SBVA

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.

Jay Choi

VP / Korea

Richard Jang

Senior Associate

Cindy Jin

Partner / South East Asia, Korea

Heejae Jung

Senior Associate / Korea

Dong-seok Kang

Senior Partner and VP

Daniel Kang

Senior Partner / Korea

JP Lee

CEO, Managing Partner

Eun-woo Lee

Senior Partner and VP

Sean Lee

Senior Partner / South East Asia, Korea

Sherman Li

Partner / USA, EU, Israel

308 past transactions

CoHive

Private Placement in 2018
PT Evi Asia Tenggara owns and operates a co-working chain that provides individuals and companies with access to workspaces. It also organizes a series of weekly knowledge-sharing sessions, such as BizTalks and TechTalks; and provides programs, such as coding classes and UI/UX classes in partnership with relevant institutions to cater to the demand for practical skills. The company also owns and operates co-living spaces. It has co-working spaces in various cities in Indonesia, such as South Jakarta, Central Jakarta, Tangerang, West Jakarta, Bali, North Jakarta, Medan, and Yogyakarta. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.

Enuma

Venture Round in 2015
Enuma creates game-based self-directed learning applications for children to help them acquire foundational math and language skills. The company's mission is to empower all the world’s children, including those with special needs or without access to resources to become independent learners.

Socar

Private Placement in 2019
Socar is a Korean eco-friendly car sharing community that allows travelers to share cars with others who are traveling the same route. Socar has raised an $18 million round of funding in 2015 which was one of the highest funding deals for a South Korean startup to date. Most notably, it was led by a US investor: Bain Capital, a private investment firm with $80 billion in assets under management. Socar was founded in March 2012, and it has a website and smartphone apps that let users book cars for their own use. Service has over 1,700,000 registered users, 50,000 of whom use the service each month. Around 80,000 transactions per month — that’s more than one car booking each 30 seconds.

OPay

Series C in 2021
OPay designs a mobile payment service and consumer platform for users to send and receive money, pay bills, and order food and groceries. It empowers and enables users to accomplish more with their money by providing smart financial services. It is a one-stop mobile-based platform for payment, transportation, food and grocery delivery, and other important services in everyday life. Millions of users rely on OPay every day to send and receive money, pay bills, and order food and groceries.

Neolix

Series B in 2021
Neolix is a technologically innovative company that specializes in the production of physical and sports scenes. Neolithic Century Technology is an innovative design team. Committed to design research, industrial design, structural engineering, product customization, providing customers with creative value enhancement services. Service customers include Lenovo, Siemens, Midea, GE, State Grid, CSIC, Honeywell, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank, etc.

Mythic

Private Placement in 2019
Mythic Inc. designs and develops silicon chips and intelligence processing unit (IPU) based on artificial intelligence (AI). Its AI platform puts desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks onto a button-sized chip. The company was formerly known as Isocline Engineering Corporation. Mythic Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Austin, Texas.

CoHive

Series A in 2018
PT Evi Asia Tenggara owns and operates a co-working chain that provides individuals and companies with access to workspaces. It also organizes a series of weekly knowledge-sharing sessions, such as BizTalks and TechTalks; and provides programs, such as coding classes and UI/UX classes in partnership with relevant institutions to cater to the demand for practical skills. The company also owns and operates co-living spaces. It has co-working spaces in various cities in Indonesia, such as South Jakarta, Central Jakarta, Tangerang, West Jakarta, Bali, North Jakarta, Medan, and Yogyakarta. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.

HelloNature

Venture Round in 2014
HelloNature (헬로네이처) is a Korean agriculture-based distribution service that allows consumers to order fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and meat directly from farmers.

Rsquare

Series B in 2019
Rsquare is real-estate startup founded by a group of Harvard graduates. Rsquare.co.kr offers full service directory listing services that enables users to search for vacant office spaces in the localities of Korea.

Doctornow

Series B in 2022
Dr. Now is a non-face-to-face medical service or remote medicine that is booming in South Korea since the Ministry of Health and Welfare temporarily authorized telemedicine in Korea.

