This article showcases our top picks for the best South Korean based Finance companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Finance 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 South Korean Finance Startups
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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.
Kakaobank
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Kakaobank offers digital banking, loans, and financial services.
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.
Coinplug
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Coinplug is a Korean blockchain developing company founded in 2013 with over 300 blockchain patents in multiple fields.
Sentbe, Inc.
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Sentbe offers a faster, cheaper, and easier way to transfer money abroad.
DAYLI Financial Group
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A leading Fintech company in Asia providing data tech solutions, digital wealth management, and lead-generation services
Xangle
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Xangle is a crypto disclosure platform that provides that missing transparency and trust in the market.
HonestFund
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Fintech, Marketplace Lending, Alternative Investment
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.
WireBarley
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WireBarley is a fin-tech company that provides a platform for online money transfer.
SK Holdings
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SK Holdings provides information technology (IT) services.
Streami
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Blockchain remittance middleware and infra provider for financial service providers
Quantec
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Quantec provides an asset management platform for everyone on a daily possibility.
Tumblbug
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Tumblbug is an online Korean crowdfunding site focused on art and cultural content.
AIM (Automated Investment Management)
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AIM is an online platform that allows its users to make trades and investments via smartphone.
Fin2B
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Fin2B is providing financial solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through their platform centering on the Supply Chain Finance.
Black coin
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Black coin, a Korean startup, provides social membership cards for individuals all around the country.
Realbyte
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Realbyte Inc is a company which focuses on development of application for devices running on iOS platform.
ProBit Exchange
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ProBit Exchange is a global Top 20 crypto exchange in real daily trading volume that has successfully completed over 200 rounds of IEO.
Superbly
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Superbly provides the payment authentication system that utilizes IT Fin Tech including authentication, information security and payment.
Lotte Group
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Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation with headquarters in South Korea and Japan.
Keypair, Inc.
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FinTech Company – The World first NFC enabled HSM & OTP card solution provider for safe financial transaction and eID card.
Brich
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An O2O service delivering the latest Korean fashion trends online .
NH Investment & Securities
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NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses.
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.
Fount
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Fount Inc. Is an asset management Robo-Advisor startup founded in 2015.
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.
Banksalad
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Banksalad is a fintech company that develops financial applications.
Shinhan Capital
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Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients.
VegaX Holdings
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VegaX Holdings is the BlackRock of Crypto Assets: One-stop Access to Secure Crypto Strategies & Indexes
Bitsonic
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Bitsonic is a Korean cryptocurrency focused on profit sharing virtual currency exchange.
NEOPLY
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NEOPLY is a startup accelerator based in South Korea.
WaveBridge
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Wavebridge is a fintech startup that provides a digital asset management platform through various financial services.
Carrot General Insurance
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Carrot General Insurance is a digital insurance company.
Smallticket
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Digital insurance brokerage platform that provides with the customized policies and services for micro-segmented groups
Korea Investment Management
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Korea Investment Management is an asset management company.
SK Securities
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SK Securities is a South Korea-based financial service provider that specializes in the securities market.
VI Asset Management Korea
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VI AMC offers investors-friendly funds with traditional asset, derivatives, real estate, alternative investments, and multi-strategy etc.
sopoong
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sopoong is innovative social ventures technical / professional like a social venture out to solve a social problem fundamentals.
Blockchain Exchange Alliance (BXA)
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Blockchain Exchange Alliance (BXA) aims to share order data and increase the liquidity of the entire network.
UNO Investment
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UNO Investment is an investment management and financial service provider company.
Suhyup Bank
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Suhyup Bank is a provider of banking and financial services.
BPLUS
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BPLUS is an impact investment open platform that connects social projects and individual investors.
D&D Investment
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D&D Investment is a real estate investment company.
UBASE
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UBASE provides business process outsourcing services.
D’CENT
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D’CENT provides cryptocurrency hardware wallet for keeping crypto assets secure.
Korea Securities Finance
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Korea Securities Finance offers securities-backed loans to financial investment companies and manages investors’ deposits.
BF Fund
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BF Fund specializes in p2p finance, real estate mortgage (APT) and PF loans.
Daedeok Venture Partners
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Daedeok Venture Partners is a VC specializes in investment in a technology company.
Daishin Securities
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Daishin Securities specializes in the financial investment business.
Small Business Corporation
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SBC is a non-profit government-funded organization that provides health and success solutions for small & medium enterprises.
Kaist Venture Investment Holdings
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Kaist Venture Investment Holdings is a startup company that invests in startups that solve social problems through innovative technologies.
Newploy
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Newploy is a payroll work automation platform that Automate payroll tasks through robotic process automation (RPA) technology.
Devtools
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Devtools focuses and develops application software development and financial-related solutions using blockchain.
Together Funding
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Together Funding offers peer-to-peer financial service.
Habit Factory
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Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
KB Kookmin Bank
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KB Kookmin Bank is a bnaking & financial services firm.
Funding ForYou
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Funding ForYou is a crowdfunding platform for investors, business partners, and shareholders.
Vision Creator
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Vision Creator is a research, analysis and investment company.
Hi Investment & Securities
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Hi Investment & Securities is the provider of asset management services for various foreign and domestic funds
Korea Investors Service
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Korea Investors Service is a provider of domestic credit ratings in Korea.
KITE Entrepreneurship Foundation
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The Kite Founder Foundation is a pure non-profit corporation that provides an environment for successful start-ups.
Coinswallet
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Coinswallet cryptocurrency hardware wallet that offers financial service.
Gowid
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Gowid is a fintech company that provides corporate credit cards, instalments, loans and B2B financial services for start-ups.
Hana Capital
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Hana Capital is the provider of automobile finance, personal finance, and corporate finance services.
ASSETPLUS
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ASSETPLUS is an independent asset management company.
TIGRIS investment
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TIGRIS investment is a venture investment and management consulting company.
The Encore Company
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The Encore Company is a startup studio that builds market disruptive businesses that can scale globally out of Korea.
Kosnetti
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Kosnetti is a start-up investment company for small and medium venture businesses.
Hyosung Capital
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Hyosung Capital offers finance leasing, factoring, and loan services.
UAMCO
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UAMCO specializes in the operation of non-performing loan investments based in Seoul, South Korea.
GOMPAY
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GOMPAY offers online credit card payment solutions.
NH-Amundi Asset Management
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NH-Amundi Asset Management is an asset management company.
Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance
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Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance is a finance and insurance company.
Korea P2P Finance Association
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Korea P2P Finance Association is an organization for the development of the domestic P2P finance and fintech industries.
Chain Cabinet
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Chain Cabinet is a blockchain start-up platform, an investor, and a blockchain-company builder in Korea.
JEONG HYANG LAW
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JEONG HYANG LAW provides legal consultancy services for manufacturing, finance, and energy companies.
Fintech Switch
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Fintech Switch is a blockchain technology development and finance platform.
ZENITAS INVESTMENT
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ZENITAS INVESTMENT is a financial service provider company.
GOOD RATE
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GOOD RATE is a banking and financial service provider company.
cashmallow
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cashmallow is a currency exchange application.
KB CAPITAL
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KB CAPITAL is a personal finance, corporate finance and auto finance service company.
Samsung Asset Management
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Samsung Asset Management is an asset management firm in Korea.
Y Fund
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Y Fund is an investment and financial service provider company.