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Crit Ventures

Venture capital

Seoul ยท Pre-Seedโ€“Series A ยท 12 people tracked

Also known as CRIT VENTURES INC.

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Stage
Pre-Seedโ€“Series A
HQ
Seoul, KR
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2020
Last 12 months
1 investment
Private fund assets
$246M
VC funds
7
Tracked investments
94
Unicorns
1
IPOs
1
Acquisitions
1

Team ยท 12 people

from the firm's website

What they invest in

from 59 of 94 portfolio companies

Gaming ร—18AI & Machine Learning ร—16Consumer ร—16Creator Economy ร—14Media & Entertainment ร—13Crypto & Web3 ร—8Marketing Tech ร—8B2B Marketplaces ร—7

HQs:South Koreaร—27United Statesร—11Finlandร—1Hong Kongร—1Swedenร—1

Who they back

founder profiles across 17 portfolio companies
65%
solo founders
11 of 17 mapped founding teams
71%
repeat founders
of 14 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founderร—112 foundersร—43 foundersร—14+ foundersร—1

Where their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with education data

Seoul National University ร—3University of California, Berkeley ร—2

What their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with field-of-study data

Business & Management ร—5Computer Science ร—5Engineering ร—3Finance & Accounting ร—2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 14 founders with career history

AMD ร—2

Investments ยท 94 tracked

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By year:2026 ยท 12024 ยท 12023 ยท 12016 ยท 25 dated

ใˆœํผ์ฆ๋ชฌ์Šคํ„ฐ์ฆˆpuzzlemonsters.ioโœ“ verified

Puzzle Monsters is a game studio that develops and publishes mobile games, including titles such as Ninja Idle and Ninja Survival.

Gaming

Jinhwan Yangin

ใˆœ๋ฐ”์ž‰์Šคํ€˜์–ดbuying-square.com

Buying Square is a B2B platform for the luxury goods market that lets buyers download brand linesheets, source from verified suppliers, and manage purchasing, payment, and delivery.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceRetail Tech

ใˆœ๋ธŒ์ด์—์ด๊ฒŒ์ž„์ฆˆvagames.co.kr๐•

VA Games is a South Korean game developer focused on subculture-style visual games that go beyond animation.

Gaming

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Kakao Ventures

(์ฃผ)์ธ๋ดํŠธ์ฝ”ํผ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜indentcorp.comin

Indent Corporation develops technology aimed at helping small or one-person teams build large consumer brands.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech

Seldon Yoon(Founder)in

ใˆœํ”ผ์น˜์Šค๊ทธ๋ฃน์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„peachesoneuniverse.com

An e-commerce platform selling apparel and lifestyle products through online retail channels.

ConsumerCreator EconomyDirect to ConsumerE-commerceSeoul, KR

Co-investorsHillspring InvestmentPearl Abyss Capital

1939 Games1939games.comin๐•

1939 Games develops a digital collectible card game set in a WWII military theme.

Gaming

Gudmundur KristjanssonIvar Kristjanssonin

Co-investorsCrowberry CapitalSisu Game VenturesKorea Investment PartnersSeoul Investment Partners

1Self World1self.world

1Self World operates MyB, a digital wallet-based marketing platform that issues users' preference data as encrypted Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) on-chain to form a Web3 identity (W3ID) used for ad targeting and ML-based recommendations.

AdTechCrypto & Web3Marketing Tech

Aark Digitalaark.digital๐•

Aark Digital is a non-custodial perpetual DEX built on Arbitrum, offering up to 1000x leverage across 25+ trading pairs with low trading fees, zero gas fees, and no KYC.

Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS

Co-investorsHashkey CapitalArkGrowArrington CapitalBlack DragonArrington XRP CapitalOKX Ventures

ALOHA FACTORYaloha-corp.com

Aloha Factory develops mobile casual games designed to create memorable entertainment experiences for players globally.

GamingMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsLB Investment

AmazeVR Inc.amazevr.com

Produces immersive VR concert content with proprietary cameras and cloud tools.

