How many investments has FuturePlay made?

FuturePlay has 54 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.

What stage does FuturePlay invest at?

FuturePlay invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth stages.

What sectors does FuturePlay focus on?

FuturePlay focuses on Deep Tech, Mobility & Transportation, Robotics, Space Tech.

Where is FuturePlay located?

FuturePlay is headquartered in Seoul, KR.

Does FuturePlay lead rounds?

FuturePlay has led 3 of the 14 rounds where its role is on record.

Who does FuturePlay co-invest with?

FuturePlay most often shares deals with Crit Ventures, Global Brain, Kakao Ventures, among 12 tracked co-investors.

FuturePlay

Venture capitaloperating company · company profile

Seoul · Pre-Seed–Growth · 34 people tracked

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Joel Noyceunlockedknows Oh-hyoung Kwon · together at The University of Manchester

×2knows the team · via Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst

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×3knows the team · via Samsung Electronics

×2knows the team · via Korea University

knows the team · via Mashup Ventures

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Investment thesis

FuturePlay invests in bold, technology-driven startups with the potential to reshape industries. The firm provides not just capital but comprehensive support across team building, expansion, and market entry, recognizing that transformative companies require more than funding—they require strategic guidance and operational partnership to scale globally.

Invests inDeep Tech Mobility & Transportation Robotics Space Tech Seoul South Korea

Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Growth

Seoul, KR

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2012

Last 12 months

6 investments

Tracked investments

Team · 34 people

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Cho Eunyoung· Partner

Kwon Oh-Hyoung· Partner· Gyeonggi, South Koreain

Kwon Oh-Hyoung serves as Partner and CEO at FuturePlay, a company builder and venture capital firm. His work focuses on product, growth, and company building.

Lee Wongyu· Partner

Oh-hyoung Kwon· Partner· Seoul, South Koreain

Oh-hyoung Kwon is a Partner and CEO at FuturePlay, a company builder and venture capital firm. He focuses on product, growth, and company building, with experience connecting entrepreneurs, investors, and resources across blockchain and capital markets.

Choi Johnny· Executive Director· Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Areain

Choi Johnny is a Board Member at Asteromorph and a delegated fund manager focused on deep tech and early-stage venture capital. He manages over $90M in assets across five private funds, investing in startups in robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and advanced hardware. His portfolio includes InnoSpace, Seoul Robotics, Mobilint, and EPD Biotherapeutics, with prior exits through public listings and acquisitions.

Han Donkyu· Principal

Jeon Ahram· Investment Division 2 Lead· Seoul, South Koreain

Jeon Ahram is a Principal (수석심사역) at FuturePlay, where the focus is on investments in robotics, automation, and frontier technology. Investment areas include physical AI, industrial automation, dynamic field automation, and frontier tech, with attention to teams applying AI and robotics to gaps created by generational discontinuities in the labor force. The portfolio includes companies such as Raion Robotics, NaviFra, Contoro, Farm360.ai, and Eternox.

Kim Bumho· Investment Management Team Lead

Lee Sora· People Lab Lead· Gyeonggi, South Koreain

Lee Sora is Team Lead of HR advisory at People Lab within FuturePlay, where she leads in-house HR and provides talent acquisition and HR advisory to the firm's roughly 280 portfolio companies. She has 20 years of experience in HR, having joined Kakao as its 29th employee and worked through its growth from 30 to over 3,000 people, and later designed leadership frameworks and performance-based operating structures at flex.

Park Solip· Growth Finance Team Lead

Seong Yunmo· Principal· Seoul, South Koreain

Seong Yunmo is a Principal on the investment team at FuturePlay, a Korean venture capital firm, a role held since June 2024. Previously, he served as Investment Team Leader at Mashup Ventures from 2022 to 2024. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Sixshop, where he worked as a backend developer on web editor and e-commerce products and handled product and project management from 2013 to 2021.

Susana Espinosa de los Reyes· Investment Team Principal· Mexico City, Mexicoin

Susana Espinosa de los Reyes is a Principal on the investment team at FuturePlay, a Korean venture capital firm, a role she has held since June 2024. She previously led the investment team at Mashup Ventures from 2022 to 2024. Earlier, she co-founded Sixshop, where she worked from 2013 to 2021 as a backend developer and in product and project management.

