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Top 50 Software Angel Investors in South Korea (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in South Korea Software startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Software startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Aviram Jenik
Angel
8 South Korea, United States, Israel Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence $74k–$18M
Daniel Shin
Angel
4 South Korea, United States, Malaysia Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Legal Tech $1.6M–$5M
Taekkyung Lee
Angel
3 South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Information Services, Information Technology $295k–$743k
Minsik Cho
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Angel Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
Sunghwan Choi
Angel
2 United States, Hong Kong, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $4M–$15M
S Cubic Angels
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Education, Apps, EdTech $87k–$223k
Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel
2 South Korea Seed Software, Education
Jay Eum
Angel
2 United States, South Korea, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Analytics $71k–$40M
Richard Seongho Choi
Angel
2 South Korea Seed SaaS, Software, Human Resources
Han Ki yong
Angel
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Fitness
Pietro Dova
Angel
2 United States, South Korea Series A, Seed Events, Mobile, Sports $400k–$12M
Sisun Lee
Angel
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel SNS, Software, Content Creators $895k–$3.8M
Matthew Papakipos
Angel
2 United States, South Korea, The Netherlands Seed, Angel, Series A Music, Apps, Video $100k–$255k
Alex Shin
Angel
2 Canada, South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS $895k–$12M
Jung-hee Ryu
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Fashion, Health Care $2.7M–$5.3M
Benjamin Joseph Levin
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
Sebastien Borget
Angel
1 United States, France, Estonia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $250k–$60M
Naval Ravikant
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$25M
Tim Draper
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $356k–$50M
Sungmoon Cho
Angel
1 United States, South Korea, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Digital Entertainment, Audio, Music $275k–$1M
Perry Ha
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed Apps, Rental, FinTech
Seojoon Kim
Angel
1 South Korea, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain $957k–$17M
Justin Bieber
Angel
1 United States, South Korea, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Media and Entertainment, Music $1.1M–$555M
Chester Roh
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Apps, Beauty $500k–$2.3M
Miguel McKelvey
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Pre-Seed, Series A Real Estate, Rental, Software
Songyee Yoon
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Software, Film, Hardware $2.2M–$20M
Seongho Choi
Angel
1 South Korea Seed, Angel, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Retail $74k–$200M
Michael Yang
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
Martin Randel
Angel
1 Sweden, South Korea Seed, Series A Mobile, E-Commerce, Information Technology $669k–$59M
Wes Schwalje
Angel
1 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $150k–$2M
Jae-sik Shin
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
David Lee
Angel
1 United States, Japan, South Korea Seed, Series A, Angel Software, FinTech, E-Commerce $245k–$25M
Ed Sheeran
Angel
1 South Korea, United Kingdom Seed Sports, Content, Software
Bae Yong-Joon
Angel
1 Japan, South Korea Seed Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps $1M–$1M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $12k–$5M
Luke Wood
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
Gabriel Fong
Angel
1 Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea Seed Hotel, Apps, Travel $500k–$1.1M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Sachin Bhanot
Angel
1 Australia, Singapore, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Cyber Security, Financial Services $5M–$80M
Victor Wang
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $150k–$143M
Andrew McGlinchey
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Mobile, Internet, Software
Primer Saje
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed Artificial Intelligence, Sales, Software
Sanghee Lee
Angel
1 United States Pre-Seed Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Kim Hyun-jun
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Medical, Software, Health Care
Dongwon Sung
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Generative AI, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Sean (Solme) Kim
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum
Yoon Soo-young
Angel
1 South Korea Seed SNS, Software, Content Creators
Cristian Manea
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Internet, PC Games
Sangmin Shim
Angel
1 South Korea Seed Analytics, Real Time, Scheduling
Do Kwon
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech $1.2M–$28M
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Aviram Jenik
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States · 8 investments in South Korea Software startups

Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $491k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $74k–$275k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
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Daniel Shin
Angel · 4 investments in South Korea Software startups

Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Legal Tech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
  • Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
  • Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Software startups

