Smilegate Investment

Smilegate Investment, established in 1999 as MVP Capital, is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Seongnam, South Korea. The firm focuses on investing in small and mid-sized companies, primarily targeting opportunities within the Korean market. Since its inception, Smilegate Investment has successfully organized and managed over 30 funds, making investments in more than 200 companies with strong growth potential. Among its notable initiatives are various venture capital funds, including the Smilegate Culture Industry Investment Fund, the Smilegate Orange Fund, and the Smilegate Pioneer Venture Fund, all of which are aimed at supporting innovative businesses in diverse sectors.

Heung-Sun Chang

Director

Won-Jang Go

Director

Yeong-gwon Gu

Executive VP and Head of Investment Division 2

Jeong-hoon Kang

Director

Kyoung-Hwan Kim

VP

Doo-Hoon Kim

Senior Associate

Young-Kwon Ku

President

Jong Ho Lee

Managing Director

Chan-yeol Lee

Vice President and General Manager

Jong-Ho Lee

Senior Vice President

Ki-Mun Nam

CEO

Ki- moon Nam

Chief Executive Officer

Ki-Moon Nam

CEO, Partner

Hoon-Gon Nam

Senior Manager

Mun-Kyu Park

SVP

Jong-Hyuk Park

EVP, Partner

Sang-Sun Park

Vice President and General Manager

Jung In Park

Director

Jung-In Park

VP

94 past transactions

Buymed

Series B in 2023
Buymed operates a digital pharmaceuticals distribution platform in Vietnam, known as Thuocsi.vn. Founded in 2018 and based in Ho Chi Minh City, the platform supplies a wide range of healthcare products, including medicines, cosmetics, medical devices, and supplements. It serves over 1,000 pharmacies and clinics across the country, offering detailed product information such as pricing and active ingredients. Additionally, Thuocsi.vn features a communication network that provides important updates, including product recalls. The company is recognized as a successful startup in the medical technology sector, attracting young talent eager to integrate advanced technology into healthcare solutions.

Pion

Series A in 2023
Pion Corporation is an Martech focused video intelligence company. We provide “Vispot”, a video creation and ad-automation platform powered by AI.

Travel Wallet

Series C in 2023
Developer of a mobile-based foreign currency platform designed to provide digital travel wallet services. The company's platform includes a currency exchange service, real-time exchange rates, an exchange rate calculator, local cash pick-up, physical card issuance, and an exchange rate graph, enabling tourists and business travelers to get fast and easy money exchange service at a competitive rate compared to retail banks.

Buymed

Series B in 2023
Buymed operates a digital pharmaceuticals distribution platform in Vietnam, known as Thuocsi.vn. Founded in 2018 and based in Ho Chi Minh City, the platform supplies a wide range of healthcare products, including medicines, cosmetics, medical devices, and supplements. It serves over 1,000 pharmacies and clinics across the country, offering detailed product information such as pricing and active ingredients. Additionally, Thuocsi.vn features a communication network that provides important updates, including product recalls. The company is recognized as a successful startup in the medical technology sector, attracting young talent eager to integrate advanced technology into healthcare solutions.

ConnectionH

Seed Round in 2022
ConnectionH provides big data-based artificial intelligence services.

AmazeVR

Series B in 2022
AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform that specializes in creating and distributing high-quality immersive music experiences. Founded in 2015 by former executives of Kakao, the company offers an end-to-end solution that includes advanced technologies such as ultra-high-resolution custom cameras and cloud-based creation tools. AmazeVR enables fans to attend live concerts in virtual reality, thereby enhancing the connection between artists and audiences. The platform facilitates both offline distribution through events like the Amaze Tour, which adheres to COVID-19 safety guidelines, and online distribution via the Amaze Music app and other media platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. By vertically integrating its distribution channels, AmazeVR aims to expand artists' reach and foster engaging social interactions among fans, who can connect as avatars in a shared virtual space.

UCI Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
UCI Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to address the limitations of current treatments. The company specializes in multi-target fusion CAR-NKJ cell therapies, employing a cell-based fusion approach to enhance the effectiveness of immune cell therapies in treating solid tumors. By targeting multiple pathways, UCI Therapeutics aims to improve patient outcomes in cancer treatment and overcome the challenges faced by existing drugs in the market.

