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Top 50 Social Media VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Gaming, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $287k–$42M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $741k–$35M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $973k–$50M
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $200k–$15M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $278k–$27M
Bridge Alliance Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, CRM, Wholesale $188k–$9.3M
TheVentures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $72k–$5.1M
Magna Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $147k–$18M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $6M–$102M
Globespan Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Spain, Canada Series B, Series C, Series D Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology $6M–$44M
DT Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 China, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $1.5M–$102M
Kakao Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $811k–$123M
Qiming Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 China, United States, Hong Kong Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $4.3M–$120M
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence $223k–$17M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $424k–$20M
Northern Light Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 China, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $1.5M–$60M
KB Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $737k–$44M
Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $256k–$5.2M
InfoBank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $85k–$16M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $414k–$15M
Samsung Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $3.9M–$148M
Hanyang University
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Angel, Grant Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $675k–$2.2M
Bridges Alliance Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series B News, Cosmetics, Lifestyle
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Financial Services $125k–$105M
IBK Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Gaming $752k–$26M
ENSL Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Convertible Note Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps $74k–$1.1M
SparkLabs Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Egypt Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail $1.6M–$7.9M
SK Planet
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Mobile, Software, Fashion $35k–$4.3M
SK Telecom
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Corporate Round, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $766k–$113M
Pathfinder H
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $775k–$26M
WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $2.5M–$18M
Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software $450k–$7.8M
Hyundai Motor Group
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $77k–$45M
SANDBOX
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Video, Content, Audio
Stick Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.3M–$122M
DSC Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology $594k–$60M
SV Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $4.9M–$80M
DAOL Investment & Securities
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.4M–$38M
ActnerLab
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $47k–$815k
Partners for Growth
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, United Arab Emirates Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.1M–$65M
DS Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Medical, E-Commerce $2k–$51M
Kolon Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Indonesia, United States Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
KDB Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $500k–$39M
Reventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Media and Entertainment
Geon Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Apps, Gaming $2k–$36M
TBT
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $678k–$18M
VNTG Corp.
VC Fund
1 South Korea, France, United States Seed, Grant Manufacturing, Product Design, Service Industry $37k–$891k
BlissVine Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS $200k–$5.2M
One Billion Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Information Technology, Art
Kyobo Securities
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Indonesia Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Financial Services, Apps $1.5M–$135M
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$6.5M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $287k–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
  • A button — A button is a game development firm that focuses on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), first-person shooter (FPS) games, roguelikes, and souls-likes. Averton makes extensive use of AI. This strategy enhances development efficiency by minimizing the need for information gathering, data organization, and basic repetitivetasks. In certain instances, programmer productivity can nearly double.
  • Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Social Media startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $741k–$4.7M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
  • Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
  • Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 538
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$10M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Series B $4.9M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
  • Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Social Media startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $264k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Concorda — Concorda is a legal tech platform helping teams manage contracts, automate workflows, and streamline business operations.
  • Acro — Main - ACRO
  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 416
  • Round size: Seed $278k–$4M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Corologic — Korologic develops cardiovascular imaging AI solutions for medical procedures.
  • A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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Bridge Alliance Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Bridges Alliance Partners focuses on investing in companies with innovative concepts and technologies. Their purpose is to find innovative businesses and assist them in reaching their goals. They seek to be trustworthy partners at all stages of development, regardless of the stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, CRM, Wholesale
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $188k–$2.5M; Series A $223k–$4M; Series B $1.8M–$9.3M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PRTN — PRTN is the company that owns and operates Proteinner, a high-protein fast food brand focused on delivering convenient, nutritious meals designed to support active and health-conscious lifestyles.
  • Moho — Moho develops an AI-based 3D simulation platform for ceramic manufacturing and industrial production. The company provides digital design, simulation, and process optimization tools that help manufacturers improve production efficiency, reduce errors, and streamline workflow through virtual modeling and AI-driven analysis of manufacturingprocesses.
  • Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services. It is a online wholesale marketplace that connects buyers with products from major Korean shopping districts. It allows users to browse and order items directly from multiple vendors in one place.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $72k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Group by — Group by is a recruitment platform for start-up career developer
  • Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
  • Libra Health — Libra Health develops menstrual-cycle-focused sports nutrition products for female athletes.
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Magna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

