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PURPOSE
Purpose Driven
We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.
Founder Oriented
The world’s most iconic companies have been built and run by founders. We prefer to partner with management with an ownership mentality – leaders with a vision for the future, creating value for all stakeholders, with an eye on the bottom line.
Fundamentals Focused
We make initial investments in early-stage companies tackling emerging consumer and enterprise opportunities. We look to partner with management to build world-class businesses based on strong operating fundamentals and attractive unit economics.
Uncommonly Patient
We are known for our uncommonly patient approach to building companies. We look for opportunities to deepen our relationships with high-performing companies, and can make significant capital commitments more than a decade after our initial investment.
Contrarian by Nature
We don’t chase trends or hot sectors. We work from first principles, evaluating each team, company and market on its independent merits. We avoid overfunded areas and prefer companies taking idiosyncratic approaches to solving big problems.
Purpose Driven
We are privileged to invest on behalf of institutional investors, most with charitable, educational, or non-profit missions. Serving entrepreneurs is a calling for us, and we look to partner with companies with an equally strong sense of purpose.
Founder Oriented
The world’s most iconic companies have been built and run by founders. We prefer to partner with management with an ownership mentality – leaders with a vision for the future, creating value for all stakeholders, with an eye on the bottom line.
Fundamentals Focused
We make initial investments in early-stage companies tackling emerging consumer and enterprise opportunities. We look to partner with management to build world-class businesses based on strong operating fundamentals and attractive unit economics.
Uncommonly Patient
We are known for our uncommonly patient approach to building companies. We look for opportunities to deepen our relationships with high-performing companies, and are always on the outlook for those who build with ethics and honor before everything.
Contrarian by Nature
We don’t chase trends or hot sectors. We work from first principles, evaluating each team, company and market on its independent merits. We avoid overfunded areas and prefer companies taking idiosyncratic approaches to solving big problems.
EXAMPLES
Acquired by StyleShare in 2018
Acquired by BrandMaker in 2021
Acquired by Verisity (VRST) in 2004, now part of Cadence (CDNS)
Acquired by Yello Mobile in 2013
Aquired by Coupang in 2014
Acquired by Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) in 2021.
IPO (NYSE:CPNG) in 2021
Acquired by K1 in 2015
Acquired by K1 in 2015
Acquired by Agile Software (AGIL) in 1999, now part of Oracle (ORCL)
IPO (EGRT) in 1999, now part of American Greetings
Acquired by Lawson Software (LWSN) in 2010, now part of Infor
Acquired by Manhattan Associates (MANH) in 2005
IPO (EVLV) in 2000, now part of Oracle (ORCL)
Acquired by Lotte Group in 2015
Acquired by Symantec (SYMC) in 2010
Acquired by Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH) in 2021
Acquired by Sourcefire (FIRE) in 2011, now part of Cisco (CSCO)
Merged with iTrade Networks in 2008
IPO (KRX: 259960) in 2021
KRAFTON is a leading online gaming company that operates multiple independent development studios and publishers around the world. Their hit titles include PC and mobile games such as PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds (PUBG) and TERA.
Acquired by Procore Technologies, Inc (NYSE: PCOR) in 2021.
Acquired by Real Networks (REAL) in 2003
Acquired by Altran (ALT.PA) in 2016
IPO (KOSDAQ 153460) in 2012
Acquired by McData (MCDT) in 2003, now part of Brocade (BRCD)
Acquired by ReturnPath in 2012
Acquired by Olapic in 2016
Acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003, now part of Oracle (ORCL)
Acquired by Pinnacle in 2011
Acquired by iMany (IMNY) in 2001
Acquired by Google (GOOG) in 2011
Acquired by Audodesk (ADSK) in 2015
Acquired by Comdial (CMDZ) in 2003
IPO (226330) in 2019
Acquired by NTT Security Corporation in 2019
Acquired by Barracuda Networks (CUDA) in 2009
Acquired by Barracuda Networks (CUDA) in 2009
Drone infrastructure software
Detroit, MI
Airspace Link is a digital infrastructure software provider for drone operations. Airspace Link provides software to local governments, municipalities, logistics providers, and drone operators that enables safe, unmanned drone flights beyond visual line of sight.
