Top 30 Social VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (July 2026)

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• LifeLabs — LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients.LifeLabs is strongly committed to continual innovation in testingservices. For our patients and healthcare providers, this means we always strive to provide access to the latest specialized clinical tests—to detect cancer for example, to monitor heart disease, identify neurological disorders and pinpoint allergies.LifeLabs is well-positioned to deliver care at home, in the community and across Ontario and British Columbia. We have over 5,400 professionally trained staff members, over 360 conveniently located patient service centres and an extensive network of couriers and mobile phlebotomists on the job.
• MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
• 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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• Shinol — Shinol is a social community app for matching friends of 5070 generations.
• Second Ocean — Second Ocean is an aquaculture company that provides data collection and technology development for sustainable seaweed farming.

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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.
• Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.

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• Conalog — Conalog is a piezoelectric element-based energy harvesting technology.
• Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
• Wintec Glovis — Wintec Glovis manufactures water treatment and air purification equipment that solves the drawbacks of activated carbon. With the help of superheated steam, the company recycles activated carbon with eco-friendly technology, which allows humans to breathe clean air and drink clear water without concern.

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• Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
• Cyclewell — Cyclewell is a provider of integrated equipment and complete solutions for intelligent directional recycling of lithium batteries. It is committed to the Research and Development of green recycling technology and equipment for waste power batteries.
• Underdogs — Underdogs is a company specializing in social innovation entrepreneurship education.

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• T-Wave — T-Wave is a social fintech start-up company that operates 'I'm in', an app that collects money from all over the country.
• Lunimedia — Game Platform
• BLUEDOT — BLUEDOT develops cloud computing semiconductor IP applications to accelerate video processing and video encoding.

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• Underdogs — Underdogs is a company specializing in social innovation entrepreneurship education.

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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.

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• Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
• Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
• 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
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• Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.

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• Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
• Karrot Market — Karrot is the largest local community marketplace to buy, sell and trade new and used home decor, furniture, fashion and more. Join our growing community of over 10 million verified users!
• Koala Go — Your student's favorite online classroom. 24/7 live support. Co-browser. Gamified teaching environment. Worldwide invoicing. Interactive whiteboard.

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• Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
• Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
• Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform

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• HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
• Bob Games — A Social casino game developer.
• Barinthus Biotherapeutics — Vaccitech is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of novel immunotherapeutics and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases and cancer. The company’s proprietary platform comprises proprietary modified simian adenoviral vectors, known as ChAdOx1 and ChAdOx2, as well as thewell-validated Modified Vaccinia Ankara, or MVA, boost vector, both with demonstrable safety profiles and without the ability to replicate in humans. The combination of a ChAdOx prime treatment with subsequent MVA boost has consistently generated significantly higher magnitudes of CD8+ T cells compared with other technologies and approaches. The company has a broad pipeline of both clinical and preclinical stage therapeutic programs in solid tumors and viral infections and prophylactic viral vaccine programs. Vaccitech co-invented a COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford, now approved for use in many territories and exclusively licensed worldwide to AstraZeneca through Oxford University Innovation, or OUI. Vaccitech is entitled to receive a share of the milestones and royalty income received by OUI from AstraZeneca.

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• Humil — Humil is a food manufacturing and processing company that provides food research and development solutions.
• Waggy Days — Waggy Days is a safety leash with an automatic release that detaches if a pet is caught in moving machinery, helping reduce injury risk.
• Peekaboo Labs — Peekaboo Labs perfectly protects the corporate data with 'On-Device AI' without external servers, and experience overwhelming productivity even without the internet. The company eliminates servers and implements AI on 'PC'. Peekaboo Labs empower enterprises in high-compliance sectors (Finance, Healthcare, Defense) to deploypowerful LLMs within air-gapped environments. They carefully select and organize only the information needed from among over 100 documents .

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• Slashpage — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
• Money Walk — The step-counting app that rewards you with cash for every step
• Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.

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• Splab — Handle everything from marketing to buyer matching, even without a full team. We cover: multi-stakeholder bookkeeping, virtual & physical events registration management, event tech setup, matchmaking, ticket sales & marketing, and post-event reporting.
• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Pierrot Company — Pierrot Company is a Korea-based circular commerce company focused on extending the lifecycle of IT devices through subscription, asset recovery, and cross-border trade. The company operates phoneGO, a device subscription service for consumers and businesses, and reGO, a service that helps organizations recover and monetize idle IT assets.Building on these operating data and supply networks, Pierrot Company is also developing reGO Trade, a global infrastructure layer for used IT device pricing, discovery, and transaction enablement. The company aims to improve transparency, liquidity, and reuse in the fragmented secondary market for electronics while reducing unnecessary e-waste.By combining operational know-how, market data, and international buyer networks, Pierrot Company is building a more efficient and scalable circular economy for IT assets.

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• PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
• Clouted — Clout Kitchen is THE Virality Engine for brands and creators, designing data-driven viral campaigns with distribution marketing.
• Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

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• KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
• ActionPower — ActionPower is an AI-based startup company that offers speech recognition and natural language processing technology services.
• Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions

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• Serpot — Serpot is a production service platform that offers film shooting products and support services.
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• Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.

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• Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
• Superb AI — Automate data preparation, label and manage images and videos, and find annotation services with one training data platform. Fast, precise, and easy to use.
• Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.

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• TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
• Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.
• NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.

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• Blue Magnet — Blue Magnet is a startup company that develops technology for treating radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The company specializes in nuclear waste treatment solutions, with a particular focus on developing magnetic materials for collecting and processing radioactive cesium and other contaminants from nuclear facilities.
• Visionary — Visionary operates as a spatial intelligence infrastructure company for autonomous systems.Visionary is a single data platform for autonomous systems, from registration and processing to search and evaluation.
• K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.

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• R&R Lab — R&R Lab is a semiconductor manufacturing startup that develops heat treatment equipment.
• Nuon Media — Nuon Media is an Internet e-book store that sells famous domestic romance martial arts fantasy fantasy novels.
• Daishin Value REIT — Daishin Value REIT is a real estate investment trust within the financial sector. The firm manages a portfolio of commercial real estate properties. The organization utilizes a fund-of-funds structural model for its specific investment activities. The public parent trust holds all equity shares in a privately placed subordinate trust. Thissubordinate entity directly owns and controls the physical office buildings.

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• Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
• BacklotCars — Making Wholesale Easy
• Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.

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• Dalol — Dalol is a bakery that sells snacks, cakes, and rice chips.
• DEEPX — DEEPX is a Korean AI hardware system solution company.
• Freshstore — We Love To Eat The Fresh Food

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• Underdogs — Underdogs is a company specializing in social innovation entrepreneurship education.

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• Play pil — Play pil is an online casting and talent platform that connects actors, models, and performers with production companies. It helps simplify the casting process by providing digital profiles, audition listings, and talent matching tools.

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
• Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

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• Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
• TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
• 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.

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• Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
• Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
• Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.