Top 50 Sustainability VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)
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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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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
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6 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $3k–$7.1M |
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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, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $149k–$29M |
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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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4 | South Korea, Kuwait | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $4k–$13M |
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POSCO CAPITAL
VC Fund
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4 | 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, Health Care | $74k–$4.8M |
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Magna Investment
VC Fund
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4 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing | $141k–$26M |
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Shinhan Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $371k–$19M |
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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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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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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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Series Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology | $74k–$4.5M |
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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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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $817k–$47M |
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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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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 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 | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $594k–$47M |
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Oracle Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Energy, Payments, Software | |
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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, Health Care | $45k–$25M |
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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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Blue Corner
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Series A, Seed | EdTech, Education, Recycling | |
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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 | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $1.5M–$30M |
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GS Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, Industrial, Health Care | $3.4M–$42M |
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Rising S Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Payments, Security, Recycling | $215k–$1.3B |
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COINVEST
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed | Solar, Battery, Wholesale | |
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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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Korea Technology Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Medical | $1k–$13M |
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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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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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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, South Africa | Series A, Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $1.4M–$23M |
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Hana Securities
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software | $22k–$13M |
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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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Antler
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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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 | $3k–$16M |
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HG Initiative
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps | $6k–$5.2B |
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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, India, United States | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$15M |
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ENSL Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Convertible Note | Apps, PaaS, Events | |
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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: 106
- Round size: Seed $149k–$2M; Series A $1M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- UBATT — UBATT manufactures polymorphic thin lithium batteries using flame-retardant polymer solid electrolytes and uniform, large-capacity anode technology to produce polymer solid-state batteries, electrolytes, and lithium metal conductors, enabling companies to procure batteries for electric mobility and other uses.
- RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
- Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
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.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.8M; Series A $3k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
- Searchdoc — Searchdoc is a large-scale AI startup specializing in advanced document and drawing analysis, leveraging cutting-edge machine learning technologies to extract insights, automate workflows, and enhance data interpretation across various industries.
- Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
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, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $149k–$8.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M; Series B $4.9M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
- Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
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: 109
- Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5M; Series B $4.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
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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: 265
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $1M–$8M; Series B $18k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
- Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
- TeamElysium — TeamElysium is a medical software development company.
BNK Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Kuwait
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $743k–$4.8M; Series A $4k–$9.3M; Series B $5k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finda Auto — Finda Auto is an internal business of Finda, a finance company that specializes in financing.
- AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
- Korea Precision Materials Industry — Korea Precision Materials Industry is a manufacturer of next-generation composite materials used for weight reduction.
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: 82
- Round size: Seed $149k–$5M; Series A $1.1M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UBATT — UBATT manufactures polymorphic thin lithium batteries using flame-retardant polymer solid electrolytes and uniform, large-capacity anode technology to produce polymer solid-state batteries, electrolytes, and lithium metal conductors, enabling companies to procure batteries for electric mobility and other uses.
- Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
- Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.
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: 95
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $4.5M–$22M; Corporate Round $1.2M–$475M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $74k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $750k–$770k; Series A $3M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- Amously — Amously builds production-ready process control software for advanced fabs using digital twins, virtual metrology, and run-to-run control to improve stability, yield, and operational efficiency.
- Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.
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, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $141k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.4M; Series B $1.4M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JNJ Tech — JNJ Tech is a digital healthcare startup that will provide services such as pharmaceutical ordering, inventory management, and pharmaceutical information.
- 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.
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, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $371k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mustbio — MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
- Spark Biopharma — SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring anddeveloping new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '
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: 27
- Round size: Seed $111k–$688k
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BioSean — BioSean is a diverse feed technology and breeding organization that provides integrated solutions for microorganisms utilized from the hatched self-fish stage to plankton, high-efficiency fermented feed, and functional additive feed.
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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 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: 102
- Round size: Seed $2k–$7.6M; Series A $3k–$8.2M; Series B $5k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AutoHands — AutoHands is a South Korea-based mobility company that offers comprehensive integrated mobility services including vehicle buying and selling, management, online used-car auctions, car rentals, extended warranties, residual value guarantees, mobile maintenance, and accident compensation programs.
- 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.
Series Ventures is an investment company for the beauty care, engineering, healthcare, social platform, and enterprise sectors.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $74k–$1.6M; Series A $2.4M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XYZ — LoungeLAB is a Retail-tech startup that augments space with technology, using the state-of-the-art technologies such as AI and Robotics technology. LoungeLAB focuses on enhancing the product value and services, and we develop in the field rather than on the desk. We Invent Everyday Technology for All.
- ROBOS — Robos is a hybrid robot system built by evaluating biological object vision data using Lidar Vision and Open CV-based Object Detection. By combining self-developed biomaterial machine vision technology and robot technology, it intends to expand into a company that delivers core services to diverse industrial sites such as manufacturing, food, andmedical.
- DMS Chemical — DMS Chemical is a start-up headquartered in manufacturing that produces high-purity sodium silicate. Although sodium silicate has a wide range of applications and is in high demand, all low-quality raw materials in Korea are imported from China and used exclusively for industrial reasons such as steel, building, and paper manufacturing.
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: 297
- Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012
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- Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
- Moyo — Moyo is a phone plan comparison platform that recommends all communication products.