Online book keeping
Vancouver, BC
Bench provides a full-service online accounting solution for small businesses. Unlike other accounting software providers, Bench handles the whole process from receipt ingestion and bank reconciliation to tax/audit-ready financial statements at a lower cost than traditional accountants. Bench leverages machine learning to automate routine bookkeeping tasks.
Smart devices to monitor indoor air quality
San Francisco, CA
Bitfinder manufactures and distributes Awair, a family of air quality monitoring sensors and devices. With IoT technology, Awair monitors and reports, over the cloud, various measurements including temperature, humidity, dust, and carbon dioxide concentration.
SEO analytics paltform
San Mateo, CA
BrightEdge is a content and search engine optimization platform that transforms online content into tangible business results including traffic, engagement, and revenue. The company’s product is built on a patented technology platform that includes distributed crawling/indexing, machine learning and data analytics capabilities.
SEO analytics paltform
San Mateo, CA
BrightEdge is a content and search engine optimization platform that transforms online content into tangible business results including traffic, engagement, and revenue. The company’s product is built on a patented technology platform that includes distributed crawling/indexing, machine learning and data analytics capabilities.
Manages payments between companies and their vendors
San Francisco, CA
Candex is a B2B payment vendor focused on tail spend management for large corporations. With an easy integration to corporate ERP Systems such as SAP Ariba or Coupa, Candex allows corporate buyers to invoice and pay a vendor with just a few clicks.
Vintage furniture & home decor
San Francisco, CA
Chairish is a leading online marketplace for unique and high-quality used furniture and home décor. Chairish has developed a scalable technology platform and business model to enable and monetize a large, underserved market.
Mobile food delivery
Chicago, Illinois
Chowbus is a food delivery platform providing authentic Asian cuisine that is not easily found on traditional third-party delivery apps.
Luxury experiences in beautiful destinations
Denver, CO
Collective is a developer and operator of asset-light luxury resorts that appeal to travelers looking for a differentiated experience by building retreats in stunning outdoor destinations with innovative units to provide a unique hospitality experience.
AI for commercial P&C insurers
Schaumburg, Illinois
Convr is the leading underwriting decisioning platform for commercial P&C insurers. The company has revolutionized the commercial underwriting process with cutting-edge AI and data science. Commercial carriers of all sizes use Convr to make real-time underwriting decisions based on rich data and highly-accurate intelligence gathered by external sources to improve productivity, profitability, efficiency and accuracy.
B2B targeting and personalization
San Francisco, CA
Demandbase is a market leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM). The company offers an artificial intelligence-enabled, ABM platform that spans advertising, marketing, sales and analytics. Enterprise leaders such as Accenture, Adobe, DocuSign, GE, Salesforce and others use Demandbase to drive their ABM strategy and maximize marketing performance.
Wireless broadband for rural markets
Chico, CA
DigitalPath is a broadband wireless Internet Service Provider (ISP) focused on rural markets without access to cable or DSL. Typically, the only option in these communities is satellite, which delivers poor performance. DigitalPath allows households to access bandwidth intensive applications such as music, video, telephony, and online games.
Online vocational training program
São Paulo, Brazil
Galena is a Brazilian education technology company that provides an online vocational training program to propel millions of high school graduates who currently cannot access university education into the job market.
Global esports organization
San Francisco, CA
Gen.G is building a premier global esports organization. Gen.G’s teams compete globally in the top esports leagues including Overwatch, League of Legends, PUBG, Call of Duty, and Clash Royale. The company has teams based in Korea, China, and the US.
Innovative platform for Esports
Kansas City, MO
Generation Esports is an organizer of high school level esports league and tournaments. The company harnesses the student’s passion for games by bringing seamless, easy, and rewarding esports competition and academics for high school students.
Meditation app that focuses on health and education
Sydney, Australia
Insight Timer is a community that connects meditation teachers and users to each other for a shared experience. The app features guided meditations, music and talks posted by contributing experts. Users can tailor their experience by selecting language, focus area, time, and frequency.
Digital learning software
San Francisco, CA
Kiddom is a K-12 education technology company that provides digital curriculum, learning software, and data-driven insights for teachers, students, and administrators. Kiddom’s platform provides an easy-to-use dashboard for teachers to plan competency-based curriculum, assess and analyze student work and for students to access and submit work, check grades, and ask their teachers questions in real-time.