As a Venture Capital / Accelerator / Private Equity Manager specialized in initial companies, SMEs and SMEs, They are generating profits by finding and investing in companies with promising growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $147k–$3.1M; Series A $1.8M–$12M; Series B $3.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging The number of influencers is explosively increasing. Featuring allows brands and marketers to discover product-fit influencers andhelps matching based on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring, and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia, including Japan and China.
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2087
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$55M; Series B $10M–$85M; Series C $15M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $468M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Zyngenia —
  • ARRIS — High-volume producer of advanced carbon parts for drones, aerospace, cycling, and consumer applications. (Made in U.S.A. or Taiwan)
  • Lithium Technologies — Lithium builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. Brands like Microsoft, HP, Sephora, Virgin and Barclaycard and customers in more than 34 countries rely on Lithium to help them connect, engage, and understand their total community. With more than 100million monthly visits over all Lithium communities and 750 million online profiles scored by Klout, Lithium has one of the largest digital footprints in the world. Using that data and the company’s software, Lithium customers boost sales, reduce service costs, spark innovation, and build long-term brand loyalty and advocacy.
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Globespan Capital Partners
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Globespan is the VC firm passionate about partnering with entrepreneurs as they take their companies to market. We uniquely serve these companies, helping them establish the infrastructure required to scale their offerings. We invest in startups in the IT infrastructure, SaaS, mobile, and Internet industries. With our personal market-facingexpertise, strategic approach, and strong industry networks, we help companies realize their potential. Our track record with entrepreneurs has led us to become a leading venture capital firm across the globe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Series B $6M–$32M; Series C $10M–$32M; Series D $7M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Betterment — Betterment can help grow your money by making saving and investing easy. Invest in a tailored portfolio, set buckets for your goals, and earn rewards.
  • Pelican Imaging — POKER369 Daftar Situs Poker Online Terpercaya Indonesia Agen Resmi IDN POKER Terbaik Game Terlengkap DominoQQ, Bandar Ceme Deposit Pulsa 10RB Bonus Member Baru
  • GupShup — Deploy secure, scalable AI Agents with enterprise-ready infrastructure. Gupshup powers billions of customer conversations across channels and industries.
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DT Capital Partners
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

