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Top 20 Private equity portfolio companies based in South Korea
RevenueBase identified 71 private equity portfolio companies headquartered in South Korea as of September 2026 and tracks 684 professional contacts across them, including 64 with verified work emails. Seoul is the largest hub.
This list covers private equity portfolio companies headquartered in South Korea, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 20 largest private equity portfolio companies based in South Korea
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SV Investment is a venture capital & private equity firm headquartered in Seoul, Korea, with offices located in Boston, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Jakarta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atinum Investment is a top-notch Venture Capital firm established in 1988.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forest Partners is a leading alternative investment firm based in Korea focused on investing in high growth companies to deliver exceptional value to founders and investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its foundation in 1996 as a venture capital firm, LB Investment has always been known as one the best and most active fund managers in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2005, Premier Partners was established as Korea's first fund management firm operating under a Limited Liability Company (LLC) structure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Regent Partners (formerly CTK Investment) is a premier alternative investment firm specializing in venture capital and private equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Praxis Capital Partners, founded in 2013, is an independent private equity firm mainly focusing on Korea middle-market buyouts and growth capital investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ACE Equity Partners is focusing on buyout and growth capital investments in industrial technology and advanced manufacturing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Company K Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Seoul, Korea that invests in companies from the earliest days.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pavilion Industries Co, Ltd.("PND") is an FSC registered Seoul based investment firm established as a subsidiary of Pavilion Global Holdings Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Korea Investment Private Equity (KIPE) is a private equity firm wholly owned by Korea Investment Holdings (KIH), one of the largest financial holding companies in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Private Equity / Venture Capital” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in February 2019 and currently registered with Financial Supervisory Service (equivalent to SEC in US) as General Partner for private equity funds, Dreamstone Partners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AFW Partners is a global investment firm based in Seoul, dedicated to driving sustainable growth through strategic partnerships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Credian Partners is a private equity firm specializing in strategic acquisitions, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations and growth equity investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in September IMM Investment Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venture Capital” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an investment company, and often provide capitals for businesses in fast-growing industries including mobile, ICT, software and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crest & Partners is a team of professionals with direct experience in growth equity investment as well as investment banking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: private equity portfolio companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names private equity portfolio companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity portfolio companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity portfolio companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Private equity portfolio companies based in South Korea at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Korea, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Korea, over 71 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among private equity portfolio companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Korea whose own description of what they do matches “private equity portfolio companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names private equity portfolio companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among private equity portfolio companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Korea are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 64 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Private equity portfolio companies by metro
- Private equity portfolio companies in Seoul51
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names private equity portfolio companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many private equity portfolio companies are there based in South Korea?
RevenueBase identified 71 private equity portfolio companies headquartered in South Korea as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
SV Investment, headquartered in Seoul, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private equity portfolio companies?
Seoul leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Seoul Seoul (2) and Busan Busan (1).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 64 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 71 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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