We invest in
passionate entrepreneurs.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea.
We proudly provide our portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
We assist
social impact entrepreneurs.
who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the brighter future.
We believe the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
We believe
founders who have courage.
Courage means ingnoring conventional wisdom.
Instead of predicting the future, we look to our founders to convince us of what's next. That's why we don't focus on any one sector.
The one thing each of our companies have in common - we met them with common philosophy; investment is a marriage.
We Build Trust With Founders.
We like working with founders in early-stage companies. We provide funding as well as the professional incubating
program, including office spaces for the purpose of maximizing equity value creation.
We always keep our founders within shouting distance so that we can reach them as fast as
we can to provide them assistance at any time.
- FUNDS UNDER MANAGEMENT -
CCVC T-Commerce Fund
Launched : Aug 2010
Fund Size : 3 billion KRW
Investment Focus : TV commerce platform
CCVC Incubating Fund
Launched : Jul 2012
Fund Size : 14.5 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Early-stage startup companies
CCVC Social Venture Fund
Launched : Jan 2015
Fund Size : 4 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Social venture startups
Adval-CCVC DC Startup Fund
Launched : May 2015
Fund Size : 10 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Digital contents startups
CCVC Culture-ICT Convergence Fund
Launched : Nov 2015
Fund Size : 10 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Culture-ICT convergence contents startups, Global animation project
CCVC-Busan Startup Fund
Launched : Jan 2016
Fund Size : 10 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Early-stage startup companies with young entrepreneur
CCVC Syndicate Lead Fund
Launched : Mar 2016
Fund Size : 10 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Stratups with successful crowdfunding
CCVC-KAKAO Jeju Creative Economy Innovative Fund
Launched : April 2016
Fund Size : 2 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Startups related with Jeju island
CCVC Beginning Contents Fund
Launched : Dec 2016
Fund Size : 12 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Contents startups and pre-production projects
CCVC-Gwangju Startup Fund
Launched : Aug 2017
Fund Size : 10 billion KRW
Investment Focus : Early-stage startup companies with young entrepreneur
- VALUE-UP CENTER -
Problem
Solving Day
Problem solving day is held every month in order to generate internal cooperation. Since most startup companies are on the early-stage of their business cycle, they don't have all resources in the companies. Problem Solving Day enables the companies to share the important information, to co-work with people who are working in next door, and even to share business partners. Sung-Ju, the head of the center, always says, “Build the relationship first before asking for the help from your neighbors.”
Incubating Center
CCVC Value-Up Center, located in Gangnam area, provides fast-growing environment for young entrepreneurs. Sung-Ju Cho, a serial entrepreneur and the advisory of CCVC, provides professional support based on his own experience. The center also provides 4 + 2 month professional incubating programs to young and senior entrepreneurs. The curriculum is focused on increasing the business competitiveness of startup companies.
- PROGRAMS -
CCVC Business
Competition
CCVC runs a business competition on a regular basis(6 months). The winners from the first cut receive 4+2 month tailored incubating program. The program consists of very practical education. The lecturers are from various backgrounds such as serial entrepreneurs, investors, and specialists. The final winners could receive seed funding from CCVC. CCVC has invested 5 winners in 5 competitions as of the end of 2013 and CCVC is looking for passionate entrepreneurs who are willing and able to grow fast.
CEO Workshop
Our founders have said that the hardest part of starting up is the lonely experience of doing everything for the first time, even with the best of teams. So we runs a CEO Workshop on twice a year. We encourage internal support dedicated to facilitating knowledge-sharing and relationship building for everyone at the companies in which we invest, from CEOs, to product managers, to marketing folks and customer experience associates by themselves
We Build Trust With Founders.
We like working with founders in early-stage companies. We provide funding as well as the professional incubating
program, including office spaces for the purpose of maximizing equity value creation.
We always keep our founders within shouting distance so that we can reach them as fast as
we can to provide them assistance at any time.
Hyuck-Tae (Ted) Kwon
CEO & President
Ted, a Babson College alumni, tries to spread out the entrepreneurship throughout the country. His diverse professional experiences including analyzing industries in a mutual fund firm in Boston, CFO in a startup company in Boston, M&A firms in Korea, enable him to maximize equity value through his investments. He is specialized in innovative technologies, finance, strategy and restructuring of small and growing companies.