HowBuild

Series B in 2021
HowBuild provides an open competitive bidding system for design and construction businesses. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Heart it

Seed Round in 2017
Heart It Co., Ltd. operates an online platform which provides information about wardrobes of K-street style stars. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. As per the transaction announced on June 12, 2018, Heart It Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of SNOW Corp.

Doctornow

Series A in 2021
Dr. Now is a non-face-to-face medical service or remote medicine that is booming in South Korea since the Ministry of Health and Welfare temporarily authorized telemedicine in Korea.

Day1 Company

Series A in 2018
Day 1 Company (formerly Fast Campus) is Korea’s fastest-growing Life-Changing Education startup.

Bluepoint Partners

Venture Round in 2020
Bluepoint Partners is a partnership-driven startup accelerator and early stage VC fund that concentrates on bridging talented high tech entrepreneurs to launching progressive startups with real global solutions. Our partners and accelerating experts work hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs enabling them to build, make key connections, launch, grow, and raise capital to continue their company’s vision and journey. Our family of offices in Deajeon (Tech Valley) and Seoul (Gangnam) keeps us very close and committed to the multi faceted high tech communities. We host workshops and private events designed to bring our entrepreneurs closer to our family of networks that includes strategic relationships to VCs, partnerships, talent, advisors, press, and key introductions for M&A. We form deep relationships with our entrepreneurs so we can venerate their unique qualities and play to their strengths. Together we make a Bluepoint Family.

Amondz

Series A in 2021
Amondz is a jewellery ecommerce platform that provides buyers and sellers with quick access to a production list, price quotations for consumers, and customer support.

INTAKE foods

Venture Round in 2018
INTAKE foods (인테이크푸즈) is a company focused on food content development and food branding, specialized in the innovation of leading food brands. It is focused on brand development, content development and publishing, such as food activities, intake of foods, and a food culture of innovation.

bepro11

Venture Round in 2020
bepro11 is a sports video and data analytics startup. They equip your home-ground with three high definition (4K) scouting view cameras and a microphone in your home stadium or training ground. Their 3D image stitching technology captures every single moment of the action on the pitch.

Press.A

Series A in 2021
Press.A is a game and software development company.

Rael

Private Placement in 2018
Rael Inc. researches, develops, and sells natural and organic feminine care products. It offers pads, liners, and tampons made from organic cotton. The company sells its product online. Rael Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Buena Park, California.

Sendo

Private Placement in 2019
Sendo.vn is a Vietnamese e-commerce site that offers clothing, homeware, cosmetics, tech accessories, and more. Sendo helps online shoppers find daily deals, promotions, and handbooks with product listings in the categories of women’s fashion, men’s fashion, mother and baby, homeware, food, cosmetics, tech accessories, and sports and entertainment. Sendo’s product delivery network spreads across 64 cities where users can choose to make payments through credit cards, ATM cards or by a bank transfer. Sendo.vn was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

True Balance

Series D in 2020
True Balance is a digital wallet owned and operated by Balancehero India Private Limited (BHI), that enables users to access utility bill payment, loan recharge, insurance, and other financial products. With 70 million users, True Balance aims to serve India with utility payments financial platform for the unbanked users to serve their money for living requirements. It was launched in 2014 by Mr. Charlie Lee as CEO, an alumnus of the University of Chicago.

Appier

Venture Round in 2021
Appier Inc., a technology company that provides artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to help enterprises. Its products include Aideal, which helps businesses to trigger purchase decisions and shortens sales cycles; AIQUA, a proactive customer engagement platform that enables users to engage audience based on their behavior inside and outside application or web environment; AIXON, a data science platform that unifies and enriches existing customer data to help understand audience and run AI models easily to predict future actions; and CrossX advertising, an AI powered advertising solutions that brings optimal campaign performance at scale. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan. It has additional offices in Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, Seoul, and Bangkok.

