Strong Ventures

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market. With proven experience as operators, executives and entrepreneurs, we provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On top of our financial investment, we aim to provide tangible value to our entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking and execution collaboration. And, as we engage together in our venture endeavors, we hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where we build companies and labor in, a better, stronger and more fun place for all.

Kihong Bae

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

John Nahm

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

162 past transactions

Millibatt, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Millibatt, Inc. manufactures customized rechargeable batteries for consumer electronics devices. It offers lithium-ion batteries for small-scale applications. The company serves consumer electronic manufacturers. Millibatt, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Primer, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010. The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their new ventures.

Palate

Seed Round in 2016
Palate organizes the world's foodie photos to help you find the best dishes at a restaurant. The premier platform to connect restaurants and local Instagram Influencers. They make influencer marketing easy.

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.

Donggle

Seed Round in 2020
Donggle is a shopping platform that directly connects consumers and wholesalers and allows purchases at wholesale at a low price. It is based in Seoul, South Korea.

플랩풋볼 Plab Football

Seed Round in 2020
소셜 축구 풋살 경기 진행 서비스 Social Football, Futsal pickup game service Mission : 내가 하고 싶을 때, 하고 싶은 운동을 즐겁게 : When I want to do it, I enjoy the exercise that I want to do 혼자 와도 축구, 풋살 할 수 있다 '플랩풋볼 소셜 매치' 주말엔 우리 팀 랭킹 올리기 '원데이 팀 리그' "I can play soccer, futsal alone" #plabfootball "Raise your team rankings on the weekend" #OneDayTeamLeague

cellmeat CO., LTD.

Seed Round in 2020
cellmeat CO., LTD. produces meat for the food market. The company products include cultured meat. The company is based in Gwangju-si, South Korea.

Kidop

Seed Round in 2021
Kidop Co., Ltd. offers home schooling kits for school children. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Onuii

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

Streami, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Streami, Inc. develops and offers blockchain based solutions connecting and streamlining fragmented financial networks across the globe. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Dogmate

Seed Round in 2017
Dogmate is a service that introduces a proven dog carer that can take care of a dog left alone. They have a vision to make a world that can be happy with their companion animals.
We all collect things: shoes, figurines, albums; anything and everything we love. PICKIT introduces new solutions for the global collecting community, welcoming all the different ways to collect thereby enabling the most fun collecting experience possible, starting at our market adaptation with K-POP. We help worldwide K-Pop fandoms to easily and quickly buy, collect, and exchange items digitally. Our mission lies in building the best digital collectibles marketplace where millions of digital goods become the assets of our digital era.

Listly

Seed Round in 2021
Listly provides easy and efficient solution to extract data from websites.

Flybook

Seed Round in 2016
Flybook is a place closer to the book. Book recommendations, regular shipments, reading meetings, book reviews, book purchases, and more - all in one place.

LeadIQ

Series B in 2021
LeadIQ is transforming the sales prospecting landscape, by providing the fastest way to capture leads, discover emails and contact info, and enrich data with company information and social profiles. LeadIQ integrates with a large number of data source and finds the most comprehensive data to enrich profiles so sales teams can prequalify leads and focus on leads that really matter. Less time spent on unqualified leads means more time for closing deals and increasing the bottom line.

CHACARE

Seed Round in 2017
CHACARE is a operator of a car washing service platform.

tripolygon Co., Ltd

Seed Round in 2020
tripolygon Co., Ltd develops 3D modeling tools. Its tools offers 2D primitive shapes, UV editor, pivot point control, auto layout, and UV outlines. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

LeadIQ

Seed Round in 2016
LeadIQ is transforming the sales prospecting landscape, by providing the fastest way to capture leads, discover emails and contact info, and enrich data with company information and social profiles. LeadIQ integrates with a large number of data source and finds the most comprehensive data to enrich profiles so sales teams can prequalify leads and focus on leads that really matter. Less time spent on unqualified leads means more time for closing deals and increasing the bottom line.

Class101

Series A in 2019
Class101 Inc. develops an online platform that offers hobby classes and materials. The company offers various online courses, such as crafting, yoga, calligraphy, drawing, and cooking. It enables users to learn a new skill or hobby from practitioners in their respective fields. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

TomoCredit

Seed Round 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.

82 Labs

Series A in 2018
Sisun Lee first discovered magic elixirs designed to help with rough mornings after drinking while on a trip home to South Korea in 2016. Amazed by how effective they were, he dove into research and connected with Dr. Jing Liang, a DHM researcher and USC professor. From there, he created the first version of Morning Recovery, launched on Indiegogo, and raised over $250,000 from customers all over the world to get things going. They’ve been growing ever since.

