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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in South Korea in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in South Korea in December 2024

Investor	Sports South Korea investments
Strong Ventures	5
SANG SANG ebiz	4
Primer Sazze Partners	4
Coolidge Corner Investment	3
TheVentures	3
Evergreen Investment Partners	3
Shinhan Capital	3
Lotte Ventures	3
D3 Jubilee	3
Bokwang Investment	2
Wantedlab	2
One Billion Partners	2
MYSC	2
IMO Ventures	2
Laguna Investment	2
NBH Capital	2
Falcon Partners VC	2
Translink Investment	2
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund	2
IBK Capital	2
Industrial Bank of Korea	2
Hana Financial Investment	2
The Wells Investment	2
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation	2
KDB Capital	2
Samsung Venture Investment	2
Lee Seung Ho	2
Smilegate Investment	2
Kiwoom Investment	2
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings	1
Fast Investment	1
Korea Technology Finance Corporation	1
Otium Capital	1
Hwang Sung hyun	1
Bogwang	1
Woori Bank	1
Woori Venture Partners	1
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation	1
UTC Investment Co.	1
Shinhan Investment	1
Seoul Investment Partners	1
Big Basin Capital	1
Aju IB Investment	1
HYK Partners	1
Hana Ventures	1
Forest Partners	1
HITEJINRO CO	1
Quad Asset Management	1
IDG Capital	1
Alumni Partners	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.

SANG SANG ebiz offers software education and MySQL DBMS consulting services.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
0njourney — Onjeonchi is an operator of a data-based hyper-personalized healthy diet recommendation using AI platform.
RealDesignTech — Official Website of RealDesignTech

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
Episoden — Enjoy free English conversations in video chat format with international friends for your English speaking practice.
Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ReFeed — ReFeed provides innovative IT technology to develop effective solutions for both trash emitters and collectors.
Amersley — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
AIgement — AIgement enables industrial firms to make data-driven choices, save costs, and improve supplier relationships.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Polaris3D — Polaris3d offers indoor autonomous navigating solution.
Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
Adler — Adler creates a social media application to create personal space. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.

Wanted provides personalized job recommendations and content programs to empower your lifelong career journey. Wanted is here for you, every step of the way.

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Redrob by McKinley Rice — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
Learning Spoons — Learning Spoons employs both online and offline ways to give professionals with courses in data science, business, real estate and many more.
Learning Spoons — Learning Spoons employs both online and offline ways to give professionals with courses in data science, business, real estate and many more.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Sports, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

VWX — VWX is an entertainment audition platform specialized in commercialized services.
Locle — Locle is a platform designed specifically for academies and variety of classes including music, dance, arts, crafts, and sports.
Next ground — Next ground operates the real estate residential review and evaluation platform.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Vessel Finance — Vessel Finance is a ZK-powered order book exchange, seeks to combine the dependability of DEXs with the speed of CEXs.
Insight Technology — Insight Technology is an instrument manufacturer and seller company that specializes in instrument sales, intelligent instrument sales, mechanical equipment research and development, and more.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors

NBH Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Travel, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
NomadHer — NomadHer is the app for solo female travellers to find travel buddy, provide female friendly accommodation and information for solo travelers.

Falcon Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital investment firm licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Founded by former investors at institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Apax Partners, Capital Group, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, Falcon partners withexceptional management teams to build enduring, category-defining businesses over the long-term by providing value-added capital and strategic support at all stages of the company’s development – from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Returns from our investments have reflected the success of this approach, with portfolio companies backed by Falcon at the pre-seed stage raising over US$500 million in follow on investments at unicorn valuations, and later-stage companies achieving rapid growth across Asia and attaining valuations well north of US$1 billion. Falcon primarily focuses on high impact innovation areas such as AI/machine learning, consumer, e-commerce, education, and pharma life-sciences in the China Greater Bay Area. See less

Investment focus

Travel, Cycling, Leisure
Seed, Funding Round
Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Gbike — Gbike is a mobility sharing startup in Korea, innovating green urban mobility in Korea where currently car-centric environment. Our service includes bike and scooter sharing with IT services specialized for Korean market with 50MM population.
KLOOK — Klook is a developer of travel activities and services booking platform designed to connect travelers with experiences. With Klook’s innovative technologies, travelers can book on-the-go and redeem the services by using QR code-enabled e-vouchers. Each day, Klook empowers countless travelers to indulge in their wanderlust and spontaneity throughover 100,000 offerings in more than 400 destinations.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
GetLinks — GetLinks is a platform and ecosystem connecting tech talents to opportunities across Asia.