Bu Min· Venture Partner

Choi Jinho· Venture Partner

Han Jason· Venture Partner

Hwang Sungjae· Venture Partner

Jung Hoseok· Venture Partner

Kim Hyun-Jun· Venture Partner

Kim Taeyong· Venture Partner

Lee Dongwon· Venture Partner

Ryu Jung-Hee· Venture Partner

Sim Hyun Chul· Venture Partner

Yoon Kyungmin· Venture Partner

Daewon Lee· Associate

Hong Dami· Associate

Hwang Minjung· Senior Associate

Kim Hyungi· Senior Associate

Kim Somi· Senior Associate· Seoul, South Koreain

Ko Minuk· Associate

Kwak Doyeop· Senior Associate

Lee Namwoo· Associate

Lee Soobin· Associate

Song Mihan· Analyst

Antonio Jurado· Senior Investment Associate· Barcelona, Catalonia, Spainin

Antonio Jurado joined Galdana Ventures in 2019 after spending four years at S&P Dow Jones Indices as a Senior Equity Market Manager in London and Amsterdam, where he managed indices such as the S&P Europe 350 and oversaw financial analysis for listed companies across several European and other markets. Earlier in his career he worked at Bloomberg on the equity and indices team, along with roles in accounting and international cooperation and development. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Seville and a master's degree in Finance from Cranfield University, and is a CFA charterholder.

Founder mafia

3 people who came through FuturePlay went on to found or lead other companies.

Oh-hyoung KwonPartnerFounded FuturePlay Kwon Oh-HyoungPartnerFounded FuturePlay Seong YunmoPrincipalFounded Sixshop

What they invest in

from 15 of 62 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×10Data & Infrastructure ×3Deep Tech ×3Enterprise Software ×3Robotics ×3Consumer ×2Developer Tools ×2Digital Health ×2

HQs:South Korea×7United States×2Israel×1Iceland×1

Investments · 62 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 6 2022 · 17 dated

Humelohumelo.com in✓ verified

Humelo develops voice AI technology including high-quality voice cloning from short audio samples, emotional text-to-speech (DIVE TTS), speech synthesis, and voice conversion.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsKT investment Inc.

카찹carchapapp.com✓ verified

Carchap operates 'HiCare', an ICT-based platform and cloud ERP solution for hydrogen vehicles and hydrogen charging stations, offering real-time station information, reservations, and smart payments for drivers plus management systems for station operators.

CleantechClimate TechMobility & Transportation

Co-investorsLaguna Investment Shinhan Capital

1849 Bio

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

23i

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs)

Amously

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Asteromorph

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Avoavonow.comApr 2026 · $10MDefunct

Avo operates a marketplace within residential and office buildings that delivers groceries, cleaning services, and other goods to tenants, with building operators handling customer acquisition.

ConsumerE-commerceTel Aviv-Yafo, IL

Dekel Valtzer(Founder/CEO)inIdan Hershko(Founder)inNir Smadar(Founder/CTO)

Co-investorsInsight Partners Y Combinator AlleyCorp Dunamu & Partners JLL Spark Kleiner Perkins +3 more

Avoavo.app in 𝕏Apr 2026 · $10M

Avo is a SaaS analytics governance platform that helps product managers, developers, and data scientists plan, track, and govern product analytics.

Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSReykjavík, IS

Stefania Olafsdottir(Founder/CEO)inSölvi Logason(Founder)inSolvi Logason(Founder)in

Co-investorsHeavybit Notable Capital Y Combinator Backbone Angels Brunnur Ventures GP VentureSouq +8 more

Avoavomd.io in 𝕏Apr 2026 · $10M

Avo develops a clinical AI platform designed for healthcare providers to support evidence-based clinical decision-making while reducing clinician burnout.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechBrooklyn, US

Dr. Joongheum Park(Founder / Executive Chairman / CPO)inDr. Yair Saperstein(Founder / CEO)inLaurence Coman(Founder / COO)in

Co-investors500 Global AlleyCorp Dunamu & Partners Epsilon Health Investors Noro-Moseley Partners Alley Robotics Ventures +5 more

Avoavo.so 𝕏Apr 2026 · $10M

Avo is a DeFi platform that enables capital allocation through AI trading agents and curated smart indexes, allowing users to allocate funds based on narratives and strategies on Solana.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech

Co-investorsFront Row Ventures AlleyCorp Dunamu & Partners Insight Partners JLL Spark Kleiner Perkins +3 more

Axiomaxiom.co in 𝕏Aug 2026

Axiom is a fully managed, petabyte-scale event store and observability platform that ingests schema-less, high-cardinality event data and lets teams query it using its piped query language (APL).

