Best Image Recognition Companies in South Korea
The 41 best Image Recognition companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: NITGEN.
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Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NITGEN Developer and manufacturer of fingerprint sensor and algorithm for biometric applications | $38M | 167 mo ago | Funding Raised | Young Bae CEO | 1998 | — | 40 patents High‑resolution optical fingerprint capture and anti‑spoof detection technologies. | — |
| 2 | LionRocket AI to develop innovative content creation tools. It is including virtual face apps and webtoon production… | $10M | 31 mo ago | Series A | Lucas Jeong Founder & CEO | 2019 | SentryReact RouterReact+11 | 46 patents AI-driven generative media creation for webtoons, images, voice, and facial effects | — |
| 3 | Odd Concepts Provider of image recognition solutions for enterprises | $10M | 77 mo ago | Series B | — | 2008 | — | 125 patents AI-powered fashion image generation, reconstruction, and recommendation systems | — |
| 4 | SOOHO Blockchain-based enterprise financial infrastructure solutions and related services | $9M | 44 mo ago | Series A | Jisu Park Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | Node.jsReactNext.js+13 | 19 patents Blockchain interoperability, smart contract security analysis, and stake-based token management solutions. | — |
| 5 | Alchera 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 | $3M | 3 mo ago | Public | Young Hwang CEO | 2021 | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Clarity+19 | 35 patents AI-driven biometric security and wildfire detection using computer‑vision and domain‑adaptation | — |
| 6 | P2ACH AI Provider of AI-powered retail media analytics 42Patents top 45%AI top 45%Innovation top 47%Talent bottom 45% All 6 signals ▾Patentstop 45% AItop 45% Innovationtop 47% Talentbottom 45% Fundingbottom 41% Globalbottom 33% Patents: 8 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 8 filings since 2022 vs 0 in 2017-21 AI: Product described with: ai-powered rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $2M | 17 mo ago | Seed | Dongyul Lee CEO | 2021 | — | 8 patents AI-driven management, recommendation, and performance measurement for outdoor advertising | 2 partnerships · 1 award |
| 7 | KeyPair Developer of security chips, hardware wallets, and related security solutions | — | 8 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | — | 16 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 8 | DoingLAB Developer of AI-based apps for calorie tracking and nutrition recommendation | — | 30 mo ago | Series A | Jin Baik Founder & CEO | 2016 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+11 | 26 patents AI-driven personalized nutrition assessment and health monitoring technologies | — |
Top 10 Image Recognition companies in South Korea
#1
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.
- May 2026Post IPO$3M
#2
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2021$2Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered retail media analytics. This company offers a solution that uses vision AI to analyze retail visitor demographics, track ad performance, and measure foot traffic. The technology provides real-time insights into customer behavior and ad effectiveness, enabling targeted advertising and optimized budget allocation. Data processing occurs on-device to ensure privacy, with only aggregated results shared via the cloud. The platform integrates with existing digital signage and adapts to retail spaces of varying sizes. Visual dashboards present complex data into actionable insights.
- Apr 2025Seed$2M
#3
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 32 employees$10.1Mraised▾
AI to develop innovative content creation tools. It is including virtual face apps and webtoon production platforms, aiming to revolutionize the content market with its cutting-edge technology.. The company's AI-driven webtoon production tool reduces production costs and data requirements, while its AI-powered image processing capabilities offer efficient and high-quality results. It has applications in various sectors, including content creation, marketing, and more.
- Jan 2024Series A—
- Dec 2023Series A$4.6M
- Dec 2021Series A$5.5M
#4
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018 · 25 employees$9Mraised▾
Blockchain-based enterprise financial infrastructure solutions and related services. It delivers tools for tokenized asset management and cross-platform settlement. It offers platforms for building blockchain solutions and optimizing artificial intelligence frameworks. The company also provides security verification tools for smart contracts and solutions for programming fund usage.
- Dec 2022Series A$4.5M
- Apr 2022Series A$4.5M
#5
Funding Raised · Seoul, Seoul · founded 1998$38Mraised▾
NITGEN focuses on developing fingerprint recognition sensor, algorithm, and biometric solutions. The sensor is specially designed for SEIR ( Surface Enhanced Irregular Reflection). Simialrly the NITGEN fingerprint algorithm has fast recognition speed, highly accurate recognition ratio, and excellent recognition capability.
- Sep 2012Conventional Debt$38M
#6
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2008 · 12 employees$10.1Mraised▾
Odd Concepts provides computer vision and deep learning based image recognition solutions for enterprises. Uses its proprietary image recognition platform to develop products and provide cloud-based API solutions for clients. Partners and clients include eBay, Samsung, Fastcat, Info Bank among others.
- Mar 2020Series B$6M
- Nov 2017Series A$3.2M
- Feb 2016Seed$860K
#7
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012 · 17 employees—raised▾
Developer of security chips, hardware wallets, and related security solutions. The company provides security chips applicable to advanced metering infrastructure modems and meters. It offers hardware security modules, including security tokens, for secure authentication. Additionally, it develops hardware wallets and custody services for digital asset protection, supporting multi-signature and backup options. The company's technology extends to cryptographic libraries and smart card technologies.
- Dec 2025Seed—
#8
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2016 · 24 employees—raised▾
DoingLAB is a technology company that provides AI-based apps for calorie tracking and nutrition recommendation. It offers 'DietCameraAI', which is an app for tracking calories and analyzing eating patterns using AI-based camera; and 'Diabetic Camera', which recommends recipes suitable for diabetes. The apps are available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Mar 2024Series A—
- Sep 2018Seed—
#9
Seed · Busan, Busan · founded 2022—raised▾
Provider of AI and computer vision-based aquaculture farming solutions. It offers growth monitoring solutions to predict the weight of the fish, feed optimization to identify the appetite of the fish, and health monitoring to check for damage in fish. It also provides IoT-based remote monitoring solutions for fish farmers.
- Apr 2023Seed—
#10
Public · Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do · founded 1989 · 161 employees—raised▾
Provider of digital security solutions. They offer wide range of solutions such as image sensing solutions,3D sensing solutions,security solutions and automotive solutions.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Image Recognition coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Computer Vision is moving in South Korea
A read on the academic research around Computer Vision — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,071 South Korea-affiliated papers.
- Seoul National University73
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology71
- Sungkyunkwan University55
- Ministry of Education52
- Yonsei University51
- Pattern recognition (psychology)17→122
- Segmentation2→97
- Convolutional neural network17→104
- Feature (linguistics)4→66
- Feature extraction1→33
- Convolutional neural network3→51
- Pattern recognition (psychology)4→45
- Feature (linguistics)1→27
- Segmentation1→27
- Tracking (education)1→10
- Medical imaging5
- Code (set theory)4
- Convolutional neural network4
- Encoding (memory)3
- Perception3
Where computer vision 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 computer vision patents in South Korea
South Korea computer vision patent filing is accelerating — 2,014 filings from 729 assignees (2016–2025), led by Samsung, Hyundai, Stradvision; annual filings 42→361.
- Samsung415
- Hyundai92
- Stradvision69
- Electronics & Telecommunications55
- Korea Advanced INST SCI & TECH54
- KIA45
- Korea Electronics Technology45
- UNIV Korea RES & BUS Found45
Common questions
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