Mexico’s leading online consumer lender
Guadalajara, Mexico
Kueski is one of the largest online consumer lenders in Mexico and is a leading “Buy Now Pay Later” service in Mexico. Using Artificial Intelligence, Kueski is on the mission to facilitate the financial lives of people in Mexico, especially those not fully served by the traditional financial industry.
Mobile video communications app
Palo Alto, CA
Marco Polo is a popular video communication app that makes being a part of anyone’s day magical and effortless, even when life gets busy. Each day Marco Polo helps millions of people around the world feel close and rediscover the blessings of authentic relationships.
Online beauty products
San Francisco, CA
Memebox is a global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty. The brand has more than 5 million active beauty enthusiasts and best-selling private label collections like Kaja, I Dew Care, Nooni, Pony Effect and I’M Meme.
Dietary health supplement
Los Angeles, CA
More Labs is a science-based wellness and productivity beverage company. The company’s first product, Morning Recovery, helps with hangover prevention and recently unveiled Liquid Focus, a productivity beverage without the side effects of caffeinated energy drinks.
Mobile-based consumer credit card
Calgary, Alberta CA
Neo Financial is a challenger bank that has launched a mobile-based consumer credit card, savings account, and merchant rewards network. Neo Financial is aiming to become the next major Canadian bank, disrupting the highly profitable legacy Canadian banking oligopoly.
Enterprise social media analytics
Santa Clara, CA
NetBase Quid provides social intelligence solutions that enable brands to publish, monitor, analyze, and engage with customers in real time.
Online educational training
San Jose, CA
NexGenT is an online academy that trains IT network, cybersecurity, and systems engineers. NexGenT was founded on the belief that vocational education should be accessible to all and prepare students for real-world jobs without burdening them with significant student debt.
Financing platform for Latin American car dealerships
Mexico City, Mexico
Nexu is a point-of-sale financing platform for car dealerships in Mexico. Nexu is able to approve customers in real-time at the car dealership, versus traditional banks which take days to approve a new customer and often will reject a creditworthy customer due to myopic, strict credit policies.
Cloud-based ERP for small businesses
San Francisco, CA
With over 700,000 installed users, OneUp is an online accounting software solution for small business owners and accountants. Features include accounting, invoicing, inventory and CRM, and are fully available on both mobile and desktop.
E-learning marketplace
Portland, OR
OpenSesame is a provider of corporate e-learning solutions. The company partners with content publishers and Learning Management Systems (LMS) software vendors to ensure ease-of-use and compatibility across content and systems.
Online marketplace engine for small businesses
Austin, TX
OutboundEngine enables independent professionals to nurture their customer relationships through automated, customized email and social media services. OutboundEngine looks beyond do-it-yourself tools and offers effective do-it-for-you solutions.
RV rental marketplace
Austin, TX
Outdoorsy is a leading online marketplace for outdoor travel. The company helps both professional and individual recreational vehicle (RV) owners to rent their rigs to millions of travelers looking to hit the open road.
Smart document automation for sales
San Francisco, CA
PandaDoc offers B2B software that empowers businesses to easily connect and transact with their customers through dynamic, personalized documents that build meaningful customer relationships and win more business.
Online study tool
San Francisco, CA
Quizlet is a student and teacher online learning community. Every month, over 50 million active learners from 130 countries practice and master more than 300 million study sets of content on every conceivable subject and topic.
User generated 3D gaming
San Mateo, CA
Roblox is the largest user-generated online gaming platform. With millions of games created by users, Roblox is the #1 gaming site for kids and teens. Every day, users come to Roblox to create and play games, role play, and learn with friends in an immersive, 3D environment.
Direct Listing (NYSE: RBLX) in 2021.
Credit building apps
Austin, TX
Self is a fintech startup offering people a way to build credit. The company has helped over 300,000 people improve their financial journey with a credit-builder account, a simple way to build credit and save money in their self lender accounts.
Account takeover prevention
Austin, TX
SpyCloud helps businesses prevent data breaches and account takeover attacks by alerting when employee or company assets have been compromised. They accomplish this through their early-warning breach detection service monitored by a team of intelligence analysts.
IP-based broadcasting solutions
Mountain View, CA
TVU Networks is a technology and market leader in professional cloud-based live video solutions. TVU serves customers of all sizes in more than 85 countries from industries that include news broadcast, web streaming, law enforcement, sports, corporate and government.
