Investors / South Korea / Sopoong Ventures
Sopoong Ventures
Venture capital · Seoul, South Korea · Asia Pacific
Sopoong Ventures is an impact investment firm founded in 2008 in Korea, and it also operates as an accelerator. It invests in and supports startups that pursue both social and environmental impact and financial returns, with a focus on climate and other social problem areas.
Invests inSpace & DefenseRobotics & HardwareEnterprise Software
In its own wordsimpact investingclimate techsocial impactesgsustainabilityaccelerator
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Or find every investor that fitsSopoong Ventures lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Space & Defense (33%), Robotics & Hardware (17%) and Enterprise Software (17%). 50% of its companies are based in South Korea. It invests most often alongside ID Ventures, Kibo Ventures and POSTECH Holdings.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Sopoong Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Space & Defense | 33% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 17% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 17% | 8% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| ID Ventures | 1 |
| Kibo Ventures | 1 |
| POSTECH Holdings | 1 |
| SBI Investment Korea | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- 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 togetherCompare Sopoong Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Sopoong Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Sopoong Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Sopoong Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forte Biotech develops and provides on-farm disease testing solutions for aquaculture and swine farming. | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Loomio provides decision-making software for groups and organizations | Enterprise SoftwareSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company conducts research on rovers and UAVs, developing unmanned equipment for lunar and extraterrestrial exploration | Space & DefenseRobotics & Hardware | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- sopoong.net
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Nov 2024
- Companies checked
- 3
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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