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Top 25 VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Venture Capital startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Venture Capital startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
MYSC
VC Fund
3 South Korea, China, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
DSC Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $594k–$47M
Shinhan Asset Management
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Manufacturing, Energy $2.1M–$19M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
KB Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $743k–$40M
Base Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology $1M–$5.6M
Dayli Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $743k–$26M
Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $22k–$1.5M
Neoplux
VC Fund
1 South Korea, India, United States Series B, Series A, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Apps $1k–$35M
Huons
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical $5.9M–$24M
Fast Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Hungary, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, Health Care, E-Commerce $111k–$6.9M
UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2M–$20M
SK Telecom
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Corporate Round, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $17k–$113M
DS Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Medical, Software $2k–$51M
Pharmbio Korea
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
CRIT Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series B Information Technology, Blockchain, Gaming $686k–$20M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.5M–$65M
Kakao
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Seed Information Technology, Mobile, Content $2M–$30M
Bass Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $669k–$15M
CP Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Medical, Chemical, Venture Capital
Ignite Innovation Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Robotics, Industrial Automation, Drones $17k–$20M
Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $2.6M–$55M
VIP Research & Management
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Fashion, Security
Ulysses Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Energy, FinTech
SGI Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Medical, Software, Health Care $971k–$47M
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MYSC
VC Fund · Seongdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
  • Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
  • Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
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DSC Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$9.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $4.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

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.
  • MicrobiotiX — MicrobiotiX develops bacteriophage and microbiome-based therapeutics to combat multidrug-resistant infections and autoimmune diseases.
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Shinhan Asset Management
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Shinhan Asset Management is an asset management company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$6.7M; Series B $3.7M–$13M; Series C $15M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Swit — An Employee Productivity Hub for Collaboration Essentials
  • Restream — Restream is a super simple live video platform that empowers you to create beautiful videos and multistream them to your favorite channels.
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 346
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$36M; Series B $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
  • AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
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Base Investment
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $1.3M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Dayli Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Dayli Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Series A $743k–$26M; Series B $1.5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • SN BioScience — SN BioScience provide nano-formulation screening services for small molecule, oligonucleotide (siRNA, DNA), peptide and protein to deliver in the form of nano-micelle, nanoparticle or liposome. Their proprietary “double core-shell technology” and pool of acceptable lipids and polymers could help your research that having difficulties in solubilityor delivery.
  • SureTech — Suretech is an AI insurtech firm, operates the Carsure platform, which automates the automotive insurance claims process from accident reporting to repair shop matching, cost estimation, and settlement.
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Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $22k–$1.3M; Series A $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
  • Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
  • Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
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Neoplux
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $1k–$6.2M; Series B $5.9M–$27M; Series C $4.3M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $110M in 2006

Portfolio highlights

  • MyGlamm — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process portal for stakeholders. Access important documents, claim forms, and NCLT orders.
  • Ninjacart — Ninjacart is India's largest tech-driven supply chain platform that connects farmers of fresh vegetables and fruits with kiranas and businesses.
  • UPRISE — UPRISE creates self-driving investment services.
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Huons
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $5.9M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Fast Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Fast Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
  • Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
  • Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.
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UTC Investment Co.
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$13M; Series B $2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beamworks — Beamworks is a research-centered company in medical imaging and conversational AI, that enables expert-level cancer diagnosis anywhere in the world and providing reliable medical consultations at any time. The company's platform utilizes an on-device AI system that processes ultrasound data in real-time without the need for serverconnectivity, achieving detection sensitivity and differential diagnosis performance, enabling healthcare providers to offer precise and timely diagnostics and improve patient outcomes, and reduce unnecessary procedures.
  • CanLab — CanLab is a developer of AI sensors that focuses on creating optical and thermal cameras, as well as real-time image processing platforms for ground, aerial, and marine mobility. Its product offerings include the Vision Camera, Edge AI Platform, Equipment for Thermal Cameras, and Automotive Camera MES.
  • AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
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SK Telecom
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Series A $17k–$113M; Corporate Round $669k–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • V&Co — V&Co platform integrates skin microbiome research data and offers a range of services, including medical supplies, health supplements, and precision devices, enabling healthcare providers and beauty professionals to deliver innovative treatments and enhance overall client satisfaction through scientifically backed methodologies.
  • 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.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Series A $2k–$12M; Series B $4.5M–$50M; Series C $4.2M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IMBiologics — IMBiologics is a biotechnology company that develops immunomodulatory antibody drugs for physiological balance.
  • Labrador Labs
  • Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
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Pharmbio Korea
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

The Road Not Taken

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Blockchain, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $686k–$6.5M; Series B $2.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neubility — Connecting the physical world with robotic autonomy
  • Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
  • Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
  • Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
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Kakao
VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SM Entertainment — SMTown is the umbrella name for the recording artists under South Korean entertainment company.
  • Cha Bio&Diostech — Cha Bio&Diostech is a Biotechnology Company.
  • Kakao Healthcare — Kakao Healthcare creates services that enable anyone to easily manage their health with technology.
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Bass Investment
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Bass Investment is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$9.1M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Series B $6.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
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CP Partners
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

CP Partners is an event service and solution providing company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Industrial Automation, Drones
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $17k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Shinhan Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$55M; Series B $2.8M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
  • Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
  • Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML
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VIP Research & Management
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

VIP Research & Management is an investment advisory company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ulysses Capital is a diversified investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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SGI Venture Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $971k–$1.7M; Series A $1.7M–$17M; Series B $4.8M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ClariPi — ClariPi provides solutions for the unmet needs in medical imaging fields through the convergence of intelligent big data computing and medical imaging technologies. Their products were born through long-term collaborative research between engineering and medical experts. Their products were designed to help medical imaging experts make decisionsand provide clearer information with convenient decision guidance. The products provided are ClariCT, ClariPulmo, and ClariSigmam. ClariCT is an AI-enabled image clarity tool that helps users reach decisions through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
  • Insignary — Solution for Identifying Open Source Security and Compliance Issues in Binary Code
  • PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.
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Venture Capital VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 28 deals from 57 investors.

57
investors
in South Korea Venture Capital startups
28
deals
in South Korea Venture Capital startups
$3.1M
median round
in South Korea Venture Capital startups
14%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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