Dogmate

Seed Round in 2016
Dogmate is a service that introduces a proven dog carer that can take care of a dog left alone. They have a vision to make a world that can be happy with their companion animals.

Soomgo

Series C in 2021
Soomgo is service marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 950+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. Their team consists of seasoned serial entrepreneurs, and the company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including Primer, Bon Angels, and Y Combinator (W17).

LeadIQ

Series B in 2021
LeadIQ is transforming the sales prospecting landscape, by providing the fastest way to capture leads, discover emails and contact info, and enrich data with company information and social profiles. LeadIQ integrates with a large number of data source and finds the most comprehensive data to enrich profiles so sales teams can prequalify leads and focus on leads that really matter. Less time spent on unqualified leads means more time for closing deals and increasing the bottom line.

Roovook

Seed Round in 2022
Room + Venue + Booking = Roovook! Provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. Even though hotel banquet/event segment is big part of MICE industry, still customers are having hard time finding right venue to hold their events. So Roovook provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. As a fast growing start-up, we are acknowledged by one of the best accelerator in Korea, called Primer and VC TBT(Naver). Thanks to our trustworthy partner hotels like IHG, Marriott, and Accor, we are no.1 hotel venue reservation platform in Korea and keep expanding our service to global market. We are making Roovook as "Expedia for event spaces" We are looking for our future teammates to make our vision and dream together!

Vital Hint Korea

Series A in 2016
VitalHint is a food & video contents-oriented platform in a combination of optimized data search and preference match based on individual user’s profiling. It launched mobile service approx. 2 years ago in Korea; keeps running one of top-notch applications leading Korea app market, especially in foodtech field; named best application of the year, 2015 in Android Google Play Store and No.1 app in iOS App Store. The number of regular subscribers has reached 1.5mil since service launched in 2014, and MAU increased up to 0.6mil this year. They started their mobile services in Korea, but now they are preparing to expand their biz path to SE Asia and China, and also looking for other business opportunities like personal recommendation service of food and cooking ingredients. The basic concept they are pursuing is to offer people a happy eating life as a gift. People eat at least 2 or 3 times a day, which means they have to make such a happy but hard decision at the same time: what shall we eat today? They just started focusing on such a primitive but essential question trying to figure out a solution; however their ideas and challenges are not limited to just ‘eating’ and ‘cooking’. They boost their creativities and explore new business possibilities, thinking YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. They ultimately seeking to offer seamless food curating services for people who want awesome dishes suiting their personal preferences. Eating itself is a very personal experience. They are keen to look deep into their personal dietary preferences and lifestyle, and offer them the best-optimized food contents using eye-catching visual formats like vivid gifs and videos – whet their appetite and make them slave over a stove spending hours cooking for their loving people.

Kairos Watches Inc

Seed Round in 2014
Kairos Watches Limited designs and manufactures mechanical smart watch hybrid. Its watches inform users with various notifications and push alerts; used as remote control for smart phones or tablet PCs; keeps users up to date with fitness activities; and chronograph features. The company provides its products for clients in Japan, the United States, Greece, Australia, Austria, the Russian Federation, and Germany. Kairos Watches Limited is based in South Korea.

bookoob

Seed Round in 2017
Books collected in bookoob can be borrowed by courier service for up to 25 books for 60 days anywhere in the country. Not only by providing library shelves as a space for individuals to keep their books and but also by managing books professionally, it has become a very useful service for book lovers who feel the burden of space due to many books. It is also impressive that it solves problems that the existing library has not solved. Regardless of offline accessibility, you can easily access and read the books you want via online library system, and there are enough books to borrow and read regardless of the budget size of the library.

Primer, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010. The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their new ventures.

Korbit

Seed Round in 2013
Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

TNT Crowd

Seed Round in 2015
Educast is an online lecture platform providing a convenient space to link students and teachers around the world. The website features a list of lectures that are ready to offer tutoring services to students on various topics and courses. All lecturers are listed in broad categories and users may browse and select their choice of tutor according to their requirement. The website also enables users to register as lecturers on the website, and connect with students who request their services.

tripolygon Co., Ltd

Series A in 2022
tripolygon Co., Ltd develops 3D modeling tools. Its tools offers 2D primitive shapes, UV editor, pivot point control, auto layout, and UV outlines. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Campusfund

Seed Round in 2017
Campusfund develops and operates an online crowdfunding platform that offers peer-to-peer (P2P) loan service for students. It enables students to apply loan services as per their requirement and investors to invest in bonds. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Bdsdiet

Seed Round in 2015
Bdsdiet is a technology-powered real estate brokerage that represents people buying and selling homes. Founded and run by technologists. bdsdiet.com features all of the for-sale-by-owner properties. Bdsdiet real estate agents work with the company's team of engineers to create tools that make the buying and selling process easier. The service is launched in December 2014. Bdsdiet's main competitors include real estate search services like Zigbang and Naver, and traditional real estate brokerages. None of their competitors combine online real estate search/technology tools and brokerage services. Customers can find historical price data, apartment review written by neighbors and everything about apartments. The Company was founded by Changwook Kim and is based in Seoul.

