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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Further confirmation that the esports market is booming amid the pandemic comes today with the news that esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised what it describes as “close to” $100 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tencent Holdings. SPACE in Seoul, South Korea.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Una Brands , a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has partnered with South Korean peer KlickBrands to expand its footprint in South Korea. . The strategic partnership will help South Korean e-commerce brands grow domestically and make inroads into more countries in Asia.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Dable announced today that it has raised a $12 million Series C at a valuation of $90 million, led by South Korean venture capital firm SV Investment. The Series C brings Dable’s total funding so far to $20.5

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. By the way, Danggeun means carrot in Korean.).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Most merchants in South Korea keep track of their international shipping logistics via email until their cargo safely gets to its destination. million (2 billion won) in pre-Series A funding from investors, including K2G Fund and strategic investor GS Global , which Korean conglomerate GS Holdings owns.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Riiid , a South Korea-headquartered AI-powered edtech company, acquired its Japanese distribution partner Langoo to expand its Japan footprint. . The acquisition comes after the company’s latest $175 million Series D round from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 in May. Riiid claims that more than 2.5 Canada, Brazil, and Vietnam. .

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APRIL 5, 2022

As the boom of the e-commerce aggregator trend continues in Asia, South Korea, the fifth-largest e-commerce market in the world, is rolling up. Wholesum , a Seoul-based e-commerce aggregator, is jumping on the trend of larger firms buying up third-party merchants that would usually sell on e-commerce platforms like Amazon and eBay.

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JUNE 5, 2022

You only have to look at how fast well-funded startups like Joby Aviation, Wisk Aero and Lillium are building and testing electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft. However, South Korea, which lacks the venture capital, entrepreneurial ecosystem and aerospace legacy of the U.S., The unusual suspects.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Akros Technologies wants to disrupt the current asset management industry via its AI-driven asset management software platform that mines market data for stocks. The latest funding, which brings Akros’s total amount raised to $6.1 million in funding from PeopleFund, a South Korean peer-to-peer lending platform.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fount , a robo-advisor startup in South Korea, has raised a $33.4 million Series C round to beef up its machine learning-based platform development and hire staff. . Returning backers Smilegate Investment, KT Investment, Shinhan Capital and Korea Development Bank also participated. of millennials. .

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AUGUST 16, 2022

QuotaBook , a Seoul-based equity management platform, has raised $11 million in funding led by Elefund, with participation from Access Ventures, Hana Securities and South Korean fintech company Viva Republica. About 40% of startups in Korea use QuotaBook’s service that provides cap table management, according to Choi.

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MAY 11, 2022

The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. million (3.5 billion yen) in equity and $11.6 million (1.5 billion yen) in debt.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. It brings CHAI’s total funding to $75 million, including a $15 million Series A in February. CHAI wants to fix this with an API that enables companies to accept over 20 payment systems.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

South Korea-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund announced today it has closed a $63.4 The latest funding brings the total raised by PeopleFund to about $83.6 PeopleFund targets the traditional personal credit loans market in South Korea, which is estimated at around $67 billion, according to the company.

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MAY 21, 2021

The funding was led by MDI Ventures, the investment arm of Telkom Group, one of Indonesia’s largest telecoms, with participation from Add Ventures, BRI Ventures, Flourish Ventures, Intudo Ventures, Openspace Ventures, Tenaya Capital, UOB Venture Management and Vertex Ventures. The new funding brings its total raised to about $94 million.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 trillion won in June 2021, when it raised $410 million in pre-Series G funding at a $7.4 South Korea’s currency has depreciated against the dollar this year.).

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

During its program, SparkLabs provides funding, mentorship and access to administrative and legal advisory support for startups. In addition, participating startups get co-working space, will attend weekly classes and have access to four to six mentors who have expertise in various industries, not just in South Korea but global regions. .

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

million (25 billion KRW) in a Series B funding round as it wants to increase its global presence, specifically into the U.S., The fresh capital was led by Korea Investment Partners along with KB Investment and Korea Development Bank. It brings its total funding raised to date to $24.9 Germany, Japan and Singapore. .

