Emotivate Ventures
Emotivate Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea investing in Other, Healthcare, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $300K–$1.5M checks and has 15 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $300K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 15 companies on record
- Partners
- 7 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Healthcare, AI / ML
- HQ
- Seoul, South Korea
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-07-18
Pre-Seed, Seed
$300K – $1.5M
15+ companies
7 partners
Investment Thesis
Focuses on AI-driven solutions that enhance human emotion and interaction, particularly in social messaging and AI companions.
How Emotivate Ventures invests
Emotivate Ventures is a vc firm based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Healthcare, AI / ML. It does not invest in Fintech.
Emotivate Ventures typically writes checks of $300K–$1.5M per investment.
Emotivate Ventures has backed 15 companies in our records, including EmoConnect, fulcrum, attain.
Partners & Team
Jiyoung Kim
GP
Motivate
General Partner
Motivate helps ambitious founders realize their vision of tomorrow. We invest across the earliest stages of a company’s lifecycle, providing our experience, connections, and capital to the leaders of tomorrow’s greatest companies.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (15)
Other
EmoConnect
fulcrum
Cloud-based ERP for small manufacturers
attain
Earned wage access for consumers in exchange for data
lazarus forms
AI models which can understand and extract data from any media without prior training
valiot
AI-driven manufacturing platform which connects and automates the shop floor
inca digital
Crypto and Financial Market Visibility and Advance Threat Detection
relo share
Software for Social Service Agencies
Chime
Mobile-only bank with no monthly fees and no minimum deposit
Public.com
A social investing platform
Home Chef
Fresh, customized weekly meal kits (ACQUIRED)
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $300K – $1.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Bonnie Kearns, Director of Operations.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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