Smilegate Investment

SmileGate Investment, established in 1999 and based in Seongnam, South Korea, is a venture capital and private equity firm that specializes in investing in small and mid-sized companies. Initially founded as MVP Capital, the firm has successfully organized and managed over 30 investment funds, focusing on diverse sectors such as information technology, healthcare, energy, and financial technology. Since its inception, SmileGate Investment has invested in more than 200 companies with significant growth potential, demonstrating a commitment to supporting innovative businesses in the South Korean market. The firm operates several venture capital funds, including the Smilegate Culture Industry Investment Fund, Smilegate Pioneer Venture Fund, and Smilegate Orange Fund, which further solidify its role in fostering entrepreneurship and economic development in the region.

Byung-Hwi Ahn

Senior Vice President

Heung-Sun Chang

Senior Vice President

Lee Hyeon-Woo

Associate

Kyoung-Hwan Kim

Senior Vice President

Young-Kwon Ku

President

Jong-Ho Lee

Senior Vice President

Ki-Mun Nam

CEO

Hoon-gon Nam

Senior Vice President

Jung-In Park

Senior Vice President

Seo Kyung-Woo

Senior Vice President

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RCE

Series A in 2022
Retailer of heavy construction equipment intended for construction companies. The company offers a variety of heavy equipment like caterpillar excavators, tire excavators, wheel loaders, concrete pump cars, cranes, dozers, mixer trucks, road equipment, and forklift among many others to Vietnamese construction companies online, providing construction companies equipment at reasonable price.

SEWORKS

Series A in 2016
SEWORKS focuses on automated offensive security to empower organizations to simulate real-world attack scenarios and discover security weaknesses in advance. SEWORKS provides Pentoma®, a fully automated web penetration testing solution. Pentoma®’s core technology employs GAMAN (Generative Adversarial Model Agnostic Networks), an AI engine built by SEWORKS specifically for offensive security purposes. SEWORKS is headquartered in San Francisco, US, and backed by SoftBank Ventures Asia, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and others.
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