West Hollywood, US

Jae Bum Lee(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Jaebum Lee(Founder)Jeremy Nam(Founder)inSeung Joon (Steve) Lee(Founder)Steve Lee(Founder)Ernest Lee(Executive Officer, Promoter)

Co-investorsDunamu & PartnersGS FuturesLG Technology VenturesWe VenturesBass Investment

Animoca Brandsanimocabrands.comin๐•

Animoca Brands invests in blockchain and digital asset projects across gaming, infrastructure, culture, and real-world asset categories, with a portfolio of 600+ companies and a focus on Web3 ecosystem development.

B2B MarketplacesCrypto & Web3GamingSector Agnostic

Yat Siu(Founder & CEO)Robby Yungin

Co-investors2080 Ventures500 GlobalA'Z AngelsAdit Ventures Management, LlcAlpha Wave GlobalAppWorks Ventures+37 more

Artes Studio Ltdmatch-cash.com

Match Cash is a skill-based mobile gaming app offering live match-3 puzzle gameplay where players compete against others in multiplayer tournaments for cash prizes.

ConsumerFintechGaming

Build Blockbuildblock.ioin

BuildBlock is a company offering services, tools, and membership programs including asset management, property search, and AI agent capabilities, with a focus on expansion services and team recruitment in the real estate sector.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningConstruction TechPropTechSaaSSilicon Valley, US

Jimmy Jungin

Co-investorsDunamu & PartnersSazzePrimer Sazze Partners

Carbonatedcarbonated.com๐•

Carbonated develops competitive player-versus-environment gaming experiences for mobile platforms, using AI to drive gameplay mechanics.

AI & Machine LearningGamingEl Segundo, US

Kolbe Launchbaugh(Founder)in

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzGOAL VenturesBITKRAFT VenturesGolden VenturesModern Times Group

Chartmetricchartmetric.comin๐•

Chartmetric is a music analytics platform that aggregates streaming, social, and playlist data across services like Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, YouTube, Shazam, and Soundcloud, with AI-driven insights and a data assistant.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMedia & EntertainmentSan Mateo, US

Sung Cho(Founder)in

Doppler Financedoppler.finance

Institutional-grade transparent yield infrastructure on XRP Ledger

Co-investorsDigital Currency GroupTRIVE

dotdotdotdot3company.com

DOTDOTDOT builds OLOBO, an AI-powered conversational platform that lets businesses create animated avatars for natural interactions.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSeoul, KR

Joon Soo (JS) Chang(Co-CEO)Yongki Yoon(Co-CEO)Yong Taek (YT) Bae(Co-CEO)in

FuriosaAIfuriosa.aiin๐•Jul 2026

FuriosaAI designs AI accelerator chips, including the RNGD NPU for large language models and multimodal workloads and a Vision NPU for computer vision, along with related server and PCIe products and a developer platform.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsSeoul, KR

June Paik(CEO)inJoon Ho Baek(Executive Officer, Director)Alex LiuinHanjoon Kim(Director)Hyungil Koo(Director)Kyungho Lee(Director)

Co-investorsFuturePlayHan River PartnersIMM Investment JapanVision VenturesIndustrial Bank of KoreaKorea Development Bank

GLASSDOMEglassdomeinc.comMay 2023 ยท $8.6M

Smart factory solution enabling data-driven manufacturing insights.

Simon Dae Oong Kim(Founder)in

Co-investorsDunamu & PartnersLotte VenturesSazzePrimer Sazze Partners

Jadu ARjadu.ar๐•

Jadu is building a consumer platform for spatial imagery โ€” a new medium of volumetric captures that carry sound and can be explored in three dimensions rather than viewed as flat photos or videos.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyLos Angeles, US

Asad J. Malik(Founder)in

Co-investorsBain Capital CryptoCoinbase VenturesLG Technology VenturesPosition VenturesProgressionGaingels+3 more

KAI MEDIAkaimediagroup.com๐•Apr 2024 ยท $3M

Los Angeles, US

Jae Choi(Executive Officer, Director)Sang Cho(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsAser Ventures

MetaverseGo Metaversemetaversego.gg๐•

C168 (C168.COM) is an online gambling platform offering live casino, fish shooting games, slots, cockfighting, sports betting, and lottery to bettors, primarily in the Vietnamese and broader Asian market.

Gaming

Co-investorsEmoote

MG Innovation Lab, Inc.globaleur.com

Globaleur builds a travel-tuned AI reasoning engine that personalizes journeys, ranks offers, and delivers recommendations across airlines, airports, hotels, and destinations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareTravel & HospitalitySan Francisco, US

David C. Lee(Founder)in

Co-investorsSazzeZ Venture CapitalPrimer Sazze Partners

MONDAY OFFmondayoff.me

MondayOFF is a mobile gaming company that develops and publishes casual games and partners with external game developers to publish their titles.

Gaming

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Play Ventures

NABU STUDIOmetabora.io

METABORA develops video games that incorporate blockchain technology, aiming to combine Web3.0 features with gameplay for players.

ConsumerCrypto & Web3GamingDubai

Danny Sangjoon Wooin

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Dunamu & PartnersPearl Abyss Capital

Order Of Metaorderofmeta.comin

Order of Meta is a game development studio made up of professional game creators focused on mid-core and hardcore genres.

GamingEspoo, FI

Alexey Kuzin(Founder)

Co-investorsPlay VenturesThe Games Fund

PEAQ Networkpeaq.network๐•

peaq provides a blockchain stack that lets robots and machines act as autonomous economic actors, enabling developers to activate, finance, and build omnichain applications around machines.

Crypto & Web3Deep TechRobotics

Co-investorsAdvanced BlockchainBorderless VentureCeras VenturesDelta BlockchainFOMO VenturesGenerative Ventures+12 more

Pixelversepixelverse.xyz๐•

PixelVerse is a social gaming platform built on Web3, offering a connected ecosystem of skill-based games where popular memecoin characters (such as Pudgy, Toshi, Brett, and MEW) are playable.

Crypto & Web3GamingSocial

Sagasaga.xyz๐•Oct 2016 ยท $6.5M

Saga is a platform for building persistent character AI agents that let studios, creators, and brands turn characters, brands, and worlds into digital personalities that engage users across social platforms, messaging apps, and online communities.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyGamingLas Vegas, US

Rebecca Liao(Co-Founder & CEO)Jin Kwon(Co-Founder & CSO)inBogdan Alexandrescu(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)inRyan Robert Dean(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardKevin Dale Klassen(Director)

Co-investorsD1 VenturesFigmentHypersphere VenturesLongHash VenturesPlaceholder VCSamsung Next+10 more

Silverlabs Technologies Inc.rizzle.tvin๐•

Rizzle helps publishers convert written articles into video content at scale using AI-powered video creation and distributes both formats across premium platforms including Yahoo, MSN, and YouTube.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechMedia & Entertainment

Lakshminath Dondeti(Founder)in

Co-investorsCelesta CapitalCelesta Capital

Snowprint Studiossnowprintstudios.comin๐•Acquired

Snowprint Studios develops mobile mid-core free-to-play games designed for casual gamers.

ConsumerGamingStockholm, SE

Co-investorsHiro CapitalSisu Game Ventures

Spaceportspaceport.xyzin๐•

Spaceport is a creator-first platform enabling developers and IP owners to license, integrate, and manage playable intellectual property across gaming and digital experiences.

B2B MarketplacesCreator EconomyGamingMedia & Entertainment

Le Zhang(Co-founder and CEO)inLida Tang(Co-founder and CEO)

Co-investorsArca FundsDecasonicDiaspora VenturesNextView VenturesBlocktower Capital

STUDIO SAMICKsamickmall.com

An e-commerce retailer specializing in furniture and home goods including beds, sofas, dining sets, and bedding products.

