This article showcases our top picks for the best Seoul based Financial Services companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Financial Services industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Seoul Financial Services Startups
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Mirae Asset Global Investments
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Mirae Asset Global Investments is a global asset manager providing innovative investment solutions to clients worldwide.
Toss
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Toss is a mobile finance platform used to simplify the payment procedure.
Korbit
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Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services.
Dunamu
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Dunamu provides a wide range of innovative services with a focus on fintech and blockchain.
Klaytn
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Klaytn is an enterprise-grade, service-centric platform that brings user-friendly blockchain experience.
MBK Partners
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MBK Partners is a leading North Asia private equity firm, owned and operated by Asians.
Anchor Protocol
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Anchor Protocol is a savings platform that provides crypto natives, fintech companies, and investors a stable, high interest rate finance.
Bithumb
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Bithumb is a South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange platform.
PeopleFund
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PeopleFund is Korea’s leading digital lender focused on consumer finance.
League of Traders
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League of Traders is a application software that provides trading, social, assets across exchange, and financial solutions.
Fount
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Fount Inc. Is an asset management Robo-Advisor startup founded in 2015.
WireBarley
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A cross-border payment platform with a strong foothold in Asia that entered U.S & Canada for the 1st time among Korean remittance companies.
KB Financial Group
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KB Financial Group is a Korea-based holding company engaged in the management of its subsidiaries.
Kasa
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Kasa is a financial service platform that allows people to invest in commercial real estate.
Korea Credit Data
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Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management services to 1.2 million SMBs in Korea.
Doomoolmori
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Doomoolmori provides AI wealth management and data analytics solutions to financial institutions, and robo-advisory services to end users.
Terra
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Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency designed for mass adoption.
VegaX Holdings
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VegaX Holdings is a cryptocurrency index platform providing actionable crypto-indexes & index-based asset management products for investors.
Quotabook
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Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.
DAYLI Financial Group
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A leading Fintech company in Asia providing data tech solutions, digital wealth management, and lead-generation services
Coinone
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Coinone provides blockchain-related financial services including cryptocurrency exchange, asset management and trading matching engines.
TESSA
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Alternative investment platform for the purchase, sale and trade of fractionalized ownership interests in investment-grade blue-chip artwork
Korea Investment Partners
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Korea Investment Partners is a leading venture capital & private equity firm based in Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
AIZEN Global
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Redesigning Digital Banking with AI Lending Platform ‘CreditConnect’, powered by proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS
MOIN, Inc.
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MOIN is a Blockchain-based global money transfer service, which is fast, convenient, and reasonably priced, focusing on Asia countries.
Lendit
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#1 online lending marketplace for unsecured personal loans in Korea
Ascensive Assets
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Ascensive Asset is a private investment firm focusing solely on digital assets industry
Tera Funding
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Tera Funding is a real estate investment firm in Seoul, South Korea.
HonestFund
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Fintech, Marketplace Lending, Alternative Investment
KB Investment
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KB Investment is one of Korea’s leading investment firms.
Bankware Global
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Bankware Global is a company specialising in enterprise software for banks and financial services, with its headquarters in Seoul
Quantec
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Quantec provides individual optimized portfolio provision services through discretionary financial investment with Robo-Advisor technology.
AIM (Automated Investment Management)
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AIM is an online platform that allows its users to make trades and investments via smartphone.
QARA Soft
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Fintech start-up that provides online investment advisory and asset management services using deep-learning technology.
Baekdu Technologies
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Baekdu Technologies is a technology company that focuses specifically on quantitative investment of DeFi assets
Won
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Won provides people to use their credit cards more easily on the mobile.
Superbly
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Superbly provides the payment authentication system that utilizes IT Fin Tech including authentication, information security and payment.
Hana Financial Investment
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Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services
Magna Investment
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Magna Investment is a a Venture Capital / Accelerator / Private Equity Manager.
KT investment Inc.
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KT Investment Inc. is a venture capital arm of KT Corporation. The firm was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
KEB Hana Bank
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KEB Hana Bank provides commercial banking services.
NFTBank.ai
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The ultimate hub of NFT finance, portfolio management & analytics
EXIMBAY
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Eximbay is a major payment service provider with various payment methods in South Korea.
STIC Investment
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STIC Investments is a private equity firm that invests in management buy-outs, acquisitions, restructuring other corporate situations.
Anchor Equity Partners
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Anchor Equity Partners is a private equity firm specializing in middle market and consolidation investments.
