South Korea’s startup funding, as explained in charts

Who are the new investors that are active on the block? Which funding rounds are outliers? How have investment trends shifted over time?

These are big questions. What if we could generate a report, based on the funding data we’ve gathered, that provides you an answer to these questions – or at least serves as a starting point?

That’s what this article aims to do. It has two sections: the weekly update, which gives you recent data points, and macro trends, which paints a big picture with the funding data.

WEEKLY UPDATE

Here are some notable investors and companies that we’ve spotted in the region recently.

MACRO TRENDS

Here is how funding has been spread across the verticals and funding stages.