DT Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to early and expansion stage companies. They invest in dynamic businesses that have high growth potential, strong management teams, and demonstrated revenue models in both technology-based and traditional industries. DT Capital Partners currently manages overUSD$500 Million in capital across multiple US dollar and RMB funds, and also has a close affiliation with Madrone Capital in the US, the investment entity for members of the Walton family.In addition to funds, the invested company also benefits from their extensive experience in operating capital markets across the country, close relationships with local governments and companies, and synergies with other investment companies.DT Capital Partners was awarded the “Top 10 China's Best Return Venture Capital Institution” in 2016, and the founding partners of Detong Capital, Shao Jun and Tian Lixin. DT Capital Partner was founded in 2006 and is based in Shanghai, China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$31M; Series B $2.9M–$90M; Series C $15M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $286M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Villanelle Life — Villanelle Life is a biotechnology company that specializes in creating AI drugs, early screening, and auxiliary diagnosis platforms to solve complex diseases.
  • Honghu Future Energy — Honghu Fusion is a commercial nuclear fusion startup developing high-temperature superconducting stellarator technology
  • Yincheng Intelligent — Yincheng Intelligent is an enterprise focused on developing new types of productivity. It is committed to revolutionizing traditional labor models through advanced embodied intelligence technology, thereby increasing productivity and freeing up human resources. The company provides services in multiple fields, including logistics, pharmaceuticals,chemicals, industry, and home services, building a new development pattern of smart work and smart living. Its main product is currently sorting robots used in the logistics industry.
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Kakao Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Incorporated in 2015, Kakao Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Kakao which specializes in venture capital investments.Based on Kakao’s philosophy of “Connect Everything”, Kakao Investment seeks to invest and support innovative start-ups that can realize interpersonal connection and the connection of all of us to the things around us. Also KakaoInvestment strives to foster a virtuous circle with in the venture environment by facilitating M&As and IPOs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $811k–$20M; Series A $1.8M–$12M; Series C $7.1M–$123M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
  • Tommoro Robotics — We build the next generation of Physical AI.
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Qiming Venture Partners
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong in China, and Singapore.Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companiesin the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1195
  • Round size: Series A $4.3M–$48M; Series B $7.9M–$90M; Series C $12M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $8M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • LP Amina — LP Amina focuses on products that improve coal-fired power plant's emissions and efficiency. Leveraging 50 unique patented products to improve the firing system of a coal-fired boiler, including Rotating Vane Wheels, High Performance Classifiers, Coal Pipe Balancing Technologies, and Burner Enhancements, the Company provides products andsolutions that will meet or exceed the expectations of their customers. Furthermore, LP Amina's corporate culture is one of a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement. Utilizing the latest technology and traditional know-how from the World's two largest users of Coal for power generation, the Company is well positioned to develop new products and solutions to meet the ever changing needs of Power Industry.LP Amina's staff has over 20 years of experience in the design, fabrication, installation and commissioning of coal-fired power plants. During this time, the team has gained a wide range of experience from the evolution of the US Power Market. Increases in environmental regulations and free market driven energy prices have forced plant operators to reduce emissions and improve reliability while lowering operational cost. LP Amina's engineering and design team will leverage this experience gained from the US and Europe to address the emergence of similar issues in China.
  • Nice Tuan — Nice Tuan is an e-commerce platform that provides daily groceries and miscellaneous products.
  • Shennapsi Artificial Intelligence Technology — Synapsor is a medical-grade wearable device research and development company, oriented to the AI+ medical and health field, and is committed to the development and manufacturing of AI-powered medical-grade smart wearable devices, including AI-ECG artificial intelligence. Diagnostic analysis system, CUMS uric acid blood glucose and cholesterolmonitoring system, etc. The company has recently received tens of millions of yuan in Series B investment, and the investor is Xiaomi Technology.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 306
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.8M; Series A $371k–$11M; Series B $914k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • Intellicia — AI-powered Synthetic Consumers platform for market research. 91.2% Spearman Correlation, 93.6% accuracy validated across 120+ PoC projects.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $424k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$11M; Series B $4.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
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Northern Light Venture Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Supporting the next generation of entpreneurs in enterprise, healthcare, and consumer with disruptive potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: China, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 397
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$40M; Series B $8.8M–$56M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $375M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Flytech — Flytech specializes in crystal materials and related components for magneto-optical-electrical integrated signal processing.
  • Moge Microflow — Moge Microflow is a manufacturer of equipment for microreactors. It provides continuous flow production technologies and equipment for nanomaterials, pharmaceutical intermediates, and fine chemicals, as well as standardized high-end microreactor equipment.
  • Bianzhong New Materials — Bianzhong New Materials is a high-tech company that specializes in the research and development of equipment for weaving and shaping three-dimensional preforms of high-strength fiber composite materials.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. 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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 439
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • GMI Cloud — one cloud for compute, inference, and agents Question: https://t.co/dOcscX4hmx Japan: @gmicloudJapan
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund · England, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $256k–$2.2M; Series A $829k–$4.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $462k–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • Cushion — Cutshion is a company that specializes in AI factories and robotic application platforms. We provide customized robot solutions for a wide range of industries, from industrial robots such as palletizing and welding robots to service robots including drawing robots.
  • Inventera Pharmaceuticals — Inventera Pharmaceutical is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of imaging diagnostic contrast agents.
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InfoBank
VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$1.5M; Series A $88k–$9.4M; Series B $8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pmatch — Pmatch is a comprehensive platform designed to provide reliable, accurate medication information to help users make informed decisions about their healthcare. By offering detailed insights into various medications, including their uses, dosages, side effects, and interactions, Pmatch ensures that individuals can use medicines in a smarter and saferway. The platform aims to enhance patient safety, reduce medication errors, and improve overall health outcomes by empowering users with the knowledge they need to manage their treatments effectively. Whether for healthcare professionals or patients, Pmatch serves as a trusted resource for promoting informed decision-making and better health management.
  • A2D2 — A2D2 AI analyzes and organizes tens of thousands of pages of evidence documents.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$6.9M; Series A $2.2M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • BioNexus — BioNexus is an artificial intelligence (AI) biotechnology startup that specializes in automating the early stages of biomedical research and drug discovery.
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Samsung Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPOcompanies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 293
  • Round size: Series A $3.9M–$40M; Series B $5.3M–$90M; Series C $11M–$148M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Swype — Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input.In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units
  • Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
  • PowerbyProxi — PowerbyProxi is a leader in advanced, safe, wireless power solutions for consumer electronics (CE) and industrial markets. Our advanced wireless power solutions solve mission-critical problems in demanding, hostile industrial environments. We license and sell robust, flexible wireless power and data solutions, with proven implementations rangingfrom less than one watt to multiple kilowatts. PowerbyProxi is a venture-backed company spun out of The University of Auckland—an internationally recognized leader in wireless power innovation—and holds a comprehensive portfolio of over 350 patents worldwide. For more information visit: www.powerbyproxi.com
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Hanyang University
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Hanyang University is a school in Seoul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $675k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Huject — Huject is a Hanyang University laboratory startup company founded in 2020 with the goal of commercializing energy harvesting technology. The company develops and sells a wide range of products that use energy-harvesting source technology. Energy harvesting is an environmentally friendly energy technology that collects discarded energy and converts,stores, and uses it to generate electrical energy.
  • Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
  • Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
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Bridges Alliance Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Bridges Alliance Partners

