KT Investment

KT Investment, founded in 2015 and based in Seoul, South Korea, serves as the corporate venture capital arm of KT Group. The firm focuses on early to mid-stage companies across various sectors, including information and communications technology, mobile platforms, automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, and healthcare. Committed to driving social impact alongside investment returns, KT Investment partners with startups and venture companies to support the development of innovative ideas into successful ventures. With a global perspective, the firm emphasizes value-driven investments that contribute to long-term success and societal advancement.

Past deals in South Korea

Pion

Series A in 2023
Pion Corporation is a marketing technology company specializing in video intelligence. It offers "Vispot," an AI-driven platform for video creation and ad automation. This application is designed to assist video creatives by providing automated services for video production and optimization. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Pion enables businesses to enhance their marketing capabilities and streamline the video advertising process.

Medb Korea

Seed Round in 2023
Medb Korea is a medical consumer, hospital, and pharmacy-focused online medical care and prescription drug delivery platform.. Medb Korea is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

Vibeon

Seed Round in 2022
Vibeon is a data company that provides artificial intelligence services for education.

Rebellions

Series A in 2022
Rebellions.ai creates AI accelerators that bridge the gap between core semiconductor architectures and deep learning algorithms. Its objective is to provide domain-specific AI processors together with optimized software.

ArtNGuide

Series B in 2022
ArtNGuide conducts online auctions and art fairs.

Adriel

Series B in 2022
The future of digital marketing is here. Take your business to the next level and achieve higher returns on your paid advertising. Adriel’s award-winning technology allows you to manage and optimize all of your digital marketing campaigns in just one place. By centralizing all communication channels and key data into one platform, we help your business deliver a uniform and efficient promotional message across all channels. Having worked with over 5,000+ companies worldwide, we designed a user-friendly virtual dashboard that allows for a comprehensive yet straightforward overview of your campaigns at just a glance. Discover the true status of your paid advertising. Combine data for cross-platform insights you can’t get anywhere else. Monitor your ROAS and adjust accordingly. Our software also provides real-time insights and suggestions through an alert system to catch green and red signals faster than ever before. Your Instagram campaign is trending today, but Twitter is a little slow? Seize opportunities and redirect your budget towards higher-performing creatives and channels with just a few clicks. We make it our mission to provide data in a format that is easy to understand and help your business reach its full advertising potential. From small business owners to Fortune 500 marketers, everyone achieves more with Adriel.

MegazoneCloud

Series C in 2022
MEGAZONECLOUD, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea is established in 2018 as spun out of the cloud business of Megazone Corporation was founded in 1998 with U$45M Series-A investment. It is a customer-centric company dedicated to empowering customers with cloud-optimized technology, people and process as we believe Cloud is the optimized digital transformation platform today. They provide a broad and rich set of consulting services and technology solutions for businesses' cloud adoption and digital transformation based on a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services(AWS) and 100+global technology partners. MEGAZONE has been trusted by more than 1500 enterprise, mid-market, and SME customers, including large Korean enterprises like Samsung, LG, Lotte Group, with diverse use cases ranging from simple migration to the most complex application projects. The company's in-depth technical expertise and years of experience working with customers of different sizes and industries have proven us to be the largest premier consulting partner of AWS in Asia Pacific. Outside Korea, we currently have offices in Palo Alto, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hanoi aggressively expanding our presence in the global market.

Payta Lab

Series B in 2022
Payta Lab is a platform that makes the culture of order payment smarter.

Plask

Seed Round in 2021
Plask offers a Mocap animation tool powered by AI for content creators. Creating animations necessitates time and money, both of which are frequently in short supply, with motion capture being prohibitively expensive and key-framed animation necessitating significant time investments. Plask aims to change that by providing creators with a set of tools that allows anyone to create high-quality animations for a fraction of the cost.

Humelo

Seed Round in 2021
Humelo develops a voice synthesis and editing program that allows to create and edit AI voice with controllers like emotions and more. The company also develops a K-POP production system utilizing its AI music technology and SM entertainment's global network.

Fount

Series C in 2021
Fount Inc. is an asset management Robo-Advisor company established in 2015 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The firm specializes in providing customized financial portfolios through its advanced Robo-Advisor engine, Bluewhale, which utilizes AI technology and asset allocation theories to determine the optimal mix of assets. Fount's investing algorithm, driven by big data, assists clients in planning for various life events by promoting passive investing strategies that align with individual risk tolerance and time horizons. The company's tools enable clients to monitor financial markets and adjust their asset allocations in response to market fluctuations.

Class101

Series B in 2021
Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.

Korea Credit Data

Series C in 2021
Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years. KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.

Algorithm LABS

Series A in 2021
Algorithm LABS is an ed-tech company that researches AI-based algorithms and coding training.

Bigpearl

Venture Round in 2021
Bigpearl provides a personalized mobile AI news aggregator service. The company provides a real-time AI news recommendation app that curates a personalized feed of articles based on preferences and activities.

Laundrygo

Series B in 2020
Laundrygo is a on-demand laundry service.

Tripstore

Series B in 2019
Tripstore is an O2O platform that makes it easy to search overseas trips. The company has more than one million international travel products from seventy countries around the world, where the users can easily check out their desired overseas travel products.

Class101

Series A in 2019
Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.

MEATBOX

Series C in 2018
MEATBOX is a B2B-based online commerce platform for livestock products. MEATBOX introduces 'My Box,' a storage space-sharing service for restaurants and butcher shops, where customers can store frozen meat products purchased from Meatbox and receive the delivery as needed. Meatbox explained that Mybox not only significantly reduces costs for members, but it also has the advantage of being able to respond quickly with sufficient inventory purchased in advance even when inventory demand spikes unexpectedly. The My Box service is also available on the Meatbox PC and mobile apps, allowing one to make one-touch requests for delivery of stored products as well as confirmation of receipt and release.

Lunit

Series B in 2018
Lunit, abbreviated from “learning unit,” is a venture company devoted to developing advanced software for medical data analysis and interpretation via cutting-edge deep learning technology. The company's main area of expertise lies in processing medical imaging data. It envisions a near future when its systems will greatly help physicians make accurate, consistent, and efficient clinical decisions, not limited to diagnoses, through our data-driven imaging biomarker technology. The high level of our deep learning technology has been well demonstrated, ranked top 5 at ImageNet Challenge 2015, which is the world’s largest and most prestigious image recognition competition. What distinguishes our technology from that of other similar parties is the full accommodation of weakly labeled data, challenging the boundaries of human understanding in terms of pattern recognition.

Paymint

Seed Round in 2017
PayMint is a company established in Egypt, Providing businesses with a powerful payment solution that allows them easy cashless paymints, strong payroll management system and also provides businesses with fringe benefits for employees which makes PayMint the best solution that provides this bundle of services.

Fount

Series A in 2016
Fount Inc. is an asset management Robo-Advisor company established in 2015 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The firm specializes in providing customized financial portfolios through its advanced Robo-Advisor engine, Bluewhale, which utilizes AI technology and asset allocation theories to determine the optimal mix of assets. Fount's investing algorithm, driven by big data, assists clients in planning for various life events by promoting passive investing strategies that align with individual risk tolerance and time horizons. The company's tools enable clients to monitor financial markets and adjust their asset allocations in response to market fluctuations.

CARVI

Venture Round in 2016
CARVI offers distinct solutions in the field of mobility Insurtech. Their precise analysis of the driver's future accident probability and current driving habits is the most effective method of reducing car accidents.
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