Momo Project

Seed Round in 2022
Momo Project is a pet wellness platform that provides personalized recommendations on each pet's nutrition. A well-balanced diet is critical for all pets, but most owners have difficulties with finding the right nutrition at each stage of life for their pets. Momo Project aggregates data on all pet food and supplements in the United States, analyzing and categorizing them on behalf of pet owners so they save time and energy, allowing them to spend more quality time with their pets.

Linq

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Wecover Platforms builds artificially intelligent robots for businesses, including legal firms, financial sectors, insurance companies, and research and marketing sectors.

Biorchestra

Series C in 2022
Developer of ribonucleic acid-based therapeutics intended to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The company's therapeutics include candidates for Alzheimer's disease, m-ribonucleic acid vaccine and drug delivery systems for ribonucleic acid candidates, enabling doctors to improve the health of humankind.

MedInTech

Series A in 2022
Mediintech develops smart endoscopes for the digestive system.

Law&Company

Series C in 2022
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.

Earable Neuroscience

Seed Round in 2022
Earable™ is an earbud packed with biosensors for convenient health quantification. It is much more convenient than current devices used in hospitals because it has the smallest form factor given its accuracy and sensing capability. Unlike other wearables, Earable™ has more sensors, is located on the head, and uses proprietary machine learning algorithms for higher accuracy of bioelectric analysis.

AmazeVR

Venture Round in 2022
AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform that specializes in creating and distributing high-quality immersive music experiences. Founded in 2015 by former executives of Kakao, the company offers an end-to-end solution that includes advanced technologies such as ultra-high-resolution custom cameras and cloud-based creation tools. AmazeVR enables fans to attend live concerts in virtual reality, thereby enhancing the connection between artists and audiences. The platform facilitates both offline distribution through events like the Amaze Tour, which adheres to COVID-19 safety guidelines, and online distribution via the Amaze Music app and other media platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. By vertically integrating its distribution channels, AmazeVR aims to expand artists' reach and foster engaging social interactions among fans, who can connect as avatars in a shared virtual space.

SSEM

Series A in 2022
Developer of a tax filing application designed to help sole proprietors. The company provides services to help clients to calculate and report global income tax and value-added tax easily and conveniently, enabling users to focus on their business without worrying about taxes.

ViFiVE

Venture Round in 2022
ViFiVE is a software development company that has recently launched a patient app focused on remote therapeutic monitoring. The platform is designed specifically for individuals with musculoskeletal disorders, offering self-assessment tools to monitor health parameters. Through its application, ViFiVE enables users to track their compliance and outcomes effectively, promoting a healthier lifestyle. The company also provides an online inquiry form on its website for potential users and partners to engage with its services.

Archipin

Series A in 2021
Archipin is an edtech company with online and e-learning provisions for children.

Press.A

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

Ambys Medicines

Series A in 2021
Ambys Medicines, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2016. The company focuses on discovering and developing innovative therapies for severe liver diseases. Its approach includes gene therapy, drug therapy, and cell therapy, aiming to restore liver function, halt the progression of liver disease, and address the serious complications associated with liver failure. Through its research and development efforts, Ambys Medicines seeks to significantly improve the quality of life for individuals affected by liver-related health issues.

ALLO

Seed Round in 2021
ALLO is a developer of a modern visual workspace platform designed to enhance productivity through effective collaboration. The platform provides a unique experience by allowing users to collect and organize ideas in one central location. It promotes teamwork by facilitating communication among team members and offers web-based invites that enable seamless integration with other applications. This approach helps clients improve their collaborative efforts, ensuring that all ideas and resources are easily accessible and well-organized.

Fount

Series C in 2021
Fount Inc., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, operates as an asset management Robo-Advisor company. The firm offers Bluewhale, a Robo-Advisor engine that utilizes financial engineering technology and asset allocation theories to determine the optimal combination of assets for investors. Fount employs a proprietary investing algorithm based on Big Data technology, which assists clients in planning for various life events. The company emphasizes a passive investing strategy, aligning risk levels with clients' specific time horizons and allowing advanced algorithms to manage investments efficiently.

