Stonebridge Capital

Stonebridge Ventures is a venture capital firm. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Stonebridge Capital Inc. It considers secondary investments. Stonebridge Ventures was founded in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
YC

Youjung Chang

MD

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Seong-woo Cho

Senior Associate

DY

Dong Yeol Choi

Executive Director

MG

Minwook Go

Investment Manager

KS

Kevin S. Hyun

CEO / Partner

PK

Pil Kyung Jun

Investment Manager

TK

Tommy Kim

Partner

DH

Dean H. Kim

Founder / Partner

HK

Hoyoon Kim

MD

HJ

Ho Jin Kim

Investment Manager

TL

Taewoo Lee

Investment Manager

HS

Han Su Lee

MD

JO

Jung-In Oh

MD

JP

Ji-woong Park

Senior Investment Manager

SJ

Sung Joon Park

Senior MD

SJ

Sung Jun Park

Senior Associate

HK

Han Kook Park

MD

IS

Ikhwan Sung

Senior MD

Sung Woon Yu

CEO / Partner

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Kstone

Series B in 2016
Kstone provides cash van services, such as bank transfer services for customers in financial transactions. Its mobile cash van machines offer cash withdrawal, out-of-store ATM management, settlement of funds, account transfer, and prepaid card. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

TRU Technologies

Series A in 2021
TRU Technologies is a technology company focusing on developing and operating Securities Finance software products.

TAU-PNU MEDICAL

Series B in 2020
TAU is developing state-of-the-art minimally invasive catheter-based surgical methodologies for treating structural heart diseases like Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation (TR), Mitral Valve Regurgitation (MR), Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM), and Heart arrhythmia.

5Rocks

Seed Round in 2010
5Rocks is a Korean startup that provides a mobile game analytics service, “5Rocks”. Its main service feature is segment-specific user behavior analytics that provides detailed analysis of users appropriate to the characteristics of different types of games, and enables the simultaneous operation and marketing of a game based on those results. Recognized for its technical excellence, 5Rocks received 2.55 billion KRW (2.3 million USD) from Japanese venture capital firm, Global Brain, in August 2013 and launched in the Japanese market. The company currently has about 450 clients around the world, including in South Korea, Japan, US, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, and is planning to enter the U.S. market in 2014. 5Rocks, which was founded in September 2010, raised 2 billion KRW (1.8 million USD) in a Series A round from Stonebridge Capital in May 2011.

Momo Inc.

Series B in 2011
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.

Plasmapp

Series A in 2015
Plasmapp is an innovative company specialized in plasma engineering technology. They have developed novel plasma technologies and state-of-art plasma systems for curing of processed-meat for the first time in the world. PLASMAPP CO. LTD. has developed various plasma systems based on their own well-experienced plasma technologies that are originated from KAIST in Korea. PLASMAPP endeavors to meet your needs and becomes your best business partner by providing engineering solutions.

WIDER PLANET Inc.

Series B in 2014
WIDER PLANET Inc. operates advertising platforms in South Korea and internationally. Its platforms analyze digital users’ preferences and interests based on big data, and recommends and delivers optimal, targeted marketing, and advertisement contents. The company offers demand side platform that provides information about categorized users to meet the client’s needs; data management platform, a marketing tool to collect and analyze holistic behavioral data of target customers; real-time bidding platform; and SSP advertising tool. It also provides display and mobile advertising services. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Zig Bang

Series B in 2014
Zig Bang, an apartment hunting app from Korea. 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). The goal for 2015 is to hit 10 million and potentially seek another funding round.

Enswers

Venture Round in 2009
Enswers (엔써즈) is a Korean provider of ACR technology and systems for consumer electronics manufacturers around the world. Enswers’ ACR technology analyzes sound, image, and video content and can be applied to a number of areas, including second screen services, interactive TV systems, broadcast monitoring, subtitle casting, audience measurement, copyright filtering, and embedded solutions for smart TV, machine vision, and more. The company started out as a specialist company in automatic speech recognition, and has broadened its expertise to the field of video and image recognition. Enswers also offers its technology to manufacture Samsung smart TVs and Galaxy smart devices, and also provides second screen apps to major broadcasting stations and advertising firms around the world.

Sualab

Series C in 2019
Sualab Co., Ltd. develops and provides artificial intelligence-based deep learning machine vision solutions. It offers SuaKIT, a deep learning machine vision inspection software used in various manufacturing fields, such as display, solar, PCB, film, and semiconductor. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea. As of October 16, 2019, Sualab Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Cognex Corporation.