Hyuck-Tae (Ted) Kwon
CEO & President
Hyun-Joo Lee
Vice President
Hyun-Joo obtained a BA and an MA from Bentley College. She was an angel investor before she joined CCVC and had invested more than 10 billion KRW over the world. Her investments are not limited to the local areas. Hyun-Joo is a veteran in the accounting so, she always makes decisions based on detailed numbers. She favors media, network, and culture oriented startup companies because of her strength in these areas of industries. Of course! She always loves working with female founders.
Hyun-Joo Lee
Vice President
Shin-Hyuk Kang
Director
After graduation in business administration at Sogang University, Shin-Hyuk worked as a specialist in fashion industry at LG Fashion Co., Ltd. He was a key member in Strategic Planning Department in the company before he joined CCVC. His professionalism focuses on feasibility analysis for new projects, corporate performance analysis, investment analysis, brands and business valuation. He favors fashion, distribution and tech startup companies. He is in charge of managing all potential investments in CCVC.
Shin-Hyuk Kang
Director
Jin-Suk Oh
Senior Manager
Jin-Suk majored computer science at Incheon University. His entire career was focused on IT solution development. He completed 1st KAVA Program (Professional program for venture capitalist provided by Korea Venture Investment Corp.) before he joined CCVC. His VC career started from Esang technology investment(VC) as an investment manager. He goes everywhere if he needs to meet an entrepreneur and never leaves the entrepreneur unless they figure out the solution of the problems.
Jin-Suk Oh
Senior Manager
Pyo Lee
Business Analyst
Pyo graduated in Peakche institute of the art majoring in broadcasting, then went to Florida for a foreign language program for a year. Before entering CCVC, he worked at a company that provides electronic parts for the standardized electrician certification exam. Recently he have acquired the certified 19th Venture Capital list license sponsored by KVCI. Pyo believe that investing in startup entrepreneurship can change the Korean society, which made me join CCVC. He is mainly interested in the field of cultural contents.
Pyo Lee
Business Analyst
Yong-joo Lee
Department Head
Yong-joo Lee joined CCVC in the Winter of 2017 as the head of CCVC's business management team. He majored in business at University of Seoul and has since accumulated expertise in the area of business management and accounting through his career as business team leader of Welltec Inc. and Golden Bridge Securities Co., Ltd. He leads the management team with care and strong work ethics.
Yong-joo Lee
Department Head
Ae-Young Moon
Senior Manager
Ae-Young graduated from Hyundai Technical College. She has worked more than 8 years in media industry. She provides accounting and finance services to the portfolio companies of CCVC T-Commerce Fund. Since she is full of entrepreneurial spirit in her, her assistance does not fixed in accounting and finance fields only. Many times she works as a co-founder if needed. She is specialized in media industry, accounting, and cash management and much more.
Ae-Young Moon
Senior Manager
Soon-Young Lim
Manager
She has worked more than 5 years in business administration. She provides accounting and finance services to the portfolio companies of CCVC Incubating Fund. Soon-Young is an enthusiastic fan of LG TWINS, a baseball team in Korea, and that enthusiasm gives great positive energy within the companies that she is taking care of. She even learned coding all by herself to help the portfolio companies. She is specialized in accounting, book-keeping, and cash management.
Soon-Young Lim
Manager
Choi Mi-ran
Business Management
Mi-Ran double-majored in Computer Science and Economy at SangMyung University. She worked at Korea Venture Investment Corp. before she joined CCVC. As she did in college, she works with great passion. She also is a very fast learner and a great supporter for all the people in CCVC. She is in charge of all the government-related businesses of CCVC.
Choi Mi-ran
Business Management
Ju-Hyoun Kim
Business Management
Ju-Hyoun majored in microbiology at Konkuk University. She had worked more than 4 years in Chung Ang University industry Academic Cooperation Foundation before she joined CCVC. She had worked as a business incubator for several years. She is in charge of all the government-related businesses in CCVC.
Ju-Hyoun Kim
Business Management
We Build Trust With Founders.
