Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in South Korea in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Video games startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in South Korea in December 2024
Investor | Video Games South Korea investments |
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Capstone Partners | 9 |
Korea Investment Partners | 3 |
Devsisters Ventures | 3 |
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund | 2 |
Stonebridge Capital | 2 |
Daesung Private Equity | 2 |
Altos Ventures | 2 |
Kakao Ventures | 1 |
Mirae Asset Venture Investment | 1 |
ATU Partners | 1 |
Cristian Manea | 1 |
Smilegate Investment | 1 |
Hybe | 1 |
Sui Foundation | 1 |
Green Whale Ventures | 1 |
Netmarble | 1 |
Spartan | 1 |
BreederDAO | 1 |
Avocado Guild | 1 |
Storm Ventures | 1 |
Hanwha Investment and Securities | 1 |
Project Galaxy | 1 |
Tencent | 1 |
Stone Bridge Ventures | 1 |
Line Games | 1 |
Liquid X Ventures | 1 |
DWF Labs | 1 |
Play Ventures | 1 |
S Cubic Angels | 1 |
SBVA | 1 |
Yield Guild Games | 1 |
ARENA-Z | 1 |
Krust Universe | 1 |
Atinum Partners | 1 |
KB Investment | 1 |
SW Investment | 1 |
Yoonmin Foundation | 1 |
IMM Investment | 1 |
Makers Fund | 1 |
Atinum Partners | 1 |
Mozaik Capital | 1 |
Time Folio Asset Management | 1 |
Coin98 | 1 |
Base Investments | 1 |
Kona Venture Partners | 1 |
Hashed | 1 |
Hana Financial Investment | 1 |
Partners Investment | 1 |
Taisu Ventures | 1 |
Swie | 1 |
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.
Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
- DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider
- TMR Founders — TMR Founders provides a one-stop service that helps prospective entrepreneurs start a start-up in the offline individual start-up market.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
Venture Capital firm in Korea.
We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.
Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Sorcerics — Our mission is to empower people to live more productively by lowering the learning curve of smart devices.
- MUHAYU — MUHAYU is an artificial intelligence technology firm that provides services such as plagiarism detection, reading and evaluating recruiting paperwork, and Advanced video/audio/content assessment services suited to recruiting interviews.
- Clover Games — Clover, part of the company's gaming portfolio, it offers a mobile animation RPG game that focuses on recruiting heroes, expanding territories, and revolutionizing the world, so that players can enjoy engaging content.
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.
Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VUS — VUS is a public transportation company that offers traffic analysis, transportation card data analysis, and visualization services.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Worker's high — Worker's high Co. is a commerce company that offers an IOT based unmanned store service.
Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management
Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
- onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
- OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Cochl — Official website of Cochl
- Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
- PushPress — Automate and scale your fitness business with an easy-to-use solution that your clients and your team will love. Cut your costs and save time with PushPress.
- Soombit.AI — AIRead-CXR is a web-based AI solution for radiologist.
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
- Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
- 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.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products
ATU Partners is a private equity fund operator specializing in lifestyle investments such as media, esports, and K-Beauty.
Investment focus
- Information Technology, Gaming, Software
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Anipen — ANIPEN (애니펜) is a Korean 3D content development platform that enables enterprises to develop video communication and entertainment platforms.
- Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.
- INTAKE foods — INTAKE foods (인테이크푸즈) is a company focused on food content development and food branding, specialized in the innovation of leading food brands. It is focused on brand development, content development and publishing, such as food activities, intake of foods, and a food culture of innovation.
Cristian Manea is the Co-founder and CEO at Aggero.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Internet, PC Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
- Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
- SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.
Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
- Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
- Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment
Official website for HYBE
Investment focus
- Sports, Content, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Webling — Weebling is concentrating on infrastructure investment for service differentiation in addition to introducing high-end DTG (Direct to Garment) printing technology from Cornit, Israel for the first time in the domestic POD sector to increase the printing quality of its key product, apparel.
- Nodit — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone.
Investment focus
- Music, Video, Gaming
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
- RECRD — RECRD is a video community, where users engage content with video responses, Creators monetise immediately through ad revenues and advertisers connect with their audience at no risk.
- Ambrus Studio — Ambrus Studio develops games and a metaverse to connect player communities from all over the world.
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Investment focus
- Video, Metaverse, Video Games
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Music, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ALUX — ALUX is a content creation company that specializes in video and coding education content.
- HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
- Epic League — Epic League is a next-generation game studio focusing on introducing innovative web3 elements to the game experience. We are proudly backed by Griffin Gaming Partners, Mirana Ventures (Bybit's venture partner), Game7, and more!
