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Best Enterprise Infrastructure Companies in South Korea

The 306 best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kakao Enterprise.

306companies tracked
$599.3Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
52have raised

South Korea's Enterprise Infrastructure sector has 306 companies on our radar, with $599M in total disclosed funding and one unicorn in the mix. That's a real market, not a footnote. Neurophet leads the funding table at $24M, followed by ProtoPie at $19M and Logpresso at $11M, with Korea Investment Holdings and Korean Development Bank among the most active backers keeping the capital flowing. Median install growth across enterprise software and systems apps is running at roughly +15% YoY, which tells you momentum here isn't theoretical.

So what's driving it right now? Enterprise spending on private data center equipment is picking back up after a rough patch, and the shift away from on-premise collaboration tools is accelerating that reallocation. Cloud infrastructure and AI-native identity layers are the hot themes, and AI and trust becoming core infrastructure isn't a future-state conversation anymore. The AWS October 2025 outage made resilience a board-level priority overnight. I'd watch how South Korean firms, particularly in security and observability, position into that gap this year.

FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE × SOUTH KOREA

Our analysis of 459 Enterprise Infrastructure companies

$69.2b in tracked funding; 97% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

459companies analysed
97%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
66unicorns
2019median founding year
66kcombined LinkedIn audience
63%of audience held by top 3