Rainist

Series C in 2019
Rainist Co., Ltd.,a financial technology company, develops a financial application software called Banksalad which collects and analyzes financial data. It provides recommendations regarding expenditure analysis and personal financial management. Rainist Co., Ltd. was founded 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Sualab

Seed Round in 2015
Sualab Co., Ltd. develops and provides artificial intelligence-based deep learning machine vision solutions. It offers SuaKIT, a deep learning machine vision inspection software used in various manufacturing fields, such as display, solar, PCB, film, and semiconductor. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea. As of October 16, 2019, Sualab Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Cognex Corporation.

Odd Concepts

Series A in 2017
Odd Concepts Inc. develops computer vision and artificial intelligence technology solutions. The company’s products include an image recognition platform which is a portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology, as a cloud based API service and computer vision consulting. It develops an online software technology for video content searches to link offline shopping businesses to create O2O market. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Stripes

Venture Round in 2017
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.

OPENSURVEY Incorporated

Series B in 2014
• Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-time access to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook. • The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.

Madup

Venture Round in 2016
Since a number of smartphone users reached 40 million, a numerous number of fine quality mobile applications came out for them. However, there are few that still being loved. Nowadays, not only strategic planning and development are important, but also mobile app marketing takes a huge part of success. They provide accurate and optimal mobile app marketing plan to advertisers. They extract reliable data from tracking tools, and apply them to a variety of services, such as app marketing consulting, platform management, advertisement planning, etc. They have performed reward marketing, CPI marketing, CPA marketing, and CPM marketing, and also they have worked with major companies with highest sales in commerce, real estate, education, games, and more. They proudly work with their own character as a startup and passionate team members. Together, they have figured mobile app map, mobile app market flow, mobile app trend, successful app revenue model and marketing strategies, and in 2016, they are still growing for brighter future.

Flitto

Series A in 2015
Flitto Inc., an integrated platform and language data company, provides various translation services. The company primarily offers online-based translation platform that directly connects requesters and translators through its Website or application, as well as handles various translation requests and translations, such as text, voice, image, and video. Its platform supports approximately 24 languages, including Korean, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese, Arabian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Hindi, Thai, Turkish, Tagalog, Dutch, Swedish, Malay, Polish, Czech, and Swahili. In addition, the company provides B2B offerings comprising language data service and corporate translation service. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Zoyi Corporation

Seed Round in 2011
Zoyi Corporation develops customer analytic tools for retailers. The company offers Walk Insights, an offline retail analytics solution, that detects wireless signals from mobile devices to collect and store visitor data in real time. It also analyzes data from outside traffic, store visits, dwell time, and returning visitors. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

nota, inc.

Series A in 2020
NOTA’s deep learning model compression technology allows models to be stored individually on small edge devices without affecting the performance. Compared to large AI models, our on-device AI technology incurs only 20% of the previous cost and speeds up inference and predictions by 70%. Our compression removes latency, server/network cost, and privacy problems, while still achieving state-of-the-art performance at object detection, identification, and tracking. Clients can benefit from our stand-alone AI products at a lower cost, faster inference, and no privacy concerns.

S-Alpha Therapeutics Inc.

Series A in 2021
S-Alpha Therapeutics Inc., a digital therapeutics company, researches and develops health applications and platform technologies that enable digital devices to treat different diseases. Its products include SAT-001, an ophthalmology related application for eye disease treatment; SAT-002, neurology application for treatment of nervous system disease; SAT-003, oncology application for recovery and treatment of cancer patients; and SAT-008, a public crisis application for overcoming social problems. Additionally, it also develops therapeutic devices. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

TAU-PNU MEDICAL

Venture Round in 2019
TAU is developing state-of-the-art minimally invasive catheter-based surgical methodologies for treating structural heart diseases like Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation (TR), Mitral Valve Regurgitation (MR), Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM), and Heart arrhythmia.

Zig Bang

Private Equity Round in 2017
Zig Bang, an apartment hunting app from Korea. 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). The goal for 2015 is to hit 10 million and potentially seek another funding round.

Between

Series B in 2013
VCNC is a Korean mobile application and web services company developing “Between,” a mobile app for couples. Between is a mobile app created especially to enable couples to create, share, and remember all their special moments. The app is available for download in the iTunes store and Google Play market.