Sodit

Seed Round in 2016
Sodit is a real estate P2P financial platform. They provide investors with more profitable tech products and provide lenders with highly customized financing at the high interest rate.

Sketchware

Seed Round in 2017
Sketchware is a Scratch-like block programming based Android app development platform on an Android smartphone.

82 Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Sisun Lee first discovered magic elixirs designed to help with rough mornings after drinking while on a trip home to South Korea in 2016. Amazed by how effective they were, he dove into research and connected with Dr. Jing Liang, a DHM researcher and USC professor. From there, he created the first version of Morning Recovery, launched on Indiegogo, and raised over $250,000 from customers all over the world to get things going. They’ve been growing ever since.

Bratvillage

Series A in 2016
Bratvillage develops mobile applications for home repairing services. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Class101

Series B in 2021
Class101 Inc. develops an online platform that offers hobby classes and materials. The company offers various online courses, such as crafting, yoga, calligraphy, drawing, and cooking. It enables users to learn a new skill or hobby from practitioners in their respective fields. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

simplyO

Seed Round in 2019
simplyO is a marketplace for everyone and offers premium consumer goods at breakthrough prices. All ingredients are carefully weighed and secured, and attractive pricing is available to sell through Simprio's single-channel without multiple distribution steps.

Eggbun Education

Seed Round in 2016
Eggbun Education develops a mobile chat application to learn languages, such as Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. It offers Eggbun, an automated language tutor that helps to learn foreign languages using step-by-step method from characters to real life conversations. The company is based in Ansan, South Korea.

Korbit

Series A in 2017
Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

cellmeat CO., LTD.

Series A in 2022
cellmeat CO., LTD. produces meat for the food market. The company products include cultured meat. The company is based in Gwangju-si, South Korea.

Jubilee Media

Seed Round in 2022
Jubilee Media produces human centric videos. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

RushOrder

Seed Round in 2017
Based in Los Angeles, RushOrder is a food ordering technology company, focused on building the best mobile platform to connect hungry users with a uniquely curated restaurant network. RushOrder is built by an entrepreneurial team of hard-working and creative individuals, who truly care about making something that people will love. Established in 2013, RushOrder launched its full services to the public late 2014.

RushOrder

Seed Round in 2015
Based in Los Angeles, RushOrder is a food ordering technology company, focused on building the best mobile platform to connect hungry users with a uniquely curated restaurant network. RushOrder is built by an entrepreneurial team of hard-working and creative individuals, who truly care about making something that people will love. Established in 2013, RushOrder launched its full services to the public late 2014.

Sketchware

Seed Round in 2017
Sketchware is a Scratch-like block programming based Android app development platform on an Android smartphone.

Danggeun Market

Series D in 2021
Carrots Market is a second-hand direct app for residents near you.

Discotech Inc

Seed Round in 2016
There are over 15,000 nightlife venues in the US that do VIP table/bottle service and/or sell tickets. The nightlife space has historically seen very few technological advances, suffers from being extremely fragmented, lacking transparency, inefficient processes with unnecessary middleman, unsold inventory, and lack of user data/analytics. Discotech aims to solve this problem by allowing users to book tables, reserve guest lists, and buy tickets at clubs directly with the venue via a mobile app.

Soomgo

Series B in 2019
Soomgo is service marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 950+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. Their team consists of seasoned serial entrepreneurs, and the company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including Primer, Bon Angels, and Y Combinator (W17).

Loplat

Series A in 2016
Loplat develops a cloud-based platform for location data analysis. It offers a real-time locating system that delivers to track locations. The company offers analytical tools to transform real-time location data into operational intelligence. It provides a place recognition engine that recognizes registered places in the form of an application programming interface (API) to provide tools to analyze and manage which places customers visit. The company offers leaflet, a dashboard that analyzes the customer’s offline store behavior and tracks where a customer is in a store in real-time. Loplat was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Finda, inc.

Series A in 2016
Finda, inc. operates an online comparison platform to compare various financial products including mortgage, personal loans, P2P loans, and investments. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Plating

Series A in 2016
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.

