Timewise Investment

Timewise Investment, previously known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm based in Seoul, South Korea. Established in 2000, it serves as an investment arm of the CJ Group and specializes in venture capital across various sectors, including biotechnology, technology, and entertainment. The firm focuses on investments in video broadcasting, animation, movies, cultural content, gaming, communications equipment, arts, sports, leisure, and mobile device solutions. Additionally, it engages in sectors such as information technology, web agencies, cell therapy, and biotechnology. Timewise Investment primarily targets opportunities within South Korea, particularly in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Jeju.

Seong Bin Kang

Co-Chief Investment Officer

54 past transactions

S-Alpha Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
S-Alpha Therapeutics Inc., a digital therapeutics company, researches and develops health applications and platform technologies that enable digital devices to treat different diseases. Its products include SAT-001, an ophthalmology related application for eye disease treatment; SAT-002, neurology application for treatment of nervous system disease; SAT-003, oncology application for recovery and treatment of cancer patients; and SAT-008, a public crisis application for overcoming social problems. Additionally, it also develops therapeutic devices. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Foodfly

Series A in 2014
Foodfly (푸드플라이) is a Korean online food delivery service that allows consumers to order food online and get them delivered. Established in March 2011, Foodfly also enables users to order food online using mobile phones.

PlayList

Series B in 2021
PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.

AmazeVR

Series A in 2019
AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution. We're providing an end-to-end solution for a radical new way to experience immersive music content with our proprietary technologies—from ultra-high-resolution custom cameras to cloud-based creation tools, to intuitive social interactions with friends as avatars. As we vertically integrate distribution channels, artists will reach a broad audience with AmazeVR through offline distribution (Amaze Tour) complying the COVID-19 safety measures and online distribution (Amaze Music app and other media including YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch). AmazeVR was founded in 2015 by the founders and former executives of Kakao, a $27B market cap mobile platform company.

Bungaejangter

Venture Round in 2020
Bungaejangter engages in the development of a mobile open marketplace that facilitates the person-to-person trading of goods in the Korean e-commerce industry. This was made into an application that is compatible with smartphones running Android and iOS. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Datumo

Series A in 2022
SelectStar Inc. develops a cloud-based artificial intelligence data production platform. The company offers Cash Mission, an application that collects and analyze data and enables the users to get rewards for their tasks. Its platform connects the public and the enterprises and allows the users to produce the data accurately. The company caters to corporate clients. SelectStar Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.

Wonders

Series B in 2018
Wonders Co.,Ltd. provides logistics and delivery solutions for its customers. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Syntekabio

Series C in 2019
Syntekabio is a Korean biotech firm, developing personal genome map which is expected to enable personalized medical service. The company also provides a technology for collecting and integrating decrypted whole genome data.

42dot

Corporate Round in 2019
42dot is a technology company pioneering frictionless transportation services. Central to these efforts is the development of the Urban Mobility Operating System (UMOS) a cloud-based mobility platform that will accelerate the transition to autonomous transportation-as-a-service (aTaaS) with diversified self-driving ground and airborne vehicles. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Seoul.

Shin Starr presents

Series A in 2021
Shin Starr presents create, operate, and franchise Korean cuisine-based QSR and fast-casual dining restaurants built around its proprietary robotic kitchen technology and Korean cuisine excellence. It develops and commercializes SPACE+ Technology™, a spatial technology platform brand created by SHIN STARR presents to enhance cooking and food servicing quality and efficiency. SPACE+ combines and integrates in-house made robotic and network technologies into a flawless autonomous kitchen platform.

Plating

Seed Round in 2022
Plating provides healthy and delicious food is the best welfare. Plating releases new products every week and has presented about 50 menus to our customers so far.

GeneCast

Series B in 2020
Genecast co., ltd. develops oncology kits. The products include EGFR Mutation Test Kit, BRAF Mutation Test Kit, and JAK2 Mutation Test Kit. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Pion

Series A in 2021
Pion Corporation is an Martech focused video intelligence company. We provide “Vispot”, a video creation and ad-automation platform powered by AI.

Pragma Bio

Seed Round in 2020
VastBiome is a biotechnology company that mines microbiome drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease. The company employs its proprietary methods in genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to discover biomarkers and therapeutics for challenging immunologic disorders. It offers a platform that aims to aggregate public and private data in order to generate a microbiome database and leverages analytical processes to discover connections between distinct and biologically related data in order to increase statistical power and drive discovery. In addition, the platform can be used to identify novel biomarkers to risk-stratify patients and predict clinical outcomes. It was co-founded by Peter McCaffrey, Kovi Bessoff, Ayin Vala, and Kareem Barghouti in Millbrae, California in 2018.

