Seoul New Technology Investment

CEO Jong-hwa Im serves as the 대표이사 (CEO) and is the named decision-maker. He is supported by Deputy CEO Soo-hyun Park, who holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and Senior Investment Analyst Jun-hyuk Lee. The website lists a nine-person investment and operations team, all based in Seoul.

The firm self-describes as being backed by a group of families that have built substantial capital over 30 years in the Korean market. These family shareholders and partners invest directly into deals, giving the firm a funding model closer to a multi-family office’s private-equity operation than a traditional blind-pool fund.

No. The firm states on its website that the high proportion of direct investment by its own shareholders and partners gives it a competitive edge over firms that must recruit external LPs. This structure is cited as the reason it can offer faster decision-making and more concentrated portfolios.

The firm does not publicly discuss co-investment practices on its current website. Given its reliance on in-house family and partner capital, it is positioned primarily as a direct investor rather than a co-investor alongside outside GPs.

The firm argues that its direct-capital model enables fast and timely investment decisions, because it avoids the committee layers and LP consultation typical of fund managers. This is presented as a structural advantage, particularly for opportunistic situations across venture, growth, and buyout stages.