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Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in South Korea

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Saas startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor	SaaS South Korea investments
Strong Ventures	75
Capstone Partners	75
Kakao Ventures	64
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund	59
KB Investment	57
DSC Investment	44
Korea Investment Partners	40
Shinhan Capital	37
Stonebridge Capital	33
Industrial Bank of Korea	32
Softbank Ventures Asia	28
TheVentures	28
Lotte Ventures	27
Altos Ventures	26
Smilegate Investment	24
Hana Ventures	23
Primer Sazze Partners	22
D3 Jubilee	19
Korea Development Bank	19
MYSC	18
AI Angel Club	18
Hashed	18
Company K Partners	17
Fast Ventures	16
IMM Investment	16
Shinhan Venture Investment	15
SJ Investment Partners	15
KDB Capital	15
InterVest Co.	14
Hyundai Motor Group	14
CRIT Ventures	14
Coolidge Corner Investment	14
Kolon Investment	14
Stone Bridge Ventures	14
Pohang University of Science and Technology	14
Atinum Investment	13
Devsisters Ventures	13
Series Ventures	13
POSCO CAPITAL	13
Seoul Business Agency(SBA)	13
STIC Ventures	13
KOSME	12
InfoBank	12
Big Basin Capital	12
CJ Investment	11
Future Science and Technology Holdings	11
IBK Capital	11
Dunamu & Partners	11
KT investment	10
GS Shop	10

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Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Pillyze — mobile health care startup
InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Pillyze — mobile health care startup
Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.
Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Runbear — Let Runbear handle toil for you. Automate mundane tasks and focus on the important work.
Dremo — Dreamo is a leading game developer making great games for friends, family, and people around the world.
Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.
Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 1.4 Billion of asset under management as of December 2013. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
RSN — RSN provides solutions that analyze changes in social awareness and trends in the flow of digital information and suggest their meaning.

DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.
Bionsight — Bionsight is a drug discovery company that uses Chemoproteomics interweaved with AI to speed up the drug development process.
Superblock — Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core.

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.

Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
CLOP — CLOP is an ophthalmology medical company that provides services to prevent blindness in patients through AI-based eye disease management.
Cashwalk — Cashwalk is an app that motivates to walk by providing financial incentives.

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.

SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

B GARAGE — B GARAGE is an autonomous drone and service company for warehouse inventory management. B GARAGE is an homage to Willow Garage, a widely respected robotics research company that developed an open-source robotics software platform.
Lapotable — Lapotable is a ecommerce platform that trades food products that come directly from agricultural and farm lands.
Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring
slowave — Slowwave discovered that the current sleep test is performed in a foreign hospital setting with numerous sensors attached to the head, making it impossible to test and identify sensitive insomnia patients effectively. As a result, a microprocessor and low-power measuring algorithm were integrated into an ultra-light patch, allowing patients withinsomnia to easily perform sleep EEG at home while eliminating factors that interfere with the examination and boosting measurement precision.

Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
JK Teck — JK Teck is an electronic material technology company that provides border, flatiq, and pen products.

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
MathFLAT — MathFLAT is a B2B mobile solution for mathematics education.
PlayList — PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that has been growing remarkably alongside our many invested companies. From our initial venture capital funding in 2000, we have since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds, and have invested in morethan 200 companies with promising growth potential.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.

Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.

Investment focus

Software, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, Japan, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
S-Alpha Therapeutics — Digital approach for unmet medical needs. We embody technology that understands and cares for humans.

Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Solvook — Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services.
Paraform — Get paid to recruit for the most exciting startups on your own terms. Recruiting has never been so accessible.
Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.

D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
RTBP ALLIANCE — RTBP ALLIANCE focuses on creating co-working spaces and modernize old places for local communities.

The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.

MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, China, France

Portfolio highlights

VPP — VPP Lab is a renewable energy IT firm that maintains a power brokerage platform that connects small-scale renewable energy enterprises with electricity users such as power exchanges, organizations, and individuals.
JeCLEAN — Jacqueline, an ESG startup, draws attention to the vast amounts of abandoned and burnt hotel bedding waste on Jeju Island and provides industrial solutions through upcycling solutions that recycle it into cotton-based raw materials, yarns, and fabrics.
Piter Peter — Piter Peter is a pet healthcare platform that provides health care guides to companion animals based on genetic testing.

AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.
Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
ONES Global — ONES Global provides global healthcare solutions and databases for the healthcare market.

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.