Buymed

Series B in 2021
Buymed operates a digital pharmaceuticals distribution platform in Vietnam, known as Thuocsi.vn. Founded in 2018 and based in Ho Chi Minh City, the platform supplies a wide range of healthcare products, including medicines, cosmetics, medical devices, and supplements. It serves over 1,000 pharmacies and clinics across the country, offering detailed product information such as pricing and active ingredients. Additionally, Thuocsi.vn features a communication network that provides important updates, including product recalls. The company is recognized as a successful startup in the medical technology sector, attracting young talent eager to integrate advanced technology into healthcare solutions.

Mathpresso, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Mathpresso, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Seoul, South Korea, established in 2015. It operates Qanda, a data-driven platform that leverages artificial intelligence and optical character recognition (OCR) technology to assist students with their studies. Users can take a photo of a question or problem, which the platform then analyzes to provide solutions and explanations. Qanda covers a wide range of subjects, including mathematics, Korean history, social studies, and science. The platform is designed to facilitate learning by allowing students to engage with tutors and access answers in real time. As of this year, Qanda has attracted over one million users in South Korea, making it a significant resource for students seeking help with homework and exam preparation.

Moloco

Series C in 2021
Moloco Inc., founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in providing technology solutions for mobile apps to manage their own advertising businesses. The company offers a cloud service that encompasses all necessary components for running targeted re-engagement campaigns, including its mobile e-commerce platform, TMON. Moloco aims to deliver quality and scalability for both advertisers and publishers, leveraging a team of skilled professionals with backgrounds from leading tech companies. Its mission is to empower mobile businesses to thrive in a competitive market.

CLASSUM

Series A in 2021
CLASSUM is an interactive learning platform for higher education. CLASSUM aims to make communication easy, simple and smart for better education. With its unique UI/UX, which is based on chatting UI and SNS features, it lowers the communication barrier between the users(students and instructors). Also with their A.I./Big-data analysis technique, CLASSUM provides users an in-depth class report which can be applied to improve their class and gain overall information about their students and the course.

Moloco

Series C in 2021
Moloco Inc., founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in providing technology solutions for mobile apps to manage their own advertising businesses. The company offers a cloud service that encompasses all necessary components for running targeted re-engagement campaigns, including its mobile e-commerce platform, TMON. Moloco aims to deliver quality and scalability for both advertisers and publishers, leveraging a team of skilled professionals with backgrounds from leading tech companies. Its mission is to empower mobile businesses to thrive in a competitive market.

Qraft Technologies

Series C in 2021
Qraft Technologies Inc., founded in 2016 and based in Seoul, South Korea, specializes in designing and developing artificial intelligence-based solutions tailored for the asset management, trading, and insurance sectors. The company focuses on maximizing productivity and enhancing marketability by leveraging data-driven insights. Initially targeting investment professionals, Qraft Technologies provides tools to identify optimal trading strategies. Its offerings are customizable and extend beyond finance to include applications in autonomous driving, insurance underwriting, and purchasing management, reflecting the company's commitment to utilizing AI across diverse business needs.

WELT

Series B in 2021
From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & Healthcare WELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness. We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight. To do this, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring (1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits. To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages to manage these risks are given through the app via BLE. Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt. Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.

AffyXell Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
AffyXell was established in January 2020 by Avacta and Daewoong as a joint venture to develop novel mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapies.

Cashfree

Series B in 2020
Cashfree Payments India Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based payments and banking technology company established in 2015. It provides a comprehensive payment platform that facilitates online and mobile wallet transactions for over 50,000 businesses in India. Its offerings include an online payments kit featuring a payment gateway, API-driven bank transfers, and automatic reconciliation of inward NEFT/RTGS payments. Cashfree also supports marketplace settlements, invoicing, cash-on-delivery e-payments, and the generation of payment links. The company serves a variety of prominent clients, including Cred, BigBasket, Zomato, and HDFC Ergo, enabling them to efficiently collect payments, manage vendor payouts, and disburse instant loans.

MyRealTrip

Venture Round in 2020
MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip is constantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

TAU-PNU MEDICAL

Series B in 2020
TAU is developing state-of-the-art minimally invasive catheter-based surgical methodologies for treating structural heart diseases like Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation (TR), Mitral Valve Regurgitation (MR), Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM), and Heart arrhythmia.

SN BioScience

Series B in 2020
SN BioScience provide nano-formulation screening services for small molecule, oligonucleotide (siRNA, DNA), peptide and protein to deliver in the form of nano-micelle, nanoparticle or liposome. Their proprietary “double core-shell technology” and pool of acceptable lipids and polymers could help your research that having difficulties in solubility or delivery.

