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Playmake Ventures
Venture capital · Seoul, South Korea · Asia Pacific
Playmake Ventures is a Seoul-based venture firm founded in February 2021 and capitalized by game studio Playdog Soft and its leadership team. It invests its own balance sheet directly, without external fund management, into startups and high-growth companies in digital innovation.
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Or find every investor that fitsPlaymake Ventures lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (25%), Media & Entertainment (25%) and Fintech (13%). 80% of its companies are based in South Korea. It invests most often alongside Golden Gate Ventures, KT Investment and Mashup Ventures.
No funding round on record names Playmake Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 25% | 6% |
| Media & Entertainment | 25% | 4% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Education | 13% | 7% |
| Human Resources | 13% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Golden Gate Ventures | 1 |
| KT Investment | 1 |
| Mashup Ventures | 1 |
| SBI Investment Korea | 1 |
| Springcamp | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 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 | 36th | 25% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5100%
- 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 Golden Gate Ventures
Compare Playmake Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company connects users with inspirational content and commerce to help them create their desired lifestyle. | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Hiconsy is an education startup that creates an HR platform for continuous growth | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| KCD provides business management services, including a service called Cashnote. | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| KREAM operates an online platform for buying and selling various products, including sneakers, clothing, and luxury goods. | E-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Stary provides a collection of multilingual reading and writing platforms, along with a suite of products including audiobooks and short dramas based on book adaptations. | Media & Entertainment | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- playmake.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 5
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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