HANTEO GLOBAL, Inc.
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HANTEO GLOBAL, Inc. - overview
Established
2018
Location
Seoul, -, South Korea
Primary Industry
Information Services
About
Founded in 2018 and based in Seoul, South Korea, HANTEO GLOBAL, Inc. , aka Hanteo is a startup company that provides a music chart service and a mobile application, intended to promote the K-pop industry. In March 2026, HANTEO GLOBAL, Inc. raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from new investor Dreamus Company.
As of March 2022, the company is being led by its CEO, Kwak Young-ho. The company primarily offers the Hanteo Chart, a real-time music chart that utilizes artificial intelligence to collect album sales data from various sources such as broadcasts, social media portals, etc, to analyze and measure the popularity of K-pop artists on a global scale. The firm utilizes Hanteo Aided Tracking System (HATS) to authenticate the album purchases by K-pop fans. The company creates and publishes a music ranking system that helps artists to understand their follower base, whereas it assists music fans to know the industry’s most popular artists based on the ranking.
Additionally, the firm provides a mobile application namely Whosfan, exclusively for K-pop fans, and has approximately 6. 4 million subscribers internationally. Furthermore, the company operates Hanteo news, a big data-based news portal for K-pop, and Whosfan cafe. The investment by SILICON2 Inc.
will help the company to fuel its investments to diversified business segments.
Current Investors
SILICON2 Inc., CNTTech, Dreamus Company
Primary Industry
Information Services
Sub Industries
Internet, Information Services
Website
www.hanteochart.com
Verticals
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Mobile Apps
Company Stage
Series A
Total Amount Raised
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