Best OTT Video Companies in Seoul, South Korea
The 37 best OTT Video companies in Seoul, South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Viki.
Ranked: Best OTT Video companies in Seoul
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viki Provider of an on-demand video streaming platform | $24M | 178 mo ago | Acquired | Changseong Ho Co-Founder | 2010 | Node.jsEnvoyGoogle Cloud+17 | — | — |
| 2 | Watcha Platform offering movies and series recommendation solutions | $21M | 101 mo ago | Series C | Alexjihyun Won Co-Founder | 2011 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+9 | — | — |
| 3 | Catenoid Digital platform providing video streaming, player, management, analytics, and commerce platforms | $20M | 66 mo ago | Series C | Kim Seok CEO | 2011 | DreamWeaverPHPGSAP+15 | 7 patents Secure, adaptive cloud video streaming and content protection platform | — |
| 4 | PandoraTV Video viewing and sharing website | $16M | 233 mo ago | Public | — | 2004 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+20 | 36 patents Real-time adaptive video streaming with on‑the‑fly format conversion and user‑action personalization | — |
| 5 | Treasurer Hunter YouTube-based multi-channel network | $14M | 130 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | PHPYouTubeApache HTTP Server+9 | — | — |
| 6 | Wavve Online platform for streaming videos | $5M | 40 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | Microsoft ASP.NETHandlebarsVue.js+15 | — | — |
| 7 | Minkonet South Korea-based technology solution provider | $2M | 105 mo ago | Deadpooled | Deckerd Lee Co-Founder & CTO | 2014 | — | 40 patents Cloud-based game replay generation, streaming, and analytics for esports and gaming platforms. | — |
| 8 | Trineedle Provider of live-streaming platform | $775K | 51 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | — | — | — |
Top 9 OTT Video companies in Seoul
#1
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012 · 112 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Online platform for streaming videos. It provides live and VOD streaming of movies and TV shows. The application is available for Android and iOS users.
- Apr 2023Seed$4.7M
#2
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2011$20.3Mraised▾
Digital platform providing video streaming, player, management, analytics, and commerce platforms. It delivers solutions for video streaming, including video players with interactive features. It offers service operation consoles, content delivery network management, and service analytics reporting. It provides media asset management platforms, video workflow systems, and video distribution management. It also delivers video commerce platforms, including live commerce, short form commerce, and T-commerce.
- Mar 2021Series C$11.5M
- 2017Series B$5.6M
- Apr 2015Series A—
- Oct 2013Series A$942.1K
#3
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 12 employees$775.4Kraised▾
Provider of live-streaming platform. It connects creators and viewers, enabling users to engage with each other in real-time through video content.
- Jun 2022Seed$775.4K
#4
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2011 · 110 employees$21Mraised▾
Platform offering movies and series recommendation solutions. It is an online platform that allows users to search and stream movies, dramas, shows, documentaries, and animations. It provides recommendations based on ratings and reviews. Users can search, stream, rate, create playlists, share reviews, and comments. It is available for Android and iOS devices. It allows to generates revenue through subscriptions and advertisements.
- Apr 2018Series C$12M
- 2016Series B$5.5M
- 2013Series A$2.7M
- 2012Seed$800K
#5
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 106 employees$13.9Mraised▾
YouTube-based multi-channel network. The company provides content and marketing solutions for creators and brands such as media marketing strategy, content planning, and production, and YouTube channel management for brands.
- Nov 2015Series A$4.3M
- Aug 2015Series A$3.4M
- May 2015Series A$6.1M
#6
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2010 · 175 employees$24.3Mraised▾
Viki is a video streaming platform that allows users to discover, watch, and subtitle global primetime shows and movies in multiple languages. The content is offered in multiple languages such as Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese and the same is subtitled via crowd-sourced translation done by subscribers, under a license, using the technology of the company. Apart from the subtitling for language translation, users can also put up timed comments, funny and irreverent real-time subtitles that scroll across the screen, commenting on the action. The platform is compatible with the web, Android, and iOS devices.
- Oct 2011Series B$20M
- Dec 2010Series A$4.3M
#7
Public · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2004 · 28 employees$16Mraised▾
PandoraTV is a multimedia company for people to watch and post original videos, do a video cast or live shows over the Net via personalized TV channels. PandoraTV allows people to upload and share video clips, run a personal TV live shows on pandora.tv and across the Internet through websites, emails and blogs. Claims to have more than 6.7 million daily video views and 52 million page views every day by over 3.6 million visits daily.
- Apr 2007Series B$10M
- Feb 2006Series A$6M
#8
Deadpooled · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2014 · 8 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Minkonets is a South Korea-based technology solution provider for the gaming industry. It has developed 3D replay technology system for gaming. Also provides gaming video content for gamers. Offers solutions for live streaming, esports, and social platforms.
- Dec 2017Seed$1M
#9
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2003 · 145 employees—raised▾
TUBAn is an animation studio based in South Korea. It provides its production service in 3D CGI production. It develops cartoon and animation contents for various TV channels such as KBS, B TV, Daekyo TV, Disney Channel Korea, BBC, TPS STAR, and Disney Japan etc.
- Jun 2016Series A—
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