GS Retail Co Ltd is a South Korean company primarily focused on the retail sector. It operates a chain of stores that offer a diverse range of products, including beauty and skincare items, candles, gifts, perfumes, ornaments, and bathroom accessories. The company markets its products under various brand names, such as GS25, GS Supermarket, GS Watsons, and Mister Donut. In addition to its retail operations, GS Retail is involved in real estate development and leasing, as well as providing advertising services. This multifaceted approach allows the company to maintain a significant presence in the competitive retail landscape.
Managing Director, Head of New Business Division, Vice President of Corporate Development and CVC
Lee Seong-hwa
Managing Director
25 past transactions
The Grit
Series A in 2023
The Grit manufactures multi-use container and collection boxes.
Snackfor
Series B in 2023
Snackfor is a B2B company that specializes in curating and delivering snacks to office environments. The company offers subscription-based snack boxes, which are delivered to workplaces at scheduled times. This service allows businesses to outsource their food facilities, ensuring that employees have convenient access to a variety of snacks. By focusing on the needs of companies, Snackfor aims to enhance the workplace experience through quality food offerings.
Robros
Seed Round in 2023
Robros is constantly creating technology to break through the barrier between people and robots in order to build a world in which everyone in the service industry can live a physically and emotionally happy life.
Dayoff
Seed Round in 2023
Dayoff wants to be a sensual content and product-curating platform for travel media commerce. It promotes taste-based domestic and international unknown travel products and provides differentiating services in the current travel market, where well-known products and information centered on the lowest price are the main focus. In addition to supplying limited direct contract products, it intends to expand the current accommodation service to include excursions and activities in the market.
Kaviar
Series B in 2022
Kaviar is a restaurant meal replacement business that specializes in curating a diverse selection of dishes from renowned chefs and eateries. The company provides a gourmet curation service that not only showcases high-quality food from celebrated culinary professionals but also shares stories and insights about the dishes, chefs, and the cuisines they represent. This enables customers to discover and enjoy gourmet meals conveniently, making it easier to access exceptional culinary experiences from the comfort of their homes.
Mommom
Seed Round in 2022
Mommom is a company based in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, that specializes in providing comprehensive childcare information services. It gathers and analyzes online meta data and maintains a categorized list of national items relevant to parenting. Mommom offers various resources for pregnant women and new parents, including deals scanners for trending childcare products, expert parenting tips, and mom blogs. This platform aims to facilitate smart parenting by making essential childcare information and shopping resources easily accessible to its users.
Robo Arete
Series A in 2022
Robo Arete is a robotics company specializing in the Food and Beverage (F&B) industry, established with the goal of innovating humanity's culinary culture and F&B business through the Robotics Kitchen. Comprising experts in robotics who directly execute development, deisgn, programming, and assembly of robotics automation systems, the team possess a comprehensive understanding of robotics. As a first project, we developed a robotics system equipped with the capability to automatically fry a variety of menu items, ranging from chicken to French fries. Since 2020, we have been operating our own chicken brand, "Robert Chicken," testing and continously enhancing the system in diverse environmnets, including delivery-focused stores, restaurants with dine-in options, shared kitchens, food trucks and others. The Robo Arete frying robot solution has been successfully implemented in various brands, including GS25, BHC, Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken, and ORG. The Robert Chicken familiy is expanding not only in South Korea but also in several countries. Franchise stores of Robert Chicken are set to open in the United States, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, and other countries in the first half of 2024, as part of an active pursuit of global market expansion. Robo Arete is also in the process of developing automation solutions for various cooking processes beyond frying, including hamburger patties and noodles. Additionally, we have developed robotic bartender for soju cocktails, currently being installed at the flagship Robert Chicken store in New York, with plans for public unveiling in the first half of 2024.
IMDT
Series A in 2022
IMDT develops companion animal services focused on animal hospitals for both veterinarians and guardians. They create a platform that enables guardians to make simple, data-driven decisions.
GC COMPANY
Series C in 2022
GC COMPANY is an online search platform that provides accommodation for hotels, foods, and events.
Good Choice Company
Venture Round in 2022
Good Choice Company is a hotel and travel booking platform that connects hotel guests and accommodations. It aims to solve the accommodation journey's inconvenience and build a reliable accommodation environment.
Cookat
Acquisition in 2022
Cookat is a digital content creator focused on food and culinary trends, delivering engaging videos and recipes through various channels. The platform is optimized for mobile users, allowing it to effectively share food-related content on social media. Cookat aims to inspire and inform its audience about unique recipes and gourmet trends while facilitating the purchase of wholesale items, such as restaurant advertisements and home meal replacements, enabling consumers to connect and share with others. Through its innovative approach, Cookat endeavors to enhance the culinary experience for food enthusiasts.
