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: 362Market: KoreaUpdated: October 12, 2026
Korea Market Snapshot
362
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thirdworks Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | AI in Supply Chain / Logistics | Undisclosed | AI-powered B2B SaaS platform for global trade data analysis, import sourcing, and supply chain management, specializing in SMB import-export workflows. |
| 어크로스 (Across Inc.) Seoul, South Korea | AI in Marketing | Seed | AI 답변 최적화 (AEO/GEO) 전문 기업으로, 생성형 AI 검색 환경에서 브랜드 노출과 인용을 최적화하는 솔루션 GPTO와 네이버 특화 AEO SaaS NAEO를 제공 |
| Lemong (르몽) Seoul, South Korea | AI in Marketing | $1.29M | Korean AI-powered restaurant tech startup providing review management, CRM, and marketing automation solutions for food service businesses |
| Chabot Mobility Seoul, South Korea | AI in Retail / E-commerce | $18M | South Korea's automotive super app connecting purchase, financing, insurance, maintenance, and resale into a single mobility concierge platform. |
| mAI Depot Seoul, South Korea | AI Agents | $100K | mAI Depot provides an AI Agent Framework for Enterprise, enabling users to create modular AI workflows without coding using GPT, Claude, and Gemini. |
| HITS Seoul, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | KRW 28.6B | An integrated AI-driven drug discovery SaaS platform that digitalizes the entire pharmaceutical R&D process through high-performance virtual simulations and predictive modeling. |
| HOYA Lab South Korea | AI in Biotech / Drug Discovery | Undisclosed | An AI-powered biotechnology platform that enhances the safety and precision of gene editing therapies by predicting and solving off-target effects. |
| NdotLight Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | AI in Manufacturing | $9.1M | AI-powered 3D CAD engine generating physics-rich SimReady assets for Physical AI, robotics simulation, and digital twins |
| Dr.Presso Seoul, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | $600K | An AI-powered 'mental-tech' platform that utilizes voice analysis and non-verbal cues to screen for depression and provide personalized mental healthcare through a daily voice diary. |
| HONESTAI Seoul, South Korea | AI in Fintech | $31.0M | An AI-powered financial transformation (AX) company that operates South Korea's largest alternative investment platform and provides Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) infrastructure powered by causal AI and autonomous risk management technology. |
| Okestro Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | $114.5M | South Korea's leading cloud software and AI infrastructure company, providing end-to-end cloud solutions including virtualization, cloud management, and AI inference platforms. |
| AgileSoDA Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | $17.5M | Enterprise AI software company providing AI-based decision intelligence, MLOps, and agentic AI solutions for financial services and other industries |
| Nineis Jeonju, South Korea | AI Agents | Undisclosed | An AI and data-driven solutions provider specializing in sLLM-based 'Practical AI' for legal analysis, content management, and smart media platforms for the public and enterprise sectors. |
| Lehigh Gyeongju, South Korea | AI in Defense / Aerospace | $1.5M | A specialized UAV and AI solution provider integrating autonomous flight control, swarm intelligence, and spatial informatics for defense, cultural heritage, and entertainment sectors. |
| 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. |
| 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. |