KB Investment

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 1.4 Billion of asset under management as of December 2013. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widest network of service branches in Korea. KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

Woo-hyeong Choi

Director

Jeong-hoon Jang

Director

Hwa-jung Kim

EVP

Yeong-seok Kim

Director

Seung-jae Lee

Director

Su-hee Lee

Director

Sang-ik Lee

Director

Jin-Bum Park

Director

Sang-hee Park

Director

Hong-ryeol Park

MD

Jeong-seob Shin

Director

Byeong-ha So

Director

Yeong-seok Son

Director

Dong-seok Woo

MD

Seok-heon Yoo

Director

239 past transactions

VESSL AI

Seed Round in 2021
VESSL AI enables machine learning teams to develop state-of-the-art models at scale without the complex and repetitive process of setting up pipelines and infrastructures. In addition to a centralized dashboard and workflow management, VESSL AI offers enterprise-grade infrastructure equipped with automated resource provisioning, and powerful training modes with automated hyperparameter optimization and multi-node distributed training.

ONDA

Series A in 2019
T Port Inc. is an accommodation management platform. T Port Inc.'s real-time reservation management book can easily manage all bookings on the computer or smartphone anytime, anywhere.

Glife

Series A in 2021
glife aims to connect conscious & healthy living consumers, communities & merchants in a single online to offline platform.Together, glife aim to build a stronger social bonding and Green revolution by providing a one-stop green lifestyle solution hub dedicated for individuals & communities for environmental-friendly & sustainable (‘Green’) products & services.

Smore

Seed Round in 2021
Playable Form builder

Seoul Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Seoul Robotics Co.,Ltd. provides lidar perception software for 3D Object Detection and 3D computer vision. The company provide software for self driving cars. It offers software name, SENSR for detection, classification, tracking, and prediction. Seoul Robotics Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Qoala

Series B in 2022
Qoala is a disruptive insure-tech company that leverages big-data, machine learning, IoT and blockchain aiming to revolutionise insurance landscape in Indonesia. We partner with big companies, including e-commerce and travel platforms, to enhance their customer experience through our unique and innovative insurance products.

Curiox Biosystems

Series C in 2022
Curiox is a bioinstrumentation company spun out of the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. Curiox has become a leader in the development and commercialization of innovative assay platforms based on its expertise in surface chemistry and engineering. Curiox’s vision is to accelerate the progress of life sciences, drug discovery and diagnostics through the miniaturization and improved automation of bioassays.

Rupeek

Series C in 2020
Rupeek is a financial services company that features an online lending platform that specializes in credit risk, gold loans, and personal loans. It offers lending solutions for lenders and borrowers. The company is driven by its mission is to bring financial inclusion for the masses and introduce products that are transparent and people-friendly. Rupeek was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

oVice

Series A in 2021
oVice, Inc. develops a virtual space based on voice chat for remote communication. Its online platform allows communication centered on voice and enables the communication between people who are working remotely and people who work in the actual office. oVice, Inc. was formerly known as NIMARU TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Pinplay

Private Placement in 2018
Pinplay Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and distributes smart mobile phones and watch for children. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Draph

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Draph provides cloud solutions and services for product image production and automated optimization to enhance product sales and advertising efficiency. Draph is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 2022.

Onuii

Series A in 2021
A mathematical problem solving application for middle and high school students.

Dable

Series C in 2021
Dable, Inc. is B2B Omni-channel Personalization Platform that provides products and contents that users are likely to want to reach by gathering their behavioral logs in online and offline. With experience developing online recommendation platform as a team “RecoPick” in SK planet for 2 years, which has been the pioneer and the best recommendation platform in Korea, they are now aiming to expand their personalization service from online to offline to enrich people’s lifestyle.

Healingpaper Co. Ltd.

