Coolidge Corner Investment is a South Korea-based private equity firm established in 2010 that specializes in providing Seed and Seed+ funding to innovative technology startups. The firm primarily targets early-stage investments in the internet, communication, and technology sectors within Korea, allocating approximately 70% of its portfolio to this market while also exploring opportunities in China, India, and other parts of South Asia. In addition to financial support, Coolidge Corner Investment offers customized assistance to its portfolio companies, including professional incubation, growth strategies, and networking resources, aimed at fostering their development and success.
Law&Company is representative legal tech company in Republic of Korea. The company provides a service called 'LawTalk(www.lawtalk.co.kr)', which is the largest online legal market place in Korea(5 times bigger then the 2nd player). Since 2016, the company invested on research about Artificial Intelligence especially on Text Mining and Machine Learning technology to analyze lawyers and client's activities in the service which helps to lawyers and clients find the right person based on their experience. Also, the company will launch document automation based service to generate legal documents starting from complaint and contract soon. The company has received more than 3 million dollars from 5 venture capital companies and many angel investors due to previous performance and upside potential in the Korean legal market.
UrbanPlay Inc. is a Seoul-based company established in 2013 that focuses on creating and curating urban culture content. The company collects and processes both tangible and intangible materials related to urban issues, providing a platform that facilitates engagement with these topics in innovative ways. UrbanPlay offers a range of online services, regional projects, multimedia content, and publications, all designed to foster a deeper understanding of urban environments. Additionally, the company operates a community platform that delivers various real estate content services, including space offerings, publishing, merchandise, and local marketing. By leveraging creators' contributions, UrbanPlay aims to build a sustainable urban cultural ecosystem that enhances neighborhood lifestyle services for users.
Kryptos Biotechnologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing innovative life science tools designed to capture the status of cells and unveil their genomic characteristics. Founded in 2017 by Jun Ho Son, the company is headquartered in Hayward, California. One of its key offerings is Photonic PCR, a technology that enables users to generate photothermal heating by converting light to heat through optical thin films and light-emitting diodes. This technology aims to assist clinicians and scientists in understanding the complexities of biology more effectively.
CrowdWorks, Inc. develops online crowd sourcing platform for artificial intelligent (AI) which engages in collecting, strengthening, and structuring leaning data for machine learning. The company offers its services for analysis and classifying of image works, text works, voice works, and survey works. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.
Law&Company is representative legal tech company in Republic of Korea. The company provides a service called 'LawTalk(www.lawtalk.co.kr)', which is the largest online legal market place in Korea(5 times bigger then the 2nd player). Since 2016, the company invested on research about Artificial Intelligence especially on Text Mining and Machine Learning technology to analyze lawyers and client's activities in the service which helps to lawyers and clients find the right person based on their experience. Also, the company will launch document automation based service to generate legal documents starting from complaint and contract soon. The company has received more than 3 million dollars from 5 venture capital companies and many angel investors due to previous performance and upside potential in the Korean legal market.
Sendy Corp. is a cargo delivery and logistics consulting service that simplifies transportation management for its users. Founded in 2013 and based in Busan, South Korea, the company offers an online platform that allows customers to book shipments, make payments, and inquire about shipping details in real-time. Users can choose from various vehicle types to suit their needs, whether for personal or corporate transportation. By providing features such as fare estimation and real-time status updates, Sendy enhances the overall logistics experience, making it more accessible and efficient for customers.
With Seoul Date Pop, couples no longer have to google daily new date course and check other customers' feedback on those spots. Tenfingers offer date course curation service for 20~30s couples with well-organized and high quality contents that team members made by themselves.
Sendy Corp. is a cargo delivery and logistics consulting service that simplifies transportation management for its users. Founded in 2013 and based in Busan, South Korea, the company offers an online platform that allows customers to book shipments, make payments, and inquire about shipping details in real-time. Users can choose from various vehicle types to suit their needs, whether for personal or corporate transportation. By providing features such as fare estimation and real-time status updates, Sendy enhances the overall logistics experience, making it more accessible and efficient for customers.
D.Code operates an e-commerce platform that connects customers directly with European luxury boutiques, offering a diverse selection of over 700 luxury brands and 100,000 items. The platform provides accurate product information, detailed descriptions, and competitive pricing, typically around 20% lower than retail prices in Korea. In addition to its curated shopping experience, D.Code offers personalized concierge services to enhance customer satisfaction. The company utilizes customer data to develop a fashion trend algorithm, enabling better purchasing decisions and assisting sellers with product sourcing and marketing strategies. By collaborating directly with luxury boutiques, D.Code ensures high-quality service and reasonable pricing, creating an efficient marketplace for luxury goods.
