Country: South Korea

July 12, 2021

South Korea's Tridge, a digital trading and market intelligence platform for food and agriculture buyers and suppliers, announced raising $60 ...

S Korea’s grocery delivery startup Kurly raises $200m at $2.2bn valuation

July 9, 2021

Kurly Inc, the operator of South Korea's leading mobile grocery app "Market Kurly", announced raising $200 million in a Series ...

S Korean fintech major Kakao Pay files for up to $1.4bn IPO

July 2, 2021

Kakao Pay, South Korea's financial technology major, has filed to raise up to W1.6 trillion ($1.4 billion) in an initial ...

Korean fintech startup Tru Technologies raises $3.1m from local investors

July 1, 2021

Tru Technologies, a Seoul-based financial technology startup, announced raising $3.1 million in a Series A funding round backed by seven ...

S Korean delivery platform Barogo raises $72m in Series C funding

June 16, 2021

Korean delivery platform operator Barogo announced raising ₩80 billion (about $72 million) in a Series C funding round, surpassing its ...

Ringle, South Korea’s online English learning startup, raises $18m Series A

June 10, 2021

Ringle, a South Korea-based online English learning startup, announced raising $18 million in a Series A funding round that valued ...

Goodwater Capital’s Eric Kim: 3 Key Lessons from Coupang that Global Entrepreneurs Can Learn

March 17, 2021

Eric Kim, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital, has been a key early-stage investor and board member of South ...

Korean Startup Real Water Develops Revolutionary Solution to Filter Out Microplastics From Bottled Water To Address A Major Health Concern

March 11, 2021

Korean startup Real Water has come up with a unique solution to filter out microplastics from bottled water to reduce synthetic polymer ...

South Korean Imaging Radar Technology Startup bitsensing Partners with Infineon Technologies to Launch 60GHz MOD620 – A Revolutionary Monitoring Solution That Drivers Can Trust

March 2, 2021

Bitsensing, a South Korean imaging radar technology startup recently announced a partnership with world leader in semiconductor solutions Infineon Technologies ...

Jeong Do-Hyeon, CEO Of Raphas – A World Class Life Sciences Company Pioneering In Microneedle Technology

February 24, 2021

Jeong Do-Hyeon is the CEO of Raphas, a global bio company unique with microneedle technology, runs from lab to IPO ...

Korean AI-Education Pioneer Riiid Closes The Biggest Kaggle Competition Of 2020, The Global AIEd Challenge; 3,400 Teams From 90 Countries

January 29, 2021

Riiid Labs, the global arm of AI-education company Riiid, announced the successful conclusion of its first-ever global Artificial Intelligence Education ...

Dable, A Korea Based Leading Global Content Discovery Platform Raises US$12M In Series C Round For Global Expansion

by Yeeun Song

January 14, 2021

Dable, a leading global content discovery platform, based in South Korea announced today that it has raised US$12 million in ...

Korean Startup Ecosystem – Exclusive Year End Analysis – 2020 – All You Need To Know!

December 30, 2020

The way Korea handled the COVID-19 crisis has been praised globally, and startups have played a significant role. Korea has ...

Chaehyun Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Dable, wins Presidential Citation on the 21st Software Industry Day

by Eunjin Kang

December 29, 2020

Chaehyun Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Dable Inc., recently received a Presidential Citation from the Ministry of Science and ICT ...

Korean Startup ROIIVE Developing Next-Gen Automotive Camera Applications For The Autonomous Car Industry

December 24, 2020