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Top 50 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2025

Investor Travel South Korea investments
SJ Investment Partners 4
Strong Ventures 4
KB Securities 3
Coolidge Corner Investment 3
Newborn Ventures 3
NBH Capital 3
D3 Jubilee 2
Kakao Ventures 2
Capstone Partners 2
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund 2
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings 2
MYSC 2
K2 Investment Partners 2
Yoonmin Foundation 2
Hana Financial Investment 2
Bass Investment 2
KB Investment 2
Woori Financial Group 1
InfoBank 1
Vroong 1
Primer Sazze Partners 1
Incheon Center for Creative Economy and Innovation 1
Alumni Partners 1
Kyowon Group 1
Laguna Investment 1
East Gate Partners 1
Kiwoom Investment 1
Daekyung Investment 1
Nice Investment Partners 1
Yanolja 1
KB Kookmin Card 1
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation 1
Eugene Investment 1
GS Retail 1
Industrial Bank of Korea 1
kocca 1
Nanuhm Angels 1
Seoul Global Startup Center 1
HYUNDAI Motor Securities 1
FastVentures 1
TheVentures 1
Korea Polytechnic University 1
Pohang University of Science and Technology 1
Kingospring 1
Shinhan Venture Investment 1
Cyrus Venture Investment 1
Ascendo Ventures 1
NH Investment & Securities 1
Timewise Investment 1
Magellan Technology Investment 1
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SJ Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
  • JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
  • Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Atlo — Ato is designed to be available at any time and place on the web, ready to engage with users.
  • Roovook — Room + Venue + Booking = Roovook! Provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels.Even though hotel banquet/event segment is big part of MICE industry, still customers are having hard timefinding right venue to hold their events. So Roovook provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. As a fast growing start-up, we are acknowledged by one of the best accelerator in Korea, called Primer and VC TBT(Naver). Thanks to our trustworthy partner hotels like IHG, Marriott, and Accor, we are no.1 hotel venue reservation platform in Korea and keep expanding our service to global market. We are making Roovook as "Expedia for event spaces" We are looking for our future teammates to make our vision and dream together!
  • Lunch Lab — Lunch Lab is a startup that provides regular in-house meal services to various companies that have difficulty eating out or having trouble solving lunch issues.
KB Securities VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Movv — Movv is a mobility service that makes movement more safe and convenient anytime and anywhere by using dedicated articles and vehicles. They offer dedicated drivers and cars to help travelers move safely and comfortably. With the mobile application, you can set up your travel itinerary and call your driver anytime anywhere, so you can enjoy youroverseas travel with the movv.
  • NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
  • Move — Move is a travel agency that offers ticketing, travel, and reservation services.
Coolidge Corner Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Nexusbe — Nexusbe is a manufacturer of atomic layer equipment technology intended to provide vacuum deposition equipment.
  • Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
  • Nature Loud — Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products.
Newborn Ventures VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Newborn Ventures is an investment consulting firm that provides professional training courses and initial startup funding.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Metainnotech — Metainnotech is an innovative technology platform that provides inter-floor noise reduction solutions in apartments and complexes using AI and various algorithms.
  • Onda Fashion — Quaza is a company that develops a solution using artificial intelligence (AI) to swiftly and accurately detect counterfeit luxury items.
  • Moment Studio — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
NBH Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
NBH Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, France
Portfolio highlights
  • JOINANDJOIN — JOINANDJOIN is a food and beverage company that produces dessert.
  • Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
D3 Jubilee VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
  • RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
  • 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.
Kakao Ventures VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 13 investments in the past 12 months
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
  • Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
  • Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense
Capstone Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
  • Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
  • DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
  • Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.
  • Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings is a startup company that invests in startups that solve social problems through innovative technologies. They invest in businesses that maximize synergy by pursuing both social and financial values at the same time. It focuses on five sectors including health, environment, education, elimination of inequality, andsocial infrastructure. Kaist Venture Investment Holdings was founded on October 31, 2014, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Retail, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Grant
  • South Korea, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Podonos — Podonos evaluates the effectiveness and performance of AI models for speech and audio. You get the evaluation result within 12 hours from global evaluators.
  • Risorious — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.
  • K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.
MYSC VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France
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.
