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Best AI Infrastructure Companies in Seoul, South Korea

The 55 best AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul, South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Selectstar AI.

55companies tracked
$292.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
24have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · AI INFRASTRUCTURE × SEOUL

Our analysis of 50 AI Infrastructure companies

$46.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
98%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
24unicorns
2021median founding year

Ranked: Best AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingStageEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Acryl
Developer of AI platforms facilitating generative AI model development and deployment
Public94Node.jsUbuntuGSAP+661 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
2ADAMs
Provides platform with intelligent APIs and knowledge base
UnfundedLee Kyung-il
CEO
11 patents
Automated contact lens handling/inspection and antibacterial/antifungal nanofiber paper technologies.
3AI-NOMIS
Platform offering AI application development software
Funding RaisedSiwon KIM
Founder & CEO
12 patents
AI-driven speech separation, automated AI model creation, and dementia screening technologies
4Atlas Labs
Provider of speech recognition technology for developers
Funding Raised9Robin Lyu
CEO
3 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
5Brainsoft
Developer of high-resolution spectrogram speech AI recognition technology
Unfunded722 patents
Advanced audio signal processing: acoustic feedback cancellation, pitch extraction via DJ transform, and multi-device speech trans
6DataHunt
Provider of annotation solutions for training AI models
DeadpooledTaeheon Kim
CEO
7DeepfakeIN
Provider of AI platform generating deepfake content for image modification
UnfundedKesara Rathnayake
Founder
8DeepNatural
Provider of training data for natural language models
Funding RaisedAnson Park
Co-Founder & CEO
Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+9

Top 12 AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul

#1
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 14 employees
$67Mraised

Providers of platform for AI training solutions. It allows users to collect images, voices, videos, and texts from different sources and label and validate the raw data. Its features are object segmentation, line segmentation, classification, transcription, editing, comparison, and other tools for labeling solutions.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 57how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Funding
top 25%
Growth
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
Tech
top 50%
Global
bottom 36%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $67.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 7 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series B (Dec 2025)
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 1k LinkedIn followers — 2.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series B$3.7M
  • Aug 2025Series B$14.7M
  • Aug 2022Series A$66.7M
  • Jul 2019Seed$339K
Founders & team
Howook ShinCo-FOunderSeyeob KimCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Kakao Ventures, Company K Partners, CJ Investment, Now IB Capital, KB Investment, KB Securities
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareContact Form 7Core-JsElementorEssential Addons For Elementor
#2
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 32 employees
$15.3Mraised

Provider of integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions. It provides sensor fusion and deep learning systems on a chip technology, which provides accelerated artificial intelligence solutions. Its NPU solutions are optimized for AI tasks.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 62how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 22%
Patents
top 24%
Innovation
top 25%
Funding
top 31%
Moat
top 38%
Tech
top 50%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: artificial intelligence, deep learning
Patents: 78 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 61 filings since 2022 vs 17 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2026
Innovation: 78 patents (top 24% of patent-holders) · 61 filings since 2022 vs 17 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Series C$46.3M
  • Jan 2024Series B$15.3M
  • 2021Series A
Founders & team
Dongjoo ShinCEO
Investors
Kyobo Securities, Union Investment Partners, Daesung Startup Investment, Korean Development Bank, L&S Venture Capital, POSCO DX
Tech stack
BootstrapGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGsapHsts
#3
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2023
$17Mraised

Provider of AI-powered solutions for multiple industries. It offers solutions including financial services consulting, content writing, and battery technology. It is a SaaS platform that leverages text-based knowledge and user feedback to train AI and generate or analyze information.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 25%
Funding
top 31%
Moat
top 38%
Innovation
top 41%
Patents
top 41%
Tech
top 44%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: ai-powered
Funding: Raised $17.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Dec 2025)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · IP moat: 6 patents
Audience (LinkedIn): 481 LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. OpenAI) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series A$17M
Founders & team
SukHyun KoCEO
Investors
Atinum Investment, Industrial Bank of Korea, LB Investment, IMM Investment, KT Investment, Partners Investment
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailGoogle AnalyticsHstsMailgunNaver AnalyticsNext.Js
#4
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2017 · 100 employees
$6.9Mraised