Mobile app testing marketplace
Austin, TX
Testlio helps companies uncover and fix software issues before product release. Their end-to-end Quality Assurance (QA) management platform connects customers with their testing team and provides reporting and integration with their tools.
Business playbook software
Scottsdale, AZ
Trainual is one of the category leaders for business playbook software. Trainual’s platform enables businesses to capture and synthesize knowledge and information related to a company’s culture, policies, processes, standard operating procedures, etc. into one easy-to-use platform for employee accessibility.
Online vacation rentals
Austin, TX
Turnkey provides a property management service for the short-term rental market. Turnkey leverages mobile, IoT and optimization technologies to provide homeowners increased revenue and higher quality management at lower costs.
HR management platform for parental leave
San Francisco, CA
Veer is a human resources SaaS company that manages Leaves of Absence and Disability Management programs for large enterprises.
Getveer.com
Patient relationship management software
San Francisco, CA
Welkin empowers health organizations to deliver patient-centered care. The company offers a patient relationship management (PRM) software, a new subcategory of the broader market for healthcare CRM systems.
Cloud financial data
San Mateo, CA
Xignite’s cloud-based solutions enables their clients to create innovative financial services and products that touch millions of users and devices. Today Xignite offers 45 web services, offers more than 1,000 APIs, and serves more than 1 trillion API calls annually.
Web and mobile ad optimization
Seoul, Korea
ADOP provides an optimized solution of programmatic ads for publishers and advertisers. ADOP is integrated with local and global ad networks and demand partners allowing publishers and advertisers to better manage and monetize their ad inventory.
On-demand manufacturing platform
Seoul, Korea
Ateam Ventures operates CAPA, an intermediary platform for manufacturing work requests. The platform provides customers with the ability to compare quotes and review manufacturing processes, enabling customers access to customized products.
Indonesian tax compliance platform
Singapore Holding Company
Achilles Systems is the provider of OnlinePajak, a leading cloud-based tax compliance solution in Indonesia that allows corporate taxpayers to perform tax calculations, reporting, and payments online. OnlinePajak is simplifying the process and administrative burden faced by taxpayers through its intuitive platform.
Manufacturer and distributor of plant-based meat alternatives
Seoul, Korea
Altist is a diversified manufacturer and distributor of ingredient substitutes and plant-based meat alternatives. The company has Korea’s only textured vegetable protein production line that can quickly produce various meat substitutes. Its substitute products are widely available in major retail stores, e-commerce outlets, and restaurants.
Craft beer brewer and retailer
Seoul, Korea
Amazing Brewing Company is a brewer and distributor of craft beer in Korea. The company operates three brewpubs, where customers can enjoy 60 different types of craft beer and also take classes on how to brew craft beer.
Online marketplace for handmade goods
Seoul, Korea
Backpackr operates IDUS, a marketplace specialized for handmade products in Korea. IDUS is available to manufacturers of various handmade products that have not been absorbed by traditional distribution channels, and for consumers to purchase unique products.
Lifestyle brands operator
Seoul, Korea
Beauty Selection is a lifestyle commerce brand company. The company emphasizes two-way communication with consumers through collaboration with influencers. The company is also a brand aggregator that acquires and nurtures brands focused on beauty, health, and fashion.
Sports data platform
Seoul, Korea
Bepro operates Bepro Eleven, a sports data analytics platform focused on soccer. In addition to filming games and providing edited videos within 24 hours, the platform allows users to edit videos online. The company also provides data reports by statistically analyzing game details.
Multi-cloud management company focused on the Korea and China markets
Seoul, Korea
Bespin Global provides consulting, migration, managed services and software solutions for hybrid cloud deployments in Korea and China. They rapidly implement architectures optimized for various industry areas into a hybrid cloud environment.
An e-book publishing platform
Seoul, Korea
BookJam provides an eBook platform to publish high-quality eBooks through their BXP reader format. The company also operates its own app to help publishers directly market to and engage with readers.
Customizable online insurance
Seoul, Korea
Carrot is a fully-licensed online general insurance company. The company leverages new innovative technologies such as big data and IoT devices to tailor insurance products to consumers’ needs while driving down costs.