Taekkyung Lee co-founded Daum Communications and served as CTO and Head of Communication & Community Services, leading Daum's growth into a major portal service and its KOSDAQ listing. He later facilitated the M&A of D&Shop, a spin-off from Daum, to GS Home Shopping. While contemplating his path as a serial entrepreneur andinvestor, he decided to focus on early-stage investments and began investing in early-stage startups in earnest. He established Mashup Angels (now Mashup Ventures), an early-stage startup investment firm, and as CEO, aims to support portfolio companies' growth and engage in various activities within the startup ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $295k–$743k; Angel $371k–$520k
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
  • 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
  • Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.
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Minsik Cho
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

- Outside Board Director, Kakao Corp. (Korea’s Telegram) - (Ex) Senior partner, KPMG Korea - Certified Public Accountant - Business Administration, Seoul National University

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iGet — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Bitbyte — Fun communication. A happy world. We maximize the value of communication with a mobile keyboard app used by over 600K people.
  • Mapiacompany — Official website of Mapiacompany. We are innovate Music-Tech industry and musician's daily life.
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Sunghwan Choi
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sunghwan Choi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$5.7M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
  • Pilotly — Gain insight into any video or creative asset by using Pilotly to create and field studies that will help you discover what your consumer really thinks.
  • BOOQED — Transform any underutilized areas into co-working spaces with QUBIC booths and software. People can book them as work pods for meeting rooms, office spaces, hot desks, access control system included.
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S Cubic Angels
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

S Cubic Angels

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $87k–$223k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
  • KRG Group — KRG Group is a proptech and rental finance platform operated by KRG Group that provides “zero-deposit” monthly rental solutions for residential and commercial leases. The service helps tenants reduce or eliminate upfront security deposits while guaranteeing landlords stable monthly rent payments.
  • Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
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Hwang Seong-hyeon
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Hwang Seong-hyeon

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.
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Jay Eum
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Jay Eum is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of GFT Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$12M; Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OPENSURVEY Incorporated — • Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
  • Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
  • Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.
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Richard Seongho Choi
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Richard Seongho Choi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
  • Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.
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Han Ki yong
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Han Ki-yong is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolta — Volta Corporation offers 'Volta,' a solution that eliminates the inefficiencies and hassle of e-tax invoice issuance and maintenance. Volta allows users to effortlessly issue electronic tax bills and manage them after they have been sent. Companies may dramatically enhance job efficiency by reducing unnecessary labor and time waste.
  • Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.
  • Business Canvas — An easy-to-use workspace that transforms scattered information into your knowledge.
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Pietro Dova
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Mobile, Sports
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$800k; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
  • Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
  • Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
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Sisun Lee
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sisun Lee is CEO at 82 Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $895k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hamming AI — Complete voice & chat agent QA platform. Auto-generate scenarios, replay production calls, 50+ metrics. SOC 2 certified. Start in under 10 minutes.
  • Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
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Matthew Papakipos
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Matthew Papakipos

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$255k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ozarka — Why Just Eat When You Can Inspire? Beautiful Reusables for Caterers Who Lead. Save money, time, and storage space with reusables services. Ozarka reusables are not just a sustainable choice
  • Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
  • Snibbe Studio — Snibbe Studio is pioneering a new interactive music platform for people to socially engage with visual music. Based in the lessons learned from making bestselling bespoke music apps, we are currently in stealth mode, building a mass-market mobile product to release this Fall.
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Alex Shin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Software startups

