This article showcases our top picks for the best South Korean based FinTech companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the FinTech 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 FinTech 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.
Kakao Pay
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Kakao Pay allows over-counter payments, peer-to-peer transactions, bill payment, web banking, and more.
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.
Klaytn
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Klaytn is an enterprise-grade, service-centric platform that brings user-friendly blockchain experience.
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.
Coinone
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Coinone provides blockchain-related financial services including cryptocurrency exchange, asset management and trading matching engines.
Doomoolmori
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Doomoolmori provides AI wealth management and data analytics solutions to financial institutions, and robo-advisory services to end users.
DAYLI Financial Group
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A leading Fintech company in Asia providing data tech solutions, digital wealth management, and lead-generation services
rainist / 레이니스트
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Rainist is a one of the fastest growing Korean startup that helps users to manage money fun and easy.
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.
AIZEN Global
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Redesigning Digital Banking with AI Lending Platform ‘CreditConnect’, powered by proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS
WireBarley
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WireBarley is a fin-tech company that provides a platform for online money transfer.
Albam
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Payroll, Human Capital Management(HCM) service for SMBs, Payday Loan/Hiring/Insurance
TESSA
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Alternative investment platform for the purchase, sale and trade of fractionalized ownership interests in investment-grade blue-chip artwork
Streami
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Blockchain remittance middleware and infra provider for financial service providers
Uberple
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Uberple is building real-time statistical computing engine to democratize investment research.
Lendit
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#1 online lending marketplace for unsecured personal loans in Korea
Quantec
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Quantec provides an asset management platform for everyone on a daily possibility.
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.
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.
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.
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.
N-Cash
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N-Cash is a tech firm that powers micro-transactions and virtual economies.
Beyond Finance
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Beyond Finance is a decentralized platform for creating and trading synthetic financial products.
Banksalad
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Banksalad is a fintech company that develops financial applications.
VegaX Holdings
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VegaX Holdings is the BlackRock of Crypto Assets: One-stop Access to Secure Crypto Strategies & Indexes
TBT
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TBT utilizes its industry knowledge and experience to help companies build services and products that can make the world a better place.
Finda
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Finda is an online financial comparison platform across various financial products.
WaveBridge
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Wavebridge is a fintech startup that provides a digital asset management platform through various financial services.
Qraft Technologies
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Qraft Technologies provides AI solutions customized for various uses and has specialties in AI investment solutions.
Upbit Singapore Pte. Ltd.
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Upbit Singapore Pte. Ltd. was incorporated in Seoul, Korea in April 2012, and is one of the country’s leading fintech companies.
BOMAPP
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Bomapp is a Seoul-based insurtech startup that offers fully digital insurance experience to consumers.
Smallticket
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Digital insurance brokerage platform that provides with the customized policies and services for micro-segmented groups
bitHolla
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Best white-label exchange provider that helps businesses to start their own cryptocurrency exchange with their own coins and tokens in minutes
SSenStone
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SsenStone specializes in Fintech, Authentication and Cyber Security.
Huobi Korea
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Huobi Korea is a digital asset exchange platform.
Solidware
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Solidware builds Machine Learning-based predictive models for financial services companies to make more profits.
Cashwalk
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Cashwalk is an app that motivates to walk by providing financial incentives.
Mobidoo
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Frictionless mobile payment solution via SmartSound (data over sound) technology.
Metaps Plus
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As a part of Metaps Group listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange(TSE: 6172), Metaps Plus is a leading fintech/blockchain platform in South Korea
Shinhan Financial Group
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Shinhan Bank, is a bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
EdenChain
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EdenChain provides digital asset platform service for leaders of the new digital economy.
Lucidefi
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Making defi investments easy, smart, and profitable
Cross Remittance
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Cross is a payments service that introduced South Korea’s first blockchain-powered remittance service
Emmental
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Emmental is a fintech startup that combines expertise and IT.
8percent
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8percent is Korea’s leading online financial service.
Daybit
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Daybit is a Korea-based cryptocurrency spot exchange platform.
Spendit
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Spendit is a B2B fintech company in Seoul, Korea.
Korea Tech Incubator Program For Startup
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R&D fund for Korean startups who secured at least $100,000 from designated startup VCs or Accelerators
Korbot
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South Korean Cryptocurrency Algorithmic Trading Company.
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.
X Lab
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X Lab is a technology company provides smart solutions to online spending.
Blockchain Revolution Partners
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Blockchain Revolution Partners is a blockchain-specialized company that invests in promising blockchain companies.
Tenspace
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Tenspace is a fintech company that develops mobile messenger and mobile loan application.
COINVEST
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COINVEST is a cryptocurrency and fintech solution development and consulting company.
2Digit
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2Digit is a Fin-Tech company that provides financial services based on artificial intelligence, blockchain, and financial engineering.
M-Venture Investment
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M-Venture Investment Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in small and medium companies in startup stage. The firm
Gopax
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Gopax is a virtual asset exchange platform by Streamy.
Gowid
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Gowid is a fintech company that provides corporate credit cards, instalments, loans and B2B financial services for start-ups.
CrePASS Solutions
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Peer-to-Peer Financial Integration Platform
Samsung Securities
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Samsung Securities provides personalized asset management service to individual investors
ATON
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ATON offers fintech security software, smart financial system development and other fintech services.
ThinkPool
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ThinkPool is a big data and AI-based investment platform.
BLOCKCHAIN i
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BLOCKCHAIN i mission is to offer their clients most profitable, disciplined professional cryptocurrency managers and their strategies.
Bitribe
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Bitribe is a cryptocurrency trading platform for digital currency aggregation transactions.
UUNIO
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UUNIO is a SNS marketplace based on the blockchain technology with the actual reward system.
Dove Wallet
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Dove Wallet is a service to deposit, transfer, and trade cryptocurrency.
Newsystock
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Newsystock is a Robo-Portfolio platform based on Quant providing simulation and analysis infra and algorithm market for retail investors.
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.
KoreaDA
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KoreaDA is a FinTech company that provides a digital asset trading system.
Fintech Switch
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Fintech Switch is a blockchain technology development and finance platform.
PayGate
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PayGate is a fintech solution provider company.
ATZ Trading
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ATZ Trading is a fintech firm that provides market-making services for cryptocurrency exchanges.
SECUVE
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SECUVE specializes in information security, IoT and fintech services.
Givenu
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Givenu is a Korean marketplace for pre-owned items that uses the barter system, which does not require cash-based transactions.
BUFFY
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BUFFY is a cross-border financial service platform.
shaashop
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Shaashop allows shoppers to easily purchase items from foreign e-commerce websites.
Finnq
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Finnq is a mobile-based app platform that offers deposits, loans, insurance, and other financial services.
Gavrint
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Gavrint is a game, augmented/virtual reality, and fintech company.
Hashgrab
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Hashgrab is a fintech company and financial service platform.
SBI Cosmoney
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SBI Cosmoney is a fintech company that provides money transfer service.
Korea P2P Exchange
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Korea P2P Exchange is a P2P investment marketplace.
Kairex
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Kairex is a digital currency platform based in Korea.
Triworld Holdings
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Triworld Holdings is a fintech company for the electric vehicle industry.
DA:Ground
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DA:Ground is a FinTech startup that actualizes connected finance via blockchain and other new technologies.
Utransfer
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Utransfer is a platform that offers overseas money transfer services.
Cakeplabs
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CakepLabs is a South Korean based company which concern about Financial Technology (Fintech) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) development.