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Best Retail Companies in Seongnam-si, South Korea

The 33 best Retail companies in Seongnam-si, South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: KREAM.

33companies tracked
$535.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
9have raised

Ranked: Best Retail companies in Seongnam-si

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1KREAM
Online reselling offering multi-category fashion products
$448M34 mo agoSeries CKim Chang-Wook
CEO
2020Node.jsYouTubeEnvoy+13——
2Marketboro
Provider of distribution solutions for enterprises
$44M52 mo agoSeries BImsa Sung
CEO
2016—9 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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3Sky Labs
Internet first brand offering rings for fitness tracking
64Patents top 13%Innovation top 21%Moat top 23%Funding top 25%
All 11 signals ▾
Patentstop 13%
Innovationtop 21%
Moattop 23%
Fundingtop 25%
Growthtop 35%
Producttop 35%
Talentbottom 49%
Marketbottom 45%
Techbottom 44%
Globalbottom 44%
Partnersbottom 34%
Patents: 144 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 95 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21
Innovation: 144 patents (top 14% of patent-holders) · 95 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100
$42M12 mo agoSeries CJack Lee
Founder & CEO
2015Wix eCommerceWixSentry+10144 patents
Patents concentrated in health & consumer products
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4Meatbox
Online retailer of various meats including beef, pork, and poultry
$2M116 mo agoPublicDamian Seo
CEO
2015Node.jsJavaReact+18——
5Supui
Online platform offering innerwear products for women made of natural materials
—32 mo agoSeedYeonhee Choi
Owner
2021Cart FunctionalityCKEditorVimeo+24——
6Mcell
Developer of smart textiles with bioelectric components
—60 mo agoSeedSeunghyun Jee
CEO
2015—14 patents
Smart flexible heating textiles with integrated motion sensors and conductive fabrics
—
7BlockPet
Provider of authentication service through AI image recognition
—86 mo agoSeed—2018—6 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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8Open market gourd for restaurant
Online B2B platform to buy food products
—92 mo agoDeadpooledLIM Sasung
CEO
2019———

Top 9 Retail companies in Seongnam-si

#1
Series C · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2015 · 43 employees
$42Mraised
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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.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 64how this company ranks against its industry peers
Patents
top 13%
Innovation
top 21%
Moat
top 23%
Funding
top 25%
Growth
top 35%
Product
top 35%
Patents: 144 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 95 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2026
Innovation: 144 patents (top 14% of patent-holders) · 95 filings since 2022 vs 39 in 2017-21 · Deep-tech classification: Tech Hardware
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 144 patents · 1 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 824 LinkedIn followers — 10.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2025Series C—
  • Sep 2023Series C$15.4M
  • May 2021Series B$20M
Founders & team
Jack LeeFounder & CEO
Investors
Moru Asset, KB Investment, Korea Investment Holdings, LB Investment, Atinum Investment, Soo Investment Capital
Tech stack
BootstrapGoogle AnalyticsGoogle WorkspaceGsapHstsLodash
#2
Series C · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2020 · 100 employees
$447.8Mraised
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Online reselling offering multi-category fashion products. It is a trading and reselling platform offering multi-category products like clothing, footwear, watches, jewelry, handbags, electronics, home decor, and other accessories by international brands and designers. It allows users to buy, sell, and trade their luxury items on the reselling platform.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 52.3% of this cohort's audience · 29 engagements/post (1.8× cohort median)
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Tech, Service&Business
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series C$38.5M
  • Mar 2023Series C$168M
  • Nov 2022Series C$157M
  • Oct 2021Series B$84.3M
Founders & team
Kim Chang-WookCEO
Investors
Altos Ventures Management, Mirae Asset, SBVA, Samsung, Naver, Samsung Securities
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalityCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-JsEnvoy
#3
Series B · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2016
$43.7Mraised
▾

