KT Investment is the corporate venture capital arm of KT Corporation, South Korea's largest telecommunications company. Founded in 2015 and based in Seoul, the firm invests in early-stage startups from Pre-A to Series B, focusing on AI, digital transformation, and hyper-growth technologies.
Their most common stage is series-a (42% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $2739.4M (across 21 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
29
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
JK
Jinsoo Kim
Managing Director
W(
Wonkyun (Won) Lee
Investment Director
YC
Yungmo Cho
Principal
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
33 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | — | Jan 2026 | |
| Series A | $25B | Jan 2025 | |
| Series A | $25B | Jan 2025 | |
| AAtom AI | Series B | $124M | Jan 2024 |
| Series B | $22M | Oct 2023 | |
| Unknown | — | Sep 2023 | |
| Series C | $36.5M | Feb 2023 | |
| Series A | $22.8M | Jul 2022 | |
| Unknown | $15.0M | Jan 2022 | |
| Series C | $33.4M | Oct 2021 | |
| Series C | $33.4M | Oct 2021 | |
| FFount | Series C | $33.4M | Oct 2021 |
| Series B | $25.8M | Sep 2021 | |
| Seed | $5.8M | Apr 2021 | |
| Series A | $9.3M | Feb 2021 | |
| Series A | $2.6M | Jan 2021 | |
| Series B | $7.1B | May 2019 | |
| Series A | — | Jan 2019 | |
| BBinaryVR | Series A | $4.5M | Jul 2018 |
| Bridge | — | — | |
| Series B | $13M | — | |
| Series A | $16.9M | — | |
| Series A | $2.6M | — | |
| AAtom AI | Series A | — | — |
| Series A | — | — |
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Top Co-Investors
Korea Development Bank6 shared
Smilegate Investment5 shared
LB Investment5 shared
Korea Investment Partners5 shared
Shinhan Capital4 shared
Atinum Investment4 shared
Kakao Investment4 shared
STIC Investments, Inc.3 shared
IMM Investment3 shared
KT3 shared
Mirae Asset2 shared
Emerge2 shared
BASS Investment2 shared
InterVest1 shared
New Renaissance Ventures1 shared
Goodwater Capital1 shared
Strong Ventures1 shared
Kima Ventures1 shared
Premier Partners1 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026
