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Top 25 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 25 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in July 2025

Investor	Venture Capital South Korea investments
MYSC	3
KB Investment	2
Shinhan Asset Management	2
Kakao Ventures	2
DSC Investment	2
Base Investment	2
Kakao Corp	1
Neoplux	1
Huons	1
SGI Venture Capital	1
Dayli Partners	1
Ulysses Capital	1
Wadiz	1
UTC Investment Co.	1
Bass Investment	1
Ignite Innovation Fund	1
Fast Ventures	1
Shinhan Venture Investment	1
CRIT Ventures	1
CP Partners	1
Western Technology Investment	1
Pharmbio Korea	1
VIP Research & Management	1
DS Asset Management	1
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation	1

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MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)

Shinhan Asset Management is an asset management company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Renewable 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 is a renewable energy solutions provider, supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy with over 32.1 GW in projects across the USA, Europe, and Asia.
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.).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
Home & Co — Home & Co is a platform that can handle everything from simple home repair applications to on-site inspections and on-site construction.
Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
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.
Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Fashion
Series B, Series A, Series C
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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Medical, Software, Supply Chain Management
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Soomvi — Soomvi is an industrial drone market company that provides marine lifesaving system services.
Dime Bio — Dime Bio is a drug development company for novel dementia treatments.
Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.

Dayli Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Aldavar — ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials that closely resemble human tissues and 3D printing technology.
Kanaph Therapeutics — Biotech in drug discovery and development with focus on immuno-oncology
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.

Ulysses Capital is a diversified investment firm.

Investment focus

Energy, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

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.

Wadiz is Asia's largest crowdfunding platform company.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Japan

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.
Lucas — Medical AI Solution, MONCAD Monitor Corporation aim to achieve innovation in the field of medical imaging through artificial intelligence technology.
Pebble Square — Pebble Square's new Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architecture is a significant advancement for AI performance and power efficiency.

Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
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.

Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.

Investment focus

Industrial Automation, Robotics, 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.

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

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.
23rd Century Children — THE NEXT ENTERTAINMENT

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Zordi — Zordi is a robot- and artificial intelligence-operated autonomous modular greenhouse platform. frequently addressed from three angles: operation, agriculture, and technology. This cooperation results in more reliable and effective consumer solutions.
Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
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Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
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.
Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.

CP Partners is an event service and solution providing company.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
Innventure — Innventure develops a global open-architecture venture platform to provide access to multinational companies to identify, grow, and commercialize their proprietary IP while strategically partnering for success.
Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.

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.

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.

VIP Research & Management is an investment advisory company.

Investment focus

Fashion, Security, Software
Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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.
IDID — IDID provides an entertainment platform designed to host short-form entertainment content. The company provides a short-form social entertainment platform that can generate content by superimposing different images on different sound sources.

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.

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