OHouse

Series D in 2022
O-House is a home furnishing and interior platform. The company believes that beautiful homes can change peoples' lives for the better. Its mission is to help users decorate homes with fun, ease, and confidence. O-House revolutionizes the home furnishing and remodeling market in Korea with its user-generated style gallery, which helps users discover their preferred styles before purchasing products. On top of the marketplace for home furnishing products, it provides home remodeling services. O-House won the Best App Award by Google Play in 2018, and its app is downloaded by more than 10 million users.

Feng1

Series A in 2022
Feng eFood is an unmanned retail operator under Fengyi Technology. Fengyi Technology is a smart vending machine company. Fengyi Technology focuses on the office field and uses AI smart cabinets as a carrier to provide urban white-collar workers with a wealth of breakfast, afternoon tea, snacks, beverages, and other commodity sales services.

PT Tibeka Logistik Indonesia

Private Placement in 2020
PT Tibeka Logistik Indonesia designs and develops a platform which connects unused warehouse space with users in need of facility. The platform allows users to manage distribution of goods, capacity of warehouse, billings, and inventory online. It provide solution for transportation by land or sea, cold storage, and general cargo handling. PT Tibeka Logistik Indonesia was founded in 2017 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Pliops

Series B in 2019
Pliops was founded in 2017 by flash storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems and XtremIO. Pliops is creating a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers to access data up to 50X faster with 1/10th of the computational load and power consumption. Its technology collapses multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on a groundbreaking patent-pending approach. Pliops' solution solves the scalability challenges raised by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data requirements of AI and ML applications.

SODA Japan

Funding Round in 2020
SODA is a CMS software development media management business.

CHAI

Series B in 2021
The Chai Corporation develops CHAI, a mobile payments application that allows consumers to pay for items online and get discounts by adding their bank account. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Karrot Market

Series B in 2018
Carrots Market is a second-hand direct app for residents near you.

Yummy Corp

Series B in 2020
Yummy Corp is a cloud kitchen management and online catering company that operates a network of delivery-only kitchens. It offers delicious, fresh, and creative food solutions for everyday corporate and group needs and provides food facility management and their signature MICE catering, delivering customers experience while helping them manage costs. Yummy Corp’s cloud kitchen service Yummykitchen, launched in 2019, is a full-service Indonesian cloud kitchen operator, renting out shared kitchen spaces and undertaking operations for the company’s partner brands. The company rents space to existing food and beverage brands, providing them kitchen infrastructure as well as the necessary staff to assist in fulfilling delivery and takeout orders. Yummy Corp is an affiliate of Ismaya Group, a Lifestyle Food & Beverage company. The Tangerang, Jawa Barat-based company was founded in 2017 by brothers Marbio, Mario, and Marius Suntanu, and Juan Chene.

Shanghai Yuxiang Technology Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Shanghai Yuxiang Technology Co., Ltd. operates as a power bank rental company. It allows the users to rent power banks by scanning QR code. It provides portable power banks at businesses and stores in cities. The big power bank rental machine can be placed at city centers, airports, and railway stations, whereas the small power bank rental machine can be placed at canteens and cafeterias. Shanghai Yuxiang Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in China.

Super

Series C in 2022
Super is the first Indonesian consumer technology company backed by Y Combinator, which oversees the main feature, Superagen. Superagen is agent-led commerce group buying that enables community leaders to become retailers within their communities. We use technology to: 1) Empower community leaders to become self-made entrepreneurs by enabling them to sell various products to their communities 2) Build a logistics network with the lowest cost 3) Facilitate communication for social-buying behavior so our agents can sell various products through social networks like WhatsApp

Zepl

Series A in 2018
NFLabs is a Korea-based company that develops and distributes Peloton, a hadoop based real-time analytics platform that makes ingesting, managing, and analyzing large data sets simple and fast. Peloton enables data analysts and scientists to discover and analyze large data sets without having to learn Map Reduce or other complex big data technology. In addition, we built industry-specific analytics modules that allows companies to simply plug-in their data sources and instantly view their standard reports.