ConsumerE-commerceRetail Tech

uh2samarketuh2samarket.comin

Uh2Samarket (์–ด์ด์‚ฌ๋งˆ์ผ“) is a B2B wholesale sourcing platform that lets online clothing sellers buy apparel and lifestyle goods from Chinese markets, offering daily purchasing and shipping, image-based product search, 1688 link-to-listing registration, and Guangzhou sourcing tours.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceRetail Tech

Co-investorsSazze

Unlimeat Venture Capitalunlimeat.com๐•

A food company that produces alternative meat products with a focus on carbon reduction.

Climate TechFoodTech

Co-investorsIMM Investment Japan

Uplandmeupland.me๐•

Upland is a location-based metaverse game where players own and develop digital properties mapped to real-world addresses across fifty+ cities, with an in-game economy that clears in real dollars.

ConsumerCrypto & Web3GamingSan Francisco, US

Dirk(Co-Founder)Idan(Co-Founder)

Co-investorsBlock.oneOnePiece LabsRed Beard VenturesTransform VenturesAnimoca BrandsGlobal Founders Capital+1 more

UVifyuvify.comJan 2016

UVify makes the Draco, a modular racing drone with a carbon fiber frame designed for racing, freestyle flying, and aerial cinematography.

ConsumerDeep TechHardwareRoboticsSan Jose, US

Hyon Lim(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsKakao VenturesNaver

Webtoon Todaywebtoon.today

Webtoon Today is a webtoon studio and agency that offers data analytics for webtoons, a free self-publishing platform for creators to post work and gauge reader response, and marketing tools for insights, ad campaign execution, and performance measurement.

Creator EconomyData & InfrastructureMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsLaguna Investment

xangle Venture Capitalxangle.io๐•

Xangle provides cryptocurrency and digital asset research, market data, news, and asset price information for investors and market participants.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsIMM Investment Japan

๊ฐค๋Ÿญ์‹œ์ฝ”ํผ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜galaxyuniverse.ai

Galaxy Corporation produces entertainment content by combining AI and metaverse technology with creative storytelling, distributing original Korean entertainment formats globally.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsKiwoom Investment

๋„›์ง€ํ—ฌ์Šค์ผ€์–ดใˆœcashwalk.com

TeamWalk is a mobile platform that gamifies physical activity and social engagement through challenges centered on walking, stamping, and photo verification, rewarding participants with products and incentives from brands.

ConsumerDigital HealthMarketing TechMarketplacesWellness & Fitness

๋”๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธptjcomics.kr

Korean webtoon studio, known as Park Tae-joon Comics, producing and licensing serialized comics IP for Naver Webtoon.

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.

๋””์˜ค๋””dayonedream.com

DayOneDream designs and manages Korean content intellectual property across entertainment dimensionsโ€”music, live events, drama, film, and commerceโ€”building infrastructure to scale its value globally through technology and investment platforms.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyMarketing TechMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsHashed

๋Ÿฐ์—…์ปดํผ๋‹ˆrunupcompany.com

RUNUP Company is a media and content production firm specializing in film and drama, with particular expertise in actor recruitment and management.

Creator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSeoul, KR

Kim Dong-hyun(CEO)

๋กœ๋“œ์ปดํ”Œ๋ฆฟloadcomplete.com

Korean mobile game studio and publisher, founded 2009, behind Legend of Slime, Merge Tactics and Crusaders Quest.

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.

๋ฆฌ์ง์ธํ„ฐ๋‚ด์…”๋„dreamperfectregime.com

Dream Perfect Regime (DPR) is a multi-genre music and video collective that creates, directs, produces, and edits visual work and curates artists from various musical backgrounds.

Creator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSeoul, KR

๋ฆฌ์ฒดlomad.co.kr

Lomad is an online retailer of high-end designer furniture from brands such as USM, Cassina, and Ligne Roset, offering custom orders, fast delivery, and buy-now-pay-later installment payments.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce

๋ฎค์ฆˆ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒmuzlive.com

MUZLIVE develops KiT, a smart media format that bridges physical music albums and digital devices, allowing fans to own and interact with artist albums through smart devices.

ConsumerCreator EconomyDeep TechMedia & Entertainment

๋ฒ„ํ•์„œ์šธbutfitseoul.com

Buffit Seoul operates a chain of group fitness training centers in Seoul, running eight directly-managed locations and offering group workout programs.

