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Best Chatbots Companies in South Korea

The 43 best Chatbots companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mathpresso.

43companies tracked
$232.7Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
12have raised

Ranked: Best Chatbots companies in South Korea

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Mathpresso
Developer of an AI-powered learning platform providing educational content access
69Moat top 26%Funding top 27%Talent top 28%AI top 30%
All 11 signals ▾
Moattop 26%
Fundingtop 27%
Talenttop 28%
AItop 30%
Innovationtop 42%
Growthtop 45%
Markettop 46%
Patentstop 46%
Techtop 50%
Globalbottom 39%
Newsbottom 22%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 12 patents
Funding: Raised $148M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 8 yrs (0.6/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100
$148M29 mo agoSeries CHojae Jeong
Co-Founder
2015Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceElasticsearch+1512 patents
AI-powered educational tutoring platforms generating and ranking personalized learning questions
—
2WRTN
Provider of AI and NLP tools for text-based applications
67AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 30%Growth top 35%
All 9 signals ▾
AItop 20%
Talenttop 28%
Fundingtop 30%
Growthtop 35%
Newstop 48%
Moatbottom 48%
Techbottom 45%
Marketbottom 43%
Globalbottom 38%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100
$32M16 mo agoSeries BDongjae Lee
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
2021WordPressMySQLPHP+16——
3Skelter Labs
Platform provider to create conversational AI platforms
$24M72 mo agoAcquiredTed Cho
Co-Founder & CEO
2015WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+1516 patents
AI-driven conversational NLP: slot extraction, review analysis, user modeling, behavior prediction
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4Channel Talk
AI and SaaS-based customer relationship management solutions for online retailers
74Tech top 21%Customers top 32%Growth top 34%Funding top 35%
All 9 signals ▾
Techtop 21%
Customerstop 32%
Growthtop 34%
Fundingtop 35%
Talenttop 38%
Moattop 39%
Markettop 42%
Producttop 43%
Globalbottom 39%
Tech: 46 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3
Customers: Play-Store rating 5.00★ across 527 ratings (1 apps) · Review volume +2% in 6 mo
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100
$10M19 mo agoSeries DRed Choi
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
2014Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+23—2 launchs
542Maru
Developer of AI platform providing question answering and natural language processing
$9M27 mo agoSeries BD.K Donghwan Kim
Ceo
2015—53 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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6Mind Logic
Protoype provider for AI-based conversational chatbot development
$5M29 mo agoSeries BKim Yong-woo
Co-CEO
2019Node.jsZohoChakra UI+13——
7CN AI
Provider of data management and AI services
$4M52 mo agoSeries AWonseop Lee
CEO
2021Node.jsUbuntuTailwind CSS+11——
8Fluenty
Developer of conversational AI platform for automating customer service interactions
$510K121 mo agoAcqui-Hired—2015———

Top 12 Chatbots companies in South Korea

#1
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2021 · 43 employees
$32.2Mraised
▾

Provider of AI and NLP tools for text-based applications. It provides features that support text generation, analysis, and transformation for various use cases. The platform is designed to help users integrate natural language capabilities into digital workflows.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Talent
top 28%
Funding
top 30%
Growth
top 35%
News
top 48%
Moat
bottom 48%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $32.2M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series B (Mar 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers — 21.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2025Series B$73.5M
  • Jun 2024Series A$18.3M
  • Jun 2023Series A$11.8M
  • Nov 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Dongjae LeeCo-Founder & Chief Product OfficerSeyoung LeeCo-Founder & CEOSungwon JaeCo-Founder
Investors
BRV Capital Management, Z Venture Capital, Capstone Partners, Industrial Bank of Korea, KB Securities, KEB Hana Bank
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle WorkspaceJsdelivr
#2
Series D · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2014 · 160 employees
$10.1Mraised
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AI and SaaS-based customer relationship management solutions for online retailers. The platform supports retailers to capture customers. Its solution tracks the customer identity, and duration of visit, and drops in messages offering them product recommendations, deals, and more. It manages customer conversations and customers by segmenting them into groups.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 74how this company ranks against its industry peers
Tech
top 21%
Customers
top 32%
Growth
top 34%
Funding
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
Moat
top 39%
Tech: 46 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Devops: Envoy
Customers: Play-Store rating 5.00★ across 527 ratings (1 apps) · Review volume +2% in 6 mo
Growth: App-install growth +37% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 9k LinkedIn followers — 51.3% of this cohort's audience · 19 engagements/post (1.6× cohort median)
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2025Series D$7M
  • Mar 2020Series C$4.1M
  • Oct 2017Series B$4M
  • Feb 2015Seed$2M
Founders & team
Red ChoiCo-Founder & Co-CEOJosh KimCo-Founder & Co-CEO
Investors
BonAngels Venture Partners, Colopl Next, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Global Brain, Korea Investment Holdings, Aju IB Investment
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAtlassian StatuspageChannel.Io
#3
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 287 employees
$147.8Mraised
▾

Developer of an AI-powered learning platform providing educational content access. The platform offers tools designed to support students in various academic subjects. It facilitates personalized learning experiences through adaptive technologies. The company focuses on creating resources that enhance understanding and academic performance.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 69how this company ranks against its industry peers
Moat
top 26%
Funding
top 27%
Talent
top 28%
AI
top 30%
Innovation
top 42%
Growth
top 45%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 12 patents · Soonicorn
Funding: Raised $148M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 8 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series C (Mar 2024)
Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 · 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Series C—
  • Sep 2023Series C$8M
  • Dec 2022Series C$70M
  • Nov 2021Series C—
Founders & team
Hojae JeongCo-FounderJongheun LeeCo-Founder & Co-CEOWonguk JungCo-Founder
Investors
KT, Google, GGV Capital, Goodwater Capital, SBVA, Korean Development Bank
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailElastic ApmElasticsearchGoogle Analytics
#4
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 71 employees
$9.3Mraised
▾

Developer of AI platform providing question answering and natural language processing. The platform offers cognitive search and conversational technologies for large enterprises. It facilitates knowledge management through cognitive search and AI-based chatbots. The platform supports question answer interactions with high accuracy for smart devices. It automatically searches and compares content within documents.

