Investors / South Korea / Yellowdog
Yellowdog
Venture capital · Seoul, South Korea · Asia Pacific
Yellowdog is an impact venture capital firm founded in 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. It invests in startups that use innovative technology or business models to address large-scale social problems, and works to develop the Korean impact investing market.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & BiotechEducation
In its own wordsimpact investingsocial impacttechnologybusiness modelssouth korea
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Or find every investor that fitsYellowdog lists 23 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (21%), Healthcare & Biotech (18%) and Education (18%). 75% of its companies are based in South Korea. It invests most often alongside Envisioning Partners, SBVA and NBH Capital.
No funding round on record names Yellowdog yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Yellowdog's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 23. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 21% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 18% | 15% |
| Education | 18% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Climate & Energy | 4% | 1% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Envisioning Partners | 13 |
| SBVA | 5 |
| NBH Capital | 3 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Elemental Impact | 2 |
| LB Investment | 2 |
| ADB Ventures | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 57th | 23 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 | 21th | 21% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2296%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- 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 Envisioning Partners
Compare Yellowdog head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
23 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides visitation nursing, family nursing, and daytime protection services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Catchafire provides a platform for nonprofit capacity building and skills-based volunteering | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI-based education platform for personalized learning | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Consumer | Portfolio page | |||
| Dimensional Energy helps customers realize carbon-to-value projects by licensing proven catalyst technologies and targeted services that de-risk development and enable bankable projects. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| E Green Global commercializes mass production of microtubers, a type of virus-free seed potato, for worldwide potato growers. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company produces and sells menstrual products, such as sanitary pads and tampons, and also offers a mobile app for menstrual cycle management. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Jellatech produces human proteins, such as collagen type I, using a human cell platform in bioreactors. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Lendit provided online investment-linked financial services, specifically loan services and investment products, utilizing data and technology to offer reasonable financial services. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| MyMusicTaste provides concert and event experiences. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Novoloop transforms plastic waste into performance materials, such as polyurethane, through chemical alteration and recycling processes. | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
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| Rokya innovates agriculture using AI-based technologies and provides stable income to farmers through contract production | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company provides car sharing and rental services | Mobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Stayes provides real estate services for studios in Seoul | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells various food products, including crackers, cookies, and noodles. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and produces a water monitoring sensor with optical path amplification technology to quantify foreign substances in water | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- yellowdog.kr
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 23
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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