Tapas Media

Seed Round in 2013
Tapas Media, Inc. owns and operates, Tapastic, an online platform and community for indie comic artists and visual storytellers. It specializes in creating visual stories online. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

WASHSWAT

Venture Round in 2018
Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is a little slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.

BuyerSight

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BuyerSight is an AI and predictive analytics platform to power sales managers leading teams at scale. BuyerSight collects data from sales reps’ email, calendars, and CRM, and uses AI and natural language processing (NLP) to deliver recommendations and insight to managers of customer-facing teams. Leaders can ensure quality control at scale, discover best practices, and engage in data-driven coaching. BuyerSight is based in New York City and was started by two Harvard classmates with a combined 24 years of B2B sales and software experience.

FIXNOW, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Fixnow is an on-demand repair service provider that allows you to get your mobile phone repair at the time and place you want.

SnackFever Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
SnackFever Inc. delivers snacks, candies, drinks, ramen products, and other treats on subscription basis in the United States. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

beSUCCESS

Seed Round in 2016
beSUCCESS operates as a media platform about startups, technology, and entrepreneurship. Its beSUCCESS supports and inspires readers by sharing interesting business ideas, success stories, resources, and trends from all over the world. The company was formerly known as OnSuccess. beSUCCESS is based in Seoul, South Korea.

MOIN, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
MOIN is a FinTech startup to solve problems of the current global remittance market. MOIN has developed a money transfer solution based on Blockchain technology. Without going through SWIFT network or intermediary banks, MOIN directly connects senders and receivers to make the wire process simpler, safer, faster, and more convenient with most affordable rates. The company was founded on March 21, 2016, and it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

piena inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Piena Baby Tender Touch Formula Maker is an award-winning, innovative appliance specially designed to make parents lives easier and babies happier. With a quick turn of the wheel, the Piena Tender Touch Baby Formula Maker dispenses a pre-measured amount of formula. Then it quickly heats the water to 212 degrees and cools it to the perfect temperature for your baby. The whole process takes just 2 minutes for a 4 oz standard bottle.

ODX Pte. Ltd

Seed Round in 2018
ODX is a data marketplace where publishers and internet service providers transact to deliver free internet access to consumers. It leverages blockchain technology and creates a network of trust, generating a truly open ecosystem. Through its data marketplace, ODX unites internet service providers and publishers to offer consumers free internet access via sponsored data packages. Its parent company is a consumer technology company, Xurpas Inc. In 2018, Nix Nolledo established the company in Makati, Manila.

GIBLIB

Seed Round in 2020
GIBLIB is a California-based company and is the "Netflix" of Medical Education. It is a place for surgeons to share medical lectures and surgical videos. Founded in 2015, GIBLIB is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

HOMEFIT

Seed Round in 2020
HOMEFIT Inc. provides on demand personal training services at home. It offers home fit programs, such as regular exercise, short term, and corporate/group programs. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

ODX Pte. Ltd

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
ODX is a data marketplace where publishers and internet service providers transact to deliver free internet access to consumers. It leverages blockchain technology and creates a network of trust, generating a truly open ecosystem. Through its data marketplace, ODX unites internet service providers and publishers to offer consumers free internet access via sponsored data packages. Its parent company is a consumer technology company, Xurpas Inc. In 2018, Nix Nolledo established the company in Makati, Manila.

Danggeun Market

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

Shakr.com

Seed Round in 2013
Shakr, the world’s leading creative technology platform for video marketing, has helped hundreds of thousands of marketers at brands worldwide succeed in the video first world of social media. We tap into the world’s top creative talent to multiply your creative output, with zero compromises on quality. Shakr is a Facebook Marketing Partner.

Glance

Seed Round in 2016
Glance Co publishes Startup Weekly, a weekly newsletter that provides news and information about IT startups. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Nspoons

Seed Round in 2016
Nspoons, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Ulsan, South Korea.

WASHSWAT

Seed Round in 2016
Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel. They innovate the market with IT technology. Laundromat started in Gangnam with the highest number of high-end cleaners in 2015 and walked step by step silently. In order to grow in the right direction even though it is a little slower than others, they did not rush to expand the region. Now it is Korea's No. 1 mobile laundry special service at the King of Seoul, Seongnam, Hanam, Goyang, Gwangmyeong, Yongin, Suwon, Anyang, and Gwacheon.

TryMoon

Seed Round in 2017
TryMoon offers a free home try on service to help you pick your perfect shoes.

Soomgo

Seed Round in 2017
Soomgo is service marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 950+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. Their team consists of seasoned serial entrepreneurs, and the company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including Primer, Bon Angels, and Y Combinator (W17).

