NHN Investment

NHN Investment is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea, and operates as the investment arm of NAVER Corporation. Established in 2010, the firm focuses on a range of sectors including internet, mobile, online gaming, information and communication technology, e-commerce, semiconductors, advanced genetic engineering, green technology, as well as bio and medical devices. NHN Investment targets companies at various stages of development, from start-ups to mature businesses, with a particular emphasis on technology-intensive mid-sized ventures. In addition to providing capital, the firm offers loans, management support, and technological guidance to foster growth among new technology enterprises and venture businesses, primarily within the Asian market.

Dong-Ha Cha

CEO

36 past transactions

Acquire

Seed Round in 2019
Acquire is a unified customer engagement platform that brings all communication, interactions, channels, and tools under one roof. With Acquire, teams are able to respond to customers instantly using live chat, chatbots, cobrowse, video and voice, email, SMS, and more — all from one simplified dashboard.

Breadfast

Private Placement in 2020
Breadfast produces bread and bakery products and operates an online delivery store. The company's bread offerings include white toast, brown toast, baguette, half baguette, multigrain, black seeds, rye, ciabatta, focaccia, soft, and baladi. It also produces cherries danish and burger, mini burger, brioche, and petit pain buns. Furthermore, the company provides muffins with plain, chocolate, and cherry flavors. In addition, it produces plain, pain au chocolat, cheese, zaatar, and pain au fromage croissants. Breadfast was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

tru.ID

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a mobile authentication technology designed to assist developers in replacing passwords in a secure way. The company's platform confirms ownership of a mobile phone number by verifying the possession of an active SIM card with the same number and provides information on when a SIM card associated with a mobile phone number was last changed, enabling an individual to get a frictionless and secure user authentication technology.

TESTIM

Series B in 2019
Testim makes it easy for developers and testers to become automation experts, making quality an organization-wide initiative and powering developers to own code quality.

AeroFS

Series B in 2015
AeroFS is an enterprise file sync and share solution. It changes the way creative agencies, consultants, freelancers, and work teams collaborate with their co-workers and clients. The company’s flagship collaboration platform, Amium, makes sharing information and ideas more intuitive and efficient, and dramatically improves and simplifies collaboration with users outside the organization. The service, which stores files in a private cloud-like platform, stores data on the devices designated by the client. AeroFS desktop and server software can run entirely behind a firewall, including authentication. Their vision is to redefine the current view of the ‘cloud’ with better controls, privacy and scalability, whether for administrators, end-users or anyone else.

Avegant

Series A in 2014
Avegant is a technology company developing next-generation display technology to enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences. The company uses its deep scientific understanding of human sight and head-mounted display ergonomics together with its consumer electronics manufacturing experience to develop displays that enable realistic AR experiences for consumers. Avegant was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Belmont, California.

LISCure Biosciences

Seed Round in 2019
LISCure Biosciences is a developer of bacteria-mediated immunotherapy designed to treat tumors as well as degenerative neurological, autoimmune and metabolic diseases. The company currently has seven pipelines of medicine and two pipelines of health-functioning food and is considering the introduction of two more pipes.

Double H, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Double H is a start-up venture that provides differentiated wearable health-care devices. It combines light therapy technology with ICT technology. It developed and extended the use of LED technology devices, which previously has been utilized mainly for medical purposes, to personal devices not only with very sophisticated and creative design but also with safety and differentiated functions. It also integrated ICT technology by adding a sensor to the device.

Sensay

Seed Round in 2016
Sensay, Inc. develops a Web based application for mobile phones that allows users to connect, share, and help each other over Internet. It allows users to help each other and gain profit out of the collaboration. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Celleron Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2017
An innovative oncology healthcare company The future of cancer therapy lies in the ability to match patients to treatments they will respond favourably to. Celleron has developed biomarkers using epigenetic techniques that match drugs to responsive disease. Their portfolio of technologies can be used to develop a new class of mechanism-based cancer drugs. Drugs that will improve the success rates of treatment, reduce the side effects in patients and deliver more cost effective healthcare.

