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Han River Partners
Venture capitalMenlo Park · Seed–Series A · 13 people tracked
Also known as HAN RIVER DEVELOPMENT LLC
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Investment thesis
Han River Partners believes global markets, cultures, and technologies are misvalued and that the most important opportunities emerge at the margins where technology and culture intersect. Drawing on experience bridging Silicon Valley and Asia, and the Korean model of building at scale, the firm backs founders with outsized potential who combine daring, often technical bets with a grasp of how society adopts new products. It aims to invest early, wherever founders are, and support them as they build category-defining companies. The firm invokes the Han River's role in producing global companies like Samsung, Coupang, Krafton, and Naver as its template.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 29, 2026.
Team · 13 people
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2 people who came through Han River Partners went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 15 of 20 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×8Consumer ×5E-commerce ×3Healthtech ×3Media & Entertainment ×3Biotech ×2Crypto & Web3 ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2
HQs:South Korea×6United States×3
Who they back
founder profiles across 9 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×32 founders×23 founders×24+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 13 founders with education data
Seoul National University ×4UC San Diego ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×7Engineering ×4Business & Management ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 14 founders with career history
Samsung Electronics ×3Google ×2Ground X ×2
Investments · 20 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12021 · 12 dated
Aven is a San Francisco fintech offering a home-equity-backed Visa credit card and related asset-backed consumer credit products.
Sadi Khan(Founder)inMurtada Shah(Founder)inCollin Wikman(Founder)inAlmaz Nanjappa(Founder)Jeremy Solomon(Founder)
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementCollective LiquidityElectric CapitalFounders FundGeneral CatalystGeneral Partnership+16 more
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Investment Manager is an AI-powered platform that converts property management reports into structured investment data for real estate portfolio management, enabling investors to validate, analyze, and gain insights from asset performance across their holdings.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSeoul, KR
Insong Kim(Founder)
Co-investorsChamaeleonFlybridge Capital PartnersMaple VCMetaPropMetaProp VenturesNFX
DSRV builds on-chain finance infrastructure for financial institutions, including a platform for tokenization, on-chain payments, embedded wallets, institutional staking, and custody.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Jiyun Kim(Founder)inHyung-Kyu Choi(Founder)in
Co-investorsHashedKB InvestmentNaverSamsung NextIBK CapitalIntervest
Earli develops a biotechnology platform that uses genetic constructs to detect cancer and produce therapeutic proteins by reprogramming cancer cells.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesSouth San Francisco, US
Dr. Sam Gambhir(Founder)Cyriac Roeding(Co-founder)inDr. David Suhy(Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer)
BoardJustin Kao(Director)inJorge Conde(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBlue Ivy VenturesBreyer CapitalIKJ CapitalLigo Partners LLC+4 more
Flex is a Korean HR data-based AI platform that combines accumulated organizational and employee relationship data with AI agents to diagnose and address business bottlenecks.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS
Jiyong Ahn(Founder)in
Co-investorsIMM Investment Japan
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(Co-founder and CEO)inJoon Ho Baek(Executive Officer, Director)Alex LiuinHanjoon Kim(Director)Hyungil Koo(Director)Kyungho Lee(Director)
Co-investorsCrit VenturesFuturePlayIMM Investment JapanMarketX VenturesVision VenturesIndustrial Bank of Korea+2 more
ImpriMedicine provides live-cell-based predictive analytics to identify effective drugs for treating blood cancers in dogs and cats, offering patient-specific drug response predictions.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtech
Co-investorsBlue Bear VenturesDFJ DragonFundDraper AssociatesPear VCSazzeSk Telecom Venture Capital, Llc
Uisikju Company (Life Goes On) operates Laundrygo, a South Korean laundry service offering door-to-door pickup and delivery, smart unmanned laundromats (Laundry24), and B2B hotel and industrial laundry, all supported by proprietary smart-factory and IT technology.
Circular EconomyConsumerLogistics & Supply Chain
Co-investorsAju IB InvestmentKT investment Inc.Altos VenturesKB SecuritiesKorea Development BankSamsung Venture Investment Corporation+1 more
MakeStar is a platform for K-pop and entertainment fans that sells pre-order album packages and exclusive limited-edition merchandise such as photocards, handling worldwide production and shipping of fan rewards.
ConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentSeoul, KR
김재면(CEO (대표이사))
Co-investorsRPS VenturesAltos VenturesCompany K PartnersHRZKorea Development Bank
Moloco offers an AI-based performance advertising platform, built around its CARA compound AI system, for mobile app marketers and retail media businesses to run ROAS-optimized user acquisition and monetization campaigns.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechPalo Alto, US
Ikkjin Ahn(CEO)inDonghwan Jeon(Founder)inSehyuk Park(Founder)in
BoardJeongho Chang(Director)Jaebum Lee(Director)
Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalGaldana VenturesGroom InvestmentHomebrewLG Technology VenturesPremier Partners+2 more
Nirvanana is a game development company that builds games aimed at gamers worldwide.
Gaming
TappyToon is a digital platform that publishes and distributes officially licensed comics (webtoons) and novels, offering readers a library of translated series across multiple genres.
ConsumerCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsOrbit Startups
Twelve Labs develops AI technology for video understanding, enabling machines to comprehend and analyze video content for applications in human-machine interaction and perception.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US
Aiden Lee(Cofounder)Jae Sung Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Seung Joon Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Jin Woo Chung(Executive Officer, Director)Soyoung Lee(Executive Officer, Director)inAiden L.(Founder)in
Co-investorsExpaHillspring InvestmentHubSpot VenturesIndex VenturesIntel CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)+16 more
Wisely is an online store that lists consumer products—including groceries, health supplements, and household goods—with regular and membership pricing and per-unit price comparisons.
ConsumerE-commerceRetail Tech
Co-investorsMaple Leaf AngelsRipple Ventures
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Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesTwelve Labs · pymnts.com · Jul 1, 2026
Aven · finsmes.com · Sep 10, 2025
FuriosaAI · finsmes.com · Jul 31, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Han River Partners made?
- Han River Partners has 20 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Han River Partners invest at?
- Han River Partners invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Han River Partners focus on?
- Han River Partners focuses on AdTech, AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cloud Computing, Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Digital Health, E-commerce, Fintech, Gaming, Healthtech, HR Tech, Media & Entertainment, PropTech, Robotics, Semiconductors.
- Where is Han River Partners located?
- Han River Partners is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
- Does Han River Partners lead rounds?
- Han River Partners typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Han River Partners co-invest with?
- Han River Partners most often shares deals with Sk Telecom Venture Capital, Llc, IMM Investment Japan, Andreessen Horowitz, among 69 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 8
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs bold, early-stage, technology-driven companies across deep tech and other sectors, providing hands-on 'venture assistance' to help founders build category-defining businesses.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Menlo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing transformative technology companies, with a strong current emphasis on artificial intelligence across enterprise, healthcare, and consumer markets.
Tiger Global Management operates public equity strategies (long/short, long-focused and crossover) and a private equity business investing in early- through late-stage growth companies across new and existing industries.
DST Global is a global internet-focused investment firm that backs fast-growing, high-value internet companies. It does not solicit or accept retail investors.
Abstract is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm managing $1.8 billion in assets, investing in seed and early-stage companies across all sectors.
Fuse Venture Partners is a strategic advisory and investment firm supporting high-growth companies and their investors across Europe through corporate development, M&A, capital raising, and operational expertise. It has also made venture-growth investments as a general partner.
Firms observed investing alongside Han River Partners, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Han River Partners's recorded portfolio.
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