We like working with founders in early-stage companies. We provide funding as well as the professional incubating
program, including office spaces for the purpose of maximizing equity value creation.
We always keep our founders within shouting distance so that we can reach them as fast as
we can to provide them assistance at any time.
BCNX
Commerce
The founders of BCNX believe that the e-commerce world will be changing soon. People tend to buy goods and services through the recommendations of their trusted friends. BCNX named it as 'Experience Commerce'. BCNX chose power-bloggers with more than 5,000 neighbors, as trusted friends to launch a new commerce. BCNX currently has more than 150,000 power-bloggers.
BCNX
Commerce
Capstone Media
Commerce
Capstone Media is one of the leading TV commerce platforms in Korea. Capstone Media provides service to the people to shop through TV, while they are watching TV programs. The company is working closely with cable and IPTV companies to expand the TV commerce experiences.
Capstone Media
Commerce
WON
Big Data, Mobile Payment
Won provides people to use their credit cards more easily on the mobile. The patented technology enables credit card users not to install any other add-on software. Won started to provide its service(SmartPay) to Hana SK Card from 2012.
WON
Big Data, Mobile Payment
Opentrade
Crowdfunding
OpenTrade is an equity-based crowdfunding platform. Since the founder of OpenTrade believes that the crowdfunding platform should assist startup companies to build intimate relationships with angel investors, the platform was designed to build long-term relationships using Facebook-style timeline.
Opentrade
Crowdfunding
KoonaENT
Entertainment
Kuna ENT is one of the leading companies in the animal companion industry in Korea. The founder of the company is well known as 'Woong-Ja’s brother' since he made appearance in the famous TV show. Kuna ENT is creating an animation for people who love their pets.
KoonaENT
Entertainment
Ecube Labs
Internet of Things
Ecube Labs is an IT company that develops remote monitoring tools and provides comprehensive waste management solution. Its technology can be effectively applied to various fields and is regarded as a crucial area of technological research for the future of our society. The first product of Ecube Labs is Solar Bins
Ecube Labs
Internet of Things
Leetech
Manufacturing
With more than 17 years of experiences, the founder of Lee Tech is one of the most competent experts in manufacturing semiconductor laminating equipments. Since Korea is a nation great in semiconductor industry, Lee Tech is one of the fast growing startup companies in the industry.
Leetech
Manufacturing
Alpen International
Distribution
Alpen International is a premium outdoor brands distribution company. The outdoor-industry in Korea has been growing almost 29%/yr for 5 years. However, the founder believes that now is the perfect time to differentiate the climbing equipment-market to the real outdoor-market.
Alpen International
Distribution
Tripvi
Mobile
Tripvi's 'Measure China' allows foreign firms to gain useful insights using big data for their operations in China. Such insights lead to solutions that improve marketing ROI in China for industries including e-commerce and social media.
Tripvi
Mobile
Onoffmix
Entertainment
ONOFFMIX is the leading online platform in Korea, which is the best way to publish, promote and sell-out your next event. Its service will save your time, money, and keep you organized to ensure your event is a success. ONOFFMIX currently has more than 500,000 active users in Korea.
Onoffmix
Entertainment
YDEA
IT Service, Commerce
YDEA's vision is delivering the best shopping experience. The company operates 'Codibook', an online and mobile shopping platform with personalized recommendation technology based on analysis of user's purchasing and preference information.
YDEA
IT Service, Commerce
Spoleader
Entertainment, Sports
Spoleader is developing 'Spin Ball', a new sports game which is similar to bowling. The new game has simple & well-defined rules and is likely to gain popularity with people of all ages and both sexes. It is positioned as a family-friendly sports game.
Spoleader
Entertainment, Sports
Insedutainment
IT Service, Education
Insedutainment was founded in 2011 with one simple mission: Designing a more enjoyable study environment for children. The company operates PBL (Project-Based Learning) using smart devices. Team members are education experts that have extensive experience in teaching and education research.
Insedutainment
IT Service, Education
Haebora
IT Service, Manufacturing
Haebora is developing a wearable ear-microphone called 'ALLO Ear Talk'. The innovative communication technology utilizes sound from the ear instead of the mouth. Use cases for the technology are diverse, from personal smart phone to the military. The technology enables clear communication, even in noisy environments. You can hear perfectly well, even at a rock concert or in a noisy factory.
