Regional AI Startup Intelligence
Korean AI Startups to Watch
Discover AI startups in Korea across agents, healthcare, infrastructure, manufacturing, fintech, and enterprise automation.
Companies tracked: 219Market: KoreaUpdated: June 8, 2026
Korea Market Snapshot
219
tracked companies
8
category clusters
8
funding signals surfaced
Korea is most interesting where AI meets enterprise workflow, healthcare, manufacturing, and large-company partnership channels.
Representative Companies
A crawler-visible market map sample from the AI Market Watch database.
| Company | Category | Funding | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Fusion AI Gyeongsan, South Korea | Autonomous Vehicles | $3.0M+ | A software-defined 4D imaging radar perception AI that delivers LiDAR-level spatial awareness and object recognition through a proprietary deep learning architecture. |
| HITS Seoul, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | $8.6M | An integrated AI-driven drug discovery SaaS platform that digitalizes the entire pharmaceutical R&D process through high-performance virtual simulations and predictive modeling. |
| Korea IT Masters Seoul, South Korea | AI | $725,000 | An AI strategy and ICT consulting firm that provides field-oriented, practical implementation services for generative AI, digital transformation, and large-scale information strategy planning (ISP/ISMP). |
| Plask Seoul, South Korea and a US entity (Plask USA Inc.) | Generative Media (Image / Video) | $2.56M | An AI-powered, browser-based motion capture and 3D animation tool that extracts motion from videos to apply to 3D characters. |
| Acryl Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | $37.0M | An integrated AI Experience (AX) platform company providing end-to-end MLOps/LLMOps solutions and specialized GPU resource optimization to democratize high-performance AI. |
| Emstone Seoul, South Korea | Computer Vision | Undisclosed | A leading South Korean developer of AI-driven Video Management Systems (VMS) and integrated security hubs that provide high-capacity video recording, real-time AI analytics, and IoT sensor integration. |
| JOOMIDANG Jeonju, South Korea | AI in Analytics & BI | $3.9M | An AI-driven FoodTech platform that digitizes flavor profiles of traditional Korean liquor (K-Liquor) to provide scientifically optimized food pairing recommendations and brewery consulting services. |
| Limpid Daegu, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | $5.33M | A data-driven pet healthcare platform that utilizes veterinary expertise and multimodal AI to provide medical-grade precision nutrition and health management solutions. |
| Mondrian AI Incheon, South Korea | ML Ops / ML Platforms | ₩4.5B+ | An enterprise AI infrastructure and MLOps platform provider that accelerates AI Transformation (AX) through integrated software, hardware, and specialized GPU cloud services. |
| Robos Daegu, South Korea | Robotics / Embodied AI | ₩32.0B (Approx. $24.0M USD) | An AI-powered robotics startup specializing in 'Atypical Biometric Vision AI' to automate the entire slaughtering and meat processing line. |
| AIPARK Seoul, South Korea | Generative Media (Image / Video) | ₩125.0B (~$111M) total (all rounds) | A multilingual AI avatar video production SaaS that enables users to create high-quality, realistic speaking videos from simple text input in over 140 languages. |
| Supertone Seoul, South Korea | Voice / Speech AI | Approximately $35.6 million (acquired by HYBE) | Supertone is an AI voice company that develops technology for creating hyper-realistic and expressive voices, including singing voices. The company's technology can be used for various applications, such as content creation, entertainment, and virtual assistants. |
| FASSTO Seoul, South Korea | AI in Supply Chain / Logistics | $100.0M | An AI-driven 'Smart Fulfillment' platform providing end-to-end logistics and supply chain automation solutions for e-commerce sellers. |
| Elice Group Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | $25.0M+ | A full-stack AI infrastructure company providing an integrated ecosystem that spans from high-performance GPU cloud services and modular data centers to an AI-powered learning experience platform. |
| Edit Collective Seoul, South Korea | AI | $4.5M | AI-powered automated planning and feasibility analysis platform (Flexity) that generates expert-level real estate development designs in 2-3 minutes by integrating building codes, land data, and market information. |
| Neubility Seoul, South Korea | Robotics / Embodied AI | $40.5M | A 'Physical AI' robotics company specializing in camera-based autonomous driving solutions and RaaS (Robot as a Service) platforms for urban delivery, security, and facility management. |
| MoveAWheeL Daejeon, South Korea | AI in Government / Public Sector | ₩2.5B - ₩3.0B (Cumulative est.) | An AI-powered road safety solution that utilizes non-contact acoustic sensors to detect road surface hazards like black ice, flooding, and potholes in real-time. |
| AI Spera Seoul, South Korea | AI in Cybersecurity | $17.5M | An AI-powered Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform that tracks and analyzes global IP addresses and domains to identify cyber threats from an attacker's perspective. |
| Aetech Incheon, South Korea | AI in Climate / Energy | $9.0M | Aetech (에이트테크) provides AI-powered robotic solutions designed to automate the waste sorting process, significantly increasing recycling efficiency and transforming traditional Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) into smart, unmanned factories. |
| Modusign Seoul, South Korea | AI in Legal | $23.7M | A comprehensive AI-driven Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform that digitizes and automates the entire legal process from drafting and signing to storage and risk analysis. |