MetalLink

Series E in 2012
Innovation engineering & manufacturing of Electrical and Mechanical Equipment requires a high specialization. Metal Link Inc. founded in 1999. Also took over machinery division. We have preserved its core values, namely in specialization and customer focus. Metal Link Inc. has experienced a constant growth in the field of machinery and wire industry confirming their sincere customer’s variety of demands. Their technologies are in demand all over the world for wire & cable machinery, aluminium Rod & conductor, aluminium tube, high & low carbon steel wire, stainless wire, steel wire rope, are their main products.

KOKOMO Games

Series B in 2016
KoKomo is comprised of experienced team members who have successfully developed, launched and operated various online games including “Lineage2“, the first 3D MMORPG in Korea which has been loved by many users for more than 10 years, and NCSoft’s flagship MMO title “Blade&Soul“. Contrary to today’s trend in the game market which is inclined towards TCG and other midcore RPG games, KoKoMo would like to focus on hardcore RPG genre which remains as blue ocean. They are aiming to develop a flagship mobile MMORPG game that can also target gamers in Asia, who have similar characteristics and interests to gamers in Korea.

OnePredict

Series C in 2022
Established in 2016, OnePredict is a leader in industrial AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology and 9 time winner of the 'Global PHM Data Challenge' for the best industrial AI based Machine Digitalization & Intelligence solutions. OnePredict provides advanced AI solutions, the GuardiOne® Series, Cells, Edge, and Cloud solutions. GuardiOne® specializes in industrial AI solutions such as bearings, turbines, wind (wind farm), transformers, robots, and motors, and is expanding to various other industries.

Upstage AI

Series A in 2021
Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.

nota, inc.

Seed Round in 2019
NOTA’s deep learning model compression technology allows models to be stored individually on small edge devices without affecting the performance. Compared to large AI models, our on-device AI technology incurs only 20% of the previous cost and speeds up inference and predictions by 70%. Our compression removes latency, server/network cost, and privacy problems, while still achieving state-of-the-art performance at object detection, identification, and tracking. Clients can benefit from our stand-alone AI products at a lower cost, faster inference, and no privacy concerns.

Zig Bang

Venture Round in 2019
Zig Bang, an apartment hunting app from Korea. 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). The goal for 2015 is to hit 10 million and potentially seek another funding round.

Wellem

Series C in 2019
Wellem is an operator of pediatric clinic franchise. United Wellness Pediatric Gubei Clinic (Wellem) is a private clinic that provides care for babies, children, and young adults. They believe in leveraging competition and innovation to create better care, and base their service on the American service standard. They offer general pediatrics, pediatric dental care, specialized childcare, and imported vaccines. And can help children with any issue from physical growth, to nutrition, and language to vision, and even academic skills. Parents can also bring their children for preventative check ups, with little waiting time and simple registration.

Odd Concepts

Venture Round in 2017
Odd Concepts Inc. develops computer vision and artificial intelligence technology solutions. The company’s products include an image recognition platform which is a portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology, as a cloud based API service and computer vision consulting. It develops an online software technology for video content searches to link offline shopping businesses to create O2O market. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Intocell

Series A in 2016
Intocell Inc. develops and commercializes novel conjugate platform technologies, comprised of scaffold moiety, ligards, toxins, linkers, and conjugation methods. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Daejeon, South Korea.

cardoc inc.

Series B in 2017
cardoc inc. designs and develops an application that offers car body repair services. It puts a photograph of the damaged parts of the car in the application and provides a service that allows the customer to get quotation, consultation, and repair of the vehicle in real time from the repair shops. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Faborie

Seed Round in 2016
Faborie

TAU-PNU MEDICAL

Series A in 2017
TAU is developing state-of-the-art minimally invasive catheter-based surgical methodologies for treating structural heart diseases like Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation (TR), Mitral Valve Regurgitation (MR), Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM), and Heart arrhythmia.

Ybrain Inc.

Series A in 2014
Ybrain Inc., a brain signal based wearable device company, manufactures neuroscience technology based wearable devices for Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment patients. Its development focuses on addressing the complexities of brain disorders and mental well being using electrical signals. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Think2

Venture Round in 2011
Think2 provides online education services in mathematics. It provides study plans, online and offline content, and learning resources. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Seongnam-si, South Korea.

Momo Inc.

Series A in 2011
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.