K2 Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
K2 Investment Partners is a leading LLC in Korea specializing in growth-stage venture capital investment
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Imagoworks — Imagoworks Inc. offers a Web-based Dental CAD solution using AI, streamlining the digital workflow for dental professionals. Together with world-class technology, we are setting new standards for digital dentistry in the global market. Our mission is to <Making the future of digital medicine for everyone>.While we have accumulatedtechnological expertise in the medical field for over 10 years, specializing in AI-based automation, 3D geometric modeling and mesh processing, and software as a service (SaaS), we now turn our focus to commercializing our innovative technologies and transforming the field of digital dentistry. By cooperating with and licensing to leading global dental companies, we are seeing great success as we find ourselves in the industry spotlight.Imagoworks currently offers Dentbird Crown which automatically generates optimal crown designs with a single click and without any software installation required. As we continue to expand our services, Imagoworks aims to be recognized as a chairside design solution for dentists worldwide.
  • AIGEN Sciences — We aim to advance current state-of-the-art AI drug discovery technologies and transform high-cost, low-efficiency drug discovery practices into rapid, efficient discovery, ultimately leading to high success rates in the clinical phase. Our award-winning AI drug discovery platform enables the direct
  • Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
Yoonmin Foundation VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • INVAIZ — INVAIZ sells macro input keyboards, plug-ins, and accessories.
  • Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
  • FOBECON — Pobicon offers an auto-estimation solution that analyzes construction blueprints using vision AI and other algorithms to quantify the net quantity of raw materials utilized in construction in three days.
Hana Financial Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Singapore, India
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.
Bass Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
  • Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
  • Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
  • Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
Woori Financial Group VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Woori Financial Group is a Seoul-based banking and financial services holdings company and is the largest bank in South Korea. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Seoul, Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Pharmaceutical, Apps, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series C
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
  • WASHSWAT — Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is alittle slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.
  • Bio Design Lab — A synthetic biology company leveraging systems-level genetic & genomic designs to creates highly potent biopharmaceuticals.
InfoBank VC Fund · Gyeongju, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea · 9 investments in the past 12 months
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
  • Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
  • Rootfinders — RouteFinders develops an AI-based media platform to support independent living for visually impaired individuals in an increasingly digital world.
Vroong VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Mesh Korea is an IT-based logistics startup, which established Korea's first last-mile logistics network and became the primary provider of integrated logistics services with in-house logistics solutions.VROONG, Mesh Korea's logistics brand, creates new value not only by providing delivery services, but also by connecting information.Currently, VROONG provides four services; premium delivery services, 'VROONG Prime', integrated logistics management solution, 'VROONG TMS', premium fresh food delivery services, 'VROONG Fresh', and premium delivery magazine, 'VROONG Collection.'With more than 80 VROONG Stations and 13,000 riders across the nation, VROONG provides faster and more accurate delivery services.
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Portfolio highlights
  • Plating — Plating provides healthy and delicious food is the best welfare. Plating releases new products every week and has presented about 50 menus to our customers so far.
Primer Sazze Partners VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Primer Sazze Partners - We like to find founders who are making the impossible happen through sheer force of will and a refusal to accept hard truths.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
  • Blux — Blux offers customized advertising solutions to customers.
  • Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
Incheon Center for Creative Economy and Innovation VC Fund · Incheon, Inch'on-jikhalsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Incheon Center for Creative Economy & Innovation will promote the creation and fostering of a new normal start-up ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fashion, Software
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Upsite — Upsite develops AI-driven construction management solutions to enhance efficiency, safety, and real-time communication on job sites.
  • Onda Fashion — Quaza is a company that develops a solution using artificial intelligence (AI) to swiftly and accurately detect counterfeit luxury items.
  • Moment Studio — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Alumni Partners VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Alumni Partners is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Bakery, Local Business
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Dalol — Dalol is a bakery that sells snacks, cakes, and rice chips.
  • DEEPX — DEEPX is a Korean AI hardware system solution company.
  • Freshstore — We Love To Eat The Fresh Food
Kyowon Group VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Since its founding in 1985, KYOWON has attained the top position of Korea's education industry faster than any other company. With the stated goal of improving the quality of life of humanity through education from cradle to grave by nurturing creative intellectuals and developing high quality educational materials, KYOWON has carved its nicheas a distinctive leader in the field of education and publication services.
