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Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in South Korea

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Video Games South Korea investments
Capstone Partners	9
Korea Investment Partners	3
Devsisters Ventures	3
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund	2
Daesung Private Equity	2
Stonebridge Capital	2
Sejong Venture Partners	1
Coolidge Corner Investment	1
Aju IB Investment	1
Central Investment Partners	1
Midas Doang-A Investment	1
Swie	1
Big Brain Holdings	1
Neoclassic Capital	1
Sui Foundation	1
Krafton	1
GXC	1
Green Whale Ventures	1
Good Games Guild	1
Netmarble	1
Atinum Partners	1
Spartan	1
Mozaik Capital	1
BreederDAO	1
Avocado Guild	1
Time Folio Asset Management	1
Storm Ventures	1
Hanwha Investment and Securities	1
JAFCO Asia	1
Coin98	1
Altos Ventures	1
Project Galaxy	1
Tencent	1
Stone Bridge Ventures	1
Kakao Ventures	1
Line Games	1
Liquid X Ventures	1
DWF Labs	1
Play Ventures	1
S Cubic Angels	1
Mirae Asset Venture Investment	1
KJN Investment Partners	1
SBVA	1
ATU Partners	1
Polygon Studios	1
Huobi Eco	1
Unopnd \| Hashed Studio	1
Yield Guild Games	1
Emirates Consortium	1
Cristian Manea	1

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Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.

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.
Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.

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, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gloud — Gloud offers dental digital and digital practice transformation services.
Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
Metainnotech — Metainnotech is an innovative technology platform that provides inter-floor noise reduction solutions in apartments and complexes using AI and various algorithms.

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

Cochl — Official website of Cochl
Lablup — Lablup Inc.: Make AI Accessible
Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.

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.
Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
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.

SEJONG LLP was established in 2003 to better serve growing businesses like you with quality services at reasonable fees.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Armored Fresh — Tasty Cheese Zero Dairy
Autotelic Bio — Autotelic Bio is a bio technology company that researches and develops anti-cancer drugs.
Ryton Technology — Ryton Technology is a manufacturing company that produces medical and electronic devices.

Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.

Aju IB Investment is a venture capital firm that offers SMEs with investments and consulting services.Aju IB Investment offers consulting services that focus on business management, tax, accounting, legal, mergers and acquisitions, additional funding, marketing, and technology support.Aju IB Investment was founded in September 1974 and is basedin Seoul, South Korea.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
KRISTIN — KRISTIN is a supplier of flat, sneakers, and boots.
Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is a tour guide that recommends houses suitable for monthly living.

Central Investment Partners is a financial service provider company.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Online Portals
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Estate Cloud — Estate Cloud provides online real estate services for buying and selling properties.
TODOC — TODOC is the technology leader of neural prosthesis and neuromodulation system in Korea.TODOC is developing cochlear implant system with innovative manufacturing method for implantable neural interface. People who have a hearing loss greater than 90dB are guided to use cochlear implant instead of hearing aids to restore hearing.Our goal is toexpand the cochlear implant market globally. Because of the high price, cochlear implants are usually consumed in the developed countries such as North America and Europe. However, majority of the hearing-impaired population currently resides in the developing or underdeveloped countries where people cannot afford the benefit of the cochlear implant. This high price of the cochlear implant is mostly due to the manual method of manufacturing the neural electrodes.To replace the conventional manual fabrication method, TODOC has developed automated micro-machining electrode manufacturing processes at only 1/10 of conventional manufacturing cost of electrode, as well as the cochlear implant system. The automated electrode manufacturing processes can offer higher capacities for a wider range of sounds to the hearing impaired than conventional ones.TODOC aims to become a global leader in the Brain-Machine Interface field based on its superior Neural Interface Technology.
Nature Mobility — Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform.

Midas Doang-A Investment

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Software
Series B, Series A, Seed
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
Lively — 'Lively', an online music performance platform enjoyed with characters
Carpenstreet — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!

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.

Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, 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.
SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.
Mirror World — Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where we aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.

Neoclassic Capital is a leading global investment firm specializing in web3, blockchain technology, and crypto assets.

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.

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.
Baby Shark Universe — Baby Shark Universe is a web3 platform that offers interesting adventures and the opportunity to earn rewards.

Create the original. Connect the world.

Investment focus

Gaming, Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, South Korea, 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.
Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
Midsummer Studios — Midsummer Studios is a independent, well-funded and committed to building a new kind of studio.

