Posco Capital

POSCO Venture Capital Co., Ltd. operates as a venture debt and venture capital arm of POSCO. The firm specializes in incubation and high-tech start-up companies. The firm does not invest in lodging and restaurants, finance and insurance, real estate, dancing facilities, golf and ski facilities, gambling, beauty and bathing related service sectors. It typically invests in the agri-food, information technology, manufacturing, advanced material, biotechnology, renewable energy focusing on bio-diesel and photovoltaic technologies, mechatronics, and life science sectors. It also makes investments in companies based in South Korea operating in shipbuilding industry. The firm seeks to invest in biotechnology sector with a focus on therapeutics, diagnostics, platform technology, and other healthcare-related companies. It considers secondary investments and investments in companies founded within three years. The firm also offers consulting and project financing services to venture companies. POSCO Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1997 and is based in Pohang, South Korea with an additional office in Seoul.

Jae-seon Lee

Associate Principal

Kang-hee Lee

Associate

Nae-hyeong Lee

Executive Director

Chae-ah Lee

Investment Professional

Sin-hyo Lim

Associate - Investment Division 3

Do-San Park

MD

Jin-goon Sohn

VP

76 past transactions

B2Link

Private Placement in 2018
B2Link offers an online B2B beauty platform that offers subscription services for branded products. The platform also provides collaborative services that enable e-commerce companies to manage their business processes such as sourcing, product and inventory management, invoicing, delivery, communication, and more.

Neofect

Venture Round in 2012
NEOFECT was founded in June 2010 by Hoyoung Ban and Scott Kim, two students from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business, and Young Choi, MS, Ph.D. of the University of Southern California, who majored in ‘stroke rehabilitation algorithm and robotics.’ NEOFECT’s flagship product, the RAPAEL Smart Glove, was released in 2014 and has been sold to many home patients in the US and the hospitals across the globe, including NewYork-Presbyterian, Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Shirley Ryan Abilitylab (former RIC or Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Brooks Rehabilitation, and Swedish Medical Center. The RAPAEL Smart Glove received FDA clearance in 2014. Other than RAPAEL Smart Glove, Neofect has launched RAPAEL Smart Pegboard, RAPAEL Smart Glove, RAPAEL Smart Board, RAPAEL Smart Kids. In 2016, NEOFECT participated in a study conducted by the National Rehabilitation Center in Korea to evaluate the impact of virtual reality-based exercises on a rehabilitation program for stroke patients. The study found VR-based rehabilitation combined with standard occupational therapy is more effective than traditional therapy alone for greater upper extremity function. NEOFECT has offices in South Korea, the U.S., and Germany. Its devices are sold in South Korea, the U.S., and all over Europe.

StradVision

Private Placement in 2019
Stradvision, Inc. develops perception algorithms to enable cars to see and recognize objects inside and outside of the cars. It offers SVNet External that enables external vehicle perception through various platforms to detect and recognize objects; SVNet Internal, a system that detects driver and passenger's status, such as drowsiness, height, and weight to adjust airbag pressure, seat position, angle, and more; and Auto Labeling Tool, which annotates objects, traffic signs, free space, parking space, and lanes automatically. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seoul, South Korea with additional offices in California, Japan, India, China, and Germany.

Aloha Factory

Seed Round in 2021
Aloha Factory develops hyper-casual games, that are easy and intuitive, so anyone can play them.

Brich

Venture Round in 2018
An O2O service delivering the latest Korean fashion trends online, has secured an investment from Hana Financial Investment. The company was launched a year ago.

ZeroWeb

Series A in 2015
ZeroWeb is a local network mobile platform developed for small to medium business people.

Amyloid Solution

Series C in 2022
Amyloid Solution is a developer of therapy intended to overcome Alzheimer by developing modifying treatments. The company focuses on pathophysiological events related to disease progression and its underlying mechanism to find novel therapeutics, enabling clients with the best solution for Alzheimer disease.

