Top 50 Travel VC Funds in South Korea
A list of 50 VC 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 Funds in South Korea
SJ Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the IT and biotechnology industries.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
- Plcoskin — Plcoskin is a MedTech company specializing in reconstructive plastic surgery and regenerative skincare. They have developed a scaffold that removes the need for cadaver-sourced material used in breast reconstruction surgery, making procedures safer and cheaper. Plcoskin’s scaffolds are made with synthetic PCL, a biodegradable material that iscommonly used to create surgical sutures. Unlike competitors' products that remain in the body for a lifetime, Plcoskin’s PCL scaffolds are absorbed and replaced with the recipient’s own natural tissues, minimizing the possibility of long-term side effects. As they do not contain any dangerous chemicals, they are also 50% safer than cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Costs for reconstructive breast surgery are brought down by 40% to only $3 thousand per breast. Furthermore, much less handling time is required, reducing average surgery durations from an hour and a half to only 30 minutes. The mesh design of the scaffolds mitigates the need for an additional follow-up reconstructive surgery, something that is common when using cadaver-sourced scaffolds.Plcoskin has also developed Youlief, a cosmeceutical product & therapeutic device pipeline that helps fund R&D for their medical devices. Youlief is available in the US, Europe, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.
- Vetching — Vetching started with the meaning of matching veterinarians and veterinary hospital customers by combining veterinarian and matching.
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, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
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- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
- Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
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, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
- Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
- Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.
NBH Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Travel, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
- SNPLab — We're a spin-off startup from Samsung Mobile, specifically from Security & Privacy Lab, comprising experienced professionals from Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDS, and venture companies.In today's digital era, individuals generate vast amounts of online data, including browsing history and online shopping activities. Unfortunately,this data is often collected by companies without explicit consent and used for targeted ads or even sold to other businesses.To tackle this issue, we've developed the world's first, award-winning on-device Personal Data Store, and a privacy-guaranteed data trade marketplace. Our platform enables individuals to securely download their own data from various sources onto their mobile devices, allowing them to trade their de-identified data with businesses while explicitly consenting to the process. Simultaneously, businesses can purchase user data and deliver tailored ads to target users in an anonymous manner.Additionally, we offer an SDK that facilitates secure personal data transfer, enabling businesses to effectively support the Right to Data Portability while minimizing implementation time and resources.Overall, our solution offers a win-win scenario for both individuals and businesses, providing a MyData platform that ensures privacy and benefits all parties involved.If you are interested in our platform or have any inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact us. We are here to assist you with any concerns.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2023 MyData Operator, Awards - MyData Global2022 Information Protection Startup IR Competition, 1st Prize - KISIA Security Award Korea 2022 Startup, 1st Prize2021 Minister's Award of Ministry of SMEs and Startups2020 K-Global Start-Up, 1st Prize - NIPA Data Protection Hackathon, 1st Prize - Ministry of Science and ICT2019 Establishment of a Corporation MyData IR Competition, 1st Prize - KDATA MyData Acting Hackathon, 1st Prize - Ministry of Science and ICT2018 Samsung Electronics' C-Lab Project Selection
- Willog — Start control your product quality in transit proactively with Willog! Take back control over your products anytime anywhere!
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, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
K2 Investment Partners is a leading LLC in Korea specializing in growth-stage venture capital investment
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Pharmaceutical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States
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Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GPTers — GPTers began as a minuscule chat GPT study and has developed into a group that boasts of being the operator of the AI community.
- Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
- BrownBag — Brown Bag is an online portal for coffee and cafe supplies.
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
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- 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.
- Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
- 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.
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
- Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
- Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
- Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.
Newborn Ventures is an investment consulting firm that provides professional training courses and initial startup funding.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Travel, DIY
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Il Conus — Il Conus is a sensor bases IoT company that offers smart sterilization system toilets and smart tunnel lighting control systems.
- CoinTravIT — CoinTravIT provides international currency exchange services with mobile support.
- 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
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Suppor-T — Suppor-T is an entrepreneur-focused growth management tool
- Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
- Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
KB Securities is a Financial Services company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
- JLT — JLT supplies industrial automation equipment solutions and focuses on technology improvement through an integrated welding solution development project.
- Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, China, France
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.
- Coactus — Coactus is a social venture that creates an innovative business to make a better world. They do deaf taxi driver's taxi service, 'Goyohan Taxi'. In order to help communicate with passengers, they developed a communication tool 'Goyohan', which operates in two tablet PC's inside the taxi. Goyohan Taxi has 26 deaf taxidrivers in 5 areas, with 10 taxi companies. Within 2020, they aim to create 100 deaf taxi drivers.
