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Top 25 Venture Capital Startup Investors in South Korea

A list of 25 angel investors and VC 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 Venture Capital Startup Investors in South Korea

Investor Venture Capital South Korea investments
MYSC 3
Shinhan Asset Management 2
DSC Investment 2
Kakao Ventures 2
KB Investment 2
Taekkyung Lee 2
Base Investment 2
Young Song 2
Fast Ventures 1
Neoplux 1
SGI Venture Capital 1
CRIT Ventures 1
Jung-hee Ryu 1
Western Technology Investment 1
Bass Investment 1
Kakao Corp 1
Huons 1
Pharmbio Korea 1
CP Partners 1
Ulysses Capital 1
Wadiz 1
Kiha Lee 1
Ignite Innovation Fund 1
SK Telecom 1
Shinhan Venture Investment 1
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MYSC VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 14 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
  • Health Care, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, China, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BioSean — BioSean is a diverse feed technology and breeding organization that provides integrated solutions for microorganisms utilized from the hatched self-fish stage to plankton, high-efficiency fermented feed, and functional additive feed.
  • Coactus — Coactus is a social venture that creates an innovative business to make a better world. They do deaf taxi driver's taxi service, 'Goyohan Taxi'. In order to help communicate with passengers, they developed a communication tool 'Goyohan', which operates in two tablet PC's inside the taxi. Goyohan Taxi has 26 deaf taxidrivers in 5 areas, with 10 taxi companies. Within 2020, they aim to create 100 deaf taxi drivers.
  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
Shinhan Asset Management VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
DSC Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 14 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, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Dencom — Dencom is an IT company that creates dental platforms for medical services.
  • Terracle — Terracle is a Korean eco-friendly startup with the world's best waste plastic depolymerization technology. We supply recycled TPA (PTA) and EG in large quantities and focus on low-grade, hard-to-recycle plastic waste, clothing, and film waste. The best ESG solution is Terracle.
  • Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.
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
  • Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
  • Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
  • Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.
KB Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 36 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, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
  • AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
  • ReadyPost — ReadyPost is a general meeting service platform that provides services for real estate general meetings.
Taekkyung Lee Angel · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Taekkyung Lee - Representative Partner @ MashUp Angels
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Marketing
  • 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 · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
  • 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.
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!
Fast Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 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
  • Actnova — AI Vision based Behavior Test Platform
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • Space Vision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
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, Food and Beverage
  • 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.
SGI Venture Capital VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VSI — 1st high bandwidth automotive Serdes chip, supporting ASA (Automotive Serdes Alliance) motion link. Vsitech.
  • TradLinx Co. — TradLinx is an integrated international logistics platform that has enlightened enclosed logistics market with ‘Visibility’ based on our ‘Big Data’. We provide a consolidated logistics management system to international shippers, and an efficient management system as well as opportunities to expand client pool to freight service providers.TradLinx has truly been reshaping the international logistics market.TradLinx’s vast database and strong algorithm have been solving decades old issues in the market. With TradLinx, shippers were able to reduce logistics costs, track shipments, manage history easy and fast. Freight service providers are now able to work efficiently and now finding new opportunities through TradLinx. 1. Visibility Solution TradLinx provides real-time visibility solution. We've developed an easy-to-use solution that only requires input of bill of lading number to track your shipments real-time through the years of collecting & analyzing logistics data. Our clients include Samsung Electronics and many multinational corporations based in Korea and we now track over 10% of all containers ship in & out of Korea.2. Hassle Free Quote Request TradLinx’s hassle free quote request system differentiate from the beginning of your logistics journey. An easy to use system and our professional consultants provide quotes within 24 hours for point to point location anywhere in the world. 3. Smart Solution to Compare Quotes & Instant Booking TradLinx, only to better logistics market and reduce unnecessary costs for shippers, compares quotes from our partners who are simply the best in the market for your specific countries and all other needs. 4. Smart Document Manager on Cloud Hard copies are now things in the past. Logistics documents managed over cloud are easily accessible anywhere, anytime. TradLinx provides checklist and samples for shippers to have them better prepare documents without missing any required documents. 5. Efficient Shipment History Management Shippers now can easily manage shipment history without spreadsheets. Repeat orders became easy with one click on TradLinx.6. Monitoring Dashboard for Shippers’ Logistics Status TradLinx’s integrated monitoring dashboard lets shippers know current logistics status with real-time alarm system. Shippers now never have to be kept in the dark.TradLinx is also a logistics data provider to one of the largest conglomerate in Korea as well as government agencies. TradLinx greatly enhances user experience searching for logistics information to a whole new level by providing integrated data sets for Ocean Schedule, Air Cargo Schedule, Tracking, Vessel Info, and Terminal Schedule.Become a member to check your favorite carriers' schedule and compare rates from our top of the market partners!!
  • PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics Inc. is a preclinical stage Biotechnology company that is pioneering the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Infectious Diseases.
CRIT Ventures VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 40 investments in the past 12 months
The Road Not Taken
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
  • Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
  • Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
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, Health Care
  • 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
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.
Bass Investment VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 8 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, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • GPTers — GPTers began as a minuscule chat GPT study and has developed into a group that boasts of being the operator of the AI community.
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • BrownBag — Brown Bag is an online portal for coffee and cafe supplies.
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.
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
  • Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
  • Series A
  • South Korea
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
  • Botash — Botash manufactures and sells carbon packaging boxes.
  • GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
  • Power Player — Natural Clean Beauty
Kiha Lee Angel
Kiha Lee
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Sales, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • South Korea, United States, Japan
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.
  • Solvook — Solvook is a copyright licensing platform for educational materials intended to provide copyright clearance services.
  • MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
Ignite Innovation Fund VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.
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Investment focus
  • Drones, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • B GARAGE — B GARAGE is an autonomous drone and service company for warehouse inventory management. B GARAGE is an homage to Willow Garage, a widely respected robotics research company that developed an open-source robotics software platform.
  • ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
  • VERTICAH — VERTICAH is a growth platform for start-ups that offers alternative financing, venture capital, and asset management services.
SK Telecom VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 9 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, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • ImpriMed — Find the best chemo drugs for treating your dog's lymphoma BEFORE treatment begins. You and your veterinarian can make the best cancer treatment decisions just for your dog.
  • Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
  • 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.
Shinhan Venture Investment VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 17 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 A, Series B
  • South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Doongji — Doongji is a small building PM company providing commercial property maintenance and management services.
  • AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
  • Parameta — ICONLOOP, Inc. is a blockchain-specialized tech company based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in May 2016, ICONLOOP provides the entire technical support to the leading global blockchain project, ICON. ICONLOOP aims to acquire both scalability and security in existing platforms and maximize the utility of blockchain technology with SCORE SmartContract, LFT Algorithm, Tiered System, Multi Channel and Modular Architecture. Based on self-developed blockchain engine, loopchain, ICONLOOP, as a technology partner of Korea Financial Investment Association, Kyobo Life Insurance, and P-HIS consortium, leads diverse innovations in financial transactions, digital currency and IoT(Internet of Things).
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