MAD Square

Venture Round in 2016
MAD Square provides a video streaming platform which disrupts he way media and video content are curated, monetized, distributed, discovered, and consumed. The company was established in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Propzy

Convertible Note in 2019
Propzy Viet Nam offers real estate brokerage and related services through its portal. The company offers real estate agency and real estate search services. Propzy Viet Nam was founded in 2015 and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Dunamu Inc.

Series C in 2017
Dunamu Inc. offers blockchain and securities services. It operates UPbit, a global crypto asset exchange; UBCI, a cryptocurrency market index; and Luniverse that offers blockchain as a service. The company provides securities information service via Stockplus. In addition, it provides investment services. The company also offers its services through a mobile application. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Novachips Inc.

Series C in 2015
Novachips is a leading provider of a broad range of Flash storage processors and storage drives with breakthrough capacity and scalability. We reimagined Flash storage from the inside out and offer the SSD (Solid State Drive) industry’s most advanced capabilities with high storage capacity for enterprise-class storage applications.

MAKEUS

Venture Round in 2015
Makeus Co.,Ltd. develops an application that allows users to share video content. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Dable, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Dable, Inc. is B2B Omni-channel Personalization Platform that provides products and contents that users are likely to want to reach by gathering their behavioral logs in online and offline. With experience developing online recommendation platform as a team “RecoPick” in SK planet for 2 years, which has been the pioneer and the best recommendation platform in Korea, they are now aiming to expand their personalization service from online to offline to enrich people’s lifestyle.

Nvius

Series B in 2012
Nvius Co., Ltd. develops games for multiple platforms. It develops console, PC, mobile, social interaction, and online games. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. As of April 22, 2016, Nvius Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Mr. Blue Corporation.

WaterBear Soft

Series A in 2011
WaterBear (워터베어소프트) is a Korean software developer creating mobile education applications focused on revolutionizing the country's education software market. All WaterBear software suits are compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

Avocado Entertainment

Series B in 2012
Avocado Entertainment is a top-ranked social and mobile game publisher in Korea. The company was established in early 2006, and rapidly grown, by professional online gaming product managers, web programmers and designers, previously worked at Yahoo! Korea. With outstanding creativity and technology backgrounds in online game and internet platform, we are developing and publishing high quality social and mobile games for the social networks and mobile app stores in Korea. We are interested in licensing high quality overseas social and mobile games to bring into Korean market and also looking for a business partnership with talented social and mobile game developers and studios. We have been establishing an extensive business partnership with worldwide famous game developers until now. Contact us to discuss partnership opportunities.

Think2

Venture Round in 2012
Think2 provides online education services in mathematics. It provides study plans, online and offline content, and learning resources. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Seongnam-si, South Korea.

Enswers

Series A in 2008
Enswers (엔써즈) is a Korean provider of ACR technology and systems for consumer electronics manufacturers around the world. Enswers’ ACR technology analyzes sound, image, and video content and can be applied to a number of areas, including second screen services, interactive TV systems, broadcast monitoring, subtitle casting, audience measurement, copyright filtering, and embedded solutions for smart TV, machine vision, and more. The company started out as a specialist company in automatic speech recognition, and has broadened its expertise to the field of video and image recognition. Enswers also offers its technology to manufacture Samsung smart TVs and Galaxy smart devices, and also provides second screen apps to major broadcasting stations and advertising firms around the world.

M17 Entertainment

Series D in 2020
17LIVE Inc. operates live streaming platform in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The company also provides online dating services. Its live streaming services under 17 Media brand name; and online dating services under Paktor and Goodnight brands. The company was formerly known as M17 Entertainment Limited and changed its name to 17LIVE Inc. in October 2020. 17LIVE Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan with additional offices in Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Kuala Selangor, Malaysia.

StyleShare

Venture Round in 2016
StyleShare is a realtime mobile and online platform that allows users to share and receive updates on fashion and beauty. With millions of users from 120 different countries, StyleShare is the top mobile platform for those interested in everyday fashion and beauty. Based in Seoul, South Korea, StyleShare has garnered the attention of VOGUE, Instyle, and Elle Japan as the No. 1 mobile fashion application.

SIOT

Seed Round in 2016
Siot is a Korean company that provides a value-added services platform for shopping mall promotions.

Club Venit Co., Ltd.

Venture Round in 2012
Club Venit (클럽베닛) is a private Korean e-commerce company offering luxury brands online. Its portfolio of products includes bags, wallets, accessories, shoes, clothing, vintage, and more. Clubvenit was launched on May 28, 2009.