Alex Shin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $895k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saga.xyz — Saga builds AI agents that turn characters, brands, and worlds into living digital participants that can engage, adapt, and grow across the internet.
  • Infrared Finance — Infrared simplifies interacting with Proof of Liquidity with liquid products.
  • Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
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Jung-hee Ryu
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
  • Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
  • Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
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Benjamin Joseph Levin
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Benny Blanco is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Sebastien Borget
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
  • VOYA Games — Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
  • Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
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Naval Ravikant
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to make general-purpose robots a reality.
  • Quill Meetings — Quill captures every meeting insight, action item, and decision so your team can focus on what matters most.
  • Blackstar Computers — Blackstar Computers is a forward-looking company dedicated to reshaping the computing experience by innovating across hardware design, operating systems, and human–computer interaction. It aims to create tightly integrated systems where performance, usability, and adaptability work seamlessly together, rethinking how users interact with technologythrough more intuitive interfaces, smarter software, and purpose-built devices that enhance productivity, creativity, and everyday digital experiences.
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Tim Draper
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 298
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CASIMIR
  • illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
  • SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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Sungmoon Cho
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sungmoon Cho is based out of San Mateo, California, and is the Founder and CEO of Chartmetric. Sungmoon previously worked at Oracle as a Principal Product Manager. Sungmoon Cho attended Seoul National University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Entertainment, Audio, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $275k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saarey — The world's largest online collection of South Asian classical music, with ustads and pandits exclusively performing rare renditions in khayal, dhurpad, thumri and more.
  • MoxieJam — MoxieJam will be a consumer app targeted to fans of entertainment. During this time of exploding choice in media content, there is a good news / bad news situation for consumers. They have access to an incredible supply of music, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books, but that also brings a significant source of frustration. There is just nogood way to help fans organize their own playlists and watchlists, to share their interests with other fans and to discover new things that they might enjoy. MoxieJam will help fans do just that.
  • Kurvv — Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening.
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Perry Ha
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Perry Ha is the founder of DFJ Athena, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson affiliate venture fund focused on investments in Korea and the US.He has been an active investor since 1998 when he founded Athena Technology Ventures.He has invested in and/or served on the board of many successful companies including Ipivot (INTC), Demandtec (DMAN),Imparto Software (PKS), ProfitLogic (ORCL), and Zantaz (AUTNF).He also served as an interim CEO at two companies. He currently serves on the board of several companies in Korea and the US.Prior to his venture capital career, he led the Technology Management Practice at Gemini Consulting, a global management consultancy, helping Fortune 1000 clients to manage technology portfolios and develop new products. Prior to that, he managed an R&D Group at Amicon, a life science devices company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994. He was granted two patents during his tenure at Amicon.He serves on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), on the Visiting Committee at MIT, and on the Leadership Board of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Rental, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
  • Precursor Energetics — Precursor Energetics utilizes state-of-the-art inorganic and organometallic chemistry, coupled with advanced process engineering and materials science, to satisfy the need for high value advanced materials within the electronics and energy markets. Our technology can fundamentally change the way that many of these materials are produced.Precursor Energetics’ proprietary molecular precursor ink technology provides atomic-level control over material structure and composition. It thereby improves material uniformity, performance, and yield while enabling high-throughput manufacturing processes using low-cost printing and coating methods.Our technology platform is applicable to a wide range of markets, including thin film solar, Li-ion batteries, transparent conductors, LED lighting, and others.
  • Zeuss Technologies — Zeuss Technologies develops next generation blockchain-based Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) technology for cash intensive industries. Zeuss’ software non-intrusively monitors and verifies all financial activity across industries and efficiently fulfills federal regulatory compliance obligations.
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Seojoon Kim
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Seojoon Kim (서준 김) is a co-founder and vice president of KnowRe, an education technology company that develops digital learning platforms.Kim’s previous career portfolio includes his time as an intern at Sun Microsystem; intern at Olaworks; manager at ½ project; and project manager at Mozzet. He was also the co-founder of edueyes. Aftergraduating from Seoul Science High School, Kim went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6.7M; Series A $957k–$9M; Series B $8M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
  • Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
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Justin Bieber
Angel · Stratford, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop musician, actor, and singer-songwriter. He was discovered in 2008 by American talent manager Scooter Braun and has since driven over 3 billion views to YouTube, gained nearly 81M followers on Twitter, 68M followers on Instagram, and 77M fans on Facebook.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.7M; Series A $10M–$555M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • Legacy — Legacy provides a service for at-home sperm testing and cryopreservation, allowing individuals to take control of their fertility health from the comfort of their homes. Their semen analysis is conducted in CLIA-certified labs, ensuring high-quality testing without the need for direct doctor involvement. As America's largest at-home fertilityclinic for men, Legacy empowers clients to understand their reproductive health and plan for the future effectively.
  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
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Chester Roh
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Chester is 13 year-long serial entrepreneur with successes such as IPO and M&A with Google. His current company, Ablar Company, is the fourth start-up with a great vision to connect offline world more into online. He worked as a product manager at Google Korea after his last start-up, Tatter&Company had been acquired by Google in 2008.Before Tatter&Company, he founded two more companies, one of which had successfully done the IPO. He also worked as a product manager at SK Telecom, where he developed intelligent personalization system for mobile phone users. Chester received his bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering from KAIST.He's also been an active angel investor and business mentor in the companies like, Ticket Monster (Recently merged to LivingSocial), Paprika Lab, LIFO interactive, Sha.kr Media, Ultra Caption Corp (klassmate.com), Flyfan (clubvenit.com) and J3T (stylesays.com).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AWAIR — Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
  • Typecast — Neosapience is a startup founded by former Qualcomm engineers and KAIST graduates in 2017. Their goal is to make AI powered virtual humans named Neosapience. They developed core technology to synthesize hyper-realistic and emotional speech from given text script. Currently, they run an AI voice actor service called Typecast based on the technology.Furthermore, they are also developing technologies to generate facial expressions and gestures, so that anyone can cast AI powered virtual voice and video actors and generate videos by just editing text. It would lead to a revolution in the media entertainment industry as creating content can be cheaper and easier.
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Miguel McKelvey
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