Private Placement in 2020
Healingpaper Co. Ltd. develops a healthcare based mobile application which provides patients to check their personal medication reminders, treatment schedules, conditions, eating habits, the results of medical testing , drug side effects, personalized health information, and healthcare updates. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

kukka

Series A in 2020
kukka, Inc. sells flowers for office space, atelier, showrooms, and events through retail stores and online. Its products include corporate event support flowers, promotional flower box, customer care flowers, and floral decorations. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

HonestFund

Series B in 2018
HonestFund is a financial technology company operating an alternative investing platform in South Korea. HonestFund provides individuals and institutional investors access to alternative investment opportunities across a wide range of asset classes, such as residential/commercial real estates, infrastructure financing and unsecured personal loans. Due to its unique capability of providing a fully transparent and frictionless process for both investors and private issuers, HonestFund raised funds from leading financial institutions, including Shinhan Bank, Hanwha Investment, KB Investment, Shinhan Capital and Daily Financial Group.

Habit Factory

Series B in 2021
Habit Factory develops an application software that analyzes the user's consumption patterns, helping them understand where they are spending their money and increasing their savings. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

methinks Technologies Inc

Series A in 2019
methinks is a platform where researchers like yourself can search for your target users, schedule times to meet them, and perform HD video remote interview sessions while the user is sharing their device screen. While you are conducting the research, our platform can transcribe the tester's words while you bookmark key behaviors to review later. All recordings, qualitative quotes, and quantitative responses/graphs are stored in our secure cloud for you and your team to access anytime, anywhere.

Okxe

Series A in 2020
OKXE VIETNAM COMPANY LIMITED operates an online e-commerce platform for motorbikes. The platform enables users to buy and sell motorcycles online. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Checkmate Therapeutics Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Checkmate Therapeutics Inc. develops, discover and deliver therapeutics for patients suffering from cancer and other incurable diseases. The company was founded 2019 and is based Seoul, South Korea.

kukka

Private Placement in 2018
kukka, Inc. sells flowers for office space, atelier, showrooms, and events through retail stores and online. Its products include corporate event support flowers, promotional flower box, customer care flowers, and floral decorations. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Orum Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. engages in the research and development of therapeutic antibodies using cell penetrating antibody platform. Its platform targets specific cell types and adapts to different cell types and different intracellular proteins without chemical modifications. The company develops products for treatment of genetic diseases and cancer. ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. was founded in 2016 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.

Qoala

Private Placement in 2020
Qoala is a disruptive insure-tech company that leverages big-data, machine learning, IoT and blockchain aiming to revolutionise insurance landscape in Indonesia. We partner with big companies, including e-commerce and travel platforms, to enhance their customer experience through our unique and innovative insurance products.

BioProtect

Series D in 2020
BioProtect Ltd. is an international medical device startup. It is primarily engaged in to the business of developing and commercializing biodegradable balloon spacers for the protection of normal tissue during cancer radiation therapy. The company's current focus in the growing radiotherapy spacers market, where its ProSpace balloon spacer (CE marked) has shown superior efficacy and safety in protecting the rectum during radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The company's technology platform of biodegradable implantable balloons suits a wide range of applications for unmet clinical needs. BioProtect was founded in the year 2004 and headquartered in Israel, with subsidiaries in Germany and US.

Social Bean Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Social Bean Co., Ltd. manufactures personal products. Its products include firgi, tableware brand for kids; Hills, a dietary brand for animals; kakadu, a kitchen brand; little cloud, normal life, and petmoise. Social Bean Co., Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is based in Gimhae-si, South Korea.

Letinar Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
Founded in 2016, LetinAR Inc, a startup company made its appearance in the scene of Augmented Reality presenting a new paradigm-changing technology - PinMR™ lens. This technology was developed mainly to redress common failings found in current products; heavy and expensive hardware and deficient functions that inhibit the construction of real eyeglasses-shaped designs and render wearability and usability mediocre at best.

D'CENT

Series A in 2021
D'CENT provides cryptocurrency hardware wallet for keeping crypto assets secure.

BioProtect Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
BioProtect Ltd. designs and develops platform for biodegradable balloons. It provides clinical application, radiation oncology spacing, and aesthetics and general surgery which includes inducing biodegradable shields for cancer tissue treatments. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Kokhav Yair, Israel.

