Top 20 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in October 2024
A list of 20 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 20 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in October 2024
Investor | Venture Capital South Korea investments |
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MYSC | 3 |
KB Investment | 2 |
Base Investment | 2 |
Shinhan Asset Management | 2 |
Kakao Ventures | 2 |
DSC Investment | 2 |
Ignite Innovation Fund | 1 |
SGI Venture Capital | 1 |
Ulysses Capital | 1 |
SK Telecom | 1 |
UTC Investment Co. | 1 |
Fast Ventures | 1 |
CRIT Ventures | 1 |
Bass Investment | 1 |
Western Technology Investment | 1 |
Kakao Corp | 1 |
Dayli Partners | 1 |
CP Partners | 1 |
Huons | 1 |
Neoplux | 1 |
MYSC is an innovative company that helps innovation through consulting, social venture accelerating, and impact investing.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, China, France
Portfolio highlights
- Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
- Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
- Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.
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
- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.
- Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
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
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
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.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
- WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
- Evacycle — Evacycle is a company that recycles waste electric vehicle batteries, focusing on developing technology to recover valuable metals and reuse waste materials for new purposes.
- Fitin — Fitin is a startup developing a subscription service model for replacing batteries in commercial electric vehicles such as taxis and cargo trucks.FitIn was known for its technological prowess in that it used its unique battery swap technology to overcome charging problems and remaining battery life (SOH), which were recurring problems in commercialelectric vehicles. Battery swap is a technology that replaces a depleted battery with a fully charged battery.
Ignite Innovation Fund is a UK-based investment fund.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital
- Seed
- South Korea
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- 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.
- VERTICAH — VERTICAH is a growth platform for start-ups that offers alternative financing, venture capital, and asset management services.
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, Supply Chain Management
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics Inc. is a preclinical stage Biotechnology company that is pioneering the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Infectious Diseases.
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.
SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseastelecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, China
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- BitGo Korea — BitGo Korea aims to enhance transparency and security within the domestic digital asset market, fostering trust among consumers.
- Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
- Smart Global Holdings — SMART is an independent designer, manufacturer and supplier of electronic subsystems to OEMs engaged in the computer, industrial, networking, telecommunications, aerospace and defense markets. Taking innovations from the design stage through manufacturing and supply, SMART Modular Technologies has developed a comprehensive product line thatincludes DRAM and Flash memory technologies across various form factors.
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
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GEXVal — GEXVal is to help patients and families fighting against orphan and intractable diseases
- Novorex — Novorex specializes in the development of molecule drugs targeting oncology and neurology diseases.
- Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.
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.
- WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
- KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
- Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
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
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
- WeMeet Mobility — WeMeet Mobility is an AI-based logistics platform that offers transportation planning, location, routing, and monitoring services.
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
- Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
- Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
- Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
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
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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.
Dayli Partners is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
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- CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
- Tiernes — Tienes is a dental practice that specializes in digital-based clear orthodontics.
- Medipixel — Medipixel is a MedTech startup that aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality of human life by innovating the way we diagnose diseases and controlling surgical robots with the power of AI. Consisting of a group of AI experts in computer vision, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, Medipixel conducts research and product developmentfor lung cancer diagnosis and coronary intervention robots together with the best healthcare professionals in Korea such as Seoul Asan Medical Center. In November 2018, MediPixel won the championship in the QuickFire Challenge hosted by Johnson & Johnson. MediPixel currently offers three solutions for intervention surgeons:1. An AI Based Diagnosis Solution makes it possible for doctors to spot lesions while performing a coronary angiography, perform segmentation of the vessel in question within just one second and analyze the lesion’s status.2. A Guide & Planning Solution clearly visualizes the hidden part of the coronary artery to make doctors perform guidewire manipulation with more ease and confidence, which is quite useful especially in case of CTO. Furthermore, the solution frees doctors from the need to use contrast -- this is important because contrast can cause potentially fatal reactions in 5 to 10% of patients.3. An Automated Navigation Engine automates navigation through coronary arteries. Once the destination is reached, it controls a robotic unit by giving the most appropriate real-time commands in its existing situation, thus delivering devices such as guidewire to the destination in the most efficient way.We're open to any candidates who are excited to apply their knowledge and skill in deep learning to real-world medical data and surgery robots. Do you have any questions? Email us at contact@medipixel.io
CP Partners is an event service and solution providing company.
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Investment focus
- 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.
Huons has manufactured the high quality finished products since 1965 and developed first local anesthetics and plastic ampoule injection in Korea. they are doing their best to supply high quality products through strict quality control system and continued R&D efforts based on the technologies and know-how accumulated. Huons has been exportingtheir finished pharmaceutical products to about 30 countries including N/S.America, Europe, Japan, Asia, and Africa.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical
- Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- GenEdit — Developing innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines.
- Mthera Pharma — Mthera Pharma is a biopharmaceutical research and development company.
- Master Meditech — Master Meditech is a venture company that discovers new drugs with protein structure identification and medicinal chemistry.
Neoplux Co., Ltd. is the investment arm of Doosan Corp. It typically invests in the infant industries focusing on the pre IPO, growth, and mature companies. The firm provides business consulting and project management services in Korea, as well as investments in electronic component, software, electricity, metal and non-metal, machinery andequipment. It primarily invests in South Korea with a focus in Seoul, Incheon, Chungbuk, Chungnam, and Gyeongbuk province. The firm offers performance improvement and cost reduction services. The firm is involved in the construction of systems for roll-out by clients; establishment of systems for optimal operational process; and performance within client companies. It seeks control in its investments. Neoplux Co., Ltd was founded in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- South Korea, India, United States
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- 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.
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