Cizion

Seed Round in 2015
Cizion (시지온) is the Korean maker of LiveRe, a social commenting solution for blogs and other websites which allows visitors to choose from their own mix of social media accounts. Cizion commenters sign in once and LiveRe then groups the accounts together, allowing users to log in using any one of their IDs in the future. Each time a visitor leaves a reply, it can be shared across all of their accounts or only on those they wish. LiveRe makes comments social, benefitting site owners by increasing comment quality while controlling spam and trolls via its advanced comment management system. Lauched in 2009, Cizion has secured more than 8 million users, with a monthly average of 20 million page views.

Twoeyes Tech

Seed Round in 2018
TwoEyes Tech is a developer of hardware and software for everyone to easily produce realistic content and enjoy interactive production using our patented proprietary technology. TwoEyes Tech aspires to create human technology that enriches our lives through continuous innovation.

VT Cosmetic Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
VT Cosmetic Inc. offers cosmetics. The company offers skin care, cleansing, sun care, oral care, mask pack, beauty accessories, moisturizing, body, and hair products. VT Cosmetic Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. As of October 11, 2019, VT Cosmetic Inc. was acquired by VT GMP Co.,Ltd.

Cytovant

Private Placement in 2020
Cytovant is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel and innovative cellular therapeutics in Asia. The company specializes in developing modified T-cell receptor therapeutics and dendritic cell vaccines that target tumor antigens to improve tumor cells therapy and treatment.

Proteometech

Private Placement in 2019
ProteomeTech Inc. designs, develops, and sells diagnostic kits based on protein technology in healthcare sector. The company offers PROTIA Allergy-Q, an assay kit for quantitative determination of specific IgE antibodies against individual allergens in human serum using immunoblotting technique; ImmuneCheck IgG, a whole blood test kit for total IgG concentration measurement; and TriCheck-C, an in vitro diagnostic kit for the qualitative test of human chorionic gonadotropin in human urine samples for the pregnancy diagnosis. It also provides 2-D electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, post translational, and protein services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

ThorDrive

Funding Round in 2020
ThorDrive is a company that developes software solutions related to automated and unmanned technology. ThorDrive provides an automated and unmanned platform and associated products as well as intellectual properties that can be applied to other areas.

SqueezeBits

Seed Round in 2024
SqueezeBits builds ecosystem for designing, training, and deploying compressed neural networks.

Testworks

Series B in 2023
Testworks is a social enterprise company in Seoul, Korea. We create innovative solutions in AI data and software testing fields while providing an inclusive employment model for socially disadvantaged people. Our technical excellence ranges from AI data processing automation to manual software testing and review. We are recognized as the best-in-class data processing company for building high quality datasets used for AI training and verification.

Santa

Series A in 2020
Santa is pushing content creation to new limits. Didicast, an easy to use video editing software developed by Santa, is made for content creators that are determined to produce polished videos for anything from education to entertainment. By leveling the learning curve and throwing out the expenses required in traditional content creation, Santa is helping creators from around the world change the world.

Openknowl

Venture Round in 2022
OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.

ThorDrive

Series A in 2022
ThorDrive is a company that developes software solutions related to automated and unmanned technology. ThorDrive provides an automated and unmanned platform and associated products as well as intellectual properties that can be applied to other areas.

Polus

Private Placement in 2018
Polus is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in solutions for medical equality. It provides therapeutic protein-based biosimilar products using large scales cell-culture technology to carry out global commercialization. The company's mission to transform the paradigm of the biopharmaceutical industry standards by making high-quality biological drugs at an affordable price for all patients in the world. Polus was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Incheon, Inch'on-jikhalsi, South Korea.