Eyefluence

Series B in 2015
Eyefluence, Inc. develops an eye-interaction technology solution for controlling augmented reality AR, virtual reality VR, and mixed reality MR head-mounted display HMD equipment with eyes. Its technology integrates with HMDs, as well as combines with eye biomechanics, a deep understanding of the eye-brain connection to deliver fastest interface for HMDs. It serves AR, VR, and MR device manufacturers. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. As of October 24, 2016, Eyefluence, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Enders Fund

Seed Round in 2011
Our mission is to continue producing engaging, asynchronous, casual games that are turn-based and inherently social. Our small and agile team of developers is able to create high quality, light weight games at an accelerated pace allowing Ender’s Fund to produce at least 12 games a year. Current games in the app store: - SpellThis: social spelling game - TriviaThis: pop culture trivia game - RepeatThis: memory game - RankThis: new type of trivia game - WordThis: tetris style word scrabble game And, many more to come!

ThumbAge

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
ThumbAge is a Korea-based company that engages in the development of role playing and action games for mobile devices. The company’s products consists of Hero For Kakao, Ultimate Hero, and INTERPLANET which all can be played on mobile devices. ThumbAge was founded in April 2013 and is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea.

Nexmo

Series B in 2013
Nexmo provides innovative cloud communication APIs that enable applications and enterprises connect to their customers via voice and SMS. Nexmo’s APIs, Direct to Carrier approach and Adaptive Routing technology improves customer experiences by connecting you with your customers reliably no matter where they are in the world. Nexmo connects to over 1,700 carriers and reaches over 235 countries and territories. Nexmo can help any business improve customer communication--some of the world’s top companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, and Snapchat communicate with their global users using Nexmo, across industries ranging from travel, transportation, messaging, e-commerce, finance and payments, and security. Start sending messages and calls in minutes for free at https://www.nexmo.com/

Breadfast

Series A in 2020
Breadfast produces bread and bakery products and operates an online delivery store. The company's bread offerings include white toast, brown toast, baguette, half baguette, multigrain, black seeds, rye, ciabatta, focaccia, soft, and baladi. It also produces cherries danish and burger, mini burger, brioche, and petit pain buns. Furthermore, the company provides muffins with plain, chocolate, and cherry flavors. In addition, it produces plain, pain au chocolat, cheese, zaatar, and pain au fromage croissants. Breadfast was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Parking Cloud

Series D in 2022
Parking Cloud Co., Ltd. operates an online parking platform which allows customers to check real-time parking spaces, compare prices, and pay via wallet. The company offers an integrated parking management system with car sharing, car rental, maintenance, car washing, and electric vehicle charging station services. In addition, Parking Cloud Co., Ltd. provides parking lot development, leasing, and operation services. The company also offers rental place for buses and freight vehicles. In addition, Parking Cloud Co., Ltd. manufactures a parking system device which can be installed in a parking lot and manages the parking lot via an online unmanned settlement system. The company also operates a mobile application. Parking Cloud Co., Ltd. was founded in 2009 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Intelon Optics

Series A in 2018
Intelon Optics, Inc., a bio-mechanical diagnostic and surgical device company, designs and develops eye diagnostic optical solutions. The company offers Brillouin Optical Scanner System, an optical-scanning diagnostic platform targeted at identifying intrinsic biomechanical properties of transparent or opaque ocular tissues, such as the cornea, sclera, or lens. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with a manufacturing center in Rochester, New York.

iMediSync

Series A in 2018
Developer of advanced medical analysis platform intended to support the diagnosis of dementia by analyzing EEG in a short span of time. The company's platform offers its users to prevent or slow down dementia by diagnosing the risk of brain diseases in advance, enabling the medical industry to provide integrative mental care through EEG analysis and neuromodulation.

LISCure Biosciences

Private Placement in 2019
LISCure Biosciences is a developer of bacteria-mediated immunotherapy designed to treat tumors as well as degenerative neurological, autoimmune and metabolic diseases. The company currently has seven pipelines of medicine and two pipelines of health-functioning food and is considering the introduction of two more pipes.

ImmunoMet Therapeutics

Series B in 2017
ImmunoMet Therapeutics is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel oncology products that are aimed to improve the quality of life of cancer patients. With more than 6 years of experience in the field of cancer metabolism and immunometabolism, ImmunoMet has developed a comprehensive pipeline of metabolic regulators preferentially targeting the cellular metabolism of drug-resistant cancer subpopulations and immuno-suppressors of anti-cancer effector T cells.

OvationCXM

Series B in 2019
Boomtown is a product support platform that makes selling, activating, and servicing of technology products simple. It focuses on developing the modern toolset needed to ensure that the product support experience is nothing short of exceptional. Boomtown leverages rich data and AI to help users predict product problems before they occur and ensure teams have the right answers at the very moment they need them. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tiburon, California.