Tanma SCRM

Series B in 2021
Tanma SCRM is a full-process private domain traffic solution provider that helps customers improve their private domain traffic operations.

Ajaib

Series B in 2021
Ajaib operates an online wealth management platform to automatic saving and investing in Indonesia. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Upstage AI

Series A in 2021
Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.

Zepl

Private Placement in 2018
NFLabs is a Korea-based company that develops and distributes Peloton, a hadoop based real-time analytics platform that makes ingesting, managing, and analyzing large data sets simple and fast. Peloton enables data analysts and scientists to discover and analyze large data sets without having to learn Map Reduce or other complex big data technology. In addition, we built industry-specific analytics modules that allows companies to simply plug-in their data sources and instantly view their standard reports.

Mythic

Private Placement in 2018
Mythic Inc. designs and develops silicon chips and intelligence processing unit (IPU) based on artificial intelligence (AI). Its AI platform puts desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks onto a button-sized chip. The company was formerly known as Isocline Engineering Corporation. Mythic Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Austin, Texas.

Balance Hero Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2020
Balance Hero Co., Ltd. develops mobile applications for providing remaining balance to prepaid mobile customers. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in South Korea.

RedMart

Series B in 2014
RedMart Limited operates an online grocery portal in Singapore. The company allows customers to buy fresh produce, meat and seafood, dairy and chilled, bakery, frozen, beverages, food cupboard, alcohol, health and beauty, household and pet, baby and child, and home and outdoor products online. It also provides home delivery services. RedMart Limited was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Singapore. As per the transaction announced on November 2, 2016, RedMart Limited operates as a subsidiary of Lazada South East Asia Pte. Ltd.

ObEN

Series A in 2017
ObEN, Inc. is an artificial intelligence technology company that develops speech technology, which lets any Internet of Things, such as robots to speak in voices and languages. The company’s voice synthesis technology captures voiceprint and builds a voice model that can predict voice and apply it to any content in any language. It has strategic partnership with SM Entertainment, K11, Tsinghua University, and Lippo Group. The company was formerly known as Nookster, Inc. ObEN, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Pasadena, California.

Nota AI

Private Placement in 2020
NOTA’s deep learning model compression technology allows models to be stored individually on small edge devices without affecting the performance. Compared to large AI models, our on-device AI technology incurs only 20% of the previous cost and speeds up inference and predictions by 70%. Our compression removes latency, server/network cost, and privacy problems, while still achieving state-of-the-art performance at object detection, identification, and tracking. Clients can benefit from our stand-alone AI products at a lower cost, faster inference, and no privacy concerns.

OPENSURVEY Incorporated

Series B in 2014
• Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-time access to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook. • The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.

Moka

Private Placement in 2018
Moka, a Jakarta-based startup that focusses on building mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) for small and medium businesses. Moka charges its users a monthly subscription fee, depending on the number of stores they have. Transaction data is stored in the cloud which means business owners can access real-time sales data anytime, anywhere. The company was founded in 2014.

Enswers

Series A in 2008
Enswers (엔써즈) is a Korean provider of ACR technology and systems for consumer electronics manufacturers around the world. Enswers’ ACR technology analyzes sound, image, and video content and can be applied to a number of areas, including second screen services, interactive TV systems, broadcast monitoring, subtitle casting, audience measurement, copyright filtering, and embedded solutions for smart TV, machine vision, and more. The company started out as a specialist company in automatic speech recognition, and has broadened its expertise to the field of video and image recognition. Enswers also offers its technology to manufacture Samsung smart TVs and Galaxy smart devices, and also provides second screen apps to major broadcasting stations and advertising firms around the world.

Youibot

Series B in 2021
Youibot has researched and developed autonomous mobile robot platform independently, based on the latest generation of laser radar and visual real-time SLAM map creation and navigation technology. Equipped with indoor and outdoor robot navigation system with core technology advantages, Youibot provides domestic first-class intelligent mobile robot system and highly competitive industry solutions.

