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Top 45 Startup Investors in South Korea (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Korea Venture Capital startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Venture Capital startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
MYSC
VC Fund
3 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
Kakao
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Mobile, Content $2M–$28M
Base Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $623k–$6.2M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $692k–$52M
Shinhan Asset Management
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $2.2M–$21M
Taekkyung Lee
Angel
2 South Korea Seed, Angel Software, Apps, Information Services $295k–$969k
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $278k–$27M
Young Song
Angel
2 United States, South Korea Angel, Seed Travel, Software, Logistics $150k–$520k
DSC Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology $594k–$60M
KB Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $737k–$44M
Dayli Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $791k–$29M
IBK Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology $148k–$17M
Huons
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical $6.7M–$24M
Kiha Lee
Angel
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Sales, Retail $156k–$6.7M
SGI Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Medical, Software, Health Care $962k–$47M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.7M–$78M
Ulysses Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, Beauty
Midas Doang-A Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Pakistan Series A, Series B, Seed Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage $88k–$17M
CP Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
Solon Inversiones
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Content, eSports, Education $2.3M–$6.2M
Sejong Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $251k–$21M
Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $446k–$17M
Douglas Guen
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce $50k–$726k
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $27k–$2.5M
Magna Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $147k–$18M
DS Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Medical, Information Technology $1.9M–$51M
SK Telecom
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Corporate Round, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $766k–$113M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $414k–$15M
VIP Research & Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Fashion, Security
Ignite Innovation Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, South Korea Seed, Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Genetics $2M–$75M
Pharmbio Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
KT Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $2M–$124M
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Gaming, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $287k–$42M
History Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series C, Series A Media and Entertainment, Software, Consulting $388k–$22M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$40M
ENSL Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Convertible Note Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps $74k–$1.1M
Wadiz
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Retail, Sales $1.3k–$3.7M
QL Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Dreamus Company
VC Fund
1 South Korea Corporate Round, Seed, Series A Music, Metaverse, Advertising
Hanbit Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A, Series B, Seed Education, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment $2k–$14M
Wonder Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Korea Venture - Series Unknown Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Impact Investing
Jaewoong Lee
Angel
1 Vietnam, South Korea, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed News, SaaS, Beauty
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, Software $418k–$7.5M
Jung-hee Ryu
Angel
1 South Korea, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Fashion, Health Care $2.7M–$5.3M
Neoplux
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Apps $896k–$35M
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups, 12 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