Spartan is an oilfield management company that offers labor support, technology, engineering, construction, and project management services.
Investment focus
- Gaming, PC Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
- PuffPaw — PuffPaw is an e-cigarette maker that uses blockchain technology to track its consumers' smoking behavior.
- TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
BreederDAO is a Philippines-based specialist manufacturer of digital assets for use in blockchain-based games and virtual worlds.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
- Singapore, Canada, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
- Blade of God X — Blade of God X provides cross-platform play as an optimum medium and way of interaction between people and the virtual world.
- Cathedral Studios — Welcome to Cathedral Studios, where we believe that the future of gaming lies in the integration of cutting-edge technologies.
Join Avocado DAO to learn about Web3 and unlock opportunities in the world of blockchain gaming. Discover our educational resources and Web3 quests today.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Taiwan, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
- Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Planet Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
- Nexus Interactive — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.
Storm Ventures is a $600m (TAM) VC firm 100% focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments. We've been founders ourselves, of enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). We've had to go without pay as CEOs ourselves to make payroll. We've gone from $0 to $100m in ARR andlived all the stages in between. We've here to help, and add some strategic capital and insights. And not be in the way when we're not needed.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, South Korea, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Heeler — A massive gap exists in application security and we are on a mission to close it with unified code, runtime and business context.
- Atomicwork — Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that makes it incredibly easy for your teams to find information and get help at work.
- Flywheel Dynamix — Flywheel Dynamix is a cloud meta-marketplace transforming how enterprises buy and sell cloud software with unmatched trust, visibility, and efficiency.
Hanwha Investment and Securities is a trusted financial investment partner dedicated to providing sources for stable
Investment focus
- Finance, Payments, Gaming
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.
- RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
- Stoic Entertainment — Stoic Entertainment is a VR game developer with core technologies related to VR content and will develop blockchain games later.
Project Galaxy develops an open, decentralized credential data network with plug-and-play NFT modules, curated by developers. By contributing to Galaxy's Credential Data Network, curators are rewarded when credentials are used in Galaxy NFT infrastructure and Credential Oracle Engine.With Project Galaxy, users can create customized campaignswith plug-and-play modules to issue credential-based NFTs achieving all types of objectives.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Syn City — BDSLOT adalah situs slot online si paling gacor dan situs judi online terpercaya dengan berbagai macam bonus menarik Dan RTP tertinggi, yang menyediakan slot online terlengkap gacor dan mudah menang.
- BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
- PLANET TWELVE PRIVATE LIMITED — Building the first and only GUI Onchain Engine for onchain games and autonomous worlds.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
- Krinwave — Krinwave is an ultrasound imaging equipment company. Kunwei Technology's original kOS imaging platform achieves the perfect combination of ultra-high penetration and deep resolution for the first time in the industry, resulting in deep super-resolution images.
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Stone Bridge Ventures invests in entrepreneurs with bold ideas that improve and expand people's lives, industries, and markets. They provide professional assistance and a network of contacts geared towards businesses in order to help them expand.
Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
- GenGenAI — GenGenAI develops synthetic data generation technologydesigned to advance AI learning.
- Connective — Connective is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence-based artificial joint surgery robots.
Only Fun, LINE Games
Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Apps, Gaming
- Series A
- South Korea, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 5minlab — 'A game development company with superior techniques leading to business growth' 5minlab is a PC/mobile game development company based in Seoul, South Korea. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve brought 5 PC/mobile games, 3 VR games, and 24 hyper-casual games to the global market. In addition, our technical skills have developed overthe years while performing various outsourcing tasks and projects.Since 2018, based on our years' worth of know-how, a PvP game 'Smash Legends' has started developing, which allowed users to participate and gather worldwide. In 2020, 5minlab successfully attracted Series A investment from 4 investors due to the success of the game in 2019.Currently, 5minLab has 70 experts from various backgrounds, from a brilliant developer born in 00 to the art director of ‘Dragon Nest' and ‘Phantom Chaser'. The senior development leader of ‘Dungeon & Fighter'.Starting with 'Smash Legends', which is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2021, 5minlab aims to release the next game in 2024 to become a developer that can create global IP in a chain.
- Line Next — Line Next is committed to advancing and expanding the worldwide NFT industry. LINE NEXT seeks to offer innovative digital experiences and pave the road for the future by utilising blockchain and NFT technology.
- Line — LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.
We are a high conviction, high touch venture studio focused on building application layer companies.
