Best Security & Surveillance Technology Companies in South Korea
The 149 best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: T Map Mobility.
Where South Korea's Security & Surveillance Technology sector sits in the global picture is exactly what this ranking captures, ordering 149 tracked companies by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum so you can find the players that actually have capital behind them.
The global security and surveillance market hit roughly $284.7B in 2022, growing at a 4.8% CAGR, driven by government mandates, rising urban crime rates, and the push to integrate physical security hardware with software layers. South Korea's disclosed funding pool totals $250M across those 149 companies, and the numbers concentrate fast: T Map Mobility alone accounts for $150M of that, with Linkflow pulling $14M and LionRocket $10M. That leaves most of the field working with seed-scale checks. No unicorns yet. But median app install growth of roughly 15% YoY across the broader security and technology category, as shown in this recent sector recap, tells you mobile-native security products are finding users at real scale. Privacy regulation remains the structural friction here, shaping product roadmaps in ways that pure funding figures won't show you. I'd watch how the smaller funded names, Alchera AI and P2ACH AI chief among them, navigate that tension as they scale.
Our analysis of 50 Security & Surveillance Technology companies
$4.8b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | App-install YoY | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Airfob Space Provider of cloud-based access control solutions | — | — | Unfunded | 26 | 2019 | +33% | — | — |
| 2 | Alchera Provider of AI-based augmented reality services | — | — | Public | 109 | 2016 | — | 35 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 3 | Amadas Developer of connected lever locks | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | 25 patents Smart electronic door lock systems with power backup, automated unlocking, and voice interfaces | — |
| 4 | ANDOPEN Developer of hybrid biometric cardholder verification solution | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2018 | — | 11 patents Card-based user authentication hardware and methods for secure access control | — |
| 5 | APPM Provider of video surveillance infrastructure management systems | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Ars Praxia Provider of analytics and dashboarding solutions using big data technologies | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 7 | ASTEL Provider of systems and solutions for surveillance applications | — | — | Unfunded | — | 1997 | — | 14 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 8 | betobot BETOBOT is a robotics company that offers self-driving rail robot systems for rail track travel and… | — | — | Private | 4 | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 9 | BlackVue Security surveillance cameras & vehicle dash cams | — | — | Unfunded | 44 | 2007 | +31% | — | — |
Top 12 Security & Surveillance Technology 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 · 12 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based video surveillance analytics platform
- Apr 2025Seed—
- Jun 2023Seed$2.1M
#3
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
#4
Funding Raised · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018$149.6Mraised▾
Provider of mobility services, including navigation, ride hailing, and data solutions. The company delivers services connecting users to transportation options. It offers navigation and route optimization. The business provides application programming interfaces and data for enterprise clients.
- Aug 2022Conventional Debt$149.6M
- Mar 2021PE—
#5
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2016 · 13 employees$14.4Mraised▾
LINKFLOW provides a wearable 360-degree camera for capturing VR videos. Known as the FITT360 series, it consists of three/four cameras and features live streaming & WiFi connectivity capabilities. Claims to be designed for public security and it preserves & transmits evidence through 360-degree video. Is compatible with iOS and Android devices.
- Apr 2024Series C$8.5M
- Apr 2020Series B$5.8M
- Seed—
#6
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
#7
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
#8
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
#9
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
#10
Series A · Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do · founded 2016 · 38 employees$1.5Mraised▾
AI-based image analysis solution provider. It provides decision support using AI and develops solutions for multiple industries. Its products include ZioSummary, an AI-based video summary solution to create summaries of videos, ZioVIS, a control system for responding to incidents, accidents, and disasters, and AI-based medical analysis and disease diagnosis solutions.
- May 2023Series A$1.5M
#11
Public · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2003 · 67 employees$5Mraised▾
Chips&Media is a provider of Multimedia SoC IP technology with core expertise on video IP, offering multi-codec video IP solutions for both consumer and industrial markets. The video codec technologies cover the full line-up of video standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, H.263, Sorenson, H.264, RV, VC-1, VP8, AVS, AVS+, HEVC(H.265), and VP9 from HD to UHD(4K/8K) resolution.
- Oct 2004Series B$5M
#12
Public · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2000 · 231 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Provider of software solutions for speech recognition and synthesis. The company offers voice recognition and synthesis solutions applicable in various areas, including smart cars, home appliances, home networks, and smartphone applications. It provides cybersecurity and chatbot solutions specifically designed for banks.
- Aug 2012Seed$2.4M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Security & Surveillance Technology coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time flat
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth flat
How research on Cybersecurity is moving in South Korea
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 484 South Korea-affiliated papers.
- Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute41
- Sungkyunkwan University41
- Korea University31
- Gachon University20
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology20
- Intrusion detection system17→63
- Scalability2→14
- Key (lock)1→10
- Artificial neural network1→10
- Anomaly detection5→14
- Intrusion detection system18→27
- Artificial neural network1→5
- Construct (python library)1→4
- Anomaly detection3→6
- Exploit2→5
- Computer security27
- Network security19
- Computer network9
- Intrusion detection system6
- Denial-of-service attack6
Where cybersecurity 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 cybersecurity patents in South Korea
South Korea cybersecurity patent filing is accelerating — 47,197 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by Samsung, LG Electronics, Korea Electronics Telecomm; annual filings 3275→6425.
- Samsung19338
- LG Electronics3571
- Korea Electronics Telecomm2131
- Electronics & Telecommunications1345
- Hyundai889
- KT756
- Bizmodeline724
- UNIV Korea RES & BUS Found691
Common questions
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