4Plat Inc.

Series A in 2013
4PLAT is a game developer and publisher focused on providing optimized mobile RPG games for massive simultaneous group playing. Its game player base is growing recently with creating high LTV and ARPPU and being recognized for its mobile game business. 4PLAT is based in Seoul, Seoul-t’ukpyolsi.

Needer

Seed Round in 2016
Needer develops mobile application that provides formation retrieval service. The company is headquartered in Busan, South Korea.

Livsmed

Venture Round in 2016
Livsmed Inc. manufactures surgical equipment which helps doctors reach narrow surgical sites precisely. The tool allows multiple degrees of movement for more complex techniques in surgical procedures. The company manufactures tools, such as bipolar fenestrated forceps, mono-polar Maryland dissector, short needle holder, and clip applier. The company is headquartered in Seongnam-si, South Korea.

Playnery

Series A in 2012
PLAYNERY (플레이너리) is a Korean developer of multiplatform 3D social online games with high quality graphical interfaces. Its product portfolio includes Mother of Myth, a mobile action role-playing game with a card collecting system. PLAYNERY was established in October 2007 in Seoul, Korea.

Stripes

Series B in 2017
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.

Dmb Technology Co.,Ltd

Series B in 2013
Develops power management solutions that are based on analog-mixed signal power management integrated circuits.

Spoqa

Series D in 2016
Spoqa is a Korean startup developing mobile marketing solutions. Spoqa operates Dodo Points, a tablet-based loyalty solution for local merchants. Store customers volutarily input their phone numbers into Dodo tablets that are installed facing customers on store counters to receive membership benefits, without having to sign up or download apps. Since its launch in April 2012, Spoqa now offers analytical customer management interface "Dodo Insight", marketing automation service "Dodo Message" and targeting advertising service "Dodo Ads" to a wide variety of businesses ranging from small coffee shops to major hotel brands.

Reality Reflection Inc.

Series A in 2016
Reality Reflection Inc. develops virtual reality games. The company provides various virtual reality games and services, which includes music inside, a rhythm game; speedball arena, a sports game; gangsta underground, the poker game; vmoji, augmented reality chatting; dancing zena, 3D character research and development scanning; and miniature td, a tower defense game. Reality Reflection Inc. also developed a 3D video production system that creates 3D human avatars using facial scans, full body scans, and 3D video capture. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

ICM

Series B in 2017
ICM

WantedLab Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
There are currently over 5,000 companies and hundreds of thousands of users on the Wanted platform. Since 2015, companies such as IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, Ebay, Wework, Rakuten and Tencent have been using Wanted to recruit the best talent in Asia. Founded in Korea, the company has raised over USD$20million in funding and is now expanding its presence to other major cities around the world.

ChannelBreeze

Series B in 2014
ChannelBreeze (채널브리즈) is a Korean company that provides social commerce services through an online platform including social network services. ChannelBreeze also provides search engine-based web services for real estate.

Encored, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Encored provides Energy Big Data Platform based on breakthrough disaggregation technology and data science. As a group of energy experts, mathematicians, statisticians, psychologists, and computer scientists, its mission is to provide a meaningful contribution to society, by making electricity a happy resource of life and helping energy-underprivileged people. They believe in collective intelligence and growing together with customers and developers.

Washon

Venture Round in 2016
Washon is an on-demand laundry service based on Seoul metropolitan area in Korea. Washon helps anyone with better laundry service. This is the vision that Wash-on is aiming to provide a life-saving opportunity through satisfactory laundry service.

Pearl Abyss

Series A in 2014
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.

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.

Loplat

Series A in 2016
Loplat develops a cloud-based platform for location data analysis. It offers a real-time locating system that delivers to track locations. The company offers analytical tools to transform real-time location data into operational intelligence. It provides a place recognition engine that recognizes registered places in the form of an application programming interface (API) to provide tools to analyze and manage which places customers visit. The company offers leaflet, a dashboard that analyzes the customer’s offline store behavior and tracks where a customer is in a store in real-time. Loplat was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Woowa Brothers Corp.

