Top 35 Social Startup Investors in South Korea (August 2026)

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• Veluga — Veluga is a membership service that provides regular delivery of craft beer and pairing night snack twice a month.
• Socialbean — Socialbean is a baby product company.
• Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.

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• Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
• Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
• Frip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.

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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.
• Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.

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• Conalog — Conalog is a piezoelectric element-based energy harvesting technology.
• GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
• Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.

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• Shinol — Shinol is a social community app for matching friends of 5070 generations.
• Second Ocean — Second Ocean is an aquaculture company that provides data collection and technology development for sustainable seaweed farming.

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• Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
• Cyclewell — Cyclewell is a provider of integrated equipment and complete solutions for intelligent directional recycling of lithium batteries. It is committed to the Research and Development of green recycling technology and equipment for waste power batteries.
• Underdogs — Underdogs is a company specializing in social innovation entrepreneurship education.

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
• Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

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• Underdogs — Underdogs is a company specializing in social innovation entrepreneurship education.

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• AIT STUDIO — AIT Studio is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered, contactless gait analysis solutions for early detection of mobility decline and age-related conditions such as sarcopenia. Our flagship products—GAIT Studio (App) and MediStep M Pro (hardware package)—deliver full gait assessments in under 1 minute, without wearables or specializedstaff.
• Waggy Days — The first impact-actuated safety leash adapter that automatically releases when an elevator door closes on the leash.
• Peekaboo Labs — Peekaboo Labs perfectly protects the corporate data with 'On-Device AI' without external servers, and experience overwhelming productivity even without the internet. The company eliminates servers and implements AI on 'PC'. Peekaboo Labs empower enterprises in high-compliance sectors (Finance, Healthcare, Defense) to deploypowerful LLMs within air-gapped environments. They carefully select and organize only the information needed from among over 100 documents .

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• Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
• Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
• Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.

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• Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
• RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
• Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.

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• KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
• ActionPower — ActionPower is an AI-based startup company that offers speech recognition and natural language processing technology services.
• Automata — Automata builds ontology-driven enterprise systems that execute. Zenith verifies decisions, grades knowledge, and turns institutional memory into software you can run.

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• A2D2 — A2D2 AI analyzes and organizes tens of thousands of pages of evidence documents.
• All Conec — All Conec is a digital platform that connects dental clinics and laboratories around the world. The platform also provides dental equipment shopping. The user can plan implant surgery quickly and precisely through the platform.
• Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.

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• StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
• Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
• DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.

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• HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
• Bob Games — A Social casino game developer.
• Barinthus Biotherapeutics — Barinthus Biotherapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of novel immunotherapeutics and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases and cancer. The company’s proprietary platform comprises proprietary modified simian adenoviral vectors, known as ChAdOx1 and ChAdOx2, aswell as the well-validated Modified Vaccinia Ankara, or MVA, boost vector, both with demonstrable safety profiles and without the ability to replicate in humans. The combination of a ChAdOx prime treatment with subsequent MVA boost has consistently generated significantly higher magnitudes of CD8+ T cells compared with other technologies and approaches. The company has a broad pipeline of both clinical and preclinical stage therapeutic programs in solid tumors and viral infections and prophylactic viral vaccine programs. Vaccitech co-invented a COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford, now approved for use in many territories and exclusively licensed worldwide to AstraZeneca through Oxford University Innovation, or OUI. Vaccitech is entitled to receive a share of the milestones and royalty income received by OUI from AstraZeneca.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
• N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
• Solarstic — Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications.

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• Techtaka — SaaS, Logistics
• Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
• Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.

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• Dropshot — Dudum is a video production company that provides graphics, product advertisements, and in-house training.
• CLIWANT (OpenAI Partner Startup) — CLIWANT builds an AI agent for RFPs to fundamentally revolutionize how procurement professionals work.
• Playtag — Playtag operates an AI-based platform that uses behavioral analytics for early childhood education. The company develops learning tools for infants and toddlers and provides systems for kindergartens and daycare centers. These systems support the use of data-driven methods in teaching and classroom activities.

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• Acro — Main - ACRO
• Upstage — Upstage AI develops artificial intelligence technologies focused on large language models and document processing systems designed to support enterprise workflows. Its platform includes tools that convert unstructured data such as PDFs, scans, and emails into structured, machine-readable formats, enabling downstream analysis and automation. Thecompany also provides models like its Solar LLM, which are optimized for tasks such as text generation, information extraction, and question answering within business environments. Its solutions are applied across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing to handle tasks like document parsing, data extraction, and workflow automation. Additionally, its services can be deployed through APIs, cloud environments, or on-premise systems to integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure.
• BacklotCars — Making Wholesale Easy

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• Slashpage — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
• Money Walk — The step-counting app that rewards you with cash for every step
• Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.