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Seif Lotfy(Founder)in

Co-investorsCrane Venture Partners Fly Ventures Mango Capital Kakao Ventures

biobricks

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

BNSR

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Bonjak

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

BUTFITSEOUL

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Celliaz

Dayondream

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Demaf

DewCell

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Eternox

flashomics

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Furiosafuriosa.ai in 𝕏Jul 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)

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Co-investorsCrit Ventures Han River Partners IMM Investment Japan Vision Ventures Industrial Bank of Korea Korea Development Bank

Giftshedgiftshed.bio

Giftshed builds a single-cell cancer data platform that images billions of cells from whole blood, uses Vision AI and robotics to detect and isolate rare circulating tumor cells, and applies single-cell RNA sequencing and multi-omics to guide precision cancer therapy.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtech

Co-investorsKakao Ventures

Hyperloungehyperlounge.ai inDec 2022 · $8M

Hyperlounge provides a business analytics dashboard that aggregates key performance indicators across an organization for real-time visibility and decision-making.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsAltara Ventures Nextrans Stonebridge

INDEX Roboticsindex-robotics.com in

Index Robotics designs robotic arms and end-effectors for automated manipulation tasks.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRobotics

Seunghoon Shinin

Co-investors500 Global

Innospace

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

LOAS

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Lunetronic Inc.

maihub

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Marine Drone Tech

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Mediquitousmediquitous.com in

Mediquitous operates over 20 fashion and beauty brands and platforms across more than 10 countries globally, primarily in Korea and Japan.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesSeoul, KR

Co-investorsKT investment Inc.LB Investment

META FARMERS

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

mugungi

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

NanoForge AI

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

NeoArcRobotics

Neubility

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

NEUMOUSneumous.com

Juyoung Parkin

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Co-investorsAju IB Invesment Corporation

neurophet

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

NEW OFF

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Omios Biologics

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

OncoLab

ORTHO CARE

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Positive Hotel

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Qstem

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

RLWRLDrlwrld.ai in 𝕏

RLWRLD develops robotic hand dexterity solutions using proprietary motion capture data and foundation models for industrial automation tasks.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics

Junghee Ryu(CEO)in

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Co-investorsGlobal Brain KDDI Open Innovation Fund Z Venture Capital Hashed Mirae Asset Venture Investment PKSHA Technology Capital

ROAI

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Rosota

SanaHeal

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Searchdoc Inc.

SearchOS AI

Seoul Roboticsseoulrobotics.tech in

Seoul Robotics develops autonomous vehicle fleet control technology for industrial logistics operations including automotive factories, ports, and distribution hubs.

AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsSeoul, KR

SOS LAB

Team building support platform for startups

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Sume, Inc.

Tidepool

Capital connection platform for growth stage companies

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

UpcycleX Inc.

VUNOvuno.us

VUNO develops AI-based medical software for healthcare professionals, including an early warning system that predicts in-hospital cardiac arrest and patient deterioration among inpatients in general wards.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMedical Devices

PartnerOh-hyoung Kwon· solo GP

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

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Axiom · x.com · Aug 13, 2026

Avo Raises $10M Series A to Bring Trusted Clinical Knowledge Into the EHR - WOWTALE

Avo · en.wowtale.net · Apr 18, 2026

Avo Raises $10M Series A to Bring Trusted Clinical Knowledge Into the EHR - WOWTALE

Avo · en.wowtale.net · Apr 18, 2026

Avo Raises $10M Series A to Bring Trusted Clinical Knowledge Into the EHR - WOWTALE

Avo · en.wowtale.net · Apr 18, 2026

Avo Raises $10M Series A to Bring Trusted Clinical Knowledge Into the EHR - WOWTALE

Avo · en.wowtale.net · Apr 18, 2026

RLWRLD raises $26 million, bringing total funding to $41 million

RLWRLD · roboticsandautomationnews.com · Mar 11, 2026

FuriosaAI Raises $125M in Series C Bridge Funding

Furiosa · finsmes.com · Jul 31, 2025

‘I’ll lose everything’: Snohomish County’s only adult day health center to close | HeraldNet.com

Humelo · heraldnet.com · May 29, 2025

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has FuturePlay made?: FuturePlay has 54 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does FuturePlay invest at?: FuturePlay invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth stages.
What sectors does FuturePlay focus on?: FuturePlay focuses on Deep Tech, Mobility & Transportation, Robotics, Space Tech.
Where is FuturePlay located?: FuturePlay is headquartered in Seoul, KR.
Does FuturePlay lead rounds?: FuturePlay has led 3 of the 14 rounds where its role is on record.
Who does FuturePlay co-invest with?: FuturePlay most often shares deals with Crit Ventures, Global Brain, Kakao Ventures, among 12 tracked co-investors.

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