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Grow with Forest Ventures

With a passion for excellence, we drive success for both companies and investors.

The Company
Forest Ventures main visual - Grow with Forest Ventures With a passion for excellence, we drive success for both companies and investors.

Grow with Forest Ventures

We think independently, creating defining moments that shape the future.

The Company
Forest Ventures main visual - Grow with Forest Ventures We think independently, creating defining moments that shape the future.

Grow with Forest Ventures

Trust is at the core of everything we do—the foundation of every success.

The Company
Forest Ventures main visual - Grow with Forest Ventures Trust is at the core of everything we do—the foundation of every success.
Forest Ventures Philosophy & Strategy - Lead Investor with Independent Conviction
Forest Ventures Philosophy & Strategy - Focus on Founders with Global Vision
Forest Ventures Philosophy & Strategy - Growth Powered by the Forest Group Platform
Forest Ventures Philosophy & Strategy - Swift Decision-Making with Accountability
Forest Ventures Philosophy & Strategy - Value Creation Partner Beyond Capital

Philosophy & Strategy

Partnering with global innovators through independent judgment and sector expertise to accelerate their growth.

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Lead Investor with Independent Conviction

Lead and anchor investments on our own conviction — building a differentiated portfolio through independent thinking rather than defaulting to Korea's common club deals

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Focus on Founders with Global Vision

Back founders who read technological and market shifts early and can scale globally.

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Growth Powered by the Forest Group Platform

Draw on Forest Partners Group's PE and asset management capabilities, industry networks, and strategic partnerships to drive post-investment growth and follow-on rounds.

POINT 04

Swift Decision-Making with Accountability

Lead every deal end-to-end through a dedicated partner — from sourcing to exit — ensuring speed and ownership.

POINT 05

Value Creation Partner Beyond Capital

Stay for the long term through consecutive funding, strategic networks, and global expansion.

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Forest Ventures at a Glance

We are a Venture Capital firm backing high-growth companies with independent, principled conviction.
From early to growth stage, we partner with Korea's innovative leaders to build lasting value.

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LEADERSHIP

Shaping the next chapter of growth for innovative companies, powered by global investment expertise.

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Alex Seung Han

Founding Partner

  • BRV Capital Management / Crane Partners
  • Washington Univ. in St. Louis, JD
  • Univ. of Michigan, BA in Economics
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We seek to identify exceptional companies and build global enterprises by connecting people and capital.
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Hoyon Hwang

CEO

  • Tiger Pacific Capital / Tiger Asia / Bain & Company
  • Stanford Univ., MBA
  • Seoul National Univ., BS in Electrical Engineering
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We seek the people, products, and companies that will change the world.

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FOREST PORTFOLIO

From early to growth stage—with you at every step.

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ReCarbon Holdings

ReCarbon, Inc. is a carbon capture and utilization (CCU) company that converts greenhouse gases (CO₂, CH₄) into industrial feedstocks (H₂, CO) using microwave plasma-based PCCU technology.
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Moreh, Inc

Moreh is an AI infrastructure software startup developing MoAI Platform, a full-stack AI software stack that virtualizes and unifies heterogeneous accelerators such as GPUs and NPUs in an AI infrastructure market centered on NVIDIA.
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U Fintech Hub

U FinTech Hub operates UTransfer, a cross-border remittance platform offering B2B and C2C remittance, currency exchange, and FX trading services. The company is diversifying across the FX fintech value chain, from retail and corporate remittance to O2O currency exchange at convenience stores.
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December & Company

December & Company operates fint, a mobile robo-advisor discretionary investment platform powered by its proprietary AI investment engine ISAAC, and has established a leading position in Korea's AI-driven wealth management market.
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CoBX Bio

CoBX Bio is a drug discovery venture developing covalent inhibitors and molecular glue degraders on RaPIDome, its proprietary chemoproteomics and molecular modeling platform.
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Xorbis

XORBIS is a next-generation convergence content company that creates immersive, experiential content based on AR/VR and media art technologies. It plans and operates immersive exhibition spaces including MuseumX Sokcho, ii Yeonnam, and Sky Picnic at the 63 Building observatory.
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Holmes AI

Holmes AI combines AI and IoMT technologies to develop a medical AI platform for the early detection and prognosis prediction of cardiac and cardio-cerebrovascular diseases.
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Daangn Market

Karrot (Danggeun Market) is a hyper-local super app that goes beyond secondhand trading to reinvent every connection within the local economy, powered by exceptional neighborhood-level traffic.
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Kkinee

Kkinee, headquartered in the United States, operates Sopo Korean Eats, a Korean fast-casual brand. Positioned as the "Chipotle of K-food," it lowers the barrier to Korean cuisine through a Build Your Own format and locally sourced ingredients.
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SuperBin

SuperBin is an AI-based climate tech company that owns the full circular-economy value chain for clear PET bottles, from collection to recycled material production.
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AIM Intelligence

AIM Intelligence is an integrated AI safety and security infrastructure company combining Stinger (AIM Red), an evolving AI red-teaming solution, with Starfort (AIM Guard), a real-time guardrail solution. Selected as an official security partner by global technology leaders including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, the company is establishing a global standard for AI safety spanning LLMs through physical AI.
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Standard Energy

Standard Energy manufactures vanadium-based ESS solutions that are inherently non-flammable by design.
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Motif Technologies

Motif Technologies develops LLMs and multimodal AI foundation models based on fully proprietary architectures designed in-house, rather than borrowing from open-source model structures.
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Neo AI Cloud Co., Ltd.

Neo AI Cloud develops and operates high-density data centers purpose-built for AI, and provides GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS).

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Forest Ventures latest news thumbnail - [ContextVision partners with BeamWorks to advance AI-powered quantitative ultrasound imaging solutions]
PORTFOLIO NEWS 2026-03-26

[ContextVision partners with BeamWorks to advance AI-powered quantitative ultrasound imaging solutions]

ContextVision, a global leader in medical imaging software, announces astrategic research and development collaboration with BeamWorks Inc., a SouthKorea-based medical AI company specializing in deep learning technologies forreal-time point-of-care diagnostics. The partnership will supportContextVision's Data Quality initiative by combining the companies' technologyplatforms to co-dev...
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