Naver

Naver is a prominent internet company based in Seongnam, South Korea, that operates as a leading search engine and e-commerce platform. Founded in 1999, it has evolved to provide a diverse range of services, including fintech, digital content, and cloud solutions. Naver is known for its innovative search features such as Comprehensive Search, Knowledge iN, and Real-time Rising Keyword. The company also offers user-generated content services through platforms like Blog and Cafe, along with Junior Naver, a dedicated portal for children, and Happybean, an online donation service. Naver pioneered the webtoon industry, introducing its digital comic service in 2004. Additionally, it operates several popular applications, including the LINE mobile messenger and the video messaging app Snow. Naver further engages in software development, search advertising, online shopping, and IT infrastructure services, solidifying its status as a comprehensive internet platform in South Korea and beyond.

Hae-Jin Lee

GIO and Co-Founder

Past deals in South Korea

NFTBank

Series A in 2022
NFTBank involves the creation of a digital asset in the form of a non-fungible token that builds and manages the entire portfolio in one place. They enable holders to overcome the illiquid nature of their instruments and help users better manage liquidity risk.

Interior Teacher

Series A in 2022
Interior Teacher is a premium home styling service that specializes in interior decoration. The company offers a range of services, including design consultation, furniture recommendation, and delivery installation, aimed at creating functional and aesthetically pleasing spaces. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Interior Teacher provides clients with quick design drafts, simplifying the process of decorating their entire homes. This innovative approach enhances the customer experience by making home styling accessible and efficient.

New Vessel

Seed Round in 2022
New Vessel is to navigate the sea of e-commerce. We utilize our e-commerce and consumer branding experience and partner with world-class e-commerce experts.

Lunit

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Z Enterprise

Series B in 2021
Z Enterprise is a finance and management firm that specializes in corporate financing and tax automation services. The company has developed a tax and accounts management platform aimed at assisting businesses in monitoring their profits, losses, and cash flow. This platform enables clients to gain insights into their financial status by providing a clear overview of sales, purchases, and withholding amounts. Additionally, it simplifies the management of corporate accounts and card usage history, allowing users to intuitively access and analyze their business data through real-time charts.

WeKeep

Series B in 2021
WeKeep is an online platform that offers e-commerce fulfillment solutions.

Z Enterprise

Series B in 2021
Z Enterprise is a finance and management firm that specializes in corporate financing and tax automation services. The company has developed a tax and accounts management platform aimed at assisting businesses in monitoring their profits, losses, and cash flow. This platform enables clients to gain insights into their financial status by providing a clear overview of sales, purchases, and withholding amounts. Additionally, it simplifies the management of corporate accounts and card usage history, allowing users to intuitively access and analyze their business data through real-time charts.

OHouse

Series C in 2020
OHouse is a all-in-one lifestyle platform that integrates content, community, and commerce. The company believes that beautiful homes can change peoples' lives for the better. Its mission is to help users decorate homes with fun, ease, and confidence. OHouse revolutionizes the lifestyle(home furnishing and remodeling) market in Korea with its user-generated style gallery, which helps users discover their preferred styles before purchasing products. On top of the marketplace for home furnishing products, it provides home remodeling services. As the leading innovators of the home furnishing industry, Ohouse aims to become an lifestyle super application that provides the best customer experience. Ohouse won the Best App Award by Google Play in 2018, and its app is downloaded by more than 20 million users.

INSUNGDATA

Series C in 2020
INSUNGDATA engages in quick service, proxy operation, cargo, and leisure businesses.

Dohands

Series A in 2020
Dohands Corporation offers logistics services tailored for e-commerce sellers. Founded in 2013 and based in Seoul, South Korea, the company specializes in overseas shipping, inventory management, and logistics consulting. Dohands focuses on providing short-term delivery solutions and logistics alternatives for crowdfunding, pre-orders, and promotional activities. By enabling businesses to transport and deliver products efficiently and cost-effectively, Dohands aims to simplify the logistics process for its clients.

WeKeep

Series A in 2020
WeKeep is an online platform that offers e-commerce fulfillment solutions.

