69 Best Startups in Seoul to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in Seoul

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 114 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $87.2m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$165.0m

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Elastic is a software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

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$5.0m

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Vertalo is a digital transfer agent that connects and enables a digital asset ecosystem, offering primary capital formation, on-chain share registry, and access to secondary liquidity.

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18

Funding Rounds

$438.7m

Money raised

Cognigy is a developer of conversational AI services and products for enterprise customer contact centers.

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7

Funding Rounds

$218.1m

Money raised

SendBird is a developer of a messaging API for mobile applications and websites.

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4

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

Vungle (Vungle, Inc.) is startup which powers video advertisements inside of mobile apps and games.

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$2.9m

Money raised

Seerslab is an augmented reality (AR) company providing mobile augmented reality (AR) and vision AI-based solutions to app developers.

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$980.0k

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KonoLabs is a company with an artificially intelligent scheduling assistant for enterprises, founded by Jung-hee Ryu, YJ Min and Jaehoon Choi.

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$1.1b

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Also known as Viva Republica, Toss provides a peer-to-peer mobile payments platform in Korea.

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$23.0m

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DSRV is a blockchain infrastructure company.

2

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$3.5m

Money raised

Musicshake is a Seoul-based company.

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3

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

Money raised

Standigm is a drug development AI company founded by Jinhan Kim, Sang Ok Song, and So Jeong Yun.

Key people:

1

Funding Rounds

$13.1m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$107.4m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$127.6m

Money raised

Omniome is a San Diego-based company.

3

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$11.7m

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A company developing and manufacture laser and MRI-guided technology products

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1

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$12.5m

Money raised

Clinical Research & Services

4

Funding Rounds

$51.8m

Money raised

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

3

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$213.9k

Money raised

GOMILabs, Inc. was a developer of smart pet toys meant to keep pets physically and mentally healthy.

2

Funding Rounds

$420.0k

Money raised

Fluenty Inc. is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2015 by Sungjae Hwang, Kanghak Kim and Jeonghoon Son.

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1

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

Nityo Infotech is a Plainsboro Center, New Jersey-based company founded in 2006 by Aileen Cecilia Munoz.

3

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$30.0m

Money raised

Rokit Healthcare Inc. is a 4D Bioprinting and Biotechnology company.

1

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$2.0m

Money raised

ATEAM Ventures is a Seoul-based company focusing on manufacturing solutions, including 3D design, 3D printing, CNC machining, and Injection molding.

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5

Funding Rounds

$26.2m

Money raised

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

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3

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$4.9m

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Looxid Labs offers AI-driven cognitive health care solutions in the form of integrated hardware and software.

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5

Funding Rounds

$104.7m

Money raised

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

3

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$9.1m

Money raised

SOOHO helps to detect security vulnerabilities earlier. Our blockchain security platform audits from smart contracts to on-chain transactions.

2

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$10.5m

Money raised

Classting is a company founded in 2012 by Hyungu (Dave) Cho.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$22.2m

Money raised

MakinaRocks Co., Ltd. is a Seocho District-based company founded by Andre Yoon, Jaehyuk Lee, Sangwoo Shim and Yongsub Lim.

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8

Funding Rounds

$38.9m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$268.5m

Money raised

A company offering an online and offline fashion magazine.

4

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

Encored Technologies Korea INC. is a San Jose, California-based energy management company.

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4

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

Luxrobo Co., Ltd. is a coding and AI education-oriented company.

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3

Funding Rounds

$35.2m

Money raised

Skelter Labs Inc. is an artificial intelligence company.

2

Funding Rounds

$195.0m

Money raised

Danggeun Market is a company founded in 2015.

4

Funding Rounds

$31.3m

Money raised

Exosome Cosmeceuticals & Biopharmaceuticals

3

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$440.0k

Money raised

Deepvalidation is a company that comprises of a team of data scientists and data engineers.

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4

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

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

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1

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lululab Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of LUMINI, a smart device which uses deep learning technology to find suitable skincare products.

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1

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

Hyperconnect is a social video chat application.

4

Funding Rounds

$31.2m

Money raised

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

1

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Deep Source Inc. is a Seoul-based company with focus in artificial intelligence.

2

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$15.5m

Money raised

OncoPep is a company developing immunotherapeutics for thetreatment of cancer founded in 2010 by Doris Peterkin, Ken Anderson and Marc Cohen.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

Knowre is a company founded in 2012.

1

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$17.0m

Money raised

Spoon is a live streaming audio application focused on providing everyday people a space to live broadcast and upload original audio content.

4

Funding Rounds

$96.9m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

AIZEN is an artificial intelligence banking as a service company.

2

Funding Rounds

$90.0k

Money raised

Lablup is engaged in the development of an open source, AI-powered, cloud and machine learning-based platform known as Backend.AI.

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$11.0m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$97.5m

Money raised

Tridge is a Seoul-based company founded in 2015 by Hoshik Shin, Kangwook Lee and Minjong Chung.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.1m

Money raised

ATEAM Ventures specializes in the development of high-precision 3D printers and the provision of a manufacturing platform.

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1

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

PharmCADD is a company founded in 2019 by Taehyung Kwon.

1

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$20.0m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$41.2m

Money raised

ILIAS Biologics is a company founded by Chulhee Choi.

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3

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

Yello Mobile is a mobile media company providing a mobile business platform for shopping, media content, marketing, advertising, travel, and online to offline businesses.

1

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$10.0m

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

3

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$24.6m

Money raised

Dongnae is a Seoul-based company founded in 2021.

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$55.0m

Money raised

Gauss Labs aims to revolutionize manufacturing by building industrial AI systems beyond human capabilities.

3

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$629.2k

Money raised

LawTalk is an AI-powered analytics software designed to predict sentences for criminal offenses.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.9m

Money raised

Platform providing football video and data analytics services.

1

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$13.2m

Money raised

Curexo Technology is a Seoul-based medical device company developing robotic systems for surgeries.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

A social trading service that allows you to visualize your assets across exchanges, and make informed trading decisions

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2

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

Pandora TV is a Seoul-based company founded in 1999 by Michael Hong.

1

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$2.0m

Money raised

1

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$3.2m

Money raised

Odd Concepts is a company founded in 2012 by Jeongtae Kim.

3

Funding Rounds

$120.0m

Money raised

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

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