What Timewise Investment does

Timewise Investment, formerly CJ Venture Investment and operating through CJ Investment Inc. (CJ인베스트먼트), is a privately held principal investment firm headquartered at 551 Seolleung-ro, 3F, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea (business registration 211-86-91273). The firm invests in early-stage Korean companies with "new and differentiated" ideas and frames its core proposition as providing capital, industry expertise, and corporate-network access to help founders grow into competitive enterprises. Stated investment focus spans three verticals: content, bio, and ICT, with the firm explicitly describing an ongoing expansion of its investment area from its original content roots into bio and ICT.

The firm presents itself as a team of investment professionals led by Representative Director Kim Do-han (김도한), with additional named investment directors (Joyce Heeyoung Cho, Joon Hyuk Park) and a CEO-level principal (Eunsik In) on the leadership roster. It claims direct linkages to leading domestic content, bio, and ICT companies and positions those linkages as the mechanism for "changing market paradigms" for its portfolio. There is no disclosed product beyond investment services, no app or platform offering, no proprietary technology, and no parent company or institutional investor structure referenced in the available data.

The revenue model is consistent with a small Korean principal-investment / venture operation: management fees on a likely small fund base plus any realized carried interest from successful exits. The firm has issued a public fraud alert on its website warning that third parties have been impersonating its reviewers on KakaoTalk to solicit money, and has stated that neither the firm nor its reviewers solicit individual investors via SMS or KakaoTalk — a reputational flag rather than a regulatory enforcement action. With 11-50 employees, a single Seoul office, and no disclosed AUM, fund vintage, or deal count, the firm operates as a niche, relationship-driven GP rather than a scaled investment platform.

Name

Timewise Investment

Legal name

CJ Investment Inc.

Website

http://www.cjvc.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Timewise Investment (formerly CJ Venture Investment / CJ Investment Inc.) is a privately held, Seoul-based principal investment firm that provides early-stage capital and corporate-network access to Korean entrepreneurs in the content, bio, and ICT sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital / Private Equity

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394), All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399), Other Investment Pools and Funds (5259)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Early-Stage Venture Capital (Series A/B) (FSANAAAB)

Keywords

• Venture capital
• Early-stage investment
• Content industry investment
• Biotech venture investment
• ICT sector investment

Headquarters

HQ city

Seoul

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Core offering

Timewise Investment (formerly CJ Venture Investment, operating as CJ Investment Inc.) is a principal investment firm that provides venture capital to early-stage entrepreneurs with new and differentiated ideas. The firm invests across three core sectors — content, bio, and ICT — partnering with leading domestic Korean companies in these fields to nurture ventures from initial concept through to competitive enterprises.

Product overview

CJ Investment Inc. provides investment services primarily focused on three sectors: content (콘텐츠), bio (바이오), and ICT. The company supports entrepreneurs with innovative and differentiated ideas to grow into competitive enterprises, leveraging extensive investment and industry expertise.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Investment Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Korea Investment Partners: One of Korea's largest and most established venture capital and growth investment firms, actively investing across ICT, bio, and content. Directly comparable as a Korean VC operating in CJ Investment's stated three verticals but at substantially greater scale.
• KB Investment: Major Korean VC and PE arm of KB Financial Group, investing across biotech, ICT, and growth-stage Korean companies. Comparable as a sector-diversified Korean VC with stronger LP backing and larger fund sizes than CJ Investment.
• Mirae Asset Venture Investment: Korean venture investment firm focused on early- and growth-stage deals across TMT, bio, and consumer. Directly comparable given its Korean base, early-stage orientation, and overlap with CJ Investment's content/bio/ICT thesis.

Direct peers

• DSC Investment: Korean VC firm investing in early- and growth-stage startups across ICT, bio, and consumer. Directly comparable to CJ Investment in stage, sector mandate, and Korean market focus.
• Smilegate Investment: Korea-based early- and growth-stage investor tied to Smilegate (gaming/content ecosystem), with focus on content, platform, and ICT startups. Closely aligned with CJ Investment's content-and-ICT-led Korean early-stage strategy.
• Mashup Ventures: Korean early-stage VC with explicit focus on ICT, platform, and content startups, supporting founders from seed to Series A. Closely aligned with CJ Investment's early-stage, content/ICT orientation.
• BSK Investment: Korean venture investment firm operating across content, platform, and biotech startups with early-stage deal activity. Comparable in scale, region, and sector thesis to CJ Investment.
• Capstone Partners (Korea): Korean early-stage VC focused on technology and bio investments, providing hands-on growth support. Comparable to CJ Investment in stage focus and Korean ICT/bio overlap.

Emerging players

• Primer (formerly Sazze Partners): Early-stage Korean investor participating in seed and Series A rounds across Korean startups, often co-investing with sector-focused VCs. Comparable as a Korea-based early-stage capital provider in adjacent ICT/content deals.

Regional players

• Lighthouse Combined Investment: Korean investment firm focused on venture and growth investments across technology, bio, and content. Comparable as a same-region peer with overlapping sector mandate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments57 records

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