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Investment focus
  • Children, Travel, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WAUG — Make your reservation from local hotels to popular activities and restaurants at once !
  • Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
  • Let's go baby — Let's go baby is a mobile travel app that helps people find cafes, theme parks, playgrounds, and outings.
Laguna Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
  • Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.
  • Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors
East Gate Partners VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
East Gate Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investment for businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Apps, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
  • Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
  • 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.
Kiwoom Investment VC Fund · Youidodong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
  • Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
  • Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
Daekyung Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Daekyung Investment is a venture capital firm that invests in promising venture companies.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, SaaS, Travel
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Erding — Erding develops a SaaS-based system to provide services related to the travel industry. The company connects travel with IT technology and manages travel agency business data to solve travel agency inconveniences and build more supply environments, while also providing travel agencies and customers with an easy-to-use platform.
Nice Investment Partners VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
NICE Investment Partners is a new technology finance company whose main job is to increase corporate value by discovering and investing in new technology businesses with promising growth, providing various management support, business alliances, and strategic consulting to the invested companies.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
  • Nature Loud — Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products.
  • Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
Yanolja VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Yanolja is a leisure platform that provides online accommodation and travel services. Its platform offers information regarding all aspects of travel including accommodation, leisure, and transportation that allow clients to book every type of hotel room from overseas. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Travel, FinTech
  • Corporate Round, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • bizplay — Bizplay is a mobile app that processes credit card transactions for businesses.
  • Redrob — Connect with your top talents across the borders.
  • Innkey — Transform your hotel's end-to-end operations with innovative cloud ERP solutions, tailored for independent hotels and chains.
KB Kookmin Card VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
KB Kookmin Card is a wholly owned arm of KB Financial Group.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Consulting
  • Series A, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
  • Metsakuur — Mesacour Company has its own original face recognition technology and is made up of people who have worked with face recognition technology in a variety of industries. Messacour's face recognition accuracy is 100%, which is the highest level in the world.
  • LATELY — Lately Korea is an online marketplace for fashion, consisting of clothing, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, and all other fashion items. With 4 years of history, the company has a stable b2b2c platform "Seller Hub" which connects with all major marketplaces via API, helping merchants sell their products to multiple front-end with a push ofa button. Most "lately", we launched an APP that focuses on K-fashion designer brands. You can search for "lately" on Google Play Store or iphone App Store.
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea
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.
Eugene Investment VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Eugene Investment is a finance company that provides venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, mutual funds and online trading service.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Apps, EdTech
  • Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
  • Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
  • Campus Ground — Campus Ground is a camping platform that provides camping site search, camping content, and camping supplies.
GS Retail VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
GS Retail sells beauty and skincare products, candles, gifts, perfumes, bathroom accessories and other products.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Food Processing
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dayoff — Dayoff wants to be a sensual content and product-curating platform for travel media commerce. It promotes taste-based domestic and international unknown travel products and provides differentiating services in the current travel market, where well-known products and information centered on the lowest price are the main focus. In addition tosupplying limited direct contract products, it intends to expand the current accommodation service to include excursions and activities in the market.
  • Robros — Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life.
  • Snackfor — Snackfor is a B2B company that curates and delivers snacks to offices.
Industrial Bank of Korea VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is committed to honoring its charter of financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Bank has extended the scope of its expertise to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to individual customers in a quest to emerge as a leading financial services group. In pursuit of that goal, IBK is makingevery effort to enhance its competitiveness, achieve balanced growth and strengthen its global presence.The Bank employs around 10,000 staff and operates a distribution network of 612 branches including 12 overseas branches. Providing complementary services, the Bank also operates several subsidiaries: IBK Capital Corporation, IBK-SG Asset Management, IBK System Co., Ltd., and IBK Credit Information Corporation. In 2008, IBK Investment & Securities was launched, focused on meeting the needs of SME customers for services such as IPOs and M&As. Moreover, strategic alliance with Korea Investment Holdings enhances product competitiveness and affiliation with the National Post Office promoting easy customer access to IBK banking services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
  • Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
  • ProtoPie — Prototyping interactions as easy as pie ProtoPie is an easy but powerful software that allows designers and engineers to plan, communicate, and demonstrate an interactive mobile product. Build a sophisticated prototype without any coding, but leveraging all the native mobile device features. The powerful capabilities are already recognized andadopted by the global top brands and such as Google, Microsoft, R/GA, and Ideo.