AmazeVR

Venture Round in 2022
AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution. We're providing an end-to-end solution for a radical new way to experience immersive music content with our proprietary technologies—from ultra-high-resolution custom cameras to cloud-based creation tools, to intuitive social interactions with friends as avatars. As we vertically integrate distribution channels, artists will reach a broad audience with AmazeVR through offline distribution (Amaze Tour) complying the COVID-19 safety measures and online distribution (Amaze Music app and other media including YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch). AmazeVR was founded in 2015 by the founders and former executives of Kakao, a $27B market cap mobile platform company.

AFUN Interactive

Venture Round in 2019
afun interactive inc., a virtual reality company, engages in the production and distribution of 3D contents and animations. It creates digital contents for movies and games. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

AFUN Interactive

Series B in 2021
afun interactive inc., a virtual reality company, engages in the production and distribution of 3D contents and animations. It creates digital contents for movies and games. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

AmazeVR

Venture Round in 2021
AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution. We're providing an end-to-end solution for a radical new way to experience immersive music content with our proprietary technologies—from ultra-high-resolution custom cameras to cloud-based creation tools, to intuitive social interactions with friends as avatars. As we vertically integrate distribution channels, artists will reach a broad audience with AmazeVR through offline distribution (Amaze Tour) complying the COVID-19 safety measures and online distribution (Amaze Music app and other media including YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch). AmazeVR was founded in 2015 by the founders and former executives of Kakao, a $27B market cap mobile platform company.

MyMusicTaste

Series A in 2016
MyMusicTaste is a fan initiated live event making service that brings fans, artists and promoters from all over the world together in one place to create a valuable and meaningful concert experience for everyone involved. MyMusicTaste puts the power in the fans' hands, allowing fans to request their favorite artist's concert in their city. Based on this demand, MyMusicTaste provides data-driven insights to artists and concert promoters the ability to organize highly successful concerts around the world. MyMusicTaste is quickly shaping a new paradigm for how concerts and live events are organized.

THE PIRATES

Series B in 2020
The Pirates Co., Ltd. develops and operates a mobile application that facilitates wholesale and retail of seafood products. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

AFUN Interactive

Series A in 2020
afun interactive inc., a virtual reality company, engages in the production and distribution of 3D contents and animations. It creates digital contents for movies and games. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

HurayPositive

Series B in 2020
HurayPositive (휴레이포지티브) is a healthcare and wellness innovation-focused company based in Seoul, Korea. The company provides mHealth, PHR, PWR, and genome- and analysis-related healthcare and wellness services, as well as gamification, SNS consulting, user interface, and experience development-related IT convergence services. HurayPositive was established on April 6, 2010.

Makestar

Series C in 2021
Makestar was born to suggest new communication method between Hallyu star and global fan.

AmazeVR

Series B in 2021
AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution. We're providing an end-to-end solution for a radical new way to experience immersive music content with our proprietary technologies—from ultra-high-resolution custom cameras to cloud-based creation tools, to intuitive social interactions with friends as avatars. As we vertically integrate distribution channels, artists will reach a broad audience with AmazeVR through offline distribution (Amaze Tour) complying the COVID-19 safety measures and online distribution (Amaze Music app and other media including YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch). AmazeVR was founded in 2015 by the founders and former executives of Kakao, a $27B market cap mobile platform company.

Shin Starr presents

Seed Round in 2020
Shin Starr presents create, operate, and franchise Korean cuisine-based QSR and fast-casual dining restaurants built around its proprietary robotic kitchen technology and Korean cuisine excellence. It develops and commercializes SPACE+ Technology™, a spatial technology platform brand created by SHIN STARR presents to enhance cooking and food servicing quality and efficiency. SPACE+ combines and integrates in-house made robotic and network technologies into a flawless autonomous kitchen platform.

MegazoneCloud

Series B in 2020
MegaZon is Korea's first Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner in 2012. As a Premier Consulting Partner and Reseller, they are leading the Korean cloud market with 15 years of enterprise hosting and ITSM system experience. By integrating their technology and experience with the AWS cloud infrastructure, they provide services to design, build, and manage IT infrastructures for enterprise customers. It has specialized know-how for scalable architecture configuration, development, secure security configuration, 24/7/365 monitoring and operation, and cloud environment. MegaZon's services are cost-effective and resource-efficient, creating industry-wide success stories.