NH Investment & Securities
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NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses.
SBI Investment Korea
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Korea Technology Investment Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm.
Industrial Bank of Korea
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Industrial Bank of Korea is an industrial bank company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea
DAOL Investment & Securities
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DAOL Investment & Securities provides financial services for individual clients, institutional clients, and corporate clients.
Atinum Investment
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Atinum Investment is a principal investment firm.
Shinhan Capital
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Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients.
JK Marshall Mercantile
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JK Marshall Mercantile is a privately-owned and independent investment advisory enterprise.
IGIS Asset Management
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IGIS Asset management is an independent global real estate investment company.
Daishin Securities
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Daishin Securities specializes in the financial investment business.
TheVentures
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TheVentures is a company-building company and a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to tech companies.
KSNET
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KSNET operates as a value-added network service provider for credit card and banking transaction processing in South Korea.
Yellowdog
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Yellowdog invests in startups that will achieve growth by approaching various environmental and social problems.
100&100 Venture Capital
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100&100 Venture Capital focuses on venture projects about the blockchain tech, cryptocurrency, and related assets.
Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance
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Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance carries out social safety nets throughout the entire non-life insurance business.
KG Inisys
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No 1 online payment gateway in Korea. IPO KOSDAQ in 2002 (035600)
Bitribe
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Bitribe is a cryptocurrency trading platform for digital currency aggregation transactions.
Delio
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Delio is global crypto finance service provider based in Seoul, South Korea.
Sky Lake Investment
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SkyLake Investment Co. (rSkyLake, below), founded in October 2006, is an alternative asset management firm that manages private equity.
Smallticket
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Digital insurance brokerage platform that provides with the customized policies and services for micro-segmented groups
Global Money Express
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Financial Services based on Mobile App
NHN Investment
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NHN Investment is a specialized investment organization providing investments, loans, and management as well as technological guidance to
NH Bank
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NH Bank provides foreign exchange, transfer money, credit card, and banking services.
Alpha Asset Management
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Alpha Asset Management specializes in real estate investments, private equity, risk planning, compliance, and funding services.
Beyond Finance
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Beyond Finance is a decentralized platform for creating and trading synthetic financial products.
Korea Credit Information Services
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Korea Credit Information Services provides credit information services.
The Export-Import Bank of Korea
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The Export-Import Bank of Korea is a provider of export credit and guarantee programs to support Korean enterprises conducting overseas.
Gowid
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Gowid is a fintech company that provides corporate credit cards, instalments, loans and B2B financial services for start-ups.
Spendit
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Spendit is a B2B fintech company in Seoul, Korea.
Aicel Technologies
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Aicel Technologies provides unique alpha capturing datasets for corporates and the financial sectors to accelerate business opportunities.
Woori Financial Group
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Woori Financial Group is a Seoul-based banking and financial services holdings company.
Cross Remittance
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Cross is a payments service that introduced South Korea’s first blockchain-powered remittance service
Rich & Co
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Rich & Co is a financial consulting firm that specializes in insurance products, asset management, and corporate financing services.
Korea Trade Insurance Corporation
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Korea Trade Insurance Corporation
Ascendo Ventures LLC
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Ascendo Ventures invests in top Korean and global startups with a focus on supporting their growth via cross-border business development
SMBC
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SMBC provides consulting services in the area of corporate fund, policy fund, corporate diagnosis, financial, and management certification.
JT Chinae Savings Bank
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JT Chinae Savings Bank is providing internet banking and financial consultancy services.
Pay2Pay
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Pay2Pay is a subscription platform that offers payment services.
NONGHYUP
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NONGHYUP offers agricultural development and agriculture financial services.
CrePASS Solutions
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Peer-to-Peer Financial Integration Platform
Woori Bank
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Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea’s wealth and economy.
Lotte Non-Life Insurance Company
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Lotte provides auto, fire, marine, long-term casualty and property, pension, and retirement insurance products.
FnGuide
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FnGuide is a provider of financial information services.
Prime Asset
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Prime Asset is an insurance products company.
Lotte Card
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Lotte Card is a credit card distribution company.
Daewoo Securities
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Daewoo Securities is the largest stock brokerage and investment banking firm.
Bitsonic
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Bitsonic is a Korean cryptocurrency focused on profit sharing virtual currency exchange.
Shinhan Card
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Shinhan Card, an affiliate of Shinhan Financial Group, is the No.1 card issuer in South Korea.
BC Card
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BC Card is a global payment processing services provider.