Online psychic counselor marketplace
Seoul, Korea
Chunmyung is an online marketplace for psychic counselors in Korea. Customers can reserve sessions with psychic counselors or fortune tellers and discover psychics based on user reviews, availability, price, discussion subjects, and other factors.
Seoul, Korea
Cinamon is the developer of an interactive story-based RPG title. The company is currently in the process of creating an easy-to-use 3D computer graphics software tool used for creating video content.
On-demand home cleaning service
Seoul, Korea
Life Lab is the operator of Cleaning Lab, a home cleaning service that connects households with cleaning professionals. By training cleaners in-house, Life Lab provides higher quality cleaning services leaving customers with a higher level of satisfaction.
Multi-Channel Network(MCN) focused on Asia
Los Angeles, CA
Collab Asia is a Multi-Channel Network (MCN) management company for YouTube stars in Asia. The company supports creators in digital production, programming, funding, cross-promotion, partner management, digital copyright management, and influencer strategy.
Travel platform promoting inbound tourism to Korea
Seoul, Korea
Creatrip is a travel platform promoting inbound tourism to Korea. Users can access unique local tour information and make reservations for attractions, activities, and restaurants, all through the platform.
Cryptographic technology company
Seoul, Korea
CryptoLab is a cryptography-focused company pioneering homomorphic encryption, a fourth-generation encryption technology that analyzes encrypted customer data. The company has developed an encryption system that can process sensitive personal information in an encrypted state in faster processing time.
Classified advertising service
Seoul, Korea
Danggeun Market is a mobile-first, hyper-local classified service for used goods and local community ads. Daangn Market’s key mission is to provide a safe and reliable experience for both buyers and sellers to trade goods within their local community.
Applicant tracking system provider
Seoul, Korea
Doodlin is a provider of Greeting, a comprehensive and user-friendly applicant tracking system (ATS) that integrates all recruiting activities: uploading job postings, collecting applications, scheduling interviews, and evaluating/managing candidates.
Blockchain-focused financial services platform
Seoul, Korea
Dunamu operates Upbit, one of Korea’s largest digital asset exchange platforms, and various blockchain-related businesses. Its digital exchange platform acts as a safe and regulation-compliant point of entry into the cryptocurrency economy for retail investors and institutions.
VR content company
Seoul, Korea
EVR Studio is a virtual reality (VR) content producer with the goal of creating virtual worlds where various real life experiences meet imagination. The company is currently focused on VR game development, mobile VR streaming solutions, and creative VR media production.
Online training platform for software coding
Seoul, Korea
Elice is an online training platform providing software coding education and student achievement management using machine learning and AI. The company offers various levels of classes such as programming base, data structure theory, and AI.
Online english tutoring
Seoul, Korea
English Central is a network of individuals that enjoy learning languages and learning about new cultures. Their network of qualified teachers includes graduate students, world travelers, and professionals. English Central offers classes to businesses, schools and individuals.
Math-specialized educational platform
Seoul, Korea
Freewheelin operates Mathflat, a subscription-based educational software tool for private, after-school academies. Mathflat’s test bank of hundreds of thousands of math problems enables K-12 math teachers to generate and grade assignments at different levels, and provide a personalized lesson for each student through tablets and PCs.
Fashion e-commerce
Seoul, Korea
Fumi runs a fashion brand catered to the aging consumer. Through Fumi, customers can discover and purchase unique fashion products directly from various online and offline distribution channels.
Web builder platform
Seoul, Korea
Imweb is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) no-code web builder platform. Small brands, retailers, and influencers can create websites or shopping malls without technical expertise through Imweb’s service.
Matchmaking service
Seoul, Korea
Ium Socius is a social dating company with three different offerings: Ium, a service that recommends different dates to users daily; Ium Office, a dating service primarily for those that work in an professional office setting; and Mat-Eum, a customized premium matching service for existing subscribers.
Eco-friendly consumer packaged goods
Seoul, Korea
JK Inspir is a direct-to-consumer company that manufactures and distributes cosmetic brands globally. The company offers two different product lines: its eco-friendly women’s product brand, Audrey Sun; and its body care brand, The Baird Cosmetics.
Company and job reviews
Seoul, Korea
Braincommerce operates JobPlanet, a Korean online platform that provides jobseekers with crowdsourced information about the welfare, culture, strengths, and weaknesses of potential employers, along with available job opportunities.