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Cosmetics, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Entcrowd — Performance facilitation platform.
  • Althea — Althea is the most trusted source for the latest and best selection of Korean skin care and beauty products, offering the lowest prices and shipped directly from Korea. FREE shipping available.
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, India, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 913
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $481k–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
  • Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

IBK Capital has established an enviable track record as an independent Canadian investment banking firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $752k–$1.3M; Series A $1.2M–$18M; Series B $3.9M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HJ Wave — HJ Wave is a manufacturing comapny that designs and develops millimeter-wave RF band, including radar antennas for autonomous driving.
  • MetaFines — MetaFines is a biopharma firm that creates anticancer medications with the goal of preventing the spread of cancer. By extending and reconfiguring the indications of off-label medications for terminal tumors, the company creates minimal anticancer pharmaceuticals. It also provides subcutaneous injections and therapies, allowing patients to fightcancer and enhance their standard of living with cancer metabolism.The company develops ow-toxic medicines for metabolic cancer. This low-toxic metabolic anti-cancer agent is distinguished by being created so that metabolic anti-cancer agents that limit cell growth but operate via various pathways can work in concert with one another.
  • SeaVantage — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions
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ENSL Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivetta — Rivetta provides a web novel translation platform that supports global publishing through translation, distribution, promotion, and settlement services. It enables writers to share their work with international audiences while managing publishing and monetization processes. The platform helps creators grow readership and expand their presenceacross diverse global markets.
  • TalentSeeker — TalentSeeker is an AI-powered recruitment platform developing global talent sourcing and hiring automation solutions. The company provides AI-based candidate search, resume parsing, talent database management, and personalized outreach tools to help businesses streamline recruitment workflows.
  • Meta Energy Frontier — Meta Energy Frontier is a carbon-neutral smart energy solution company utilizing high-transmittance artificial photovoltaics. It contributes to improving building energy ratings through proprietary technology that converts 20% of existing unused lighting light energy into electricity. The company aims to recycle wasted light from indoor LEDlighting and utilize it as a distributed power source in urban areas.
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SparkLabs Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

SparkLabs Ventures is a new venture capital launched by SparkLabs Group. Our vision is to lead the revolution of Korean startup ecosystem by bridging the gap between Korea and the rest of the world

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$3M; Series A $1.7M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WideBot AI — WideBot is the first bot builder platform in the MENA region. We allow anyone to build his own intelligent chatbot without any coding or technical experience in just 10 minutes.
  • FastView — FastView provides content commerce services and online marketing services.
  • REVU Corporation — REVU Corporation is an influencer marketing platform. It specializes in connecting advertisers, such as domestic and international companies seeking influencer marketing, with influencers to share content on social media. The company's platform matches influencers with advertisers and it conducts campaigns.
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SK Planet
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

