Top 20 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2026
Top 20 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2026
| Investor | Social Network South Korea investments |
|---|---|
| Strong Ventures | 3 |
| Kakao Ventures | 2 |
| Kolon Investment | 1 |
| VNTG Corp. | 1 |
| Fast Ventures | 1 |
| Big Basin Capital | 1 |
| East Gate Partners | 1 |
| Korea Investment Partners | 1 |
| ActnerLab | 1 |
| Xquared VC | 1 |
| East Gate Partners | 1 |
| Hansae Yes 24 Partners | 1 |
| Nextdream Angel Club | 1 |
| Mirae Asset Venture Investment | 1 |
| Intellectual Ventures | 1 |
| Posco Technical Investment | 1 |
| Series Ventures | 1 |
| LB Investment | 1 |
| Daesung Investment | 1 |
| Capstone Partners | 1 |
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- SeedN — SeedN provides air conditioning system temperature management solutions for office spaces.
- Portrai — Portrai leverages cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to reveal unprecedented biological insights, transforming target discovery into transformative therapies.
- Intelon Optics — Intelon Optics is a medical device company that focuses on the development and commercialization of the Brillouin Optical Scanner System.
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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- Biotechnology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
VNTG Corp. creates an end-to-end digital ecosystem across the value chain.
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- Manufacturing, Product Design, Service Industry
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- South Korea, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Petch — Petch is a digital services provider that offers business consulting, content provision, food supply, and collaborative branding for pet.
- Lowlit Collective — Lowlit Collective provides sustainable materials and home decor products specializing in the hospitality market and design, the company provides environment friendly interior materials and decor items. Tikkle Board, a proprietary PCR, PIR plastic material, is the core of the company's offerings. It is crafted with locally sourced biomass togive each product greater strength and visual appeal.
- Safe Kitchen Company — Safe Kitchen Company is a kitchen cleaning and maintenance services company.
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Hungary, United States
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- Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
- Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
- Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
- Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
- My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
East Gate Partners
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- Social, Logistics, Social Network
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- Vroong — Mesh Korea is an IT-based logistics startup, which established Korea's first last-mile logistics network and became the primary provider of integrated logistics services with in-house logistics solutions.VROONG, Mesh Korea's logistics brand, creates new value not only by providing delivery services, but also by connecting information.Currently, VROONG provides four services; premium delivery services, 'VROONG Prime', integrated logistics management solution, 'VROONG TMS', premium fresh food delivery services, 'VROONG Fresh', and premium delivery magazine, 'VROONG Collection.'With more than 80 VROONG Stations and 13,000 riders across the nation, VROONG provides faster and more accurate delivery services.
- Yea Studio — Yea Studio values positive, sensitive, and passionate attitude and is committed to sharing valuable information globally and making a creative application.
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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- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
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- LumanLab — LumanLab develops digital therapeutics to solve developmental delay problems.
- Enlivex Therapeutics — Enlivex is a clinical-stage macrophage reprogramming immunotherapy company that targets diseased macrophages in patients with sepsis. The company develops an autologous and allogeneic drug pipeline for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions such as Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD), solid organ transplant rejection, Crohn'sDisease, and other autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.The company's revolutionary approach is to induce immune tolerance by injecting apoptotic cells and facilitating their interaction with dendritic cells activates the body's innate, physiologic mechanism for down-regulating inflammation and autoimmunity.Enlivex is an Israeli-based cell immunotherapy company established in October 2005 by Professor Dror Mevorach, a world-renowned expert on clearance of dying (apoptotic) cells.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
ActnerLab is a venture capital and accelerator that helps hardware, IoT and biotech startups establish their initial foothold and beyond.
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- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- AltMedical — AltMedical is a research institute jointly established with Dong-A University and aims to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
- Chain Lightning — Chain Lightning is an electric vehicle charging station that provides electric vehicle care payment and charge management services.
- NAiEEL Technology — NAiEEL Technology offers energy and environmental technology solutions.