June Homes

Series B in 2021
June is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

Ajaib

Series A in 2021
Ajaib operates an online wealth management platform to automatic saving and investing in Indonesia. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

eCommerce enablers Pte Ltd

Private Placement in 2019
eCommerce enablers Pte Ltd. operates an online shopping platform that enables to browse various merchants, and shop and make purchase on the merchant’s site. The company provides deals and discounts on fashion, electronics, travel, lifestyle, food and drink, home and living, and general products. It specializes in helping customers save when they shop on ecommerce Websites in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Singapore. It has an additional office in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Qualson

Series A in 2014
Qualson Inc. develops mobile language learning services. Founded in June 2012, the company has succeeded in receiving funding from Samsung SDS, POSCO Capital, Softbank, Capstone, and DSC. As of May 2014, Qualson was operating four B2B services including: Should, AppTeacher, Daily Smartphone Writing, and POSCO TOEIC Speaking. Qualson also runs a B2C service named Talk2Me. Each mobile application provides different forms of services, but they share a common goal, which is to help people study English anytime and anywhere. With its B2B and B2C products, Qualson Inc. strives to expand its scopes to the global market as one of the leading companies in the mobile learning industry.

Laundrygo

Series A in 2019
Laundrygo is a on-demand laundry service.

Funding Societies

Series B in 2018
Funding Societies is an online platform that connects investors with small businesses that need funds, solving the financial inclusion issue by making credit-worthy SMEs bankable. They operate in South East Asia and have won a lot of accolades, including the Global Excellence Award from ITU Telecom, a specialized agency of the United Nations for ICT. They are the first P2P platform that got operating licenses from the regulators in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In 5 years, it has helped finance over 3.3 million business loans with over S$1.8 billion in funding.

Sendo

Series C in 2019
Sendo.vn is a Vietnamese e-commerce site that offers clothing, homeware, cosmetics, tech accessories, and more. Sendo helps online shoppers find daily deals, promotions, and handbooks with product listings in the categories of women’s fashion, men’s fashion, mother and baby, homeware, food, cosmetics, tech accessories, and sports and entertainment. Sendo’s product delivery network spreads across 64 cities where users can choose to make payments through credit cards, ATM cards or by a bank transfer. Sendo.vn was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Rsquare

Series A in 2014
Rsquare is real-estate startup founded by a group of Harvard graduates. Rsquare.co.kr offers full service directory listing services that enables users to search for vacant office spaces in the localities of Korea.

Security Platform Inc.

Series A in 2017
Security Platform Inc. provides hardware based device security solutions of Internet of things (IoT) for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), makers, and developers. The company provides device security platform that measures unique identity and confidentiality into devices and gateway security platform that connects IoT devices to the networks need to be secured as well as the small devices connected. Its services include device authentication, anti-cloning, protecting firmware, secure boot, message security, secure code, and secure updates by signed codes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seongnam-si, South Korea.

Moka

Series B in 2018
Moka, a Jakarta-based startup that focusses on building mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) for small and medium businesses. Moka charges its users a monthly subscription fee, depending on the number of stores they have. Transaction data is stored in the cloud which means business owners can access real-time sales data anytime, anywhere. The company was founded in 2014.

Rael

Series A in 2018
Rael Inc. researches, develops, and sells natural and organic feminine care products. It offers pads, liners, and tampons made from organic cotton. The company sells its product online. Rael Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Buena Park, California.

TVU Networks

Venture Round in 2013
TVU Networks is a global organization with more than 3,000 customers using its IP and cloud-based workflow solutions across multiple industries including news, entertainment media, sports, corporate, streaming, houses of worship and government. Through the use of AI and automation driven technology, TVU helps broadcasters realize an efficient metadata and story-centric workflow through its TVU MediaMind platform for live video content acquisition, indexing, production, distribution and management. The company has been on the forefront of developing the tools needed to revolutionize and streamline the Media Supply Chain. TVU is a critical part of the operations of many major media companies worldwide and is a Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award winner.