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• Splab — Handle everything from marketing to buyer matching, even without a full team. We cover: multi-stakeholder bookkeeping, virtual & physical events registration management, event tech setup, matchmaking, ticket sales & marketing, and post-event reporting.
• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Pierrot Company — Pierrot Company is a Korea-based circular commerce company focused on extending the lifecycle of IT devices through subscription, asset recovery, and cross-border trade. The company operates phoneGO, a device subscription service for consumers and businesses, and reGO, a service that helps organizations recover and monetize idle IT assets.Building on these operating data and supply networks, Pierrot Company is also developing reGO Trade, a global infrastructure layer for used IT device pricing, discovery, and transaction enablement. The company aims to improve transparency, liquidity, and reuse in the fragmented secondary market for electronics while reducing unnecessary e-waste.By combining operational know-how, market data, and international buyer networks, Pierrot Company is building a more efficient and scalable circular economy for IT assets.

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• Metealth — Metealth is a company that provides simple, non-invasive genetic testing and personalized healthcare solutions using fingernails. It focuses on pain-free genetic testing and health monitoring by extracting high-quality DNA from 0.05g of fingernails rather than blood or saliva.
• SnapScale — SnapScale develops an ontology-driven, agentic AI platform designed to automate FEED-EPC design and document verification processes for the plant engineering industry. Operating entirely on-premise to protect proprietary data, the system utilizes specialized engineering knowledge graphs to autonomously modify CAD drawings, execute hydrauliccalculations, and verify cross-document consistency. This approach eliminates structural data mismatches and slashes engineering verification cycles from weeks to a single day, preventing costly project delivery penalties.
• K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.

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• BellaBeallfarm — BellaBeallfarm is a biotechnology company that specializes in food refurbishing, waste management, and social venture services for pet.

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• Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
• Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
• Minimap — The all-in-one game tracker for PC & Console. Sync achievements and trophies, manage your backlog, and analyze playtime stats. Your entire gaming history, unified.

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• StepLab — StepLab is a microsatellite systems company specializing in space mechanism technology, developing innovative satellite platforms and advanced aerospace solutions that support efficient satellite deployment, in-orbit operations, and a wide range of commercial and scientific space missions.
• Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
• Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform

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• Play pil — Play pil is an online casting and talent platform that connects actors, models, and performers with production companies. It helps simplify the casting process by providing digital profiles, audition listings, and talent matching tools.

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• N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
• Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
• TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.

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• Dalol — Dalol is a bakery that sells snacks, cakes, and rice chips.
• EmoticBox — EmoticBox is an emoticon B2B platform that allows users to create and sell emoticons.
• PS Analytics — PS Analytics is a gaming data and esports content company that began as the “Pro Spectator P.S.” YouTube channel focused on data-driven League of Legends analysis. The company later expanded into statistics-based game analysis platforms, esports media content, and digital services that provide strategic insights, match analysis, and player data forgaming audiences.

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• Underdogs — Underdogs is a company specializing in social innovation entrepreneurship education.

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• T-Wave — T-Wave is a social fintech start-up company that operates 'I'm in', an app that collects money from all over the country.
• Lunimedia — Game Platform
• BLUEDOT — BLUEDOT develops cloud computing semiconductor IP applications to accelerate video processing and video encoding.

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• Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
• Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
• Liberty Labs — Liberty Labs specializes in prompt engineering that allows them to build applications that showcase AI potential. Liberty Labs offers products such as Toolbuilder, regex.ai, Opencharacter, and CLN.me.

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• Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
• Gangnam Unni — Gangnam Unni is in the field of beauty medical services, helping users choose a treatment and a plastic surgery hospital. The difficulty of navigating the process of seeking medical treatment and choosing a hospital continues to persist. Kangnam Unni recognizes the need for change and firmly believes that a combination of transparent medicalinformation and an IT platform can foster a consumer-oriented medical service market. Their ultimate goal is to challenge negative perceptions surrounding plastic surgery and spearhead a significant transformation in the beauty and medical service industries.The Gangnam Unni team is dedicated to innovation, fueled by an unwavering desire to provide exceptional beauty and medical services. With the aim of assisting individuals in selecting a suitable hospital, they have amassed an impressive database of one million user reviews. Additionally, their efforts to promote transparency in medical information have garnered the support of 3,000 subscribers through Gangnam Sister. Furthermore, their mobile application has facilitated hospital consultations for a staggering 3.8 million individuals, resulting in 1.6 million successful cases.As the team continuously clarifies its mission and forges ahead with determination, its collective strength and resolve only grow stronger. Kangnam Unni remains committed to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, ensuring that individuals receive the highest quality of care and a positive experience throughout their medical journeys.
• Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.

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• Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
• MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
• Daedong Robotics — Daedong Robotics, a Daedong Group affiliate, offers AI robot solutions that understand agricultural sites, reducing time-consuming and hazardous tasks.

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• TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops robot and motion presenter products.
• Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills Bryant A.I. is a pioneering AI SaaS platform that transforms text and voice data into digital video content. Our technology uses machine learning and natural language processing to create cohesive narratives, significantly reducing content creation time and costs. Since our establishment, we've earned prestigious awards anddeveloped a portfolio of 33 patents. We're also expanding our offerings with innovative products like our Text-To -Video(TTV) solution. With successful Series A funding and an ongoing Series B round, we're shaping the future of video storytelling content generation.
• NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.

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• Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
• Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
• 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.