ProtoPie

Private Placement in 2018
Studio XID, Inc. develops ProtoPie, a prototyping tool for smart devices. Its ProtoPie allows users to compose elaborate interactions and animations, and build sensor-aided prototypes without any coding. The company’s ProtoPie solution comprises ProtoPie Studio, a software package that is installed on computers running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X to allow users to explore design solutions, communicate designs, and research user feedback; and ProtoPie Player, an app that allows users to test prototypes created with ProtoPie Studio on smartphones. Its solution also supports the import of Sketch files. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Love & Good Deed

Series A in 2021
Operator of a catering business intended for elderly people. The company provides nursing home catering distribution, food service, senior food research, and senior meal delivery service, helping elderly people to have integrated services for covering food, health, care, environment, and mental health.

Ssial Food

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
Ssial Food Inc produces and sells various cereal products in South Korea and internationally. It provides cereal products, such as cereals for meals, cereals for weight control, and functional cereals; cereal bars; and health foods, as well as various food ingredients. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Jecheon, South Korea.

Lillycover Co., Ltd.

Series A in 2021
Lillycover makes personlaized beauty solution for smart skin care by oneself. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea.

UCI Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
UCI Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company.

Sunshine

Seed Round in 2015
Sunshine App enables to instantly and easily share, access and stream content across any device - without cloud storage. No uploading, no downloading; simply streaming content device-to-device on the fly.

Seoul Trading Unlisted

Series A in 2022
Seoul Trading Unlisted is a stock trading platform that provides financial investment, transactions, and consulting services.

Bioneer Corporation (KOSDAQ:A064550)

Private Placement in 2019
Bioneer Corporation engages in the biotechnology research products, molecular diagnosis, drugs, and probiotics businesses in South Korea. The company offers PCR and RT-PCR, real-time PCR, RNAi, chemicals, plastic consumables, and buffer solutions; and sample preparation, protein synthesis and purification, gene cloning, fluorescence dye and quencher, electrophoresis, genome-wide functional analysis, and magnetic separation services, as well as instruments for conventional PCR, real-time PCR, sample preparation, protein synthesis, centrifuge and vortex mixer, electrophoresis, spectrophotometer, and microbial culture. It also provides molecular diagnosis, including MDx technologies, human diagnostics kits, MDx extraction kits, and instruments; and products for animal diseases and nano-bio products. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea.

Deepbrain AI

Private Placement in 2019
MoneyBrain Inc., an interactive AI company, researches and develops AI powered technology solutions. It offers AI service, a voice, video, and conversational processing technology solution; Deep learning, a multi-layer neural network learning technology for the field of machine learning research, including voice and video; and Chatbot, a non-face-to-face counseling service that communicates like a human being with human learning ability and language comprehension. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Hodoo English

Series A in 2020
Hodoo English is a quest-based MMORPG with built-in speech recognition and over 300 non-player characters with whom the player must have meaningful conversations in English. The game was designed by videogame giant NCSOFT to address "mute English", a pedagogical problem in which a school system produces students who can read and write in English but cannot speak it. In Hodoo English, learners are immersed in a rich 3D world where they complete quests and interact with different characters by speaking English. Your child is the main character of the story, using his or her growing English vocabulary in a variety of situations.

Common Computer

Series B in 2021
Common Computer designs and develops blockchain based open resource platform for individual developers to develop artificial intelligence services. The company develops two platforms under the name AI Network which offers artificial intelligence architecture to solve artificial intelligence programs such as AlphaGo on peer to peer cloud environment; and aFan which is a decentralized application. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Shaperon

Series C in 2020
Shaperon Inc. engages in research and development of immunological cells. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Perseus

Venture Round in 2021
Perseus Inc. designs and develops security software for the automotive industry. It offers hypervisor-based security for enabling multiple applications to run off a single SoC and reducing in-car hardware, and software; a secure container that replicates the functionality of the ARM TrustZone and delivering dynamic protection for multiple applications running off a single SoC; and Linux fast boot reduces boot-up speed for embedded devices. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. It has additional offices in San Jose, California; and Munich, Germany.

Aloha Factory

Series A in 2022
Aloha Factory develops hyper-casual games, that are easy and intuitive, so anyone can play them.