Translink Investment is a startup investment company.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Disco — Disco is a location-based service platform for real estate companies.
Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GGQ — Download GGQ Desktop and Enjoy Your Game - Offers real-time champion ban-pick recommendations based on summoner play analysis, play highlights, AI coaching, and tutorial videos. PC Cafe LoL Program, LoL Assistant Program, LoL AI Analysis
MetaFines — MetaFines is researching and developing anti-cancer drugs using cancer metabolism.
SeaVantage Ltd. — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Roumit — Roumit is software for tax office automatic evidence transmission, financial transfer, employee/labor management, and pay statement.
Mepsgen — Mepsgen is a biotechnology research organization that focuses on pharmaceutical services and drug development.
Kookmin Bio — Kookmin Bio is a biotechnology company that specialises in the development of bio-food and pharmaceutical materials.

Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

Investment focus

Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

VC, Venture Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Testworks — Testworks is a social enterprise company in Seoul, Korea. We create innovative solutions in AI data and software testing fields while providing an inclusive employment model for socially disadvantaged people. Our technical excellence ranges from AI data processing automation to manual software testing and review. We are recognized as thebest-in-class data processing company for building high quality datasets used for AI training and verification.

CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

First Lab — Designing and manufacturing surfactant free nano emulsion, dispersion equipment and water treatment system utilizing differentiated Focused Ultrasonic Technology
Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.

Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
Princeton NuEnergy — Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Its patented Direct Battery Recycling technology to produce high-quality and high value-added cathode active materials with low operating cost from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainableenergy and environmental solutions.

Lee Seung Ho

Investment focus

Audio, Social, Sports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
Frientrip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
MIRI.DIH — MIRI.DIH is a technology-intensive e-business company.
WeMeet Mobility — WeMeet Mobility is an AI-based logistics platform that offers transportation planning, location, routing, and monitoring services.

Kaist Venture Investment Holdings is a startup company that invests in startups that solve social problems through innovative technologies. They invest in businesses that maximize synergy by pursuing both social and financial values at the same time. It focuses on five sectors including health, environment, education, elimination of inequality, andsocial infrastructure. Kaist Venture Investment Holdings was founded on October 31, 2014, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Grant
South Korea, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tripsoda — Tripsoda is a travel agency that offers recruiting travel companions, planning trips, and booking travel products.
CHOOPERMARKET — Choopermarket sells winery and gift products.
Mockingbird — Mockingbird gives personalized mock exams for the CSAT utilizing an AI item suggestion system.

Fast Investment

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer
Seed, Series A
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
Remake Digital — They are a group of creatives, marketers, and engineers building CROLO, a creative AI. CROLO totally automates banner ad designs so advertisers can reduce design time/cost while maximizing ad performance through data driven design.

Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
GhostPass — Personal biometrics in the palm of "My Hand"
READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.

Otium Capital is an early-stage venture investor / financial advisory firm underpinned by unique value propositions, working alongside corporates / financial sponsors pursuing cross-border opportunities spanning Greater China, Korea and Southeast Asia

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed
South Korea, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Creatz — Creatz is a sports consulting online platform based on artificially generated data.
Monoly — Trust network of communication and collaboration for enterprise
Theori — Empowering Innovation with Security

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Therapeutics
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Dalam — Dalam is a corporate welfare matching platform.

Bogwang is an Investment firm.

Investment focus

Sports, Scheduling, Health Care
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.

Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea's wealth and economy.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea, China, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
Green Dot — Green Dot runs an E-MaaS (Energy-Mobiliy as a Service) platform, which integrates mobility and energy. Since its inception, the service has drawn attention due to its rapid construction of Green Dot Zones, which provide energy and transportation All-in-One services in the heart of Seoul and the metropolitan area.

Woori Venture Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
Mediwhale — Medi Whale seeks to achieve sustainable healthcare where every eye can truly be the window to one’s health with our world's first-of-its-kind 1-stop AI screening platform solution for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic risk assessment, and eye disease diagnosis. Our AI Platform was developed through several clinical collaborations (Korea,Singapore, India, UK, and other European datasets) using structured longitudinal event-based datasets for the development of our retinal biomarker engines. RetiCVD® (cardiovascular disease risk assessment): Developed using coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, CAC is recognized as the gold standard for precise CVD risk calculation. Our CVD engine predicts the presence of CAC and provides a stratified probabilistic risk based on US ASCVD and EU SCORE guidelines.RetiCKD® (chronic kidney disease risk assessment): Developed using eGFR and full lab panel, our CKD engine has been demonstrated to achieve better predictive capability as compared to eGFR or full panel analysis.RetiEYE®: Referable Eye Disease engine detects and flags common aging-related eye modalities such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract at its referable disease state.Medi Whale retinal-based systemic biomarkers have been clinically demonstrated to be non-inferior to current gold standards and are recognized by clinical and scientific communities with two Lancet Digital Health publications.

