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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
SANG SANG ebiz
VC Fund
4 South Korea Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software $37k–$371k
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$15M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $371k–$19M
D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $149k–$4.5M
Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $223k–$4.5M
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $223k–$11M
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
NBH Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea, France Series A, Seed, Series B Travel, Software, E-Commerce $594k–$24M
TheVentures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $74k–$4.8M
One Billion Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Information Technology, Art
IBK Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Gaming $669k–$22M
Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $149k–$29M
Hyperithm
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$10M
Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Health Care $371k–$18M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Apps $743k–$35M
MYSC
VC Fund
2 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
The Wells Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1k–$14M
Lee Seung Ho
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Series A Audio, Social, Sports
Falcon Partners VC
VC Fund
2 Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea Seed Travel, Cycling, Leisure $500k–$1.5M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $3k–$7.1M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Software $371k–$7M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $817k–$47M
Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $1.2M–$22M
Wantedlab
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Sports, Fitness, Software $1.2M–$11M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $300k–$12M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Seed Software, Gaming, Biotechnology $1k–$7.4M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software $860k–$25M
IMO Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce $600k–$50M
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $22k–$1.5M
Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $45k–$25M
Hanwha Investment Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Seed Software, Big Data, Manufacturing $1.5M–$102M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
Seoul Global Startup Center
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Software, Sports, Travel
Fast Track Asia
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Software, Mobile $26k–$1M
WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $4k–$16M
KDB Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $11k–$44M
Central Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Real Estate, Online Portals
Alumni Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Bakery, Local Business
K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series C Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Truston Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Fitness, Training, Health Care
SK Securities
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Apps, Health Care
Gentium Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Pet, Apps, Sensor
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
TINVESTMENT
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Quad Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Biopharma
SangSang Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B B2B, Sports, Fashion
Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Korea Tech Incubator Program For Startup
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Video
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 265
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $1M–$8M; Series B $18k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
  • Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
  • TeamElysium — TeamElysium is a medical software development company.
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SANG SANG ebiz
VC Fund · Doksansadong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $37k–$371k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • On Journey — On Journey focuses on the production of classical music, comprehensive art opera, extended reality XR contents, and cultural events.
  • RealDesignTech — Official Website of RealDesignTech
  • Riso Convergence — Vision AI and AR technologies that bring the screen golf experience to the real field. Making the field easier with AI and AR.
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 4 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M; Series A $334k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
  • DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mustbio — MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
  • Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$2M; Series A $1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • UBATT — UBATT manufactures polymorphic thin lithium batteries using flame-retardant polymer solid electrolytes and uniform, large-capacity anode technology to produce polymer solid-state batteries, electrolytes, and lithium metal conductors, enabling companies to procure batteries for electric mobility and other uses.
  • RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
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Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund · England, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
  • Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
  • Inventera Pharmaceuticals — Inventera Pharmaceutical is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of imaging diagnostic contrast agents.
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5M; Series B $4.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
  • Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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NBH Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups

NBH Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • My Benefit — My Benefit is a digital health management platform for tracking musculoskeletal conditions and fitness levels.
  • Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
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TheVentures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $750k–$770k; Series A $3M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hifen
  • Amously — Amously builds production-ready process control software for advanced fabs using digital twins, virtual metrology, and run-to-run control to improve stability, yield, and operational efficiency.
  • Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.
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One Billion Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VWX — VWX is an entertainment audition platform specialized in commercialized services.
  • Locle — Locle is a platform designed specifically for academies and variety of classes including music, dance, arts, crafts, and sports.
  • Next ground — Next ground operates the real estate residential review and evaluation platform.
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$1.2M; Series A $1.2M–$15M; Series B $13M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HJ Wave — HJ Wave is a manufacturing comapny that designs and develops millimeter-wave RF band, including radar antennas for autonomous driving.
  • MetaFines — MetaFines is researching and developing anti-cancer drugs using cancer metabolism.
  • SeaVantage — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M; Series B $4.9M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
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Hyperithm
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

