seed, Angel | Apps, Hotel, Blockchain | $1M–$1M |
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Perry Tam
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed | Mobile, Consumer, Software | $2.6M–$8M |
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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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Tim Draper
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $356k–$50M |
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Geoff Ralston
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Senegal | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$12M |
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Osuke Honda
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$52M |
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Douglas Guen
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce | $50k–$726k |
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Seojoon Kim
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services | $829k–$17M |
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Miguel McKelvey
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States | Pre-Seed, Series A | Real Estate, Rental, Software | |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $6k–$5M |
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Gabriel Fong
Angel
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1 | Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea | Seed | Hotel, Apps, Travel | $400k–$1.1M |
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Blaine Vess
Angel
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $150k–$9.7M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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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, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $30k–$7M; Angel $135k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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.
- Candr — Candr is an IT company that uses artificial intelligence to collect, analyse andpresent detailed information on used cars for sale.
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, Education
- 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, Apps, Information Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- 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.
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
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: 36
- Round size: Seed $85k–$12M; Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opensurvey — • 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.
- RushOrder — Compare the best online casinos for US players: bonuses, banking methods, game libraries and licensing, so you can pick a site that actually fits.
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, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
- CHAI — CHAI they develops infrastructure technologies to create an efficient digital economy.
- Sequin — Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit.
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.
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.
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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.
Benjamin Joe is based out of Singapore and is the Vice President, Asia Pacific of Meta. Benjamin previously worked at Meta as a Vice President, Southeast Asia and Emerging Markets. Benjamin Joe attended the Harvard Business School.Ben received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and holds B.A. degrees in Business Administration andEnglish Literature from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Credit Bureau
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opensurvey — • 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.
- 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.
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.
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–$286k
- 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.
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.
Hwang Seong-hyeon
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $798k–$59M; Venture - Series Unknown $886k–$3.4M
- 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.
Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Algeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Mobile, Rental
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moloco — Unlock the power of your data. Our programmatic performance advertising platform helps brands, games, and apps maximize their return on ad spend.
- SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
- 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: 44
- 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, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $245k–$2.6M; 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.
Alexander Schill
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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.
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.
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- Industry: Apps, Hotel, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Korea, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
- Seamoncoin — Seamon is working on a blockchain-based seafood transaction and smart contract system, according to its white paper.
- 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 $2.6M–$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
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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Browse database — It's Free!Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 323
- Round size: Seed $356k–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CASIMIR —
- illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
- SignalRank — 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.
Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $3.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
- Asymmetric Security — Asymmetric Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup specializing in digital forensics and incident response. It combines elite forensic experts with proprietary AI to accelerate investigations, especially Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, at less than half the cost of competitors while shrinking timelines from days to hours.
Osuke Honda is a General Partner at DCM Ventures, Osuke previously worked at Mitsubishi Corporation and then at Apax Globis Partners & Co (now GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS & Co.). Having assumed the position of Outside Director of Sansan, Inc. in April 2018, he draws on his extensive experience of investment and business management in makinggeneral management recommendations.Osuke Honda attended Hitotsubashi University, The Wharton School, and Keio University.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$52M; Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2.8M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miso — Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.
- 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.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder of Primer. He previously worked at INICIS as a Founder and CEO. Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.
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- Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $100k–$726k; Angel $100k–$520k; Pre-Seed $50k–$336k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 supports interactions across categories such as education, home maintenance, event-related work, and personal services. It enables users to search for and engage providers for specific tasks, while service providers list and manage their offerings through the platform. Soomgo is a local services marketplace.
- Melixir — Melixir creates plant-based skin and body care products rooted in Korean wellness culture. Inspired by the power of Asian medicinal plants, we make quality products that are effective for sensitive skin. We support environmental sustainability by reducing carbon emissions. 100% vegan and cruelty-free. Certified B Corp.
Seojoon Kim (서준 김) is a co-founder and vice president of KnowRe, an education technology company that develops digital learning platforms.Kim’s previous career portfolio includes his time as an intern at Sun Microsystem; intern at Olaworks; manager at ½ project; and project manager at Mozzet. He was also the co-founder of edueyes. Aftergraduating from Seoul Science High School, Kim went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology.
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $829k–$6.7M; Series A $957k–$9M; Series B $8M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
- SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
- Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
McKelvey grew up in a "five-mother collective" in Eugene, Oregon.[2] His family started and ran a weekly newspaper called the Eugene Weekly.[3]In a January 2020 interview with Fortune, McKelvey called himself "a wild kid" on the high school basketball court. He said that he found a sense of accountability from his coach, whowas a strict disciplinarian. He said of Coach Stepp, "I didn’t grow up with my father, so I never had someone telling me to keep in line
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- Industry: Real Estate, Rental, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
- DNK — Dongnae provides an online real estate platform that digitizes the rental and home-buying market. The company's platform assists users to find the right house based on their needs and purpose, even find easy transport to work from the resident with the assistance of the brokers, enabling users to save time and energy on finding the right placeto stay in.It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 622
- Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie
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- Industry: Hotel, Apps, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flow - By the Hour Hotel Booking Platform — Flow App : Book hotels and co-working spaces by the hour. Flexible duration from 1-12 hours. Check-in anytime, save up to 75% off regular prices.
- LIberaTrade — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
- 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.
Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $150k–$8M; Series A $4.8M–$9.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
- Yummy — Yummy develops a food delivery app that operates across Latin America. The app allows users to order and pay for their orders through their mobile application or website platform and offers different payment methods such as foreign credit cards and cash, that conveniently enable users to enjoy their food at a location of their choice.VicenteZavarce founded Yummy in 2020 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States.
- Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1158
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
- Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.
SaaS Angel investor funding in South Korea at a glance
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