kocca VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Korea Creative Content Agency (kocca) was established on May 7, 2009 to efficiently support the growth of the cultural industry by combining Korea Broadcasting Institute, Korea Culture and Content Agency, Korea Game Industry Agency, Cultural Contents Center, and Digital Contents Business Group of Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency according toArticle 31 of the Framework Act on Cultural Industry Promotion.kocca is an agency dedicated to promoting all areas for content. We established a comprehensive support system to nurture the content industry, and aim to develop Korea as one of the world's top 5 contents powerhouses.kocca conducts various support businesses to help Korea's content industry grow into a global leader in the creative economy.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Digital Entertainment
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • DNsolution — DN Solution is startup company focusing on NFC(Near field Communication) feature of Android smartphone. we make various embeded pruducts which makes NFC easier.
  • Cre Planet — Cre Planet creates technologies for analyzing advertising performance and provides staffing services.
  • Wazzle Entertainment — Wazzle Entertainment is founded by IT experts and K-Pop stars' actual dance choreographers, and provides K-Pop dance lessons through smartphone devices.Wazzle Entertainment has been granted an exclusive use of official choreography copyrights from K-Pop choreographers for providing dance lessons to the world. We also have exclusivecontracts with champion street dance teams from around the globe to provide their lessons online. All lessons are being serviced through iOS, Android, Smart TV and Web streaming.Wazzle Entertainment has acquired access to the choreography rights of over 90% of K-Pop dances, and provide dance-related services on iOS, Android, Smart TV and Web streaming in more than 7 languages. We aim to be 'the Youtube of Dance' by providing video contents including K-pop dance, street dance lessons, star news, and dance studio segments.Wazzle Entertainment develops original content and lesson-video streaming solutions for dance-learning through apps, smart TV, web, including projects such as:-Original K-POP DanceRelease: iOS 1.0.1(July, 2013)http://youtube.com/OriginalKpopDanceLearn the hottest K-pop dances anytime and anywhere!Wherever you are, the place you're at instantly becomes a dance studio. With a smartphone, tablet or smart TV, you can easily learn K-pop dances on your own schedule – no searching for a studio and dance instructor, no need for expensive classes! 'Original K-POP Dance' provides one hour lessons with 15 clips, so users can repeat sections they want to practice. Anyone can dance and show off to their friends after learning even just some of the parts. Plus!- Mirror mode for easily keeping track of moves and directions- Suitable for learning group dances, with detailed instructions and breakdowns of each members' dance steps and movements
Nanuhm Angels VC Fund · Incheon, Inch'on-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Nanum Angels supports the growth of direct investment and fostering companies by discovering startups in ICT.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Fitness, Training
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • GamePro — GamePro provides game coaching and game PT services.
  • Baba Ground — Baba Ground is a community-based wellness service company for women aged 40 and 50.
  • Moment Studio — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Seoul Global Startup Center VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • Software, Sports, Travel
  • Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Rezi — Rezi is an AI-powered resume builder that lets you quickly create optimized, ATS-friendly resumes and cover letters tailored to specific job descriptions.
  • fastpong — FastPong developed a revolutionary system for training table tennis. Hardware and software for digitalising and tracking sports performance with real-time metrics. Compatible with any ball shooter. The next evolution in table tennis training has arrived.
  • Ventura Sports — Ventura Sports is a sports travel company for thrill-seekers who want to celebrate something or want to have a challenging day. The company offers safe and memorable tandem paragliding while exploring the beautiful countryside of Korea. Ventura Sports was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
HYUNDAI Motor Securities VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
HYUNDAI Motor Securities is a financial assistant provider.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
  • lululab — Lumini is a personalized AI skin assistant that analyzes the user’s skin and recommends the best products and services for each user. It examines the facial skin based on six categories: wrinkles,pores, acne, sebum, melasma, and redness simply by taking a photo of the face. It also features an intelligent chatbot within the mobile app that logs andanalyzes user’s lifestyle. It then combines all relevant data to provide a comprehensive skin analysis along with accurate skincare recommendations. Lumini is the first brainchild of lululab, the 22nd spin-off company from Samsung Electronics.
  • Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
FastVentures VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Hungary, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Iskra — Iskra offers web3 gaming opportunities using blockchain and rewards its stakeholders based on their participation.
  • On Vacation — On Vacation is a chat-based concierge service where customers may get help making reservations and getting personalized and optimal tours from travel specialists.
  • NextChapter — NextChapter is a digital commerce platform that acquires and operates Coupang and Naver-based online native brands in Korea. NextChapter is backed by BlueRun Ventures/BRV Capital Management, Goodwater Capital, Klim Ventures, Fast Ventures and Sandbox Network.NextChapter was founded in 2021 by Joshua Kwon and Jay Chung and is headquarteredin Seoul, Korea.
TheVentures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 21 investments in the past 12 months
TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • LeMong — LeMong automates comments on content assistants using AI technology.
  • ReFeed — ReFeed provides innovative IT technology to develop effective solutions for both trash emitters and collectors.
  • Second Ocean — Second Ocean is an aquaculture company that provides data collection and technology development for sustainable seaweed farming.
Korea Polytechnic University VC Fund
Korea Polytechnic University is nestled amid Korea's major industrial parks.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Mobile Apps, Transportation
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
Pohang University of Science and Technology VC Fund · Pohang, Kyongsang-bukto, South Korea
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ADDD — Dalgo is a peer-to-peer advertising platform.
  • Enough — Enough produces nutritious foods for kids.
  • Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.
Kingospring VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Kingospring is a venture capital firm based in Seongnam-si, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Big Data, Mobile Apps
  • Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • SIJE — Sije is an IT-based solution company.
  • NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
Shinhan Venture Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
  • At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
  • Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
Cyrus Venture Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Cyrus Venture Investments focuses on discovering and investing in businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Travel, Air Transportation
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • NUUA — Reinventing a better future for the travel industry.
  • Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
Ascendo Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Ascendo Ventures is a Seoul, Korea-based venture capital firm that strives to be a true lifecycle partner for the fastest growing, game-changing Asian tech companies. From the moment we invest in our portfolio companies, we commit to being a long-term partner and ascend together embracing the treme
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Medical, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Aldavar — ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials that closely resemble human tissues and 3D printing technology.
  • Ugly Lab — Ugly Lab is a waste-tech startup that provides subscription-based waste collection services and consulting.
  • H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
NH Investment & Securities VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses in South Korea and internationally. It operates through Sales, Investment Bank, and Trading segments. The Sales segment offers asset management services, such as brokerage consignment, financial instrument sales, etc. toindividuals, and domestic or foreign institutional investors. The Investment Bank segment provides corporate finance services, including corporate finance, M&A, PF, PEF operation, etc. The Trading segment is involved in stocks and bonds operations, product operations, the supply of derivatives, and capital investment activities. Woori Investment & Securities that began operation in 1969 became NH Investment & Securities in December 2014, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Series C, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Diorigin — Diorigin is a comprehensive content IP holding company. It obtains original content IP and methodically develops and implements complete plans.
  • Treasurer — Treasurer is an online e-commerce and credit platform that offers retail sales and financial services namely personal loans and credit.
  • Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
Timewise Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
TIMEWISE INVESTMENT, formerly known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in video broadcasting, animation, movies, culture contents, games, communications equipment, arts, sports, leisure, manufacturing and service, mobile devices and solutions, information technology, SI, web agency, cell therapy andbiotechnology sectors. The firm primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeju. CJ Venture Investment was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Genesis lab — Genesis lab is a authentic machine to human communication to improve the way human and machine communicate.
  • Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
  • ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.
Magellan Technology Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Magella Technology Investment is a venture capital firm based in Korea that invests in techno-centric startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Goodoc — Goodoc (굿닥) is a Korean smartphone application that helps users with a variety of medical services. The app allows users to access reliable information on doctors, hospitals, and other medical services. It also provides users with information on doctors' fees, hospital fees, contact numbers, and more.
  • TravelMaker — TravelMaker provides personalized travel services for travelers with big data-based customization technology.
  • Aiden Lab — Aiden Lab evaluates enormous amounts of globally influencer and e-commerce data in real-time using Encode8.
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