SK Planet

SK planet, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK telecom, was established in October 1, 2011 with an aspiration to become a global platform innovator. As the lynchpin of SK telecom's future growth, the company was spun off with the industry-leading platform businesses including T-Store, T-map, MelOn, and Cyworld, Korea's biggest mobile app store, mobile navigation, online music service and SNS respectively. The company also pioneers in new media with hoppin, Korea's first multi-screen premium video service, and continues to build momentum in its online commerce leadership with 11th Street. SK planet aspires to develop a wide scope of global partnerships such as TMK, a media joint venture with Disney. Through collaborations with partners, SK planet is committed to building global platform business in Asia and other strategic markets.

Greg Park

Executive Vice President

18 past transactions

HelloNature

Acquisition in 2016
HelloNature (헬로네이처) is a Korean agriculture-based distribution service that allows consumers to order fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and meat directly from farmers.

Tenqube

Series A in 2016
Gomst is a mobile fashion app for m-z gens. It is a fashion consumer platform where users can discover cross-border items. Gomst provides daily updated items from over 1,000 different fashion stores and brands, from over 6 different countries. In addition, AR-CAMERA based Virtual Try On is available for selected products

Elevenia

Venture Round in 2016
Elevenia is a marketplace-based platform for buyers and sellers. The platform enables its users to buy and sell various product categories, including fashion, beauty and health, babies and kids, home and garden, gadgets and computers, electronics, sports and hobbies, sports and outdoors, books and magazines, automotive, and more. Elevenia was launched in 2013 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a joint venture marketplace from XL Axiata and SK Planet South Korea.

Stripes

Series B in 2015
Stripes is a Korea-based apparel company that designs and manufactures men’s clothing products. Stripes’ clothing collection carries directional designs, as well as every day favorites including, t-shirts, shirts, and suits. The company also provides personalized styling services, enabling customers to personalize their clothes and have them designed to a perfect fit. Stripes markets its product through the web and mobile medium, giving consumers the facility of buying clothes at the comfort of their homes. Stripes was established in January 2013.

Melephant

Angel Round in 2015
Melephant Inc. is a Korea based startup established in October 2013.

Dable

Seed Round in 2015
Dable, a leading global content discovery platform, announced that the number of partnered premium media in Asia surpassed 3,000 in number and exceeded 5 billion monthly pageviews. Dable recorded an average annual sales growth of more than 50% since its establishment in 2015. Currently, Dable is the most used personalized recommendation platform in Indonesia, Vietnam and Korea. In Taiwan, the sales tripled over the past year whilst Malaysia recorded an average monthly sales growth of 30%. Dable also ranked 46th place out of the top 500 Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies announced by the Financial Times, and proved its growth potential by ranking 1st in the media category.

Gimbal

Venture Round in 2015
Gimbal develops and delivers mobile contextual awareness platform and solutions to enhance mobile engagement. Using its own hardware and software, Gimbal enables brands, media agencies, and marketers to improve their campaigns with personalized messaging and drive measurable business outcomes. The company offers Gimbal, a geofencing and analytics platform; AdSynergy, AdKit, AdCast, AdScore, AudienceArchitect, for mobile media campaigns; people and proximity platform, such as Gimbal Manager, GeoFences, and Location SDK, for cloud-based location management; and Bluetooth smart beacons with iBeacon technology.

Elevenia

Funding Round in 2015
Elevenia is a marketplace-based platform for buyers and sellers. The platform enables its users to buy and sell various product categories, including fashion, beauty and health, babies and kids, home and garden, gadgets and computers, electronics, sports and hobbies, sports and outdoors, books and magazines, automotive, and more. Elevenia was launched in 2013 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a joint venture marketplace from XL Axiata and SK Planet South Korea.

Frankly Media

Series B in 2014
Frankly (TSX VENTURE: TLK) An integrated software platform for brands and media companies to create, distribute, analyze and monetize their content across all of their digital properties on web, mobile, TV, OTT. With Frankly, users have an efficient workflow that powers content producers to maximize consumer value and revenue potential. It is the only lens-to-screen platform that allows the ability to capture breaking news with multi media production at your fingertips. Easily and quickly you have multi-screen distribution, social media engagement and the ability to do targeted advertising. Its customers include NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX affiliates, as well as top fashion brands, professional sports franchises and global organizations. Collectively, Frankly reaches nearly 60 million monthly users in the United States.

FraSen

Seed Round in 2014
Frasen Inc. provides software and hardware related to healthcare services. It developed a hardware known as Neurofeedback Sleep Mask and a software known as Personal Sleep Care Service. Neurofeedback Sleep Mask is based on the neuroscience of sleep. It is able to measure the brain waves to monitor sleep stages precisely and to stimulate the brain using sound and light to synchronize brain waves from light sleep stages to deep sleep stages. Frasen has received investments from FastTrackAsia. It was established on March 8, 2010.

Jumping Nuts

Seed Round in 2014
Jumpingnuts is an app designed to provide a new social experience for teens around social modes, and the app also provides granular controls over followers to ensure that users can decide who sees their content.

Frankly Media

Series A in 2013
Frankly (TSX VENTURE: TLK) An integrated software platform for brands and media companies to create, distribute, analyze and monetize their content across all of their digital properties on web, mobile, TV, OTT. With Frankly, users have an efficient workflow that powers content producers to maximize consumer value and revenue potential. It is the only lens-to-screen platform that allows the ability to capture breaking news with multi media production at your fingertips. Easily and quickly you have multi-screen distribution, social media engagement and the ability to do targeted advertising. Its customers include NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX affiliates, as well as top fashion brands, professional sports franchises and global organizations. Collectively, Frankly reaches nearly 60 million monthly users in the United States.

Korbit

Seed Round in 2013
Korbit, Inc. provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. As of September 26, 2017, Korbit, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NXC Corporation.

Bapul

Seed Round in 2013
Immediately Solve [Bapul] (바로풀기 [Bapul]) is a question-and-answer (Q&A) platform that enables users to ask and answer study-related questions. Immediately Solve has won many awards including Women's Entrepreneurship Competition Prize in 2011, Chung Founded Contest Prize in 2012, and Republic of Korea Mobile App Award in 2013. Immediately Solve was founded on June 13, 2011, by Bapul, a Korean web development company.

Tapas Media

Seed Round in 2012
Tapas is the “Youtube for story tellers” -- a platform and community for over 50,000 creators, who publish original stories in the form of serialized webcomics and novels. Tapas has over 2 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend 70 million minutes per month on the platform with stories on Tapas having been read over 5 billion times to date. We co-produce original IPs with our top creators that can be shopped and brokered into the next hit TV series/movies/games/physical books. About 70% of Tapas’s audience are female millennials primarily located in the US. The Tapas app has been downloaded over 2 million times and is one of the top grossing comics apps on iOS and Android. Check out some of the latest news articles about Tapas here: https://tapas.io/site/about

Quixey

Series B in 2012
Quixey, a mobile technology company, provides better access and engagement with apps. Quixey provides the world’s leading mobile brands with Deep View Cards - a new way to deliver relevant app content and functionalities via ads, search, and social and messaging platforms. It connects to instant actions within apps, like booking a hotel or ordering a ride, so they can do what they want to do quickly.

Mad Smart

Acquisition in 2012
Mad Smart is also noted in the industry for its top engineering talents with rich development experience in areas such as search, server and client system, along with its signature server engineering capability that delivers optimal performance, energy efficiency and cost effectiveness.

Viki

Series B in 2011
Viki is an international video website offering TV shows, movies, and other premium content translated into more than 150 languages by a community of avid fans.
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