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Kurly Raises $88M in Series D Funding

Kurly, Inc., a Seoul, Korea-based provider of an online grocery service, raised $88m in Series D funding. Sequoia Capital China led the round with existing investors....

Golden Gate Ventures and Hanwha Asset Management Team Up to Invest In Series B Stage Startups

Golden Gate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Southeast Asia, and Hanwha Asset Management, a global asset manager headquartered in Seoul, Korea, have teamed...

Terra Receives Strategic Investment from Kakao Ventures

Terra, a Singapore and Korea-based blockchain powered fintech company that is building an innovative payment system, received a strategic investment from Kakao Ventures, the...

SoftBank Ventures Asia Hires Seung Lee as CFO

SoftBank Ventures Asia, a Seoul, South Korea-based early-stage investment vehicle of the SoftBank Group, hired Seung Lee as a chief financial officer. Seung Lee will...

Madup Secures KRW 13.4 Billion in Funding

Madup, a Seoul, South Korea-based ad-tech based mobile marketing company, secured 13.4 billion KRW Series B funding. Backers included: - Praxis Capital, - Stonebridge Ventures, - ID ventures, -...

Medi Futures Raises US$5M in Funding

Medi Futures, a Seoul, South Korea-based biomedical ultrasound company raised US$5M in funding through common stocks. The investment came from Korean investors such as Samho...

Hyundai and BTIRDI Establish Hydrogen Energy Fund

South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Beijing-Tsinghua Industrial R&D Institute (BTIRDI) to jointly establish a "Hydrogen Energy Fund"....

Looxid Labs Secures $4M in Series A Funding

Looxid Labs, a Seoul, South Korea-based emotion AL startup, secured $4m in Series A funding. The round was led by Hastings Asset Management, Daesung...

AR Optics Startup LetinAR Raises $3.6M in Series A

LetinAR, a Seoul, South Korea-based startup developing a new optical solution for augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, raised $3.6m in Series A funding. Backers...

Edtech Startup Classting Raises $4M in Funding

Classting, a Korean K-12 education social platform, raised approx. $4m in venture capital funding. Mistletoe - a venture capital firm founded by Taizo Son...

Temco Secures Investment from Korea Investment Partners

Temco, a Seoul, Korea-based startup preparing supply chain based on bitcoin (RSK), secured an institutional investment from Korea Investment Partners. The amount of the...

Muzika Receives Investment from NEO Global Capital

Muzika, a Seoul, South Korea-based blockchain digital music project, received an investment from Singapore-based NEO Global Capital *. The amount of the deal was not...

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