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[THE INVESTOR] Korean gamemaker Neptune and Dunamu & Partners, the investment arm of cryptocurrency exchange Upbeat operator Dunamu, announced on July 19 an investment in blockchain-based game devel...
[THE INVESTOR] Kakao Ventures, a venture capital unit of Kakao, said on July 18 it has invested 1 billion won (US$88,723.27) in Korean startup Four Wheels, the operator of My Duty, a scheduling app ...
[THE INVESTOR] Lee Jae-woong is Korea’s first generation of entrepreneurs. The 50-year-old founded internet giant Daum Communication, now Kakao Corp. After stepping down as Daum CEO in 2007, he has ...
[THE INVESTOR] SoCar , Korea’s No. 1 car-sharing service operator, has made an investment in autonomous driving startup RideFlux, the company said on July 11. RideFlux is a Korean startup found...
[THE INVESTOR] Korean health care platform firm CareLabs on July 10 said it has acquired BNK Lab, the operator of social dating apps, in a bid to strengthen its services in beauty and dating secto...
[THE INVESTOR] Wanted, a referral-based social recruiting platform, on July 10 said that it is acquiring the core assets of Seoul-based data analytics firm Kredit Data. Founded in 2015, Wanted leve...
[THE INVESTOR] Korean startup Studio XID , operator of mobile app prototyping tool ProtoPie, on July 5 said it had raised US$3.5 million in a Series A round of funding to fuel the firm’s product d...
[THE INVESTOR] Why do only few startups rise and most others fail? It is one of the most complicated questions in the venture industry. Especially since even the most promising startups -- armed wi...
[THE INVESTOR] Six Korean startups from Campus Seoul, the first Asian campus set up by US internet giant Google, have attracted investment worth 2.8 billion won (US$2.50 million) during the first ha...
[THE INVESTOR] JobPlanet , a crowdsourced corporate data startup, said on June 19 that it has launched a big data analytics team, to gain more insight into corporate HR and consequently offer more ...
[THE INVESTOR] Viva Republica, the Korean fintech startup that is behind mobile payment app Toss , on June 18 said it received US$40 million investments from Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC and Seq...
[THE INVESTOR] Pearl Abyss , a local game maker which reaped success with online role-playing game “Black Desert,” has decided to establish a new venture capital firm called Pearl Abyss Capital, th...
[THE INVESTOR] Innovation is often driven by tiny startups as seen in the case of tech giants Google, Facebook and Apple, which all began small. In Korea, similar success stories of fledgling busin...
[THE INVESTOR] SoftBank Ventures Korea, the venture capital arm of Japan’s telecom giant, on June 5 said it has led a US$20 million Series A funding round in Indonesian co-working space operator EV ...
[THE INVESTOR] Korean insurtech startup Zikto said on June 1 it has signed a memorandum of understanding with AXA Direct Korea, an affiliate of French insurance giant AXA Group, to jointly develop m...
Many foreign, domestic investors keen to acquire Skinfood
Kyung Nam Pharm seeks new owner
Abyo Korea hopes to redesign delivery industry
KDB forms co-investing roundtable with 6 local VCs
GenBody’s proposed IPO plans this year suffer setback
SK Biopharma signs contract with US new drug developer
Legal battle looms as approval for 1st for-profit hospital gets canceled
Mirae Asset invests in $243m mezzanine debt for grade A office building in HK
April 20, 2019