Vital Hint Korea

Seed Round in 2015
VitalHint is a food & video contents-oriented platform in a combination of optimized data search and preference match based on individual user’s profiling. It launched mobile service approx. 2 years ago in Korea; keeps running one of top-notch applications leading Korea app market, especially in foodtech field; named best application of the year, 2015 in Android Google Play Store and No.1 app in iOS App Store. The number of regular subscribers has reached 1.5mil since service launched in 2014, and MAU increased up to 0.6mil this year. They started their mobile services in Korea, but now they are preparing to expand their biz path to SE Asia and China, and also looking for other business opportunities like personal recommendation service of food and cooking ingredients. The basic concept they are pursuing is to offer people a happy eating life as a gift. People eat at least 2 or 3 times a day, which means they have to make such a happy but hard decision at the same time: what shall we eat today? They just started focusing on such a primitive but essential question trying to figure out a solution; however their ideas and challenges are not limited to just ‘eating’ and ‘cooking’. They boost their creativities and explore new business possibilities, thinking YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. They ultimately seeking to offer seamless food curating services for people who want awesome dishes suiting their personal preferences. Eating itself is a very personal experience. They are keen to look deep into their personal dietary preferences and lifestyle, and offer them the best-optimized food contents using eye-catching visual formats like vivid gifs and videos – whet their appetite and make them slave over a stove spending hours cooking for their loving people.

Trazy Co.,Ltd.

Series B in 2019
Trazy started as two ladies duo who couldn’t help but decide that they needed to build a travel platform where travelers can truly discover the latest happenings in their travel destination. Despite how popular Korea’s becoming as a travel destination, they felt that it was still difficult for foreign travelers to find out what they can do and where they can visit. Since they also experienced how frustrating traveling was, they decided that they should provide the best deals and offers in the most convenient way possible for the foreign travelers coming to Korea.

Purse

Seed Round in 2014
The biggest challenge to Bitcoin commerce is the lack of consumer incentive to spend. Purse generates this incentive in the form of 15% discounts on Amazon. Buyers can purchase bitcoins with a credit card as easily as checking out on Amazon, thus solving the last mile problem.

Hanintel

Seed Round in 2012
Hanintel (한인텔) is a Korean hotel booking service that provides support services for travelers by finding reliable and affordable lodging at popular travel destinations. It offers a mobile app that allows travelers to find and book reasonable accommodation facilities at guest houses, villas, and hotels around the globe. Hanintel currently lists over 4,000 rooms from 58 cities, including Seoul, Tokyo, New York, Paris, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Rome, Sydney, and Shanghai.

LOLdoctor

Series A in 2016
LOLDoctor develops an online diagnostic solution for League Of Legend players based on actual data. The company is based in South Korea.

Brandboom

Seed Round in 2012
Brandboom is a content management and sales automation system that enables its users to generate PDF line sheets and price lists. It is a web application that works in conjunction with physical tradeshows to streamline the wholesale experience. BrandBoom not only provides immediate online feedback to sellers, it also allows spots for buyers to organize their choices while suggesting other options.

CHACARE

Seed Round in 2016
CHACARE is a operator of a car washing service platform.

Lightbound Studios, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Lightbound Studios is a game development studio with a simple goal - to create high quality games for kids and those who are kids at heart. The studio was founded in August 2014 by Artak Avakyan, a long-time video game developer who was responsible for many memorable cinematic moments in the God of War franchise. Artak worked on number of acclaimed AAA titles such as Medal Of Honor: European Assault, True Crime: New York City, God of War 2, 3, and Ascension. In June 2014 Artak left his position as Lead Cinematic Animator at Santa Monica Studio to open his own indie studio, Lightbound Studios and create his first solo mobile game project titled Star Chasers.

TNT Crowd

Seed Round in 2017
Educast is an online lecture platform providing a convenient space to link students and teachers around the world. The website features a list of lectures that are ready to offer tutoring services to students on various topics and courses. All lecturers are listed in broad categories and users may browse and select their choice of tutor according to their requirement. The website also enables users to register as lecturers on the website, and connect with students who request their services.

GLOBAL TOP ROUND

Seed Round in 2015
GTR is an interactive accelerator program dedicated to supporting small studios from all over the world with the development, publishing, and fundraising expertise they need to take their content global and make their businesses sustainable. GTR selects up to 10 games annually for the program, which provides funding, game development and culturalization support, global publisher exposure, fundraising assistance, and an extensive global network of professionals to give them the feedback they need to take their studios and projects to the next level.

Miso

Seed Round in 2016
Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.

