🇰🇷South Korea
is #8 in AI funding.

South Korea sits in the top quartile of the AI race — $1.7B of all-time AI capital across 13 orgs, and 310 MW of operational AI compute across 2 datacenters.AI investment in South Korea has gone quiet — $1.7B raised all-time, but nothing new in the past year while US AI startups raised $208.8B in the same period.

03 — Roster

Top 9 of 13 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding

#1 $850M #2 $268M #3 $260M #4 $200M #5 $120M #6 $0 #7 $0 #8 $0 #9 $0

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ORG LATEST FUNDING

Rebellions

A Seoul AI-inference-chip company founded in 2020 and merged with SK Telecom's Sapeon…

Jan 2024

$850M

FuriosaAI

A Seoul-based AI chip startup founded in 2017 designing inference accelerators that…

Jan 2024

$268M

Upstage

A Seoul-based enterprise LLM company founded in October 2020 by ex-Naver Clova AI head…

Apr 2026

$260M

Lunit

A Seoul medical-imaging AI company founded in 2013 by KAIST graduates Anthony Paek,…

$200M

Vuno

A Seoul-based medical AI company founded in December 2014 by former Samsung Electronics…

$120M

Kakao Kanana

Kakao's in-house AI lab headquartered with the parent at the company's Jeju campus.

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KT Mi:dm

Korea Telecom's in-house LLM line, unveiled in 2023 at KT's Seoul R&D Center.

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LG AI Research

LG Group's AI research center, established in December 2020 at LG Science Park in Seoul…

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Motif Technologies

A Seoul AI startup led by CEO Lim Jeong-hwan, a former Samsung Research and…

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Naver

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Naver HyperCLOVA

Naver's foundation-model line, developed at the Korean internet giant's 1784 headquarters…

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NC AI

A Seongnam-based AI subsidiary spun out of Korean game publisher NCSOFT in February 2025…

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Samsung SAIT Gauss

Samsung's in-house generative AI program, developed at Samsung Advanced Institute of…

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