Cenacle
AcquiredSeoul, KR Β· 10 known investors
Cenacle builds a digital healthcare platform that connects hospitals and individuals, offering a cloud SaaS EMR for hospitals and a tethered PHR service for patients to access and use their own and family medical and health records. The platform aims to link healthcare partners into a connected medical ecosystem.
Also known as Cenacle Inc. Β· Cenaclesoft Β· μΈλν΄ Β· μΈλν΄μννΈ Β· μ£Όμνμ¬ μΈλν΄
Investors Β· 10
Also in the syndicate Β· 9
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Cenacle (μΈλν΄, formerly μΈλν΄μννΈ/Cenacle Soft) is a Seoul-based digital healthcare company that operates two connected product lines: OrumChart (μ€λ¦μ°¨νΈ), a cloud SaaS electronic medical record (EMR) system for clinics, and Cle (ν΄λ ), a tethered personal health record (PHR) mobile service for patients and their families. The company positions the EMR as the starting point of healthcare workflows, emphasizing interoperability with other hospitals and institutions, service extensibility, response and processing speed, patient communication, and removal of hospital-side burdens for server operation, data backup and security.
The PHR service lets individuals view and use their own and their family's clinical records alongside other health data, and is designed to connect with or extend to third-party services such as chronic disease management and lifestyle health record services. The company describes its goal as building a healthcare platform in which clinics using its cloud EMR and individuals using its PHR are connected in daily life, with various healthcare partners cooperating around that platform.
Cenacle is headquartered at 5F Donga Building, 212 Yeoksam-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06227, and lists product/partnership and recruiting contact addresses on its site.
Founding story
The company was established in November 2018 as Cenacle Soft (μΈλν΄μννΈ) by seven people who had met while working at SKT and NAVER, with a stated aim of building a better world.
Business model
The company sells a cloud-based SaaS electronic medical record system to clinics and offers a consumer-facing PHR application tethered to those clinics, positioning itself as a platform intermediating hospitals, individuals and third-party healthcare partners.
Traction
Reported cumulative investment of about KRW 23 billion as of the July 2021 Series B; product milestones include the first cloud EMR integration with Korea's national health screening process and connection of OrumChart with the Cle patient app.
Latest developments
Naver announced the acquisition of Cenacle, with the company stating that Naver and Cenacle will build a system for more securely connecting medical data; the company's site dates the acquisition to November 2025 with an accompanying news item of February 5, 2026.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positions itself as a central player in the Korean digital healthcare ecosystem connecting clinics and individuals; recognized in Forbes Korea's 50 Fast-Growing Startups 2023 (healthcare) and Time's World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025.
Combines a cloud-native clinic EMR with a patient-facing tethered PHR on a single platform, with certified insurance claim software, national health screening and clinical information exchange integrations, and patented technology for medical data correction and insurance review pre-checking.
Technology
Cloud SaaS EMR with interoperability to other hospitals and institutions, national health screening integration, Ministry of Health and Welfare clinical information exchange linkage, HIRA (Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service) certified claim software for internal medicine, hemodialysis, clinic DRG and clinic inpatient categories, built-in endoscopy image capture and viewer without separate installation, tablet-based registration, questionnaires and electronic consent, and a tethered PHR mobile app. The company has filed a patent on a medical data correction support apparatus and method (2020) and registered a patent on a medical clinical decision apparatus and method related to insurance review pre-checking (2024), and holds an ICT regulatory sandbox demonstration special case for mobile authentication.
Go-to-market
Direct sale of OrumChart to clinics, complemented by institutional agreements and partnerships (Korean Medical Association, Asan Medical Center, KT, MD Park) and co-marketing arrangements such as financial products for newly opening physicians with Hana Bank; the PHR app Cle is distributed to patients of connected clinics.
Clinics and hospitals adopting cloud EMR (including newly opening practices), and individual patients and their families using the PHR service.
Geography
Operations centered in South Korea, with headquarters in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
History
After its 2018 founding, the company raised a Pre-A round in January 2019 and additional venture capital investment between December 2019 and March 2020, and formed a strategic alliance with MD Park in June 2019. In 2020 it signed an EMR cooperation agreement with the Korean Medical Association, obtained HIRA claim software certification for its cloud chart, filed a medical data correction patent, and took strategic investment from Naver Cloud. Its clinic cloud EMR OrumChart launched commercially in January 2021, followed by additional HIRA claim software certification, a Series B in July 2021 and a strategic investment from Hana Bank in December 2021. In 2022 the product added specialty-specific features, became the first cloud EMR integrated with the national health screening program, and supported clinics' digital transformation through mobile hospital homepages, Naver Place and KakaoTalk channel booking integration and tablet-based registration, questionnaires and electronic consent. In 2023 it signed a digital healthcare development agreement with Asan Medical Center, received follow-on investment from Naver Cloud opening a Series C round, was selected for Forbes Korea's 50 Fast-Growing Startups (healthcare), and signed an MOU with KT on chronic disease management and health business. The PHR app Cle launched in March 2024 and was connected to OrumChart the same month; the company received an ICT regulatory sandbox demonstration exemption in October 2024 and registered a patent related to pre-screening of insurance review in December 2024. In January 2025 OrumChart added linkage to the Ministry of Health and Welfare's clinical information exchange program, the company renamed itself from Cenacle Soft to Cenacle in February 2025, revamped OrumChart's medical record search in April 2025, was named to Time's World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025 in September 2025, and was acquired by Naver.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Timeline Β· 21
launches, deals, and filingsNaver announced the acquisition of Cenacle, a cloud electronic medical record service company, to drive innovation in medical institution operations and external linkage; a related news item is dated Feb 5, 2026.
Cenacle was selected as one of the world's most innovative and influential health tech companies.
The company changed its corporate name from μΈλν΄μννΈ (Cenacle Soft) to μΈλν΄ (Cenacle) as a strategic decision to reflect business expansion and simplify brand communication.
Registered a patent for a 'medical clinical decision apparatus and method' covering accuracy and usability of pre-screening for insurance review.
Selected by the Ministry of Science and ICT as a demonstration special case operator for accurate and secure mobile authentication.
Released Cle, a mobile health management service for patients connecting individuals, families and hospitals; in March 2024 the company also connected OrumChart with the Cle app.
Agreement to cooperate on technology for government-policy-based chronic disease remote care and digital healthcare service development.
Agreement to jointly identify and execute new digital healthcare businesses.
Provided mobile hospital homepage, Naver Place and Kakao channel booking integration, and tablet-based registration, questionnaire and electronic consent services.
OrumChart provided the full screening process including examinee registration, pre-questionnaire, results and notification.
Included endoscopy image capture and built-in viewer requiring no separate installation.
Cenacle Cloud Chart obtained additional Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service claim software certification for clinic DRG and clinic inpatient categories.
Cenacle Cloud Chart certified for clinic internal medicine and clinic hemodialysis fixed-fee claim categories.
Alliance with MD Park, a company in which physicians are direct shareholders, to create an environment allowing doctors to focus on patient care.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 8
primary sources listed
- Cenaclecenacle.com Β· web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Cenacle do?
- Korean digital healthcare company offering a cloud SaaS EMR for clinics and a tethered PHR app for patients.
- Who are Cenacle's investors?
- Cenacle's investors include Kakao Ventures.
- Where is Cenacle headquartered?
- Cenacle is headquartered in Seoul, KR.