Kidop

Seed Round in 2020
Kidop Co., Ltd. offers home schooling kits for school children. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Loplat

Series A in 2016
Loplat develops a cloud-based platform for location data analysis. It offers a real-time locating system that delivers to track locations. The company offers analytical tools to transform real-time location data into operational intelligence. It provides a place recognition engine that recognizes registered places in the form of an application programming interface (API) to provide tools to analyze and manage which places customers visit. The company offers leaflet, a dashboard that analyzes the customer’s offline store behavior and tracks where a customer is in a store in real-time. Loplat was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Soomgo

Series A in 2018
Soomgo is service marketplace where customers and local professionals for over 950+ services come together. Their services range from private music lessons and home cleaning to wedding planning and web development among many more. Their team consists of seasoned serial entrepreneurs, and the company is backed by leading institutions in both South Korea and the United States including Primer, Bon Angels, and Y Combinator (W17).

Pragma

Seed Round in 2017
PragmaGO is a provider of investment capital and reduces the risk of payment gridlocks to companies. Its financial products include factoring, leasing, and loans that are tailored to clients' needs and available to any company, including start-ups. Debt collection services allow clients to ensure discipline in the payment of recipients, even in the event of an imbalance in the market position of business partners. However, legal services offered by Pragma allows its clients to take care of its business in advance. Michal Kolmasiak established the Tarnowskie Góry, Slaskie-headquartered company in 1996.

Hellocafe

Seed Round in 2016
Hellocafe is a mobile app that connects people at cafes for conversation in a second language. Users are able to meet with Coaches who approach learning in a social way. Once a meeting time and place is requested, Coaches respond so that the preferred one can be selected. Right now, the marketplace supports the learning of English in Seoul, and our goal is to help people achieve fluency through lifestyle rather than curriculum. 헬로카페는 사람들이 카페에서 만나 서로 외국어로 대화할 수 있도록 연결시켜주는 모바일 애플리케이션입니다. 사용자들은 '코치'들과 어울리는 과정에서 자연스럽게 언어를 배울 수 있습니다. 원하는 시간과 장소에서 미팅을 요청한 후, 자신이 선호하는 코치를 선택하는 방식입니다. 현재는 서울 지역과 영어 스피킹에 한하여 서비스를 제공하고 있으며, 헬로카페의 목적은 고정된 커리큘럼이 아닌 일상속에서 언어 실력을 향상시킬 수 있도록 도와주는 것입니다.

Storytime Studios, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Storytime Studios, Inc. develops and provides an animated messaging application for smart phones and tablets. The company's product allows users to create animated shorts such as memes and remixes from their own photographs and ready-to-use backgrounds, props, and other objects. The company offers StoryStarter, an idea factory for skit makers; SKIT! Outfits, for dressing up your friends with; SKIT! Text, to add custom phrases with; and SKIT! Gallery, to import photos and search for images. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts.

Sodit

Series A in 2016
Sodit is a real estate P2P financial platform. They provide investors with more profitable tech products and provide lenders with highly customized financing at the high interest rate.

pplink, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
ppLINK is creating a communication environment in which businesses can be easily and started and conducted by anyone. Our products, provide a seamless experience and connects people globally, unlocking their potential through technology. ppLINK is a privately held company, and is located in Seoul, South Korea.

Onuii

Seed Round in 2016
A mathematical problem solving application for middle and high school students.

Tumblbug

Series A in 2016
Tumblbug is an online Korean crowdfunding site that enables independent creators to get their art and cultural content funded. Users can submit their projects under art, cartoon, design, fashion, film, cooking, publishing, technology, and music. Tumblbug was launched by Jaeseung Yeom in 2011 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

TNT Crowd

Seed Round in 2015
Educast is an online lecture platform providing a convenient space to link students and teachers around the world. The website features a list of lectures that are ready to offer tutoring services to students on various topics and courses. All lecturers are listed in broad categories and users may browse and select their choice of tutor according to their requirement. The website also enables users to register as lecturers on the website, and connect with students who request their services.

Bratvillage

Series A in 2016
Bratvillage develops mobile applications for home repairing services. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Jubilee Media

Seed Round in 2017
Jubilee Media produces human centric videos. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Flow State Media

Venture Round in 2017
We’re an angel-backed gaming company focused on creating premium quality social and mobile games. We love games. We play games. And we’ve worked on some of the biggest franchises in gaming such as Call of Duty, Zynga Poker, FarmVille, and Midnight Club. We aim to leverage our development and marketing experience to create accessible, yet engaging games that reach millions of satisfied players. By focusing on creating simple, social, and polished games, we’re confident in our ability to be the next runaway success in gaming.