Series C in 2014
WOOWA BROS (우아한형제들) is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms. Its service portfolio also includes local marketing and web services solutions and products, such as a sports events app and a food delivery app. WOOWA BROS was established in March 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

Iamcompany

Series A in 2014
‘iamcompany’ is a student startup based on KAIST Midam committee and other educational charity services within KAIST. The company’s vision is to find students’potential through internet based technologies. To fulfill this vision, the company received 2 billion won investment from various investors. Service ‘iamschool’ is a mobile app that sends various educational institutions’ news and other contents to students’ caregivers. Just like ‘Twitter’, educational institutions send contents and news publicly. Caregivers search and follow institutions. (Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imcompany.school2) ‘iamclass’ is a web service that sends institutions’ information about students or institution itself directly to students’ caregivers. This app also advertises educational institutions to their target market. (Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imcompany.school2)

Uelectronics

Series E in 2016
Uelectronics specializes in MEMS-based Uncooled Far Infrared Sensors. MEMS technology is key to developing and producing leading edge infrared(IR) sensors Uelectronics has over 15 years of experience and know-how using MEMS technology to produce these sensors. A Wafer Level Vacuum Package(WLVP) is essential in new commercial applications for IR sensors where volumes are high and imager sizes are small. Uelectronics finished it first WLVP in 2010 making it the world’s first in using this technology to produce IR sensors. With superior yields, smaller size and reduced costs, the Company can provide its customers major advantages in their markets.

RocketOZ Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
RocketOz (로켓오즈) is a Korean company engaged in social mobile game development. The company has developed Train City, a free mobile game enabling users to build their own virtual city through their mobile phones.

TMON

Venture Round in 2010
Ticket Monster Inc. was founded in 2010 and is one of leading e-commerce companies in Korea today. In 2014, 70% of TMON’s transactions were completed on mobile devices and its customer base continued to expand into multiple age segments. The company operates in three key verticals - Goods, Local and Travel - and offers over 47,000 SKUs through partnerships with approximately 15,000 merchants. Private equity investor Anchor Equity Partners and leading global investment firm KKR have signed a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling stake of Ticket Monster Inc. from Groupon.

Foodfly

Venture Round in 2012
Foodfly (푸드플라이) is a Korean online food delivery service that allows consumers to order food online and get them delivered. Established in March 2011, Foodfly also enables users to order food online using mobile phones.

CLO Virtual Fashion Inc.

Series A in 2014
CLO Virtual Fashion Inc. provides three dimensional (3D) visualization technologies for the fashion industry. The company provides CLO3D, a fashion design software solution for garment simulation; and CLO innovation, an enterprise solution that facilitates interdepartmental process optimization through the use of 3D technology. It offers its services to companies ranging from licensed sportswear corporations to luxury leather goods brands worldwide. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Seoul, South Korea with an additional office in Munich, Germany.

EnglishCentral

Private Equity Round in 2010
EnglishCentral aims to become the premier, web-based conversational English language learning destination for desktop and mobile users. They focus on helping users with their spoken English, using proprietary speech recognition technology that "listens" to users' speech and then scores that speech based on their pronunciation and syntax. They allow users to choose content they love, from a massive database of video content covering popular subject areas (e.g., travel, sports, politics, business, movies) and existing popular content (e.g., Obama's speeches).

IRUJA

Series B in 2012
H&iruja Co., Ltd. manufactures semiconductor and electronic component. The company’s product includes LED lighting, OLED lighting, Low-E glass, Barrier film / ITO film, and Solar Cell. It also manufactures cluster sputter, which operates vapor deposition and in-line sputter, which is used for the production of Flat Panel Display. H&iruja Co., Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Asan, South Korea.

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.

WantedLab Inc.

Series B in 2017
There are currently over 5,000 companies and hundreds of thousands of users on the Wanted platform. Since 2015, companies such as IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, Ebay, Wework, Rakuten and Tencent have been using Wanted to recruit the best talent in Asia. Founded in Korea, the company has raised over USD$20million in funding and is now expanding its presence to other major cities around the world.

Genesystem

Series B in 2017
Genesystem is a biotech engineering company specializing in instrumentation of molecular diagnostics devices. It develops and markets state-of-the-art PCR instruments as well as related reagents and microfluidic devices which are designed to enhance the health of human societies and ultimately improve the quality of human life. The company is also open for customized engineering services for the clients in biotechnology industry. Genesystem assures it clients that that companies engineering expertise and know-how would create greater values their client’s application.

Croquis

Series B in 2017
Creator of ZIGZAG, Korea's top shopping meta-service app for women. ZIGZAG finds a user's style across thousands of online shops. ZIGZAG is transforming Korea's Fast Fashion Industry. Users can effortlessly browse and bookmark their favorite shops, and search results are tailored for each individual. Retailers have their items automatically synced to match ZIGZAG's UI/UX. ZIGZAG constantly updates new items and prices to keep everyone on the same page. Staying stylish has never been so easy.