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Real Draw — Real Draw helps writers demonstrate their skills through the correct use of AI to deliver the quality work to readers.
- Iroun & Company — Iron & Company offers solutions that enable businesses to employ artificial intelligence to boost production and efficiency secand easilyly.
- K-beauty Worldwide — Enrich your beauty life style with K-Beauty
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Hudson AI — Hudson AI is an enterprise that delivers AI-based dubbing solutions. It supports the development of dubbed content, which is the core of content localization, using voice and video AI technologies.
- Kai Health — Kai Health uses Artificial Intelligence to empower fertility clinics to make better treatment decisions.
- StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
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
- Apps, iOS, Trading Platform
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
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- 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 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
- Liternol — Liternol offers logistics services, along with competitive return collection rates and inspection information.
- Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
- ZeroXFlow — ZeroXFlow develops 1hour, an all-in-one platform for foreign language education.
Seoul National University of Science and Technology is a school in Seoul.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
- JeCLEAN — JeCLEAN is a washing company that provides bedding, laundry and delivery service.
- Shared fishery — Shared fishery is a fishery firm that specializes in collecting, storing and selling fresh sea fishes.
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
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 1.4 Billion of asset under management as of December 2013. 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- bHaptics — Complete your VR experience with the ultimate haptic vest and rediscover your favorite games. Feel gunshots, recoils, explosions and even energy filling through your body.
- Align AI — Turn conversational data from your AI-native product into actionable product insights!
- Rebellions.ai — AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration.
IRBIZNET Consulting is a business management consulting firm.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Mobile Apps, Transportation
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
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.
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.
Mirae Asset Securities specializes in offering Prime Brokerage, Securities Financing, Agency Execution, and Correspondent Clearing services. They provide comprehensive financial services, including asset management, wealth management, investment banking, and life insurance.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Travel
- Series A
- South Korea
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
- Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
- Space Vision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
Realbizen creates successful business with pre-seed, seed, and series A stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Art, EdTech, Sports
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Begin Lab — Begin Lab is an online learning platform that educates bioinformatics and human resources courses.
- Locle — Locle is a platform designed specifically for academies and variety of classes including music, dance, arts, crafts, and sports.
- Private Class — Private Class is a job consulting company that provides job competency courses.
Magella Technology Investment is a venture capital firm based in Korea that invests in techno-centric startups.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Information Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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.
JB Ventures is a venture capital investment firm and startup accelerator that aims to support startups in the Chungcheongnam-do region.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile Apps, Pet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Rubit — Rubit is an online mobile application with the provisions for individuals to take care of their pets.
- Cre Planet — Cre Planet creates technologies for analyzing advertising performance and provides staffing services.
- Wise Convey — Wise Convey is innovating smart logistics, starting with task automation.
MegaStudyEdu provides online and offline educational services for entrance examinations and offline school direct business. It also operates an online training academy that provides information, education, school admissions consulting, offline direct business services, etc.
The company was established in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Content, Video, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- CTEE — CTEE is an online solution that empowers content creators to monetize their passion.
- Taling — Taling provides online skill learning services.
- Let's go baby — Let's go baby is a mobile travel app that helps people find cafes, theme parks, playgrounds, and outings.
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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.
Gangwon Creation Economic Innovation Center is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Medical Device, Apps, Health Care
- Seed
- South Korea
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- WSB Farm —
- Node — Node is a healthcare company that develops and manufactures medical and beauty devices.
- Medi&B Tech Company — Medi&B Tech Company is a medical device manufacturing company that researches and develops urinal disposal machines and skin care devices.
Zeus IP Law Firm is a company that increases customers' profits, enhancing their status, and expanding the scope of their business.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Mobile Apps, Transportation
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
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
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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DOR — 'Dor' is a social media platform that enables easy sharing and communication of game play by allowing gamers to automatically record and highlight their gaming experiences for easy sharing.
- Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
- Box Sports — Box Sports provides professional e-sports team, orienting e-Sports players, to become the leading club for traditional sports athletes
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
- Amber Technologies — Protect your electric vehicle with Amber's expert-designed breakdown coverage for high-voltage parts, hassle-free claims, and roadside assistance. Get a quote today for peace of mind tomorrow.
- FlareLane — Engage with both first-time and returning app/web visitors through interactive push notifications and boost user retenion and revenue. Push, Interact, Grow.
- SalesMap — SalesMap focuses on providing CRM software for B2B and is dedicated for improving the efficiency of B2B sales and marketing teams.
KB Kookmin Card is a wholly owned arm of KB Financial Group.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Rental
- 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.