Investment focus
- Video Games, Gaming, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Cayman Islands, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
- Aria — Aria is a role-playing game in which players can freely traverse an open world while experiencing the thrill of epic quests and combat.
- Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tevaera — Tevaera is a ZK Stack powered gaming ecosystem for effortlessly launching and playing web3 games.
- Camelot — Camelot is a Layer3 protocol which based on Merlin and dedicated to DePIN. Camelot committed to building the world's largest DePIN-driven AI mobile device ecosystem.
- Shiba Inu Coin — Shiba Inu Coin is an Internet Publishing Company.
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- move.ai — FREE YOUR MOTION. CAPTURE YOUR IMAGINATION. No more suits, no more restrictions. High fidelity motion capture made easy
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
- Order of Meta — game development company
S Cubic Angels is an investment firm that helps to discover startups and prospective entrepreneurship teams.
Investment focus
- Information Technology, Education, Apps
- Seed, Angel
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Inabooth — Inabooth is a character licensing platform that connects character IP owners and character IP users.
- Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
- Junction Med — Junction Med develops and operates CareBom, a child-based senior healthcare communication service.
Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.
Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- Baropharm — Baropharm is an online e-commerce platform that sells pharmaceutical products for improved individual care.
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
ARENA-Z offers the opportunity to engage in play and demo games while also taking part in raffles for NFTs.
Investment focus
- Video, Metaverse, Video Games
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
Krust Universe incubates innovative startups that are building the next generation of groundbreaking technology applications.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Quarkonix — Quarkonix primarily operates as a software development company.
- Ring Games — Ring Games is a blockchain game developer, mainly engaged in the development, design and operation of chain games.
- The Seeds Labs — Seeds Labs is the developer of the Web3 game Bladerite, which emphasizes high-quality games and game infrastructure.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
- jeongyookgak — jeongyookgak produces and sells fresh meat.
- Signature Label — Signature Label takes pride in providing Korean beauty to the rest of the world. Their brand selection approach is rigorous and selective, as they collaborate closely with fashionable local partners to develop products that match the specific needs of each area. They are able to streamline the distribution process for both brands and localpartners, saving significant time and energy and removing unneeded clutter as a result.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Apollon — Apollon develops noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring systems.
- AGL — AGL Co., Ltd. is a leading company that specializes in providing integrated solutions, including tee time Global Distribution System (GDS), Pay, and ERP, to both domestic and overseas golf courses.
- ReadyPost — ReadyPost is a general meeting service platform that provides services for real estate general meetings.
Investments & Acquisitions
Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Crowdworks — With over 25 patents in the human intelligence field, Crowdworks specializes in solving the toughest problem in the AI industry today: Delivering training data sets with next-level accuracy, quality assured.Having secured Series B funding through some of Asia’s premier VCs, Crowdworks is on the verge of taking its thriving Intelligent WorkPlatform and Distributed Work Community global. Investing heavily in QA, standardization, and tagging and delivery innovation, and distilling insight from over 600 pioneering AI data projects, Crowdworks has a solution for virtually any domain or application.But training data preparation is just the beginning. Crowdworks’ Intelligent Work Platform is the future of work itself.Led by serial entrepreneur Minu Park, and backed by a gritty, talented and high-energy team, Crowdworks is poised to make a huge splash in Asia and beyond.
- Crowdworks — High-quality AI training data with human-intelligence. Crowdworks' Workstage platform provides image, text, audio, video data collection&annotation.
- Stoic Entertainment — Stoic Entertainment is a VR game developer with core technologies related to VR content and will develop blockchain games later.
Yunmin Foundation provides start-up support, youth challenge school, and online start-up education.
Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
- MetaDx — MetaDx is a veterinary bioinformatics analysis company that detects tumors in pets and provides diagnostic services.
- FOBECON — Pobicon offers an auto-estimation solution that analyzes construction blueprints using vision AI and other algorithms to quantify the net quantity of raw materials utilized in construction in three days.
Korean alternative asset investment firm
Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
- 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.
- Mediwhale — Medi Whale seeks to achieve sustainable healthcare where every eye can truly be the window to one’s health with our world's first-of-its-kind 1-stop AI screening platform solution for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic risk assessment, and eye disease diagnosis. Our AI Platform was developed through several clinical collaborations (Korea,Singapore, India, UK, and other European datasets) using structured longitudinal event-based datasets for the development of our retinal biomarker engines. RetiCVD® (cardiovascular disease risk assessment): Developed using coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, CAC is recognized as the gold standard for precise CVD risk calculation. Our CVD engine predicts the presence of CAC and provides a stratified probabilistic risk based on US ASCVD and EU SCORE guidelines.RetiCKD® (chronic kidney disease risk assessment): Developed using eGFR and full lab panel, our CKD engine has been demonstrated to achieve better predictive capability as compared to eGFR or full panel analysis.RetiEYE®: Referable Eye Disease engine detects and flags common aging-related eye modalities such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract at its referable disease state.Medi Whale retinal-based systemic biomarkers have been clinically demonstrated to be non-inferior to current gold standards and are recognized by clinical and scientific communities with two Lancet Digital Health publications.
