Shinhan Venture Investment

Shinhan Venture Investment operates as an investment company. Shinhan Venture Investment focuses on earlier-stage venture capital investments and later-stage control investments opportunities derived from the latest megatrends such as the aging population, disruptive technologies, IT convergence, alternative energy and etc.

Jae Ho Cho

Managing Director

Donghwan Kim

Senior Managing Director, Private Equity and Fund Manager

Ho-Jun Lee

Senior Managing Director

Jeong-Hee Ha Ph.D

Managing Director

68 past transactions

Storelink

Venture Round in 2023
Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.

Wave

Series A in 2023
Wave is a food tech company that offers robot-based kitchen operation services for the food service industry.

PeopleNStory

Venture Round in 2023
People & Story creates web novel content for webtoon production and for domestic and international content distribution. The company specializes in content creation and distribution. The company acquires and produces Webtoon and Webnovel IPs, expands infrastructure, and invests in a variety of content using adaptation rights.

Contents Technologies

Series A in 2022
Contents Technologies is a content IP-based company that builds technology solutions for artists and creators.

FASSTO

Series C in 2022
FASSTO is a consulting company that provides packaging, delivery, logistic, and shipping services.

ZigBang

Venture Round in 2022
ZigBang is a real estate marketplace that offers an apartment hunting app. Users on Zig Bang can search for rental properties by the number of rooms, occupants, and price. Across both mobile and web versions, the startup reports 6 million users (though those aren’t all necessarily active and there might be some overlap).

Rznomics

Series C in 2022
This is a biotechnology company founded by professor Lee Sung-wook's lab They are working on the development of gene therapy products for liver cancer through the development of gene therapy products. It was selected by the TIPS program and was recognized for excellence in technology.

Supercent

Seed Round in 2022
Supercent develops and publishes hyper-casual mobile games.

Spark Biopharma

Series C in 2022
SPARK BioPharma Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul National University in January 2016 based on the unique drug molecule diversity technology, the image-based screening technology using the unique fluorescent skeleton probe, and the target protein identification technology in the initial drug development stage. We are currently exploring and developing new drug candidates using these three core technologies, and we will continue to accelerate the development of new drugs and increase the success rate through strategic cooperation research with domestic and overseas research institutes and pharmaceutical institutions. '

Innohas

Series A in 2022
Innohas is a food tech startup that researches, develops, produces, and distributes alternative meat using vegetables and animal protein.

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.

Clodot

Series B in 2022
Clodot is an information technology company.

Speedoc

Debt Financing in 2022
As a virtual clinic and hospital care provider combining physical-digital services to challenge the traditional centralized, facility-based model, Speedoc believes that this will be the solution to the aging population faced by many countries in the region as the demand for medical care increases. Their services include house call doctors, nurses, medications delivery; and is complemented by telemedicine, remote diagnostics and health monitoring.

Anterogen

Post in 2022
Anterogen is a bio-venture company specializing in research and development of cell therapy products and orphan drugs using adult stem cells.

Yeoshin

Series B in 2021
Yeoshin is a skin treatment information platform.

Monthly kitchen

Series B in 2021
Monthly Kitchen is a digital food service platform company.

Nodit

Series B in 2021
# Nodit Nodit is a Web3 development platform specialized in blockchain data. Nodit aims to provide enterprise-grade multi-chain Web3 infrastructure accessible to everyone. By offering reliable node infrastructure with 99.9% uptime and consistent ready-to-query blockchain data at an affordable price, we are facilitating developers’ entry into the Web3 world. # Lambda256 Lambda256, the blockchain tech arm of Dunamu, developed and operates Nodit, which enhances efficiency in managing tasks like blockchain network setup, node operation, and data processing for Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Aptos and Luniverse, a cloud-based blockchain infrastructure platform. Lambda256 also offers a travel rule solution to meet FATF guidelines, improving security and compliance for virtual asset transactions. The company secured Series A funding, followed by Series B funding in December 2021, achieving a total accumulated investment of approximately +80 million USD.

AUTOCRYPT

Series B in 2021
AUTOCRYPT is the leading player in mobility security technologies. Recognized by TU-Automotive as the Best Auto Cybersecurity Product/Solution of 2019, and shortlisted in 2020 for Automotive Tech Company of the Year, AUTOCRYPT continues to pave the way in transportation and mobility security through a multi-layered, holistic approach. Through security solutions for V2X/C-V2X, V2G (including Plug & Charge security), in-vehicle security, and Fleet Management, AUTOCRYPT ensures that security is prioritized before vehicles hit the road.

Irang Tech

Series A in 2021
Irang Tech develops, manufactures, and supplies communication components.

Daejoo

Venture Round in 2021
Daejoo specialized in the production of electronic materials, such as insulation material, a conductive material, and glass material.

Turing

Series A in 2021
Turing is a representative AI learning platform for math education.

Ticaros

Series C in 2021
Ticaros is a biotech company that develops immune anti-cancer drugs.

M.MONSTAR

Venture Round in 2021
M.MONSTAR is a software development firm that specializes in e-commerce solutions for fashion shopping malls.

