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Top 50 Video Games VC Funds & Investors in South Korea (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Korea Video Games startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Korea Video Games startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Capstone Partners
VC Fund
10 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Mobile, Gaming $223k–$14M
Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Gaming $1k–$8.2M
Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Russian Federation Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Video Games, Casual Games $741k–$83M
KB Investment
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $767k–$36M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $2.1M–$60M
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
3 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care $1.2M–$52M
Huobi Eco
VC Fund
2 China, Singapore, Japan Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance $1.2M–$51M
Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $446k–$17M
DS Asset Management
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Information Technology, Medical $37k–$51M
Vision Creator
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Australia, United States Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $750k–$8.6M
KNet Investment Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming $743k–$14M
DS&Partners
VC Fund
2 South Korea, India Series A, Seed, Series C Medical, Software, Health Care $4M–$8.5M
Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Mobile $500k–$33M
Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, Singapore, India Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $213k–$26M
Aju IB Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $297k–$30M
Devsisters
VC Fund
2 South Korea Series A, Seed Gaming, Software, Video Games $5.9M–$9.7M
SBVA
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $907k–$60M
Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Vietnam Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $694k–$47M
Coin98
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Singapore, Estonia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.8M–$7M
Kakao Games
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, Singapore Series B, Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, PC Games $766k–$83M
Korea Development Bank
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$51M
Tiger Asset Management Discretionary Invest
VC Fund
2 South Korea Series A, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown Medical, Big Data, Delivery $750k–$4.7M
Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund
2 South Korea, United States, China Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $198k–$15M
111 Percent
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed Apps, Gaming, Publishing $8.6M–$13M
Peak
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $658k–$17M
Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.6M–$22M
Tencent
VC Fund
1 China, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$400M
Netmarble
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Turkey Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Gaming, Music, Video $1.7M–$350M
Line Games
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Japan Series A, Seed Gaming, Mobile Apps, Apps $5.4M–$10M
Solon Inversiones
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A Content, Video Games, Manufacturing $1.9M–$6.2M
SW Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series B, Series A Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $7.4M–$8.4M
Hanwha Investment and Securities
VC Fund
1 South Korea, Singapore Series A, Series B, Corporate Round Finance, Financial Services, FinTech $3M–$4.8M
DWF Labs
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1.2M–$40M
Krafton
VC Fund
1 India, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Video Games, Apps
Hashed
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
GXC
VC Fund
1
Emirates Consortium
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Web Development, Financial Services, Digital Entertainment
BreederDAO
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Canada, Estonia Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
ARC the Community
VC Fund
1 Singapore, South Korea, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Non-Fungible Token (NFT), Web3, Video
KITE Entrepreneurship Foundation
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Beauty
Genaxis
VC Fund
1 South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Therapeutics, Biotechnology, Medical
Good Games Guild
VC Fund
1 Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Panama Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Yield Guild Games
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Australia Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Makers Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Finland Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Play Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Finland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $700k–$26M
Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $594k–$54M
Megazone
VC Fund
1 South Korea Series A
Atinum Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Hong Kong Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $3M–$45M
SV Investment Corp
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$60M
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Capstone Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 10 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 249
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.8M; Series A $371k–$11M; Series B $743k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
  • TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
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Devsisters Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Venture Capital firm in Korea. We are interested in early-stage investment in gaming, healthcare/biotech, IT services and high technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$3.5M; Series A $1.4M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Deeply — Deeply is a sound AI specialized in the unmanned surveillance industry. It also develops AI voice analysis technology designed to analyze non-verbal sounds and extract information. They serve city surveillance, infrastructure, military, rail, air, and port systems.
  • Red Brick House — Red Brick House is a specialized South Korean indie game publisher dedicated to discovering, supporting, and publishing innovative independent games, helping talented developers bring creative and engaging gaming experiences to players across domestic and global markets.
  • AWESOME Entertainment — AWESOME Entertainment is a media and digital content company that provides YouTube content production, influencer and MCN management, advertising and branded content creation, and media commerce services. The comapny supports brands with campaign planning, viral video production, and distribution across multiple social platforms, while alsooffering production outsourcing and partnership services to maximize audience reach and engagement.
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Kona Venture Partners
VC Fund · 3 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Kona Venture Partners is a South Korea-based venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Casual Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $741k–$6.8M; Series A $2.9M–$11M; Series B $1.5M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cave Duck — Caveduck is an AI character chat platform where you can create, customize, and talk to virtual characters across web and mobile (iOS and Android). It focuses on AI character chats rather than general-purpose Q&A, letting you pick or design personas with specific traits, backstories, and moods.
  • Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
  • Warp Space — Free Trial! Create your own unique AI friend.
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KB Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 414
  • Round size: Seed $767k–$7.2M; Series A $2.1M–$36M; Series B $4.8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
  • H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
  • ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 338
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$30M; Series B $4.3M–$33M; Series C $5.2M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • PureSpace — PureSpace has developed a novel technology in extending shelf-life of fresh products that is applicable to all types of produce along the supply chain. Grocery stores and road transportation is a major application for shelf-life extension.
  • NexGenT — Launch Your IT Career in Networking or Cyber Security Online With Our Military Grade Inspired Next Generation Training Programs. Go From Zero To Engineer within 6 months! Zero Up Front Tuition Options Available!
  • Channel Talk — Channel Corp. provide a chat platform Channel Talk to create a customer-centric culture.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 3 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 474
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $2.1M–$21M; Series B $4.7M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Cashkaro — Cashkaro is an Indian cashback and coupons site. They are backed by Mr. Ratan Tata and Indian VC firms, Kalaari Capital. With over two million registered users, CashKaro is a one stop destination for savings across 1500+ ecommerce sites like Amazon.in, Flipkart, Nykaa, Ajio, etc.
  • Together Funding — Together Funding offers peer-to-peer financial service.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.
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Huobi Eco
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Huobi Eco is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: China, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M; Series A $1.4M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaOne — Copy the exact CS2 crosshairs and share codes the best players use. Plus a free crosshair generator and aim trainer.
  • Optix — Optix is ​​a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
  • BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
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Daesung Private Equity
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $446k–$8.4M; Series A $1.1M–$10M; Series B $1.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Lee Eum-Gil — Lee Eum-Gil is a consulting firm specializing in career transition support services.
  • DAIM Research — DAIM Research is an AI-based automation system solution company that provides logistics automation solutions.
  • Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.
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DS Asset Management
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Series A $37k–$12M; Series B $5M–$29M; Series C $4.2M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DEEPX — DEEPX is a Korean AI hardware system solution company.
  • Labrador Labs — LABRADOR LABS began as an academic research collaboration initiative to develop an automated analytic method for detecting both known and new vulnerabilities.
  • Olive International — Olive International is an operator of lifestyle brands intended to develop and grow a targeting brand.
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Vision Creator
VC Fund · Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Vision Creator is a research, analysis and investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2M; Series A $750k–$8.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight Tech — Eight Tech is a resource circulation platform that solves the waste problem with science and technology.
  • ROBOS — Robos is a hybrid robot system built by evaluating biological object vision data using Lidar Vision and Open CV-based Object Detection. By combining self-developed biomaterial machine vision technology and robot technology, it intends to expand into a company that delivers core services to diverse industrial sites such as manufacturing, food, andmedical.
  • ROKIT Healthcare — ROKIT Healthcare provides hardware, software, and application support. Their custom fabrication technologies deliver solutions to the design, creation, and applications of three-dimensional systems. They provide suffering patients and humans with a hyper-personalized medical organ regeneration solution. They apply artificial intelligence and 3dbioprinting technology to regenerate the skin and cartilage organs through surgery for patients.
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KNet Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