Zoyi

Private Placement in 2020
Zoyi Corporation develops customer analytic tools for retailers. The company offers Walk Insights, an offline retail analytics solution, that detects wireless signals from mobile devices to collect and store visitor data in real time. It also analyzes data from outside traffic, store visits, dwell time, and returning visitors. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Copin Communications

Series A in 2019
Copin Communications, Inc. develops contents such as characters and emoticons for corporate clients. Copin Communications, Inc. is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Space Walk

Private Placement in 2020
Space Walk CO.,LTD. develops big data and artificial intelligence architectural design technologies to the real estate development market. It offers Landbook that collects and analyzes big data for investment decisions to solve the asymmetric problem of real estate information. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Channel

Venture Round in 2020
Channel Corporation Co., Ltd. develops and operates a platform, which offers live chat, marketing, and team chat services. It provides live chat, marketing, and team chat services. Channel Corporation Co., Ltd. is based in Seoul, South Korea.

BOMAPP

Series A in 2019
Bomapp Inc. develops and provides an application for users to review and purchase insurance products. Bomapp Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Go2Joy

Series A in 2020
Go2Joy (고투조이) is a mobile O2O platform connecting local hotels & local hotel users in Vietnam. Go2Joy is 1st Hourly/Overnight booking enabled OTA in Vietnam, and No.1 Hourly Hotel Booking app for young Vietnamese with largest user base, largest hourly booking hotel inventory, largest coverage in Vietnam

Neuroptika, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Neuroptika, Inc. develops a therapeutic drug for nerves regeneration. It develops SI-01, a corneal nerve regeneration drug. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

rainist / 레이니스트

Series B in 2018
Rainist Co., Ltd.,a financial technology company, develops a financial application software called Banksalad which collects and analyzes financial data. It provides recommendations regarding expenditure analysis and personal financial management. Rainist Co., Ltd. was founded 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Ignis Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Ignis Therapeutics is a life science company developing innovative therapies in the field of the central nervous system. With a strong commitment to self-discovery and a development strategy to advance the treatment paradigm, Ignis Therapeutics transforms the approach to treating CNS conditions. Ignis Therapeutics is dedicated to developing products that significantly improve the lives of patients while also providing additional therapeutic options for physicians.

Mykoon Co.,Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Mykoon Co.,Ltd. designs and develops social radio mobile application. It allows users to create personal broadcasts, chatting with listeners, listen to user-generated content, and send gifts to preferred streamers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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.

Coinplug

Private Placement in 2019
Coinplug is a blockchain developing company leading the next generation of blockchain-based solutions and services, being a pioneer in the field since its founding in 2013 and with over 300 blockchain patents. The company is continuously innovating in the field of blockchain, focusing in the areas of Identity & Authentication (Decentralized Identity, Self-Sovereign Identity), Payment Solutions and Assets Management.

Promis Diagnostics

Private Placement in 2020
Promis Diagnostics, Inc. provides colorectal cancer screening services. It uses DNA methylation method for cancer screening. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Pasadena, California. Promis Diagnostics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Genomictree Inc.

Orum Therapeutics

Series B in 2019
ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. engages in the research and development of therapeutic antibodies using cell penetrating antibody platform. Its platform targets specific cell types and adapts to different cell types and different intracellular proteins without chemical modifications. The company develops products for treatment of genetic diseases and cancer. ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. was founded in 2016 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.

BioProtect

Series D in 2020
BioProtect Ltd. is an international medical device startup. It is primarily engaged in to the business of developing and commercializing biodegradable balloon spacers for the protection of normal tissue during cancer radiation therapy. The company's current focus in the growing radiotherapy spacers market, where its ProSpace balloon spacer (CE marked) has shown superior efficacy and safety in protecting the rectum during radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The company's technology platform of biodegradable implantable balloons suits a wide range of applications for unmet clinical needs. BioProtect was founded in the year 2004 and headquartered in Israel, with subsidiaries in Germany and US.

