Top 20 Photography Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2026

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• Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
• Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
• UModeler — UModeler is a Unity3D editor extension to empower you to designer your level and mesh without leaving Unity.

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• Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
• Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
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• tru.ID — APIs for fast & frictionless mobile verification. Sign up today to see how tru.ID can turbocharge your user onboarding, conversion, security and experience.
• Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.
• VA Corporation — VA Corporation provides storytelling, content creation, and planning services for virtual production, VFX, branding, and digital marketing.

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• 8A Group — 8A builds strong study habits and helps students accelerate their mastery of knowledge. The 8A program focuses on in-depth academic skills, ensuring students master the necessary knowledge at an advanced level and achieve excellent results.
• Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
• Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.

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• Apollon — Needle Gone, Data On
• ASWEMAKE — ASWEMAKE is a shopping app that delivers groceries.
• Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.

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• User Spoon — User Spoon is a tool designed to streamline and enhance the process of user experience (UX) research by offering features that improve efficiency, such as user testing, feedback collection, and data analysis tools. It supports UX professionals in gathering insights faster and more accurately, ultimately leading to more user-centered designdecisions
• Space Oddity — Space Oddity is a music company.
• Copper Innovation Technology — CIT Co, Ltd utilizes metal single crystals and the ASE method to ensure the accurate, lossless transmission of every signal.

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• Saga.xyz — Saga is a hyperscaling platform for AI and crypto applications. Where the crazies dare to dream their craziest dreams.
• Ace Project — Ace Project (에이스프로젝트) is a Korean that provides baseball game management systems, content development services, and mobile games for smartphones. It was established in July 2011 in Seoul, Korea.
• Lala Stations — Lala Stations provides customized live total solutions for brand companies from live content creation and sales centered on live SaaS.

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• Kueski — Kueski is the online lender for the Middle Class of Mexico and Latin America. The company uses big data and advanced analytics to approve and deliver loans in a matter of minutes. Simple, paperless and available 24/7, Kueski is the most convenient lending platform for those who need an immediate loan. The company has become the fastest growingplatform of its kind in the region and has already granted thousands of loans.
• Testlio — Tackle the most demanding software testing challenges with Testlio in any location, on any device, in any language, or on any payment system.
• Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.

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• infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
• Sharetreats — Share Treats Innovation introduces a 'Casual O2O Commerce' dedicated to South East Asia. It has a vision to create a cultural movement whereby anyone can interact more through casual treats.
• Big House Entertainment — Big House Entertainment creates content like webtoons and dramas, focusing on cross-platform storytelling across media, games.

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• Posh — Event marketing made easy.
• Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
• Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

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• AIRS Medical — AIRS Medical's AI-powered platform reduces MRI scan times by up to 50%, improves image quality, and delivers deeper clinical insights. Trusted by 1,700+ institutions across 40+ countries.
• AIRS Inc. — AIRS is at the forefront of advancing orthopedic surgery, setting the stage for the future with its innovative surgical platforms. The company is preparing for the next era in surgical technology, known as SURGERY 4.0. By leading the way with cutting-edge solutions, AIRS aims to transform orthopedic procedures, enhance precision, and redefinestandards in surgical care.
• Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
• Portrai — Portrai leverages cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to reveal unprecedented biological insights, transforming target discovery into transformative therapies.
• HYPERREAL — Hyperreal empowers brands with digital assets that enable their value in the virtual world.

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• Electric — Electric is a new way to manage your SMBs IT and Security, transforming the way you manage cybersecurity, devices, employees and apps with one place for everything, no tech skills required and all synced with your HR system.
• Simply Measured — Reimagine how social media can grow your business with Sprout Social. See our social media management tools in action. Start your own free trial today.
• Visor — Visor is a revolutionary new way to collaborate using data from apps that run your business. Make better decisions together.

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• CareSix — The future of veterinary care. We envision a world where all companions receive the quality healthcare they're entitled to. Our first line of production - Cotons AI Sense 1 series presents wearable devices, where shaving, gel or electrode is not required for vital data collection. Simply wear the device on your dog's neck to receive notonly vital data, but clinical and behavioral via app or web.
• Spacebeam — Spacebeam is a startup creating space optical communication technology, a space-to-earth data transfer technique that uses light.
• JIN System — JIN System uses location-based spatial information technology to identify customers' potential needs and offers market-friendly solutions by integrating and converging relevant technologies. They aim to cater to increasing consumer needs in transportation, social welfare, and safety sectors, and expand into the digital twin field.

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• TeraView — TeraView is the world’s first company devoted to the application of Terahertz light for imaging and spectroscopy. TeraView’s proprietary platform uses the Terahertz spectrum between light and radio waves and offers the advantage of being non-invasive and non-destructive. A key application of the technology is the detection of faults and qualityvariations in semiconductor integrated circuits. In addition, studies have demonstrated how Terahertz uniquely and non invasively provides 3 dimensional structural and chemical information in a diverse range of applications, including weapons/explosives hidden below clothing, the contents of tablets and capsules in the pharmaceutical industry, and other objects normally invisible to conventional detection techniques. Other markets for the technology exist in medical imaging of cancer and industrial inspection which are explored via commercial partners. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, TeraView was spun-out of the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory in April 2001. Sales and support are available throughout Europe, North America and the Far East either directly or through a network of distributors.
• Arobot — Arobot creates robots with HRI-based behavior patterns, allowing consumers to embrace robots more readily and organically.
• INKA Entworks — INKA Entworks specializes in the field of digital rights management and mobile application security.

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• Opt-AI — On-device AI Optimization on Any Hardware
• DataFleets — DataFleets is a privacy-preserving data engine that unifies distributed data for rapid access, agile analytics, and automated compliance. The platform provides data scientists and developers with a "data fleet"​ that allows them to create analytics, ML models, and applications on highly sensitive data sets without ever having explicitaccess to the data. Each data fleet has easy-to-use APIs, and under-the-hood they ensure data protection using advances in federated computation, transfer learning, encryption, and differential privacy.DataFleets helps organizations to overcome the struggle between data privacy and innovation by helping them maintain data protection standards for compliance while accelerating data science initiatives.
• Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.

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• Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
• Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
• Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People

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• Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
• Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
• Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

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• ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
• FIONSYSTEMS — FIONSYSTEMS is providing deep learning and AI video processing solutions for the anti-drone system.
• Lucentblock — Lucentblock is a FinTech and blockchain-based digital real estate securities platform company.

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• Fdding — Fdding provides wedding photography brokerage services.
• Cheongse-Lab — Cheongse-Lab is an e-commerce and retail company.
• Make Some Noise —