K-Net is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$12M; Series A $2.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
  • PaySign — Paysign is a SaaS platform that provides electronic document management and valid e-signature services for businesses. It allows users to create, send, sign, and track contracts online.
  • The Muse Entertainment — The Muse Entertainment is a professional entertainment agency.
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DS&Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

DS&Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$4M; Series A $4.7M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Redrob — Redrob is a people discovery platform that employs artificial intelligence to restructure the people data into a intelligible manner, enabling global sales, networking, and recruitment.
  • Redrob — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
  • De novo Biotherapeutics — De novo Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company developing mRNA-encoded antibodies and NK cell-engaging antibodies for cancer treatment.
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Stonebridge Capital
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Stonebridge capital, Stonebridge ventures, Specializing in Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Series A $500k–$10M; Series B $743k–$15M; Series C $743k–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.
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Hana Financial Investment
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $213k–$7.9M; Series A $2M–$26M; Series B $1.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
  • earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.
  • Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
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Aju IB Investment
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
  • Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
  • Kovis Technology — Kovis Technology is a manufacturer of measurement and inspection equipment intended for global semiconductor and electronic industries.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 363
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.2M; Series A $966k–$14M; Series B $3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Veluga — Veluga is a membership service that provides regular delivery of craft beer and pairing night snack twice a month.
  • LifeLabs — LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients.LifeLabs is strongly committed to continual innovation in testingservices. For our patients and healthcare providers, this means we always strive to provide access to the latest specialized clinical tests—to detect cancer for example, to monitor heart disease, identify neurological disorders and pinpoint allergies.LifeLabs is well-positioned to deliver care at home, in the community and across Ontario and British Columbia. We have over 5,400 professionally trained staff members, over 360 conveniently located patient service centres and an extensive network of couriers and mobile phlebotomists on the job.
  • Perseus — World Best Hypervisor Security Solutions for SDV
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Devsisters
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

