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CKD Venture Capital
Venture capital · Seoul, South Korea · Asia Pacific
CKD Venture Capital is a venture capital firm established in August 1997 as part of the Chong Kun Dang (CKD) pharmaceutical group. It invests in and supports the growth of innovative companies, drawing on the group's management philosophy and industry expertise.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsaideeptechbiohealthcaredataconvergence
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Or find every investor that fitsCKD Venture Capital lists 33 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (34%), Healthcare & Biotech (27%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (9%). 96% of its companies are based in South Korea. It invests most often alongside Atinum Investment, Kiwoom Investment and SBI Investment Korea.
Counts come from funding rounds that name CKD Venture Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not CKD Venture Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 33. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundCKD Venture Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 67% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 71th | 33 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 63th | 34% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 34% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 27% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Atinum Investment | 4 |
| Kiwoom Investment | 4 |
| SBI Investment Korea | 4 |
| IMM Investment | 3 |
| FuturePlay | 2 |
| KT Investment | 2 |
| BonAngels Venture Partners | 1 |
| Dayli Partners | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers33100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Atinum Investment
Compare CKD Venture Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
33 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company makes technology for agriculture using artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Bankcow operates a platform for investing in cattle, specifically Korean beef, in a fractional investment model. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Biotoxtech conducts various toxicity tests and other research services | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Creatrip provides a platform for foreign customers to book travel, beauty, and medical services in Korea | E-commerce & MarketplacesLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Quraum develops products and services to improve human health and quality of life | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dabeeo digitalizes spatial information and provides solutions to various industries through its technology and products | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and supplies vaccines globally, including oral cholera vaccines and typhoid conjugate vaccines. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Eyegene researches and develops gene and cell therapy to treat and prevent diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Farm360.ai develops and operates precision plant bio-foundries for high-density crop production | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Gint develops smart agriculture and smart mobility platform solutions | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| HLB PEP develops and manufactures peptides for research and pharmaceutical use | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| ioCrops develops and implements AI-based solutions for automated farming and smart farm management. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company develops and provides robot automation solutions, including a robot automatic tool changer called Magbot, for various industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and construction. | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides health-related products and services, including healthcare, cosmetics, and pet care solutions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates a food platform and provides near-fresh produce to customers. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- ckdvc.co.kr
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 17 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 33
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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