McKelvey grew up in a "five-mother collective" in Eugene, Oregon.[2] His family started and ran a weekly newspaper called the Eugene Weekly.[3]In a January 2020 interview with Fortune, McKelvey called himself "a wild kid" on the high school basketball court. He said that he found a sense of accountability from his coach, whowas a strict disciplinarian. He said of Coach Stepp, "I didn’t grow up with my father, so I never had someone telling me to keep in line

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Rental, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
  • DNK — Dongnae provides an online real estate platform that digitizes the rental and home-buying market. The company's platform assists users to find the right house based on their needs and purpose, even find easy transport to work from the resident with the assistance of the brokers, enabling users to save time and energy on finding the right placeto stay in.It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Songyee Yoon
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Songyee Yoon

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Film, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AI SPERA — AI SPERA is an AI- based cybersecurity firm. It provides real-time intelligence with machine learning and fraud detection by analyzing cyber threats. It provides comprehensive intelligence solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent cyberattacks targeting organizations.
  • Spike AI — Spike AI's Marketing AGI (MAGI) automates SEO, content strategy, and marketing optimization. Experience the future of B2B SaaS marketing with our autonomous AI system.
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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Seongho Choi
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Choi Seong-ho is the chairman of the AI ​​Angel Club.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$200M; Angel $74k–$104k; Series A $1.1M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
  • Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
  • Salm Clinic — Salm Clinic is a specialized digital healthcare platform that provides comprehensive psychological testing services, offering accessible mental health assessments, personalized evaluations, and technology-driven support for individuals seeking psychological insights and care.
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Michael Yang
Angel · La Canada Flintridge, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Michael founded users. Michael and the team successfully raised $30M in venture capital investment from investors such as Brentwood, Sprout, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, and Transcosmos Corporation. In February of 2000, mySimon was successfully acquired by CNET for $700M.Prior to mySimon.com, Michael held positions at Xerox Corp., Intergraph Corporation, TeleVideo, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Jazz Multimedia, Inc. Michael has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University. Michael holds a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
  • Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
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Martin Randel
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Martin Randel is the Co-founder, Executive Board Member, and Owner of Unifaun. He previously worked as an Owner and CEO at Öregard AB. He attended Stockholm School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reve — Tipser is the global leader in embedded commerce, turning any digital surface into a point of sale. Discover a better way to monetize traffic.
  • Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.
  • Covr Security AB — Covr protects digital banking users from account takeover and man-in-the-middle attacks using true out-of-band, passwordless authentication.
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Wes Schwalje
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $360k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
  • PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
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Jae-sik Shin
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Shin Jae-sik serves as CEO at Nest company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
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David Lee
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek “Google’s Real Power” flic.kr/p/7FVJgr The Hollywood Reporter: https://bit.ly/2UEQAujDecoding Silicon Valley: goo.gl/ZFAefzTechcrunch: goo.gl/9q9chzTop Angel Investors: goo.gl/4eqfbm“New Silicon Valley Stars of Korean Descent” goo.gl/ZwFCu6"[슈퍼리치]실리콘밸리 뉴 코리안 슈퍼리치" goo.gl/WBQOf0“스타트업 눈앞 이익만..." goo.gl/KB78mCSina News: bit.ly/2QaCqAc

