“We have the super app Yanolja at home and a cloud-based automation solution for the international market. They are fast-growing markets with great potential and we believe the funding acknowledges our technology to keep things going and our great team,” Lee Sang-jin, director of solution business at Yanolja Cloud, told The Korea Herald.
Yanolja Cloud is the cloud business arm of the company, best known here for its eponymous accommodation-booking app. As of last month, the parent firm was one of the country’s 15 unicorns, designated by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.
The mobile app, which was released in 2015, has grown in popularity over the years as a booking platform for motels, with the help of TV commercials that target younger people.
But it…