Online resale platform for apparel
Seoul, Korea
KREAM is an online resale platform for authenticated limited-edition sneakers and streetwear. The platform utilizes a bid/ask model with dynamic pricing mechanics and a thorough authentication process, supporting buyers and sellers to trade limited releases in a secure and hassle-free manner.
Private label brand-based e-commerce
Seoul, Korea
Katcher’s operates an e-commerce platform focused on value-for-money merchandise through private label brands. The company offers consumers quality products at lower prices.
Vietnam-based B2B e-commerce platform
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Olik operates a digital B2B marketplace platform, Kilo, that connects wholesalers and retailers in Vietnam. Through its platform, Kilo provides digital management solutions to wholesalers, helping retailers select products with the best prices and shipping flexibility, and offers data analytics/insights to large CPG brands.
Marketplace for freelance services and micro-jobs
Seoul, Korea
Kmong is an online talent marketplace in Korea that enables individuals to both sell and buy services. Its categories include design, marketing, document, business, computer, music, video, and life services.
Mobile banking services
Tokyo, Japan
Kyash provides mobile payment and credit card account management services. The company aims to provide full-stack financial services to consumers and businesses and to transform the landscape of financial services in Japan.
kyash.co
Fully integrated laundry service
Seoul, Korea
Lifegoeson Company is an operator of Laundrygo, a subscription-based laundry cleaning service. The company specializes in taking and returning their customer’s laundry within one day at a lower cost than traditional laundry shops, providing customers with a complete and efficient alternative for their laundry.
Peer-to-peer consumer lending
Seoul, Korea
Lendit is a leading personal loan marketplace company in Korea. The company operates an online peer-to-peer (P2P) platform where investors can provide capital to those seeking loans while providing attractive yield to investors.
Online B2B fashion marketplace
Seoul, Korea
Linkshops operates a B2B e-commerce site where retailers can buy products from Dongdaemun’s wholesalers and have them delivered to their retail stores. Dongdaemun market has about 27 shopping malls, which is home to over 20,000 wholesalers.
Global crowdfunding for generation k-pop stars
Seoul, Korea
Makestar is a global entertainment content platform targeted at the K-pop community. The company offers a unique experience to fans by allowing them to communicate with artists and participate in content-making processes such as album production and concerts.
B2B marketplace for meat products
Seoul, Korea
Global Networks operates Meatbox, a B2B livestock e-commerce platform. By simplifying the meat distribution structure and transparently disclosing the market price, the company helps to reduce costs for restaurant and butcher shop owners.
Online beauty products
San Francisco, CA
Memebox is a global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty. The brand has more than 5 million active beauty enthusiasts and best-selling private label collections like Kaja, I Dew Care, Nooni, Pony Effect and I’M Meme.
Billboard advertising provider
Seoul, Korea
Motov is a digital, taxi-op billboard provider that enables advertisers to connect with audiences through targeted, geofenced ad campaigns. Motov allows taxi drivers to earn additional income through advertising and local governments to enhance public services through collected street data.
Online service connecting local guides and travelers
Seoul, Korea
MyRealTrip is a travel platform where users can book tickets, accommodations, guided tours, and airline travel. MyRealTrip is committed to helping and providing a more valuable experience for Korean travelers who want to travel the world.
Mobile RPG game developer
Seoul, Korea
Natris is a casual mobile game developer formed by the early development team of successful mobile games such as I Love Coffee. Natris is currently targeting female customers, a demographic that has been largely underserved by game developers.
Mobile game developer
Seoul, Korea
Npixel is a game studio and publisher of mobile RPG titles founded by the core creators of Seven Knights, one of the highest grossing mobile RPGs. With the combination of along-standing team and a successful track record, Npixel is currently developing a variety of RPG titles targeting a global audience.
OneThird Sleep is a sleep-tech company that specializes in developing and manufacturing smart mattresses and mattress covers. The company aims to provide quality sleep products that incorporate smart technology and sleep-tracking functionality at an affordable price.
Video broadcasting
Seoul, Korea
Pandora.TV operates three different video-based services or products: Pandora.TV, an online video sharing platform; KM Player, a multimedia player which is used in 230 countries; and Prism, a video marketing platform.