A premier digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Soarchain — Cars on the blockchain are the next thing. Soarchain is the single-purpose blockchain for advancing vehicles. Power every vehicle by blockchain.
  • Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
  • Hamilton Labs — Bitcoin isn’t just digital gold—it’s the new foundational layer of capital markets. Hamilton leverages Bitcoin’s unmatched security and decentralization to tokenize real-world assets (RWA), providing global access to institutional-grade financial products.
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$18M; Series B $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.
  • PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY — PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas.
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$4.6M; Series A $1.8M–$7.7M; Series B $1.9M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
  • Hourplace — Hourplace operates a filming place sharing platform.
  • Numeric Song Company — Numeric Song Company is a start-up founded in September 2020 by Kim Hee-bin, CEO of the mega hit songs 'Number Song' and 'Carrot Song', in collaboration with IT companies such as NAVER, LINE, and CJ E&M.
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, China, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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The Wells Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

VC, Venture Capital

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $289k–$696k; Series A $1k–$3.7M; Series B $2.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Honored — Honored is a tour operator that operates the domestic travel services.
  • Milliway — Milliway is an infrastructure digitalization startup that uses vehicle sensor data to detect and manage road damage in real time. It offers solutions for monitoring city and road events and provides tools to enhance productivity in city and road management.
  • AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
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Lee Seung Ho
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Lee Seung Ho

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Social, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

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.
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Falcon Partners VC
VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Cycling, Leisure
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.8M; Series A $3k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
  • Searchdoc — Searchdoc is a large-scale AI startup specializing in advanced document and drawing analysis, leveraging cutting-edge machine learning technologies to extract insights, automate workflows, and enhance data interpretation across various industries.
  • Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
  • Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
  • My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $817k–$6.8M; Series A $1M–$16M; Series B $3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Freewheelin — Freewheelin is an edtech company developing AI-powered tools to personalize math education. Their platform offers services such as generating homework books, integrating with textbooks, managing student errors, and analyzing performance data to assist educators in course preparation. The company has curated a database of math resources inpartnership with textbook publishers, ensuring teachers can use materials without copyright concerns.​
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
  • Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
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Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund · Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$16M; Series B $4.1M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
  • Market Designers — Market Designers is a matching platform designed to provide effective resource sharing and distribution.
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Wantedlab
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$1.2M; Series B $5.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
  • MicrobiotiX — MicrobiotiX develops bacteriophage and microbiome-based therapeutics to combat multidrug-resistant infections and autoimmune diseases.
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Karis Bio — Karis Bio develops innovative cell therapy for cardiovascular disease.
  • StudioBside — StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
  • Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $860k–$7.9M; Series A $1.9M–$25M; Series B $1.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
  • Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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IMO Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$15M; Angel $709k–$10M; Series A $2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BlueOcean Pay — BlueOcean Pay is a cross border payment solution provider for brands & merchants to acquire and engage Chinese customers.
  • Regenerative Bio — Regenerative Bio is the world's first anti-aging biotechnology company driven by artificial intelligence and cloud supercomputing, Regenerative Bio combines AI pharmaceutical-related technologies with biology to explore ingredients, formulations and therapies with anti-aging effects, and solve the problems caused by aging.
  • Red Dot Analytics — Red Dot Analytics (RDA) award-winning digital twin solution is optimising energy consumption up to 40%, working with operators in the APAC market, ranging from hyperscale to colocation and enterprise data centres.
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $22k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