Motion2AI

Seed Round in 2020
Motion2AI provides intelligent solutions with SLAM and machine learning for warehouse efficiency and safety.

Hoozing

Seed Round in 2020
Hoozing is an online marketplace for searching and renting long term accommodations aiming at making house renting accessible, hassle-free and trustful for everyone. Their business model connects people and builds a “community of renters"​, where all the listings are acquired from current tenants who are about to move out. People who search for a house would get the chance to talk to them and receive many insider tips about the house and its neighbourhood.

Cochl

Series A in 2020
Cochl is a research-oriented company based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in Machine Listening technology. Founded in 2017, the company aims to enhance audio signal processing beyond traditional speech recognition, enabling AI systems to comprehend a wide range of non-verbal sounds, such as animal noises, laughter, and alarms. This technology has applications across various sectors, including smart home devices, robotics, automotive industries, and search engines. Cochl's contributions to the field have garnered recognition, including being named a top AI startup in autonomous systems by NVIDIA and achieving accolades in the prestigious IEEE DCASE competition. The co-founders of Cochl include Donmoon Lee, Hyungui Lim, Il-young Jeong, Jeongsoo Park, Subin Lee, and Yoonchang Han.

Sapo.vn

Series A in 2020
Sapo Technology JSC, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam, specializes in developing a comprehensive sales and management platform tailored for retail businesses. The company offers a range of products, including Sapo POS, which provides sales management solutions, and Sapo Web, which focuses on website design. In 2018, Sapo merged with its earlier product Bizweb, solidifying its position as a leading multi-channel management platform in Vietnam with over 47,000 customers. Sapo's offerings also include Sapo Social for fanpage management and Sapo Omnichannel, which integrates online and offline sales. Through these solutions, Sapo assists clients in managing orders, inventory, and overall business operations, enabling them to optimize their sales processes efficiently.

Cytovant

Venture Round in 2020
Cytovant is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel and innovative cellular therapeutics in Asia. The company specializes in developing modified T-cell receptor therapeutics and dendritic cell vaccines that target tumor antigens to improve tumor cells therapy and treatment.

onepredict

Series B in 2019
Established in 2016, OnePredict is a leader in industrial AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology and 9 time winner of the 'Global PHM Data Challenge' for the best industrial AI based Machine Digitalization & Intelligence solutions. OnePredict provides advanced AI solutions, the GuardiOne® Series, Cells, Edge, and Cloud solutions. GuardiOne® specializes in industrial AI solutions such as bearings, turbines, wind (wind farm), transformers, robots, and motors, and is expanding to various other industries.

CLASSUM

Venture Round in 2019
CLASSUM is an interactive learning platform for higher education. CLASSUM aims to make communication easy, simple and smart for better education. With its unique UI/UX, which is based on chatting UI and SNS features, it lowers the communication barrier between the users(students and instructors). Also with their A.I./Big-data analysis technique, CLASSUM provides users an in-depth class report which can be applied to improve their class and gain overall information about their students and the course.

Lozi

Series B in 2019
Lozi Joint Stock Company, founded in 2014 and based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, operates an extensive e-commerce platform that addresses various consumer needs through its one-hour delivery service, Loship. The platform caters to a wide range of services including food, grocery, laundry, medicine, and flower delivery, as well as ride-hailing and B2B supply delivery. With a robust network of over 70,000 drivers and 200,000 merchants, Lozi serves nearly 2 million customers across major cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, and Can Tho. The company's innovative mobile application also assists users in discovering food, drink, and café options, enhancing the convenience of urban living in Vietnam.

Coinplug

Series B in 2019
Coinplug, Inc., founded in 2013 and based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, is a blockchain development company that specializes in a range of solutions and services leveraging blockchain technology. The company operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform known as CPDAX, along with an electronic wallet service and an online point-of-sale system. Additionally, Coinplug offers Metadium, a verification platform based on blockchain, and CP Cube, a business-to-business platform that integrates blockchain and public key infrastructure technologies. Its services include SBI Cosmoney, an international remittance solution, and CP Solution, which utilizes a blockchain platform called fidoledger. With a focus on innovation, Coinplug holds over 300 blockchain patents and is actively involved in developing solutions for identity and authentication, payment processing, and asset management.