ONOFFMIX Inc. is a leading events management and promotion platform based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2010. The company specializes in facilitating both online and offline events, including conferences, seminars, fundraisers, and lectures. ONOFFMIX offers a user-friendly platform that allows event organizers to quickly create event websites, manage registrations, and promote their events through various channels, including social media integration with platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The platform also provides comprehensive features tailored for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE), enabling participants to manage their registrations, accommodations, and payments efficiently. By empowering organizers with a self-service model, ONOFFMIX supports events of all sizes, making it the largest online event business platform in South Korea.
Founded in 2014, Everspin has brought in a new paradigm in the world cybersecurity market with its dynamic security module technology. Everspin's unparalleled innovation has come from a simple, but unprecedented idea: If hacking occurs when enough time is given to hackers, why not cut down such time? After years of R&D, Everspin has found a way to solve the fundamental problem that all of the existing mobile cybersecurity solutions entail: security modules are placed in the user’s app and they do not change until the app is updated, which inevitably renders mobile apps vulnerable to hacking. Everspin’s technology enables its security module to be sent by Everspin server to the app and constantly replaced by a new module, which settles the issues that come from the location and invariability of the current solutions. Though its products are currently targeting the mobile app market, Everspin with its highly versatile technology is expected to launch its service for Web/PC, server and IoT in the near future. ■ Solution Features: -App/OS/Memory forgery prevention. -Real-time hacking detection. -Instant security update to multiple types of devices without any user-side program update. ■ Credibility -First ever to pass all the security tests by National Security Research Institute in Korea(100% blocking rate for 3,000++ hacking attempts). -Within 1year sales, secured 23cutomers including 3/5 of major banks in Korea. -SBI Holdings to gradually implement Everspin solution to all of its 200++ subsidiaries around the world.
General Bio Co., Ltd. engages in the research and development of cosmeceutical products, peeling care products, functional foods, eco household items, and baby skin care products in South Korea and internationally. It provides basic skin care, body care, base make-up, and special care products; saponin, diet, and health foods, as well as functional coffee products; hair/body, air freshener/dehumidifying agent, household/health care, and detergent/bathroom/sanitation products; and baby skin care products. The company offers its products under the CareCella, CK Balance, Active DS, Gcoop Cafe, General Balance, ECOER SNOW, and GCOOP brands. General Bio Co., Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Wanju-gun, South Korea.
Text Factory provides MUNBS service, the leading text-based assistant service in Korea and aims at making busy people feel relaxed and allowing them to focus on more important things in their lives. MUNBS supports various customer requests from reservations, purchases, deliveries to information search in cooperation with many suppliers and service providers in the market.
General Bio Co., Ltd. engages in the research and development of cosmeceutical products, peeling care products, functional foods, eco household items, and baby skin care products in South Korea and internationally. It provides basic skin care, body care, base make-up, and special care products; saponin, diet, and health foods, as well as functional coffee products; hair/body, air freshener/dehumidifying agent, household/health care, and detergent/bathroom/sanitation products; and baby skin care products. The company offers its products under the CareCella, CK Balance, Active DS, Gcoop Cafe, General Balance, ECOER SNOW, and GCOOP brands. General Bio Co., Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Wanju-gun, South Korea.
Tournote is the top-rated social travel service for sharing the personal travel information. The social travel platform is provided for travelers to share their travel experiences. Users can write the travelog based on about 90,000 places fed into the Tournote. The travel accounts are shared by users, saved as the visit writing for each travel point, and searchable on the concerned travel points.
Founded in 2014, Everspin has brought in a new paradigm in the world cybersecurity market with its dynamic security module technology. Everspin's unparalleled innovation has come from a simple, but unprecedented idea: If hacking occurs when enough time is given to hackers, why not cut down such time? After years of R&D, Everspin has found a way to solve the fundamental problem that all of the existing mobile cybersecurity solutions entail: security modules are placed in the user’s app and they do not change until the app is updated, which inevitably renders mobile apps vulnerable to hacking. Everspin’s technology enables its security module to be sent by Everspin server to the app and constantly replaced by a new module, which settles the issues that come from the location and invariability of the current solutions. Though its products are currently targeting the mobile app market, Everspin with its highly versatile technology is expected to launch its service for Web/PC, server and IoT in the near future. ■ Solution Features: -App/OS/Memory forgery prevention. -Real-time hacking detection. -Instant security update to multiple types of devices without any user-side program update. ■ Credibility -First ever to pass all the security tests by National Security Research Institute in Korea(100% blocking rate for 3,000++ hacking attempts). -Within 1year sales, secured 23cutomers including 3/5 of major banks in Korea. -SBI Holdings to gradually implement Everspin solution to all of its 200++ subsidiaries around the world.
