Top 50 Sustainability VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
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12 | South Korea, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $149k–$4.5M |
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MYSC
VC Fund
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9 | South Korea, China, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce | |
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Industrial Bank of Korea
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $149k–$29M |
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $223k–$7.1M |
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $22k–$1.5M |
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $223k–$11M |
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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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BNK Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, Kuwait | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $4k–$13M |
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Magna Investment
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical | $141k–$26M |
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
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5 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $149k–$13M |
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Hyundai Motor Company
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Automotive, Software, Transportation | $100k–$475M |
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TheVentures
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $74k–$4.8M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series B, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $694k–$47M |
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ENSL Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea | Seed, Convertible Note | Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps | |
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Series Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | $74k–$4.5M |
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The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea | Seed | GreenTech, Energy, Events | |
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IBK Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $2k–$21M |
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Nextdream Angel Club
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care | $111k–$688k |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $297k–$27M |
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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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L&S Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software | $594k–$37M |
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Korea Angel Investment Association
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea | Seed | Manufacturing, Solar, Energy | $1k–$1.3B |
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, Singapore, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software | $860k–$25M |
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $7k–$45M |
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Future Science and Technology Holdings
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage | $297k–$3.7M |
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DSC Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $594k–$47M |
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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Medical | $1k–$13M |
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Vision Creator
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Australia, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$9.1M |
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Hyundai Technology Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Iraq, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Robotics | $5k–$16M |
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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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HG Initiative
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $35k–$5.2B |
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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$15M |
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GS Venture
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Series B | Energy, Mineral, CleanTech | $3.7M–$45M |
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Oracle Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Pet, Energy, Payments | $1.1M–$1.8M |
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Partners Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.5M–$98M |
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Yoonmin Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $74k–$1.6M |
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Quantum Ventures Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Medical, Information Technology | $1M–$54M |
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Rising S Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Payments, Security | $215k–$1.3B |
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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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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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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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Lighthouse Combined Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $1k–$27M |
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $2.6M–$55M |
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AI Angel Club
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Angel | Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical | $74k–$4.8M |
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COINVEST
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Solar, Battery, Wholesale | |
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GS Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, Robotics, Industrial | $3.4M–$42M |
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Blue Corner
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Seed | Video, EdTech, Training | $700k–$2.8M |
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Golden Oak Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series C | Apps, Wellness, Beauty | $2.4M–$2.6M |
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Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care | |
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Sema Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Series C | Medical, Manufacturing, Sales | |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Kuwait
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $743k–$4.8M; Series A $4k–$9M; Series B $5k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Leesol — Leesol is a sleep technology company engaged in the production of AI based neuromodulation devices for the prevention and treatment solutions for modern-day people’s healthy brains. The company's product range includes the sleepisol which is a functional smart wearable device that utilizes CES (Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation) and is aneffective product for the customer’s quality of sleep and life. The product can also be used with a user-oriented data based App.
- Future Connect — Livfarm is an online platform that delivers fresh vegetables and salad samplers.
- Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
As a Venture Capital / Accelerator / Private Equity Manager specialized in initial companies, SMEs and SMEs, They are generating profits by finding and investing in companies with promising growth potential.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $141k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.4M; Series B $1.4M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $149k–$6.1M; Series A $1.1M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
- Superb AI — Automate data preparation, label and manage images and videos, and find annotation services with one training data platform. Fast, precise, and easy to use.
- Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
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Browse database — It's Free!The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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- Industry: Automotive, Software, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $4.5M–$100M; Corporate Round $3.7M–$475M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revv — Revv is an Indian car-rental startup that offers multiple options to meet all your self-drive needs. The company was founded in 2015 and currently operates in 11 cities in India namely: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Vizag, Mysore, and Coimbatore.To date, Revv has a fleet of around 1,000 vehicles andclaims have served around 300,000 users. It has its main office located at Gurgaon, India.
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- Metawave — Metawave develops AI-powered radar and 5G solutions for autonomous vehicles, enabling safer mobility and faster wireless connectivity.
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.
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
ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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- Advance Battery Recycle — Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process.
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: 85
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M; Series A $2.4M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% 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 —
The Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation for investing in startups
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- Industry: GreenTech, Energy, Events
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CareSix — The future of veterinary care. We envision a world where all companions receive the quality healthcare they're entitled to. Our first line of production - Cotons AI Sense 1 series presents wearable devices, where shaving, gel or electrode is not required for vital data collection. Simply wear the device on your dog's neck to receive notonly vital data, but clinical and behavioral via app or web.
- Spacebeam — Spacebeam is a startup creating space optical communication technology, a space-to-earth data transfer technique that uses light.
- JIN System — JIN System uses location-based spatial information technology to identify customers' potential needs and offers market-friendly solutions by integrating and converging relevant technologies. They aim to cater to increasing consumer needs in transportation, social welfare, and safety sectors, and expand into the digital twin field.
IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $2k–$7.6M; Series A $3k–$8.2M; Series B $5k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
- Automata — Automata creates AI-powered tools like AI agents and smart integrations that simplify how teams plan, communicate, and work. The company solves business problems by enabling AI to build, manage, and evolve software workflows while humans guide the AI to deliver real value.Automata provides industry-tailored AI solutions
- 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.
Nextdream Angel Club provides startup angel investment and solutions.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $111k–$688k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Midvar — Midvar is an aeroponics-based smart farm solution startup that leverages advanced automation, IoT, and data-driven technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and high-yield crop production in controlled environments.
- Blue Cap Can — Blue Cap offers a wide range of innovative and customized solutions related to secondary batteries, a rapidly growing and highly regarded sector in the global energy market.
- Fortel My Health — Fortel My Health provides an innovative liquid biopsy service, 'Magnolia,' designed to simultaneously screen for ovarian and endometrial cancers. The service utilizes platelet-derived RNA analysis combined with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for cancer diagnosis. This advanced technology was developed to address thelimitations of traditional imaging diagnostics and tissue biopsies.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 304
- Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Swit — An Employee Productivity Hub for Collaboration Essentials
- Restream — Restream is a super simple live video platform that empowers you to create beautiful videos and multistream them to your favorite channels.
- Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm. L&S Venture Capital is specializing in incubation, seed, early, and expansion stage investments. L&S Venture Capital invests in electronic components, including smart phones, pads, televisions and grid; telecommunications equipments; green energy sector, such as solar, wind, fuel cell, LED,and EV; machineries; broadcasting; nanotechnology; intelligent robotics; telematics; medical equipments; media contents, which inlcude creation, distribution and new media. L&S Venture Capital primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province. L&S Venture Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $594k–$4.7M; Series A $1.4M–$8.2M; Series B $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
- Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
- Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
Korea Angel Investment Association is a small and medium-sized enterprise that supports startups and angel investors.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1k–$1.3B
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
- Jan153 Biotech — Jan153 Biotech is a biopesticide development company that develops advanced biological control technology to protect the environment.
- Advance Battery Recycle — Advance Battery Recycle is an eco-friendly battery recycling technology company. It produces positive and negative electrode materials by recycling byproducts generated during the battery manufacturing process.
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
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- 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.
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 237
- Round size: Series A $7k–$24M; Series B $3.7M–$37M; Series C $5.4M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
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- Config — Config develops data infrastructure services for robotics applications.
- 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
- 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.
Future Science and Technology Holdings is an investment company that specializes in technology-based services.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $297k–$1.8M; Series A $1.9M–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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- Protier Biotech — PROTIER Biotech is a company leading the development of therapeutics through innovative biotechnology .
- 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.
DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $594k–$9.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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- Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
- 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.
- MicrobiotiX — MicrobiotiX develops bacteriophage and microbiome-based therapeutics to combat multidrug-resistant infections and autoimmune diseases.
Korea Technology Finance Corporation is a South Korea-based fund for small and medium enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $1k–$5.4M; Series A $2k–$7.4M; Series B $1k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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- Sodamsodam — Sodamsodam is a meat processing and home meal replacement (HMR) manufacturing company. They secure cost competitiveness by directly deboning and shaping beef and pork, utilizing all parts. They produce their products using a combination of cast-iron pot heating and modern equipment.
- Elevenliter — Eleven Liter operates Lipet, an online health check solution for companion animals.
- Intergravity — Intergravity is a company that is developing orbital transportation technologies to support the future of in-space activity. Intergravity is to enable a space environment in which mobility, service, and logistics are seamlessly integrated, creating the framework for long-term operations beyond Earth.
Vision Creator is a research, analysis and investment company.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.8M; Series A $3.7M–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Vogo — Vogo provides vivid live shopping.
- Eight Tech — Eight Tech is a resource circulation platform that solves the waste problem with science and technology.
- Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.
Hyundai Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that mainly invests in early-stage companies and is based in South Korea.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Robotics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Iraq, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$6.4M; Series B $5k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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- Scone — Scone provides virtual youtuber and video conferencing services.
- Omelet — Omelet, Transforming Industry Decisions with AI
- Cafe Manwolgyeong — Cafe Manwolgyeong is a customer-centered cafe brand that values different cafes and related products.
Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.
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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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $297k–$7.7M; Series A $35k–$7.4M; Series B $4M–$5.2B
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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- Netspa — Netspa produces recycled nylon by collecting and processing waste fishing nets.
- Brewguru — Brewguru is an online beverage store that makes and sells healthy beverages.
- Dolbom-ui-sin — Caregiver is a specialized platform operator that provides hospitals with advanced nursing solutions, streamlining patient care coordination, enhancing clinical workflows, and supporting specialized nursing practices through intelligent tools and integrated digital systems.
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$10M; Series B $1.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
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- Lee Eum-Gil — Lee Eum-Gil is a consulting firm specializing in career transition support services.
- DAIM Research — DAIM Research is an AI-based automation system solution company that provides logistics automation solutions.
- Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
GS Venture is part of GS Group– an investment and industry holding, operating on the basis of its very own high technologies in telecommunications and innovation. Investments 0.1-10M USD in a startup.Fund Size: 40M USD GS Group is also developing a unique private innovation cluster, located in the special economic zone of Russian Federation(Kaliningrad region). Its aim is built an environment for innovative ideas for innovative ideas that will be able to enter the market. GS Group holding is the investor and initiator of Technopolis GS. It involve industrial cluster, research center, office space and comfortable living area.Priority fields: game developmentinteractive TV services (iTV)original tv contentsmart homeconsumer electronics development and productionmicrochip development for various purposes wearable technology (incl. wristbands, smartglasses, activity trackers, heart rate monitors, etc).
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- Industry: Energy, Mineral, CleanTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $3.7M–$9.9M; Series B $13M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Levit — Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience
- Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
- Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
Oracle Venture Investment is an Investment firm.
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- Industry: Pet, Energy, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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- GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
- Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
- MEDIASCOPE —
As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$26M; Series B $5M–$98M; Series C $7.4M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Mustbio — MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
- Cenyx Biotech — Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.
- BOS Semiconductors — Driving the Future of Automotive, BOS Semiconductors
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
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- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
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- Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
- Digital Natives — Digital Natives is an advertising agency that develops digital advertising transaction comparison platform for marketers.
- H Charging Research Institute — H Charging Research Institute is an electric vehicle company. Aside from fire prevention and PNC (Plug & Charge) charging services, the company plans to build a V2G power business using electric vehicles by using advanced charging technology. The company distributes PLC-embedded charger H chargers to the market and diversifies futurebusinesses, including V2G, in order to create the future of electric vehicle charging.
Quantum Ventures Korea actively invests in companies within the Technology and Bio/Healthcare industries. The firm manages a portfolio of early to growth-stage companies and continues to look for opportunities across a range of company stages.
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $3.7M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $34M in 2019
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- Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
- Wavelord —
- Plastal — Plastal is a mechanical and chemical engineering company that offers polymer, metal, and mold injection services. The company specializes in using its core technology required for bonding between metal and plastic resin, mold technology, injection conditions, and milling capabilities, enabling manufacturing companies to avail themselves of theproducts they desire.
Rising S Ventures is a venture investment company specializing in early-stage technology start-ups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Payments, Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $215k–$1.3B
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- SuperBin — SuperBin is a company that uses AI to create a culture where our society can share and practice the value of circulating resources.
- Linsol — Linsol develops life-saving and environmental detection solutions based on defense-derived search and detection technology.
- Carbon Energy — Carbon Energy was founded as a direct air capture (DAC) solution startup. With the use of direct carbon capture (DAC) technology, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is directly extracted and either buried underground or recycled into new resources. Beyond the current DAC technology, Carbon Energy is claimed to possess a special technology thatsimultaneously produces renewable energy and lowers carbon dioxide.
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.
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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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
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- 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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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $1k–$3M; Series A $3k–$7.8M; Series B $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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- H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
- Seadronix — Seadronix is a AI technology-based autonomous navigation solutions developed by PhD researchers. It saves cost and secures safety based on various learning data.
- BRUSH Theatre — BRUSH Theatre is a theatre for live performances.
Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 182
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$55M; Series B $2.8M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
- Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
- Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
AI Angel Club is an angel investment club that specializes in seed investment in the medical and bio healthcare field.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $126k–$817k; Angel $74k–$104k; Series A $1.1M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
- MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.
- Pots Company — Potts Company develops manufacturing technologies for sustainable plastic circulation & leads the resource recycling market for consumption.
Blcokchain Development and Mainnet Operation
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- Industry: Solar, Battery, Wholesale
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Korea LFP Co. — Korea LFP Co. produces lithium iron phosphate battery cells and modules for e-mobility, energy storage, and industrial power applications.
GS Ventures provides Investment in domestic companies.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Industrial
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Series A $3.4M–$16M; Series B $3.6M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elice — Elice is an e-learning services company.
- Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
Blue Corner is a venture capital firm that provides investments for startups and venture organizations.
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- Industry: Video, EdTech, Training
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $700k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dropshot — Dudum is a video production company that provides graphics, product advertisements, and in-house training.
- CLIWANT (OpenAI Partner Startup) — CLIWANT builds an AI agent for RFPs to fundamentally revolutionize how procurement professionals work.
- Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
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.
Seoul Business Agency (서울산업통상진흥원) is a Koran startup providing support services for small businesses to increase their efficiency and foster a stable business. The company provides support in the areas of technology, management, human resources, and more.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
- Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
- Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
Sema Investment is a venture capital established by Korea Science and Technology Institute.
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- Industry: Medical, Manufacturing, Sales
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gloud — Gloud offers dental digital and digital practice transformation services.
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
- Solarize — Solarize is a company that develops inverters for solar power and green hydrogen facilities.
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