101 Top South Korean Software Companies and Startups

October 14, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best South Korean based Software companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Software 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

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Top South Korean Software Startups

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N.THING

N.THING

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N.THING is a Seoul-based agri-tech company leading innovation in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data.

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Lunit

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Lunit combats cancer through AI-powered imaging biomarkers.

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Woowa Bros

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WOOWA BROS is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms.

3i Inc.

3i Inc.

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3i Inc. is an immersive experience company specializing in metaverse technology, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality. Founded in 2017, 3i has 34 technology patents and includes two brands: Pivo and Beamo. Pivo is a platform business sitting at the intersection of hardware, software, and content focused on empowering everyday creators around the world with its Pivo Pod, a portable AI-powered smart pod, and suite of mobile apps that extend the capabilities of any smartphone to simplify rich content creation. 

Beamo is an enterprise-grade digital twin solution for mission-critical businesses and sites. Beamo creates a dynamic digital twin that allows enterprises to conduct remote inspections, maintain equipment remotely, collaborate with remote teams and provide the most immersive navigation of mission-critical assets.

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CLO Virtual Fashion

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CLO Virtual Fashion develops true-to-life, 3D garment simulation technology for fashion and film/gaming industries.

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Bespin Global

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Bespin Global provide consulting, migration, managed service as well as solutions for hybrid cloud.

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Between

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Between provides emotional communication methods to enrich real and offline-based relationships.

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One Store

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One Store is a mobile app market that allows users to download apps that are limited in Korea only.

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Urbanbase

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Urbanbase offers VR/AR tools for architecture and interior design with its patented algorithm and data

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Kakao Enterprise

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Kakao Enterprise specializes in providing AI technology-based working platforms and services.

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WizSchool

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WizSchool is an innovative edtech company.

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Rezi

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AI-Powered Resume Builder

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MegazoneCloud

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“We Are Digital Architects” – We empower customers with cloud-optimized technology, people and process.

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Hancom

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Hancom provides office software and a variety of other sets of software to the world market to enhance productivity.

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MakinaRocks

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MakinaRocks provides machine learning solutions and an MLOps platform to accelerate and scale the industrial sector’s transition to AI.

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ProtoPie

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The easiest interaction design tool for all digital products, allowing designers to build highly interactive prototypes.

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Kmong

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Kmong is a Korean online talent market enabling individuals to sell and buy services in design, business, computing, music, and more.

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VoyagerX

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VoyagerX develops artificial intelligence software.

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Seoul Robotics

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Making Robots Intelligent – Building advanced Lidar perception software for self driving cars and robots

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SMARTSTUDY

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SmartStudy is a global entertainment company. We make high-quality animated and gaming content such as Pinkfong and Monster Super League.

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Blocko

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Blocko offers a blockchain operating system and development platform.

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Skelter Labs

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Skelter Labs is an artificial intelligence technology company developing innovative machine intelligence technology.

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Toss Lab

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Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tools.

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YDEA

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YDEA is a Korean-based startup company focused on providing new-age e-commerce solutions to its customers.

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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.

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Dongnae

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Dongnae provides an online real estate platform that digitizes the rental and home-buying market.

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CeREELs

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Mobile Media App with a library of original contents

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Rebellions.ai

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Delivering rebellious AI compute power imaginable at lower energy than ever

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Helloworld

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Helloworld is a Korean software company that provides online delivery solutions.

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Qualson Inc

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With the slogan, “Rescue people’s time”, Qualson Inc. develops mobile language learning services.

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Korea Credit Data

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Korea Credit Data provides business management software to small and medium-sized businesses.

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Estmob

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Taking a easy, quick, and unlimited approach to file sharing.

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CLASSUM

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CLASSUM is a chatting based QA system designed to increase class engagement.

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Evain

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Evain offers a wide range of professional IT skills and solutions.

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Chlngers

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Chlngers is an app that helps you to manage tasks, habits, and goals.

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Birdview

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Birdview was founded by three High school alumni,

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Flexcil

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Flexcil – The best digital annotation solution for iPad

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Ybrain

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Ybrain develops medical devices that measure & cure neuropsychiatric illness based on neuroscience.

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MARS Auto

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MARS Auto is a self-driving technology to the commercial trucking industry.

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Crowdworks

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Crowdworks solves the toughest problem in AI today: Delivering training data sets with next-level accuracy, quality assured.

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Testworks

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AI data processing, RPA, & Software testing

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Cochl

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Cochl develops the next-gen Sound AI technology and provide it through Cloud API and Edge SDK.

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Grepp

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Grepp, Inc. supports all activities for education.

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Ateam Ventures

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Ateam Ventures brings personalized manufacturing to the hardware and software the company designs.

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Neosapience

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Neosapience develops Typecast.ai, a virtual voice and video actor casting service

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WELT

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WELT, the smartest belt for healthcare & fashion

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Wider Planet, Inc.

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The 1st largest local DSP(Demand Side Platform) and DMP(Data Management Platform) in Korea.

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Bitsensing

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Bitsensing is a radar technology startup focused on developing smart city solutions to improve citizens’ quality of life.

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Prinker Korea Inc. (formerly SketchOn Inc).

