Samsung Venture Investment Corporation

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation is the corporate venture arm of Samsung Electronics, founded in 1999 and based in Seoul. It maintains a global presence with activity in innovation hubs such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Tokyo, and Beijing, and it backs emerging technology startups across Europe, Asia, and North America. The firm sources and invests in technology companies at multiple stages, from early-stage to pre-IPO, focusing on areas including semiconductors, materials, mobile services, internet, software, security, and enterprise solutions, as well as bioengineering and medical tech. Its investment approach targets companies developing AI, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, cybersecurity, 5G, next generation displays, battery technology, digital health, and insurtech, among others, to support shaping future technologies.

Liam Ahn

Principal

Robert Ashcraft

Investment Director

Ju Won Cha

Managing Partner

Jaeseok Cha

Investment Director

Russ Chaney

Principal

Myungseok Choi

Investment Director

Jay Chong

Vice President

Jeongheon Gwak

Investment Director

Uiseok Hwang

Investment Director

TaeWoo Jeon

Investment Director

Jihong Kim

Managing Director, Samsung Ventures America

Han Seong Kim

Investment Director

Junyeong Kim

Investment Director

Jongwook Kim

Investment Director

Minjoo Kim

Investment Director

Donghyun Kim

Investment Director

Eunji Ko

Investment Director

KyungNam Ko

Investment Director

JaeHo Koh

Investment Director

Helena Lee

Investment Director

Stan Lee

Investment Director

Jaemin Lee

Investment Director

Hyemin Lee

Senior Investment Manager

SunMin Lee

Investment Director

Claire Leurent

Managing Director

Sooyoun Lim

Investment Director

Michael Pachos

Managing Director

Wookyoung Park

Investment Director

Jinho Park

Investment Director

Junho Yang

Investment Director

Chanwoo Yang

Investment Director

Il Seok Yoon

Vice President

Jisu Yoon

Investment Director

Sung Eun Sarah Kim

Investment Director

Past deals in Virtualization

Volumez

Series A in 2024
Volumez is a provider of Data Infrastructure as a Service (DIaaS), offering a platform that integrates and orchestrates cloud resources to create customized data infrastructures suited to specific workload requirements. The platform is designed for data-intensive applications, ensuring performance, resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency across any cloud environment. With its innovative architecture and controller-less design, Volumez simplifies the deployment of storage solutions and dynamically adjusts to the evolving needs of businesses. This results in a predictable and composable DIaaS that delivers high performance and ultra-low latency while maintaining enterprise-grade data resilience at optimized costs. The company’s services are accessible through major cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, facilitating easier management of both public and private cloud resources.

Arcfra

Funding Round in 2024
Arcfra is a technology company that specializes in simplifying on-premises enterprise cloud infrastructure. It offers a full-stack, software-defined platform that enables businesses to build robust, future-proof infrastructure from bare metal. The platform provides a range of services, including computing, storage, networking, security, backup, disaster recovery, and Kubernetes support, all within a single stack. It supports both virtual machines and containers, ensuring flexibility and adaptability for enterprises in the cloud and AI era.

ATTO Research

Venture Round in 2019
ATTO Research lead open networking innovations. ATTO Research is a network virtualization innovator with advanced SDN and NFV technologies. We are specialized in security-enhanced SDN control, network management, and cloud network virtualization.

Iguazio

Venture Round in 2019
Iguazio provides a data science platform enabling businesses to develop, deploy, and manage AI applications at scale. It facilitates real-time AI model execution, deployment across multi-cloud, on-premises, or edge environments, empowering enterprises to execute ambitious data-driven strategies.

DriveNets

Series A in 2019
DriveNets is a software company founded in 2015 that builds cloud‑native networking solutions for communications service providers. Its flagship product, Network Cloud, disaggregates core and edge infrastructure, replacing traditional hardware with a software‑centric routing stack that runs on standard networking white boxes. The platform delivers a shared data‑path control plane, central management, and northbound interfaces that integrate with third‑party tools. DriveNets supports large‑scale network modernization and AI workloads, enabling telecom operators and data centers to increase agility, cut operating costs, and optimize performance for demanding applications. The company is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel, with an additional office in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Pivot3

Series E in 2014
Pivot3 specializes in hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage solutions. Founded with a vision to simplify data centers, Pivot3 unifies storage, compute, and network resources into easy-to-deploy systems that reduce costs, risks, and complexity. Today, they offer Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for mission-critical applications. With over 16,000 deployments across various industries worldwide, Pivot3 helps businesses lower total cost of ownership, ensure uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and maximize employee productivity.

BlueStacks

Venture Round in 2014
BlueStacks specializes in cloud technology for mobile gaming. Its flagship product, BlueStacks App Player, enables over 145 million users to run Android apps and games on Windows PCs at full screen and high performance using patented LayerCake virtualization.

TidalScale

Seed Round in 2013
TidalScale, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in software for in-memory applications, enabling the binding of multiple commodity hardware servers into a unified software virtual machine. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Campbell, California, with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo, Japan, TidalScale offers software-defined servers designed to optimize the pooling and deployment of computing resources. Its innovative solutions provide in-memory performance for large-scale data workloads and are compatible with a variety of applications and operating systems, allowing organizations to configure virtual servers of different sizes without necessitating software changes. The company's technology is particularly beneficial for analytics, cloud infrastructure, and data mining, supporting applications such as Oracle database and SAP HANA.

Ubitus

Venture Round in 2013
Founded in 2013, Ubitus specializes in deploying cloud-enabled rich media services. It offers a leading cloud gaming solution for major game companies and telecom service providers worldwide. Additionally, it streams metaverse content across multiple devices for platform operators and digital content developers.

Astute Networks

Series B in 2012
Astute Networks, Inc. is a manufacturer of network-based virtualization appliances, specializing in performance storage solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company develops the VMware Ready Certified ViSX G3, which accelerates server and desktop virtualization as well as cloud computing infrastructures. Astute's offerings include solutions for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint virtualization, along with support for Oracle, SAP, and SQL databases. The company’s patented DataPump Engine is designed to deliver high-performance iSCSI IOPS, ensuring sustained random I/O performance and effectively eliminating bottlenecks that can hinder virtual machine performance and user productivity. Astute Networks also maintains a strategic partnership with Veeam Software to enhance its service offerings.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2012
Pivot3 specializes in hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage solutions. Founded with a vision to simplify data centers, Pivot3 unifies storage, compute, and network resources into easy-to-deploy systems that reduce costs, risks, and complexity. Today, they offer Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for mission-critical applications. With over 16,000 deployments across various industries worldwide, Pivot3 helps businesses lower total cost of ownership, ensure uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and maximize employee productivity.
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