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.
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$3.2M; Series A $1.6M–$25M; Series B $3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • N.THING — Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products.
  • MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
  • Aim Intelligence — Leading AI Security & Safety Solutions Provider - Specializing in AI Risk Detection, Mitigation, and Elimination through Advanced Red Teaming and Defensive Systems | Leading provider of AI Security, Safety, and Compliance solutions
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Hanwha Investment Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Hanwha Investment Trust Management is an asset manager applying advanced Hanwha Venture Capital was established in 2000 to nurture startup small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with promising business models and advanced technology but lack capital and management capabilities. The comprehensive support packages include capital, managementexpertise and technology that cover from establishment through initial public offering. In addition, the firm plays a leading role in the Korean venture capital industry. The company utilizes various domestic and overseas networks to secure advanced investment methods and gather information on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the future. Hanwha Venture Capital invests for future value and serves as a trustworthy partner for invested companies, creating venture investment funds that provide stable financing sources and making investment decisions after careful study. The firm also acts as a trusted asset manager for limited partners of the investment funds and helps to strengthen the competitive edge of domestic SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
  • StradVision — Vision AI for all
  • Stoic Entertainment — Stoic Entertainment is a VR game developer with core technologies related to VR content and will develop blockchain games later.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 297
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
  • Moyo — Moyo is a phone plan comparison platform that recommends all communication products.
  • Vivid Health — Vivid Health is a platform that provides obesity treatment management services. It provides a convenient platform for users to easily access reviews on obesity medicine products by their specific ingredients.
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Seoul Global Startup Center
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

A city government funded startup incubation center supporting foreign entrepreneurs in Korea to begin their startup journey in Seoul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Sports, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Rezi — Rezi is an AI-powered resume builder that lets you quickly create optimized, ATS-friendly resumes and cover letters tailored to specific job descriptions.
  • fastpong — FastPong developed a revolutionary system for training table tennis. Hardware and software for digitalising and tracking sports performance with real-time metrics. Compatible with any ball shooter. The next evolution in table tennis training has arrived.
  • Ventura Sports — Ventura Sports is a sports travel company for thrill-seekers who want to celebrate something or want to have a challenging day. The company offers safe and memorable tandem paragliding while exploring the beautiful countryside of Korea. Ventura Sports was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Fast Track Asia
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

They're Company Builder, Company Building Company.Fast Track Asia (http://www.fast-track.asia) is Company Builder, start-up holding company. They're backed by Daniel Shin (Founder & CEO of Ticketmonster, acquired by Groupon for $300M), Chester Roh (Founder & CSO of 5rocks, acquired by Tapjoy for $40M, Angel Investor ofTicketmonster, Serial Entrepreneur, ex-Googler), Stonebridge Capital (Korea-based Venture Capital, Investor of Ticketmonster), Insight Venture Partners (US-based Venture Capital & Private Equity Firm, Investor of Ticketmonster), Hur Min (Founder of Wemakeprice, ex-Founder of Neople, acquired by Nexon for $400M) and a lot of local serial entrepreneurs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $26k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PAWCHI — PAWCHI is a pet insurance company.
  • Fast campus — Fast campus are Unity game creation / startup / UX Design CAMP during the Early Bird Discount!
  • Day1 Company — Investor Relations - Day 1 Company
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WONIK Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $817k–$6.3M; Series A $4k–$16M; Series B $497k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BrainU — BrainU is a medical equipment manufacturing company taht developer of medical monitoring device designed to monitor brain activity. BrainU device measures the depth of anaesthesia during surgery by analysing and quantifying the entire EEG, biocompatibility, and applying a hypoallergenic, simple sensor.
  • Mustbio — MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
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KDB Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.3M; Series A $1.1M–$8.8M; Series B $11k–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
  • Tefa Robotics — The aim of Tefa Robotics is to alleviate the lack of qualified robotics engineers. One of the main components of the fourth industrial revolution is industrial robots, however, their effective deployment was hampered by technical limitations. This is one of the major barriers to the adoption of industrial robots, and Tefa Robotics is working toovercome it by creating a low-code solution in an effort to make things simpler and more effective.
  • Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.
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Central Investment Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Central Investment Partners is a financial service provider company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Real Estate, Online Portals
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Factosquare — Factosquare develops goods and brands, manufactures them in-house, and innovates the factory manufacturing process.
  • Estate Cloud — Estate Cloud provides online real estate services for buying and selling properties.
  • TODOC — Explore advanced neural solutions and hearing technologies by Todoc, including innovative cochlear implants and healthcare innovations for better communication.
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Alumni Partners
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Alumni Partners is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Bakery, Local Business
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Dalol — Dalol is a bakery that sells snacks, cakes, and rice chips.
  • DEEPX — DEEPX is a Korean AI hardware system solution company.
  • Freshstore — We Love To Eat The Fresh Food
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K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