SK planet, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK telecom, was established in October 1, 2011 with an aspiration to become a global platform innovator.As the lynchpin of SK telecom's future growth, the company was spun off with the industry-leading platform businesses including T-Store, T-map, MelOn, and Cyworld, Korea's biggest mobile appstore, mobile navigation, online music service and SNS respectively. The company also pioneers in new media with hoppin, Korea's first multi-screen premium video service, and continues to build momentum in its online commerce leadership with 11th Street. SK planet aspires to develop a wide scope of global partnerships such as TMK, a media joint venture with Disney. Through collaborations with partners, SK planet is committed to building global platform business in Asia and other strategic markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$750k; Series A $600k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bertis — Bertis is the AI-Driven proteomics for the Next Era of Precision Medicine. Bertis platform utilises molecular diagnostics to identify cancer-related biomarkers, enabling medical practitioners to detect diseases.
  • Tenqube — Give life to your data
  • Elevenia — Elevenia is a marketplace-based platform for buyers and sellers.The platform enables its users to buy and sell various product categories, including fashion, beauty and health, babies and kids, home and garden, gadgets and computers, electronics, sports and hobbies, sports and outdoors, books and magazines, automotive, and more.Elevenia waslaunched in 2013 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a joint venture marketplace from XL Axiata and SK Planet South Korea.
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SK Telecom
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseastelecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$113M; Corporate Round $766k–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • V&Co — V&Co platform integrates skin microbiome research data and offers a range of services, including medical supplies, health supplements, and precision devices, enabling healthcare providers and beauty professionals to deliver innovative treatments and enhance overall client satisfaction through scientifically backed methodologies.
  • Timetree — TimeTree is a communication app that makes it surprisingly easy to share and coordinate calendars with others. You can share events with family, friends or colleagues at work. You can use it privately as well.
  • BitGo Korea — BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers.
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Pathfinder H
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Pathfinder H is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$13M; Series B $2.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services. It is a online wholesale marketplace that connects buyers with products from major Korean shopping districts. It allows users to browse and order items directly from multiple vendors in one place.
  • Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
  • Camello Tech Co. — Camello Tech Co. is an agricultural products company that sells tea capsules and aloesonic pills.
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WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Wonik Investment Partners, formerly known as Hanmi Technology Investment Co., Ltd., is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, start-up, early and mid-stage companies, growth capital and corporate restructuring. The firm prefers to invest in gaming contents, electronic components, computer,telecommunications equipment, petroleum, energy, machinery and equipment industries. It seeks to exit through an IPO or merger and acquisition. Wonik Investment Partners was established in 1997 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$17M; Series B $3.2M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.7M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
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Hansae Yes 24 Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2.1M; Series A $1.6M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pyler — Pyler is an artificial intelligence-based digital marketing platform intended to humanize video analysis based on a vision language model. The company's platform offers brand safety and a contextual targeting function for global and local clients with proprietary video understanding, vision, and text analysis technologies that automaticallyanalyze content in seven categories, enabling clients to improve advertising performance through content analysis without personal information.
  • Wilco — Wilco a start-up specialized in thermal management of electronic products and new space era.
  • KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.
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Hyundai Motor Group
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Welcome to the Hyundai Motor Group website.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $77k–$3.4M; Series A $1.9M–$45M; Series C $10M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Field AI — FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.
  • SSenStone — SSenStone, founded in November 2015, has started from password-less user authentication to prevent privacy information leakage and provide safe and convenient user login process. The integrated authentication platform, called ‘StonePASS’, has been certified by FIDO (Fast Identity Online). Now, we expand our inventive idea to the card industry andlaunch VOTC, which will completely change the card transaction landscape for secured payments.
  • Whale — Whale provides an omnichannel marketing platform that transforms marketing operations, digitalizes store operations and unifies offline & online brand experiences leveraging AI + IoT + Big Data to “Connect Brands with Customer”.Founded in 2017, Whale has since empowered 400+ global FMCG, F&B, Fashion and Automotive brands includingP&G, Unilever, Starbucks, UNIQLO, ARMANI, Watsons, Xiaomi, Midea, Lotus, POP MART etc. with over 150,000 stores across APAC, enabling brands to embrace the full potential of digital transformation.Equipped with AI capabilities, patented ReID technology and enterprise-grade security, Whale platforms comprising of Space Data Platform (SDP), Whale Marketing Cloud (WMC), Whale Open Platform (WOP) and Whale Analytics, serve as the end-to-end digitalization engine that enables brands to seamlessly engage with each customer.Whale is backed by Temasek Holding, NIO Capital, Source Code Capital, Linear Capital, Alpha Commune, BAI Capital and The Jiangmen, with 6 offices across Singapore, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.
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SANDBOX
VC Fund · Yongsan, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