Law&Company is representative legal tech company in Republic of Korea. The company provides a service called 'LawTalk(www.lawtalk.co.kr)', which is the largest online legal market place in Korea(5 times bigger then the 2nd player). Since 2016, the company invested on research about Artificial Intelligence especially on Text Mining and Machine Learning technology to analyze lawyers and client's activities in the service which helps to lawyers and clients find the right person based on their experience. Also, the company will launch document automation based service to generate legal documents starting from complaint and contract soon. The company has received more than 3 million dollars from 5 venture capital companies and many angel investors due to previous performance and upside potential in the Korean legal market.
YDEA(www.ydea.co) focuses on improving and providing E-Commerce experiences. The company explores best E-Commerce solutions for next generations in mobile devices. Our Mission: Delivering the best shopping experience. For more information about our products we provide, visit us. www.ydea.co
Standing Egg Inc. develops a low-power MEMS tri-axial accelerometer/a digital output sensor. It also offers a programmable smart sensor-hub for smartphone, wearable, and other applications; and a one-chip sensor platform that enables users to prototype their own sensor applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea.
Omicsis Inc., a biotechnology company, specializes in bioinformatics. The company’s products used for urban agriculture, home gardening, promotional events, etc. It develops bio-markers using genome analysis and bio-information technology; and commercializing tools for human disease diagnosis and biosensors for discrimination of biological species. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.
OpenTrade (오픈트레이드) is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Having identified lack of communication as the biggest stumbling block in attracting investments, the company has developed the platform to enable transparent communication between entrepreneurs, startups, and investors. OpenTrade’s crowdfunding platform enables startups to have ongoing communication with investors and thereby build a long-term relationship based on trust. OpenTrade also provides mentoring facilities in the areas of management, marketing, and finance.
Zepl is a data analytics platform that focuses on simplifying data analysis for enterprises. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California, with additional operations in Seoul, South Korea, the company initially operated as NFLabs, Inc. before rebranding in 2016. Zepl provides a web-based notebook called Apache Zeppelin, designed for interactive data analytics, catering to data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and decision makers. Alongside Zeppelin, Zepl offers ZeppelinHub, which facilitates the sharing and analysis of graphs and reports generated from Apache Zeppelin, and a community platform for users to exchange insights. The company's solutions support various open-source and commercial tools, allowing users to work with multiple languages and analytic engines seamlessly. Zepl aims to empower organizations in their transition to data-driven decision-making, featuring highly scalable, cloud-native solutions that enhance collaboration, security, and the repeatability of analytics processes.
COSMIC COLOR (코스믹칼라) is a Korean company offering web and mobile shopping solutions. One of its products, Wooparupa, is an app that combines targeted advertising and entertainment to entice shoppers.
Omicsis Inc., a biotechnology company, specializes in bioinformatics. The company’s products used for urban agriculture, home gardening, promotional events, etc. It develops bio-markers using genome analysis and bio-information technology; and commercializing tools for human disease diagnosis and biosensors for discrimination of biological species. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.
With Seoul Date Pop, couples no longer have to google daily new date course and check other customers' feedback on those spots. Tenfingers offer date course curation service for 20~30s couples with well-organized and high quality contents that team members made by themselves.
Cloudike powers cloud storage. Cloudike helps OEMs, mobile and Internet service providers acquire, retain, and upsell their customers by offering a compelling personal cloud experience under their own brand.
Nutgee is a mobile game development company. Their first title 'Touch Touch Hole in One' achieved 0.6 million downloads in Korea. Nutgee is the first and only company that developed a golf game utilizing intellectual property from The Walt Disney Company (e.g. Mickey Mouse, Aladdin, Frozen, etc).
Standing Egg Inc. develops a low-power MEMS tri-axial accelerometer/a digital output sensor. It also offers a programmable smart sensor-hub for smartphone, wearable, and other applications; and a one-chip sensor platform that enables users to prototype their own sensor applications. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea.
Haebora
Seed Round in 2014
Haebora is developing a wearable ear-microphone called 'ALLO Ear Talk'. The innovative communication technology utilizes sound from the ear instead of the mouth. Use cases for the technology are diverse, from personal smart phone to the military. The technology enables clear communication, even in noisy environments. You can hear perfectly well, even at a rock concert or in a noisy factory.
i-ePUB (아이이펍) is a Korean-based company focused on providing digital content publishing and e-book publishing services to its customers. The company offers total publishing services including planning, production, publication, and the distribution of e-books in HTML format. i-ePUB offers its e-book services to major publishers including Samsung Mobiles. i-ePUB won the “Innovation Award” from the Korea Electronic Publishing Association in December 2011. i-ePUB was established in October 2011.
InsEdutainment ((주)인스에듀테인먼트) is a Korean-based company focused on developing smart learning solutions for students. The company developed Smart Adventure, a mobile learning application provides an interactive learning experience for students. The app offers many educational tools such as video sharing and zooming, image gallery, and 3D views, all of which are designed to give an experiential learning experience for students. InsEdutainment was established in December 2011.
