Best AdTech Companies in Seoul, South Korea
The 46 best AdTech companies in Seoul, South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Buzzvil.
Ranked: Best AdTech companies in Seoul
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buzzvil Lock screen advertising platform | $33M | 78 mo ago | Series C | Jueun Seo Co-Founder & CTO | 2012 | RubySalesforceFreshworks CRM+23 | 39 patents Mobile advertising platforms with dynamic rewards, shared UI handles, and fraud detection | 1 job opening |
| 2 | IGAWorks Demad side advertising platform | $11M | 129 mo ago | Series C | — | 2006 | Node.jsReactNext.js+15 | — | — |
| 3 | Genie Works Platform offering creative campaign management solutions | $9M | 50 mo ago | Series A | Yiang CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Corca AI powered demand side platform | $5M | 41 mo ago | Seed | Younghyun Chung Founder And Ceo | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 5 | 5Rocks Analytics and marketing automation tool provider for mobile games | $4M | 155 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Jeong-Seok Roh Co-Founder | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Tenping Performance based marketing platform for enterprises | $4M | 117 mo ago | Seed | Jun Ko CEO | 2015 | Facebook LoginamChartsBootstrap+14 | 21 patents E‑commerce marketing analytics and incentive platforms for advertising, sales, and loyalty | — |
| 7 | Ad-Shield Ad blocker solutions for advertisers | $3M | 29 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | WebflowGSAPStripe+21 | 3 patents Portable fire suppression devices and movable acoustic insulation panels for safety and noise control. | — |
| 8 | Adlatte Performance based advertising service | $3M | 165 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jeong Soo Hwan CEO | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 9 | appdisco inc. AppDisco offers a rewards-based mobile ad platform that compensates users for taking a quiz or downloading an… | $3M | 165 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2010 | — | 7 patents Targeted mobile advertising delivery and management platform for terminals and servers | — |
| 10 | VideoMonster Online platform offering video creation solutions | $2M | 50 mo ago | Series A | Paul Chun CEO | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsPIXIjs+24 | — | — |
Top 12 AdTech companies in Seoul
#1
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 11 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Ad blocker solutions for advertisers. It assists content publishers in recovering ad revenue lost to AdBlock. It uses anti-AdBlock technology to address this issue head-on and creates a fresh stream of revenue for media companies and content publishers. It offers tools to keep users informed of the percentage of visitors that have AdBlock enabled and the revenue loss.
- Feb 2024Seed$2M
#2
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2021 · 23 employees$5.4Mraised▾
AI powered demand side platform. The platform supports real time bidding to buy ad impressions. It provides product data driven demand prediction and inventory management. It offers an e-commerce advertisement recommendation model to provide advertisement recommendation services.
- Mar 2023Seed$5.4M
#3
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 64 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Platform offering creative campaign management solutions. It provides products such as Sellerd, a commerce network platform, Pick and uniQ which is a shopping platform. Admerce, a self service marketing automation platform, And Geniefun, a game reward event platform that provides customer retention and additional revenue through advertising It also allows users to make production and deliver statistical analytics of campaigns.
- Jun 2022Series A$7.2M
#4
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012 · 117 employees$32.5Mraised▾
Buzzvil provides a lock screen advertising platform that delivers targeted ads and content to user's lock screens. Honeyscreen provides personalized, targeted ads and curated contents while rewarding users with points that can be converted to other monetary compensation. Buzzvil released the Buzzscreen SDK, which activates the lock screen function in existing apps with simple insertion.
- Jan 2020Series C$17.7M
- Dec 2015Series B$11.1M
- Dec 2013Series A$3.8M
#5
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 23 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Online platform offering video creation solutions. The platform allows users to create short videos for professionals. It provides templates for various businesses like fashion, food, real estate, and more. The app is available for Android and iOS users. It monetizes through subscription charges.
- Jun 2022Series A—
- Apr 2022Series A$2.5M
#6
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2006 · 107 employees$10.9Mraised▾
Igaworks provides demand side advertising platform and audience targeting platform capable of implementing the advertisement required for each application life cycle. Started as an In-game advertisement company later shifted its focus on mobile ad tracking and app analytics platform. In addition, the TF2 platform also allows sending targeted ads to Facebook users based on the analytics performed on Facebook data.
- Nov 2015Series C—
- Dec 2014Series C$8.9M
- Jun 2008Series A$2M
#7
Acqui-Hired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2010$4.1Mraised▾
5Rocks (previously Ablar Company) is a Korean analytics and marketing automation tools provider for the mobile game developers and publishers. Their tools enable the mobile game developers to acquire relevant business intelligence for lifetime value maximization. The tool enables game developers, publishers, and game operator to communicate with their game players. Also provides push notification and in-app-campaign such as announcement, in-app product promotion, rewards, and cross promotion.
- Aug 2013Seed$2.3M
- Mar 2013Seed$25K
- Sep 2010Seed$1.8M
#8
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 23 employees$4Mraised▾
Performance based marketing platform for enterprises. It allows users to generate URLs for promotion and earn revenue through various channels such as social media and blogs. It provides a platform to measure and evaluate the advertising performance of each marketer in real time and allocates advertising costs.
- Oct 2016Seed$1.5M
- 2015Seed$2.6M
#9
Deadpooled · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2010$3.1Mraised▾
Adlatte platform provides customers with a rewards scheme based on the purchases benefiting both the advertisers and the customers. While advertisers can target their customers, users can also choose the advertisement of their choice and get rewarded. Adlatte received Smart App Award 2011 - Excellence Prize in the Specialized Media Section.
- Nov 2012Series A$3.1M
#10
Deadpooled · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi · founded 2010 · 105 employees$3.1Mraised▾
AppDisco offers a rewards-based mobile ad platform that compensates users for taking a quiz or downloading an app after viewing an ad.
#11
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2024—raised▾
AI-based marketing solutions for retail businesses. The platform provides advertising solutions for brands and retailers. Features includes cross-platform analysis, targeting, campaign management, bidding, and more.
- Jul 2024Seed—
#12
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2023—raised▾
Cloud based ad campaign management platform for retail industry. It offers end to end solutions to streamline the advertising process that includes ad creation, placement, campaign management, targeting, and analytics. The platform leverages deep learning algorithms to analyze user behaviour, purchase history, and preferences to deliver hyper-personalized ads in real time.
- Aug 2023Seed—
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