JOINANDJOIN
Seed Round in 2024
JOINANDJOIN is a food and beverage company that specializes in the production of desserts and ingredients aimed at enhancing food concepts for consumers. The company focuses on creating sustainable desserts made from natural raw materials, providing alternatives that align with healthier eating choices. By prioritizing quality and sustainability, JOINANDJOIN enables consumers to access innovative food options that contribute to a better dietary lifestyle.
Grace
Venture Round in 2024
Grace operates as a health and beauty brand aggregator, focusing on capitalizing on the growing demand for health and beauty products. The company provides a range of services that include brand development, import and export activities, domestic and international e-commerce, and distribution and marketing. Additionally, Grace engages in cross-border trading and manages a diverse portfolio of brands. By offering these comprehensive services, the company enables health and beauty brands to expand their business operations and enhance profitability in a competitive market.
Mediquitous
Series D in 2024
Mediquitous is a natural health and beauty company that specializes in manufacturing a variety of skincare and food products. Their offerings include beauty patches, jelly food, and various healing items designed to help people improve their quality of life by maintaining their beauty effortlessly.
First Canvas
Venture Round in 2023
First Canvas is a media company focused on addressing diverse marketing challenges for businesses. It offers a range of services including content creation, distribution via platforms like Facebook pages, performance-based advertisements, and influencer marketing. These services are designed to help businesses launch efficient advertising campaigns quickly and achieve impactful results.
Smart Food Networks
Series B in 2023
Smart Food Networks is a company specializing in food commerce and logistics services. It offers advanced cold storage solutions and integrates logistics with technology to enable food brands to succeed in e-commerce.
Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
Sweet Spot
Series B in 2023
Sweet Spot is a platform designed for businesses and retailers seeking marketing and sales space. It operates a store brokerage service that allows users to search for and register properties and spaces through a single application. This user-friendly platform enables clients to access a variety of available spaces tailored to their business needs, streamlining the process of finding suitable locations for marketing and sales activities.
QANDA(Mathpresso)
Series C in 2022
Mathpresso, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Seoul, South Korea, established in 2015. It operates Qanda, a data-driven platform that leverages artificial intelligence and optical character recognition (OCR) technology to assist students with their studies. Users can take a photo of a question or problem, which the platform then analyzes to provide solutions and explanations. Qanda covers a wide range of subjects, including mathematics, Korean history, social studies, and science. The platform is designed to facilitate learning by allowing students to engage with tutors and access answers in real time. As of this year, Qanda has attracted over one million users in South Korea, making it a significant resource for students seeking help with homework and exam preparation.
Break & Company
Seed Round in 2022
Break & Company specializes in trading card grading services. It operates a platform offering professional grading, customized protective slabs, and transparent evaluation processes to enhance card value, authenticity assurance, and preservation for various types of collectible cards.
Rael is a Los Angeles-based company offering menstrual care and feminine wellness products. Founded in 2017 by three female co-founders, Rael provides comfortable, high-quality products made from natural and organic ingredients. Their product range includes pads, tampons, pantyliners, period underwear, and feminine wash/wipes, available in 13 countries. Rael has expanded into clean beauty products, with a focus on empowering women worldwide with safe and healthy alternatives to conventional products.
Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.
Genome Insight
Series B in 2022
Genome Insight is a developer of a genome sequence (WGS) analysis and interpretation platform. Its platform offers insights through the precise interpretation of full-length genome big data to help clients employ the information effectively in their operations.
Neubility
Series A in 2022
Neubility is a company that specializes in self-driving delivery robots, aimed at transforming urban logistics and last-mile delivery services. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Seoul, one of Asia's most densely populated cities, Neubility leverages vision-based localization and path-planning technologies to facilitate autonomous deliveries. The company focuses on providing a reliable and cost-effective delivery solution for businesses and consumers, enabling them to streamline their logistics without human intervention. With thousands of deliveries executed every second, Neubility is redefining the delivery landscape in urban settings.
Day1 Company
Series D in 2022
Day 1 Company (formerly Fast Campus) is Korea’s fastest-growing Life-Changing Education startup.