Seoul Robotics

Seed Round in 2019
Seoul Robotics Co.,Ltd. provides lidar perception software for 3D Object Detection and 3D computer vision. The company provide software for self driving cars. It offers software name, SENSR for detection, classification, tracking, and prediction. Seoul Robotics Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Orum Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2019
ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. engages in the research and development of therapeutic antibodies using cell penetrating antibody platform. Its platform targets specific cell types and adapts to different cell types and different intracellular proteins without chemical modifications. The company develops products for treatment of genetic diseases and cancer. ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. was founded in 2016 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.

Big Value

Seed Round in 2018
Big Value is a price analysis for multiplex houses.

MitoImmune Therapeutics Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
MitoImmune Therapeutics Inc. develops biologic drugs for treating inflammatory diseases and cancers through targeting mitochondrial. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

TomoCredit

Series A in 2021
TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum from Coinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.

SK biopharmaceuticals

Series A in 2021
SK biopharmaceuticals aims to become a top tier specialty pharmaceutical company with global new drugs & innovative pipeline in CNS / metabolic disorders and to provide world class specialized pharmaceutical manufacturing services.

Hasys

Private Placement in 2018
HASYS develops client management solutions for hair salons, skin care shops, and nail salons. It also develops solutions for beauty shops. HASYS was founded in 2000 and is based in Seongnam, South Korea with an additional office in Busan, South Korea.

ONDA

Series B in 2021
T Port Inc. is an accommodation management platform. T Port Inc.'s real-time reservation management book can easily manage all bookings on the computer or smartphone anytime, anywhere.

Orum Therapeutics

Series B in 2021
ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. engages in the research and development of therapeutic antibodies using cell penetrating antibody platform. Its platform targets specific cell types and adapts to different cell types and different intracellular proteins without chemical modifications. The company develops products for treatment of genetic diseases and cancer. ORUM THERAPEUTICS, INC. was founded in 2016 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.

rainist / 레이니스트

Series C in 2019
Rainist Co., Ltd.,a financial technology company, develops a financial application software called Banksalad which collects and analyzes financial data. It provides recommendations regarding expenditure analysis and personal financial management. Rainist Co., Ltd. was founded 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Tutoring

Series A in 2019
Tutoring is an on-demand mLearning Platform.

Seoul Robotics

Private Placement in 2019
Seoul Robotics Co.,Ltd. provides lidar perception software for 3D Object Detection and 3D computer vision. The company provide software for self driving cars. It offers software name, SENSR for detection, classification, tracking, and prediction. Seoul Robotics Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

EloElo

Series A in 2022
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WhaTap Inc.

Series A in 2018
WhaTap Inc. designs and develops a cloud-based software which provides server and database monitoring. It is used to preemptively warn users about potential risks or malfunctions, in real time, across multiple platforms: PC, mobile, and Apple Watch. The company is based in South Korea.

JAMJA

Seed Round in 2018
JAMJA Corp is a news aggregator in Vietnam. It designs and develops a platform for discount discovery on restaurants, fashion, and beauty products. The company offers Lazada, Adayroi, Tiki, Lotte, and Shopee discount codes. JAMJA Corp was founded in 2015 and is based in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Curiox Biosystems

Private Placement in 2019
Curiox is a bioinstrumentation company spun out of the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. Curiox has become a leader in the development and commercialization of innovative assay platforms based on its expertise in surface chemistry and engineering. Curiox’s vision is to accelerate the progress of life sciences, drug discovery and diagnostics through the miniaturization and improved automation of bioassays.

Mykoon Co.,Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
Mykoon Co.,Ltd. designs and develops social radio mobile application. It allows users to create personal broadcasts, chatting with listeners, listen to user-generated content, and send gifts to preferred streamers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Tera Funding

Series B in 2019
Tera Funding is a real estate investment firm in Seoul, South Korea. Tera Funding is a real estate P2P financial company that offers an online platform for small investors to provide first-tier small and medium-sized construction loans to businesses.