Sualab

Series A in 2016
Sualab Co., Ltd. develops and provides artificial intelligence-based deep learning machine vision solutions. It offers SuaKIT, a deep learning machine vision inspection software used in various manufacturing fields, such as display, solar, PCB, film, and semiconductor. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea. As of October 16, 2019, Sualab Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Cognex Corporation.

Nobomics

Series C in 2017
Nobomics

ZeroWeb

Series D in 2016
ZeroWeb is a local network mobile platform developed for small to medium business people.

Uberple

Series B in 2018
Uberple, Inc. owns and operates an online real-time statistical computing engine for financial research. Uberple, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

SENTBE, KEB

Series A in 2016
SENTBE, KEB provides an online service to transfer money abroad. It allows customers to transfer and receive money. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Uberple

Series A in 2016
Uberple, Inc. owns and operates an online real-time statistical computing engine for financial research. Uberple, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

AM Telecom

Series C in 2017
AM Telecom is a technology company that manufactures telecommunication devices. Established in 2001, the company began with the development of mobile phones, started the business of M2M module in 2006, and succeeded in developing the first 3G + TRS-Dual-mode-phone in 2008. Its business scope expands to Convergence products, which are engaged in M2M modules. The general-purpose M2M module product has the industry's highest development capability and superior quality as a mobile communication repeater, security system, telematics terminal , Health care, smart grid, etc., and its quality has been verified and accepted.

U.S. Digital Television

Venture Round in 2004
About USDTV: U.S. Digital Television, Inc. is introducing the first "over-the-air" terrestrial digital subscription TV service in the United States using the new digital broadcast channels of local television stations. USDTV provides subscribers with cable channels and local broadcast channels in digital-quality picture and theater-quality sound, including HDTV, at unmatched prices.

Woowa Brothers Corp.

Series A in 2012
WOOWA BROS (우아한형제들) is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms. Its service portfolio also includes local marketing and web services solutions and products, such as a sports events app and a food delivery app. WOOWA BROS was established in March 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

SPACOSA Corp.

Seed Round in 2016
SAPCOSA is a South Korean company established in 2012. SPACOSA provides real time locating system to enterprises can get precise real time location and saves logs automatic. SPACOSA is a location-based service company provide CatchLoc, FAMY application, LINK beacon to locating things and people in real time. It has received numerous awards include TechCrunch event.

Woori Tech

Series A in 2010
Woori Tech

Lablup, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Lablup is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution that provides cloud and server management and scaling automation specific to machine learning environments that require a large amount of system resources. Launched in November 2016, Lablup is a distributed-processing-based, open source execution platform that is responsible for smoothly distributing program code for design and training of deep learning models in server and cloud environments. It is based on Docker technology, which efficiently provides multiple independent operating environments on a physical server. It also provides web-based, personalized programming education specialized in STEM field through CodeOnWeb, an online coding education platform developed based on the SORNA engine. Lablup is also developing a machine learning based natural language processing API along with a streaming interface that services various machine learning models in the form of API.

RocketOZ Inc.

Angel Round in 2010
RocketOz (로켓오즈) is a Korean company engaged in social mobile game development. The company has developed Train City, a free mobile game enabling users to build their own virtual city through their mobile phones.

Cupix, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Cupix, Inc. develops cloud-based VR/MR software that provides photogrammetry solution that can create the 3D geometry scene using 360-degree photos as a primary input. The company provides functionalities, such as dimension measurement, information annotations, and simulating virtual objects. It features includes, fast, create, share, and manage 3D virtual tours, and create interactive floor plan. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Seongnam-si, South Korea.

Flitto

Series B in 2016
Flitto Inc., an integrated platform and language data company, provides various translation services. The company primarily offers online-based translation platform that directly connects requesters and translators through its Website or application, as well as handles various translation requests and translations, such as text, voice, image, and video. Its platform supports approximately 24 languages, including Korean, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese, Arabian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Hindi, Thai, Turkish, Tagalog, Dutch, Swedish, Malay, Polish, Czech, and Swahili. In addition, the company provides B2B offerings comprising language data service and corporate translation service. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

HFR

Series A in 2015
HFR, together with its affiliates, has been providing products and services for fifteen years to key players in the Korean telecom market. HFR is a leading provider of network infrastructure equipment and services for carriers, enterprises and data centers. They offer simple, easy-to-use, high performance and cost-effective solutions that meet the specific demands of the customers. Their technological leadership is based on innovative optical and radio networking technology, and on their deep and focused experience in these markets.