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, China, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
  • Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
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Kakao
VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Kakao is a mobile lifestyle platform company with services spanning messaging, mail, search, news, advertising, gaming, e-commerce, music, maps and more. Its content platform offers a diverse array of content that can be enjoyed by users of all interest range. Daum News offers tens of thousands of news articles from top news outlets every day, andStory Funding, the country’s first crowdfunding service, is building a healthy platform for new information in hand with users. Kakao Music, Kakao Page, Daum Webtoon and more, enrich user's daily lives enabling users to easily share and enjoy music, cartoons, novels and more. Kakao Game is a mobile gaming platform that allows users to compete with friends on their social graph. Its popularity has resulted in explosive growths for the Korean mobile gaming industry while establishing mobile games as a mainstream phenomenon. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Jeju, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SM Entertainment — SMTown is the umbrella name for the recording artists under South Korean entertainment company.
  • Cha Bio&Diostech — Cha Bio&Diostech is a Biotechnology Company.
  • Kakao Healthcare — Kakao Healthcare creates services that enable anyone to easily manage their health with technology.
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Base Investment
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Base Investment connects private equity, strategic buyers, and private individuals with opportunities to invest. The company works with well-known, enormous national firms that are looking to acquire a business that will help them extend their brand or make better use of their current facilities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $623k–$4.5M; Series A $1.3M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Slashpage — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
  • Money Walk — Healthy Habits, Earn Rewards
  • Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 340
  • Round size: Seed $692k–$14M; Series A $1.9M–$40M; Series B $5M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $118M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexedge — Nexedge is a wealth management firm that offers investment management, estate planning, and business advisory services.
  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Shinhan Asset Management
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Shinhan Asset Management is an asset management company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$6.5M; Series B $3.7M–$13M; Series C $15M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FIRMMIT — FIRMMIT is an ag-tech company that optimizes growth data by securing and analyzing agricultural technology data.
  • Enfinity Global — Enfinity Global helps corporate, industrial, and institutional clients meet their growing power demand and 24/7 electricity needs quickly and efficiently.
  • Aims — Aims is a Battery as a service company that develops an eco-friendly battery sharing platform to revolutionize electric mobility.
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Taekkyung Lee
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Taekkyung Lee co-founded Daum Communications and served as CTO and Head of Communication & Community Services, leading Daum's growth into a major portal service and its KOSDAQ listing. He later facilitated the M&A of D&Shop, a spin-off from Daum, to GS Home Shopping. While contemplating his path as a serial entrepreneur andinvestor, he decided to focus on early-stage investments and began investing in early-stage startups in earnest. He established Mashup Angels (now Mashup Ventures), an early-stage startup investment firm, and as CEO, aims to support portfolio companies' growth and engage in various activities within the startup ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $295k–$969k; Angel $371k–$520k
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
  • 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
  • Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 416
  • Round size: Seed $278k–$4M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Corologic — Korologic develops cardiovascular imaging AI solutions for medical procedures.
  • A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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Young Song
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Young Song joined NComputing as Founder and CEO in 2003.Mr. Song brings over 20 years of technology vision and entrepreneurial leadership with a focus on products that deliver life-enhancing value to education, business and consumers. He has founded and operated several start-up ventures with an inherent talent and track record for turning ideasinto viable products and sustainable businesses. He is also active angel investor through his own investment vehicle, Booga Ventures and Big Basin Capital as a venture partner. He founded and currently is Chief Executive Officer of NComputing group. Prior to co-founding NComputing, Mr. Song was also the founder and CEO of DoubleSight Displays, a company that delivered affordable and cost-effective dual displays to businesses and consumers and successfully acquired by Erae Inc, TV and Monitor company in South Korea. In addition, Mr. Song co-founded and was vice president of product marketing for eMachines, a pioneer in bringing affordable computing to consumers. eMachines went NASDAQ in 3 years and acquired by Gateway Computer. He began his career as marketing director for both TriGem America Corporation and TriGem Computer, Inc.Mr. Song holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He is also an active volunteer for several non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Palo Alto with his family.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Logistics
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $150k–$520k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
  • Airmule — Airmule Founded in 2015 and built with love in Los Angeles, California, Airmule is a trusted community marketplace for anyone to affordably express ship worldwide with a traveler from a mobile phone or tablet.Whether across the country or the world, Airmule connects people to safely deliver packages anytime, anywhere at low rates and in lesstime. Airmule is the easiest way for people list their trip to earn money with their extra luggage space.
  • Talkwheel — Talkwheel is where you discuss what you are passionate about in life. We are ushering in the new days of mobile conversation. Want to argue over who has the cutest pet, debate politics, or talk about the Giants during the game? Talkwheel is the app for that!Instead of tweeting and getting no response, write in Talkwheel and find fellowaficionados to have meaningful conversations around topics you care about. Unlike most mobile forums, Talkwheel believes that forums don’t have to be ugly to be functional. That’s why we’ve designed a beautiful mobile app with you, the user, as the focal point. You can even continue the conversation at your desktop at social.talkwheel.com!
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups, 13 in the past 12 months

DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 261
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.1M; Series A $1.7M–$19M; Series B $4.8M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
  • MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
  • GMI Cloud — one cloud for compute, inference, and agents Question: https://t.co/dOcscX4hmx Japan: @gmicloudJapan
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 439
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$36M; Series B $5.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • GMI Cloud — one cloud for compute, inference, and agents Question: https://t.co/dOcscX4hmx Japan: @gmicloudJapan
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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Dayli Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Dayli Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $791k–$6.7M; Series A $847k–$17M; Series B $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • SN BioScience — SN BioScience provide nano-formulation screening services for small molecule, oligonucleotide (siRNA, DNA), peptide and protein to deliver in the form of nano-micelle, nanoparticle or liposome. Their proprietary “double core-shell technology” and pool of acceptable lipids and polymers could help your research that having difficulties in solubilityor delivery.
  • SureTech — Suretech is an AI insurtech firm, operates the Carsure platform, which automates the automotive insurance claims process from accident reporting to repair shop matching, cost estimation, and settlement.
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IBK Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups, 15 in the past 12 months