Raonsecure

Venture Round in 2019
Raonsecure Co., Ltd. is an ICT security software company based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in security solutions for financial institutions, government entities, and enterprises. Founded in 1998 and originally named Lumensoft Ltd., the company changed its name in 2012. Raonsecure primarily offers TouchEn OnePass, a biometric authentication solution designed for various applications, including payments, mobile banking, and fintech services. The company is also engaged in ICT security consulting and holds multiple patents in integrated security technologies, focusing on human/device authentication and FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) protocols based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology. Through its innovative products and services, Raonsecure aims to enhance security measures in the digital landscape.

D&D Pharmatech

Series B in 2019
D&D Pharmatech Co., Ltd. is a clinical-stage biotech company based in Seongnam, South Korea, established in 2014. The company focuses on developing innovative medicines across various therapeutic areas, including neurodegenerative, fibrotic, and metabolic diseases. It operates through disease-specific subsidiary companies that are guided by leading medical research faculty, facilitating the translation of advanced research into viable therapeutic products. D&D Pharmatech's expertise encompasses drug research and development, manufacturing quality control, and clinical development. Additionally, the company is involved in the development of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging biomarkers and single-cell sequencing technologies related to degenerative brain diseases. By leveraging advanced drug delivery technologies, such as PEGylation, D&D Pharmatech aims to enhance the effectiveness and outcomes of its therapeutic offerings.

Law&Company

Series B in 2019
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.

Earable Neuroscience

Seed Round in 2019
Earable™ is an earbud packed with biosensors for convenient health quantification. It is much more convenient than current devices used in hospitals because it has the smallest form factor given its accuracy and sensing capability. Unlike other wearables, Earable™ has more sensors, is located on the head, and uses proprietary machine learning algorithms for higher accuracy of bioelectric analysis.

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.

AmazeVR

Series A in 2019
AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform that specializes in creating and distributing high-quality immersive music experiences. Founded in 2015 by former executives of Kakao, the company offers an end-to-end solution that includes advanced technologies such as ultra-high-resolution custom cameras and cloud-based creation tools. AmazeVR enables fans to attend live concerts in virtual reality, thereby enhancing the connection between artists and audiences. The platform facilitates both offline distribution through events like the Amaze Tour, which adheres to COVID-19 safety guidelines, and online distribution via the Amaze Music app and other media platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. By vertically integrating its distribution channels, AmazeVR aims to expand artists' reach and foster engaging social interactions among fans, who can connect as avatars in a shared virtual space.

wadiz

Series C in 2019
Wadiz Corp. is a leading crowdfunding platform based in Seongnam, South Korea, and was founded in 2012. It serves as Asia's largest crowdfunding platform, facilitating both product and equity-based crowdfunding for startups and entrepreneurs. The platform enables creative projects to secure funding while allowing investors to access innovative companies at their early stages. By connecting businesses in need of financial support with potential investors, Wadiz plays a significant role in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in the region.

Cashfree

Series A in 2019
Cashfree Payments India Private Limited is a Bengaluru-based payments and banking technology company established in 2015. It provides a comprehensive payment platform that facilitates online and mobile wallet transactions for over 50,000 businesses in India. Its offerings include an online payments kit featuring a payment gateway, API-driven bank transfers, and automatic reconciliation of inward NEFT/RTGS payments. Cashfree also supports marketplace settlements, invoicing, cash-on-delivery e-payments, and the generation of payment links. The company serves a variety of prominent clients, including Cred, BigBasket, Zomato, and HDFC Ergo, enabling them to efficiently collect payments, manage vendor payouts, and disburse instant loans.

MyRealTrip

Venture Round in 2019
MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip is constantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

Mathpresso, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Mathpresso, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Seoul, South Korea, established in 2015. It operates Qanda, a data-driven platform that leverages artificial intelligence and optical character recognition (OCR) technology to assist students with their studies. Users can take a photo of a question or problem, which the platform then analyzes to provide solutions and explanations. Qanda covers a wide range of subjects, including mathematics, Korean history, social studies, and science. The platform is designed to facilitate learning by allowing students to engage with tutors and access answers in real time. As of this year, Qanda has attracted over one million users in South Korea, making it a significant resource for students seeking help with homework and exam preparation.