Developer of AI accelerator hardware and software for large language models. The company provides AI inference solutions, including a software development kit and support resources. It offers products designed for efficient tensor contraction operations and high data center utilization. The company's products support various deployment scenarios and integration with open-source AI frameworks.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 57how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 18%
Growth
top 35%
Funding
top 36%
Tech
top 42%
Market
top 49%
Moat
top 50%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC)
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Funding: Raised $6.9M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 9 yrs (0.3/yr) · Last round Series C (Jul 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 19k LinkedIn followers — 37.9% of this cohort's audience · 177 engagements/post (39.3× cohort median)
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches · 1 partnerships · 1 expansions (incl. Broadcom) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series C$125M
  • Feb 2025Seed$1.5M
  • Nov 2019Seed$6.9M
  • Apr 2017Seed
Founders & team
June PaikFounder & CEO
Investors
Korean Development Bank, Truston Asset Management, Naver, DSC Investment, NAVER D2 Startup Factory, Crit Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle AnalyticsGoogle WorkspaceGsap
#5
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2023
$37.7Mraised

Developer of AI semiconductors and software for generative AI solutions. The company provides hardware solutions, including AI-specialized cores and multi-chip scalability. It delivers AI semiconductor products optimized for AI inference, from edge devices to cloud datacenters. The company also develops software platforms supporting LLM inference and model frameworks, facilitating developer tools for LPU kernels and device runtime.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 62how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 22%
Innovation
top 25%
Funding
top 32%
Patents
top 32%
Moat
top 47%
Talent
bottom 49%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: generative ai, llm
Innovation: 33 patents (top 36% of patent-holders) · 33 filings since 2022 vs 0 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Funding: Raised $37.7M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 2 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Series A (Dec 2024)
Audience (LinkedIn): 3k LinkedIn followers — 5.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2024Series A$37.7M
Founders & team
Joo-Young KimCEO
Investors
Korea Investment Holdings, Industrial Bank of Korea, KB Investment, Mirae Asset Venture Investments, BonAngels Venture Partners, LB Investment
#6
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018 · 32 employees
$3.5Mraised

Provider of Korean speech recognition engine. This technology is found only in smart speakers, It collects or processes simple data, to solve problems with APIs.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 74how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 18%
Innovation
top 24%
Talent
top 28%
Patents
top 30%
Funding
top 37%
Moat
top 45%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC)
Innovation: 34 patents (top 35% of patent-holders) · 31 filings since 2022 vs 3 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 163 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2025Series C$3.5M
Founders & team
Jung YoungCo-FounderHyeonjong LeeCo-FounderHyun LeeCo-Founder
Investors
Woori Financial Group, Shinhan Venture Investment, Company K Partners, Hana Ventures, Atinum Investment, BASS Investment
#7
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2024
$1.4Mraised

Generative AI security solutions. The platform supports enterprises use artificial intelligence, including large-scale language models.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 42how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 22%
Funding
top 47%
Patents
top 48%
Innovation
top 49%
Talent
bottom 49%
Moat
bottom 48%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: artificial intelligence, generative ai
Funding: Raised $1.4M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Oct 2025)
Patents: 3 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 3 filings since 2022 vs 0 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2025
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Seed$1.4M
Founders & team
Yoon SikCEO
Investors
KB Investment, Mark & Company
#8
Public · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 95 employees
$63.1Mraised

Developer of AI optimization solutions for on-device and edge computing. The company provides tools for AI model compression and optimization across various industries. It offers solutions for applications such as surveillance, industrial safety, and intelligent transportation systems. The company focuses on enabling high-performance AI on diverse devices.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 84how this company ranks against its industry peers
Patents
top 13%
AI
top 18%
Innovation
top 19%
Funding
top 23%
News
top 23%
Growth
top 25%
Patents: 216 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 199 filings since 2022 vs 15 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2026
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC)
Innovation: 216 patents (top 8% of patent-holders) · 199 filings since 2022 vs 15 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Audience (LinkedIn): 5k LinkedIn followers — 9.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches · 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. LGCNS) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2024Series C$21.7M
  • Oct 2023Series B$20M
  • Apr 2022Series B
  • Dec 2021Series B$14.7M
Founders & team
Tae KimCo-Founder & CTOMyungsu ChaeCEO
Investors
LB Investment, Samsung SDS, LG CNS, NAVER D2 Startup Factory, BluePoint Partners, Stonebridge Capital
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAngularCart FunctionalityCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#9
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2020 · 58 employees
$30Mraised

Developer of large-scale AI infrastructure. It enables users to optimize the life cycle of a hyper-scale AI. It provides AI infrastructure software designed for parallelization and cluster scalability. Its software stack includes AI infrastructure and application services like chips.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 4.8% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +0 · hiring: LLM Platform Engineer, Business Developer
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Series B$22M
Founders & team
Jungho ParkCo-FounderJaejin LeeCo-FounderGangwon JoCo-Founder & Co-CEO
Investors
KT, AMD, Smile Gate Investment, Forest Partners
Tech stack
CloudflareGoogle Font ApiGoogle WorkspaceHstsNext.JsNext.Js App Router
#10
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 21 employees
$9.6Mraised