Xquared VC is a venture capital firm that invests in small and medium-sized companies at early stages.
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- Mobile Apps, Social Network, Location Based Services
- Seed
- South Korea
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- 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.
- CarbonSix — CarbonSix delivers cutting-edge robotics automation for manufacturing, combining Six-Sigma robot dexterity and intelligence to transform industrial operations worldwide.
- Home & Co — Home & Co is a platform that can handle everything from simple home repair applications to on-site inspections and on-site construction.
East Gate Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investment for businesses.
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- Gaming, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
- Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
- The Blessed Moon — The Blessed Moon is a cosmetics brand that sells and offers skin, face, hair, and body care products.
Hansae Yes 24 Partners is a 3D webtoon content company.
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- E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- South Korea
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- Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
- 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.
Nextdream Angel Club provides startup angel investment and solutions.
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- Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
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- BioSean — BioSean is a diverse feed technology and breeding organization that provides integrated solutions for microorganisms utilized from the hatched self-fish stage to plankton, high-efficiency fermented feed, and functional additive feed.
- Blue Cap Can — Blue Cap offers a wide range of innovative and customized solutions related to secondary batteries, a rapidly growing and highly regarded sector in the global energy market.
- Fortel My Health — Fortel My Health provides an innovative liquid biopsy service, 'Magnolia,' designed to simultaneously screen for ovarian and endometrial cancers. The service utilizes platelet-derived RNA analysis combined with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for cancer diagnosis. This advanced technology was developed to address thelimitations of traditional imaging diagnostics and tissue biopsies.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Playad.ai — The AI Ad Workspace
- Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
Intellectual Ventures is a global invention and investment business that creates, incubates, and commercializes inventions. Led by prolific inventor and visionary Nathan Myhrvold, IV has created more than a dozen spinout companies.
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- Energy, Medical, Nuclear
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, South Korea
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- EarthNow — MEGA288 merupakan penyedia games online resmi terlisensi di Indonesia dengan fasilitas pembayaran lengkap dan daftar login MEGA 288 mudah akses link alternaitf.
- Append Medical — A novel transcatheter LAA elimination system
- Social Network — Social Network, a specialist platform servicing Korean trends.
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- Sales, Consulting, Restaurants
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Craver — Craver is a sales and brand marketing consulting company that helps Korean brands in business development.
- Dining Code — Diningcode (다이닝코드) is an online search portal that analyzes big data to help users find restaurants in their vicinity.
- Dr. Noah Biotech — Dr. Noah Biotech is a pharmaceutical company that develops drugs for orphan disease patients.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore
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- Gottech — Gattech is creating an eco-friendly solution that combines 3D printing and recycling technology to domestically produce high-value industrial materials and components, reducing reliance on imports.
- ELBA — ELBA is a Korea-based media-tech company
- XYZ — LoungeLAB is a Retail-tech startup that augments space with technology, using the state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and Robotics technology. LoungeLAB focuses on enhancing the product value and services, and we develop in the field rather than on the desk. We Invent Everyday Technology for All.
LB Investment is one of the top VCs in Korea. LB invests in diverse industries ranging from Technology and Contents to Bio and healthcare
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, China, United States
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- Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
- Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.
- Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
Daesung Investment
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- Service Industry, Gaming, PC Games
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Fitin — Fitin is a startup developing a subscription service model for replacing batteries in commercial electric vehicles such as taxis and cargo trucks.FitIn was known for its technological prowess in that it used its unique battery swap technology to overcome charging problems and remaining battery life (SOH), which were recurring problems in commercialelectric vehicles. Battery swap is a technology that replaces a depleted battery with a fully charged battery.
- Armored Fresh — Tasty Cheese Zero Dairy
- Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
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- Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
- Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.
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Pay Months
— Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
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Unastella
— Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
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UModeler
— UModeler is a Unity3D editor extension to empower you to designer your level and mesh without leaving Unity.
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