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Hong Kong-based events management platform EventX said today it has raised another $8 million for its Series B, lifting the total amount secured for this round to $18 million. Today, the platform also has a lead generation function, helping organizers develop new clients and partners through events.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Amagi, which offers cloud broadcast and targeted advertising software to scores of media and entertainment giants, has raised a large new funding round as it looks to expand its tech offerings and invest in AI-powered personalization stack. The Series F funding has propelled Amagi’s valuation to $1.4

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. It operates in the United States, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Ulta Beauty launches a fund, showcasing the resilience of corporate venture capital.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

South Korea’s Samsung Venture Investment (SVIC) also participated, in addition to existing investors YL Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Liberty Mutual, Presidio Ventures, Glenrock, Paladin Group and Asgen. This round brings the company’s total funding to $27 million.

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MAY 8, 2022

As a later-stage company, Bucketplace will use the new injection of funding to accelerate its growth in South Korea and enter into new markets, such as Japan, Southeast Asia and the U.S., Bucketplace also claims that OHouse has been downloaded more than 20 million times in South Korea. Lee told TechCrunch.

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MAY 10, 2022

The fresh funds, led by SoftBank Ventures Asia , bring Seadronix’s the total round up to $8.3 Our mission is to be an AI platform that ensures the safety and environmental protection of the ocean,” said Park. Orca AI, which puts computer vision onto cargo ships, raises $13M Series A funding. Image Credits: Seadronix.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

South Korea is also taking measures to reduce emissions in the building sector by retrofitting buildings and strengthening ZEB requirements for new buildings through 2030. That’s when the duo pivoted from their first startup — a sustainable architecture crowdfunding platform, called Xquare. Likewise, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Swing , a South Korean electric scooter and micromobility startup, announced today it has raised $24 million in a Series B round to spur its growth and expansion to Japan. . The funding was led by White Star Capital, which also invested in Berlin-based Tier Mobility, and included existing backer Hashed, among others.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The commercial real estate brokerage market in South Korea is fragmented, which makes finding a new office for tenants a challenge due to inaccurate listing information, high brokerage fee and complex paperwork. The latest funding brings its total raised to approximately $95 million. It has 354 employees as of October.

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MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2010, Coupang is sometimes described as the Amazon of South Korea, but for years it has managed the impressive feat of achieving an even higher dollar retention rate than Amazon, according to a report by Goodwater Capital. ” Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham joins South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 This round of funding was led by Hanwha Hotel & Resort, which is a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Corporation. The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The company already completed two acquisitions last month – South Korean online parking platform Modu Company and electric bike rental platform Elecle. SOCAR acquired VCNC, a Korean mobile messaging app platform, in 2018 to operate a van-hailing service Tada. million so far. . valuation .

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Mom-and-pop stores and franchises — mostly offline — account for about 95% of the laundry market in South Korea, according to Laundrygo CEO Sung-woo Cho. But his South Korea–headquartered startup aims to digitize the laundry industry in the country. Laundrygo said today it has closed a $37 million (49.5

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar’s debut comes amid a sluggish period in the IPO market in South Korea that has prompted a series of Korean companies to delay their listing plans. Socar, the first and only unicorn mobility startup in South Korea, aims to become the first listed profitable unicorn company, Park noted. million users and 1.4

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MAY 2, 2022

Now, a South Korean augmented reality (AR) startup called RECON Labs , which enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models within a few hours by taking a short video of products via its platform PlicAR, has raised $4.4 Retailers can save time and costs by using PlicAR without building their own 3D modeling platform, he added.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. It will also use the funding to continue its expansion in overseas markets, including Vietnam, where Toss launched last year.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Earlier this month, Neubility said it would co-develop AI-powered “cop robots” with Korean telco SK Telecom and SK Shieldus, a platform that offers central monitoring, cybersecurity consulting, and dispatch services. The extension brings the startup’s total funding, and the Series A, to about $26.1

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MARCH 31, 2021

ImToken , the blockchain tech startup and crypto wallet developer, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Qiming Venture Partners. Founded in 2016, the startup’s last funding announcement was for its $10 million Series A, led by IDG, in May 2018.

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