Web drama production company
Seoul, Korea
Playlist is a web drama production company. Two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained substantial popularity among the younger generations, contributing to the millions of global subscribers and billions of views over YouTube and Naver channels. .
Consumer insights platform
Jakarta, Indonesia (Singapore Holding Company)
Populix is a consumer insights platform, providing comprehensive research and data collection for businesses, institutions, and individuals to make more informed business decisions through quantitative and qualitative studies. The company offers a pool of authentic, verified, and highly targeted respondents throughout Indonesia that are readily available, providing quick and reliable responses that illuminate the preferences, habits, and opinions of Indonesian consumers.
Mobile camera and photo filter
Seoul, Korea
Retrica is a mobile camera application allowing users to capture and edit photos using filters. It offers over 150 filters and a variety of photo editing capabilities. Retrica has 30 million monthly active users worldwide.
Online sneaker and streetwear reselling platform
Tokyo, Japan
SODA operates SNKRDUNK, one of Japan’s largest sneaker and streetwear reselling platforms. The platform acts both as a marketplace and an online community for sneaker enthusiasts. In partnership with Fake Busters, Japan’s leading authentication service provider, the company guarantees safe and secure transactions through its double authentication process.
Car-sharing and ride-hailing platform
Seoul, Korea
Socar operates the number one car-sharing service and the number one ride-hailing service in Korea called TADA, which launched in October 2018. Socar is the leading mobility player in Korea with 4.5 million Socar members and over 400,000 TADA users.
Out-Of-Home digital advertising network
Seoul, Korea
SpaceAdd is building an Out-Of-Home (“OOH”) advertising network focused on digital signage in high traffic, underdeveloped properties throughout Korea.
Audio live streaming
Seoul, Korea
Spoon Radio is a real-time personal audio broadcasting platform designed to share stories, ideas, favorite music, and more. Spoon also allows users to create personal broadcasts and listen to user-generated content.
Online study group service
Seoul, Korea
Studypie is an online study group platform. The company offers a variety of customized education services in various subjects such as machine learning, blockchain technology, coding, writing, marketing, stock investment, design, and foreign language.
Online to offline retail space sharing service
Seoul, Korea
Sweet Spot operates a marketplace for pop-up stores seeking short-term retail space. Through the marketplace retailers can connect with building owners who can provide available space with short-term rental contracts.
Internet bank
Seoul, Korea
Toss Bank is a fully licensed internet-only bank optimized for mobile and digital environments. With a focus on financial market innovation, the bank specializes in providing solutions to niche areas of the market not fully served by existing banking services.
Book club operator
Seoul, Korea
Trevari operates subscription-based book clubs in Korea. Members can join clubs covering various topics and participate in monthly discussions at multiple sites across Seoul. Trevari aims to encourage reading culture and bring people of similar tastes together.
Mobile payments service
Seoul, Korea
Viva Republica operates the mobile app, Toss, which transforms the way P2P payments are conducted in Korea. The company has also launched over 10 new financial services to become the leading consumer mobile financial services platform in Korea.
AI-based software developer
Seoul, Korea
VoyagerX builds a variety of AI-powered solutions and tools that leverage deep learning capabilities. The company’s projects include vFlat, a mobile scanner app that analyses the curved surface of a document or book and scans the document flat; Vrew, a video editing app that allows users to edit videos and automatically generated scripts; and Ownglyph, a font platform that creates personalized digital fonts based on handwriting.
Restaurant reservation platform
Seongnam, Korea
Wad operates Catch Table, a real-time online reservation platform for fine dining restaurants in Korea. Through Catch Table, restaurants can manage their seat inventory and customer relationships, and users can book and search the restaurants based on user reviews, region, price, and other preferences.
Server monitoring
Seoul, Korea
WhaTap Labs provides cloud-based server monitoring solution services. The IT-Integrated Monitoring Service addresses customer needs by providing both SaaS and installable systems. More than 1,000 corporations use WhaTap’s monitoring service.
Developer of “CHLNGERS” – a goal accomplishment mobile app
Seoul, Korea
Whitecube runs a self-improvement app, Challengers, designed to help people cultivate good habits and improve productivity with financial incentives. The platform offers users to bet on a health-related goal with their own money and get reimbursement and prizes upon completion of day-to-day tasks. The company also operates a health and wellness-focused e-commerce platform to help users achieve their goals.