DEVSISTERS (데브시스터즈) is a Korean social game company that develops smartphone applications and games such as OvenBreak and Get the Mish for devices running iOS and Android operating systems.DEVSISTERS focuses mainly on products that facilitate social interaction between gamers, as seen by the commenting features integrated into their game, Getthe Mish.After partnering up with Skittles, DEVSISTERS changed the format of OvenBreak by changing the jellybeans shown on the game with the brand’s popular candy.Catering to a global customer base, DEVSISTERS was established in February 2009, in Seoul, Korea.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Software, Video Games
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $5.9M–$9.7M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cinamon — Cinamon provides a video generation tool that enables users to create 3D environments, direct scenes and actions, position characters, and adjust camera angles, all through the use of text prompts and sliders. The company's methodology is fundamentally distinct from traditional AI video generators, which produce videos by generating pixelsbased on text, images, and videos as reference materials. It is dedicated to enhancing technology within the realm of interactive gaming. CineV, an innovative solution currently in development, transforms user-inputted stories into videos set within a virtual 3D environment utilizing AI technology.
  • Press.A — We capture the fun and thrill of gaming for all with the press of a button
  • Dyne Medical Group — Dyne Medical Group is a medical device company specializing in advanced endoscopy and single-use medical devices for urology and gastroenterology applications. The company develops and manufactures innovative endoscopic solutions, including ureteroscopes, video processors, and AI-based medical imaging technologies designed to improve early cancerdetection and patient safety.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 264
  • Round size: Seed $907k–$10M; Series A $2M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups, 36 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $694k–$6.6M; Series A $1.2M–$15M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
  • Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
  • Hookable — Hookable is an AI-based e-commerce detail page automatic generation solution.
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Coin98
VC Fund · Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Coin98 is an open, decentralized crypto wallet offering tools and infrastructure for everyone to access and seize opportunities to build their future on the Open Internet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Singapore, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7M; Series A $4.1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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.
  • Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
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Kakao Games
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Kakao Games is a KaKao gaming subsidiary, serving various genres of games including PC and mobile. Kakao Games is a global multi-platform game company that leads the way in the global game industry through reinforcing an in-house development capability and going into partnership with other game companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $766k–$3M; Series A $7.1M–$25M; Series B $2.5M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Me3 — Me3 is a crypto wallet to purchase, send, receive, and exchange tokens and NFTs.
  • 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.
  • Lionheart Studio — Lionheart is a developer of mobile and online games that specializes in multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea.
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Korea Development Bank
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

The Korea Development Bank (KDB) provides long-term financing for projects designed to assist Koreaâ€:tm:s economic growth and development. It offers equipment capital loans and working capital loans to Korean private enterprises that undertake major industrial projects. The bank also extends guarantees to its clients to facilitate their otherborrowings and to finance major industrial projects. KDB guarantees Won-denominated corporate debentures, local currency loans, and other Won liabilities and foreign currency loans from domestic and overseas Korean financial institutions and from foreign institutions. The bankâ€:tm:s other activities include engagement in a range of industrial development activities, including conducting economic and industrial research; performing engineering surveys; providing business analyses and managerial assistance; and offering trust services. As of June 30, 2007, KDB had 40 local branches, 6 overseas branches, and 2 overseas offices. The bank was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 336
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$32M; Series B $5.1M–$33M; Series C $7.5M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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Tiger Asset Management Discretionary Invest
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Tiger Asset Management Discretionary Invest is an investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Big Data, Delivery
  • Stage:Series A, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $750k–$4.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G2GBIO — G2GBIO operates to supply good medicines to patients all over the world and practice.
  • GXC — The Company that aims to change the global gaming ecosystem for the better
  • BeyondBio — BeyondBio is a biotechnology firm that specializes in the research and development of synthetic pharmaceutical drugs.
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Korea Credit Guarantee Fund
VC Fund · Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea · 2 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund operates as a public financial institution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $198k–$2.9M; Series A $786k–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $884k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
  • Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
  • DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.
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111 Percent
VC Fund · Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