Vuno

Series B in 2018
Vuno offers artificial intelligence-based medical solutions for doctors and patients that provides a platform and consulting services for medical data analysis. Vuno develops automatic algorithm against various problems that occurs in medical sites as well as it develops diagnostic and quantification assisting software. The clients of the company are Asan Medical Center and HYUNDAI. The company offers VunoMed that provides different forms of data analyzation for medical videos, ECGs, brain waves, and EMR data. Vuno is located in South Korea and the company was founded in 2014 by Yeha Lee, Kyu-Hwan Jung, and Dannis Kim.

WELT

Series A in 2018
From Wristworn to Waistworn: WELT, the Smart Belt for Fashion & Healthcare WELT is a 'Smart Fashion Belt' that manages users’ wellness. We encourage users to embrace healthy habits while keeping in style. We promise to help the wearer better track food intake, keep tabs on the activity level, and manage weight. To do this, WELT keeps check on the overall health by measuring (1)Waist size, (2)Steps, (3)Sitting time, and (4)Overeating habits. To help users avoid metabolic risks factors, custom messages to manage these risks are given through the app via BLE. Also, its elegant design makes it look just like a regular, leather belt. Battery is rechargeable, and can stand up to more than 7 days.

Neuraly

Series A in 2018
Neuraly, Inc. develops and discovers drugs for the treatment of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. It develops NLY01, a neuroprotective agent for neurologic disorders that blocks pathological activation of microglia in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s as well as develops NLY02 and NLY03 that are blood–brain barrier (BBB) penetrating kinase inhibitors. Neuraly, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Germantown, Maryland. The company operates as a subsidiary of D&D Pharmatech Co., Ltd.

Inventage lab

Seed Round in 2018
inventory Lab is promoting the development of new and improved drugs for the treatment of refractory and chronic diseases by establishing a new drug delivery system. In addition, inventory will strategically develop various consumer-oriented pipelines to create new values ​​of human happiness and technological innovation.

Moloco

Series B in 2018
Moloco Inc., founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in providing technology solutions for mobile apps to manage their own advertising businesses. The company offers a cloud service that encompasses all necessary components for running targeted re-engagement campaigns, including its mobile e-commerce platform, TMON. Moloco aims to deliver quality and scalability for both advertisers and publishers, leveraging a team of skilled professionals with backgrounds from leading tech companies. Its mission is to empower mobile businesses to thrive in a competitive market.

Grampus

Private Equity Round in 2018
GRAMPUS Incorporated develops online simulation games. GRAMPUS Incorporated is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

D&D Pharmatech

Series A in 2018
D&D Pharmatech Co., Ltd. is a clinical-stage biotech company based in Seongnam, South Korea, established in 2014. The company focuses on developing innovative medicines across various therapeutic areas, including neurodegenerative, fibrotic, and metabolic diseases. It operates through disease-specific subsidiary companies that are guided by leading medical research faculty, facilitating the translation of advanced research into viable therapeutic products. D&D Pharmatech's expertise encompasses drug research and development, manufacturing quality control, and clinical development. Additionally, the company is involved in the development of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging biomarkers and single-cell sequencing technologies related to degenerative brain diseases. By leveraging advanced drug delivery technologies, such as PEGylation, D&D Pharmatech aims to enhance the effectiveness and outcomes of its therapeutic offerings.

MyRealTrip

Series C in 2017
MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip is constantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

wadiz

Venture Round in 2017
Wadiz Corp. is a leading crowdfunding platform based in Seongnam, South Korea, and was founded in 2012. It serves as Asia's largest crowdfunding platform, facilitating both product and equity-based crowdfunding for startups and entrepreneurs. The platform enables creative projects to secure funding while allowing investors to access innovative companies at their early stages. By connecting businesses in need of financial support with potential investors, Wadiz plays a significant role in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in the region.

Seworks

Series A in 2016
SEWORKS specializes in automated offensive security, offering solutions that enable organizations to identify and address security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. The company's flagship product, Pentoma®, is a fully automated web penetration testing platform designed to protect mobile and web applications from hacking threats that could compromise intellectual property and sensitive user information. The technology behind Pentoma® utilizes GAMAN, an AI engine developed specifically for offensive security applications. Headquartered in San Francisco, SEWORKS is supported by notable investors, including SoftBank Ventures Asia and Qualcomm Ventures.

