Best Disease Self Management Companies in South Korea
The 134 best Disease Self Management companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MEZOO.
South Korea's Disease Self Management sector is the kind of story that makes you stop mid-scroll: 134 companies tracked, $114M in total disclosed funding, and a global market already sitting at $4.8B that's forecast to hit $16.8B by 2033 at a 13.4% CAGR. That curve is bending sharply upward, and the demand drivers are structural, not cyclical. Lifestyle-based diseases are multiplying, per capita income is rising, and digital health infrastructure is catching up fast. And if you're watching app-layer signals, median Play Store install growth across management-category apps is running at roughly +18% YoY across 613 tracked apps, which tells you where consumer attention is already flowing.
This directory ranks the best Disease Self Management companies in South Korea by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Mezoo leads the pack at $23M raised, followed by HoneyNaps at $16M and Asleep at $15M. I'd note that Algocare ($11M) and Welt ($10M) round out a mid-tier that's genuinely competitive. Backers like Shinhan Futures Lab, Industrial Bank of Korea, and C&Venture Partners are the names showing up repeatedly, which signals institutional conviction rather than speculative noise. One structural factor worth watching: data security requirements tied to increased digital connectivity are shaping product architecture across the whole space, so compliance fluency is quickly becoming a baseline expectation, not a differentiator.
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Our analysis of 50 Disease Self Management companies
$3.0b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Disease Self Management companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founder | Employees | App-install YoY | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8Cups Smart bottles acting as Hydrating gadget | — | — | Deadpooled | Daniel Joo Founder & CEO | 1 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Adoc App for prediction of diseases | — | — | Funding Raised | — | 39 | +9% | — | — |
| 3 | After Ten Months Mobile-based application for monitoring pregnancy | — | — | Unfunded | Han Seung-pyo CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Alcheck Provider of a solution for customized alcohol measurement for transportation businesses | — | — | Unfunded | Sangil Jo CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Alex Wearable device for posture correction | — | — | Deadpooled | Jonathan Kim Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | algorigo Algorigo is a sensor data analytics company. | — | — | Private | — | 13 | — | 30 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 7 | APM Korea Developer of wearable PPG sensors for monitoring bio signals | — | — | Unfunded | Shoon Han Founder & President | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Ason Developer of wearable sensor to measure body health parameters | — | — | Unfunded | Sejeong Park CEO | 7 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Disease Self Management companies in South Korea
#1
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2017 · 5 employees$3Mraised▾
Developer of products to improve brain health and manage sleep disorders. The company's flagship product, Sleepisol, uses microcurrent stimulation to promote relaxation and reduce stress for individuals seeking better sleep and overall well-being.
- Feb 2026Series A$2.1M
- Oct 2024Series A$3M
#2
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2016 · 22 employees$10.1Mraised▾
WELT is a smart belt developed by Welt Corp which is a spin-off company from Samsung Electronics. The belt tracks used a pedometer to track users fitness metrics like steps taken and calories burned. The WELT uses a magnetic waist sensor to track user's waist size in real time. Using this data they can calculate calorie intake. The device connects to the smartphone via Bluetooth. The proprietary app gives insights about user's health by analysing the data collected by the WELT. Have raised more than $72K on Kickstarter.
- Jun 2024Series C$10.1M
#3
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 23 employees$15.5Mraised▾
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- May 2024Series B$11.6M
- 2021Series A$3.9M
- 2019Seed—
#4
Public · Wonju si, Gangwon Province · founded 2014 · 46 employees$23.5Mraised▾
Developer of a wearable ECG monitoring device. HiCardi is the patch-type ECG device used by medical professionals for the remote monitoring of patients with heart disease or after major heart treatments.
- Nov 2023Series B$13.8M
#5
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 33 employees$11.4Mraised▾
AI-based solutions for daily nutrition intake based on health conditions. The company offers an AI-based nutrition management device a Nutrition-as-a-Service (NaaS) that analyzes data and provides personalized nutrition recommendations. It is designed for communal use at the office.
- Mar 2024Series A$11.4M
- Apr 2023Seed—
#6
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2020$14.8Mraised▾
Provider of sleep-tracking API for seamless integration into applications. This API offers sleep measurement and analysis modules using a highly accurate sleep AI model. It eliminates the need for extensive in-house development of complex sleep analysis algorithms, saving clients valuable time and resources. The API is easily integrated via provided documentation, SDKs, and sample apps. A user-friendly dashboard allows for convenient monitoring and data management of sleep tracking results. Pricing is flexible and scales with the specific sleep functionalities required.
- Mar 2022Series B$13.2M
- May 2021Series A$1.6M
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)—
- 2020Seed—
#7
Series B · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2014 · 2 employees$19.8Mraised▾
Developer of an integrated mobile healthcare platform designed to detect early-stage cancer and severe disorders in a speedy and accurate manner. The company's platform develops a product that uses artificial intelligence to gather and analyze blood biomarkers for cancer diagnosis through a single drop of blood, enabling patients to regularly test their blood for cancer markers in the comforts of their homes and physicians to easily monitor health markers remotely.
#8
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 16 employees$2.3Mraised▾
InHandPlus provides an AI-based smartwatch for medication management. It provides an automatic medication behavior analysis solution and data-driven medication management software. It integrates healthcare data such as medication history in a digital platform and provides personalized healthcare service.
- Jul 2023Series A$2.3M
#9
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2022$900.7Kraised▾
AI-powered blood sugar management solution. It uses a Continuous Glucose Monitoring sensor attached to the arm and linked to the Glucofit app, allowing users to measure blood sugar data in real-time.
- Feb 2024Seed$900.7K
#10
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 30 employees$4Mraised▾
Provider of smart wearable wristband and app for ECG monitoring. The users can verify the live-streaming ECG on their mobile devices. The ECG report is automatically transferred to the cloud platform for AI-assisted analysis and interpretation from the analysis the cardiologists can diagnose heart-related diseases.
- May 2022Series A$4M
#11
Seed · Seoul, Seoul$2Mraised▾
Provider of non-drug cognitive therapy led by mental health coaches
#12
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2020 · 11 employees$967.6Kraised▾
Mobile app for mood tracking and cognitive behavioral therapy. The platform offers applications known as Calming blue a self psychotherapy course based on cognitive behavioral therapy, Haru beans to record mood, and also offers an interactive psychological counseling game.
- May 2023Seed$967.6K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Disease Self Management coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Digital Health is moving in South Korea
A read on the academic research around Digital Health — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 625 South Korea-affiliated papers.
- Yonsei University67
- Seoul National University47
- Korea University29
- Chung-Ang University25
- Hanyang University24
- Wearable computer2→23
- Remote patient monitoring2→18
- Wireless sensor network1→5
- Robustness (evolution)1→4
- Health informatics3→43
- Health care3→41
- Wearable computer2→13
- Data science1→12
- Telemedicine1→12
- Health informatics5→53
- Health care2→50
- Health administration3→32
- Nursing research1→30
- Public health1→29
Where digital health is researched across South Korea
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing digital health patents in South Korea
South Korea digital health patent filing is accelerating — 243 filings from 233 assignees (2016–2025), led by Samsung, Korea Advanced INST SCI & TECH, SK Hynix; annual filings 20→46.
- Samsung43
- Korea Advanced INST SCI & TECH14
- SK Hynix8
- EMMA Healthcare8
- COTS TECH7
- Korea Electronics Telecomm7
- Solidit5
- UNIV Korea RES & BUS Found5
Common questions
Sweetie watches where the money and the users are piling in. She covers sector wealth and momentum — the install curves and revenue pools that show which corners of the market are quietly on fire.