Laundrygo

Series B in 2020
Laundrygo is a on-demand laundry service.

Propzy

Series A in 2020
Propzy Viet Nam offers real estate brokerage and related services through its portal. The company offers real estate agency and real estate search services. Propzy Viet Nam was founded in 2015 and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Beijing Zhangshang Xianji Network Technology Co., Ltd. provides SaaS-based cloud services to merchants and Fortune 500 companies. The company's solutions allow merchants to create online stores; manage business operations online, including warehousing, procurement, ordering, and after sales services; and manage member base. Beijing Zhangshang Xianji Network Technology Co., Ltd. was formerly known as Wangdiantong. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Beijing, China.

Lunit

Private Placement in 2018
Lunit Inc. develops algorithms for general object detection and medical image analysis that help physicians to make objective diagnosis through machine learning technology. It develops solutions in the areas of digital chest X-ray, digital mammography, digital pathology, and fundus photography. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Between

Venture Round in 2011
VCNC is a Korean mobile application and web services company developing “Between,” a mobile app for couples. Between is a mobile app created especially to enable couples to create, share, and remember all their special moments. The app is available for download in the iTunes store and Google Play market.

Lunit

Series A in 2015
Lunit Inc. develops algorithms for general object detection and medical image analysis that help physicians to make objective diagnosis through machine learning technology. It develops solutions in the areas of digital chest X-ray, digital mammography, digital pathology, and fundus photography. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Aria Pharmaceuticals

Private Placement in 2018
Aria Pharmaceuticals is a preclinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel small molecule therapies for complex and hard-to-treat diseases. Too many patients today are in need of breakthrough treatments across many complicated diseases – they can't wait. That's why at Aria, we have redefined the drug discovery approach, saving years in the process and increasing success rates 30 times higher than traditional methods. At Aria, we've shown promise across a diverse range of therapeutic areas with the ability to address over 1,000 diseases.

Fishbrain

Private Placement in 2018
FishBrain AB develops a mobile application that connects sport fishing people and anglers. It offers Fishbrain, an application that enables users to connect and follow anglers and fishing spots; find fishing spots and research when the fish bite best; join conversations with other users; keep fishing log; and explore public catch locations. The company’s application also enables users to track and share personal statistics, such as caches per month, species, fishing locations, baits, and methods; find top baits for fishing locations, fish species, and fishing methods; and get fishing forecast for the next days. Its application is available on App Store and Google Play. FishBrain AB was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Buzzvil

Series A in 2014
Buzzvil Co., Ltd. develops and provides lockscreen advertising platform. The company offers Honeyscreen, a mobile application that transforms smartphone lock screen into a billboard; and Buzzscreen, a lock screen software development kit (SDK) for Android to bring content and advertisements onto users' lock-screen by integrating it in different applications. It caters to publishers and advertisers. Buzzvil Co., Ltd. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Pliops

Private Placement in 2019
Pliops was founded in 2017 by flash storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems and XtremIO. Pliops is creating a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers to access data up to 50X faster with 1/10th of the computational load and power consumption. Its technology collapses multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on a groundbreaking patent-pending approach. Pliops' solution solves the scalability challenges raised by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data requirements of AI and ML applications.

Anodot

Series C in 2020
Anodot’s Autonomous Analytics platform leverages advanced machine learning techniques to constantly analyze and correlate every business parameter, providing real-time alerts and forecasts, in their context, lowering time to detection and resolution. Our leading-edge, patented technology is trusted by clients in industries ranging from eCommerce to fintech, adtech, telco, gaming and more. We have your back, so you’re free to play the offense and grow your business.

Trevari

Venture Round in 2019
Trevari runs a subscription-based platform through which subscribers can join book clubs and meet in person. The company works by facilitating the meetings and coming up with detailed plans and intriguing topics to set for each reading groups, ranging from psychology and culture to technology and marketing.