SANDBOX is a digital entertainment company that provides multi-channel network services for digital content.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Content, Audio
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cadenverse — Cadenverse is a Music Multiverse from Amanotes (with 120 million monthly active users) focusing on building casual music distribution and gaming platform.
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  • NextChapter — NextChapter is a digital commerce platform that acquires and operates Coupang and Naver-based online native brands in Korea. NextChapter is backed by BlueRun Ventures/BRV Capital Management, Goodwater Capital, Klim Ventures, Fast Ventures and Sandbox Network.NextChapter was founded in 2021 by Joshua Kwon and Jay Chung and is headquarteredin Seoul, Korea.
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Stick Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Stick Ventures is a venture capital firm based in South Korea that prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$12M; Series B $4M–$27M; Series C $16M–$122M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HITS — HITS is a biotech company that creates digital solutions to accelerate drug development and introduce a new drug discovery paradigm. The company creates a cloud-based drug development platform that connects AI models with docking and molecular dynamics.
  • DeepMetrics — AI driven ICU automation platform
  • Nobo Medicine — Nobo Medicine is a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing precision therapies for blood cancers and immune-related aging diseases. It uses biomarker-driven drug discovery and translational research to identify targeted treatments, aiming to improve outcomes in oncology and age-associated immune dysfunction through innovative,data-driven biomedical approaches.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 261
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.1M; Series A $1.7M–$19M; Series B $4.8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
  • GMI Cloud — one cloud for compute, inference, and agents Question: https://t.co/dOcscX4hmx Japan: @gmicloudJapan
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SV Investment Partners
VC Fund · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

SV Investment Partners is an operationally focused private investment holding company focused on middle market software and technology-enabled services companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$70M; Series B $4.9M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YayLabs — YayLabs operates an NFT platform that connects the digital and physical worlds. With the merging of Web3, Web2, and the real world, YayLabs can transform a wide range of industries such as art, gaming, finance, and fashion, enabling a fast-growing market and potential applications in multiple fields.
  • Catch It English — Catch It English is a language learning platform.
  • Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense
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DAOL Investment & Securities
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

DAOL Investment & Securities is a Korea-based company mainly engaged in the provision of financial services for individual clients, institutional clients, and corporate clients. Along with its subsidiaries, the Company engages in the provision of brokerage services, including retail brokerage services and wholesale brokerage services;investment banking (IB) business provides financial solutions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), initial public offerings (IPOs), and others; private equity (PE) investment business, publishing, and management of PE fund products, as well as research and proprietary trading businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$9M; Series B $5.4M–$14M; Series C $9.5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BRLab — BRLab offers a framework that makes it possible to implement sophisticated sleep analysis and enhancement techniques. The solutions are based on a unique sleep-enhancing technology that is scientifically validated and patented, as well as an AI-powered algorithm with the highest level of reliability.
  • LBox Co — Information Technology & Services
  • everyone's kitchen — everyone's kitchen helps in lowering the high cost burden for starting a business.
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ActnerLab
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