Spoon Labs

Series B in 2019
Spoon Labs provides the potential of creating material that enriches people's daily lives all across the world.

LetinAR

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2016, LetinAR Inc, a startup company made its appearance in the scene of Augmented Reality presenting a new paradigm-changing technology - PinMR™ lens. This technology was developed mainly to redress common failings found in current products; heavy and expensive hardware and deficient functions that inhibit the construction of real eyeglasses-shaped designs and render wearability and usability mediocre at best.

Drama & Company

Venture Round in 2018
Drama & Company is a mobile-based startup based in Seoul, South Korea, established in June 2013. The company specializes in developing applications for creating and managing mobile business cards. Its flagship service, Profeel.me, allows users to design and share personalized business cards via smartphones, incorporating images, profiles, and social media links. Users can share these cards through various platforms, including messaging services like Kakao Talk. Additionally, Drama & Company offers the Remember app, which enables users to scan, sort, and store their business cards in one convenient location, enhancing networking efficiency for professionals.

MakinaRocks

Seed Round in 2018
MakinaRocks is a global AI software startup specializing in analytics and performance management with machine intelligence. MakinaRocks offers enterprise MLOps (Runway) for the development and operation of AI models, as well as AI solutions such as anomaly detection and operational optimization to improve industrial productivity. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Triple

Series A in 2018
Triple is a travel data services startup.

BRUNT.CO,.LTD

Series A in 2018
Brunt Co. Ltd. specializes in designing and manufacturing Internet of Things (IoT) smart home hardware and software. Established in 2015 and based in Seoul, South Korea, the company offers a range of products aimed at enhancing daily convenience and lifestyle experiences. Its key offerings include the Brunt Blind Engine, which converts standard blinds into smart electric versions; the Brunt PowerStation, a multifunctional device for diverse electricity supply; and the Brunt Plug, which allows users to control various electric devices via a smartphone. Additionally, Brunt produces the Brunt WIFI Router and the Brunt Cord, a portable USB and AC power strip. The company also develops software solutions, notably Brunt Sky, an IoT operating platform for remote device control and usage analysis, and the Brunt App, which facilitates smartphone control and monitoring of connected devices. Through these innovations, Brunt Co. Ltd. aims to alleviate daily inconveniences and empower customers to personalize their living environments.

Snow Corporation

Venture Round in 2018
Snow is the developer and operator of the selfie pic and video app SNOW, featuring face recognition-enabled stickers and GIF-enabled chat functionality. With SNOW, users pick from over 700 stickers and 30 types of filters to liven up their photos and videos, then send the finished product to their friends or post them within the SNOW app to give their friends a peek into what they are up to now. User numbers have been growing steadily since the app first launched in Korea, with service being expanded to Japan and China in November 2015 and February 2016, respectively. In Japan, the number of users has been growing rapidly, and the app has been ranked as No.1 in both iOS App Store’s free app Photo & Video category and Google Play’s Photography category.

Drama & Company

Series A in 2017
Drama & Company is a mobile-based startup based in Seoul, South Korea, established in June 2013. The company specializes in developing applications for creating and managing mobile business cards. Its flagship service, Profeel.me, allows users to design and share personalized business cards via smartphones, incorporating images, profiles, and social media links. Users can share these cards through various platforms, including messaging services like Kakao Talk. Additionally, Drama & Company offers the Remember app, which enables users to scan, sort, and store their business cards in one convenient location, enhancing networking efficiency for professionals.

OGQ

Venture Round in 2017
Social Creators Platform. Creators meet their fans and sell own works in OGQ market. 14M creators including photographer, videoist, musician, illustrator and font-creator. 30% Users are comprised of US, India and Russia mainly. All images, videos, musics like BGM, stickers and fonts are provided to Messengers, Search and Portal platforms globally. 240M app downloaded, 2.6B contents downloaded, 4.6 rating in Google Play, 30 languages applied.