Easyendo Surgical

Series A in 2021
Easyendo Surgical is a company that specializes in surgical robots.

PABLO AIR

Series B in 2021
PABLO AIR is creating various mobility businesses based on unmanned smart mobilities integrated system and swarming technology. Our technical goal is to innovate in the fields of military UAS and solution, drone art show, drone delivery, and urban ATM.

jeongyookgak

Series C in 2021
jeongyookgak produces and sells fresh meat.

Barogo

Series C in 2021
Barogo provides a last-mile delivery platform to clients in order to generate new and creative business opportunities. It focuses on the ecosystem of connectivity and connects all possible businesses and customers. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Medistream

Series A in 2021
Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.

MEZOO

Series A in 2021
MEZOO is a medical device manufacturing company.

Gencurix

Venture Round in 2021
Gencurix develops various diagnostic products to support precision medicine.

UPRISE

Series B in 2021
UPRISE creates self-driving investment services.

Studio Samick

Seed Round in 2021
Studio Samick provides e-commerce services for home and office furnishings. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

MBD

Series B in 2021
MBD is a biotechnology company that specializes in 3D cell culture platforms.

AffyXell Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
AffyXell was established in January 2020 by Avacta and Daewoong as a joint venture to develop novel mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapies.

Watcha

Venture Round in 2020
WATCHA - Launched in AUG 2012, it quickly became Korea’s favorite movie review app - Its core competency lies in personalized recommendation technology - once users rate movie, WATCHA predicts how they will like movies they haven’t yet seen - Now provides the widest and most accurate movie, TV show and book reviews - Launched in Japan in 2015 WATCHA PLAY - Launched in JAN 2016 - Subscription VOD service for movie and TV series available on multiple devices including Web, iOS/Android mobile and tablet, Samsung/LG Smart TV, Google Chromecast, Android TV - Provides extremely accurate personalized content recommendation, powered by WATCHA - 75% of content consumed based on recommendations Comment by Apple, App Store Editor Team “Thanks to its large volume of reliable review data collected from users, WATCHA PLAY can recommend contents that perfectly satisfy my taste. Please don’t waste your time in choosing what to watch. Trust WATCHA PLAY and Enjoy tonight”

Yanadoo

Venture Round in 2020
Yanadoo is a fast-growing English conversation training company. Yanadoo offers an English vocabulary app that is designed to help users learn new words in 10 minutes a day.

Novelty Nobility

Series A in 2020
Novelty Nobility Inc. is a private biotech company. They are currently focused on the research of novel angiogenesis targets and develop antibody-based therapeutics in ophthalmology and oncology, where angiogenesis plays a key pathogenic role. In ophthalmology, Novelty Nobility first discovered a novel angiogenesis target, Stem Cell Factor(SCF) and c-KIT, which was initially known for its engagement with proliferation and survival of primitive hematopoietic stem cells for a couple of past decades. We believe that anti-SCF/c-KIT could effectively address the unmet medical needs, mostly caused by inherent limitations of anti-VEGFs, in terms of treatment efficacy and long-term safety. Our target discovery is widely and strongly patent-protected in US/KOR and the lead pipeline, NN2101(a full-human monoclonal antibody), is currently under preclinical development.

CSK

Venture Round in 2020
CSK is a supplier of exhaust management systems in the South Korean semiconductor, display, solar and LED markets.

MUSINSA

Venture Round in 2019
MUSINSA is a fashion business company that offers personalized curation and storytelling for various brands and products. Its platform helps brands and consumers' lifestyles by designing, creating, enjoying, and interacting with fashion. It also delivers fashion trends and information to help customers engage and interact.

Grip

Series A in 2019
Grip is a mobile application that offers to sell products, update stories, go online and chat communication to sellers.

Polygon

Corporate Round in 2019
Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development and web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~130M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

PPB Studios

Venture Round in 2019
PPB Studios is an operator of apparel and accessories brands that intended to sell a variety of fashion products.

ViGenCell

Venture Round in 2019
ViGenCell is a medical company that specializes in immune cell therapy.

APR Corporation

Venture Round in 2019
APR is a global beauty-tech company expands beyond beauty with “Medicube” leading the charge.

SCM Lifescience

Series C in 2018
SCM Lifescience was established in 2014 with the vision of 'developing treatment options for difficult to treat diseases to provide a new source of hope for patients and contribute to the welfare of humanity as a whole'​ using proprietary stem cell isolation technology and stem cell production technology.

Deep Bio

Series A in 2018
Deep Bio is a medical AI startup that aims to revolutionize cancer diagnosis. Deep Bio combines cutting-edge AI algorithms with digital pathology to empower pathologists and streamline existing workflows.

Ensol Biosciences

Series C in 2018
EnSol Bioscience is a creative and challenging company that makes it possible and realizes that many people in the world say it is impossible.

Plexense

Venture Round in 2017
Plexense is a developer of immunoassay for clinical, agricultural and biological testing.

Innogrid

Series A in 2017
InnoGrid develops and sells cloud computing solutions.

Twinny

Seed Round in 2017
Twinny specializes in the development of self-driving robots.