Cipherome
Series B in 2022
Cipherome is a biotechnology company dedicated to personalized medicine. It aims to tailor drug treatments to individual patients by leveraging its proprietary platform that combines genetics and other factors. The company's mission is to reduce serious adverse drug reactions by identifying the most suitable medication for each person, regardless of age, race, or gender.
Bungaejangter
Series D in 2022
Bungaejangter is a prominent South Korean platform facilitating C2C secondhand marketplace transactions. With over KRW 2.5 trillion in GMV and 21 million transactions by 2022, it offers Bungae Pay for secure payments and Bungae Care for authentication of luxury goods and sneakers, aiming to enhance the trading experience.
Kokoji is an audio technology platform focused on enhancing children's learning experiences through auditory content. The company redesigns how children consume content, emphasizing audio to support language, brain, and emotional development. Kokoji's services aim to inspire children and engage them in a new content ecosystem, providing resources that foster cognitive and emotional growth through effective auditory stimulation.
Super Kitchen
Series B in 2021
Super Kitchen is a food store chain that specializes in offering a variety of culinary products, including beef soups, tomato meatballs, and altari pickles. The company focuses on providing fresh and healthy ingredients along with refrigerated foods designed for side dishes, as well as curated recipes. By emphasizing quality and variety, Super Kitchen aims to enhance the dining experience for its customers, allowing them to enjoy new and diverse delicacies on a daily basis.
Speclipse
Venture Round in 2021
Speclipse, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on developing innovative diagnostic devices for skin cancer detection. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seongnam-si, South Korea, with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, the company specializes in real-time, non-invasive cancer diagnosis through patented laser-induced plasma spectroscopy technology and machine learning algorithms. Speclipse's product offerings include the Spectra-Scope, which can be attached to existing aesthetic lasers for skin cancer diagnosis, as well as a stand-alone system that operates independently of other equipment. Their technology is utilized in both pathology labs for analyzing biopsy samples and during oncological surgeries for immediate diagnostic results, enabling healthcare professionals to detect early-stage skin cancer efficiently while minimizing the need for invasive procedures.
Cookat is a digital content creator specializing in food and culinary trends, focused on delivering engaging videos and unique recipes. The company operates a food blogging platform optimized for mobile users, allowing it to effectively share visually appealing food content across social media channels. By providing a space for food enthusiasts to explore innovative recipes and gourmet ideas, Cookat enhances consumer engagement and promotes the latest culinary trends. In addition to content creation, the platform facilitates the sale of wholesale items, including restaurant advertisements and home meal replacements, connecting consumers within the food market.
Spendit is a B2B fintech company in Seoul, Korea.
Peaches One Universe
Series A in 2021
Peaches One Universe is a street fashion brand that merges automotive tuning culture with contemporary fashion, appealing to the interests of young adults. The brand designs and produces products inspired by various aspects of car lifestyles, including skateboards and bicycles, effectively capturing shifts in cultural trends. In addition to its product line, Peaches also creates premium video content that engages global clients such as BMW, NIKE, and Esquire for collaborative projects. Through its unique approach, Peaches connects fashion with automotive culture, catering to a younger audience interested in the intersection of these lifestyles.
Grab
Venture Round in 2021
Grab is a Southeast Asia-based mobile platform that integrates ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and financial services, connecting drivers, merchants, and customers through a single app. It operates in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar, and holds a leading market share in ride-hailing and food delivery, with 89% of revenue derived from these core businesses. The company also offers payments, consumer loans, and enterprise financial services. It charges commissions to both riders and merchants as it links them with consumers. Founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, Grab is headquartered in Singapore and maintains offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam. In 2024, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia together contributed more than 70% of revenue.
ABLY is a fashion platform and open e-commerce marketplace that enables sellers and influencers of various sizes to open online stores and offer products across fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and food. It operates a mobile app powered by a proprietary AI recommendation algorithm that personalizes product selections for each user, delivering curated shopping experiences.
Positive Hotel
Series A in 2020
Positive Hotel operates an urban lifestyle brand focused on sustainable wellness. It offers a range of products including wellness supplements like olive oil capsules, gummies, and collagen blends, along with organic food ingredients such as vegan crackers and granola bars.
PAWCHI is a pet insurance company.