Spoleader
Seed Round in 2014
Spoleader is developing 'Spin Bow', a new sports game which is similar to bowling. The new game has simple & well-defined rules and is likely to gain popularity with people of all ages and both sexes. It is positioned as a family-friendly sports game.
YDEA(www.ydea.co) focuses on improving and providing E-Commerce experiences. The company explores best E-Commerce solutions for next generations in mobile devices. Our Mission: Delivering the best shopping experience. For more information about our products we provide, visit us. www.ydea.co
ONOFFMIX Inc. is a leading events management and promotion platform based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2010. The company specializes in facilitating both online and offline events, including conferences, seminars, fundraisers, and lectures. ONOFFMIX offers a user-friendly platform that allows event organizers to quickly create event websites, manage registrations, and promote their events through various channels, including social media integration with platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The platform also provides comprehensive features tailored for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE), enabling participants to manage their registrations, accommodations, and payments efficiently. By empowering organizers with a self-service model, ONOFFMIX supports events of all sizes, making it the largest online event business platform in South Korea.
BCNX operates as a marketing platform specializing in blog marketing and campaign management. It runs the ServiceWith Blog, which facilitates blog marketing services for its users. With a community of 15 million registered bloggers, BCNX enables participants to engage in over 500 campaigns each month. Bloggers can join specific campaigns to receive products and provide reviews, thereby enhancing market commerce through user-generated content. The company has garnered investment from prominent firms, including Altos Ventures and Coolidge Corner Investment.
ViewReple (뷰리플) is a Korean provider of social curation services for product reviews in education, fashion, games, style, art, movies, children, music, interiors, restaurants, food, applications, sport, beauty, life, books, events, and automotive. The reviews on ViewReple are shared on Facebook and Twitter, making the service a marketing tool. ViewReple was established in February 2012 in Seoul, Korea.
Alpen International, Inc. is a distributor of premium outdoor brands based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in the distribution of cameras, apparel, and bags. Established in 2011, the company has positioned itself within the rapidly growing outdoor industry in Korea, which has experienced an annual growth rate of nearly 29% over the past five years. Alpen International aims to differentiate the climbing equipment market by aligning it more closely with the broader outdoor market, reflecting the founder's vision for the company's future. As of May 31, 2017, Alpen International operates as a subsidiary of Fenix Outdoor International AG.
With more than 17 years of experiences, the founder of Lee Tech is one of the most competent experts in manufacturing semiconductor laminating equipments. Since Korea is a nation great in semiconductor industry, Lee Tech is one of the fast growing startup companies in the industry.
Leetek develops, manufactures, and sells wireless customer paging systems for small- and medium-sized businesses to manage customer flow. It was founded in 1998 and is based in Bucheon, South Korea.
BCNX operates as a marketing platform specializing in blog marketing and campaign management. It runs the ServiceWith Blog, which facilitates blog marketing services for its users. With a community of 15 million registered bloggers, BCNX enables participants to engage in over 500 campaigns each month. Bloggers can join specific campaigns to receive products and provide reviews, thereby enhancing market commerce through user-generated content. The company has garnered investment from prominent firms, including Altos Ventures and Coolidge Corner Investment.
Won provides people to use their credit cards more easily on the mobile. The patented technology enables credit card users not to install any other add-on software. Won started to provide its service(SmartPay) to Hana SK Card from 2012.
Ecube Labs Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer of innovative waste management solutions based in Seoul, South Korea, with an additional office in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2011, the company specializes in smart waste management products that leverage IoT technologies. Its flagship offerings include CleanCUBE, a solar-powered trash compactor, and CleanFLEX, a wireless fill-level sensor that monitors waste levels and transmits real-time data to a cloud-based platform. Ecube Labs also develops CleanCityNetworks, a predictive analytics platform that enables efficient monitoring, analytics, and control of waste management operations. These products are utilized in various settings, including malls, airports, universities, hospitals, and municipalities across North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. By optimizing waste collection routes and schedules, Ecube Labs helps organizations reduce operational costs and improve efficiency in waste management.
Kuna ENT is one of the leading companies in the animal companion industry in Korea. The founder of the company is well known as 'Woong-Ja’s brother' since he made appearance in the famous TV show. Kuna ENT is creating an animation for people who love their pets.
OpenTrade (오픈트레이드) is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Having identified lack of communication as the biggest stumbling block in attracting investments, the company has developed the platform to enable transparent communication between entrepreneurs, startups, and investors. OpenTrade’s crowdfunding platform enables startups to have ongoing communication with investors and thereby build a long-term relationship based on trust. OpenTrade also provides mentoring facilities in the areas of management, marketing, and finance.
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