ZER01NE is creating an ecosystem for creative talents to collaborate with start-ups and developing ground of participation.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- iSTAY — iStay develops and operates IoT platform for hotel.
- Mycel — IMAGINATION TRANSITION REGENERATION
- Deep Insight — Deep-In-Sight is redefining how 3D sensing technology and 3D data-driven artificial intelligence can be used and applied to power smart automation. We are developing Driving Monitoring System and In-Cabin Monitoring System using 3D ToF cameras and AI technology. With its industry-leading 3D sensing and AI technology, we are leading the global enablement of new smart applications to realize automation efficiency in a wide range of fields from mobility, robotics, and smart factory, Edtech, and AGV.
Macquarie Capital combines specialist expertise, innovative advice and flexible capital solutions to help our clients and partners make opportunity reality.
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Investment focus
- Software, Renewable Energy, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
- Raylo — Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
- Simon Data — Simon Data empowers CRM teams with the data, tools, & support to drive personalization at every customer touchpoint.
- Hyro — A stellar customer journey starts with conversational AI. Take complex data and turn it into simple dialogue across any digital channel, for all enterprises and their customers.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
- Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
- GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
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- Software, Sports, Travel
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
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- 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 is a financial assistant provider.
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- Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea
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- 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.
- ViewMagine — ViewMagine is a lunatic image-processing AI company developer of an AI drone inspection system. They were designed to inspect pipelines for the oil and gas and infrastructure industries. They also deliver using an autonomous drone. Their objective is to influence the future of industry through image processing and AI for businesses that contributeto a better society.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
HB Investment Inc. was founded on November 11, 1999 starting with paid-in Capital of KRW 10 billion.Since its foundation, HB Investment Inc. has been investing small and medium businesses that have the potential for steady growth and profitability and helping the invested companies to grow well by giving various consulting services. As a result,HB Investment Inc.constructed comprehensive portfolio out of various industrial areas, such as game, entertainment, as well as representative high-tech industries related to semiconductor, Internet, LCD, and a smart phone, bio, health care. In addition, HB Investment Inc. has experiences in implementing business Success-fully by organizing several partnership funds for recent years.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
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- AITRICS — AITRICS is taking on the ultimate role of giving everyone access to the power of data-driven health intelligence by developing advanced clinical solutions that will revolutionize their lives. With a shared vision and a common purpose, passionate and dedicated professionals from diverse backgrounds came together to create the most exceptional team.
- MindwareWorks — Mindware all development efforts are focuses on service platform which integrates a variety of non-face-to-face customer contact methods and channels into MSA platform by ourself.
- Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
Korea Polytechnic University is nestled amid Korea's major industrial parks.
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- Travel, Mobile Apps, Transportation
- Seed
- South Korea
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- NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.
TS Investment is an investment company.
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- Health Care, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- South Korea, Singapore
Wadiz is Asia's largest crowdfunding platform company.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Sales
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- South Korea
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- Botash — Botash manufactures and sells carbon packaging boxes.
- GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
- Power Player — Natural Clean Beauty
Pohang University of Science and Technology is a school.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- 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.
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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- Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- 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.
TS Investment is an Investment firm specializing in engineering, real estate, and food and beverage through various group companies. They identifying, analyzing, and developing real opportunities across multiple disciplines. The firm aims to become a top tier diversified holding company offering its subsidiaries the necessary financial,operational, and managerial support to ensure each transcends its customer’s expectations, meets its employees' contentment, and exceeds its responsibilities to its stakeholders.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, India
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- OpenPlan — OpenPlan develops an online platform that offers mini insurance packages. It offers insurance premiums for various types of daily activity. OpenPlan was founded in 2019 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
- Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
- Uneedcomms — We create communication between the shopping mall and customers. We offer mobile shopping malls, dynamic advertising systems, message automation solutions and global image hosting services based on advanced technology. Uneedcomms is moving toward the next generation of marketing that the global E-Commerce market needs with the power of software.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
- SqueezeBits — SqueezeBits builds ecosystem for designing, training, and deploying compressed neural networks.
- SIMPLE planet — Food biotech company producing sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients using cellular agriculture.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
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- Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
- jeongyookgak — jeongyookgak produces and sells fresh meat.
- Signature Label — Signature Label takes pride in providing Korean beauty to the rest of the world. Their brand selection approach is rigorous and selective, as they collaborate closely with fashionable local partners to develop products that match the specific needs of each area. They are able to streamline the distribution process for both brands and localpartners, saving significant time and energy and removing unneeded clutter as a result.
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