IBK Capital is the venture capital arm of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $148k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BEYLESS — BEYLESS is an embedded platform for autonomous driving.
  • IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
  • Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System
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Huons
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Huons has manufactured the high quality finished products since 1965 and developed first local anesthetics and plastic ampoule injection in Korea. they are doing their best to supply high quality products through strict quality control system and continued R&D efforts based on the technologies and know-how accumulated. Huons has been exportingtheir finished pharmaceutical products to about 30 countries including N/S.America, Europe, Japan, Asia, and Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $6.7M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BreezeBio — Developing innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines.
  • Aliad Biopharma — Aliad Biopharma is a biotechnology company focused on developing small-molecule therapeutics targeting mTORC2 pathways. Its research aims to address age-related and degenerative diseases, including neurological and muscle disorders. The company leverages advanced biomedical science to design targeted treatments and expand possibilities in drugdevelopment and translational research.
  • ArcGen Bioscience — Embark on a Voyage in Immuno-Oncology
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Kiha Lee
Angel · San Jose, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Kiha Lee is the Founding Partner of Primer Sazze Partners. He previously worked at Sazze Partners as a Managing Partner. Kiha Lee attended the University of California Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sales, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $156k–$3.6M; Series A $497k–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
  • MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
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SGI Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Founded in 2007, SGI (Samho Green Investment) is the first and only venture capital firm in Korea focused on the green growth sector, including renewable energy, green and agricultural technologies. We engage in venture capital and private equity investments for mergers & acquisitions and buyouts, and conduct business as well as engineeringconsulting for our portfolio and client companies.Our investment focus areas are green technology (greentech) commercialization, green infrastructure and agricultural technologies (agritech), as well as early-stage project development. We have an experienced team of in-house greentech specialists and an extensive domestic and international greentech network, which assists us in deal sourcing, value creation and exit management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $962k–$6M; Series A $1.2M–$17M; Series B $1.1M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $27k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • ClariPi — Claripi provides innovative solutions for the unmet needs in medical imaging fields by integrating smart big data computing & medical imaging technologies.
  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
  • FNCT Biotech — FNCT Biotech develops antibody therapeutics for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). To create antibodies that target the underlying cause of IPF, the company's platform uses genetic engineering, providing patients with this medical need with a new treatment option.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 240
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$26M; Series B $4.5M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
  • Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
  • Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.
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Ulysses Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Ulysses Capital is a diversified investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.
  • Pearl Health — Join 5,000+ providers and unlock the full value of value-based care with actionable insights, financial modeling, and AI workflow automation. Trusted across 40+ states.
  • Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
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Midas Doang-A Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Midas Doang-A Investment

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.3M; Series A $88k–$7.7M; Series B $1.9M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • growV — GrowV Labs develops AI-based educational technology platforms focused on interactive learning and child development. The company provides digital learning content, voice-based interaction systems, and data collection tools used for educational applications, language learning, and child-focused AI model development through multimedia and interactiveplatforms.
  • Astrogen, inc. — Astrogen, inc. is a South Korea-based biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative small molecule therapies for neurological and rare diseases. Founded in 2017 by a pediatric neurologist, Astrogen leverages its clinical expertise and cutting-edge research to address unmet medical needs in conditions such as AutismSpectrum Disorder (ASD), Rett syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, and more.
  • GPCR Therapeutics — GPCR Therapeutics is a clinical-stage international biopharmaceutical firm that develops therapeutics based on proprietary GPCR data. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The company’s proprietary data driven approach has identified over 1000 GPCR pairs upon which drug screening campaigns can be pursued.Identification of the best GPCR pair to target for specific disease indications and patient subpopulations creates a personalized approach to combination therapy. By targeting the unique pharmacology of GPCR pairs, we aim to develop life changing treatments for cancer and other diseases.
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CP Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

CP Partners is an event service and solution providing company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.
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Solon Inversiones
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Investment Fund, 100% owned and managed. Seed investing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, eSports, Education
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGPICTURE — We give full-service for all level gamers.
  • Best Graphene — Best Graphene specializes in the manufacturing of graphene products tailored for a wide range of industrial sectors. Best Graphene provides a diverse array of products to cater to various needs, such as graphene colloid, graphene ink and paste, additive graphene, and customizable graphene solutions. These offerings ensure optimal processsuitability and compatibility across different materials, empowering users to harness the unique properties of graphene for enhanced performance and applications in their respective industries.
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Sejong Venture Partners
VC Fund · Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