MOIN, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
MOIN is a FinTech startup to solve problems of the current global remittance market. MOIN has developed a money transfer solution based on Blockchain technology. Without going through SWIFT network or intermediary banks, MOIN directly connects senders and receivers to make the wire process simpler, safer, faster, and more convenient with most affordable rates. The company was founded on March 21, 2016, and it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

24crew

Seed Round in 2016
24crew is provider of moving services.

Koreaboo, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Koreaboo, Inc., operates as an online media company that produces and distributes motion pictures. It focuses on reporting the news related to K-Pop, including celebrities, music, movies, and dramas. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Korbit

Series A in 2014
Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

Tumblbug

Series A in 2015
Tumblbug is an online Korean crowdfunding site that enables independent creators to get their art and cultural content funded. Users can submit their projects under art, cartoon, design, fashion, film, cooking, publishing, technology, and music. Tumblbug was launched by Jaeseung Yeom in 2011 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Bolstra

Seed Round in 2016
Bolstra, LLC provides a Software-as-a-Service game-changing software solution that enables B2B companies to optimize their customer success outcomes, recurring revenue, and lifetime value. The company was formerly known as ConsulTeams, LLC and changed its name to Bolstra, LLC in July 2016. Bolstra, LLC was founded in 2014 and is based in Carmel, Indiana.

Nspoons

Seed Round in 2016
Nspoons, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Ulsan, South Korea.

Poprageous, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
POPRAGEOUS is an American printed apparel brand inspired by art, pop culture, and its customers. It manufactures and commercializes printed apparel for women. The company offers premium leggings, suspender leggings, dresses, onesie swimsuits, skater skirts, crop tops, and gift cards. POPRAGEOUS was founded in December 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Recomio

Seed Round in 2012
Recomio is a recommendation engine API and platform for small and medium/large enterprises.

WhiteCoat Healthcare

Seed Round in 2016
WhiteCoat increases patient access to primary care and urgent care with personalized medical treatment at your home, for less than the cost of an urgent care or ER visit. Urgent Care and Primary Care To Your Home for $99 with insurance from 8 am - midnight, 7 days a week. No appointment needed.

Eggbun Education

Seed Round in 2017
Eggbun Education develops a mobile chat application to learn languages, such as Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. It offers Eggbun, an automated language tutor that helps to learn foreign languages using step-by-step method from characters to real life conversations. The company is based in Ansan, South Korea.

Rael

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Danggeun Market

Series A in 2016
Carrots Market is a second-hand direct app for residents near you.

Rael

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Bdsdiet

Seed Round in 2016
Bdsdiet is a technology-powered real estate brokerage that represents people buying and selling homes. Founded and run by technologists. bdsdiet.com features all of the for-sale-by-owner properties. Bdsdiet real estate agents work with the company's team of engineers to create tools that make the buying and selling process easier. The service is launched in December 2014. Bdsdiet's main competitors include real estate search services like Zigbang and Naver, and traditional real estate brokerages. None of their competitors combine online real estate search/technology tools and brokerage services. Customers can find historical price data, apartment review written by neighbors and everything about apartments. The Company was founded by Changwook Kim and is based in Seoul.

SnackFever Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
SnackFever Inc. delivers snacks, candies, drinks, ramen products, and other treats on subscription basis in the United States. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Starpics

Seed Round in 2017
Starpics can be your professional camera on your mobile phone. You can make your own photo effects and filters. Your precious moment can be even more brightened.

Class101

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Class101 Inc. develops an online platform that offers hobby classes and materials. The company offers various online courses, such as crafting, yoga, calligraphy, drawing, and cooking. It enables users to learn a new skill or hobby from practitioners in their respective fields. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Flow State Media

Seed Round in 2014
We’re an angel-backed gaming company focused on creating premium quality social and mobile games. We love games. We play games. And we’ve worked on some of the biggest franchises in gaming such as Call of Duty, Zynga Poker, FarmVille, and Midnight Club. We aim to leverage our development and marketing experience to create accessible, yet engaging games that reach millions of satisfied players. By focusing on creating simple, social, and polished games, we’re confident in our ability to be the next runaway success in gaming.

ChannelMeter, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
ChannelMeter is a software platform for online video analytics and influencer management for creator networks, brands, and agencies. They help media companies and brands leverage the power of online video influencers and their massive audiences by providing software for discovery, enrollment, accounting, payments, and tools necessary for a successful online video network. ChannelMeter provides technology for successful creator partnerships, powerful social video analytics, and robust sales tools necessary for success in social video. It delivers an intuitive, powerful suite of metrics from top social video platforms. ChannelMeter was established in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Brandboom

Seed Round in 2013
Brandboom is a content management and sales automation system that enables its users to generate PDF line sheets and price lists. It is a web application that works in conjunction with physical tradeshows to streamline the wholesale experience. BrandBoom not only provides immediate online feedback to sellers, it also allows spots for buyers to organize their choices while suggesting other options.