Megaphone TV

Series B in 2013
Megaphone TV is the industry’s leading Viewer Engagement Platform. Megaphone TV partners with news organizations, broadcasters, and streamers around the world to create interactive storytelling moments and transactional ad campaigns through live polling, trivia and social integration. Megaphone TV’s broadcast partners include ABC, AMC, Bravo, CNN International, MTV, Rogers Sportsnet and TEGNA.

SODA

Series B in 2021
Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace Snkrdunk, which now has over 2.5 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.

Knowre

Venture Round in 2014
Knowre is an education technology company delivering personalized and engaging learning experiences to students around the globe. Its technology identifies individual student learning gaps and fills those gaps through algorithmically generated curricula and interactive, scaffolded support. Knowre further enhances learning by providing students with an engaging and fun learning environment, and teachers with actionable and comprehensive data. Knowre partners with schools, private education companies, and other corporations with the goal of helping students reach their full potential. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Wave3Studio

Series A in 2014
Wave3Studio is a gaming studio that develops role-playing games. The company is based in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do.

Lunit

Series B in 2018
Lunit Inc. develops algorithms for general object detection and medical image analysis that help physicians to make objective diagnosis through machine learning technology. It develops solutions in the areas of digital chest X-ray, digital mammography, digital pathology, and fundus photography. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Shiheng

Private Placement in 2019
Shiheng is a online catering management service provider. It is headquartered in Shanghai, currently employees over 500 people. It is a well-known company, serving more than 300 well-known restaurant chains and single-store brands , tens of thousands of stores, covering more than 100 cities.

Shiheng

Series B in 2019
Shiheng is a online catering management service provider. It is headquartered in Shanghai, currently employees over 500 people. It is a well-known company, serving more than 300 well-known restaurant chains and single-store brands , tens of thousands of stores, covering more than 100 cities.

Tokopedia

Series E in 2014
PT. Tokopedia owns and operates an online platform that allows individuals and small-to-mid-sized business owners in Indonesia to open and manage their online stores. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.

True Balance

Series B in 2017
True Balance is a digital wallet owned and operated by Balancehero India Private Limited (BHI), that enables users to access utility bill payment, loan recharge, insurance, and other financial products. With 70 million users, True Balance aims to serve India with utility payments financial platform for the unbanked users to serve their money for living requirements. It was launched in 2014 by Mr. Charlie Lee as CEO, an alumnus of the University of Chicago.

IGAWorks

Series A in 2008
IGAWorks is an full stack ad-tech company founded on 2006, and we are a group of industry-leading global services for the smart success of digital marketing and mobile businesses. We provide full-stack of ad-tech services which follows: ‘Tradingworks’, agency trade desk offering media, audience, performance as total advertisement service; ‘adbrix’, an all-in-one data platform which leads the growth of mobile businesses with data based on the ad performance and user data; ‘adPOPcorn’, the biggest ad network in Korea; ‘Mobile Index‘, mobile app market analytics platform; ‘Campaign Intelligence’, reporting tool which dramatically lessens marketer’s reporting workload. Today, more than 30,000 mobile apps are utilizing the solutions of IGAWorks for their growth of businesses.

Socar

Series E in 2020
Socar is a Korean eco-friendly car sharing community that allows travelers to share cars with others who are traveling the same route. Socar has raised an $18 million round of funding in 2015 which was one of the highest funding deals for a South Korean startup to date. Most notably, it was led by a US investor: Bain Capital, a private investment firm with $80 billion in assets under management. Socar was founded in March 2012, and it has a website and smartphone apps that let users book cars for their own use. Service has over 1,700,000 registered users, 50,000 of whom use the service each month. Around 80,000 transactions per month — that’s more than one car booking each 30 seconds.

Toss Lab

Series B in 2020
Toss Lab, Inc. develops a collaboration tool to communicate and manage projects. It offers JANDI, an office messenger that allows clients to share with people, search for files, and manage their team with admin controls. The company works with companies and organizations in various industries across Asia and internationally, as well as serves NGOs, non-profit organizations, and educational institutes. Toss Lab, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Seoul, South Korea with additional offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Taipei City, Taiwan.