Bithumb

Venture Round in 2017
Bithumb is a cryptocurrency exchange platform. The South Korean-based platform is also known as a leading exchange for ether, the currency of Ethereum (which in itself is immensely popular in the country). Bithumb is operated by a company called BTC Korea.com Co. Ltd.

N.CODE

Seed Round in 2017
N.CODE provide luxury goods of diverse brands through affiliation with European luxury boutiques. In addition to brand diversity, “d.code” guarantees provision of the sufficient and accurate information of brand information, product description, and price. They cover more than 700 luxury brands and 100K items. Second, they ensure reasonable price and quality service.

Best Bristle

Series B in 2017
Since 1998, BBC has contributed to enrichment of life quality through Innovative creation and provision of trustable filaments that meet customer’s needs. Nowadays, in the market environment such rapidly changing situation, as a leader of oral care industry, they have recognized that they have great responsibilities. One of the responsibilities is to provide their customers with quality products but most importantly, they also have the responsibility to support Human and Nature which they live with and in. They are committed to achieving these important goals W.I.T.H BBC and doing their upmost to earn trust of their customers as well as communities.

StradVision

Seed Round in 2017
StradVision provides an embedded perception algorithm for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles use cases. With its production-ready ADAS SW IP platform using camera-based perception AI or LiDAR, StradVision aims towards its future road map to autonomous driving. StradVision’s machine learning algorithm achieved No.1 performance in world-class tech evaluations, including scene text detection (English and Chinese) and pedestrian detection. StradVision’s computer vision algorithm is accurate and fast, and runs smoothly on embedded and IoT devices. Its headquarters are located in San Jose, USA with an R&D center in Pohang, South Korea. With 60 patents issued and 150+ pending patents around the world, StradVision is widely accepted and backed by Global Automotive Industry Veterans.

Mindslab

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

Ninjacart

Series A in 2016
Ninjacart operates an online business-to-business platform that connects farmers, manufactures, and brands to retailers directly through the lean and connected supply chain. Its platform enables the distribution of vegetables and fruits to retailers and restaurants across India. Ashutosh Vikram, Kartheeswaran K K, Sharath Loganathan, Thirukumaran Nagarajan, and Vasu Devan founded Ninjacart in July 2015. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

TCE Corporation

Private Equity Round in 2016
TCE Corporation is a textile company that produces denim fabrics.

Doosan Fuel Cell

Venture Round in 2016
Doosan Fuel Cell is a manufacturer of stable and clean fuel cell with high efficiency.

Destin Power

Venture Round in 2016
Destin Power manufactures power conditioning products designed to improve energy management and safety. The company created the ESS system by utilizing core power electronics technology such as control technology for energy storage systems, static and dynamic grid support technology, and micro-grid inverter technology.

Pearl Abyss

Venture Round in 2016
Pearl Abyss is the developer of Black Desert Online, the Next-Gen Sandbox MMORPG. Located near Seoul, South Korea, Pearl Abyss is currently a home to one of the most talented and experienced people in gaming industry.

Global Tax Free

Venture Round in 2016
Global Tax Free provides tax fund services for department stores and luxury brands. They support clients and merchants with specialized marketing channels targeting foreign customers to promote sales and advertise clients. They provide an electronic tax refund system that simplifies and computerizes overall tax refund procedures.

Mirinae Games

Series A in 2013
Mirinae Games develops and offers gaming software, platforms, and mechanics.

BeMyCar

Venture Round in 2013
BeMyCar offers car rental services.

G plus games

Seed Round in 2012
G Plus Games Co., Ltd. was founded in 2011 to create a new era of next gen online entertainment in the global market. By employs over 20 veteran developers who experienced to develop triple A online gaming products for many years, their goal is to create Final Bullet, next generation online shooter which can be published in over the world with groundbreaking brand-new technologies, features, functions and contents. As they are an independent studio, fully ready to work with any global publishers, on any platforms, and prepare any of culturalization and localization for game design, arts, digital materials, contents and development schedules in support their corporate vision.

Novarex

Funding Round in 2009
Novarex develops and produces health functional foods and raw materials in South Korea and internationally. Novarex offers lactic acid bacteria, eye health, diet, pregnant, children's, powdered general food, prostate health, omega-3, and vitamin and mineral products, as well as GNC and BLACKMORES products in the forms of tablet, hard capsule, and powder, gumi jelly, and stick jelly. The company was formerly known as Health Science Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Novarex Co., Ltd. in November 2011. Novarex Co., Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cheongju, South Korea.

Neothetics

Series A in 2009
Neothetics is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics for the aesthetic market.

AngioLab

Venture Round in 2008
Angiolab 's CI is the compound word for Angiogenesis + Laboratory, which symbolizes the image of a company that is stable and gives customers confidence. They also express diversity and dynamism by emphasizing the character of the company.

S.Biomedics

Venture Round in 2007
S.Biomedics specializes in cell therapy research and development for regenerative biomedicine. The company has been pursuing growth and development by integrating previously acquired technologies and next-generation cell therapy technologies in order to provide more fundamental and safe treatment solutions for intractable diseases that cannot be treated with existing medicines and medical technologies.
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