Haebora
IT Service, Manufacturing
Cloudike Inc.
IT Service, Cloud Service
Cloudlike Inc. is the developer of Cloudike, official supplier of solutions based on Amazon Web Services, and integrator of OpenStack. The company was founded in 2009 with a vision to bring high-quality server software development services for demanding clients. Over the years the company has accumulated specialties requiring storage, processing analysis and structuring of large amounts of data.
Cloudike Inc.
IT Service, Cloud Service
Standing Egg
Software Engineering
Standing egg is a professional MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) sensor development company in Korea. The Standing egg team is made up of experts in MEMS engineering. They aim to be a world market leader by unlocking the potential of a fully connected world, through MEMS Sensor.
Standing Egg
Software Engineering
Nutgee
Game, Sports
Nutgee is a mobile game development company. Their first title 'Touch Touch Hole in One' achieved 0.6 million downloads in Korea. Nutgee is the first and only company that developed a golf game utilizing intellectual property from The Walt Disney Company (e.g. Mickey Mouse, Aladdin, Frozen, etc).
Nutgee
Game, Sports
Tenfingers
IT Service, Entertainment
With Seoul Date Pop, couples no longer have to google daily new date course and check other customers' feedback on those spots. Tenfingers offer date course curation service for 20~30s couples with well-organized and high quality contents that team members made by themselves.
Tenfingers
IT Service, Entertainment
Omicsis
IT Service, Bio Technology
Omicsis is an integrative bioscience and biotechnology venture company. The team is made up of experienced researchers in the fields of biotechnology, molecular biology, plant pathology and bio-infomatics. The company has competitive global intellectual property registered across the world and operates R&D services on gene engineering, seed biotechnology and bio-information database management.
Omicsis
IT Service, Bio Technology
NFLABS
IT Service, Big Data
The mission of NFLABS is to simplify the way the world analyzes data. The company is a group of entrepreneurs, developers and technologists who banded together with the aim of making innovation simpler. With technology simplifying big data, the company helps their customers work with big data more effectively and efficiently.
NFLABS
IT Service, Big Data
Chinada
Education
Chinada provides an online Chinese-conversation Education service, Chinatan. Our goal is to teach Chinese conversation skills that people can actually use in real life with natives. The difference between Chinatan and other Chinese education companies is that in Chinatan, we film all the lecture materials in China to offer the best visual image and result to our learners. We focus on capturing local peoples' everyday life situations in the videos so learners can grasp the language more naturally. We are now providing Chinatan service via website and mobile apps.
Chinada
Education
Makestar
Crowdfunding
Makestar allows the sweat and talent of people to materialize through crowdfunding. Makestar is a crowdfunding platform focusing on supporting k-pop bands using a reward base system, where a fan making certain amount of funding would receive rewards such as signed album, thank you video clip etc. During less than a year after lunch, Makestar has accumulated users from people from 175 countries and 10,577 cities.
Makestar
Crowdfunding
Law & Company
IT Service
Law & Company is a leading legal tech start-up in Korea. The company is servicing online legal counseling platform "LawTalk". LawTalk enables clients to find appropriate lawyers for their cases by providing them with essential information about lawyers. Clients can also search past counseling practices of lawyers and openly ask for assistance online through open legal Q&A board. LawTalk also helps lawyers in communicating and finding clients based on their past experience & expertise.
Law & Company
IT Service
Cosmos Entertainment
Entertainment
Cosmos Entertainment is a doctor for old games. As many games face a life-cycle where its popularity declines years after launch, Cosmos Entertainment diagnoses the problems in the game and helps 'cure' them by adding tailormade solutions for each game.
Entertainment
Big Data, Mobile Payment
Everspin
Software Engineering
Eversafe is the most innovative security solution for mobile applications. Comparing to existing security solutions, Eversafe is dynamic. 13 team members are working together and Most of them have 10+ years of experiences in IT industry. Now, we are working with banks and securities companies in Korea. After spreading Eversafe in financial market, we will enter in to service market. We will make your services ever safe through our security solution, Eversafe.
