69 Best Startups in South Korea to Watch in 2024

Tesla is a manufacturer of electric vehicles, battery technology, and solar energy panels.

Total Raised: $92.50M

Last Funding: $10.00M (Unknown)

Provider of personal sound amplifying product. The company's product, Olive, is a smart hearing aid and uses a sound algorithm and Bluetooth technology. The connected app allows users to test their hearing ability and manage their hearing profile.

Total Raised: $20.00M

Last Funding: $20.00M (Series B)

Platform offering aerial photography services for real estate marketing.

Total Raised: $1.00M

Last Funding: $1.00M (Pre Seed)

CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.

Total Raised: $1.83M

Last Funding: $1.83M (Unknown)

Gopax is a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange that was launched in 2016. The name is an acronym standing for Global Online Professional Assets Exchange.

Yanolja is a company offering a 020 service founded in 2005.

Delio provides safe crypto-asset financial services such as digital asset lending, savings, cloud, and mining by patent obtained remote lock-up technology.

The Wave Talk is a laser-based water contamination sensor production company founded in 2016 by YoungDug Kim.

G+FLAS Life Sciences Co. is a biotechnology company established in 2014 by Dr. Sunghwa Choe.

PILAB is a research-driven blockchain company that designs multi-purpose software.

TicketMonster is a Seoul-based e-commerce company founded in 2010.

AIDOT is a company that develops medical software using Artificial Intelligence.

Olive Healthcare is a Seoul-based healthcare company founded in 2016 by Sung-Ho Han.

Quotabook is a company founded in 2019 by Andy Choi, Dan Hong and Pilseon Jun.

BitClover is a the World's Leading Cryptocurrency Exchange.

Woowa Brothers is a company developing smartphone applications, advertising platform and food delivery services.

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Hanbitco is a cryptocurrency exchange.

Anchor Protocol is a Terraform Labs DeFi tool for staking, lending and borrowing. Mainly known for ~20% APY on UST staking.

MARS auto is a company, founded by Park In-soo, that has introduced self-driving technology to the commercial trucking industry.

Riiid is a Seoul-based artificial intelligence company offering tutoring services through it's mobile application.

ILIAS Biologics is a company founded by Chulhee Choi.

AUTOCRYPT is a mobility security provider dedicated to the safety of future transportation

Fount is a company founded in 2015 by Y.B. KIM.

Rsquare is a Seoul-based company.

Testworks Inc. is a Seoul-based data labeling software company.

Carrot General Insurance is a company founded by Paul Jung.

GPClub is a cosmetics manufacturing and distribution company based in Seoul, South Korea.

Qraft Technologies is a company founded in 2006.

SwatchOn is a Seoul-based company.

Tridge helps businesses source food and agricultural products from global markets

DAYLI Financial Group(DFG) is a Fintech company in Asia.

Bithumb is a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange platform that is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Coinone is a Fin-Tech company that provides financial services based in blockchain technologies that was founded by Kevin Cha in 2014.

Market Kurly is a food delivery and logistics platform that enables its users to order food online.

Danggeun Market is a company founded in 2015.

Hyperconnect is a social video chat application.

Greenlabs is a Seoul-based company founded in 2017 by Sang Hoon Shin.

APROBIT is a cryptocurrency exchange of Korea founded in 2019.

Streami is a blockchain-based financial technology company creating a platform for cross-border remittance.

Toss Lab is a Seoul-based company founded in 2014 by Daehyun Kim.

Skelter Labs Inc. is an artificial intelligence company.

Lunit Inc. is a deep learning AI technology-based software developer in the field of medical data analysis.

WireBarley is a Seoul-based company founded in 2016 by John Joongwon Yoo.

Moneybrain is a Seoul-based developer of artificial intelligence and synthetic media tools.

PharmCADD is a company founded in 2019 by Taehyung Kwon.

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Mathpresso is a Seoul-based company offering a mobile application which can answer questions from a picture.

Neosapience, Inc. is a Seoul-based company founded in 2017 by Juncheol Cho.

BPU Holdings is a company that is developing a sophisticated, usable and secure Artificial Emotional Intelligent Framework.