Avegant

Series B in 2015
Avegant is a technology company developing next-generation display technology to enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences. The company uses its deep scientific understanding of human sight and head-mounted display ergonomics together with its consumer electronics manufacturing experience to develop displays that enable realistic AR experiences for consumers. Avegant was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Belmont, California.

Syte

Series A in 2017
Syte develops a product discovery platform designed to transform the way people search and shop online. It is a provider of visual AI technology that aims to improve retailers’ site navigation, product discovery, and user experience by powering solutions that engage and convert shoppers. The B2B enterprise's solution includes camera search, augmented site search, personalization engines, and smart in-store tools, empower shoppers to discover and purchase products instantly. Their camera solution enables shoppers to take a picture of a product that inspires them and search for visually similar products within a retailer’s site. Up to date, Syte has raised $71 million from investors including Viola Ventures, LG Tech Ventures, NHN Ventures, Kreos Capital, Naver Corporation, Commerce Ventures, Storm Ventures, Axess Ventures, La Maison, MizMaa Ventures, Magma, Naver Corporation, Line Corporation, Reimage Ventures, North Base Media, and KDC Ventures. In 2014, Helge Voss, Idan Pinto, Lihi Pinto Fryman, and Ofer Fryman established Syte in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv.

Percepto

Series A in 2019
Percepto is a developer of autonomous drone technology for inspection and surveillance. Drones hold the potential to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries including energy, security, insurance, agriculture, and more. Drones completely change the way inspection, measurement, surveillance, and deliveries are done today. Still, the main barrier to making them a must-have platform is the ability of drones to perform tasks autonomously. The company is at the forefront of redefining how industrial sites and critical infrastructure are holistically inspected and monitored, harnessing remote robotics to autonomously collect, aggregate, and analyze visual data. Leveraging its experience with Percepto Sparrow, the most deployed drone-in-a-box solution on the market, Percepto introduced Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring) the first end-to-end autonomous inspection and monitoring platform. Percepto AIM empowers the remote operation center of the future to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety, and reduce operational costs.

tru.ID

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a mobile authentication technology designed to assist developers in replacing passwords in a secure way. The company's platform confirms ownership of a mobile phone number by verifying the possession of an active SIM card with the same number and provides information on when a SIM card associated with a mobile phone number was last changed, enabling an individual to get a frictionless and secure user authentication technology.

BrandTotal

Series A in 2018
BrandTotal was conceived in order to solve a problem facing marketing teams today. This problem is Dark Marketing. Dark marketing is replacing traditional marketing techniques, making it nearly impossible to keep tabs on your competition. By applying cyber security, machine learning, and AI methodologies, BrandTotal is able to reverse-engineer your competitors' marketing strategies, giving you an edge over your competitive landscape. BrandTotal’s platform allows you to be agile. Get actionable insights and adjust your strategies in real time.

Nexmo

Series C in 2014
Nexmo provides innovative cloud communication APIs that enable applications and enterprises connect to their customers via voice and SMS. Nexmo’s APIs, Direct to Carrier approach and Adaptive Routing technology improves customer experiences by connecting you with your customers reliably no matter where they are in the world. Nexmo connects to over 1,700 carriers and reaches over 235 countries and territories. Nexmo can help any business improve customer communication--some of the world’s top companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, and Snapchat communicate with their global users using Nexmo, across industries ranging from travel, transportation, messaging, e-commerce, finance and payments, and security. Start sending messages and calls in minutes for free at https://www.nexmo.com/

ImmunoMet Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2021
ImmunoMet Therapeutics is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel oncology products that are aimed to improve the quality of life of cancer patients. With more than 6 years of experience in the field of cancer metabolism and immunometabolism, ImmunoMet has developed a comprehensive pipeline of metabolic regulators preferentially targeting the cellular metabolism of drug-resistant cancer subpopulations and immuno-suppressors of anti-cancer effector T cells.

Acquire

Private Placement in 2019
Acquire is a unified customer engagement platform that brings all communication, interactions, channels, and tools under one roof. With Acquire, teams are able to respond to customers instantly using live chat, chatbots, cobrowse, video and voice, email, SMS, and more — all from one simplified dashboard.

Macaron M

Series J in 2020
Provider of ride-hailing service platform intended to come up with scheduled car reservation service. The company's platform provides reservations of cars through calling as well as a selection of a variety of vehicles with simplified payment and discounts through its mobile application, enabling customers to enjoy a reservation-based travel experience.