Top 50 Sports VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $18k–$30M |
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Sazze Partners
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $200k–$19M |
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SANG SANG ebiz
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Software | $37k–$371k |
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Evergreen Investment Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $223k–$4.5M |
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $149k–$4.5M |
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NBH Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Travel, Software, E-Commerce | $594k–$24M |
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TheVentures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $74k–$4.8M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $371k–$17M |
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $223k–$11M |
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Lotte Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | |
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $743k–$35M |
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Hyperithm
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$10M |
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Kiwoom Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology | $1.2M–$22M |
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Big Basin Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Apps, Software | $371k–$7M |
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Russian Federation | Series A, Seed | Software, Gaming, Biotechnology | $1k–$7.8M |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $149k–$29M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series B, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $694k–$47M |
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Translink Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $300k–$12M |
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The Wells Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Singapore, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1k–$14M |
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Bokwang Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Health Care | $371k–$18M |
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $45k–$60M |
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Wantedlab
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Sports, Fitness, Software | $1.2M–$11M |
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Falcon Partners VC
VC Fund
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2 | Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea | Seed | Travel, Cycling, Leisure | $500k–$1.5M |
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software | $860k–$25M |
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IBK Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Gaming | $669k–$22M |
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $22k–$1.5M |
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Series Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | $74k–$4.5M |
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One Billion Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Information Technology, Art | |
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IMO Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce | $600k–$50M |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $223k–$7.1M |
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MYSC
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, China, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce | |
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Forest Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Real Time | |
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Otium Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Indonesia, United States | Series A, Seed | Food and Beverage, Software, SaaS | |
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JB Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Series B | Apps, Mobile Apps, Pet | |
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Quad Asset Management
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Biopharma | |
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Fast Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer | |
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | |
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Korea Tech Incubator Program For Startup
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, Video | |
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NH Investment & Securities
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, India, Indonesia | Series C, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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Truston Asset Management
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Fitness, Training, Health Care | |
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Golden Oak Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series C | Apps, Wellness, Beauty | $2.4M–$2.6M |
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Japan, Malaysia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $223k–$42M |
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Shinhan Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $12k–$106M |
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Seoul Global Startup Center
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Sports, Travel | |
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HYK Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Apps | $16k–$9.7M |
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Bogwang
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A | Sports, Scheduling, Health Care | |
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K- Bridge Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Seed | Apps, Transportation, Travel | |
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Wargaming
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Austria, Lithuania | Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Apps, Video Streaming | $150k–$60M |
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Wemade
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Corporate Round | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | |
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Daewon
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed | Health Care, Women's, Apps | |
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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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- 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.
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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- 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.
SANG SANG ebiz offers software education and MySQL DBMS consulting services.
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- 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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- 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.
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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- 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.
NBH Capital is an investment firm.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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. '
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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- 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.
Lotte Ventures is a venture capital firm that is based in South Korea.
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- 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
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- 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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- 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 —
A premier digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul.
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- 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).
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ActionFit — ActionFit is a video game company with expertise in developing and publishing video games for the mobile platform.
- Pop-Up Studio — Pop-Up Studio is a joint venture between Singapore-based venture studio Wilt Venture Builders (WVB) and AI studio DubDubDub, bringing together venture creation expertise and advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to develop innovative, technology-driven solutions for brands and digital platforms.
- Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.
VC, Venture Capital
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- 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.
Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.
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- 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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- 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
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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- 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.
IBK Capital has established an enviable track record as an independent Canadian investment banking firm.
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- 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
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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- 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.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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- 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 —
One Billion Partners is a South Korea-based investment firm.
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- 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.
IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.
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- 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.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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- 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.
Forest Partners is a leading alternative investment firm based in Korea focused on investing in high growth companies to deliver exceptional value to founders and investors. Our firm operates Venture Capital and Private Equity divisions so that we can invest in bold ideas across multiple strategies and help drive hypergrowth of our portfoliocompanies.Our robust network and team of experts with decades of combined investment and operating experience guides our portfolio companies on the path to global expansion so we can also deliver outsized returns back to our investors.Our vision is to grow together with great companies so that we can continue to be the go-to alternative investment firm in Asia.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Real Time
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Utransfer — Utransfer is a platform that offers overseas money transfer services.
- Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.
- December & Company — December & Company offers customized asset management services to a broad population.
Otium Capital is an early-stage venture investor / financial advisory firm underpinned by unique value propositions, working alongside corporates / financial sponsors pursuing cross-border opportunities spanning Greater China, Korea and Southeast Asia
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Creatz — Creatz is a sports consulting online platform based on artificially generated data.
- Monoly — Trust network of communication and collaboration for enterprise
- Theori — Empowering Innovation with Security
JB Ventures is a venture capital investment firm and startup accelerator that aims to support startups in the Chungcheongnam-do region.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Pet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rubit — Rubit is an online mobile application with the provisions for individuals to take care of their pets.
- Cre Planet — Cre Planet creates technologies for analyzing advertising performance and provides staffing services.
- Wise Convey — Wise Convey is innovating smart logistics, starting with task automation.
Quad Asset Management is an Investment firm.
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- 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.
Fast Investment
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
- Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
- Remake Digital — They are a group of creatives, marketers, and engineers building CROLO, a creative AI. CROLO totally automates banner ad designs so advertisers can reduce design time/cost while maximizing ad performance through data driven design.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 228
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- EPD Biotherapeutics — EPDBio is a platform technology-based biotech company that provides research and product development services.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
R&D fund for Korean startups who secured at least $100,000 from designated startup VCs or Accelerators
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- 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.
NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses in South Korea and internationally. It operates through Sales, Investment Bank, and Trading segments. The Sales segment offers asset management services, such as brokerage consignment, financial instrument sales, etc. toindividuals, and domestic or foreign institutional investors. The Investment Bank segment provides corporate finance services, including corporate finance, M&A, PF, PEF operation, etc. The Trading segment is involved in stocks and bonds operations, product operations, the supply of derivatives, and capital investment activities. Woori Investment & Securities that began operation in 1969 became NH Investment & Securities in December 2014, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series C, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Siksin — A restaurant recommendation app.
- Diorigin — Diorigin is a comprehensive content IP holding company. It obtains original content IP and methodically develops and implements complete plans.
- Inventera Pharmaceuticals — Inventera Pharmaceutical is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of imaging diagnostic contrast agents.
Truston Asset Management is an asset management company.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Golden Oak, LLC is a privately held investment company that focuses on the acquisition, development, and management of value-add multifamily real estate.
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- Industry: Apps, Wellness, Beauty
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LOWE — Lowe is a shared beauty salon platform service that provides a variety of beauty infrastructure such as beauty spaces, facilities and materials, and creates an optimal environment for designers to focus on the essence.
- Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
- Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $223k–$4.1M; Series A $1.4M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sasung power — Sasung power enhances energy storage performance using advanced structural battery source technology, developing new batteries for structural support and eco-friendly lightweight structures.
- 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.
- Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.
Shinhan Investment Corp. is a financial services company based out of 여의대로 70, 영등포구, 서울특별시, South Korea.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series A $743k–$22M; Series B $12k–$11M; Series C $26M–$106M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
- Sensor Tower — Sensor Tower provides market intelligence and analytics for the mobile app economy through their software suite. It serves independent and Fortune 500 customers alike, spanning the mobile games, travel, music, finance, eCommerce, and entertainment markets. Our suite consists of free, SMB, and Enterprise level solutions including Store Intelligence,Usage Intelligence, Ad Intelligence, and App Intelligence.
- Bright Machines — Bright Machines is a manufacturing startup that aims to eliminate manual labor from manufacturing electronic devices by combining robots and new software. Its software-defined manufacturing platform helps customers innovate faster to meet the growing demands of a new era of manufacturing.The company was founded by former Autodesk executive, ArmarHanspal, in 2018.
A city government funded startup incubation center supporting foreign entrepreneurs in Korea to begin their startup journey in Seoul.
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- 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.
HYK is an investment company in Seoul, South Korea
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- Industry: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$5.4M; Series B $16k–$9.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Da-gym — Da-gym is the most convenient marketplace platform for searching gyms.
- CultureHero — CultureHero is a food company.
- JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN is a food and beverage company that produces dessert.
Bogwang is an Investment firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Scheduling, Health Care
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
K- Bridge Investment
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- Industry: Apps, Transportation, Travel
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
- Jim Carry — Jim Carry is a hotel services company that offers same-day luggage transportation and station and airport luggage storage services.
- Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
A catalogue of games produced by the leading game developer in the CIS. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.
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- Industry: Gaming, Apps, Video Streaming
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Austria, Lithuania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$310k; Series A $1.2M–$60M; Series B $15M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Donut Lab — Donut Punks is a MOBA game that offers a unique blend of fun, action, and strategy. It is designed for players who want to team up and take on the challenge of fighting against hordes of zombies in a thrilling online environment.
- Polystream — Polystream is completely rethinking and realising new ways of how to use the visual cloud, from server to client, from network to edge as we build the 3D Internet. Powered by our breakthrough command streaming technology, you can now instantly engage, grow, and monetise audiences of all shapes and sizes wherever they are in the world; whether it’splayers, streamers, or viewers. Our synchronous spectator engine Fantom enables cloud native games and experiences to be cost-effectively streamed with unrivalled reach, and unprecedented scale.
- Gcore — Gcore is the first class web service with cutting-edge features and advanced security. It provides efficient services for all modern web needs: CDN, hosting, storage, streaming platform, DNS, security, and cloud. The company oversees a global infrastructure that delivers edge and cloud-based services to enterprise-level businesses.
WeMade Games is dedicated to serving gamers with a portfolio of entertaining, high-quality PC and Mobile games. Established in 2000, WeMade Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 112040) is an international game developer publisher that has grown from a handful of passionate game pioneers to a group of over 1,000 game enthusiasts. Starting with itsfirst and hit title "Legend of Mir 2", which has garnered over 200 million online PC gamers internationally, WeMade Entertainment has continued to develop and service dozens of PC and Mobile based games for fun-loving gamers since its inception.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CLST — Buy & sell Bitcoin and cryptos with our easy and seamless Uncollateralized lending. Tust the world's finest crypto borrowing, trading or exchange platform
- HwikGo — HwikGo a MaaS platform has created a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that provides a transfer connection between public transportation and shared smart mobility via a traffic card.
- MetaCene — MetaCene is a blockchain company that aims to create an accessible Web3 world for the masses, with a focus on player-centric entertainment.
Daewon engages domestic and overseas housing construction, infrastructure, urban development, and platform businesses. It manages land and water with technology for humans and the environment, and provides in-depth benefits with customized designs to the inclination.
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- Industry: Health Care, Women's, Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
- MonthlyThing — A woman's cycle varies from person to person and situation to situation. Health conditions are also different. So keeping track of your own cycle is important. From Data-driven health care tailored to your cycle and feminine care product recommendations to handling your first period anxiety and menopause depression, Monthly Thing will be with you all the way.
- THEFAMILYLAB — THEFAMILYLAB provides digital healthcare solutions for women.
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To access all 93 VC funds investing in South Korea Sports startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
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What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
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All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
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