Venture-Backed Startups

Offlight offers an AI assistant called Offy that discovers tasks from tools like Slack, Gmail, and Linear, builds time-based daily plans, and helps execute work such as drafting email responses. It targets busy individuals across roles, including managers, parents, and freelancers, as a personal productivity and task-management tool.

1 investor

Y-pet (와이펫) makes a rice-grain-sized implantable microchip with a built-in temperature sensor ("안심멍냥칩") that combines pet identification/registration with body-temperature monitoring for dogs and cats. The company also offers an app-connected scanner so owners can check their pet's temperature at home, serving pet owners and veterinary clinics in South Korea.

1 investor

Y Pet Safe makes a biochip-based system for non-invasive animal temperature monitoring, using an RFID microchip with a temperature sensor implanted subcutaneously and read by a dedicated scanner to replace rectal thermometry. It serves veterinary clinics and institutions, with adoption across roughly 300 animal hospitals in South Korea.

1 investor

A scheduling tool that lets users set their meeting availability by day of the week and share a booking page link so others can reserve meetings. It includes controls such as minimum notice before bookings, daily booking limits, and buffer time around meetings.

1 investor

A Korean online store presenting a product lookbook and outlet listings for e-commerce shopping.

1 investor

Weddingbook is a mobile app for wedding planning in South Korea, helping couples find and get recommendations for wedding venues (halls) and create free digital wedding invitations. It also offers a store and benefits/deals for wedding preparation.

1 investor

Wavedeck (웨이브덱) applies AI to sound technologies — including voice, audio engineering, and sound effects — to produce natural-sounding audio. It operates an AI voice platform that lets users generate, register, use, and trade voices.

1 investor

VOLI AI is a web-based AI voice generator offering text-to-speech and voice changing, including custom voice cloning from a short sample. It targets content creators, brands, and businesses producing short-form videos, podcasts, audiobooks, ads, dubbing, and educational content.

1 investor

Wecommit builds full-cycle AI for founders that turns a stated goal into structured, executed outcomes such as grant documents, procurement bids, funding applications, and organizational execution plans. Its Proof–Forge engine coordinates specialized AI agents to draft, review, and deliver time-stamped results, with a focus on document automation for startups and public/enterprise clients in Korea.

2 investors

Indent Corporation develops technology aimed at helping small or one-person teams build large consumer brands. The company's stated focus is on applying current technology to predict market trends.

1 investor

Ingine develops and commercializes wave power generation technology, building offshore wave energy plants and also entering solar power projects. The company operates internationally with local entities and projects in the UK, Vietnam, Canada, and Indonesia.

1 investor

Zerorder develops AI-based medical technology to address infant torticollis, aiming to provide effective and affordable treatment for affected babies. The company brings together software engineers, designers, and other specialists at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

1 investor

New-materials production equipment firm developing CNT production technology and facilities for electric vehicles.

1 investor

JJ&Companies is a global engineering company building AI- and automation-based integrated systems for marine ecology, fire safety, and the energy industry. It applies marine engineering and process control expertise to deliver ocean-focused solutions in areas such as LNG, aquaculture, and fire safety.

1 investor

ZETIC builds the software layer between an AI model and the hardware it runs on, measuring and optimizing on-device AI workloads for phones, robots, wearables, and embedded systems. It serves product teams deploying inference on real hardware, spanning mobile apps and physical/robotic systems.

1 investor

Gendive (젠다이브) is a Korean AI company offering DevDive, an AI agentic Work OS with chat, workflow sharing, and text/image/video/audio generation, alongside AI training-data construction and practical AI education services. It serves enterprises, institutions, and AI firms building AI models, and has carried out over 300 data-construction and 100 training projects.

1 investor

Gbike (branded as "지쿠"/Zику) operates a shared micromobility service accessed through a consumer app that lets riders locate and ride vehicles, plan routes to destinations, and earn eco-points and discounts. The service targets everyday urban riders in South Korea and includes a safety mode and care features for beginners.

2 investors

GLPharmTech (지엘팜텍) develops incrementally modified drugs, including pregabalin extended-release tablets for neuropathic pain such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy and postherpetic neuralgia. The company is a South Korean pharmaceutical firm producing prescription central nervous system medications.

2 investors

GeneCker develops CRISPR/Cas9-based liquid biopsy diagnostics for early cancer detection, analyzing low-frequency circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) mutations in blood. The company serves the in vitro diagnostics market with ultra-sensitive genomic testing for precision cancer diagnosis.

2 investors

Carpe develops KEVIN, a 100% no-code system for creating interactive story games without any programming, using a spreadsheet-based text input method and automatic linking of uploaded art resources. The tool lets creators build games while viewing the visualized game screen in real time, with AI tools for generating audio, images, and translations.

1 investor

KAVILAB develops AI-based surgical planning software and patient-specific medical devices, extracting 3D skeletal models from CT scans to automatically design optimal surgical strategies and custom implants. Used in university hospital clinical settings, its technology is validated in fracture fixation surgery and expanding into joint replacement surgery planning.

1 investor

Kakao Games publishes and operates video games, including MMORPGs and mobile titles such as Odin and Umamusume Pretty Derby, for players primarily in South Korea. It operates official game and brand channels to distribute game news and updates to its player base.

1 investor

Currency United operates Cuunit, a consumer-driven currency exchange platform aimed at recirculating idle foreign currency and reducing the time and cost of foreign exchange. The company targets individual consumers seeking transparent and reliable currency exchange.

1 investor

Cognica builds a PostgreSQL-compatible database engine that unifies relational (SQL), text search, vector similarity search, and graph queries into a single execution model, optimizer, and storage layer based on a unified query algebra. The company grounds its work in published research, including a Bayesian BM25 scoring method and a copy-and-patch JIT compiler, targeting developers and data infrastructure use cases.

1 investor