Company K Partners Limited is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in culture content, electronic components, computer, machinery, broadcasting, arts, sports, and leisure industries. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeongnam, and Gyeonggi. Company K Partners Limited was established in 2006 and isbased in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
Databank — Databank is an AI-based EdTech Startup that provides online test preparation services with instant scoring through TestGlider.
Imagoworks Inc — Imagoworks Inc. offers a Web-based Dental CAD solution using AI, streamlining the digital workflow for dental professionals. Together with world-class technology, we are setting new standards for digital dentistry in the global market. Our mission is to <Making the future of digital medicine for everyone>.While we have accumulatedtechnological expertise in the medical field for over 10 years, specializing in AI-based automation, 3D geometric modeling and mesh processing, and software as a service (SaaS), we now turn our focus to commercializing our innovative technologies and transforming the field of digital dentistry. By cooperating with and licensing to leading global dental companies, we are seeing great success as we find ourselves in the industry spotlight.Imagoworks currently offers Dentbird Crown which automatically generates optimal crown designs with a single click and without any software installation required. As we continue to expand our services, Imagoworks aims to be recognized as a chairside design solution for dentists worldwide.

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inertia — Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology.
Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

Korean alternative asset investment firm

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Munto — Munto is a community platform that enables individuals to connect better online and offline depending on their interests.
d'strict — World-Class Digital Media Design Company
N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.

Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.

SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.
GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.
GenKOre — GenKOre operates as a biotech company, specializing in genetic scissors.

KDB Capital finances offers investment, corporate loan, lease, auto financial, and commercial card services for companies in South Korea.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
GC COMPANY — GC COMPANY is an online search platform that provides accommodation for hotels, foods, and events.
Good Choice Company — Good Choice Company is a hotel and travel booking platform that connects hotel guests and accommodations. It aims to solve the accommodation journey's inconvenience and build a reliable accommodation environment.

Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Dot Inc — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
Jente — Jente provides a B2B service that connects boutiques with domestic companies. The company's online platform offers distinct products that become trendsetters as a result of rapidly discovering and sourcing new brands, allowing clients to quickly bring new products from boutiques.

Hyundai Motor Group is an automotive company that also affiliates in other industries such as construction, steel, and finance. They have developed a value chain focused on vehicles, steel, and construction, as well as logistics, finance, information technology, and service.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Angel
South Korea, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Korea Zinc — Korea Zinc operates as a general non-ferrous metal smelting company primarily in South Korea. It offers zinc slab ingots, alloy jumbo blocks, anode ingots, and die cast ingots for use in galvanized steel plates, steel pipes and wires, color steel plates, automobile parts, machine/electronic parts, anti-corrosion paints, etc. Korea Zinc alsoprovides lead and lead alloy ingots used in automobile and industrial batteries, electric wire coatings, radiation shielders for batteries, anti-corrosion paints, etc.; and copper for use in copper plates, pipes, wires, as well as bronze, etc. Moreover, it offers gold used in semiconductors, PCBs, electrically conducting materials, jewelries, coins, etc.; and silver for use in electronic products, cameras, X-ray films, jewelries, etc. Further, Korea Zinc provides other rare metals, including indium, bismuth, antimony, antimony trioxide, cadmium, tellurium, cobalt, cadmium sticks, gallium, selenium, etc.; sulfuric acid used in inorganic chemicals, metal refining, steel making, and spinning and weaving, as well as in chemical and fertilizer, fiber, and paper manufacturing industries; electronic grade sulfuric acid used for cleaning and etching in semiconductor manufacturing process; and oleum used in nitro compounds, dye stuffs, chloro sulfonic acid, blasting powder, and oxidation. It began operation in 1974, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
Tenstorrent — At Tenstorrent, we build AI processors for machine learning workloads of today and tomorrow.
ANGELSWING — ANGELSWING provides web-based platform which turns drone captured images into actionable business and social insights.

The Road Not Taken

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.

Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Geek Planner —
Somsidang Company — Somsidang Company is an online learning platform that offers baking and pottery painting training services.
Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.

Kolon Investment, Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in buyouts, mezzanine, corporate restructuring, growth capital, and turnaround investment. It prefers to invest in electronic components, petroleum, energy, computer, and telecommunications equipment. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul,Gyeonggi, Incheon, and Gyeongbuk. Kolon Investment, Inc. was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Source: Businessweek

Investment focus

Apps, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
Daejin Advanced Materials Co. — Daejin Advanced Materials Co. is a research institute that manufactures fullerene, electric, and thermally conductive polymer materials.
AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.

Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

RSN — RSN provides solutions that analyze changes in social awareness and trends in the flow of digital information and suggest their meaning.
Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.

Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.

