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: 352Market: KoreaUpdated: September 29, 2026
Korea Market Snapshot
352
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plask Seoul, South Korea and a US entity (Plask USA Inc.) | Generative Media (Image / Video) | $2.56M | An AI company offering browser-based motion capture and 3D animation tools alongside Laney, an AI CRM for hospital operations. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Ark Busan, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | $15.0M | AI-powered retinal diagnosis platform that analyzes fundus camera images in 3-5 seconds to detect 3 major blinding diseases (age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy) and predict risks for cardiovascular and chronic kidney diseases. |
| NanoForge AI Seoul, South Korea | AI in Climate / Energy | Undisclosed Seed Round Amount | An AI and robotics-driven platform that automates the entire materials research and development process, from design to synthesis and optimization. |
| Innogrid Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | $12.5M | South Korean cloud computing and AI infrastructure specialist providing intelligent hybrid cloud operating platforms and GPU/xPU orchestration software. |
| Featuring Seoul, South Korea | AI in Marketing | $16.5M | AI-powered all-in-one influencer marketing platform and social media data analytics company |
| Mondrian AI Incheon, South Korea | ML Ops / ML Platforms | $3.2M | An enterprise AI infrastructure and MLOps platform provider that accelerates AI Transformation (AX) through integrated software, hardware, and specialized GPU cloud services. |
| Miso Information Technology Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | AI in Manufacturing | Strategic Investment | South Korean multimodal data platform and AI specialist building the DAXI manufacturing AI platform for autonomous manufacturing, alongside healthcare CDW and text-analysis solutions. |
| Robos Daegu, South Korea | Robotics / Embodied AI | $24M | An AI-powered robotics startup specializing in 'Atypical Biometric Vision AI' to automate the entire slaughtering and meat processing line. |
| Voiceloo (Voithru) Seoul, South Korea | AI in Media / Gaming / Entertainment | $8.05M | Korean AI-powered content localization company (translation, subtitling, dubbing) that launched Polita, an AI dubbing service combining machine translation with expert review; acquired by Kakao Piccoma in 2023. |
| LG CNS Seoul, South Korea | AI in Analytics & BI | $821M | LG Group's IT services and digital transformation subsidiary, a leading South Korean enterprise AI (AX) provider that partners with OpenAI to resell ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu across Korea. |
| Xenon (GenON) Seoul, South Korea | AI Agents | $7.5M | South Korea's leading generative AI solutions company providing enterprise AI platforms, actionable AI agents, and physical AI for senior care |
| AIPARK Seoul, South Korea | Generative Media (Image / Video) | ₩600M (~$0.5M) | 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. |
| Medintech Seoul (Jongno-gu), South Korea | Robotics / Embodied AI | $21M | Korean medical-robot startup developing the world's first motorized (electric) flexible endoscope with AI autonomous steering, challenging the Japanese oligopoly in endoscopy. |
| EasyCut Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea | Generative Media (Image / Video) | Bootstrapped | AI short-form (shorts) video creation platform that turns long YouTube videos into viral-ready 30-60 second clips with hook titles, subtitles, and AI-generated comments. |
| 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. |
| 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 Robotics 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. |