SEJONG LLP was established in 2003 to better serve growing businesses like you with quality services at reasonable fees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $251k–$772k; Series A $1.8M–$5.6M; Series B $1.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ire IS — Ire IS is an IT company that develops, manufactures, and supplies IT software solutions.
  • Armored Fresh — Tasty Cheese Zero Dairy
  • Autotelic Bio — Autotelic Bio is a bio technology company that researches and develops anti-cancer drugs.
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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $446k–$8.4M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Series B $2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Lee Eum-Gil — Lee Eum-Gil is a consulting firm specializing in career transition support services.
  • DAIM Research — DAIM Research is an AI-based automation system solution company that provides logistics automation solutions.
  • Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
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Douglas Guen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Douglas Guen is the CEO and Founder of Primer. He previously worked at INICIS as a Founder and CEO. Douglas Guen attended Kyungpook National University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$726k; Angel $100k–$520k; Pre-Seed $50k–$336k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Soomgo — Soomgo supports interactions across categories such as education, home maintenance, event-related work, and personal services. It enables users to search for and engage providers for specific tasks, while service providers list and manage their offerings through the platform. Soomgo is a local services marketplace.
  • Melixir — Melixir creates plant-based skin and body care products rooted in Korean wellness culture. Inspired by the power of Asian medicinal plants, we make quality products that are effective for sensitive skin. We support environmental sustainability by reducing carbon emissions. 100% vegan and cruelty-free. Certified B Corp.
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$1.4M; Series A $1.5M–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $748k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
  • Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
  • Cloud Stone — CloudStones Company Limited designs and runs fun consumer brands from Bangkok: Mirabelle&Co, BooBook Studio and Tale & Me.
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Magna Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

As a Venture Capital / Accelerator / Private Equity Manager specialized in initial companies, SMEs and SMEs, They are generating profits by finding and investing in companies with promising growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $147k–$3.1M; Series A $1.8M–$12M; Series B $3.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
  • AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
  • Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging The number of influencers is explosively increasing. Featuring allows brands and marketers to discover product-fit influencers andhelps matching based on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring, and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia, including Japan and China.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$18M; Series B $5.3M–$29M; Series C $11M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DEEPX — DEEPX is a Korean AI hardware system solution company.
  • Labrador Labs — LABRADOR LABS began as an academic research collaboration initiative to develop an automated analytic method for detecting both known and new vulnerabilities.
  • Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
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SK Telecom
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseastelecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$113M; Corporate Round $766k–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • V&Co — V&Co platform integrates skin microbiome research data and offers a range of services, including medical supplies, health supplements, and precision devices, enabling healthcare providers and beauty professionals to deliver innovative treatments and enhance overall client satisfaction through scientifically backed methodologies.
  • Timetree — TimeTree is a communication app that makes it surprisingly easy to share and coordinate calendars with others. You can share events with family, friends or colleagues at work. You can use it privately as well.
  • BitGo Korea — BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$6.9M; Series A $2.2M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • BioNexus — BioNexus is an artificial intelligence (AI) biotechnology startup that specializes in automating the early stages of biomedical research and drug discovery.
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VIP Research & Management
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

VIP Research & Management is an investment advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • d'Alba Global — With the company mission "No.1 Pioneer of the Premium Beauty Lifestyle", d'Alba Global is operating premium vegan skincare brand d'Alba.
  • Snaptag — Snaptag is a developer of an invisible watermark technology intended for image data engine processing.
  • Catch Fashion — Catch Fashion is an e-commerce online portal. They sell shoes, bags, jackets, caps, sweatshirts, boots, evening wear, jeans, and shoulder bags.
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Ignite Innovation Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Genetics
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$51M; Series A $20M–$23M; Series B $10M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inocras — Unlock the potential of a Whole Genome Sequencing Test with Inocras. Transforming diagnosis and treatment for cancer and rare diseases.
  • Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
  • DreamBig Semiconductor — DreamBig Semiconductor provides SmartNICs as the perfect blend of hardware and programmable accelerations enabling secure and high-performance network solutions for big data centers, cloud, storage, machine learning and edge computing while increasing productivity. Their customers contact through email only.
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Pharmbio Korea
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Pharmbio Korea Company Ltd is a pharmaceutical company. The Company develops drugs for urinary tract infections, diuresis & relaxes urinary tract spasm, gallstones, and difficult digestion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.
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KT Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups, 7 in the past 12 months

