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Top 25 Startup Investors in South Korea in November 2024

A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Venture capital startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Startup Investors in South Korea in November 2024

Investor Venture Capital South Korea investments
MYSC 3
Young Song 2
KB Investment 2
Shinhan Asset Management 2
Kakao Ventures 2
DSC Investment 2
Taekkyung Lee 2
Base Investment 2
CP Partners 1
Bass Investment 1
Douglas Guen 1
Western Technology Investment 1
Fast Ventures 1
Ulysses Capital 1
Dayli Partners 1
SGI Venture Capital 1
Huons 1
Neoplux 1
Jung-hee Ryu 1
Pharmbio Korea 1
Kiha Lee 1
Wadiz 1
Kakao Corp 1
SK Telecom 1
Shinhan Venture Investment 1
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MYSC VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 12 investments in the past 12 months
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
  • Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
Young Song Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
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
  • Travel, Software, Logistics
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea
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!
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 27 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers.​ It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
  • Pathalys Pharma — Pathalys is a clinical biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics that improve late-stage chronic kidney disease.
  • Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
Shinhan Asset Management VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Shinhan Asset Management is an asset management company.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Testworks — Testworks is a social enterprise company in Seoul, Korea. We create innovative solutions in AI data and software testing fields while providing an inclusive employment model for socially disadvantaged people. Our technical excellence ranges from AI data processing automation to manual software testing and review. We are recognized as thebest-in-class data processing company for building high quality datasets used for AI training and verification.
  • Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Kakao Ventures VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 14 investments in the past 12 months
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
  • WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
  • Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
DSC Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 13 investments 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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
  • Evacycle — Evacycle is a company that recycles waste electric vehicle batteries, focusing on developing technology to recover valuable metals and reuse waste materials for new purposes.
  • Fitin — Fitin is a startup developing a subscription service model for replacing batteries in commercial electric vehicles such as taxis and cargo trucks.FitIn was known for its technological prowess in that it used its unique battery swap technology to overcome charging problems and remaining battery life (SOH), which were recurring problems in commercialelectric vehicles. Battery swap is a technology that replaces a depleted battery with a fully charged battery.
Taekkyung Lee Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Taekkyung Lee is the Founder , CEO and Representative Partner of Mashup Ventures. He previously worked at Primer Season2 as a Founding Partner. Taekkyung Lee attended Yonsei University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • South Korea
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.
  • DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.
Base Investment VC Fund
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
  • E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
  • Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.
  • Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.
CP Partners VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
CP Partners is an event service and solution providing company.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.
Bass Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
  • Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
  • WeMeet Mobility — WeMeet Mobility is an AI-based logistics platform that offers transportation planning, location, routing, and monitoring services.
Douglas Guen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Lifestyle, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, South Korea
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 is a local services marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 1,000+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. The company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including YCombinator (W17), FJ Labs, IMM, Atinum, TBT, Strong Ventures, KDB, and more.
  • Melixir — Melixir is a cult beauty brand rooted in Korean skincare rituals backed by science. Inspired by Eastern philosophy, Melixir believes that Nature is the purest form of beauty and creates plant-based skincare products that are 100% vegan and sustainable. Using cutting-edge technology and proprietary ingredients like Green Elixir™, Melixir designs themost innovative products for sensitive skin that deliver clinically-proven results.
Western Technology Investment VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
  • Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
  • Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.
Fast Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
  • WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
  • Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
Ulysses Capital VC Fund
Ulysses Capital is a diversified investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • TRDST — TRDST is an e-commerce platform for luxury furniture.
  • VERTICAH — VERTICAH is a growth platform for start-ups that offers alternative financing, venture capital, and asset management services.
  • Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.
Dayli Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Dayli Partners is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
  • Tiernes — Tienes is a dental practice that specializes in digital-based clear orthodontics.