Crunch Company Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
FlyingCat is Wish for Korea.

82 Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Sisun Lee first discovered magic elixirs designed to help with rough mornings after drinking while on a trip home to South Korea in 2016. Amazed by how effective they were, he dove into research and connected with Dr. Jing Liang, a DHM researcher and USC professor. From there, he created the first version of Morning Recovery, launched on Indiegogo, and raised over $250,000 from customers all over the world to get things going. They’ve been growing ever since.

Trazy Co.,Ltd.

Series A in 2016
Trazy started as two ladies duo who couldn’t help but decide that they needed to build a travel platform where travelers can truly discover the latest happenings in their travel destination. Despite how popular Korea’s becoming as a travel destination, they felt that it was still difficult for foreign travelers to find out what they can do and where they can visit. Since they also experienced how frustrating traveling was, they decided that they should provide the best deals and offers in the most convenient way possible for the foreign travelers coming to Korea.

WhiteCoat Healthcare

Seed Round in 2015
WhiteCoat increases patient access to primary care and urgent care with personalized medical treatment at your home, for less than the cost of an urgent care or ER visit. Urgent Care and Primary Care To Your Home for $99 with insurance from 8 am - midnight, 7 days a week. No appointment needed.

Poprageous, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
POPRAGEOUS is an American printed apparel brand inspired by art, pop culture, and its customers. It manufactures and commercializes printed apparel for women. The company offers premium leggings, suspender leggings, dresses, onesie swimsuits, skater skirts, crop tops, and gift cards. POPRAGEOUS was founded in December 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

TryMoon

Seed Round in 2016
TryMoon offers a free home try on service to help you pick your perfect shoes.

Nspoons

Seed Round in 2017
Nspoons, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Ulsan, South Korea.

Tapas Media

Series A in 2017
Tapas Media, Inc. owns and operates, Tapastic, an online platform and community for indie comic artists and visual storytellers. It specializes in creating visual stories online. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Orights.com

Seed Round in 2016
Orights.com is an online and offline content licensing platform for the business-to-business market. The online platform connects book publishers and agencies around the world.

Hellocafe

Seed Round in 2014
Hellocafe is a mobile app that connects people at cafes for conversation in a second language. Users are able to meet with Coaches who approach learning in a social way. Once a meeting time and place is requested, Coaches respond so that the preferred one can be selected. Right now, the marketplace supports the learning of English in Seoul, and our goal is to help people achieve fluency through lifestyle rather than curriculum. 헬로카페는 사람들이 카페에서 만나 서로 외국어로 대화할 수 있도록 연결시켜주는 모바일 애플리케이션입니다. 사용자들은 '코치'들과 어울리는 과정에서 자연스럽게 언어를 배울 수 있습니다. 원하는 시간과 장소에서 미팅을 요청한 후, 자신이 선호하는 코치를 선택하는 방식입니다. 현재는 서울 지역과 영어 스피킹에 한하여 서비스를 제공하고 있으며, 헬로카페의 목적은 고정된 커리큘럼이 아닌 일상속에서 언어 실력을 향상시킬 수 있도록 도와주는 것입니다.

Stipop Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Stipop is a white-label sticker API solution that empowers apps to provide great functional stickers. Our sticker API will help you engage users, lead the market trend, and bring immediate impact to your services. With over 250,000+ stickers for messages, video and profile icons, created by 7,000 global artists, we are improving the daily communication of millions of users around the world. Add some fun and empathy with stickers and enrich your chat experience.

pplink, Inc.

Series A in 2020
ppLINK is creating a communication environment in which businesses can be easily and started and conducted by anyone. Our products, provide a seamless experience and connects people globally, unlocking their potential through technology. ppLINK is a privately held company, and is located in Seoul, South Korea.

Miso

Series A in 2018
Miso provides Instantly book quality home services in South Korea with Miso's apps for iOS and Android.

Switcher

Series A in 2017
Switcher, Developer of intuitive and intelligent lighting products designed to create smart homes for everyone.

MagTag Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
MagTag A tool to find matches for the looks people love. Discover: browse through looks and product matches. Follow: Follow celebrities and stylists to get up to date looks and shopping guides. Get Styled: Post their dream look and the MagTag community will share their shopping finds. Become a Stylist: Every time them post a look or match a product, people build a following based on their looks and shopping matches.