Everspin
Software Engineering
Tournote
IT Service
Tournote is the top-rated social travel service for sharing the personal travel information. The social travel platform is provided for travelers to share their travel experiences. Users can write the travelog based on about 90,000 places fed into the Tournote. The travel accounts are shared by users, saved as the visit writing for each travel point, and searchable on the concerned travel points.
Tournote
IT Service
Videofactory
IT Service
Videofactory is an video IT startup that strives to provide the best video experience to customers. We provide a web-based video creating tool that lets anyone create awesome videos.
Videofactory
IT Service
General Bio
Bio Technology
GENERALBIO has been developing new bio materials from microorganisms and natural and functional ingredients. Using this new material, we are committed to developing metabolism promoting substance with an innovative concept. The GENERALBIO products include the following. functional cosmetic products, Esthetic cosmetics and eco-friendly detergents, Health food, New substance, ALA[5-Aminolevulinic acid] developed with micro biology technology and successfully registered in the international cosmetic affair[ICID], bio cosmetic products using MAL[Methyl Aminolevulinate acid], and bio foods and cosmetic products using the most popular ginseng saponin products to promote metabolism - compound K [ginseng saponin], Rg2 [ginseng saponin].
General Bio
Bio Technology
Text Factory
IT Service
Text Factory provides MUNBS service, the leading text-based assistant service in Korea and aims at making busy people feel relaxed and allowing them to focus on more important things in their lives. MUNBS supports various customer requests from reservations, purchases, deliveries to information search in cooperation with many suppliers and service providers in the market
Text Factory
IT Service
QNT
Internet of Things
QNT C&C wants to inspire a soul to IT Software Development in industries to advance into the global market. We want to be a companion for venture, small-medium businesses that need to explore overseas markets by providing professional consulting services on exports for them to grow into global corporations.
QNT
Internet of Things
Scandiedu
Education
Scandiedu is a global neuroscience-based education service that seeks to help design children's brains according to the human brain developmental curve. We've completed a neural map of over 10 million children around the globe and we help maximize the full brain potential of children's brains.
Scandiedu
Education
Honeybees
IT Service
Honeybees provide a service called 'Dddingdong' that takes care of food delivery, grocery shopping, walking pets, home care, reservation etc. for consumers, providing a total O2O(offline to online) experience. Ddingdong has achieved over 20 times growth in a period of three years and strives to become a number one last-mile delivery and service company in Korea.
Honeybees
IT Service
Tripath
IT Service
Tripath provides a 'one-stop' onlines sales platform called 'Qsales', offering effective sales management solution to various medical, automobile and financial firms. After laying a firm foundation through its B2B sales in Korea, Tripath is now seeking global expansion by actively entering the growing South East Asian market.
Tripath
IT Service
Wavus
IT Service
Waybus offers planning, integration, and consulting of information management systems to corporations and governments. It has accumulated years of experience through government and corporation projects, and aims to maximize value for its business customers.
Wavus
IT Service
uLikekorea
Internet of Things
We are the professional IoT corporation which opened in October, 2012 and is leading the livestock ICT business.The LiveCare service which succeeded in first domestic development and commercialization through the R&D of around 3 years is the health care service which takes responsibility for the life time health of the domestic cow only with one bio capsule. By collecting and analyzing the biometrics of the domestic cows real time, it can monitor correctly the entity-specific disease, estrus and delivery.
uLikekorea
Internet of Things
Bratvillage
Platform
Bratvillage dreams of a world where anyone can live in a pleasant space. Bratvillage's DrHaus provides a easy-to-use platform where customers can easily consult and be matched with the right interior design experts.
Bratvillage
Platform
Eggplant 'Around 30'
Entertainment
Eggplant discovers 'eggs'(musicians) who are ready to discover the outside world and helps them grow('plant') through it. 'Around 30' is a musical revolving around a famous musician in Korea who passed away young and while his songs live on.
Eggplant 'Around 30'
Entertainment
'Kill Me If You Can'
Entertainment
'Kill Me If You Can' is a 24 year old Musical whose story revolves around rebellious youngsters who set out to build their own lives.
