Top 30 Social Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2026

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• SeedN — SeedN provides air conditioning system temperature management solutions for office spaces.
• Portrai — Portrai leverages cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to reveal unprecedented biological insights, transforming target discovery into transformative therapies.
• Intelon Optics — Intelon Optics is a medical device company that focuses on the development and commercialization of the Brillouin Optical Scanner System.

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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.
• Frientrip — 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.
• Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
• Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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• Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
• RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
• Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

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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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• 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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• Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
• Vently — Discover the best nightlife events in SF.
• Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.

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

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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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• Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
• Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
• My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.

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• R&R Lab — R&R Lab is a semiconductor manufacturing startup that develops heat treatment equipment.
• Inkle — Inkle is a facility data platform that offers industrial software technology services for equipment makers and producers.
• Nuon Media — Nuon Media is an Internet e-book store that sells famous domestic romance martial arts fantasy fantasy novels.

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• Podonos — Podonos evaluates the effectiveness and performance of AI models for speech and audio. You get the evaluation result within 12 hours from global evaluators.
• Risorious — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.
• K-Work Partners — K-Work Partners provide comprehensive living support services essential to foreign workers in Korea.

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• Neuromeka — Neuromeka specializes in robot technology and creates a robot platform business for manufacturing companies.
• H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
• Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.

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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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• 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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• Vroong — Mesh Korea is an IT-based logistics startup, which established Korea's first last-mile logistics network and became the primary provider of integrated logistics services with in-house logistics solutions.VROONG, Mesh Korea's logistics brand, creates new value not only by providing delivery services, but also by connecting information.Currently, VROONG provides four services; premium delivery services, 'VROONG Prime', integrated logistics management solution, 'VROONG TMS', premium fresh food delivery services, 'VROONG Fresh', and premium delivery magazine, 'VROONG Collection.'With more than 80 VROONG Stations and 13,000 riders across the nation, VROONG provides faster and more accurate delivery services.
• Yea Studio — Yea Studio values positive, sensitive, and passionate attitude and is committed to sharing valuable information globally and making a creative application.

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• Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
• iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
• Ace Engineering — Ace Engineering company manufactures containers for aerospace, semiconductors, military, and other industries. Its product line includes aircraft parts, cryogenic refrigeration, bulletproof containers, and energy storage containers, as well as equipment designed for marine and aviation special projects.

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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.
• Tella — Service

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• HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
• Bob Games — A Social casino game developer.
• Barinthus Biotherapeutics — Vaccitech 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, as well as thewell-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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• Glovv — Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform.
• Sapien Semiconductors — Sapien Semiconductors is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company that specializes in display driver ICs for micro‑LED and OLED technologies. The company develops custom ASICs and silicon‑proven IPs, including CMOS backplane drivers for AR/MR micro‑LED and pixel‑level driver ICs for TVs and digital signage. The firm also providesdisplay‑driver IP licensing and chip customization services.
• Next Level Studio — Next Level Studio is a group of creative experts dedicated to generating new value for intellectual property.

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• Dalol — Dalol is a bakery that sells snacks, cakes, and rice chips.
• DEEPX — DEEPX is a Korean AI hardware system solution company.
• Freshstore — We Love To Eat The Fresh Food

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• Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
• Retentics — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
• Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.

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• Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
• Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
• The Blessed Moon — The Blessed Moon is a cosmetics brand that sells and offers skin, face, hair, and body care products.

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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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• cafe nono — 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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• 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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• 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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• Shinol — Shinol is a social community app for matching friends of 5070 generations.

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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