Jocoos
Series B in 2021
Jocoos is a company focused on creating engaging platforms that empower individuals to share their talents and pursue their aspirations. Its flagship product, SURT, is a mobile application designed specifically for artists and musicians, enabling them to showcase their skills and connect with agencies, recording companies, producers, and fans. Additionally, Jocoos has developed cloud-based video technology that facilitates live streaming for various business applications. This technology includes a transcoder and live-streaming capabilities, along with a video editing tool that allows users to incorporate multimedia files, enhancing their ability to produce and share enjoyable live video content. Through these innovations, Jocoos aims to inspire creativity and connection among users.
Kakao Mobility
Corporate Round in 2021
Kakao Mobility is a company that specializes in mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions, offering a comprehensive range of transportation services through its mobile application. Its primary offerings include online taxi-hailing, designated driver services, electric bike rentals, and parking solutions, all designed to enhance the convenience and efficiency of urban transportation. The company operates under several brands, including Kakao Taxi, Kakao Driver, and Kakao Navi. Utilizing big data and autonomous driving technology, Kakao Mobility aims to optimize the movement of people and objects, providing users with a seamless mobility infrastructure experience.
TeamFresh
Series C in 2021
TeamFresh is a cargo and freight company that provides logistics services.
Snackfor
Series A in 2021
Snackfor is a B2B company that specializes in curating and delivering snacks to office environments. The company offers subscription-based snack boxes, which are delivered to workplaces at scheduled times. This service allows businesses to outsource their food facilities, ensuring that employees have convenient access to a variety of snacks. By focusing on the needs of companies, Snackfor aims to enhance the workplace experience through quality food offerings.
Yogiyo - RGP Korea
Acquisition in 2021
Yogiyo is a Korean brand of Delivery Hero, an online and mobile food-ordering platform operating in 34 countries, processing 10 million orders each month. Customers can discover their favorite restaurants, place an order and pay with multiple payment options conveniently from home, from work, or on the road - with just a few clicks.
CMES Robotics
Series B in 2021
CMES Robotics is an AI-powered robotics company that enables 3D vision for factory robots. CMES AI vision software includes high-precision vision sensors, robot calibration, a processing core, a simulator, and robot control. It enables robots to pick up objects that are unstructured, flexible, or deformed, as well as load and unload them. CMES Vision software has been used in void-filling and random depalletization applications all over the world.
Pet Friends
Acquisition in 2021
Pet Friends is an online pet care platform that specializes in the rapid delivery of pet supplies. The company operates an innovative logistics and delivery system designed to meet the needs of pet owners, allowing them to receive essential products within one hour. In addition to its delivery services, Pet Friends provides consultations and free snack sampling tests, making it easier for busy pet owners to care for their pets. By streamlining access to pet-related products and services, Pet Friends enhances the overall pet ownership experience.
Youth Center
Seed Round in 2021
Youth Center is a video production company where people who love and care about acting, video, and performances are always active.
AB180
Series A in 2020
AB180 is a performance marketing firm that leverages data analytics and marketing technology to support organizations in navigating the digital landscape. The company has developed a marketing platform that enables businesses to gain insights into customer behavior by collecting and processing real-time data from mobile users. This approach helps businesses better understand their customers and enhances their marketing effectiveness, ultimately leading to improved results.
Dano
Series B in 2019
Dano (다노) is a Korea-based company that develops diet apps for the health and fitness sector. Dano’s Diet App is a journal-based app that enables users to stay focused and monitor their daily progress. The app offers many useful tools to help users stay committed to their diet programs. Dano also released Diet Cover, a lock-screen photo app that enables users to have a photo of their role model, in order to remind themselves about their diet during the course of the day. This app enables users to eat healthily and be mindful of their diet at any given moment. Dano was established in July 2013.
Houstep
Series A in 2019
Housestep is an interior design company that specializes in providing interior design and remodeling services for residential spaces. The company aims to assist customers in setting up and decorating their homes by offering a platform that provides insights on costs, design options, wallpaper, floor coverings, and other decorative elements. Housestep also facilitates telephonic consultations and showroom visits, enabling clients to access construction services and effectively remodel their living spaces.
Pet Pick
Seed Round in 2018
Pet Pick provides handmade, nutritious food for companion animals, customized to each pet's health needs.
Vital Hint Korea
Series A in 2017
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.
AB180
Seed Round in 2017
AB180 is a performance marketing firm that leverages data analytics and marketing technology to support organizations in navigating the digital landscape. The company has developed a marketing platform that enables businesses to gain insights into customer behavior by collecting and processing real-time data from mobile users. This approach helps businesses better understand their customers and enhances their marketing effectiveness, ultimately leading to improved results.
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