'Kill Me If You Can'
Entertainment
Monolith
Amusement Park
Monolith is a start-up company opening a new era of fun. It is creating Smart Play Parks, where players are physically and actively playing activities, sharing their experiences both on-site and online through gamified technology. The first park is themed around gravity racing and will open in Jeju in 2019.
Monolith
Amusement Park
jslidar
IT Service
Jslidar manufactures and develops lidars which utilizes lasers to measure distance from the projection point to the target point. Jslidar's products are being applied to automobile, weather forecasting, and medical industries and thus have great potential.
jslidar
IT Service
POPJOY
Game
POPJOY is a mobile game companybehind the global hit “Demigod War.” Currently developing games using IPs of ‘CartoonNetwork’, the company is motivated to raise consistent joy of the users, ensuring its individualities. Designing the games pursuing joy and introducing them to the global audience is the main goal of this company.
POPJOY
Game
Merlotlab
Manufacturing
Merlotlab expands the role of lighting from being used for simple visibility to changing our way of living. Merlotlab creates various lighting products that can brighten up people day and express their identity through space.
Merlotlab
Manufacturing
Calcium Apple
Agriculture
Calcium apple introduces a new technique in washing organic apples where calcium is added to the skin of the apple in the process, allowing a more eco-friendly, safe and healthy product for consumers.
Calcium Apple
Agriculture
Ingine
Energy
INGINE is the only provider of onshore based WEC technology in the world, whereas other industry participants focus on more capital intensive offshore and/or nearshore technological solutions. INWave TM , a proprietary technology of INGINE, is modular, low-cost onshore based WEC technology especially suitable for remote islands with heavy dependence on diesel generators.
Ingine
Energy
ROHA
Mobile
ROHA is the company behind Catcha, the voice-messenger app that makes instant messaging as easy as face-to-face conversation. Catcha allows children in school, adults at work, and seniors enjoying retirement to enjoy each other's voices and experiences throughout the day. Catcha is part of ROHA's social mission to end loneliness by bringing generations together.
ROHA
Mobile
Bymom
Manufacturing
Bymom is a social venture that seeks to reduce CO2 emissions by providing an eco-friendly way of living. It's main product is a 'Room in Room' tent that can block cold winds during the winter, allowing heat insulation without requiring any energy.
Bymom
Manufacturing
Ediket
Platform
Ediket is a english-proofreading platform that matches people in need of proofreading their writing to professional proofreaders fluent in English. Ediket has headquarters in both Silicon Valley and Seoul and has won various government support programs in Korea.
Ediket
Platform
Mr, Mention
Platform
Mr, Mention has the meaning of “telling people about rest” with ‘Mr’ referring to people, the comma sign referring to rest, and ‘Mention’ referring to telling. Starting with Jeju Island, we are offering people a new lifestyle of ‘living around the world for a month’. We are a service that provides housing to those who want to stay in a place for more than 7 days to create a new life.
Mr, Mention
Platform
Ascan
IT Service
Ascan offers scanning services to business that require safe, accurate and trustible digitalization of offline documents. It's clients include major hospitals and government institutions.
Ascan
IT Service
Tirebids
Distribution
Tirebids aims to provide the most transparent and cost-efficient tire marketplace where customers can select from mutliple bids given by tire vendors. It's service has achieved 100 million KRW in sales just during the service beta period.
Tirebids
Distribution
Ncode
Commerce
Ncode runs a fashion commerce platform 'D.code'. D.code offers customized curation services to those who seek high-end designer brands based on Italy, England etc. It has exclusive partnerships with various boutique shops in Europe and has a distribution channel that parallels domestic shopping malls. Ncode strives to spread European fashion to Asia through next-generatino ecommerce.
Ncode
Commerce
Simple Project Company
Big Data, Mobile Payment
The Simple Project Company started in 2015. Our company mission is "designing and operating various food platforms and brands to enhance the value of society ". The name 'Simple' means that we are building a fundamental food project that can help our society with the philosophy of simplicity and value. We started a Dining Out Incubator call ‘WECOOK’. WECOOK will be the corner stone of Korean Dining Out System that will be the starting point of food culture in Korea.
