Best Online Grocery Companies in South Korea
The 71 best Online Grocery companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: market kurly.
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Ranked: Best Online Grocery companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | market kurly 🦄 Market Kurly is a food delivery and logistics platform that enables its users to order food online. | $631M | 37 mo ago | Series G | — | 2015 | SentryNode.jsPHP+24 | — | — |
| 2 | Tridge 🦄 B2B platform connecting buyers and suppliers in the food, agriculture, and marine sectors | $121M | 46 mo ago | Series D | Kangwook Lee Co-Founder & Coo | 2015 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17 | — | 3 partnerships |
| 3 | Marketboro Provider of distribution solutions for enterprises | $44M | 47 mo ago | Series B | Imsa Sung CEO | 2016 | — | 9 patents AI-driven food commerce platform: recommendation, pricing, credit, and data standardization | — |
| 4 | JeongYookGak Online grocery store for meat and dairy products | $36M | 42 mo ago | Series D | Jaeyeon Kim CEO | 2016 | Cart FunctionalitySentryFirebase+16 | 7 patents AI-driven e‑commerce recommendation and smart cooking appliance personalization | — |
| 5 | Dalroll Internet first brand offering muti-category bakery products | $4M | 29 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | — | 2 patents Formulating and processing rice-based cake products for bakery applications. | — |
| 6 | Meatbox Online retailer of various meats including beef, pork, and poultry | $2M | 112 mo ago | Public | Damian Seo CEO | 2015 | Node.jsJavaReact+18 | — | — |
| 7 | Heybread Bread delivery service | $25K | 152 mo ago | Deadpooled | Minjoo Yoo CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Groket Platform offering discounts and information about local grocery stores | — | 16 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | SentryNode.jsTailwind CSS+12 | — | — |
Top 12 Online Grocery companies in South Korea
#1
Series G · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi · founded 2015 · 430 employees$631.5Mraised▾
Operator of a fresh food delivery platform intended to transform the production and distribution of groceries. The company's platform delivers products from offline stores closest to the place where shoppers are located and offer non-perishable foods such as jam, pasta sauce, and canned foods, enabling people to get fresh food on a scheduled time.
#2
Tridge 🦄Series D · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 473 employees$121.4Mraised▾
B2B platform connecting buyers and suppliers in the food, agriculture, and marine sectors. The platform combines data analytics, market intelligence, and human expertise to streamline cross-border trade. The platform offers tools for supplier matching, pricing insights, import and export data, and logistics support.
- Aug 2022Series D$37.2M
- Jul 2021Series C$60M
- Apr 2020Series B$11M
- Nov 2019Series A$10.5M
#3
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2013 · 25 employees$3.9Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering muti-category bakery products. The product catalog includes roll cake, rice chips, cheesecakes, baked sweets, and more. The company claims that the products are gluten-free and the desserts are made of rice.
- Dec 2023Series A$1.5M
- May 2022Seed$1.6M
- 2021Seed$841.2K
#4
Series D · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2016 · 141 employees$36.2Mraised▾
Jeong YookGak is an online grocery store for meat and dairy products. Offerings include pork, chicken, beef, fillet, eggs, non-antibiotic milk, chilled rice. The company claims to produce and offer grass-fed meat. Deliveries are made by its in-house delivery team for the areas included in its ultra-fresh delivery area and by post office nationwide courier service for distant areas. It operates in Seongnam, South Korea.
- Dec 2022Series D$36.2M
#5
Series B · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2016$43.7Mraised▾
Provider of distribution solutions for enterprises
- Jun 2022Series B$31.3M
- Apr 2020Series A$12.3M
#6
Public · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2015$2.5Mraised▾
Online retailer of various meats including beef, pork, and poultry. It provides different cuts and selections of meat products. The business offers customer support and information through its online platform. It also provides details on wholesale pricing and related services.
- Feb 2017Series A—
- Mar 2016Series A$2.5M
#7
Seed · Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do · founded 2019 · 12 employees—raised▾
Platform offering discounts and information about local grocery stores. The company provides a mobile discount flyer service that allows consumers to view the discount information of their neighborhood marts. The mobile application is available for both Android and iOS users.
- Feb 2025Seed—
#8
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2023—raised▾
Online platform offering peanut butter.The company produces high-protein peanut butter with no added sugar, featuring a crunchy texture. The products come in original peanut butter and cacao flavors.
- Dec 2024Seed—
#9
Deadpooled · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012$25Kraised▾
Hey! Bread is a Korean bread delivery service that sells freshly baked breads from selected gourmet bakeries in Korea. The company networks with bakeries in the metropolitan areas and sells handmade bread through its website to its customers. Hey! Bread’s website features a wide variety of breads, baked using natural and healthy ingredients.
- Sep 2013Seed$25K
- Jul 2013Seed—
#10
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—
#11
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018 · 38 employees—raised▾
Platform for traditional alcohol subscription service. It offers alcoholic beverages through a subscription service, allowing customers to experience curated selections monthly.
- Nov 2023Seed—
#12
Deadpooled · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2019—raised▾
Gred is an online B2B platform to buy food products. It provides an open marketplace platform for food product distributors to sell food ingredients to restaurants. The orders are delivered by the distributors through their delivery teams or 3PL providers.
- Feb 2019Seed—
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