Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in South Korea
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Web3 startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in South Korea
Investor | Web3 South Korea investments |
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Hashed | 14 |
KB Investment | 7 |
Strong Ventures | 6 |
Digital Currency Group | 5 |
Korea Investment Partners | 5 |
Bokwang Investment | 4 |
Bass Investment | 4 |
Capstone Partners | 4 |
SOSV | 3 |
Hana Ventures | 3 |
Pantera Capital | 3 |
Altos Ventures | 3 |
DSC Investment | 3 |
1kx | 3 |
OKX Ventures | 3 |
SK Networks | 3 |
Naval Ravikant | 2 |
InterVest Co. | 2 |
Block Crafters Capital | 2 |
Draper Associates | 2 |
OKX Ventures | 2 |
Daesung Private Equity | 2 |
NexusOne | 2 |
InfoBank | 2 |
SJ Investment Partners | 2 |
Shinhan Bank | 2 |
Stone Bridge Ventures | 2 |
Kiwoom Investment | 2 |
Kakao Ventures | 2 |
Huobi Capital | 2 |
OKX Ventures | 2 |
Shima Capital | 2 |
POSCO Venture Capital | 2 |
CRIT Ventures | 2 |
Hyperithm | 2 |
SBVA | 2 |
HG Ventures | 2 |
IMM Investment | 2 |
Dunamu & Partners | 2 |
Mirae Asset Capital | 2 |
Animoca Brands | 2 |
Alameda Research | 2 |
Honest Ventures | 2 |
Pietro Dova | 2 |
AC Capital | 1 |
Coin98 | 1 |
VistaLabs | 1 |
SkyVision Capital | 1 |
CJ Investment | 1 |
KOSME | 1 |
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
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- 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.
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Hypersonic Laboratories — Hypersonic Laboratories is a venture startup building HELIX, a high-fidelity metaverse.
- Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Gyul Medal — Gyul Medal is a fruit beverage brand that offers quality citrus fruits and zero-sugar juices among various citrus varieties.
- Theta One, Inc. — We build the world's tools to solve "English speaking" in non-English speaking countries.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- TurnStay — We help hotels radically reduce payment fees.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
- Bitmagic — All you need is your imagination and Bitmagic helps you create the game you want to make.
- Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
Bokwang Investment is a Korean investment management firm that supports funds and management for small- and medium-sized companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- QMIT — QMIT provides coaching includes nutrition, mental management, and career counseling.
- Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
- Body Cherish — Body Cherish installs and maintains vending machines.
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
- Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.
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.
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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
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
- Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
- Tripearl Games — Tripearl Games develops action games for the PC and console platforms.
- NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- genomes.io — We are entering a new era of genomics. Using Genomes.io you can contribute your DNA data to research that brings lifesaving medical discoveries, without losing privacy or ownership of your data.
- Sentient — Community-built open AGI
- Sentient Labs — Creatify is a minimalist, dark-themed Webflow template designed specifically for design agencies and creative studios. It features a timeless design, subtle animations, a fully functioning CMS, and everything you need to elevate your online presence to the next level.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
- KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
- PI Corporation — PI Corporation is a new media and entertainment firm.
DSC Investments invests in early stage and growth companies in the field of corporate identify and focus, IT, software, biotechnology, machinery, and future high-growth areas such as environment and resources.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
- Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
- Terracle — Terracle is a Korean eco-friendly startup with the world's best waste plastic depolymerization technology. We supply recycled TPA (PTA) and EG in large quantities and focus on low-grade, hard-to-recycle plastic waste, clothing, and film waste. The best ESG solution is Terracle.
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dope Wars — Dope Wars is an open source metaverse project that uses a "Play-To-Own" approach to offer a variety of games, activities, and landscapes in a community-created ecosystem.
- Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
- Cambria — Cambria is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) project. It builds a Runescape-inspired game with onchain stakes.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
- Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
SK Networks has created customer values in various business areas.(ICT Marketing) SK is the Korea’s No.1 mobile phone distributor based on the largest sales network and nationwide distribution system in the domestic market. We also have launched various ICT products to ease customers’ digital life and established the ecosystem of used phonerecycling.(Home appliance) SK magic (subsidiary of SK Networks) is a premium kitchen appliance company by introducing the gas oven to the Korean market in 1985, and it is expanding its business area to gas/electric ranges, electric ovens, dishwashers, water purifiers, air purifiers and bidets. (Rent-a-car) SK rent-a-car (subsidiary of SK Networks) is an automotive company that leads the total automotive after market and runs about 170 nationwide network points and consumes about 20.7% market share. (Trading) With 28 global out posts, our trading business is expanded all over the world. Through international experience amassed over more than 50 years, we have secured outstanding global sourcing ability, market intelligence and strategic networking on steel/chemical/automotive industries around the world that gives us a distinct competitive edge and stable profit structure.(Hotel) Walkerhill Hotels & Resorts is a pioneer of the Korean hotel industry that provides the best experience in the overall lifestyle including leisure, culture, and food, as well as comfortable rest in the nature.(Investments) SK Networks is looking for investment opportunities that can bring disruptive innovation to its existing businesses. Since 2018, SK Networks has been actively investing in Venture Capitals/Start-ups mostly in Silicon Valley and in Korea as well.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
- Source.ag — We're Source.ag and we're on a mission to empower growers through artificial intelligence-based software solutions.
- Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
- LiveIn — LiveIn is a hospitality company that offers long term room rental. Enjoy quality assured room, cleaning services, maintenance and community activities. Find out more!
Established in Singapore, Block Crafters Capital is a subsidiary of Block Crafters which provides professional asset management and crypto fund service.With in-depth expertise in algorithm trading, quant trading, arbitrage, active trading, we aim to offer investment services for investors who believe in the incredible potential and opportunitiesin the world of cryptocurrencies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
- South Korea, Gibraltar, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- TEEware — TEEware is a security technology to create a secure and dependable IT environment by protecting valuable digital assets from the threat of hacking that is emerging in new fields such as blockchain, Fintech, IoT, autonomous driving, and healthcare.
- Openull — Openull offers BNPL products and services.
- EMERGE Group — EMERGE Group Optimising Commericialisation Solutions for Content Creators and Brands
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Alexi — Alexsei provides high quality comprehensive answers to legal questions, at a fraction of the cost and an unprecedented turnaround time - enabled by cutting edge scientific research, artificial intelligence and NLP technologies. Alexsei’s advanced artificial intelligence platform delivers affordable and high-quality answers to legal questions inmemo format.
- seer. — AI for Authenticating Human Interactions and Integrity
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
- Compute Labs — computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology.
- Lombard — Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.
Daesung Private Equity is a Korean venture capital firm offering investment, corporation restructuring, and incubation services.
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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.
NexusOne is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Service Industry, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- STELSI — STELSI is a WEB3 metaverse project utilizing blockchain for architectural, building, and estate operations. Our first metaverse world, "hola!", is a blend of NFT-integrated digital construction, architectural, property and estate management, setting a new standard in the blockchain-powered property realm.
- ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
- XRADERS — Powering informed decision making for investors XRADERS
InfoBank develops and provides mobile messaging solutions and other related services.The company offers business messaging services such as SMS, LMS, and multimedia message services; interactive media services; smart car solutions; and integrated online and offline payment services.InfoBank was founded in 1995 and is based in Gyeongju, SouthKorea.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GlucoFit — GlucoFit offers meals that induce blood sugar rises and helps to regulate blood sugar more effectively and healthily.
- NationA INC. — We are NationA
- GeneCraft — gene craft for humanity
SJ Partners LLC is an award-winning private equity firm that acquires middle-market consumer and services companies. Call +1 212.362.1530
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
- Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
- CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
Shinhan Bank was founded in 1897
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- South Korea, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Mildang PT — Mildang PT is an ed-tech platform that provides lectures, management, evaluation, and content through online mode.
- onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
- Lotte Group — Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sellsconfectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Pyler — Filer is an artificial intelligence Martech startup.
- 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.
- 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.
Kiwoom Investment provides financial assistance with funding for small businesses.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- South Korea, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MIRI.DIH — MIRI.DIH is a technology-intensive e-business company.
- Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
- Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
- WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
HTX serves its 10 million+ users worldwide with secure and stable trading services. Here at HTX, you can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, SHIB, and over 500 quality cryptocurrencies anywhere, anytime.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DRepublic — DRepublic is a metaverse company who are the developers behind the upcoming 3A blockchain game Cradles.
- MYSO Finance — MYSO is leveraging a unique DeFi lending primitive known as Zero-Liquidation Loans, enabling scalable and cost-efficient credit markets with no liquidation risk
- Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
- Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
- Fortunafi — We deliver all-in-one liquidity solutions for stablecoin issuers, protocol treasuries, and traditional entities. We offer a variety of investment products, such as private and public debt funds with native minting and redemption.
- Smart Transactions — Smart Transactions is a protocol designed to execute transactions.
POSTECH Venture Capital Corporation(POSTECH VC) was founded and financed by POSCO to participate in SME(small and medium enterprise) Revitalization Policy in 1997 for the National Economy Restoration.We seek investment opportunities in diverse markets including Information Technologies, Advanced Materials, Bio Technologies, Renewable Energy,and Life Sciences.And we are to accelerate the commercialization of the valuable technologies from POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), RIST(Research institute of Industrial Science and Technology), and other institutes in Korea. More than 200 professors in POSTECH help POSTECH VC evaluate the technologiesPOSTECH VC is comprised of a team consisted of experienced venture capitalists who has previous experiences in successful startups, consulting firms, and executive management.We are currently investing from our several funds and manage over 60 billion Won.Our recent primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in renewable energy such as bio-diesel and photovoltaic technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- OKHOME — Pembersihan tanpa ribet, Hemat Waktu, Hidup Jadi Mudah
- Pluto — Pluto provides a SaaS solution that includes both discovery and academic search engines customized for the institution.
- NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.
The Road Not Taken
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- Blockchain, Information Technology, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, India
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- LOCUS — LOCUS is a comprehensive cultural content producer which operates a diversified content business in multiple fields.
- Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.
- Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.
A premier digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
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- ZKEX — ZKEX appears to be a decentralized exchange (DEX) operating on Layer 2 (L2) technology, which aims to enhance transaction speeds and reduce costs compared to traditional Layer 1 solutions like Ethereum
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
- Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
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.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
- 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.
blockchain investment based in Korea
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- South Korea, United States, Taiwan
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- Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
- Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
- Horizon Land — Horizon Land is the decentralized platform for builders to construct their own open and accessible metaverse, with fast and secure peer-to-peer transactions, 3D engine, AI assets creation tools, and 3D marketplace. Horizon Network aims to create a more equitable ecosystem by empowering individuals and businesses to have full control over their assets and transactions.
Korean alternative asset investment firm
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Japan
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- WELT — From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & HealthcareWELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness.We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight.To dothis, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring(1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits.To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages tomanage these risks are given through the app via BLE.Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt.Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.
- MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
- Trenbe — Trenbe is an e-commerce company of footwear products.
Dunamu & Partners is the professional investment arm of Dunamu, South Korea's leading fintech company which operates Upbit, Stockplus and Stockplus Unlisted.
Dunamu & Partners primarily invests in the fintech, blockchain and AI/data/contents sector. Its investments are agnostic to industry, geography and size.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Canada
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- DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
- Reliv — Automate QA tests in just 5 minutes
- Joyful Project — Joyful Project operates a B2B mental healthcare platform.
Mirae Asset Capital Market is a leading global investment banking, securities and institutional business firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, United States, India
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- MetisX — MetisX is a startup firm that develops intelligent memory and memory-centric computing architectures based on CXL.
- HeyDealer — HeyDealer is a price comparison platform for used cars.
- Navigantis — Navigantis empowers physicians to deliver uncompromised neurovascular care by creating a new frontier in surgical robotics.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
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- We.Rich — We.Rich operates as a User Generated Assets(UGA) platform.
- TRALA — TRALA is a Web 3 platform that provides a variety of games.
- GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
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- 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
- Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
- Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
Honest Ventures invests in biotechnology, healthcare, manufacturing, software, and information and communications technology. They support the growth of businesses and believe investing is a collaboration.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, Indonesia
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- Enliple — Enliple is an online advertising platform that provides AI business and B2C app services.
- EnergyX — Energy X is an AI-driven online energy platform company based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Energy X connects various energy market participants from individual households to EPC contractors and investors via its online and mobile Social Energy Platform. Backed by socially responsible venture capital investors, Energy X strives to become the globalstandard for clean energy development and energy securitization.
- Ziovision — Ziovision is a data analysis firm that uses artificial intelligence. advancement of social safety AI solution solutions, as well as licensing AI software and medical devices.
Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.
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- Events, Ticketing, Consumer Electronics
- Series A, Seed
- United States, South Korea
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- Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
- Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
- Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
AC Capital is a venture firm focusing on block-chain and fin-tech Industry, dedicated to discovering unicorns and expanding the development and adoption of block-chain technology through investments and marketing services.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, China, Canada
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- MetaBeat — The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.
- Metabase — Play Blockchain Games and Use Axie Infinity Guild Tools
- Mecha Morphing — Mecha Morphing is a browser-based, decentralized, play-to-earn ARPG game. They offer PVE, PVP loot mode, PVP arena, and bounties. They also provide weapons, mecha armour pieces, land, and characters.
Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Estonia, Vietnam
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- TomoChain — TomoChain is a highly scalable and secure blockchain network in mainnet since 2018, taking a community-driven approach to accelerate the mass adoption of web3 applications.
- 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.
Vistalabs supports early-stage projects building financial infrastructure, culture, and lifestyle, that are down to earth, and accessible to the public.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel, South Korea, United States
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- Luxon — Read transaction history to match your game play style.
- ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
- ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.
SkyVision Capital (SVC) promotes new, open decentralized technology and its development. We are a Crypto Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Zeko Labs — Zeko Labs is a zero-knowledge cross-chain scaling protocol built on Mina and designed for developers shaping the future of finance, AI, gaming, and the internet.
- Creator.Bid — Creator.Bid allows content creators to create AI-driven digital assets to monetize their content.
- Gull Network — GullNetwork, The trailblazing solution on Manta Network, transforming Defi with intuitive, codeless innovation and secure, equitable trading.
CJ Investment operates as an investment firm.
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- Software, Therapeutics, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States
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- Tablero — Tablero is a service platform company that supports easy offline ordering with an NFC-based simple order/payment order service.
- Quad Miners — Quad Miners is a developer of cybersecurity software that is used to combat security threats. Customers can protect their data from malware attacks by using the company's software, which uses a machine learning-based artificial intelligence analysis engine to store network traffic without data loss and detect threats and anomalies. It provideseasy and accurate cyber defense solutions to the world.
- Signature Label — Signature Label takes pride in providing Korean beauty to the rest of the world. Their brand selection approach is rigorous and selective, as they collaborate closely with fashionable local partners to develop products that match the specific needs of each area. They are able to streamline the distribution process for both brands and localpartners, saving significant time and energy and removing unneeded clutter as a result.
KOSME specializes in providing youth entrepreneurship services. It offers support for all the stages of the startup lifecycle. it has contents that major programs, entrepreneurship education, practical education for startups, multiple coaching systems focusing on practical business. additional, follow-up supports for graduate companies forovercoming the Death Vally and innovation growth.
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- Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea
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- Difon — Difon is a developer of smart window solution technology, which is designed to regulate sunlight transmittance.Difon Co., Ltd. emerged as a spin-off from Hyundai Motor Group in 2021, with a vision to evolve into a leading provider of smart film solutions. The company is dedicated to enhancing consumers' living spaces by conducting researchand development while manufacturing smart films.To accelerate the adoption of smart film technology, Difon has established a robust supply chain through strategic alliances and investments in system integration with various relevant companies, including glass manufacturers, automobile OEMs, and construction firms.With a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Difon aims to foster a better environment and future through its endeavors. The company strives to maximize its impact by continually innovating and creating products that benefit both consumers and society as a whole.
- Tredy Team — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- Bell Therapeutics — New generation Digital Therapeutics.
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