• Hyper Lounge

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

  Hyperlounge is a Seoul, South Korea–based B2B SaaS startup that delivers real-time business data analysis and management insights through a simple, user-friendly interface. Its core product integrates management consulting know-how with advanced data collection, automation, analysis, and visualization. The platform includes industry-specific management analysis modules, tag-based data ELT automation, data onboarding modularization, and a customer-centric UI. Since its market launch in February, Hyperlounge has secured over 20 customers across consumer goods, manufacturing, industrial, and B2B sectors. The company plans to expand beyond a business analysis platform to become an essential partner in digital transformation for global businesses by leveraging extensive management data to maximize competitiveness. Founded in 2020, its leadership comprises experienced professionals from leading global companies. The firm raised $8.0M in a Series A in December 2022.

• NeuReality

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

  NeuReality develops purpose‑built AI inference system architecture, hardware and software under its NR1 AI Inference Solution, including the NR1 NAPU™ 7nm server‑on‑a‑chip. Its NR1‑M™ and NR1‑S™ PCIe cards integrate into server racks and route AI tasks independently of CPUs to improve utilization and energy efficiency. The company says its systems drive 100% AI accelerator utilization and connect directly to Ethernet to manage large AI query pipelines. NeuReality has delivered NAPUs from TSMC and demonstrated compatible server configurations with partners including AMD, IBM, Lenovo, Qualcomm and Supermicro. It is running early deployments with select cloud and enterprise customers across financial services, business services and government and aims to accelerate broader deployment into additional markets and generative AI use cases. The company’s additional capital will be used to shift from early deployment to growth and expand customer adoption. NeuReality develops the Network Attached Processing Unit (NAPU) family — including the FPGA‑based NR1, the NR1‑M PCIe module and the multi‑module NR1‑S — combined with a software stack (SDK, deployment manager, monitoring) to simplify AI inference deployment. The company targets cloud data centers, on‑premises edge systems and enterprises running computer vision, NLP and recommendation workloads. NeuReality says its hardware and software optimize data movement, scheduling and virtualization to improve inference efficiency, though it has not published independent benchmarking to validate some performance claims. The startup has partnered with Xilinx for production and with IBM as a design partner; it has been shipping prototypes since May 2021. NeuReality was co‑founded in 2019 and currently has about 40 employees, with plans to hire 20 more over the next two fiscal quarters. To date the company has raised $48 million in venture capital and will use its latest funding to finalize chip design and begin customer shipments. NeuReality is developing a novel AI inferencing platform that removes the CPU-centric bottleneck to allow hyperscale clouds and data centers to offload ML models. The team applies techniques from networking and storage to create a bottom-up architecture it describes as the next evolution of AI computer engines. The company claims its system can deliver about 15x performance per dollar for basic deep learning offloading and larger gains when the entire pipeline is offloaded. NeuReality has working prototypes implemented on a Xilinx FPGA and plans to offer fully custom hardware early next year. Target customers include hyperscale cloud providers, data center owners, software solutions providers such as WWT, and OEMs/ODMs. The founding team includes CEO Moshe Tanach, VP of operations Tzvika Shmueli and VP for very large-scale integration Yossi Kasus, and Naveen Rao (former Nervana CEO and Intel AI Products Group GM) is joining the board.

• CleanCo

  Led · Equity · Jan 2021

  CleanCo develops low- and no- alcohol spirits using traditional distilling methods and a proprietary "multiplicity of distillations" process to retain flavour while reducing sugar. Its initial products, CleanGin and CleanRum, launched at 1.2% ABV, and the company has released 0.5% ABV canned cocktails with a vodka planned later in the year. CleanCo has built a loyal following of over 50,000 customers in 15 months and reported a +580% uplift in sales since Dry January 2021 and +1419% year-over-year growth. The brand is positioned as a premium, "cheeky-luxe" alternative for health-conscious drinkers and was founded and fronted by Spencer Matthews with Justin Hicklin as Chairman. The company emphasizes taste credibility and social parity with traditional spirits rather than simply removing alcohol. Planned uses for new capital include international expansion and significant marketing investment in the UK to increase brand awareness.

• MyMusicTaste

  Participated · Series C · Nov 2017

  MyMusicTaste operates a fan-request platform that lets users request live events and supplies campaign data to artists and promoters to de‑risk tour planning. The startup was founded in December 2013 by CEO Ethan Jaeseok Lee and is headquartered in Seoul. The service has 1.32 million users worldwide, works with 56 promoters and 30 agencies, and has been used to plan more than 140 events in 32 cities. So far this year it has organized 41 concerts and aims to increase that to 100 concerts in 2018. Most users are outside Korea (37% Asia, 27% Europe, 20% North America, 14% South America, remainder in Africa and Oceania) and the company launched in 15 languages last year. MyMusicTaste says it is the market leader for organizing K‑pop concerts in Europe and North America and also works with non‑Korean artists. The company plans to expand into more genres, open regional offices in Los Angeles, Europe and Southeast Asia, and strengthen its data science and engineering teams. MyMusicTaste is a crowdsourcing platform that gauges fan interest and works directly with event planners and artists to organize concerts. Founded/ launched in 2013 and based in Seoul, it has organized 80 concerts in 32 cities and claims 500,000 users, 90% of whom are outside Korea. The platform uses "social missions" — short surveys and social sharing tasks — to identify fans who are likely to purchase tickets. It generates revenue by selling tickets, taking commissions, and promoting concerts; audience sizes have grown from initial 200–300 to events such as an EXO show with 15,000 capacity. The company positions itself against Live Nation by focusing on up-and-coming artists and keeping marketing costs lower through its social-mission model. MyMusicTaste plans to use new funding to expand throughout Asia, add artists from labels in the U.S., Japan, and Thailand, and open an office in China.

No current team members are available.