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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
Sazze Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$19M
SANG SANG ebiz
VC Fund
4 South Korea Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software $37k–$371k
TheVentures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $74k–$4.8M
Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $371k–$17M
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
Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $223k–$11M
NBH Capital
VC Fund
3 South Korea, France Series A, Seed, Series B Travel, Software, E-Commerce $594k–$24M
Lee Seung Ho
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Series A Audio, Social, Sports
Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $1.2M–$22M
Translink Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $300k–$12M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software $860k–$25M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Seed Software, Gaming, Biotechnology $1k–$7.8M
Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Health Care $371k–$18M
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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $149k–$29M
Wantedlab
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Sports, Fitness, Software $1.2M–$11M
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, Artificial Intelligence $45k–$60M
MYSC
VC Fund
2 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
IMO Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce $600k–$50M
Laguna Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Apps $743k–$35M
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 Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $223k–$7.1M
Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Software $371k–$7M
Series Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $74k–$4.5M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $694k–$47M
One Billion Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Information Technology, Art
Hyperithm
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$10M
The Wells Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1k–$14M
JS Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Sports, eSports, Wellness $3.4M–$10M
InterVest
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics $11k–$36M
Jang Won-gwi
Angel
1 South Korea Pre-Seed Golf, Sports
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming
Hanwha Investment Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Seed Software, Big Data, Manufacturing $1.5M–$102M
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: 271
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$10M; 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

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  • Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
  • Specter — Specter is a reputation sharing platform for applicants who are sincere and do their job well, but cannot do enough self-PR in interviews.
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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: 147
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $334k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
  • Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
  • DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
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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: 15
  • Round size: Seed $37k–$371k
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 0njourney — Onjeonchi is an operator of a data-based hyper-personalized healthy diet recommendation using AI platform.
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  • 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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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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $714k–$2M; Series A $2.5M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AIgement — AIgement enables industrial firms to make data-driven choices, save costs, and improve supplier relationships.
  • Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
  • Alice in Builderland — Alice in Builderland is an interior design and construction service platform that provides kitchen and bathroom construction packages.
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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, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • 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: 108
  • 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

  • Conalog — Conalog is a piezoelectric element-based energy harvesting technology.
  • Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
  • Wintec Glovis — Wintec Glovis manufactures water treatment and air purification equipment that solves the drawbacks of activated carbon. With the help of superheated steam, the company recycles activated carbon with eco-friendly technology, which allows humans to breathe clean air and drink clear water without concern.
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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: 34
  • 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.
  • Cushion — Cutshion is a company that specializes in AI factories and robotic application platforms. We provide customized robot solutions for a wide range of industries, from industrial robots such as palletizing and welding robots to service robots including drawing robots.
  • Inventera Pharmaceuticals — Inventera Pharmaceutical is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of imaging diagnostic contrast agents.
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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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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: 111
  • 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.
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  • Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops automotive data platform that provides web-based visualization, filtering, and post-processing of vehicle data.
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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: 19
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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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Lee Seung Ho
Angel · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

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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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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: 99
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$14M; Series B $4.5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
  • Market Designers — Market Designers is a matching platform designed to provide effective resource sharing and distribution.
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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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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: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • AWESOME Entertainment — AWESOME Entertainment is a media and digital content company that provides YouTube content production, influencer and MCN management, advertising and branded content creation, and media commerce services. The comapny supports brands with campaign planning, viral video production, and distribution across multiple social platforms, while alsooffering production outsourcing and partnership services to maximize audience reach and engagement.
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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: 45
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$18M; Series B $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
  • Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
  • 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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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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $1.7M–$16M; Series B $4.9M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
  • 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
  • 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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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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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, 10 in the past 12 months

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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$60M; Series A $1.6M–$25M; Series B $3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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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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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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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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: 83
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$6.1M; Series A $1.8M–$7.7M; Series B $1.9M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
  • infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
  • Fine Stay
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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

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.8M; Series A $743k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
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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: 83
  • 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.
  • 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.
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Series Ventures
VC Fund · Changwon, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M; Series A $2.4M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ladit — Ladit provides camping provides peaceful relaxation after a rough travel and gives extensive outdoor services so that all outdoor activities
  • Mold — Mold develops, manufactures, and distributes automobile parts and new material parts.
  • Linkup
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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:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 225
  • Round size: Seed $694k–$6.8M; Series A $1M–$15M; Series B $3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.​
  • Big Mobility — Big Mobility is a start-up that is addressing the issue of unlawful overnight truck parking brought on by a lack of truck parking spaces. In order to generate additional revenue for landowners and provide fixed parking spaces for truck owners, we operate a truck parking lot as a corporate type and develop and manage vacant land in the city as atruck parking lot.
  • Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
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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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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: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
  • Wildcat Labs — Wildcat Labs provides on-chain credit and grants access to a detailed view of all market parameters and logs for real-time monitoring.
  • Cork Protocol — Cork's new DeFi primitive, Depeg Swaps allows investors to hedge and trade the risk of their pegged asset (LST/LRTs, Stablecoins, RWAs).
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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–$701k; 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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JS Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

JS Corp engaged in the manufacture and distribution of fashion products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, eSports, Wellness
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Series A $3.4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DRX — DRX is an esports management organization and runs a professional League of Legends (LOL) team. It has a strong global fandom, which helped DRX reach 270k average viewers in this spring season and 3rd place in global viewership across all global LOL teams. DRX has developed a proprietary method of quantitative and qualitative metrics analysis uponwhich builds a structured team training system.
  • Cover Summon — CVSM Cruelty-free Savvy tech
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InterVest
VC Fund · Kirkland, Washington, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

InterVest offers a range of marketing and financial technology services to companies in Gibraltar.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $3M–$30M; Series C $11k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AIMEDBIO — AIMEDBIO provides therapeutic solutions to patients with serious brain diseases.
  • Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
  • Aerodyne Group — Aerodyne Group (https://aerodyne.group) is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation) drone-based enterprise solutions provider, and a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence as an enabling technology for large-scale data operations, analytics, and process optimization. Aerodyne employs over 1000 droneprofessionals to operate on an unprecedented level in the UAS services sector, having managed more than 560,000 infrastructure assets with 458,058 flight operations and surveyed over 380,000 km of power infrastructure across 32 countries globally.Aerodyne is ranked first in the world by Drone Industry Insights (DII) in its ‘Drone Service Provider Ranking 2021’ and ‘Drone Service Provider (Remote Sensing) Ranking 2022; was named Frost & Sullivan’s ‘Asia Pacific UAV Services Company of 2019’; and is a recipient of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia’s ‘Industry Excellence Gold Award 2019’. The company’s founder and Group CEO, Kamarul A Muhamed, is 'EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2020', 'EY’s Technology Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Malaysia', Technode Global’s Startup Leader of the Year 2021’, as well as 'SEBA Entrepreneur of the Year 2020'.
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Jang Won-gwi
Angel · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups

Jang Won-gwi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Golf, Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Field Mentor — Field Mentor is an operator of a golf field lesson platform.
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Sports startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
  • Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
  • DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
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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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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

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  • 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 67 deals from 99 investors.

99
investors
in South Korea Sports startups
67
deals
in South Korea Sports startups
$1.4M
median round
in South Korea Sports startups
23%
lead investors
lead at least one round
51%
Seed
most common funding stage
94/6
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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