Smilegate Investment is a private equity and venture capital firm in South Korea that focuses on investing in tech-sector and Bio/Healthcare-sectors. The company specializes in investments in merger and acquisition deals, buyout, early and mezzanine stages. Founded 1999 in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea, it invests in early stage ventures, late stage ventures, and private equity. Its portfolio companies include Lozi, Coinplug, D&D Pharmatech, Orum Therapeutics, AmazeVR, Cashfree, Mathpresso, Vuno, WELT, and Neuraly. As of March 2020, Smilegate Investment has made 22 investments. Their most recent investment was on October 30, 2019 with Lozi.
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Mathpresso is a Seoul-based company offering a mobile application which can answer questions from a picture.
MOLOCO empowers mobile apps to run their own advertising business by providing all of the required components as a cloud service.
D&D Pharmatech is a clinical-stage global biotech company that funds the development of revolutionary medicines through disease-specific subsidiary companies founded and guided by top-tier medical research faculty.
People
Insoo Paik
Principal
Sangsun Park
COO/Executive Vice President
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Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
AmazeVR
D&D Pharmatech
Cashfree
Coinplug
Lozi
Orum Therapeutics
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Marie Gabrielle Laguna- Bedia
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Eternus Global. Physician of internal medicine, app developer and entrepreneur - 2
Reys Phillips
A graduate of Cleveland State University with a Bachelor of Science in Education. My main hobbies include story writing and reading. - 3
Carla Faraguna
Golden People and Operations. - 4
Melanie Manipula
Researcher, writer and a former librarian - 5
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME