About Innopolis Partners
Innopolis Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2006. It is primarily based out of Seoul, South Korea. As of Aug 2026, Innopolis Partners is an active investor, having invested in 25 companies, with 2 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series A round in South Korea based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Enterprise Applications and EdTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of ABLE Labs Overall, Innopolis Partners portfolio has seen 6 IPOs and 1 acquisition including key companies like Satrec Initiative, Advanced Nano and ISU ABXIS. A lot of funds co-invest with Innopolis Partners, with names like Industrial Bank of Korea sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Innopolis Partners has team of 6 people including 4 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Seed & 2 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Innopolis Partners' List of Top Investments
Innopolis Partners has a portfolio of 25 companies. Their most notable investments are in ABLE Labs and Amyloid Solution.Their portfolio spans across South Korea, China and United States. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Applications, EdTech and 14 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Innopolis Partners:1. Mediwhale
AI based diagnostic device for chronic diseases. It offers AI algorithm based device that analyzes retinal images to predict the persons age, gender, height, and weight, and find biomarkers related to specific diseases which include cardiovascular, chronic kidney disease, retinal diseases, and others.
Key facts about Mediwhale
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Seoul (South Korea)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $36.2M
- Employee Count: 47 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: SBI Investment, Mayo Clinic and 18 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Mar 31, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Satrec Initiative develops and manufacture small satellites for earth observation industry. They developed small earth observation satellites for Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates previously. They manufactured and provides Space Eye - 1, 2 , 10, satellite platforms, payloads, electro-optical instruments, ground systems and components.
Key facts about Satrec Initiative
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: Daejeon (South Korea)
- Stage: Public
- Employee Count: 145 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: KTB Ventures, Hanwha Aerospace and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jan 13, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Public
3. Insignary
Insignary provides security vulnerability and compliance assessment of open-source binary code for the organizations. Leverages symbol and string table comparisons-based fingerprinting for scanning binary code in firmware and compares it to source code without attempting any reverse engineering. Delivered as both an on-premise or cloud solution on a pay-per-server basis. Notable partners include NDS, Maiyue, BearingPoint, Hancom Secure, and Grape Systems. The CEO Mahnjoon Jang is a former CFO of the Black Duck Software Japan.
Key facts about Insignary
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Seoul (South Korea)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $2M
- Employee Count: 18 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Samho Green Investment, Mega Investment and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Aug 20, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Gooroomee
Gooroomee is a video conference and messaging application that allows the user to make video calls, chats with friends, colleagues, family, etc. This platform provides a URL to the users and creates a meeting room to access the camera/microphone. Also, offers documents & contents sharing, multiparty video chat, text chat, security, screen sharing, etc.
Key facts about Gooroomee
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Seoul (South Korea)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $1.68M
- Employee Count: 10 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Microsoft Accelerator, C&Venture Partners and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Aug 09, 2020, $*****
ANP - Advanced Nano Products Co. Ltd manufactures and provides nanomaterials which find their applications in Electronics and Display, Solar Cell, Printed Electronics, Semiconductor Fabrication, etc. Its technology focusses on renewable energy, touch-based displays, and environment-friendly technology. Its product portfolio consists of indium tin oxides (ITOs), indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) sputtering targets, ITO tablets, zinc oxide (ZnO) sputtering targets, silver pastes, transparent ray blocker (TRB) pastes, silver jet inks, chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries, etc.
Key facts about Advanced Nano
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: Seoul (South Korea)
- Stage: Public
- Employee Count: 40 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Magna, Aju IB Investment and 2 Others
- Highlight: Public
Innopolis Partners' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Innopolis Partners has invested in 25 companies over the last 14 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 2 investments, while as of Aug 2026, it has made 2 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in ABLE Labs and most recent follow-on round was in Sweet Bio.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Innopolis Partners' Investments by Stage
Innopolis Partners has made 9 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $6.69M, 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.82M, 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $7.97M and 1 investment in Unattributed stage with an average round size of $8.2M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 9 |
Seed | 4 |
Series B | 1 |
Unattributed | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Innopolis Partners' Investments by Sector
Innopolis Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Business Services, Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Food and Agriculture and Media & Entertainment. Notably, it has invested in 16 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 13 Tech companies, 9 Software companies and at least 4 companies focusing on Tech hardware.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Business Services | 4 |
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
High Tech | 4 |
Food and Agriculture | 2 |
Media & Entertainment | 2 |
Others | 10 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Innopolis Partners' Investments by Geography
Innopolis Partners has made most investments in South Korea (14), followed by China where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
South Korea | 14 |
China | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Innopolis Partners' recent investments
Innopolis Partners has made 2 investments in 2026 so far - ABLE Labs and Articron.Here are the most recent investments by Innopolis Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Aug 31, 2026 | South Korea | Series A | 6118 | ||
Apr 2026 | South Korea | Seed | 4201 | ||
Jul 11, 2025 | China | Series A | 5912 | ||
Jan 22, 2025 | South Korea | Unattributed | 3085 | [+3] | |
Oct 2023 | United States | Seed | 8877 |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Innopolis Partners' Portfolio
6 of Innopolis Partners' portfolio companies have become public. LabGenomics got listed on the Korea Exchange (KRX), in Dec 2014 and Nanos got listed on the Korea Exchange (KRX) at marketcap of $125M.Here are Innopolis Partners' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 16, 2014 | - | - | 6945 | |
Aug 02, 2012 | - | - | 5795 | |
Jul 11, 2012 | - | - | 6746 | |
Feb 09, 2011 | - | - | 7424 | |
Feb 03, 2009 | - | - | 6243 |
Acquired companies in Innopolis Partners' Portfolio
1 company from Innopolis Partners' portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Panax Etec in Aug 2019 by Dongwha Enterprise for $*****.Here are Innopolis Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 14, 2019 | - | - | 9848 |
Team profile of Innopolis Partners
Innopolis Partners has a team of 6 members including 4 Partners located in South Korea. Innopolis Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Innopolis Partners:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Seoul | - | ||
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | South Korea | - | - |
Co-investors of Innopolis Partners
Over the past 14 years, 65 investors have co-invested in Innopolis Partners's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Invested before Innopolis Partners: Hana Ventures, Mirae Asset and 5 others have invested in rounds before Innopolis Partners. There are 2 companies where Hana Ventures has invested before Innopolis Partners and 1 company where Mirae Asset has invested before Innopolis Partners.
- Top Co-investors of Innopolis Partners: 42 investors entered a company along with Innopolis Partners. These include investors like Industrial Bank of Korea (2 companies).
- Invested after Innopolis Partners: A total of 16 investors have invested in Innopolis Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Korean Development Bank (1 company), Woori Ventures Partners (1 company) and IMM Investment (1 company).
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