Ranked: Best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in South Korea

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Kakao Enterprise 🦄
Provider of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and related digital technology
$100M53 mo ago685—TistorySentryZendesk+18Top 5M——
2Orchestra
Provider of cloud and AIOps software solutions
$100M30 mo ago260Youngkwang Kim
Co-CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+16Top 5M——
3Hexlant
Blockchain-based platform for security and crypto wallet
$53M50 mo ago22Jinwoo Ro
CEO
——14 patents
Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics
—
4MetisX
Platform offering in memory data analytics solution
$50M25 mo ago15Jin Kim
Co-Founder & CEO
——51 patents
Accelerating manycore processor architectures with advanced memory access and thread scheduling
—
5QueryPie
Cloud based database administration and security solutions
$46M24 mo ago42Brant Hwang
Co-Founder & CEO
————
6NITGEN
Developer and manufacturer of fingerprint sensor and algorithm for biometric applications
$38M165 mo ago—Young Bae
CEO
——40 patents
High‑resolution optical fingerprint capture and advanced anti‑spoof detection technologies.
—
7JANDI
Cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform for team messaging
$26M43 mo ago50—WordPressMySQLPHP+19Top 1M——
8NEUROPHET
Developer of AI-based simulation software for doctors and researchers in electrical brain stimulation
84Innovation top 15%Patents top 20%Growth top 21%AI top 25%
All 12 signals ▾
Innovationtop 15%
Patentstop 20%
Growthtop 21%
AItop 25%
Fundingtop 28%
Moattop 29%
Fin. healthtop 42%
Markettop 45%
Talentbottom 48%
Newsbottom 45%
Globalbottom 42%
Partnersbottom 34%
Innovation: 125 patents (top 16% of patent-holders) · 86 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21
Patents: 125 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 86 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 84/100
$24M2 mo ago101Junkil Been
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
——125 patents
AI-driven medical imaging analysis and clinical decision support for neurodiagnostics
—
9ProtoPie
Platform offering prototyping tool for digital products
$19M16 mo ago74John Song
Co-Founder
Node.jsYouTubeReact+31Top 1M—1 launch
10CryptoLab
Developer of homomorphic encryption software and tools for data privacy
$16M47 mo ago42Jung Cheon
CEO
———1 launch · 2 partnerships · 1 award
11S2W
AI based cyber threat intelligence and darknet monitoring solution provider
$14M56 mo ago58Sangduk Suh
Founder & CEO
JavaGSAPCloudflare Zaraz+9Top 5M86 patents
Cybersecurity threat detection and analytics, including data change tracking, C2 identification, and crypto forensics.
—
12Logpresso
Provider of security orchestration, automation, and response platform and related services
$11M6 mo ago40BongYeol Yang
Co-Founder & CEO
Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceSalesforce+13Top 50M17 patents
AI-powered security log analytics, threat detection, and big‑data storage/query platform.
—
13Odd Concepts
Provider of image recognition solutions for enterprises
$10M74 mo ago12———125 patents
AI-powered fashion image generation, reconstruction, and recommendation systems
—
14SecuLetter
Static & dynamic analysis based email security
$10M76 mo ago16Chasung Lim
CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+31Top 10M42 patents
Malware detection and neutralization for executable files and office document exploit vectors
—
15Lablup
Developer of software providing researchers and engineers access to computing resources
$10M37 mo ago21Jonghyun Park
Co-Founder
Amazon Web Serviceslit-htmllit-element+4Top 50M25 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
1642Maru
Developer of AI platform providing question answering and natural language processing
$9M25 mo ago71D.K Donghwan Kim
Ceo
——53 patents
AI-powered text structuring, summarization, and NL-to-SQL query generation for databases
—
17SOOHO
Blockchain-based enterprise financial infrastructure solutions and related services
$9M42 mo ago25Jisu Park
Co-Founder & CEO
Node.jsReactNext.js+13Top 50M19 patents
Cross-chain messaging, smart‑contract security analysis, and stake‑token management on blockchains
—
18Aston
Provider of decentralized document security and authentication platform
$9M101 mo ago—Kyungok Park
Co-CEO
————
19Penta Security
Platform offering web and data security products, solutions, and services
$8M315 mo ago123Seokwoo Lee
Founder & CEO
WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23Top 5M177 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
20Aim Intelligence
AI-based intelligence solutions for AI vulnerabilities, adversarial attacks, and data privacy
$7M2 mo ago—Haneul K
Co-Founder
TurbopackNode.jsThree.js+14Top 5M—1 internship · 1 partnership
21Fasoo
Provider of AI, data, and security solutions for enterprise environments
$5M90 mo ago137—WordPressMySQLPHP+27Top 10M28 patents
Data security and access control for AI models, documents, and video watermarking
—
22SSenStone
Provider of authenitcation solution
$4M47 mo ago15Chang Yoo
Founder & CEO
HubSpot CMS HubHubSpotcore-js+17Top 5M354 patents
Secure virtual-code authentication for financial, IoT, and industrial control systems
—
23Ad-Shield
Ad blocker solutions for advertisers
$3M27 mo ago11—WebflowGSAPStripe+21Top 10M3 patents
Portable fire suppression devices and modular acoustic insulation panels for construction
—
24WhaTap
Cloud-based application performance monitoring solution
$3M117 mo ago73DongIn Lee
Chief Executive Officer
GnuboardMySQLPHP+19Top 1M2 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
25Alchera AI
Platform offering face and image recognition solutions for enterprises
74Growth top 21%Product top 22%AI top 25%Moat top 32%
All 12 signals ▾
Growthtop 21%
Producttop 22%
AItop 25%
Moattop 32%
Innovationtop 36%
Patentstop 37%
Fundingtop 40%
Markettop 42%
Techtop 47%
Fin. healthbottom 49%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 38%
Growth: Headcount 53 → 110 (+108%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Product: 3 published apps (608 installs) · Company stage: Public
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100
$3M1 mo ago110
110 → 160 (+45%)
Young Hwang
CEO
WebflowAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Clarity+19Top 5M35 patents
AI-powered biometric authentication and wildfire detection using multimodal and domain‑adapted learning
—
26MyCreditChain
Blockchain based federal identity management solutions
$3M92 mo ago—Woosik Kim
Founder & COO
——2 patents
Incentive and compensation mechanisms for blockchain network participants
—
27Security Platform
Provider of embedded hardware-based device security solutions for IoT devices
$3M101 mo ago—Kyungmo Kim
Co-Founder & CTO
——42 patents
Hardware-based device authentication and anti‑tamper mechanisms for network security
—
28Kornic Glory
Network intrusion detection, NFS and load-balancer solution
$2M113 mo ago56CHO Myungjae
CEO
——21 patents
Wireless network security and intrusion detection, including IPv6 packet analysis
—
29Insignary
Security vulnerability and compliance assessment of open-source binary code
$2M93 mo ago9TJ Kang
CEO & President
——8 patents
Identifying open‑source software packages from binary executables
—
30Tobesoft
Enterprise UX/UI development Enviournment
$2M238 mo ago200—Javaanime.jsApache Tomcat+2Top 5M68 patents
AI-driven code/UI generation and automated reel handling for manufacturing equipment
1 launch · 1 partnership
31eRoun
Generative AI security solutions
42AI top 22%Funding top 47%Patents top 48%Innovation top 49%
All 8 signals ▾
AItop 22%
Fundingtop 47%
Patentstop 48%
Innovationtop 49%
Talentbottom 49%
Moatbottom 48%
Marketbottom 37%
Globalbottom 31%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC)
Funding: Raised $1.4M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100
$1M7 mo ago—Yoon Sik
CEO
——3 patents
AI safety tools for generative model prompt filtering and hallucination mitigation
—