KT Investment, established in 2015 as the venture capital arm of KT Group, is dedicated to driving social impact while achieving maximum investment returns. We stand with founders every step of the way, providing the support and resources necessary to transform innovative ideas into impactful ventures. By partnering with promising startups andventure companies, we create win-win opportunities that pave the way for long-term success. With a global perspective, we actively seek value-driven investments that shape the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$26M; Series B $6.7M–$124M; Series C $8.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Meet Causilo. A new foundation for the world's data.
  • Enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
  • MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
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CRIT Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

The Road Not Taken

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$6.5M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $287k–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • But Beautiful — A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
  • A button — A button is a game development firm that focuses on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), first-person shooter (FPS) games, roguelikes, and souls-likes. Averton makes extensive use of AI. This strategy enhances development efficiency by minimizing the need for information gathering, data organization, and basic repetitivetasks. In certain instances, programmer productivity can nearly double.
  • Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
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History Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

History Venture Investment is an accelerator specialized in startup investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $388k–$837k; Series C $17M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frism — Frism is an AI-based financial advisory platform that helps users manage and optimize their finances using data-driven insights. It offers solutions for pension planning, tax savings, retirement preparation, and investment management. The platform supports products like CMA, IRP, ISA, and pension savings, enabling users to plan, invest, and tradesecurities efficiently through a unified application.
  • Gundoli — Gundoli is a military life management platform that provides military-related services. Gundoli offers services tailored to the unique challenges of military life, enabling soldiers and their families to navigate their service period with greater ease and efficiency.
  • The High Edu — The High Edu operates a YouTube channel that telecasts property information, including buying a home and building ownership. It focuses on interpreting complex real estate information in a way that is easy for the general public to understand. The company provides listing information and helps people understand the complexities of real estate.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 352
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $3M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Meta — At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’smission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.
  • DASH Dog Food — DASH Dog Food provides subscription-based dog food focused on fresh slow-cooked meals and dry kibble made with humanely raised meats. The company offers frozen sous-vide style recipes using grass-fed beef, free-range organic chicken, and crate-free pork, combined with whole food ingredients and added vitamins and minerals. Its formulas aredeveloped by veterinary and nutritional experts to meet AAFCO standards for complete and balanced diets across life stages. Customers complete an online quiz to create custom meal plans based on their dog’s size, age, activity level, and dietary needs. Food is shipped directly to consumers in portioned pouches or bags on adjustable delivery schedules, and can be used as a full diet or mixed with existing food. DASH Dog Food also offers single-ingredient and freeze-dried meat treats as add-ons for training and enrichment.
  • Prosper Medical — Prosper Medical is a telemedicine platform that connects members with physicians for personalized healthcare services.
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ENSL Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

ENSL Partners is an investment accelerator firm that invests in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Pet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $74k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivetta — Rivetta provides a web novel translation platform that supports global publishing through translation, distribution, promotion, and settlement services. It enables writers to share their work with international audiences while managing publishing and monetization processes. The platform helps creators grow readership and expand their presenceacross diverse global markets.
  • TalentSeeker — TalentSeeker is an AI-powered recruitment platform developing global talent sourcing and hiring automation solutions. The company provides AI-based candidate search, resume parsing, talent database management, and personalized outreach tools to help businesses streamline recruitment workflows.
  • Meta Energy Frontier — Meta Energy Frontier is a carbon-neutral smart energy solution company utilizing high-transmittance artificial photovoltaics. It contributes to improving building energy ratings through proprietary technology that converts 20% of existing unused lighting light energy into electricity. The company aims to recycle wasted light from indoor LEDlighting and utilize it as a distributed power source in urban areas.
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Wadiz
VC Fund · Bundangdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

'Best business structure that connects crowdfunding, e-commerce, and brand business', 'Ready to go public on the Korean stock market', 'Accumulated transaction value of more than USD 9.6 billion+', '7.1 mil members, 10 mil monthly visitors', 'More than 18,000 crowdfunding projects in a year','Selected Korea’s Top 10 game changer brand by interbrand'