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Rune — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
- THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- Liner — Best AI search engine for students and researchers trusted by over 10 million people. Get smart faster with Liner.
Mozaik Capital helps companies grow and expand their market reach internationally. Mozaik Capital focuses on upcoming entrepreneurial trends that help business owners stay on top of things. The company relies on organic growth and uses an active investment approach to assist enterprises to reach their goal. Using a global network and strategicpartnerships, Mozaik Capital helps entrepreneurs dive successfully into new markets.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Web3
- Seed
- China, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CUDIS — CUDIS health data is tracked and used by platforms, but they never receive rewards in return. People ought to be able to own, utilize, and profit from their own data, in our opinion, as this is wrong. By developing CUDIS's smart ring, we enable users to monitor their health data on a daily basis, let them monetize it, share it with others withtheir consent, and give consumers their money back.
- Heurist — Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources.
- Coded Estate — Coded Estate is Web 3.0's foremost real estate hub. The platform brings homes and rents on-chain, changing fractional ownership and housing market speculation into accessible, efficient, and transparent marketplaces using dNFTS, hybrid smart contracts, and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKp).
Time Folio Asset Management
Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Monday OFF — MondayOFF is a mobile games developer and publisher specialized in Hypercasual games. With creativity and constantly evolving methods, we aim to launch your game to the top of the charts and build a worldwide audience to enjoy your games.
- IVIM Technology — Global No.1 solution provider of IntraVital Microscopy
- Point2 Technology — We Develop Innovative, Ultra-Low Power Connectivity SoCs Point2 Technology cloud-optimized range of high-speed SoCs and reference design platforms accelerate deployment of next generation data centers and 5G infrastructure.
Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- TomoChain — TomoChain is an innovative solution to scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain, and other blockchain platforms. TomoChain features a 150-Masternodes architecture with Proof of Stake Voting (POSV) consensus for near-zero fee, and instant transaction confirmation. Security, stability and chain finality are guaranteed via novel techniquessuch as double validation, staking via smart-contracts and uniform randomization processes.TomoChain supports all EVM-compatible smart-contracts, protocols, and atomic cross-chain token transfers. Scaling techniques such as sharding, EVM parallelisation, private-chain generation, hardware integration will be continuously researched and integrated into TomoChain which will become an ideal scalable smart-contract public blockchain for decentralized apps, token issuance and token integration for small and big businesses.
- BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
- Minterest — Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol for decentralized financial. Its unique design attracts and rewards long-term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance. Minterest was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallin, Estonia.
Base Investments operates as an investment firm.
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
- Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.
Kona Venture Partners is a South Korea-based venture capital investment firm.
Investment focus
- Gaming, Casual Games, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Nanali — Nanali is a multidisciplinary creative studio that creates smart device games, toys, animation, and stories. Nanali’s main ongoing project is the mobile arcade game "Fruit Attacks," which uses every input method available in smart devices such as touching, shaking, and blowing.
- Sandy Floor — Sandy Floor is a multiplayer games platform. It develops of casual fun games.
- Clover Games — Clover, part of the company's gaming portfolio, it offers a mobile animation RPG game that focuses on recruiting heroes, expanding territories, and revolutionizing the world, so that players can enjoy engaging content.
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
Investment focus
- Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
- AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
- Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.
Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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.
- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- AIGEN Sciences — We aim to advance current state-of-the-art AI drug discovery technologies and transform high-cost, low-efficiency drug discovery practices into rapid, efficient discovery, ultimately leading to high success rates in the clinical phase. Our award-winning AI drug discovery platform enables the direct
Taisu Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that invests in seed to early-stage Web3 startups. Taisu Ventures is chain agnostic and committed to supporting entrepreneurs to building the future with Blockchain technologies.
Investment focus
- Cloud Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Web3
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- zkPass — Privacy-focused to connect the world
- SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.
- UniLive — UniLive is a Web3 live broadcast platform that allows users to create short videos and creative content for global social and entertainment interaction.
Swie
Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games
- Seed
- South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
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