Top 25 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2026
Top 25 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in May 2026
| Investor | Venture Capital South Korea investments |
|---|---|
| MYSC | 3 |
| KB Investment | 2 |
| DSC Investment | 2 |
| Shinhan Asset Management | 2 |
| Kakao Ventures | 2 |
| Base Investment | 2 |
| Huons | 1 |
| Fast Ventures | 1 |
| SK Telecom | 1 |
| Pharmbio Korea | 1 |
| DS Asset Management | 1 |
| SGI Venture Capital | 1 |
| Wadiz | 1 |
| Western Technology Investment | 1 |
| Shinhan Venture Investment | 1 |
| CRIT Ventures | 1 |
| Kakao | 1 |
| Ulysses Capital | 1 |
| Bass Investment | 1 |
| Ignite Innovation Fund | 1 |
| UTC Investment Co. | 1 |
| Dayli Partners | 1 |
| Center for Creative Economy and Innovation | 1 |
| CP Partners | 1 |
| VIP Research & Management | 1 |
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- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
- Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
- Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
- PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.
Shinhan Asset Management is an asset management company.
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- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Energy
- 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.
- Enfinity Global — Enfinity Global helps corporate, industrial, and institutional clients meet their growing power demand and 24/7 electricity needs quickly and efficiently.
- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- SeedN — SeedN provides air conditioning system temperature management solutions for office spaces.
- Portrai — Portrai leverages cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to reveal unprecedented biological insights, transforming target discovery into transformative therapies.
- Intelon Optics — Intelon Optics is a medical device company that focuses on the development and commercialization of the Brillouin Optical Scanner System.
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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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
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- cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
- Money Walk — The step-counting app that rewards you with cash for every step
- Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.
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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- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical
- Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BreezeBio — 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.
Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Hungary, United States
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.
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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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
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- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- 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.
- Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
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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- 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.
DS Asset Management is a firm that invests in listed companies and venture firms.
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- Biotechnology, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- AIMMO — AIMMO is the developer of a data annotation platform with custom workflow designs, labeler analytics, and real-time communication functions. The company was founded in 2016 by SeungTaek Oh and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
- AIMEDBIO — AIMEDBIO provides therapeutic solutions to patients with serious brain diseases.
- Graphene Square — Graphene Square is a pioneer in the commercialization of graphene material and graphene films for use as a transparent conductor and in other electronics applications. Established as a spin-off of the research of Prof. Byung Hee Hong at Seoul National University and with headquarters in Seoul, Korea. Graphene Square will continue to stay as theworld leader of the graphene commercialization research, also will continue to provide the best quality graphene and equipment to all over the world for the continuous development of carbon and 2D materials for the bright future of the science and technology for mankind.
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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- Medical, Software, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dime Bio — Dime Bio is a drug development company for novel dementia treatments.
- Bem Robotics — Bem Robotics is developer of indoor industrial robotics technology designed to improve automated material handling and operational control
- PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.
Wadiz is Asia's largest crowdfunding platform company.
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- E-Commerce, Sales, Retail
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- South Korea
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- 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.
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
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- SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
- Innventure — Innventure is a provider of a global open-architecture venture platform.
- RightsFlow — RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting, reporting, and payment services for online music companies, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licenseesand licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary licensing technology and 30+ million song database allow us to license content, render accounting, and pay royalties on behalf of clients quickly and accurately, ensuring that rights-holders are paid for the use of their work. RightsFlow was acquired by Google in 2011 and is now part of the team at YouTube helping to simplify music licensing, content identification, accounting and payments for songwriters and publishers worldwide.
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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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
- 12 Pharmacy — 12 Pharmacy is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in manufacturing and providing medicines and services for veterinary hospitals.
- Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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- Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Pep — Pep focuses on the hybrid casual genre, which combines straightforward gameplay with growth factors to increase in-app advertising.
- Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
- Low Observable Technology — Low Observable Technology delivers solutions in digital asset trading infrastructure, specializing in market making and liquidity provision. The firm also develops stealth technologies for defense applications, focusing on electronic countermeasures and low observability systems critical to undetectable aircraft missions.
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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- Information Technology, Mobile, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- 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.
Ulysses Capital is a diversified investment firm.
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- Energy, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea
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- high-home.com — TRDST is an e-commerce platform for luxury furniture.
- Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.
- Best Innovation — Best Innovation is a manufacturer of cosmetic products intended to offer a safe alternative to harmful skincare chemicals.
Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- PRTN — PRTN is the company that owns and operates Proteinner, a high-protein fast food brand focused on delivering convenient, nutritious meals designed to support active and health-conscious lifestyles.
- Money Walk — The step-counting app that rewards you with cash for every step
- Cuckoo — Cuckoo is an always-available, in-house realtime translator. Cuckoo instantly learns the technical details of your conversation from your keywords and documents and interprets into over 20 languages—customized for your specific industry and organization. Global teams like Snowflake, PagerDuty, Weights & Biases, dbt Labs, and SeAH rely onCuckoo for multilingual meetings, events, business trips, and more.
Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.
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- Robotics, Industrial Automation, Drones
- Seed, Series A
- United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Aniai — Need robots that can cook some REAL BURGERS, follow your recipe to the letter, and help you to make it even better?
- 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.
Since its incorporation in 1988, UTC Investment has been implementing and developing private equity investments with deep roots in buyout area, diversified human resources, and an impressive track record as a leading global investment firm.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- 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.
- Pebble Square — Pebble Square's new Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architecture is a significant advancement for AI performance and power efficiency.
- AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
Dayli Partners is an investment firm.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- Aldavar — ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials that closely resemble human tissues and 3D printing technology.
- Illimis Therapeutics — We translate cutting-edge science into innovative medicine
- DAAN Biotherapeutics — DAAN Biotherapeutics develops novel treatments for cancer patients. The company conducts cancer treatment research and development, including cell therapies, antibodies, and small molecule inhibitors.
CCEI is a frontline post of creative economy to create new industries and markets.
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- Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
- Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
- Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
CP Partners is an event service and solution providing company.
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- Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
- Series A
- South Korea
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- Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.
VIP Research & Management is an investment advisory company.
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- Fashion, Security, Software
- Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Snaptag — Snaptag is a developer of an invisible watermark technology intended for image data engine processing.
- Klim Ventures — We believe founders can change the world for the better.
- 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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