The Company that aims to change the global gaming ecosystem for the better

Investment focus

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.

Sailing the Green Seas: Navigating Web3's Rising Tide with GreenWhale Ventures

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.

Good Games Guild is a gaming hub for play-to-earn games based on NFTs and collectible tokens.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Panama

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.
MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.
The FishVerse — FishVerse combines GameFi, AI, and blockchain technology, allowing players to fish in a dynamic open environment from their own homes.

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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!

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, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series C
South Korea, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
Datarize — Datarize provides a simple to use integrated solution for personalized marketing - From extracting insights from data analysis to managing multiple campaigns in one seamless process.
MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices

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

L3E7 — Embark on adventures, partake in battles, and freely interact in real-world shops to earn rewards.
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.
RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.

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

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.
YieldNest — Restake with YieldNest. A protocol delivering next-gen ETH Yield with isolated and tailored restaking strategies powered by EigenLayer. Simple, secure, and high-yielding LRTs.
Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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.
Chillchat — We're Club Penguin... on steroids. Pixel art virtual worlds powered by Solana and created by you. Discord: https://discord.gg/jKNpZ6Q2SD
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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, South Korea, Germany

Portfolio highlights

AirMDR — AirMDR provides a new approach to managed detection & response with an AI powered virtual security analyst for threat investigation, triage and response.
Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
Compa — Compa is software for Talent Acquisition teams who need to convert more candidates in competitive markets.

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.

Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing.With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia's experienced investment team hasinvested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed.Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

MFast (DigiPay J.S.C.) — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
VenWiz — Find and connect with vendors matched to your requirements and manufacturing plant based on their capabilities and experience
Savelots — Savelots is a membership-based discount chain brand that primarily operates in discount retail and department store related activities.

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.

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We 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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
PI Corporation — PI Corporation is a new media and entertainment firm.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chainbase — Chain Base develop systems with blockchain technology and to create a new market by combining and utilizing both the technology.
Gensciences — Gensciences develops drugs that focus on underserved illnesses like hemophilia, metabolic diseases, and anti-tumor fields.
Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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

āshibio — āshibio creates treatments for rare bone and connective tissue ailments, potentially preventing symptoms or slowing their course.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co. — Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology Co., Ltd specializes in the development, production, and supply of high-purity single molecular PEG series derivatives, polypeptide long-acting drug side chains, and their intermediates. The company focuses on serving the pharmaceutical industry with a range of chemical supplies that are crucial for drug development andmanufacturing processes. With a professional R&D team, Chengdu Pukang Biotechnology is dedicated to advancing pharmaceutical intermediates technology and providing solutions that meet the evolving needs of the healthcare sector. The company's commitment to research and development is evident in its continuous efforts to innovate and improve its product offerings to support the pharmaceutical industry.

KJN Investment Partners is a venture capital firm who have achieved remarkable results in game investment.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Content
Series A, Series B
South Korea, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Mantisco — Mantisco develops and distributes online video games.
Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that creates a character for animation, game, and comics.
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.

SoftBank Ventures Asia is the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology, smart robotics industry artificial intelligence, internet of things and information, communication, and technology sectors. It is based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2000.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.
Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

ATU Partners is a private equity fund operator specializing in lifestyle investments such as media, esports, and K-Beauty.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Software
Series A, Series B
South Korea

Portfolio highlights

EJN — EJN is an IT company that develops & provides services for streamers and gamers.
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.

Polygon Studios is focusing on developing a hub for digital culture.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Onmeta — Onmeta
MintStars — MintStars is a content subscription platform with your interests at heart. Earn more, reduce burnout, and protect your content, powered by NFTs.
BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.

Huobi Eco is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
China, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

MetaOne — MetaOne offers guild management solutions for GameFi developers.
Optix — Optix is a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.

UNOPND represents a mysterious space with great value locked within.

Investment focus

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.

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

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.
Pentagon Games — Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.

Emirates Consortium is an investment company that invests in businesses and ventures.

Investment focus

Web Development, Financial Services, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, 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.
Kinza Finance — Kinza Finance is a DeFi lending protocol that focuses on security and liquidity incentivization and offers innovative, and secure financial solutions.
Polyhedra Network — Polyhedra is bringing interoperability and scalability to Web3 with the fastest zero-knowledge proof systems.

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.

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