K- Bridge Investment

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
  • Mr. Mention — Mr. Mention is a mid- and long-term accommodation service platform.
  • Jim Carry — Jim Carry is a hotel services company that offers same-day luggage transportation and station and airport luggage storage services.
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Truston Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Truston Asset Management is an asset management company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Training, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GymT — GymT is a fitness platform that offers an individual customized training solutions and services.
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SK Securities
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

SK Securities is a South Korea-based financial service provider that specializes in the securities market. It primarily engaged in securities brokerage, dealing and underwriting businesses, covering stocks, futures, options, government bonds, corporate bonds, foreign exchanges, and financial derivative products. The company also involves in theinvestment banking business, which provides acquisition, project financing services, and wealth management services.SK Securities was founded in 1955.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DSRV — DSRV, a leading blockchain infrastructure company, offers A-Z solutions across the entire ecosystem for 160+ institutions through vertical integration of technologies such as staking, custody, and validators.
  • Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
  • Soft Berry — Soft Berry is an electric vehicle charging platform.
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Gentium Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Gentium Partners is an investment management firm that offers financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Apps, Sensor
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BANF — BANF comprehensively monitor tire conditions(tire wear, wheel alignment, loosen nut/lug) and road surface(asphalt heating, slippery roads like black ice) while vehicles are in motion.
  • EVAR — EVAR brings a solution for EV charging with an autonomous robotic charger.
  • AI FOR PET — TTcare is a health care app for pets. Take pictures to check your pet's health. A solution that makes pet homecare easy. Eye health checkup. Skin health check-up. Perfect care for your pet. Easily find and book vet services. Nofication for your life with pets.
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
  • Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
  • 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.
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TINVESTMENT
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

TINVESTMENT is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Preneu — PRENEU is a brand specialized in drones and ceaselessly challenging and striving to meet market needs and improve technology.Find drones manufacturer and supplier, reconnaissance drone service systems in korea.
  • Yeoshin — Yeoshin is a skin treatment information platform.
  • Dotter — Dotter is a manufacturing company that designs and produces biodegradable optical coherence tomography devices to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. The company also develops next-generation OCT equipment, an optical imaging device that can create a synergy effect when inserting stents.
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Quad Asset Management
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Quad Asset Management is an Investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Biopharma
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.
  • Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
  • Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
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SangSang Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

SangSang Ventures is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Sports, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GXC — The Company that aims to change the global gaming ecosystem for the better
  • Makestar — Makestar is a platform that provides K-culture content and information. Makestar allows artists and production companies to share their visions with a global audience. Makestar brings Hallyu stars and fans from all over the world together. It also offers the opportunity for fans to interact with celebrities and participate in the creation ofcontent.
  • RafiQ Cosmetics — RafiQ Cosmetics uses cosmetic raw material technology that eliminates the need to use extracts or wash off plant plant.
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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical is an MRI reconstruction software service provider.
  • AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.
  • Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.
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Korea Tech Incubator Program For Startup
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

R&D fund for Korean startups who secured at least $100,000 from designated startup VCs or Accelerators

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Seawith — home english version
  • Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.
  • Seoul Robotics — Welcome to Seoul Robotics! We build advanced Lidar perception software powered by deep learning.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
  • HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
  • Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
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Sports Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 66 deals from 99 investors.

99
investors
in South Korea Sports startups
66
deals
in South Korea Sports startups
$1.8M
median round
in South Korea Sports startups
23%
lead investors
lead at least one round
50%
Seed
most common funding stage
94/6
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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