  • Medipixel — Medipixel is a MedTech startup that aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality of human life by innovating the way we diagnose diseases and controlling surgical robots with the power of AI. Consisting of a group of AI experts in computer vision, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, Medipixel conducts research and product developmentfor lung cancer diagnosis and coronary intervention robots together with the best healthcare professionals in Korea such as Seoul Asan Medical Center. In November 2018, MediPixel won the championship in the QuickFire Challenge hosted by Johnson & Johnson. MediPixel currently offers three solutions for intervention surgeons:1. An AI Based Diagnosis Solution makes it possible for doctors to spot lesions while performing a coronary angiography, perform segmentation of the vessel in question within just one second and analyze the lesion’s status.2. A Guide & Planning Solution clearly visualizes the hidden part of the coronary artery to make doctors perform guidewire manipulation with more ease and confidence, which is quite useful especially in case of CTO. Furthermore, the solution frees doctors from the need to use contrast -- this is important because contrast can cause potentially fatal reactions in 5 to 10% of patients.3. An Automated Navigation Engine automates navigation through coronary arteries. Once the destination is reached, it controls a robotic unit by giving the most appropriate real-time commands in its existing situation, thus delivering devices such as guidewire to the destination in the most efficient way.We're open to any candidates who are excited to apply their knowledge and skill in deep learning to real-world medical data and surgery robots. Do you have any questions? Email us at contact@medipixel.io
SGI Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Medical, Software, Supply Chain Management
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
  • Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
  • Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
Huons VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
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
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical
  • Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GenEdit — Developing innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines.
  • Mthera Pharma — Mthera Pharma is a biopharmaceutical research and development company.
  • Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.
Neoplux VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MyGlamm — MyGlamm is a direct-to-consumer beauty brand that offers an online beauty products marketplace with international spa and salon products. The company uses a combination of technology, content, and social media to allow consumers to not only discover its products but also create rich, personalized, content and tutorial.MyGlamm was founded in 2015and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
  • 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.
Jung-hee Ryu Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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
  • Software, Fashion, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States
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
Pharmbio Korea VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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
  • Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
  • Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.
Kiha Lee Angel · San Jose, California, United States
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
  • Apps, Sales, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • 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.
  • MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
Wadiz VC Fund · Bundangdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
Wadiz is Asia's largest crowdfunding platform company.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Sales
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
  • South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
  • 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.
Kakao Corp VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea
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
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • S.M. Entertainment — SMTown is the umbrella name for the recording artists under South Korean entertainment company.
  • NFTBank — Home - Make NFT portfolio management smart
  • Sellerhub — Imagine if you are the online seller, having to sign up and upload your products to 30+ different major eCommerce websites to maximize your sales. Sellerhub is a web-based eCommerce platform where you as the seller sign up, upload product data ONCE then it will be transferred/synched on up to 30+ different major eCommerce websites at the sametime. From distribution channel expansion to marketing/ad, fulfillment, Sellerhub is a one-stop solution for online sellers. Key Benefits: 1. Single product upload, API-transferred to up to 30+ major eCommerce websites and begin selling simultaneously 2. Daily payment received - supported by VISA - once your order has been shipped&confirmed, you will get your payment in 4 days. 3. Fulfillment, Sourcing, Photoshoot and many additional services are available for you to choose from, either directly or through partnership programEstablished in 2012, Sellerhub offers a full suite of products/services that empower online seller's selling activity, providing the most revenue as possible as a platform. Today we are venturing into the US market with DropK - Dropshiping Korean products - for SHOPIFY sellers online.
SK Telecom VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • BitGo Korea — BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers.
  • Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
  • Smart Global Holdings — SMART is an independent designer, manufacturer and supplier of electronic subsystems to OEMs engaged in the computer, industrial, networking, telecommunications, aerospace and defense markets. Taking innovations from the design stage through manufacturing and supply, SMART Modular Technologies has developed a comprehensive product line thatincludes DRAM and Flash memory technologies across various form factors.
Shinhan Venture Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
  • EMCRAFTS — EMCRAFTS specializes in the manufacturing and designing of scanning electron microscopes.
  • Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
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