111 Percent is a small game publishing company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Gaming, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $8.6M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Supercent — Supercent develops and publishes hyper-casual mobile games.
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Peak
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $658k–$5M; Pre-Seed $781k–$2.5M; Series A $6.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
  • VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
  • microsynetics GmbH — Developing hardware and software to help elderly people gaining more freedom and quality of life. Our first product is an emergency wristband which works together with an app, also connecting relatives via smartphone and phone integrated in the emergency wristband. The automated AI-based fall detection guarantees help even when the user - afteraccident - isn't capable anymore of activating the emergency call via integrated button.
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Stone Bridge Ventures
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9.7M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Series B $2.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • Argos Identity — Argos Identity is an identity verification service provider. Identify Anyone Anywhere Anytime.
  • Amber Road — Amber Road is the creator of an operation management-focused data analysis program. By analyzing the data based on the input data, the company's platform generates a customized AI model and business insight report that requires the input of manufacturing process data.
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Tencent
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 659
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$230M; Series B $15M–$200M; Series C $30M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fenda — Fenda is an app where users can set their own price for answering questions in a field they are good at, and others can ask questions and pay for answers. Additionally, users can pay to listen to other questions and answers in the app
  • XtalPi — XtalPi is a pharmaceutical technology company that is reinventing the industry’s approach to drug research and development with its Intelligent Digital Drug Discovery and Development (ID4) platform. Through its tightly interwoven quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, and high-performance cloud computing algorithms, the ID4 platform enablespharmaceutical companies to increase their efficiency, accuracy, and success rate at critical stages of drug R&D. By accelerating the pace of drug discovery and development, XtalPi aims to contribute to a healthier society worldwide.Founded in 2014 by a group of quantum physicists at MIT, XtalPi has since grown into an elite team of researchers with multi-disciplinary expertise in physics, chemistry, pharmaceutical R&D, and algorithm design. XtalPi has received much recognition for its cutting-edge technologies, its innovative solutions, and the breadth of potential applications of its offerings across the pharmaceutical value chain, which has allowed it to gain industry approval and establish strategic partnerships with several top international pharmaceutical companies.
  • Full Truck Alliance — Full Truck Alliance is a platform that connects shippers with truckers to facilitate shipments across distance ranges and cargo weights. its revenues principally from shippers' and truckers' use of its platforms in connection with freight matching services.
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Netmarble
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Music, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$40M; Series A $5.9M–$8M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.2M–$350M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Iskra — Iskra offers web3 gaming opportunities using blockchain and rewards its stakeholders based on their participation.
  • 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!
  • Superblock — Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core.
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Line Games
VC Fund · Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Only Fun, LINE Games

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Luxon — Read transaction history to match your game play style.
  • 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.
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Solon Inversiones
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Investment Fund, 100% owned and managed. Seed investing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Video Games, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BIGPICTURE — We give full-service for all level gamers.
  • Best Graphene — Best Graphene specializes in the manufacturing of graphene products tailored for a wide range of industrial sectors. Best Graphene provides a diverse array of products to cater to various needs, such as graphene colloid, graphene ink and paste, additive graphene, and customizable graphene solutions. These offerings ensure optimal processsuitability and compatibility across different materials, empowering users to harness the unique properties of graphene for enhanced performance and applications in their respective industries.
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SW Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Investments & Acquisitions

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series B $7.4M–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

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.
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Hanwha Investment and Securities
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Hanwha is a trusted global partner delivering the foundational systems that secure societies, strengthen industries, and drive future resilience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Corporate Round
  • Geography: South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

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 — RECO is a waste management platform that combines digital solutions and customized waste hauling services. They provide optimal waste management solutions for each business site. Their services include improving the emission environment, waste collection and transport, management automation, and resource circulation. They manage the entire process,from waste disposal to final treatment. It offers dedicated software (web/app) to assist with waste management automation. The software can easily manage all tasks, from monitoring emissions data to checking real-time rates and waste reporting documents, reducing work hours.
  • Stoic Entertainment — Stoic Entertainment is a VR game developer with core technologies related to VR content and will develop blockchain games later.
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DWF Labs
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups, 7 in the past 12 months

