About Innopolis Partners
Innopolis Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2006. It is primarily based out of Seoul, South Korea. As of Jul 2025, Innopolis Partners is an active investor, having invested in 23 companies, with 1 new investment 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 AeiROBOT 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 Korean Development Bank 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
Deals in last 12 months
Innopolis Partners' List of Top Investments
Innopolis Partners has a portfolio of 23 companies. Their most notable investments are in Amyloid Solution and Gooroomee.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: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: 101 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: KTB Ventures, Innopolis Partners and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jan 13, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. 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: 51 - 200 as on Jul 17, 2025
- Investors: Mirae Asset, IMM Investment and 18 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Mar 31, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
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: 9 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Innopolis Partners, Mega Investment and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Aug 20, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. VideoMonster
Online platform offering video creation solutions. The platform allows users to create short videos for professionals. It provides templates for various businesses like fashion, food, real estate, and more. The app is available for Android and iOS users. It monetizes through subscription charges.
Key facts about VideoMonster
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Seoul (South Korea)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $2.5M
- Employee Count: 11 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Innopolis Partners, SB Partners and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 14, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
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: 11 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Magna, Innopolis Partners and 2 Others
- Highlight: Public
Innopolis Partners' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Innopolis Partners has invested in 23 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. Its most recent first time investment was in AeiROBOT and most recent follow-on round was in Sweet Bio.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 8 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $6.39M, 3 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.68M, 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 | 8 |
Seed | 3 |
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 15 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 12 Tech companies, 8 Software companies and at least 4 companies focusing on Tech hardware.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Business Services | 3 |
Enterprise Applications | 3 |
High Tech | 3 |
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 (12), followed by China where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
South Korea | 12 |
China | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Innopolis Partners' recent investments
Innopolis Partners has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Innopolis Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jul 11, 2025 | China | Series A | 3059 | ||
Jan 22, 2025 | South Korea | Unattributed | 2285 | [+3] | |
Oct 2023 | United States | Seed | 5779 | ||
Apr 18, 2023 | South Korea | Series A | 7010 | [+8] | |
Jan 04, 2023 | South Korea | Seed | 9864 |
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 | - | - | 9534 | |
Aug 02, 2012 | - | - | 6578 | |
Jul 11, 2012 | - | - | 8772 | |
Feb 09, 2011 | - | - | 6331 | |
Feb 03, 2009 | - | - | 6595 |
Acquired companies in Innopolis Partners' Portfolio
1 company from Innopolis Partners' portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Panax Etec in Aug 2019 by Dongwha Enterprise for $97.1M.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 | - | - | 1474 |
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, 59 investors have co-invested in Innopolis Partners's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Invested before Innopolis Partners: Hana Ventures, SGC Partners and 3 others have invested in rounds before Innopolis Partners. There are 2 companies where Hana Ventures has invested before Innopolis Partners and 1 company where SGC Partners has invested before Innopolis Partners.
- Top Co-investors of Innopolis Partners: 38 investors entered a company along with Innopolis Partners. These include investors like Korean Development Bank (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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