Loplat

Venture Round in 2017
Loplat is a South Korean company founded in 2015 that specializes in cloud-based location data analysis and indoor positioning technology. The company utilizes Wi-Fi to track users' exact locations in real-time within retail environments, eliminating the need for additional devices like beacons. Loplat's platform includes a location recognition engine that provides businesses with tools to analyze customer behavior and offers insights into traffic flow and visit history. Among its offerings is a dashboard called Leaflet, which helps retailers understand customer movement within stores. Additionally, Loplat has developed a crowd-sourcing app named Cash Place, which gathers wireless location data and maintains updated information on new and closing stores. Through these solutions, Loplat enables businesses to implement targeted marketing strategies and enhance customer engagement based on real-time location data.

Poolus

Series A in 2017
Poolus is a ride-sharing services company.

The Wave Talk

Seed Round in 2017
The.Wave.Talk developed a biosensor that can detect and monitor impurities (bacteria) within a second. 420,000 people die of food-borne disease per year. Moreover, 10 million people will die of antimicrobial resistance by 2050. It's all about bacteria. It is the origin of life and 5 million-trillion-trillion bacteria are living together with us today. Bacteria are everywhere and every-time. Comparing to this, conventional technologies can detect bacteria only with sampling manner. Because they take long time(several hours up-to days) even with expensive tools.

OGQ

Series A in 2017
Social Creators Platform. Creators meet their fans and sell own works in OGQ market. 14M creators including photographer, videoist, musician, illustrator and font-creator. 30% Users are comprised of US, India and Russia mainly. All images, videos, musics like BGM, stickers and fonts are provided to Messengers, Search and Portal platforms globally. 240M app downloaded, 2.6B contents downloaded, 4.6 rating in Google Play, 30 languages applied.

Crowdworks

Seed Round in 2017
Crowdworks is challenging the current time-consuming Machine Learning workflow and establishing a new paradigm for AI model training. We provide AI training data platform with Auto-ML features and qualified 0.5M labelers to increase human-powered data accuracy. Over 430 AI leading companies have used our solution to rapidly train and deploy cutting-edge AI service.

The Wave Talk

Venture Round in 2017
The.Wave.Talk developed a biosensor that can detect and monitor impurities (bacteria) within a second. 420,000 people die of food-borne disease per year. Moreover, 10 million people will die of antimicrobial resistance by 2050. It's all about bacteria. It is the origin of life and 5 million-trillion-trillion bacteria are living together with us today. Bacteria are everywhere and every-time. Comparing to this, conventional technologies can detect bacteria only with sampling manner. Because they take long time(several hours up-to days) even with expensive tools.

UrbanPlay

Seed Round in 2016
UrbanPlay designs cultural city of emotion by solving urban issues through accessible technology.

Mindslab

Series B in 2016
Mindslab is an artificial intelligence application platform.

Vendys

Series A in 2016
Vendys (주식회사 벤디스) is a Korean provider of mobile display solutions for the staff welfare sector. It enables the development of mobile food stamps, canteen meal coupons, promotions, discount coupons, and more. Its solutions also facilitate staff management and sales sourcing services. Vendys was established in January 2014 in Gyeonggi-do, Korea.

Brandi

Seed Round in 2015
Brandi is a vertical commerce company that creates B2C and B2B platforms for fashion and beauty shopping. The company specializes in the fields of apps, app marketing, and online shopping platform. Brandi was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea.

The Beatpacking Company

Seed Round in 2013
The Beatpacking Company is the leader of ad-supported music streaming services in South Korea with an application called BEAT.

Aeria Games GmbH

Funding Round in 2012
Aeria Games is a leading publisher of free-to-play online multiplayer games with a rapidly growing community of over 70 million registered players and a deep portfolio of development partners. A wholly-owned subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Aeria Games is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with offices in San Francisco and Seoul. Aeria Games publishes and develops high-quality online PC, mobile, and browser games in nine languages across the world. The company’s diverse portfolio includes titles like the popular anime MMORPG Aura Kingdom, action-packed shooter A.V.A., mobile soccer manager Goal One, and dozens more in a multitude of game genres. For more information, visit http://www.aeriagames.com.
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