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Prinker Korea Inc. is a manufacturer of Prinker custom tattoo solution that applies fabulous and splendid images on your skin.

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Kids Note

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KidsNote is a Korean childcare-based web and mobile application that connects teachers with parents.

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YAP

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The YAP Company is a Korean startup providing O2O commerce platform

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Codeit

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Codeit is an e-learning company.

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MAXST

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On Demand AR Platform for Enterprise

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OnePredict

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Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software Solutions

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Dabeeo

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Dabeeo is a platform that offers services of map technology with positioning and geospatial data technology with AI.

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Scatter Lab

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Scatter Lab is a text-based Korean sentiment analysis service which is available as a smartphone application.

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OWiN

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OWiN is a computer company that provides a device and software platform that connects car divers and merchants online and offline.

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12cm

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12cm operates echoss, a cloud O2O service platform that provides offline to mobile connection services.

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SelectStar

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SelectStar is the finest Data Platform for your AI: Mobile Crowd-sourcing based High quality data with diversity guaranteed

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Loom Network

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Loom Network is a Platform as a Service built on top of Ethereum that allows developers to run large-scale decentralized applications.

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Caret Games

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Caret Games is Mobile Game Start up. MMORPG, RebirthM

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Uberple

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Uberple is building real-time statistical computing engine to democratize investment research.

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AIDOT

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AIDOT develops medical software using AI. Their flagship product makes cervical cancer screening faster, easier and more accurate.

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Coconut Silo

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Hyundai Motors’ in-house startup Coconut Silo provides a cross border logistics platform that gets customers their orders in 5 minutes.

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N3N

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N3N provides IoT visualization software for large enterprises to act on their workflows, processes and very own Internet of Things.

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Dryad

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Dryad is a mobile game development platform in Korea.

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GLOWDAYZ

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GLOWDAYZ is a Korean-based IT company specialized in providing mobile development solutions to the cosmetic and real-estate sectors.

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Posture360

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SaaS & Mobile App platform that solves spinal problems through AI devices integrated into ergonomic products to relieve pain.

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OpenTrade

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OpenTrade is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowd funding platform for startups.

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RADSONE

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Radsone, short for Radical Sound, is a full stack audio company established to deliver high quality sound easier than before.

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Jocoos

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Jocoos is a mobile application that works with video transcoding technology.

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TradLinx Co.

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Tradlinx links shippers and service providers online with our open market platform, by which easy and fast freight quote can become reality.

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5Rocks

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5Rocks provides business intelligence and data analysis for mobile game developers.

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MVERSE

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MVERSE designs and develops mobile accessories and mobile commerce solutions.

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EnSight Media

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ENSIGHTMEDIA is a software company that develops applications for smartphones.

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Supreme Games

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Supreme Games is made up of members with more than 10 years of experience in Korea’s top game makers including Webzen, Neowiz, and NC-Soft.

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Common Computer

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Common Computer is building a global backend infrastructure that transforms millions of open-source projects into live services.

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Chain Partners

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Global Blockchain Company Builder

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Innopresso,Inc.

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Touchpad Embedded Keyboard Manufacture Company.

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Popcorn5

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Popcorn5, Inc. is a business-to-business software platform.

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DeepNatural

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High-quality corpus to train and evaluate your natural language models

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fastpong

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Smart Interactive Table Tennis Training Device

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ESC Company

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ESC Company, a Korean mobile community for animal lovers, offers Hola Pet, an app that provides real-time SNS-based content related to pets.

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ulalaLAB

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ulalaLAB, South Korean startup company specializing in Industrial IoT, SaaS and Machine Learning technologies.

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Quad Miners

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Quad Miners creates the Network Blackbox, a solution that proactively detects and responds to cyber threats.

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ONOFFMIX

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We are a meeting and event platform helping to build strong values among the people we work with.

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OPENSURVEY Incorporated

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OPENSURVEY is a consumer data company that leverages mobile application and advance analytical technology.

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Baum

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Baum is a semiconductor solution company.

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UJURA Company

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PetTech

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Lablup

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Lablup is developing technologies for distributed computing for machine learning researches and applications.

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EVERY KIT

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World’s first plug & play IoT software education service.

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Plask

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Plask is a Korean startup developing mobile apps, like Believe My Brother, Girlfriend, and Alfredo.

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Remake Digital

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Remake Digital is a creative AI startup.

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Day2Life

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Day2Life is a Korean-based IT company that provides mobile scheduling and supply management solutions to the B2B and B2C markets.

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I-ON Digital Corp

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I-ON Digital Corp is an enterprise software company based in South Korea.

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Super Creative

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Super Creative develops RPG games with artistic and technological updates.

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Add2paper

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Add2Paper is a Korean mobile app that offers an online paper for college students to post advertisements on printing services.

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Wit studio

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Wit studio is a software development company that provides software for UI designers and developers.

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KineMaster

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KineMaster is the only full-featured video editor for Android, now with multi-layer video.

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Keukey

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Keukey is a Korean-based software company engaged in developing a typo-free keyboard input system for smartphones.

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NEUROPHET

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NEUROPHET Inc. is a medical SW company using advanced neuroscience and AI technologies for better brain treatment.

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