Simple Project Company
Big Data, Mobile Payment
Next Innovation
Manufacturing
Next Innovation is a social venture with a revolutionary technology that allows fast publication of books into braille, allowing the blind access to much more books. It's technology supports 68 languages and 86 different kinds of braille. Next Innovation is preparing for establishing an office at Silicon Valley as it seeks to become a global social venture firm.
Next Innovation
Manufacturing
Makespace
IT Service
Makespace offers servies that take easy care of your unused luggages within your home. It's service 'Oho' stands for 'Optimize home & office' and it's philosophy of 'Simple & Smart Way to Make Space!' is for Makespace to help people find space in life that's truly happy.
Makespace
IT Service
Nexel
Bio Technology
Nexel was founded with the philosophy to “Make a better place(world)” through research and commercialization of stem cells. Nexel’s core technology of “producing or utilizing human liver cells that differentiated from stem cells” is reputed to be one of the best in Korea as well as around the world. Our aim is to become a global stem cell specialized company by first prioritizing on “screening of toxicity of new medicine and intermediary metabolites” and “development of new liver medicines”. Through the cutting-edge technology of our firm, we can procure “more accurate, faster and easier” products that provide better solutions to previously incurable diseases and in the process, contribute to raising the economic and academic status of Korea. With passion and innovation of our team members, Nexel will strive to become a global leading firm by starting as a stem cell focused start-up.
Nexel
Bio Technology
'Man of Will'
Movie
Man of Will is a movie starring many of Korea's famous movie actors. It's a historical fiction where a man during the Japanese occupation of Korea is wrongly accused of murdering Joseon dynasty's queen, and later becomes an activist for Korea's independence movement.
'Man of Will'
Movie
Twohandsgames
Game
Twohandsgames is established to create new vision and values in mobile game development and live service. We are dedicating ourselves to create our own IP recognized globally by users around the world with “Creative Collaboration”.
Twohandsgames
Game
Tobeit
Entertainment, Game
Tobeit aims to create truly fun games that coexist with our everyday lifestyle. It aims to connect with people long term and help create a healthier lifestyle. Ultimately, the company sees itself as a content creation company, expanding its contents to publishing, products, animation and musicals using IP strategies.
Tobeit
Entertainment, Game
Venditz
IT Service
Venditz wants to solve the problem of assymetric information in purchasing non-regular services in life such as doing housing interiors or wedding ceremonies. It's first services, such as 'Drawingtalk for Kakao' accumulated 5 million downloads in Korea alone. Now it has expanded to 'Weddingbyme' service that resulted in over 100k downloads and 'Moving Combined' with 60k downloads.
Venditz
IT Service
Tsquare
IT Service
Tsquare operates a service that connects small investors who want modest profit with modest risk to construction projects that require funding. Tsquare's distinctive 'Construction Management System' carries professional advantage over other P2P funding platforms. Tsqare's goal is to bring transparency into the construction industry.
Tsquare
IT Service
Nutjob2 (Redrover)
Entertainment
Redrover's Nutjob Season 2 is a sequel to the well received film "The Nut Job", released in 2014. Nutjob 2 is planned to arrive in US theatres on August 2017, and Korea on September, 2017.
Nutjob2 (Redrover)
Entertainment
Zeroweb
IT Service
Zeroweb aims to provide mobile, online marketing channels, and various IT services to medium to small sized merchants who lack infrastructure to integrate IT into their own business. It's currently developing a service that allows small to mid size merchants to analyze geographic markets and refine their marketing strategies.
Zeroweb
IT Service
Storyandbrothers
Platform
Storyandbrothers run a service called 'veteran', where people with ideas and talents can be matched to start a project. The company was founded by two PhD. graduates with the goal of helping new startups built a project team.
Storyandbrothers
Platform
'Rat-Tat-Tat!'
Entertainment
Rat-Tat-Tat is a non-verbal musical produced by Korea's one of the most famous musical producers 'Caylin Park'. The musical is a fusion of Korean traditional music and modern day pop music using instruments that can be found in everyday life to traditional Korean musical instruments like 'Kayageum', 'Ahjeng', 'Haegeum' etc.
The Star Asia
Entertainment