Atinum Investment Co., Ltd. is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in the information technology and communication, materials for Information technology, renewable energy, metal and non-metal, distribution, media and contents, materials and components, and biotechnology and life science industries

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.
Doodlin — Doodlin creates and operates Greeting and also manages Application registration, resume verification, applicant management, interview schedule adjustments, and recruitment evaluations
POSTYPE — POSTYPE is a content open market where anyone can sell and buy digital content.

Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

Investment focus

Gaming, Health Care, B2B
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
Naurobotics — Naurobotics is a robot automation company that offers robot automation systems and grip systems.
Onthelook — Onthelook provides a fashion app for creating fashion. The fashion creator and commerce platform of the company assist the fashion market in using fashion items that can expose brands and products in a variety of ways.

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea

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Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
Fxip — FXIP has the capacity to quickly complete a number of processes, including product planning, design, and manufacturing. Through the introduction of various IP brands in the food & life sector, it has already demonstrated the potential of the business.
Simply Care Bio — Simply Care Bio is a care food company that manufactures functional foods based on ingredient composition and amplification technology through water-solubilization of fatty acids and immunity-building technology through cell activation.

POSCO Capital offers financial services.

Investment focus

Software, Online Portals, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States

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H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.

Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.

Investment focus

Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea

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Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
UCI Therapeutics — UCI Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company.

STIC Ventures invests in small and mid-sized venture companies with core technologies and new business models.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Automotive
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Vietnam, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.

KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Tredy Team — Tredy Team online platform provides athleisure fashion.
Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.
Intosky — Intosky is an unmanned aircraft vehicle company that develops airline products and designs.

InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
Fairy — Capture the high intent moments to persuade users outside of your app. Accompany your customers outside of your app and engage at an intent-rich moment in real time.
Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.

Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Village Baby — Village Baby is an online marketplace that provides childbirth and parenting products and information.
Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
Brandi — Brandi sells clothes, cosmetics, and home interior products.

CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
Sneakers — Sneakers is a real-time on-demand local information platform.

Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.
Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
Order Hero — Order Hero is an application for food service management.

IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.

Dunamu & Partners is the professional investment arm of Dunamu, South Korea's leading fintech company which operates Upbit, Stockplus and Stockplus Unlisted. Dunamu & Partners primarily invests in the fintech, blockchain and AI/data/contents sector. Its investments are agnostic to industry, geography and size.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Gaming
Seed, Series B, Series A
South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
CLASSUM — CLASSUM is an interactive learning platform for higher education. CLASSUM aims to make communication easy, simple and smart for better education. With its unique UI/UX, which is based on chatting UI and SNS features, it lowers the communication barrier between the users(students and instructors). Also with their A.I./Big-data analysistechnique, CLASSUM provides users an in-depth class report which can be applied to improve their class and gain overall information about their students and the course.
Genome Insight — Genome Insight is revolutionizing healthcare through whole genome sequencing, enabling personalized patient care.

kt investment is a new technology business finance company established in 2015. It is an investment company that represents KT Group .kt investment seeks to contribute to social contribution and maximize investment return through win-win cooperation with promising SMEs and venture companies .kt investment seeks to achieve long-term returns bylooking at the market from a global perspective and looking for value investment opportunities in the long term.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

VCAT.AI — VCAT.AI is a business-to-business (B2B) subscription software (SaaS) based on AI technology. Create mass marketing creatives as video and banner images just with an product URL or TEXT.
Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
Superb AI — Automate data preparation, label and manage images and videos, and find annotation services with one training data platform. Fast, precise, and easy to use.

GSHS is Korea’s foremost multimedia retailer as well as a global leader in TV home shopping.GSHS strives to fulfill its corporate vision of ‘Value No. 1 Online Commerce Leader’, working tirelessly to create a new quality of life by enabling our customers to shop conveniently whenever and wherever. This vision is the guiding light that hasfueled our growth to the very apex of Korea’s multimedia retail industry.GSHS focuses on creating a shopping environment that is convenient and accessible. To this end, we provide shopping services not only via TV, internet, and shopping catalogs but also through new media platforms, including digital cable TV, IPTV (internet protocol television), smartphones, and tablet PCs.We continuously strive to enhance our customers’ quality of life. We search all corners of the globe for quality products that can further enrich our customers’ lives, and we never stop thinking about new services that would provide added convenience.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Guhada — Guhada platform serves as a luxury goods distribution hub, connecting local boutiques in Europe, domestic conglomerate shopping malls, and luxury goods and fashion vertical commerce. Guhada has been supplying the domestic market with luxury goods owned by European boutiques, ranging from high-demand high-end luxury goods to contemporary onlineproducts.
AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
Pet Friends — Pet Friends is a one-hour delivery service for pet supplies.

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