Provider of distribution solutions for enterprises

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2022Series B$31.3M
  • Apr 2020Series A$12.3M
Founders & team
Imsa SungCEO
Investors
CJ Freshway, BASS Investment
#4
Public · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2015
$2.5Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2017Series A—
  • Mar 2016Series A$2.5M
Founders & team
Damian SeoCEO
Investors
SBVA, Altos Ventures Management, Stonebridge Capital, Devsisters Ventures, IMM Investment, Gorilla Private Equity
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesChannel.IoCore-JsCriteoDatadog
#5
Seed · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2021
—raised
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Online platform offering innerwear products for women made of natural materials. The platform offers products made from organic cotton. The catalog includes panties, bras, underwear, socks, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Yeonhee ChoiOwner
Investors
New Kids Investment
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesBabelBackbone.JsCart FunctionalityCkeditor
#6
Seed · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2015 · 3 employees
—raised
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Developer of smart textiles with bioelectric components and provider of surface modification services. The company uses coating technology (textile sensor material, stretchable material), development of bioelectric components and materials (slide glass for DNA chip, slide glass for protein chip, substrates for biosensors), and also provides surface modification services (hydrophilic, hydrophobic, thin-film deposition, self-assembled monolayer).

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2021Seed—
Founders & team
Seunghyun JeeCEO
Investors
Huvis Global, FuturePlay, Tech Incubator Program for Startup
#7
Seed · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2018 · 9 employees
—raised
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Provider of authentication service through AI image recognition. The platform provides an animal entity authentication service and stores & manages animal entity information in a blockchain. After taking an image of the face with the camera built into the smartphone, the facial singularities patterns are extracted through a face analysis algorithm, and the image is analyzed and learned.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2019Seed—
Investors
New Paradigm Investment
#8
Deadpooled · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2019
—raised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2019Seed—
Founders & team
LIM SasungCEO
Investors
BASS Investment
#9
Seed · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2016 · 58 employees
—raised
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Tone 28 is a manufacturer of skincare products. The company sells customized bars according to the skin type of users. The company provides skin experts to measure the skin condition of each part of the users and manufacture the bars based on the custom measurements. The company claims that the bars protect users from insects & ticks.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2018Seed—
Founders & team
junsoo parkCEOmariaCEO
Investors
FuturePlay, Amorepacific Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple PayCart FunctionalityChannel.IoCloudflare

Funding & investor landscape

$535.9Mtotal disclosed funding
4companies funded
9disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
FuturePlay3 rounds
Altos Ventures Management2 rounds
Amorepacific Ventures2 rounds
BASS Investment2 rounds
Devsisters Ventures2 rounds
NEOPLY2 rounds
SBVA2 rounds
Aju IB Investment1 rounds
Atinum Investment1 rounds
Axiom Asia1 rounds

Notable founders

Jack Lee
Founder & CEO · Sky Labs
Kim Chang-Wook
CEO · KREAM
Imsa Sung
CEO · Marketboro
Damian Seo
CEO · Meatbox
Yeonhee Choi
Owner · Supui
Seunghyun Jee
CEO · Mcell
LIM Sasung
CEO · Open market gourd for restaurant
junsoo park
CEO · Toun28
maria
CEO · Toun28
Prism market signals · South Korea · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,122,230 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Retail coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Retail companies are there in Seongnam-si, South Korea?
Radar tracks 33 indexable Retail companies headquartered in Seongnam-si, South Korea that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Retail companies in Seongnam-si, South Korea?
The Retail companies in Seongnam-si, South Korea on this list have raised a combined $535.9M in disclosed equity funding across 4 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Retail company in Seongnam-si, South Korea?
KREAM is the highest-funded Retail company in Seongnam-si, South Korea, with $447.8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Retail companies in Seongnam-si, South Korea are funded?
4 of the 33 Retail companies in Seongnam-si, South Korea on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Retail unicorns are there in Seongnam-si, South Korea?
None of the Retail companies in Seongnam-si, South Korea on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Seongnam-si, South Korea Retail companies?
The most active investors in Seongnam-si, South Korea Retail companies on this list include FuturePlay, Altos Ventures Management, Amorepacific Ventures, BASS Investment, Devsisters Ventures.
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