ActnerLab is a venture capital and accelerator that helps hardware, IoT and biotech startups establish their initial foothold and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $47k–$815k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PERAZAH — PERAZAH develops medical devices to pursue technology with safety and innovation.
  • Chain Lightning — Chain Lightning is an electric vehicle charging station that provides electric vehicle care payment and charge management services.
  • K-Bio HealthCare — K-Bio HealthCare provides a personalized health record (PHR) and PHR-based digital healthcare system.
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Partners for Growth
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $10M–$65M; Post-IPO Debt $1.1M–$41M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $181M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
  • XRS — XRS Corporation (NASDAQ:XRSC), formerly XATA and the leader in mobile trucking intelligence, delivers fleet management and compliance software solutions to the trucking industry to help maintain regulatory compliance and reduce operating costs. Data-driven intelligence for compliance and performance is the new competitive edge for truckingoperations, and XRS is leading the trucking industry’s migration to mobile devices by offering products with no upfront hardware costs and run on smartphones, tablets and rugged handhelds. XRS has sales and distribution partnerships with the major wireless carriers supporting the U.S. and Canadian trucking industries. Through our mobile products, fleet managers, dispatchers and drivers collect, sort, view and analyze data to help lower costs, increase safety, attain compliance with governmental regulations, and improve customer satisfaction – all through their mobile devices.
  • Damstra Technology — Damstra Technology is a longstanding leader in workforce management, compliance, and safety management. Through our unique web-based Total Workforce Management System (TWMS), we deliver powerful solutions that radically transform the ease with which you manage, track and protect your entire workforce. We have extensive experience in designing anddeploying workforce systems across a vast array of industries, using advanced, collective technologies which are completely configured to each client’s requirements.At a time where information and technology were advancing at an extraordinary rate, Damstra Technology identified the opportunity to introduce a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) product to the market that was agile, highly functional and interfacing. Damstra Technology has been providing real-time, web-based workforce management solutions to Clients to ensure a safe and compliant workforce for over 10 years.Today, these real-time, dynamic, fully-customizable software and hardware solutions service a vast array of industries with both Australian and global footprints. With advanced technology and an expert development and deployment team at the helm, Damstra Technology doesn’t limit you to “best-fit, off the shelf” solutions - we offer progressive insight and develop complete configured solutions from beginning to end.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series A $2k–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$29M; Series C $4.2M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IMBiologics — IMBiologics is a biotechnology company that develops immunomodulatory antibody drugs for physiological balance.
  • Labrador Labs —
  • Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
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Kolon Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Boosterz — Boosterz is a company that supports the 5Ps of marketing at all stages, from product planning and launch to growth.
  • ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
  • SCBIO — SCBIO is a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs with specialized technologies in immuno-oncology. The company discovers and develops novel therapeutics for future medicine.
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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups, 7 in the past 12 months

KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$15M; Series A $1.8M–$15M; Series B $5.9M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NexThera — Nexcera provides innovative and sustainable medical solutions.
  • Unastella — Unastella is an aerospace company developing human spaceflight technologies, including launch vehicles and suborbital tourism systems. The company focuses on advancing reusable rocket technology and future space travel infrastructure for civilian space exploration missions. Unastella aims to support the growth of private human spaceflight andnext-generation aerospace innovation.
  • Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
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Reventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Reventures is an investment management company that provides venture investment services for investors and startup partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • My Link — Business Intelligence Solution & Service
  • Fliption — With Fliption's virtual try-on AI, one product photo is all it takes to create on-model images with your custom model.
  • Connecteve — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.
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Geon Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Geon Investment Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in expansion stage and growth capital. For venture investments, the firm considers investments in following industries: Digital and mobile contents, biotechnology, mobile/online game and movie/music contents. Primarily invests between KRW 500 million ($0.5 million) and KRW 2billion ($2 million) in equity per transaction in companies. The firm was established in 2009 and is based in Seongnam, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $2k–$36M; Series B $966k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • swIDch — More Secure and Accurate Authentication
  • Newploy — Newploy is a payroll work automation platform that Automate payroll tasks through robotic process automation (RPA) technology.
  • IDID — IDID provides an entertainment platform designed to host short-form entertainment content. The company provides a short-form social entertainment platform that can generate content by superimposing different images on different sound sources.
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TBT
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