Vuno

Series A in 2016
Vuno offers artificial intelligence-based medical solutions for doctors and patients that provides a platform and consulting services for medical data analysis. Vuno develops automatic algorithm against various problems that occurs in medical sites as well as it develops diagnostic and quantification assisting software. The clients of the company are Asan Medical Center and HYUNDAI. The company offers VunoMed that provides different forms of data analyzation for medical videos, ECGs, brain waves, and EMR data. Vuno is located in South Korea and the company was founded in 2014 by Yeha Lee, Kyu-Hwan Jung, and Dannis Kim.

Fount

Series A in 2016
Fount Inc., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, operates as an asset management Robo-Advisor company. The firm offers Bluewhale, a Robo-Advisor engine that utilizes financial engineering technology and asset allocation theories to determine the optimal combination of assets for investors. Fount employs a proprietary investing algorithm based on Big Data technology, which assists clients in planning for various life events. The company emphasizes a passive investing strategy, aligning risk levels with clients' specific time horizons and allowing advanced algorithms to manage investments efficiently.

Wishket

Series A in 2015
Wishket Co., Ltd. is an IT outsourcing platform based in Seoul, South Korea, established in 2012. The platform facilitates connections between companies and freelancers, allowing users to post projects, outsource work, and search for job opportunities online. Wishket provides a secure and cost-effective environment for businesses to find qualified freelancers for development tasks. Companies can easily sign up, post their projects, and receive responses from freelancers, while freelancers benefit from access to diverse projects and job opportunities. This streamlined approach aims to enhance collaboration and efficiency in the outsourcing process.

MyRealTrip

Series B in 2015
MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip is constantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

YAP

Venture Round in 2015
The YAP Company is a Korean startup providing O2O commerce platform using an independent hybrid beacon technique.With YAP, you will experience a whole new dimension of bestowed happiness and astonishment beyond expression.

Fronto

Series B in 2015
Fronto is the world’s first mobile lock screen media, which displays curated articles, hot new apps and deals & promos to mobile users through the everyday lock screen in a perfectly seamless way. By simply waking up your phone, you can read trending articles, earn rewards, download coupons, learn new promotional deals. Our first product, Cashslide, was launched in Korea in Nov 2012, and it now has 14 mil users, 2.5 mil DAU and 150 mil PV, which makes it as the most preferred mobile ad channel among local advertisers. In Jul 2013, just 8 months after the launch, we successfully raised $4 mil in Series-A funding. In Apr 2015, we raised $14 mil in Series-B funding. We launched Fronto in the US in May 2014 and hit #1 in New Top Free in Lifestyle. We are looking for experienced mobile media professionals. Join us as a founding member of Fronto based in the SF Bay Area. We are redesigning everyday mobile experience. For more details, visit www.fronto.co and check our app here bit.ly/1ocOJKg

Parking Square

Series A in 2015
Parking Square Inc provides smart mobile solutions and services for parking services in Korea. It provides solutions for real time parking services involving booking and discounts. Parking Square Inc provides an application known as Park Here, which allows users to find, locate, and book parking spaces at discounted rates. Parking Square is available as an iOS and Android app. It also enables garage owners and operators to promote and rent out their idle parking space. The company was established on May 7, 2013, based in Seoul, Korea.

Stripes

Series A in 2014
Stripes is a Korea-based apparel company that designs and manufactures men’s clothing products. Stripes’ clothing collection carries directional designs, as well as every day favorites including, t-shirts, shirts, and suits. The company also provides personalized styling services, enabling customers to personalize their clothes and have them designed to a perfect fit. Stripes markets its product through the web and mobile medium, giving consumers the facility of buying clothes at the comfort of their homes. Stripes was established in January 2013.

Motiga

Debt Financing in 2014
We’re an independent PC online game studio that wants to create fun. We believe that fun games challenge us, reward us, and connect us to our friends. Exploration leads to inspiration. Passion leads to mastery. Great games are fun every step of the way. Our story began in August 2010 with a mission: make core game experiences that are accessible and fun. Since early 2012, we've been heads-down working on an exciting new PC online game. While we can't share any more about our current project, we've assembled some of the top talents in the industry, and all of us are pouring our passion into it every day.

MyRealTrip

Series A in 2014
MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip is constantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.
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