Top 12 Enterprise Infrastructure companies in South Korea

#1
Public · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2016 · 101 employees
$24.4Mraised
▾

Developer of AI-based simulation software for doctors and researchers in electrical brain stimulation. It is developing simulation software in neuro-engineering that is specialized for doctors and researchers in electrical brain stimulation (EBS). Its users can generate an individual 3D brain model by MRI, and simulate and analyze the potential effects of EBS in the various parameters of treatment in a clinical setting. It helps with full-automatic 3D brain model generation for each patient.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 84how this company ranks against its industry peers
Innovation
top 15%
Patents
top 20%
Growth
top 21%
AI
top 25%
Funding
top 28%
Moat
top 29%
Innovation: 125 patents (top 16% of patent-holders) · 86 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Patents: 125 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 86 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2025
Growth: Revenue +42% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers — 3.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Post IPO$21.5M
  • Mar 2024Series B$751.4K
  • Nov 2021Series B$16M
  • Jan 2020Series A$2.5M
Founders & team
Junkil BeenCo-Founder & Co-CEOJaehoon ChoChief Financial Officer
Investors
SBI Investment Korea, ES Investor, Magellan Technology Investment, Kolon Investments, Daedeok Venture Partners, Shinhan Bank
#2
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2024
$7Mraised
▾

AI-based intelligence solutions for AI vulnerabilities, adversarial attacks, and data privacy. It leverages data to test reactions of chosen LLM in diverse contexts. Its machines transforms heavy equipment into autonomous machines.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 5.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Microsoft MDASH) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Series A$7M
  • Sep 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Haneul KCo-Founder
Investors
Mashup Ventures, Samsung Venture Investment, Mirae Asset, Smile Gate Investment, Forest Partners
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle Workspace
#3
Public · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2021 · 110 employees
$3Mraised
▾

Platform offering face and image recognition solutions for enterprises. Its includes facial recognition APIs and image recognition SDKs. It is applicable for identity verification, liveness detection, face matching, access control, people counting, and OCR. It caters to hospitality, educational, retail, tourism, consumer electric, and IT industries. It provides AI data construction services for the development of high-performance artificial intelligence models. It perform large-scale data collection and labeling tasks using in-house resources from our own domestic and international data centers, and build and provide customer-tailored AI data.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 74how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 21%
Product
top 22%
AI
top 25%
Moat
top 32%
Innovation
top 36%
Patents
top 37%
Growth: Headcount 53 → 110 (+108%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Product: 3 published apps (608 installs) · Company stage: Public
AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers — 3.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2026Post IPO$3M
Founders & team
Young HwangCEO
Investors
InterValue Partners
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#4
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2013 · 40 employees
$10.9Mraised
▾

Provider of security orchestration, automation, and response platform and related services. The platform integrates threat detection, triage, digital forensics, and incident response. It offers security information and event management, log management, and cloud security posture management. The company provides solutions for automating security operation centers and detecting cyber threats.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 856 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series B$10.9M
  • 2023Series A—
  • 2019Seed—
Founders & team
BongYeol YangCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
KB Investment
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapCloudflareCore-JsFont AwesomeGoogle Font Api
#5
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2014 · 74 employees
$18.8Mraised
▾

Protopie is a code free prototyping tool for digital products. It allows for building interactive prototypes without any coding. Features include multi finger gestures, sensors for explaining design concepts with visual material, mask objects for material design, and test design solutions. The application offered by the company is available for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and IoT devices. Roblox, Deezer, Spotify, Samsung, Rakuten, Daimler, Vivo are some of its clients.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 25k LinkedIn followers — 37.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2025Series B$21M
  • May 2022Series A$8M
  • Feb 2020Series A$6.3M
  • Jul 2018Series A$3.5M
Founders & team
John SongCo-Founder
Investors
Evergreen Venture Partners, Line, Samsung Venture Investment, Vela Partners, HB Investment, Devsisters Ventures
Tech stack
AhoyAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAmplitudeApple Sign-In
#6
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
#7
Seed · South Korea · founded 2019 · 42 employees
$45.7Mraised
▾