TBT is an Adventure Capital.We are more than your average VC investor; we are always up for an adventure. Investment means more than just transfer of capital for us. We want to be a discussion partner that discovers possibilities beyond risk and aligns growth with progress. We want to share decades of industry knowledge and experience in internetand mobile services to build services and products that can make the world a better place.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$4.5M; Series A $678k–$18M; Series B $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • COLAVO GROUND — Whether you're a hair stylist or nail artist, you need customers to show off your talent. Everyone who knows that is already on Colavosalon!
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  • FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.
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VNTG Corp.
VC Fund · Mapo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

VNTG Corp. creates an end-to-end digital ecosystem across the value chain.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Product Design, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: South Korea, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $37k–$891k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Petch — Petch is a digital services provider that offers business consulting, content provision, food supply, and collaborative branding for pet.
  • Dear Monday — Dear Monday is a work service platform that specializes in balancing work and vacation. It provides high-end work equipment to provide a superior experience to working in the office or from home.
  • Safe Kitchen Company — Safe Kitchen Company is a kitchen cleaning and maintenance services company.
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BlissVine Ventures
VC Fund · Yongsan, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups, 6 in the past 12 months

BlissVine Ventures is an investment company that offers venture capital and financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.9M; Series A $1.5M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gongcar — Gongcar is a B2B service startup that provides innovative solutions and operational support to rental car operators, helping them streamline fleet management, improve customer service, and enhance overall business efficiency.
  • Forest Jalan — Forest Jalan is a fintech firm that allows small restaurants, cafes, and stores in Southeast Asia access financial services at moderate rates, rather than high-interest loans.
  • Tommoro Robotics — We build the next generation of Physical AI.
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One Billion Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

One Billion Partners is a South Korea-based investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Information Technology, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VWX — VWX is an entertainment audition platform specialized in commercialized services.
  • Locle — Locle is a platform designed specifically for academies and variety of classes including music, dance, arts, crafts, and sports.
  • Next ground — Next ground operates the real estate residential review and evaluation platform.
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Kyobo Securities
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Social Media startups

Kyobo Securities provides investment security and financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.2M; Series A $2.4M–$32M; Series B $6.3M–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • XCENA — XCENA is a semiconductor company that develops data-centric computing systems designed for AI and large-scale data processing environments. The company builds computational memory technology that combines high-capacity pooled DDR5 memory with near-data processing capabilities, allowing computation to occur closer to where data is stored. Its coreplatform is based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, which enables memory expansion beyond traditional CPU limitations while improving data movement efficiency and reducing latency in data center workloads. XCENA’s architecture is designed to support applications such as artificial intelligence workloads, vector databases, and large-scale analytics by addressing memory bandwidth and capacity constraints. The company provides a hardware-software ecosystem that includes computational memory systems and a full-stack software development kit. This SDK offers APIs, runtime tools, and drivers that allow applications to use computational memory without major changes to existing software architectures while also supporting low-level control for performance optimization.XCENA’s flagship product line includes MX1, a CXL-based computational memory solution that integrates near-data processing engines with memory infrastructure to support AI inference and data-intensive workloads. The platform is designed to improve throughput and scalability in environments where traditional memory architectures become a bottleneck. The company operates in the broader field of AI infrastructure and memory innovation, working with customers such as hyperscalers, telecom providers, and research institutions that manage large-scale computing workloads. Its solutions are intended to improve efficiency in systems handling AI, big data processing, and scientific computing.
  • KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
  • Snap Company — Snap Company specializes in providing tailored e-commerce solutions that integrate advanced AI technology and customer data analytics. By harnessing these capabilities, Snap Company enables e-commerce businesses to gain deep insights into their marketing efforts and operational workflows. Their customized solutions are designed to help clientsoptimize performance, improve targeting, increase efficiency, and ultimately drive growth in competitive online markets. Through its innovative approach, Snap Company supports businesses in making data-driven decisions to enhance both customer engagement and overall operational success.
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Social Media VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 110 deals from 132 investors.

132
investors
in South Korea Social Media startups
110
deals
in South Korea Social Media startups
$1.8M
median round
in South Korea Social Media startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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