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Stonebridge Capital

Stonebridge Capital Inc. is a private equity firm based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2008. It specializes in investments in middle market and buyout deals for domestic and foreign businesses with high growth potential. The firm focuses on various sectors, including new growth industries, software, distribution, consumer goods, media and entertainment, healthcare, and financial services. Additionally, Stonebridge Capital invests in information communication technology, pharmaceuticals, and real estate, with a particular interest in opportunities related to overseas expansion. The firm primarily targets investments in North America and East Asia, emphasizing South Korea, China, and Japan. Its subsidiary, Stonebridge Ventures Inc., established in 2017, engages in venture capital investments across sectors such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and financial technology, with a strategy that includes growth capital and secondary investments.

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Youjung Chang

Managing Director

Seong-woo Cho

Senior Associate

Dong Yeol Choi

Senior Managing Director

Minwook Go

Investment Manager

Pil Kyung Jun

Investment Manager

Tommy Kim

Managing Director

Hoyoon Kim

MD

Dean H. Kim

Founder & Partner

Ho Jin Kim

Investment Manager

Han Su Lee

Managing Director

Taewoo Lee

Investment Manager

Jung-In Oh

MD

Han Kook Park

Managing Director

Sung Jun Park

Senior Associate

Sung Joon Park

Senior Managing Director

Ji-woong Park

Senior Investment Manager

Ikhwan Sung

Senior Managing Director

Sung Woon Yu

CEO / Partner

Past deals in South Korea

Cardoc

Series B in 2017
Cardoc Inc. is a South Korean company that specializes in providing a mobile application for car body repair services. Founded in 2013 and based in Seoul, the application allows users to upload photographs of their vehicle's exterior damage to receive free repair estimates and text consultations from selected auto body shops in real time. Users can obtain their first estimate within an average of seven minutes and compare multiple offers without needing to register personal information. Over a 15-month service period, Cardoc processed transactions totaling $3.5 million, with registered stores experiencing significant growth rates of 30-100% monthly. The founding team comprises automotive enthusiasts who received support from Daum NIS, a startup incubation organization.

Needer

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

MAKEUS

Venture Round in 2015
MAKEUS Co., Ltd. is a South Korean company based in Seoul that specializes in developing a digital media content platform. This platform is designed to optimize video content for mobile and social networking sites, producing a diverse array of subjects, including music, food, travel, and beauty. In addition to its video-sharing capabilities, MAKEUS also offers advertising solutions based on digital media, enhancing user engagement and content visibility. The company focuses on enabling users to watch and share video content seamlessly across various platforms.

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.

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.