Han River Partners
Venture capitalMenlo Park · Seed–Series A · 2 people tracked
Also known as HAN RIVER DEVELOPMENT LLC
Investment thesis
Han River Partners believes global markets, cultures, and technologies are misvalued and that the most important opportunities emerge at the margins, at the intersections of Silicon Valley and Asia and of deep technology and consumer behavior. Drawing on both the Korean experience of building from nothing and the American instinct for scale, the firm backs founders with disproportionate potential who pair a daring, often technical bet with a genuine understanding of societal adoption. It favors investments at the barbell ends of culture and technology, aiming to identify category-defining companies early wherever they are and support them as they set the standard, echoing the technical-depth-applied-at-scale pattern of companies born along the Han River.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 18, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 15 of 20 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×8Consumer ×4E-commerce ×3Media & Entertainment ×3Biotech ×2Crypto & Web3 ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Enterprise Software ×2
HQs:South Korea×5United States×3
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)in
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementElectric CapitalFounders FundGeneral CatalystHakluyt CapitalID8 Investments+12 more
Contxts.ai is an applied research lab that builds AI models and autonomous agents to automate financial workflows and analyze financial contexts.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
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 SoftwarePropTech
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
Co-investorsHashedKB InvestmentNaverSamsung Next
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-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBreyer CapitalMenlo VenturesDFJMBX Capital
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
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(CEO)Joon Ho Baek(Executive Officer, Director)Hanjoon Kim(Director)Hyungil Koo(Director)Kyungho Lee(Director)
Co-investorsCrit VenturesFuturePlayIMM Investment Japan
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 DragonFund
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 Invesment CorporationKT investment Inc.SBVA
Makestar operates an online platform for K-pop and K-drama fans, offering pre-orders of albums and official merchandise as well as fan events such as fansigns, video calls, and photocard promotions.
E-commerceMarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentSeoul, KR
김재면(CEO (대표이사))
Co-investorsRPS Ventures
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)
BoardJeongho Chang(Director)Jaebum Lee(Director)
Co-investorsGaldana VenturesGroom InvestmentLG Technology VenturesTiger Global Management
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
Jae Sung Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Seung Joon Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Jin Woo Chung(Executive Officer, Director)Soyoung Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Dong Shin Kim(Director)
Co-investorsExpaHillspring InvestmentHubSpot VenturesIndex VenturesIntel CapitalOperator Collective+10 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-investorsSolidus Investment
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesMoloco Inc. · kedglobal.com · Aug 10, 2026
Twelve Labs · news.crunchbase.com · Jul 2, 2026
Aven · nasdaqprivatemarket.com · Sep 30, 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 IMM Investment Japan, Andreessen Horowitz, Breyer Capital, among 47 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 8
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.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on technology, mobile, and clean energy sectors, including biotechnology applications. The firm provides capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs developing breakthrough technologies across multiple markets.
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in transformative, early-stage AI companies across every layer of the modern AI stack, from applications and middleware to data infrastructure and foundation models.
Tiger Global is a research-driven investment firm that partners with innovative companies across various stages of their lifecycle, taking a long-term approach.
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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