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $88k–$906k; Series A $997k–$3.7M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.3k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sunnicorn — Sunnicorn develops vegan skincare products designed for sensitive skin, combining plant-based ingredients with minimalist formulations. The company focuses on creating practical daily skincare items such as cleansers, creams, and masks that support balanced skin care routines while emphasizing simple product design and accessible beauty solutions.
  • Power Player — Natural Clean Beauty
  • KOOZA — KOOZA is a kitchenware brand that offers cookware and household goods and supplies them to department stores, and live commerce companies.
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QL Asset Management
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

QL Asset Management specializes in traditional wealth management and alternative investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Credos Partners — Credo Partners is an marketplace to expand the base of alternative investment products and increase transaction efficiency.
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Dreamus Company
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Dreamus Company specializes in the production of various digital devices. Its product line includes a CD player, digital voice recorder, e-book, electronic dictionary, smart gadgets, Bluetooth speakers, a charger, and earphones. The company runs an online music service named FLO that caters to a large audience. The company's goal is to deliverexcellent musical experiences for its clients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Metaverse, Advertising
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MAKEUS — MAKEUS provides advertising solutions based on digital media in seoul.
  • RND Company — RND COMPANY Official Twitter
  • Hanteo Global — Hanteo Global is the world’s one-and-only company that owns K-POP big data.
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Hanbit Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Hanbit Investment is a Korean venture capital firm that provides its users with consumer services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Series A $896k–$8.3M; Series B $2k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Marpple — Marpple offers products with creative content and prints such as custom t-shirts, mobile covers and cups.
  • Goi — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
  • Law&Good — Law&Good is a law and consulting firm.
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Wonder Holdings
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Wonder Holdings

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Impact Investing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fast Track Asia — They're Company Builder, Company Building Company.Fast Track Asia (http://www.fast-track.asia) is Company Builder, start-up holding company. They're backed by Daniel Shin (Founder & CEO of Ticketmonster, acquired by Groupon for $300M), Chester Roh (Founder & CSO of 5rocks, acquired by Tapjoy for $40M, Angel Investor ofTicketmonster, Serial Entrepreneur, ex-Googler), Stonebridge Capital (Korea-based Venture Capital, Investor of Ticketmonster), Insight Venture Partners (US-based Venture Capital & Private Equity Firm, Investor of Ticketmonster), Hur Min (Founder of Wemakeprice, ex-Founder of Neople, acquired by Nexon for $400M) and a lot of local serial entrepreneurs
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Jaewoong Lee
Angel · Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Jaewoong Lee is based out of Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, and is the Founder of Socar. Jaewoong previously worked at Daum Communications as a Founder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Vietnam, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
  • Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl]
  • Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Hungary, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $418k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • 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.
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Jung-hee Ryu
Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Jung-hee Ryu is the Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He previously worked at FoundationX as a Partner. Jung-hee Ryu attended the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
  • Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
  • Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
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Neoplux
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Neoplux Co., Ltd. is the investment arm of Doosan Corp. It typically invests in the infant industries focusing on the pre IPO, growth, and mature companies. The firm provides business consulting and project management services in Korea, as well as investments in electronic component, software, electricity, metal and non-metal, machinery andequipment. It primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Incheon, Chungbuk, Chungnam, and Gyeongbuk province. The firm offers performance improvement and cost reduction services. The firm is involved in the construction of systems for roll-out by clients; establishment of systems for optimal operational process; and performance within client companies. It seeks control in its investments. Neoplux Co., Ltd was founded in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $896k–$6.9M; Series B $6.7M–$31M; Series C $5.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $149M in 2006

Portfolio highlights

  • MyGlamm — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process portal for stakeholders. Access important documents, claim forms, and NCLT orders.
  • Ninjacart — Ninjacart is India's largest tech-driven supply chain platform that connects farmers of fresh vegetables and fruits with kiranas and businesses.
  • UPRISE — UPRISE creates self-driving investment services.
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Venture Capital Investor funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 61 deals from 99 investors.

99
investors
in South Korea Venture Capital startups
61
deals
in South Korea Venture Capital startups
$2.3M
median round
in South Korea Venture Capital startups
20%
lead investors
lead at least one round
33%
Seed
most common funding stage
90/10
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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