Forest Partners

Forest Partners is an alternative investment firm that invests in high-growth companies. The firm operates Venture Capital and Private Equity divisions so that they invest in bold ideas across multiple strategies and help drive the hypergrowth of our portfolio companies. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

NAM HWEU JO

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

7 past transactions

Oilnow Korea

Series A in 2023
Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.

Dot Slash Dash

Seed Round in 2022
Dot Slash Dash is a video platform for documenting the user's lifestyle. The company was founded by Changwoo Lee in 2020.

TagHive Inc.

Series A in 2021
TagHive, a company funded by Samsung, is an AI first ed-tech company that empowers classrooms to ensure no child is left behind. With a team of over 50 folks, we are on a mission to improve learning outcomes for every child. The primary business pain that TagHive addresses is the inefficiency and lack of personalization in the current education system. Teachers are often overwhelmed with administrative tasks, leaving them with less time to focus on personalized instruction. Students, on the other hand, do not receive the individualized attention they need to thrive, leading to disengagement and underperformance. The learning platform (Class Saathi) stands out in the competitive edtech landscape, which includes players like Kahoot and Quizizz. Unlike competitors, Class Saathi integrates seamlessly with existing learning management systems across multiple devices and works even without internet connectivity, ensuring scalable, affordable, and uninterrupted learning for diverse educational environments. TagHive has 27 registered patents and trademarks, with 11 others pending. The company’s solutions are used in over 8,000 classrooms in India, South Korea, South Africa, Cambodia, and South America, and over 4,50,000 students have benefitted from the Class Saathi assessment solution.

Tridge

Series C in 2021
Tridge develops an online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. Its platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

Tridge

Series B in 2020
Tridge develops an online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. Its platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

Tridge

Series A in 2019
Tridge develops an online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. Its platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

AIZEN Global

Series A in 2018
AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. The company has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia. We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
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