The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation for investing in startups

Investment focus

GreenTech, Energy, Events
Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Spacebeam — Spacebeam is a startup creating space optical communication technology, a space-to-earth data transfer technique that uses light.
JIN System — JIN System uses location-based spatial information technology to identify customers' potential needs and offers market-friendly solutions by integrating and converging relevant technologies. They aim to cater to increasing consumer needs in transportation, social welfare, and safety sectors, and expand into the digital twin field.
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Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bold9 — Bold9 provides logistics services to online sellers.
Lucas — Medical AI Solution, MONCAD Monitor Corporation aim to achieve innovation in the field of medical imaging through artificial intelligence technology.
Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.

Shinhan Investment Corporation operates as a securities brokerage and investment banking company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nexeon — Nexeon is a world leader in engineered silicon materials for battery applications. Its Li-ion battery anode technology uses silicon instead of graphite.
Cashwalk — Cashwalk is an app that motivates to walk by providing financial incentives.
Creatrip — Creatrip, a platform where local tourism courses and information can be accesses has succeeded in attaining a US$172K (KRW 200m) investment from KAIST Venture Investment. The platform is aimed at foreign visitors that prefer to freely travel domestically after gathering and assessing the available local tourism information.

Seoul Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in small and medium businesses.

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
South Korea, Germany, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Recl — Recl is an application that collects and recycles old clothes.
mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.

Aju IB Investment is a venture capital firm that offers SMEs with investments and consulting services.Aju IB Investment offers consulting services that focus on business management, tax, accounting, legal, mergers and acquisitions, additional funding, marketing, and technology support.Aju IB Investment was founded in September 1974 and is basedin Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.
Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is a tour guide that recommends houses suitable for monthly living.

HYK is an investment company in Seoul, South Korea

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, Mobile Apps
Series A
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Da-gym — Da-gym is the most convenient marketplace platform for searching gyms.
CultureHero — CultureHero is a food company.
JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN suggests sustainable and reliable desserts and ingredients.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Forest Partners is a leading alternative investment firm based in Korea focused on investing in high growth companies to deliver exceptional value to founders and investors. Our firm operates Venture Capital and Private Equity divisions so that we can invest in bold ideas across multiple strategies and help drive hypergrowth of our portfoliocompanies.Our robust network and team of experts with decades of combined investment and operating experience guides our portfolio companies on the path to global expansion so we can also deliver outsized returns back to our investors.Our vision is to grow together with great companies so that we can continue to be the go-to alternative investment firm in Asia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Real Time
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Utransfer — Utransfer is a platform that offers overseas money transfer services.
Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.
December & Company — December & Company offers customized asset management services to a broad population.

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Investment focus

Agriculture, E-Commerce, Farming
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
TIDEPOOL — Tidepool(500 Global selected) DBA Fishscope, powerful AI Fish & Feed Monitoring solution that solves periodic sampling and fish health diagnosis that requires human labor through Computor vision tech for BioMass Measurement, Fish Healthcare, and Feeding Optimization. - 10+ partnerships including GS E&C(Fortune 500 GS Group Subsidiary) andmany major government arms based in APAC - 90% or more accuracy for weight estimation of live fish in water - Demo: http://fishscope.tidepool.kr/
Unique Good Company — Unique Good Company develops entertaining mobile apps.

Quad Asset Management is an Investment firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Biopharma
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

NEUROPHET — Neurophet produces solutions based on Segengine, the company’s own technology that automatically segments brain magnetic resonance (MR) images into 107 regions within a minute.
AIGEN Sciences — We aim to advance current state-of-the-art AI drug discovery technologies and transform high-cost, low-efficiency drug discovery practices into rapid, efficient discovery, ultimately leading to high success rates in the clinical phase. Our award-winning AI drug discovery platform enables the direct
Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Shumeiwuwu — Shumeiwuwu is a cross-border e-commerce company that provides quality goods and services to consumers through global shopping.
B² Network — B² Network is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that utilizes ZK rollup and on-chain logical gate commitment verification mechanisms. It is a supplementary network that runs on top of the Bitcoin Network. It also introduces smart contracts to Bitcoin, which could open up new possibilities for DeFi, NFTs, and derivatives.
Qiangua Technology — Qiangua Technology is a Chinese autonomous driving truck company that provides logistics and transportation services based on automated driving technology.