Cloud based database administration and security solutions. The product offers data workflow optimization through an SQL editor. It also turns SQL results into a Python notebook. The features of the product include data optimization, collaboration, SSL and SSH tunneling, data editing, data importing and exporting, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2024Seed$27.8M
  • Mar 2024Seed—
  • Dec 2021Seed$17.8M
  • 2020Seed$150K
Founders & team
Brant HwangCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Atinum Investment, Murex Partners, KB Investment, Mirae Asset, Primer Sazze Partners, Y Combinator
#8
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018 · 260 employees
$100.2Mraised
▾

Provider of cloud and AIOps software solutions. It provides cloud conversion and design consulting solutions. It offers products including symphony and contrabass, which are AI based solutions for AIOps, cloud infrastructure orchestration and management. It offerings include multi hybrid cloud management, private cloud virtualization platforms, AI powered cloud resource optimization, and generative AI solutions tailored for secure, enterprise environments.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series B$100.2M
Founders & team
Youngkwang KimCo-CEOMinjun KimCo-CEO
Investors
IMM Investment, Industrial Bank of Korea, STIC Investments, KDB Industrial Bank
Tech stack
AosCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerGsap
#9
Series A · Yongin si, Gyeonggi do · founded 2022 · 15 employees
$50Mraised
▾

Developer of memory technology intended to accelerate data-intensive applications. The company focuses on solving the Memory Wall problem with its data domain-specific architecture specialized in processing large-scale data, enabling users to deliver the fundamental technologies of memory-centric computing for innovating the future data center.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.8% of this cohort's audience
Founders & team
Jin KimCo-Founder & CEODohun KimCo-FounderHarry Juhyun KimCo-Founder
Investors
SV INVESTMENT, STIC Ventures, LB Investment, Industrial Bank of Korea, IMM Investments, SBI Investment Korea
Tech stack
UnixOpensslApache Http ServerSectigo
#10
Series C · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2019 · 685 employees
$100.4Mraised
▾

Provider of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and related digital technology. The organization delivers services including infrastructure, platform solutions, and AI-driven applications. It offers tools and resources for developers, alongside enterprise solutions. The company shares industry news, press releases, and information regarding its developer programs.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 15.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2021Series C$8.4M
  • Jan 2021Series C$92M
Investors
Fredit, Korean Development Bank, Korea Development Bank Europe
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailBootstrapClipboard.JsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#11
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
#12
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2014 · 50 employees
$25.9Mraised
▾

Cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform for team messaging. It allows teams to collaborate, communicate and connect teams, share files, manage feedback and create chat rooms for different teams based on location and topics. It enables users to manage team storage for files and documents & manage settings for check boards, charts and bulletin boards.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Series B$1.2M
  • Sep 2020Series B$13M
  • Feb 2018Series A$5.2M
  • Mar 2017Series A$1.7M
Investors
Ascent, Korean Development Bank, Evergreen Investment Partners, SBI Investment, Somers Investment Partners, Atinum Investment
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerBootstrapChannel.IoCore-JsFacebook Login

Funding & investor landscape

$599.3Mtotal disclosed funding
31companies funded
54disclosed rounds
4rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Korea Investment Holdings9 rounds
Shinhan Futures Lab8 rounds
Tech Incubator Program for Startup8 rounds
Korean Development Bank7 rounds
LB Investment7 rounds
Atinum Investment6 rounds
Industrial Bank of Korea5 rounds
Magellan Technology Investment5 rounds
Mirae Asset5 rounds
SBVA5 rounds

Notable founders

Junkil Been
Co-Founder & Co-CEO · NEUROPHET
Jaehoon Cho
Chief Financial Officer · NEUROPHET
Haneul K
Co-Founder · Aim Intelligence
Young Hwang
CEO · Alchera AI
BongYeol Yang
Co-Founder & CEO · Logpresso
John Song
Co-Founder · ProtoPie
Yoon Sik
CEO · eRoun
Brant Hwang
Co-Founder & CEO · QueryPie
Youngkwang Kim
Co-CEO · Orchestra
Minjun Kim
Co-CEO · Orchestra
Jin Kim
Co-Founder & CEO · MetisX
Dohun Kim
Co-Founder · MetisX
Prism market signals · South Korea · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,140,611 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Enterprise Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · South Korea

