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Top 20 Private investment companies based in South Korea
RevenueBase identified 63 private investment companies headquartered in South Korea as of September 2026 and tracks 692 professional contacts across them, including 59 with verified work emails. Seoul is the largest hub.
This list covers private investment 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 20, 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 investment companies based in South Korea
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “STIC Investments, Inc.(“STIC”) is one of the largest and most experienced private equity firms in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ark & Partners is a Seoul-based private equity firm focused on small to mid-market control buyouts in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Private Equity / Venture Capital” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AFW Partners is a global investment firm based in Seoul, dedicated to driving sustainable growth through strategic partnerships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Korea Search Fund Inc.(“KSF”) empowers ambitious next generation entrepreneurs and exceptional companies with a focus on driving long-term sustainable growth, strategic value…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Krossroad Partners is a Seoul based private equity fund manager focusing on growth capital opportunities in Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in September IMM Investment Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venture Capital” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “William Hansan is an M&A and strategic consulting firm that supports not only corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A), but also strategic investments, joint ventures (JV), and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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 investment 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 investment companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private investment companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private investment 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 investment companies based in South Korea at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 63 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 investment 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 investment 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 investment 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 investment 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, 59 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 20, 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 investment companies by metro
- Private investment companies in Seoul47
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 investment 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 investment companies are there based in South Korea?
RevenueBase identified 63 private investment 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?
Stic Investments, headquartered in Seoul, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private investment companies?
Seoul leads with 47 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 59 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 63 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 20, 2026.
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About this data
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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