Upstage
formerly Upstage AIBuilding intelligence for the future of work
Upstage was founded in 2020, is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, lists 51–200 employees, and has $223.9M in recorded funding across 4 rounds.
- Headquarters
- Seoul
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2020
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- upstage.ai
- Total Funding
- $223.9M
- Last Round
- $122.1M Series CApr 2026
- Rounds
- 4
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About
Upstage is a Seoul-founded (2020) enterprise AI company building large language models and document-processing engines — including its flagship 'Solar' LLM — that help organizations automate workflows and extract structured data from documents. Backed by investors such as SoftBank Ventures Asia, SK Networks and Korea Telecom, the 100+ person team operates hubs in Seoul, San Francisco and Tokyo and became South Korea's first AI software unicorn in 2026.
Summary
Upstage is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2020. It lists 51–200 employees. It has raised $223.9M in total across 4 rounds, most recently a $122.1M Series C round in Apr 2026. Investors include Saje Partners, SBVA and Company K Partners.
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Funding History
Apr 2026
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Funding: Seed through Series C. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
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