How research on Cloud Computing is moving in South Korea

A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 638 South Korea-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201720202026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 35% → 59% across 2017–2026.
top research entities
  • Kyung Hee University47
  • Seoul National University36
  • Kyungpook National University31
  • Ministry of Education29
  • Gachon University27
leading researchers
Ashok Kumar Das · Eui‐Nam Huh · Tarik Taleb · Zhu Han · Mohammad Wazid · Navin Kumar · Min Ho Jung · Youngho Park
▲ Breakthroughs327 · 51%
▲ 23%→56% share
▲2.4× share momentum0 median citations90% since 2021mostly methods-led
Scalability research is surging — Korean cloud papers on it rose from 2 to 30, driving breakthroughs' field-share from 23% to 56%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Scalability2→30
  • Key (lock)2→25
  • Edge computing1→23
  • Encryption1→18
  • Inference1→16
Newly emergingPoint cloud 0→46 · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution 0→26 · Satellite 0→18
Landmark Federated Learning over Wireless Networks: Optimization Model Design and Analysis · 1,002 cites
◆ Advancements190 · 30%
▼ 38%→28% share
▼0.7× share momentum0 median citations79% since 2021mostly methods-led
Operating system advancements are rising sharply — Korean cloud papers grew from 1 to 16 as advancements' field-share fell 38% to 28%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Operating system1→16
  • Key (lock)1→15
  • Edge computing1→8
  • Big data1→6
  • Scheduling (production processes)2→7
Newly emergingPoint cloud 0→17 · Scalability 0→13 · Internet of Things 0→8
Landmark An Overview of Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Analytics in Agriculture: Benefits and Challenges · 1,388 cites
▼ Concerns71 · 11%
▲ 8%→10% share
▲1.2× share momentum0 median citations75% since 2021mostly empirical
Key (lock) security concerns are intensifying — Korean cloud papers rose from 2 to 12, with Big data newly emerging at 9 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Key (lock)2→12
Newly emergingBig data 0→9 · Digital transformation 0→5 · Aerosol 0→5
Landmark A Taxonomy and Survey of Cloud Computing Systems · 1,307 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · South Korea

Where cloud computing 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.

Seoul181 · +0.60
Hot · Distributed computingAdvancing · Scheduling (production processes)Opportunity · Point cloudConcern · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
Daejeon56 · +0.61
Hot · GeologyAdvancing · LidarOpportunity · Architecture
Daegu45 · +0.58
Hot · Weather Research and Forecasting ModelAdvancing · ServerOpportunity · Scalability
Seongnam-si42 · +0.71
Hot · Convolutional neural networkAdvancing · Anomaly detectionOpportunity · Latency (audio)
Busan28 · +0.63
Hot · Edge deviceAdvancing · Internet of ThingsOpportunity · Operating system
Ulsan24 · +0.50
Hot · Data assimilationAdvancing · PrecipitationOpportunity · Point cloud
Incheon18 · +0.59
Advancing · Geostationary orbitOpportunity · Software deployment
Gwangju16 · +0.70
Hot · EncryptionAdvancing · Key (lock)Opportunity · Edge computing
Jeonju15 · +0.54
Advancing · Geostationary orbitOpportunity · Satellite
Suwon14 · +0.75
Advancing · Internet of ThingsOpportunity · Key (lock)
PATENT SIGNAL · South Korea

Who's filing cloud computing patents in South Korea

South Korea cloud computing patent filing is cooling — 771 filings from 603 assignees (2016–2025), led by Samsung, Korea Electronics Telecomm, KT; annual filings 96→71.

771 filings603 assigneespeak 96/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Samsung203
  • Korea Electronics Telecomm149
  • KT76
  • Electronics & Telecommunications66
  • Korea Advanced INST SCI & TECH35
  • SK Planet35
  • SK Telecom31
  • UNIV Korea RES & BUS Found27

Common questions

How many Enterprise Infrastructure companies are there in South Korea?
Radar tracks 306 indexable Enterprise Infrastructure companies headquartered in South Korea that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Enterprise Infrastructure companies in South Korea?
The Enterprise Infrastructure companies in South Korea on this list have raised a combined $599.3M in disclosed equity funding across 31 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Enterprise Infrastructure company in South Korea?
Kakao Enterprise is the highest-funded Enterprise Infrastructure company in South Korea, with $100.4M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Enterprise Infrastructure companies in South Korea are funded?
31 of the 306 Enterprise Infrastructure companies in South Korea on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Enterprise Infrastructure unicorns are there in South Korea?
1 Enterprise Infrastructure company in South Korea on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in South Korea Enterprise Infrastructure companies?
The most active investors in South Korea Enterprise Infrastructure companies on this list include Korea Investment Holdings, Shinhan Futures Lab, Tech Incubator Program for Startup, Korean Development Bank, LB Investment.
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