DWF Labs is the leading crypto venture capital company, market maker & liquidity provider. We help build strong web3 companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $2M–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Depinsim — The Free Internet Protocol. Earn free mobile data at https://t.co/xm18x6oDwx
  • Superset — The Unified Execution Layer for stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and onchain FX. One shared liquidity market, accessible across all chains.
  • ZenChain — The first decentalised Bitcoin EVM L1 bringing smart contracts, composability, and true cross-chain liquidity to BTC.
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Krafton
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Create the original. Connect the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cashfree Payments — Built for your business payment needs - Collect payments, send payouts, manage international payments, launch your next neo banking product and do a lot more.
  • Axion — AI driven Custom Libraries, DFM and BEYOND Contact us Our Products Three Design Optimization SW that share a common AI engine. Axion CellAI driven SW to automatically generate customized libraries. Axion DFMAI driven Design for Manufacturing SW that enables yield improvement measurable in silicon Axion XAI driven design optimization beyond chips View all products Why
  • Ruckus Games — Ruckus Games is to create unparalleled player experiences through style interactivity and emergence.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lysto — How much does culture influence creative thinking?
  • Flexity — Flexity provides fast and efficient planning and design services.
  • Phi Labs — Blockchain tools that empower and reward builders
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GXC
VC Fund · Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Emirates Consortium
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web Development, Financial Services, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — Trust, safety, and data protection at the core of every decision.
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BreederDAO
VC Fund · Philippine, Benguet, Philippines · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

BreederDAO is a Philippines-based specialist manufacturer of digital assets for use in blockchain-based games and virtual worlds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Singapore, Canada, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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ARC the Community
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non-Fungible Token (NFT), Web3, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, South Korea, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
  • Pixelverse — Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game.
  • SecondSwap — Turn Locked Tokens Into Liquid Assets. The only decentralized on-chain marketplace for trading locked tokens.
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KITE Entrepreneurship Foundation
VC Fund · Daejeon, Taejon-jikhalsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

The Kite Founder Foundation is a pure non-profit corporation that provides an environment for successful start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OASYS STUDIO — ​OASYS STUDIO is a cloud-native visual effects company that integrates VFX pipeline services and production within a cloud environment. They offer scalable and efficient production solutions, fostering stable collaboration structures for clients.
  • DAIM Research — DAIM Research is an AI-based automation system solution company that provides logistics automation solutions.
  • CrossPoint Therapeutics — CrossPoint Therapeutics is a therapeutics company that specializes in drug development by using Stealth-Body with antibody source technology.
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Genaxis
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Genaxis is an investment company that provides investment services for the healthcare and bio sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Therapeutics, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MediQStar — MediQStar is a startup developing a generative AI
  • Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
  • GameChanger Worldwide — GameChanger Worldwide specializes in gaming-specific IP extension platforms and focuses on creating innovative solutions that extend the value of intellectual property (IP) in the gaming space.
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Good Games Guild
VC Fund · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Panama

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • The FishVerse — FishVerse combines GameFi, AI, and blockchain technology, allowing players to fish in a dynamic open environment from their own homes.
  • NXI — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.
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Yield Guild Games
VC Fund · Quezon, Quezon City, Philippines · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • 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!
  • Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
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Makers Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Modrinth — Rinth's goal is to provide creators with an easy to use and functional platform where their work can be experienced, downloaded, and shared by gamers worldwide. We aim to turn the hobby of modding games to a stable career.
  • Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!
  • Neon Koi — Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.
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Play Ventures
VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.9M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.5M; Series A $6.1M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
  • Arya — Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship.
  • PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 283
  • Round size: Seed $594k–$12M; Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
  • Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
  • Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
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Megazone
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Megazone is a company that provides gaming consoles.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GXC — The Company that aims to change the global gaming ecosystem for the better
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Atinum Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups

Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $5M–$30M; Series C $9.7M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
  • MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
  • Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.
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SV Investment Corp
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Korea Video Games startups, 13 in the past 12 months

SV Investment Corp is a venture capital firm that provides companies with finance, strategic advice and information at critical stages of their development.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$31M; Series A $2.2M–$36M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CarbonSix — CarbonSix delivers cutting-edge robotics automation for manufacturing, combining Six-Sigma robot dexterity and intelligence to transform industrial operations worldwide.
  • Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
  • Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
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Video Games VC funding in South Korea at a glance

Stats across 128 deals from 170 investors.

170
investors
in South Korea Video Games startups
128
deals
in South Korea Video Games startups
$2.4M
median round
in South Korea Video Games startups
37%
lead investors
lead at least one round
26%
Seed
most common funding stage

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