Developer of software providing researchers and engineers access to computing resources. The software facilitates access to computing resources at any time and from any location. It automates processes from research and development to sharing and deployment. The software aims to provide standardized, scalable computing platforms for research and engineering.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2023Series A$7.9M
  • Jun 2017Seed$1.7M
  • 2015Angel
Founders & team
Jonghyun ParkCo-FounderJeongkyu ShinFounder & CEO
Investors
Stonebridge Capital, Kakao Ventures, K2 Investment Partners, LB Investment, Industrial Bank of Korea, Daesung Startup Investment
#11
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2021 · 9 employees
$50Kraised

Provider of AI and cloud services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 4.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2025Grant (prize money)$50K
  • Aug 2025Seed
  • Sep 2022Seed
Founders & team
Nayul KimCo-FounderBen AsafCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Kim Gisa Company, D.CAMP, Accenture, milemark•capital, Golden Gate Ventures, City of San Jose
#12
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 49 employees
$23.5Mraised

Skelter Labs develops AI based language processing technologies for enterprises. Its offerings include a conversational AI engine that allows users to build AI chatbots and provides management tools for both sequential & non-sequential conversation flows. Also provides speech recognition & synthesis technology that can be used to recognize or synthesize voices from various speakers with features like emotion, tonality, context recognition & visual processing. Additionally, it offers AI-based hyper-personalization technology and a defect detection engine. It has won the Korea Economy Leader Awards 2018 Innovation and Korea’s Most Innovative Tech Company 2017.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 5.7% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: AI ()
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2020Series B$14.2M
  • Nov 2018Series A
  • Feb 2018Series A$9.3M
  • May 2017Seed
Founders & team
Ted ChoCo-Founder & CEOJungyeol LeeCo-FounderDoug AhnCo-Founder & COO
Investors
Golden Gate Ventures, Kakao Brain, Kakao Ventures, Stonebridge Ventures, LOTTE, Stonebridge Capital
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare TurnstileCore-JsGoogle Analytics

Funding & investor landscape

$292.5Mtotal disclosed funding
18companies funded
31disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
NAVER D2 Startup Factory8 rounds
Company K Partners5 rounds
KB Investment5 rounds
Kakao Ventures5 rounds
Industrial Bank of Korea4 rounds
Korea Investment Holdings4 rounds
Korean Development Bank4 rounds
LB Investment4 rounds
Stonebridge Capital4 rounds
BluePoint Partners3 rounds

Notable founders

Howook Shin
Co-FOunder · Selectstar AI
Seyeob Kim
Co-Founder & CEO · Selectstar AI
Dongjoo Shin
CEO · Mobilint
SukHyun Ko
CEO · Sionic AI
June Paik
Founder & CEO · Furiosa
Joo-Young Kim
CEO · HyperAccel
Jung Young
Co-Founder · Return Zero
Hyeonjong Lee
Co-Founder · Return Zero
Yoon Sik
CEO · eRoun
Tae Kim
Co-Founder & CTO · Nota
Myungsu Chae
CEO · Nota
Jungho Park
Co-Founder · Moreh
RESEARCH FROM Seoul · institutions

What Seoul researches in ai accelerators

Seoul National University leads optimistic research (mean stance 0.76) on advanced memory, neural computing, and ferroelectric devices, with 19 recent breakthroughs dominating and minimal concern.

20 papersstance +0.7670% breakthrough5% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Advanced Memory and Neural ComputingFerroelectric and Negative Capacitance DevicesSemiconductor materials and devicesNeuroscience and Neural EngineeringNeural Networks and Reservoir ComputingMachine Learning and ELM
top institutions
  • Seoul National University15
  • Seoul National University of Science and Technology6
  • University of Seoul2
  • Seoul Semiconductor1

Common questions

How many AI Infrastructure companies are there in Seoul, South Korea?
Radar tracks 55 indexable AI Infrastructure companies headquartered in Seoul, South Korea that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul, South Korea?
The AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul, South Korea on this list have raised a combined $292.5M in disclosed equity funding across 18 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded AI Infrastructure company in Seoul, South Korea?
Selectstar AI is the highest-funded AI Infrastructure company in Seoul, South Korea, with $67M in disclosed equity funding.
How many AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul, South Korea are funded?
18 of the 55 AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul, South Korea on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many AI Infrastructure unicorns are there in Seoul, South Korea?
None of the AI Infrastructure companies in Seoul, South Korea on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Seoul, South Korea AI Infrastructure companies?
The most active investors in Seoul, South Korea AI Infrastructure companies on this list include NAVER D2 Startup Factory, Company K Partners, KB Investment, Kakao Ventures, Industrial Bank of Korea.
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