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $245k–$2.4M; Angel $1.7M–$10M; Series A $2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolt Labs — Our mission at Bolt Labs is to build a usable, secure, and scalable infrastructure to enable everyone to securely store their assets while preserving the privacy of their transactions. Bolt’s secure computation solutions (or MPC) allow you to protect your user’s assets while providing confidentiality, ensuring integrity, and preventing misuse ortheft. A technology that is fast becoming the standard for digital asset security, MPC enables these benefits by federating trust across multiple parties and allowing evaluation of functions without decrypting private inputs. Bolt is also developing the zkChannels L2 protocol - a scalable and usable privacy-preserving payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including but not limited to public blockchains. We believe zkChannels will set a new standard for secure payments in online services, giving merchants a seamless way to comply with emerging privacy regulations and delight their customers with cryptographically rigorous respect for their privacy.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
  • The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
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Ed Sheeran
Angel · Framlingham, Suffolk, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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  • Ipswich Town Football Club — Ipswich Town Football Club is a football club that competes in leagues and tournaments.
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Bae Yong-Joon
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Hotel, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
  • H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 888
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
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Luke Wood
Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Luke Wood is based out of Santa Monica, California, and is a Member of the Board of Directors at Snap. Luke previously served as the Vice President at Apple. Luke Wood attended Wesleyan University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Gabriel Fong
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Gabriel Fong - CEO & Co-founder @ CallFixie

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hotel, Apps, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flow - By the Hour Hotel Booking Platform — Flow App : Book hotels and co-working spaces by the hour. Flexible duration from 1-12 hours. Check-in anytime, save up to 75% off regular prices.
  • LIberaTrade — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
  • H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Sachin Bhanot
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sachin Bhanot serves as the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Cyber Security, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Australia, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $6.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$65M; Venture - Series Unknown $14M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
  • Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
  • Quota Lab — Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem.
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Victor Wang
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Victor Wang is based out of New York, New York and is the Partner of HOF Capital. Victor previously worked at Stanford University as a Researcher. Victor Wang attended the University of California, Berkeley. Victor Wang has received Principal’s Award for Academic Excellence.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$14M; Series A $10M–$26M; Series B $55M–$143M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
  • Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
  • Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat
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Andrew McGlinchey
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Andrew McGlinchey is the VP of Products at PropertyGuru Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Estmob — Send whatever you want, wherever you want
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Primer Saje
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Primer Saje

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Sales, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DALPHA — Dalpha develops artificial intelligence technology for the creation of AI models. The company provides data security and ownership through a secure cloud environment and differential privacy technology.
  • MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
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Sanghee Lee
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sanghee Lee

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CLIKA — Tiny AI, Everywhere
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Kim Hyun-jun
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Kim Hyun-jun is the former CEO at Viewno.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Risorious — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.
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Dongwon Sung
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Dongwon Sung is the Principal at Korea Investment Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Generative AI, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sionic AI — We provide cutting-edge Generative AI technology seamlessly to your current service. Prepare future with Sionic AI and make your business great again!
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Sean (Solme) Kim
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Solme Kim is President and Chief Product Officer at Kajabi. He attended The University of Texas at Austin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Bitcoin, Ethereum
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • StormX — Earn crypto shopping at your favorite stores. Get up to 87.5% Crypto Cashback with each purchase. Download the StormX App & Extension today.
  • Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
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Yoon Soo-young
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Yoon Soo-young - CEO @ Trevari

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Software, Content Creators
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.
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Cristian Manea
Angel · Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Cristian Manea is the Co-founder and CEO at Aggero.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Internet, PC Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
  • Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
  • SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
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Sangmin Shim
Angel · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Sangmin Shim was the CEO and Founder of HogangNono. Sangmin Shim is the current CEO of Cafe Nono.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Real Time, Scheduling
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FlareLane — Engage with both first-time and returning app/web visitors through interactive push notifications and boost user retenion and revenue. Push, Interact, Grow.
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Do Kwon
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Software startups

Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$18M; Series A $5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
  • Levana — $LVN community airdrop is open. Early supporters get rewarded
  • Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
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Software Angel investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 34 deals from 47 investors.

47
investors
in South Korea Software startups
34
deals
in South Korea Software startups
$1.6M
median round
in South Korea Software startups
11%
lead investors
lead at least one round
53%
Seed
most common funding stage

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