Funding rounds
  • May 2024Series B—
  • Jan 2024Series B$7.6M
  • 2021Series A—
  • Aug 2020Seed$1.7M
Founders & team
D.K Donghwan KimCeo
Investors
Hana Financial Group, Industrial Bank of Korea, SpringCamp, LG U +, Hancom Secure, Korean Development Bank
#5
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 16 employees
$5.2Mraised
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Protoype provider for AI-based conversational chatbot development. It provides an open-end conversation engine, as well as image fusion, and speech fusion solutions. The app is compatible with iOS and Android devices.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Series B$5.2M
Founders & team
Kim Yong-wooCo-CEO
Investors
DSC Investment, Partech Partners, Tekton Ventures, Strong Ventures, Primer, Primer Sazze Partners
Tech stack
Chakra UiCloudflareEmotionGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Workspace
#6
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 — 15.6% 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
#7
Series A · Seongdong, Sudogwon · founded 2021 · 21 employees
$4.1Mraised
▾

Provider of data management and AI services

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Series A$4.1M
Founders & team
Wonseop LeeCEO
Investors
Centauri Fund, IMM Investment, ROWE Partners, MDI Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft 365Next.JsNext.Js App RouterNginx
#8
Acqui-Hired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 5 employees
$510Kraised
▾

Developer of conversational AI platform for automating customer service interactions. The platform facilitates automated responses to customer inquiries across various digital channels. It offers tools for designing, training, and deploying AI-powered virtual assistants. The system aims to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs associated with customer support.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2016Seed$420K
  • Apr 2015Seed$90K
Investors
Zeroth Ai, FuturePlay, Global Brain
Tech stack
Nginx
#9
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2011
—raised
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AI tools to build knowledge graphs and verify documents. It is a platform that aggregates and verifies factual information, to create a knowledge base for artificial intelligence systems and document verification. Its tools enable the building of factual knowledge graphs and offer features such as data cleaning, metadata parsing, deduplication, scoring data points, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 578 LinkedIn followers — 3.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2026Seed—
Founders & team
Randy BaekFounder
Investors
Asia2G Capital, Plug and Play Design Ltd, Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
#10
Funding Raised · Yongin si, Gyeonggi do · founded 2017 · 1 employees
$15Kraised
▾

Developer of an AI messaging and social application for connections. The application facilitates text, voice, and media communication between individuals. It also provides AI companions with unique personas for users to engage with. The application allows users to share experiences and connect through various features.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$15K
Investors
NetApp Excellerator, Overkill Ventures, Tenity
Tech stack
CloudflareDigicertFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiHsts
#11
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2020 · 13 employees
—raised
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Provider of a cloud-based chatbot platform for enterprises. Its offering includes a customer service chatbot that automates tasks of front office gathering and suggesting and an employee assistant chatbot to automate inquiries. It also offers IT and AI consulting services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 220 LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: AI Agent, CXP
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Seed—
Investors
SparkLabs
#12
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018
—raised
▾

Platform to create AI avatar. Users can write down concepts or features and customize as thier chatbot persona.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Woo HaCEO
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager

Funding & investor landscape

$232.7Mtotal disclosed funding
9companies funded
21disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
BonAngels Venture Partners2 rounds
Colopl Next2 rounds
Global Brain2 rounds
Goodwater Capital2 rounds
IMM Investment2 rounds
Industrial Bank of Korea2 rounds
Kakao Ventures2 rounds
Korea Investment Holdings2 rounds
Korean Development Bank2 rounds
SBVA2 rounds

Notable founders

Dongjae Lee
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer · WRTN
Seyoung Lee
Co-Founder & CEO · WRTN
Red Choi
Co-Founder & Co-CEO · Channel Talk
Josh Kim
Co-Founder & Co-CEO · Channel Talk
Hojae Jeong
Co-Founder · Mathpresso
Jongheun Lee
Co-Founder & Co-CEO · Mathpresso
D.K Donghwan Kim
Ceo · 42Maru
Kim Yong-woo
Co-CEO · Mind Logic
Ted Cho
Co-Founder & CEO · Skelter Labs
Jungyeol Lee
Co-Founder · Skelter Labs
Wonseop Lee
CEO · CN AI
Randy Baek
Founder · Factagora
Prism market signals · South Korea · country-scoped Prism corpus, 16,568 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Chatbots coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Chatbots companies are there in South Korea?
Radar tracks 43 indexable Chatbots companies headquartered in South Korea that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Chatbots companies in South Korea?
The Chatbots companies in South Korea on this list have raised a combined $232.7M in disclosed equity funding across 9 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Chatbots company in South Korea?
Mathpresso is the highest-funded Chatbots company in South Korea, with $147.8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Chatbots companies in South Korea are funded?
9 of the 43 Chatbots companies in South Korea on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Chatbots unicorns are there in South Korea?
None of the Chatbots companies in South Korea on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in South Korea Chatbots companies?
The most active investors in South Korea Chatbots companies on this list include BonAngels Venture Partners, Colopl Next, Global Brain, Goodwater Capital, IMM Investment.
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