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
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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.
Lunit
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Lunit combats cancer through AI-powered imaging biomarkers.
Woowa Bros
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WOOWA BROS is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms.
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.
CLO Virtual Fashion
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CLO Virtual Fashion develops true-to-life, 3D garment simulation technology for fashion and film/gaming industries.
Bespin Global
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Bespin Global provide consulting, migration, managed service as well as solutions for hybrid cloud.
Between
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Between provides emotional communication methods to enrich real and offline-based relationships.
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.
Urbanbase
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Urbanbase offers VR/AR tools for architecture and interior design with its patented algorithm and data
Kakao Enterprise
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Kakao Enterprise specializes in providing AI technology-based working platforms and services.
MegazoneCloud
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“We Are Digital Architects” – We empower customers with cloud-optimized technology, people and process.
Hancom
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Hancom provides office software and a variety of other sets of software to the world market to enhance productivity.
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.
ProtoPie
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The easiest interaction design tool for all digital products, allowing designers to build highly interactive prototypes.
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.
VoyagerX
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VoyagerX develops artificial intelligence software.
Seoul Robotics
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Making Robots Intelligent – Building advanced Lidar perception software for self driving cars and robots
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.
Blocko
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Blocko offers a blockchain operating system and development platform.
Skelter Labs
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Skelter Labs is an artificial intelligence technology company developing innovative machine intelligence technology.
Toss Lab
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Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tools.
YDEA
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YDEA is a Korean-based startup company focused on providing new-age e-commerce solutions to its customers.
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.
Dongnae
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Dongnae provides an online real estate platform that digitizes the rental and home-buying market.
CeREELs
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Mobile Media App with a library of original contents
Rebellions.ai
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Delivering rebellious AI compute power imaginable at lower energy than ever
Helloworld
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Helloworld is a Korean software company that provides online delivery solutions.
Qualson Inc
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With the slogan, “Rescue people’s time”, Qualson Inc. develops mobile language learning services.
Korea Credit Data
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Korea Credit Data provides business management software to small and medium-sized businesses.
Estmob
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Taking a easy, quick, and unlimited approach to file sharing.
CLASSUM
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CLASSUM is a chatting based QA system designed to increase class engagement.
Evain
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Evain offers a wide range of professional IT skills and solutions.
Chlngers
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Chlngers is an app that helps you to manage tasks, habits, and goals.
Birdview
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Birdview was founded by three High school alumni,
Flexcil
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Flexcil – The best digital annotation solution for iPad
Ybrain
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Ybrain develops medical devices that measure & cure neuropsychiatric illness based on neuroscience.
MARS Auto
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MARS Auto is a self-driving technology to the commercial trucking industry.
Crowdworks
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Crowdworks solves the toughest problem in AI today: Delivering training data sets with next-level accuracy, quality assured.
Cochl
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Cochl develops the next-gen Sound AI technology and provide it through Cloud API and Edge SDK.
Grepp
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Grepp, Inc. supports all activities for education.
Ateam Ventures
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Ateam Ventures brings personalized manufacturing to the hardware and software the company designs.
Neosapience
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Neosapience develops Typecast.ai, a virtual voice and video actor casting service
Wider Planet, Inc.
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The 1st largest local DSP(Demand Side Platform) and DMP(Data Management Platform) in Korea.
Bitsensing
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Bitsensing is a radar technology startup focused on developing smart city solutions to improve citizens’ quality of life.
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.
Kids Note
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KidsNote is a Korean childcare-based web and mobile application that connects teachers with parents.
YAP
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The YAP Company is a Korean startup providing O2O commerce platform
OnePredict
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Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software Solutions
Dabeeo
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Dabeeo is a platform that offers services of map technology with positioning and geospatial data technology with AI.
Scatter Lab
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Scatter Lab is a text-based Korean sentiment analysis service which is available as a smartphone application.
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.
12cm
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12cm operates echoss, a cloud O2O service platform that provides offline to mobile connection services.
SelectStar
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SelectStar is the finest Data Platform for your AI: Mobile Crowd-sourcing based High quality data with diversity guaranteed
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.
Caret Games
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Caret Games is Mobile Game Start up. MMORPG, RebirthM
Uberple
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Uberple is building real-time statistical computing engine to democratize investment research.
AIDOT
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AIDOT develops medical software using AI. Their flagship product makes cervical cancer screening faster, easier and more accurate.
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.
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.
Dryad
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Dryad is a mobile game development platform in Korea.
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.
Posture360
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SaaS & Mobile App platform that solves spinal problems through AI devices integrated into ergonomic products to relieve pain.
OpenTrade
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OpenTrade is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowd funding platform for startups.
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.
Jocoos
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Jocoos is a mobile application that works with video transcoding technology.
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.
5Rocks
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5Rocks provides business intelligence and data analysis for mobile game developers.
MVERSE
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MVERSE designs and develops mobile accessories and mobile commerce solutions.
EnSight Media
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ENSIGHTMEDIA is a software company that develops applications for smartphones.
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.
Common Computer
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Common Computer is building a global backend infrastructure that transforms millions of open-source projects into live services.
Innopresso,Inc.
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Touchpad Embedded Keyboard Manufacture Company.
Popcorn5
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Popcorn5, Inc. is a business-to-business software platform.
DeepNatural
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High-quality corpus to train and evaluate your natural language models
fastpong
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Smart Interactive Table Tennis Training Device
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.
ulalaLAB
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ulalaLAB, South Korean startup company specializing in Industrial IoT, SaaS and Machine Learning technologies.
Quad Miners
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Quad Miners creates the Network Blackbox, a solution that proactively detects and responds to cyber threats.
ONOFFMIX
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We are a meeting and event platform helping to build strong values among the people we work with.
OPENSURVEY Incorporated
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OPENSURVEY is a consumer data company that leverages mobile application and advance analytical technology.
Lablup
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Lablup is developing technologies for distributed computing for machine learning researches and applications.
EVERY KIT
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World’s first plug & play IoT software education service.
Plask
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Plask is a Korean startup developing mobile apps, like Believe My Brother, Girlfriend, and Alfredo.
Remake Digital
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Remake Digital is a creative AI startup.
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.
I-ON Digital Corp
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I-ON Digital Corp is an enterprise software company based in South Korea.
Super Creative
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Super Creative develops RPG games with artistic and technological updates.
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.
Wit studio
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Wit studio is a software development company that provides software for UI designers and developers.
KineMaster
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KineMaster is the only full-featured video editor for Android, now with multi-layer video.
Keukey
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Keukey is a Korean-based software company engaged in developing a typo-free keyboard input system for smartphones.
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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