Nobomics

Series B in 2016
Nobomics

GLOWDAYZ

Series B in 2017
GLOWDAYZ is a Korean-based IT company specialized in providing mobile development solutions to the cosmetic and real-estate sectors. Having established in 2013, the company has released two products to the IT market. Glowmee is a beauty curation service that enables users to receive beauty and cosmetic related content via their mobile phones. The app provides information about latest products, product reviews, and recommendations on popular beauty brands available in the market. Glowmee also offers magazines and beauty box services to its subscribers. Brokery is a mobile app focused on the real-estate market. The app offers its users’ information about available accommodations facilities and connects them directly with brokers in the vicinity.

Wex24

Series B in 2017
Wex24 provides eCommerce businesses an easy and economical way to send out packages. They competitive shipping rates provide a web-based international multi-carrier shipping solution with competitive shipping rates for their customers that ship international packages. Wex24 has extraordinarily low negotiated shipping rates with their partners, allowing us to provide low rates for their customers. Wex24 helps their customers ship packages from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world. They work closely with their partners in order to facilitate the burden and lower the price of sending out packages in an organized timely manner.

Zoyi Corporation

Seed Round in 2014
Zoyi Corporation develops customer analytic tools for retailers. The company offers Walk Insights, an offline retail analytics solution, that detects wireless signals from mobile devices to collect and store visitor data in real time. It also analyzes data from outside traffic, store visits, dwell time, and returning visitors. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Avocado Entertainment

Series A in 2010
Avocado Entertainment is a top-ranked social and mobile game publisher in Korea. The company was established in early 2006, and rapidly grown, by professional online gaming product managers, web programmers and designers, previously worked at Yahoo! Korea. With outstanding creativity and technology backgrounds in online game and internet platform, we are developing and publishing high quality social and mobile games for the social networks and mobile app stores in Korea. We are interested in licensing high quality overseas social and mobile games to bring into Korean market and also looking for a business partnership with talented social and mobile game developers and studios. We have been establishing an extensive business partnership with worldwide famous game developers until now. Contact us to discuss partnership opportunities.

Globalnetworks

Series B in 2017
Globalnetworks is a South Korean software company engages in providing online platform for livestock direct deal. The company offers brokerage of industrial agricultural raw materials and live animals. Globalnetworks was founded on May 19, 2014 and is headquartered in Yongin, South Korea.

OPENSURVEY Incorporated

Series A in 2013
• Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-time access to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook. • The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.

MyMusicTaste

Series C in 2017
MyMusicTaste is a fan initiated live event making service that brings fans, artists and promoters from all over the world together in one place to create a valuable and meaningful concert experience for everyone involved. MyMusicTaste puts the power in the fans' hands, allowing fans to request their favorite artist's concert in their city. Based on this demand, MyMusicTaste provides data-driven insights to artists and concert promoters the ability to organize highly successful concerts around the world. MyMusicTaste is quickly shaping a new paradigm for how concerts and live events are organized.

TMON

Venture Round in 2011
Ticket Monster Inc. was founded in 2010 and is one of leading e-commerce companies in Korea today. In 2014, 70% of TMON’s transactions were completed on mobile devices and its customer base continued to expand into multiple age segments. The company operates in three key verticals - Goods, Local and Travel - and offers over 47,000 SKUs through partnerships with approximately 15,000 merchants. Private equity investor Anchor Equity Partners and leading global investment firm KKR have signed a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling stake of Ticket Monster Inc. from Groupon.

Nearthlab

Series A in 2018
Nearthlab, Inc. designs and develops drone software that gathers and analyzes inspection data. It offers autonomous flight drone and data analysis portal. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Socialinus

Venture Round in 2011
Socialinus Inc. is a Korean-based independent game development company focused on creating online games for social networks. The company released its first game VNH Poker on Facebook and went on to sign publishing deals with globally renowned SNG publishers such as 6waves and Peak Games. They also released Farkle Online, yet another social media game which is available on Facebook. Socialinus has released its games in 12 languages, which are being enjoyed by over 4.5 million users in nearly 170 countries.