ConsumerSports TechWellness & FitnessSeoul, KR

Co-investorsKakao Ventures

๋ฒคํ‹€์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šคlo-we.kr

LOWE (๋กœ์œ„) is a hair salon brand operating multiple locations across Seoul, South Korea, offering services such as perms and cuts.

ConsumerWellness & FitnessSeoul, KR

Co-investorsSazzePrimer Sazze Partners

๋น…ํ”ฝ์ฒ˜์ธํ„ฐ๋ ‰ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒbigpi.co

Big Picture Interactive (๋น…ํ”ฝ์ฒ˜์ธํ„ฐ๋ ‰ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ) is a company focused on building products and services aimed at improving the quality of life for gamers.

GamingSeoul, KR

Co-investorsWe Ventures

์Šˆํผ๋นŒ๋Ÿฐ๋žฉ์Šคsupervlabs.io๐•

Supervillain Labs has transitioned into Pryzm, a gaming platform that carries over players' games and progress and offers rewards players can earn and redeem.

ConsumerGaming

์‹ ์Šคํƒ€ํ”„๋ฆฌ์  ์ธ ใˆœshinstarr.com

Shin Starr designs intelligent cooking systems that enable food service operators to prepare and serve hot meals with improved efficiency and flexibility, regardless of location, time, or staffing constraints.

AI & Machine LearningFoodTechHardwareRoboticsSan Mateo, US

์•„๋“œ๋ฆฌ์—˜adriel.comin๐•

Adriel is a business intelligence platform that consolidates marketing and advertising data from 650+ sources into a single dashboard, enabling marketers to track cross-channel campaign performance, ROAS, and KPIs without manual data processing.

AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS

Sophie Soowon Eom(Founder)in

Co-investorsKT investment Inc.

์•„๋“ค๋Ÿฌadler3d.comin

Adler provides an AI-native marketing platform combined with embedded operators that handle strategy, creative, media buying, and measurement from a single system of record for growth companies.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

์•„์ด์˜ค์•ค์ฝ” ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„aionco.kr

AiOnCo Korea operates YesB, a digital trade platform that helps overseas buyers source and purchase Korean (K-beauty) brands using big-data analysis of sales and reviews from marketplaces such as Coupang, Naver, Olive Young, and 11st.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceLogistics & Supply Chain

์—…๋ผ์ด์ฆˆuprise.financial

Uprise operates consumer finance apps in South Korea, including bitbunny, a walk-to-earn rewards app that lets users exchange accumulated rewards for products or coins, and dndn, an investment service covering savings and pension products.

ConsumerFintechSeoul, KR

์—์ด๋น„์ œํŠธinpock.co.kr

Inpock is a Korean creator platform offering a link-in-bio tool that connects a creator's revenue channels through a single profile link, along with Instagram DM automation, AI content coaching, brand collaboration management, and group-buying storefronts.

Creator EconomyMarketing TechSaaS

์œ„์‹œ์ผ“wishket.com๐•

Wishket operates a marketplace platform that connects software developers and companies with businesses seeking digital technology services, facilitating transactions for software outsourcing and business innovation.

B2B MarketplacesDeveloper ToolsFuture of WorkSaaS

Co-investorsWe Ventures

์ปจํ…contec.krin

CONTEC operates the Eum ground station network worldwide and provides an all-in-one service to receive, process, and analyze satellite data for space missions.

Data & InfrastructureDeep TechSpace Tech

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Hillspring InvestmentWe Ventures

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details โ€” typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Crit Ventures made?
Crit Ventures has 94 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Crit Ventures invest at?
Crit Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Crit Ventures focus on?
Crit Ventures focuses on Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.
Where is Crit Ventures located?
Crit Ventures is headquartered in Seoul, KR.
Does Crit Ventures lead rounds?
Crit Ventures has led 3 of the 7 rounds where its role is on record.
Who does Crit Ventures co-invest with?
Crit Ventures most often shares deals with Atinum Investment Co. Ltd., Sazze, We Ventures, among 112 tracked co-investors.

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