- Vivid Health — Vivid Health is a platform that provides obesity treatment management services. It provides a convenient platform for users to easily access reviews on obesity medicine products by their specific ingredients.
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:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 204
- Round size: Seed $817k–$6.8M; Series A $1M–$16M; Series B $3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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- Freewheelin — Freewheelin is an edtech company developing AI-powered tools to personalize math education. Their platform offers services such as generating homework books, integrating with textbooks, managing student errors, and analyzing performance data to assist educators in course preparation. The company has curated a database of math resources inpartnership with textbook publishers, ensuring teachers can use materials without copyright concerns.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
- Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
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- Industry: GreenTech, Energy, Events
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
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: 103
- 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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- Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
- Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference 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.
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: 207
- Round size: Series A $7k–$24M; Series B $3.7M–$37M; Series C $45k–$45M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
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- Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
- Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
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: 31
- Round size: Seed $297k–$1.8M; Series A $1.9M–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Seed $594k–$9.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
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- Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
- MAKEUS — MAKEUS provides advertising solutions based on digital media in seoul.
- Brandi — Brandi sells clothes, cosmetics, and home interior products.
Oracle Venture Investment is an Investment firm.
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- Industry: Energy, Payments, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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- 10kM.ai — AI Video - Revolutionizing Enterprise Communications
- GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
- GhostPass — GhostPass is a startup that develops a biometric payment solution with A.I. and Self-Sovereign Identification technologies.
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, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $45k–$3.2M; Series A $1.6M–$25M; Series B $3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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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
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: 114
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$26M; Series B $5M–$98M; Series C $11M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
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- 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
Blue Corner is a venture capital firm that provides investments for startups and venture organizations.
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Recycling
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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- 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.
- Eight Tech — Eight Tech is a resource circulation platform that solves the waste problem with science and technology.
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
Investor stats
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $5.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $34M in 2019
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- Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
- Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
- TEN Inc — TEN Inc. provides an MLops platform (AI workload orchestration) for efficient operation of AI infrastructure.
GS Ventures provides Investment in domestic companies.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Industrial, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
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- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $3.4M–$16M; Series B $3.6M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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- Elice — Elice is an e-learning services company.
- Sovato Health — Sovato empowers healthcare organizations to implement and scale remote robotic surgery and procedure programs, expanding access to surgical expertise.
- Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
Rising S Ventures is a venture investment company specializing in early-stage technology start-ups.
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- Industry: Payments, Security, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $215k–$1.3B
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
- 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.
Blcokchain Development and Mainnet Operation
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- Industry: Solar, Battery, Wholesale
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Korea
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Korea LFP Co. — Korea LFP Co. produces lithium iron phosphate battery cells and modules for e-mobility, energy storage, and industrial power applications.
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
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- 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.
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
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- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $371k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
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- Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
- Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
- My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.
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- 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.
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: 66
- Round size: Seed $1k–$5.4M; Series A $2k–$7.4M; Series B $1k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
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- AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical's AI-powered platform reduces MRI scan times by up to 50%, improves image quality, and delivers deeper clinical insights. Trusted by 1,700+ institutions across 40+ countries.
- 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.
- AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.
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
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- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 51
- Round size: Seed $126k–$817k; Angel $74k–$104k; Series A $1.1M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
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- 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.
Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$16M; Series B $4.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
- Amber Road — Amber Road is the creator of an operation management-focused data analysis program. By analyzing the data based on the input data, the company's platform generates a customized AI model and business insight report that requires the input of manufacturing process data.
- Holiday Robotics — Meet FRIDAY, the world's most advanced humanoid robot with 63 DoF and dexterous hands. Powered by Holiday Sim and World Model AI technology.
Hana Securities is a subsidiary of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $966k–$4.1M; Series A $3M–$11M; Series B $22k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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- KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
- Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
- Wedbush Financial Services — Wedbush Financial Services is a diversified financial services company.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 935
- Round size: Seed $362k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Gyodi —
- Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
- Unseen — Unseen is a market intelligence platform for commercial real estate.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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: 46
- Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $3k–$6.4M; Series B $5k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CafeWhale — the AI intelligence layer transforming physical retail into a continuous, data-driven ecosystem. By integrating real-time machine telemetry, customer behavior analytics, and automated engagement, MoonWhale connects the physical and digital, enabling retailers to optimize conversion, retention, and operations through a unified, adaptiveinfrastructure.
- Scone — Scone provides virtual youtuber and video conferencing services.
- Cafe Manwolgyeong — Cafe Manwolgyeong is a customer-centered cafe brand that values different cafes and related products.
HGI runs an impact-driven business, seeking to address diverse social issues through sustainable innovations.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $297k–$7.7M; Series A $6k–$7.4M; Series B $4M–$5.2B
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
- CastingN — CastingN is a B2B trading platform that helps companies outsource.
- Glovv — Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform.
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, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$10M; Series B $1.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Qunova Computing, Inc. — Quantum computing based computing innovations for new materials and drug discovery, and advanced technology solution consulting services.
- FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
- Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.
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- Industry: Apps, PaaS, Events
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Citza —
- Rivetta — Rivetta provides a web novel translation platform that supports global publishing through translation, distribution, promotion, and settlement services. It enables writers to share their work with international audiences while managing publishing and monetization processes. The platform helps creators grow readership and expand their presenceacross diverse global markets.
- Ddalgiro —
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