Best Fitness & Wellness Tech Companies in South Korea
The 98 best Fitness & Wellness Tech companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sky Labs.
Among the Fitness & Wellness Tech companies building real momentum in South Korea, this directory tracks 98 of them, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent funding activity. Combined, they've pulled in $116M in disclosed capital, with Sky Labs alone accounting for $42M of that, followed by HoneyNaps at $16M, Asleep at $15M, and Welt and NRISE each at $10M. No unicorns yet. But the funding curve is bending upward, and the investor list, anchored by names like Digital Healthcare Partners, FuturePlay, and Shinhan Futures Lab, tells you this space is being taken seriously at the institutional level.
So what's driving the urgency? Across 1,361 health, wellness and fitness apps on the Play Store, median installs are growing at roughly +15% YoY, which is the kind of consumer pull that makes founders and funds pay attention fast. I'd argue that install growth at that scale is the leading indicator most people underweight. South Korea's dense smartphone culture and strong biosensor manufacturing base give local players a structural edge, and when you see that combination, the question isn't whether this sector grows, it's who captures the most of it.
Our analysis of 50 Fitness & Wellness Tech companies
$3.5b in tracked funding; 100% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Fitness & Wellness Tech companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tangram Factory LED embedded smart jump rope | $3M | — | Early Stage | 10 | Deokhee Jeong Founder & CEO | ShopifySentryBugSnag+28 | 5 patents Gesture-controlled smart lighting systems and LED-integrated interactive jump ropes. | — |
| 2 | 300FIT meta Online platform offering reward-based fitness challenges | — | — | Funding Raised | — | Stanley Song CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | 8Cups Smart bottles acting as Hydrating gadget | — | — | Deadpooled | 1 | Daniel Joo Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Allblanc Operator of a fitness video channel intended to offer exercise content. | — | — | Private | 5 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | ate it Provider of AI-driven personalized diet coaching and nutrition tracking | — | — | Unfunded | — | Chloe Founder & CEO | — | 38 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 6 | beats per minute Beats Per Minute offers wearable sports audio devices. | — | — | Deadpooled | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | benefitholdings Mobile app for fitness training through video lesson | — | — | Deadpooled | — | James Choi CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Brlab AI-based sleep data analysis technology improving sleep quality | — | — | Unfunded | — | Emmanuel Lee Founder & CEO | Cafe24Cart FunctionalityNaver Maps+24 | 33 patents Wearable sleep monitoring and vibro‑acoustic stimulation devices for breathing and sleep regulation | — |
Top 12 Fitness & Wellness Tech companies in South Korea
#1
Series C · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2015 · 43 employees$42Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering rings for fitness tracking. The company offers smart rings in various sizes to track fitness. The ring has features like ECG monitoring, PPG monitoring, atrial fibrillation detection, etc. It also provides an app that can be connected to with smart ring to get real-time analysis on the smartphone. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS users.
- Nov 2025Series C—
- Sep 2023Series C$15.4M
- May 2021Series B$20M
#2
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
#3
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
#4
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 23 employees$15.5Mraised▾
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- May 2024Series B$11.6M
- 2021Series A$3.9M
- 2019Seed—
#5
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—
#6
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2011 · 80 employees$9.6Mraised▾
Developer of social platform applications. It provides users with various software apps to connect and share content with friends and like-minded people.
- Dec 2022Series B$9.6M
#7
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2017 · 36 employees$9.2Mraised▾
Provider of a wearable device for gathering player data. It develops a wearable device for player data acquisition. It also provides an analytics solution for monitoring performance and managing teams.
- Aug 2021Series B$9.2M
#8
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2021 · 17 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Provider of personalized healthcare solutions. The platform enables users to analyze and collect data such as physical activities, sleep records, weight changes, walking distance, heart rate, and much more. It provides personalized health insights based on collected data/information.
- Feb 2022Series A$3.8M
#9
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2022 · 5 employees$289.5Kraised▾
Provider of exercise diaries and diet success stories of women. It provides content related to empowering and inspiring stories of women who have made significant impacts or transformations in their lives.
- Apr 2024Seed$289.5K
#10
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 1999 · 4 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of gym management software for fitness centers and personal trainers. The platform provides features for scheduling, customer relationship management, payment & billing, messages & marketing, and more. Also provide members detailed information such as admission history, refund history, ticket management, and consultation management.
- Dec 2021Series A$2.5M
#11
Early Stage · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2014 · 10 employees$3Mraised▾
Tangram is developing a Smart Rope which lets you count the number of jumps, calories burned and also provides you with training and interval recommendations. It integrates social media by allowing to post your progress on Facebook, as well as challenge your other Smart Rope friends to workout goals. It works alongside a '"Smart Gym"mobile application. Raised more than $193k on Kickstarter.
#12
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2013$2Mraised▾
Kairos watch develops smart connected hybrid watches. The watches developed by the company shows time using mechanical functions and displays information like incoming messages, calls, emails etc using a digital glass placed over the watch face. The company also developed a smartwatch strap that can be attached to a normal watch to add smart watch functionalities like alert notifications, fitness tracking etc.
- Mar 2015Series A$1M
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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.