What Rocketpunch does

Rocketpunch is a community-based recruitment and professional networking platform operated by South Korean corporation Double Ace Co., Ltd., headquartered in Seoul. The platform connects job seekers, professionals, startups, and larger Korean employers through profile creation, job listings, networking, and messaging, and is particularly anchored in Korea's startup and IT ecosystem. Its core product surface spans a job board, social feed, real-time chat (powered by Sendbird), events and conference hosting, an education course aggregator, and a Discover news feed, all delivered through a self-serve web and mobile experience with freemium access.

The platform is built on third-party infrastructure including AWS (Seoul and Tokyo regions for hosting and file storage), Sendbird for chat, Toss Payments for billing, Google for analytics and ad measurement, NICE Information Service for identity verification, and Crisp IM for customer support. AI capability is provided through an OpenAI integration that processes profiles and posted content for data analysis, with explicit exclusion of use for model training. Enterprise clients access a separate paid tier at enterprise.rocketpunch.com offering enhanced employer branding, job posting, event hosting, and course promotion tools.

Rocketpunch monetizes through five identifiable revenue streams: freemium job postings with paid promoted placements, advertising on the platform, recurring enterprise subscriptions, affiliate/commission revenue from Rocketpunch Travel (accommodation booking with up to 4% cashback), and corporate membership subscriptions. The customer base skews toward Korean SMBs and startups, with named visible customers including 페이타랩 (PaytaLab), 테서 (Tesser), 내러티브 (Narrative), and 카야 (Kaya AI). The company has raised approximately $8.3 million across six funding rounds from 2015 to 2024 and operates with 11-50 employees.

Name

Rocketpunch

Legal name

Double Ace Co., Ltd.

Website

https://rocketpunch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rocketpunch is a Seoul-based, community-driven recruitment and professional networking platform serving Korean startups, professionals, and employers through job listings, profiles, events, chat, education, and affiliate travel services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive RPO (Leadership Hiring Programs) (BPACABAI)

Keywords

• Online recruitment platform
• Job board network
• Professional networking community
• Career matching service
• Tech hiring marketplace

Headquarters

HQ city

Seoul

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Job Posting Services: Companies and employers can post job listings on the platform to reach potential candidates. Basic postings may be free while premium promoted postings are available for a fee.
2. Advertising Services: The platform offers advertising services to companies and brands looking to reach the Rocketpunch professional community.
3. Enterprise Services: Premium enterprise-level recruitment services available at enterprise.rocketpunch.com for corporate hiring needs.
4. Rocketpunch Travel: Accommodation booking service offering up to 4% cashback on bookings, suggesting an affiliate or commission-based revenue stream.
5. Corporate Membership: Premium membership tiers for corporate customers with enhanced recruitment and branding features.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Rocketpunch operates a community-based recruitment and professional networking platform that connects job seekers with employers, primarily within Korea's tech and startup ecosystem. The platform offers free and premium job postings, professional profile creation, networking and messaging, event hosting, education course discovery, and ancillary services including travel booking with cashback and a digital wallet. Enterprise services provide paid recruitment marketing and employer branding tools for corporate customers.

Product overview

Rocketpunch is a community-based recruitment and networking platform operated by Double Ace Co., Ltd., offering a unified suite of products organized around careers and professional connections. The core platform comprises a Social Feed for company news and tech content, a Jobs board for postings from startups and corporations, a Discover news aggregator, an Events & Conferences networking hub, Chat messaging powered by Sendbird, and an Education course discovery section. The platform is extended through the Rocketpunch Travel accommodation booking service (with up to 4% cashback), a Wallet service for in-platform financial transactions, and Enterprise Services for paid employer branding, event hosting, job posting, and course promotion tools accessible at enterprise.rocketpunch.com. Rocketpunch supports login via social providers (Google, Apple, Naver, Kakao) and integrates third-party services including AWS for infrastructure, Toss Payments for payments, Sendbird for chat, and OpenAI for AI-powered data analysis.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Rocketpunch Travel: Business accommodation booking service offering worldwide travel booking with up to 4% cashback.
• Rocketpunch Wallet

Products and services

• Rocketpunch Jobs A job board and recruitment platform featuring postings from IT startups, unicorns, foreign companies, and large corporations, with search and filtering by category, seniority, company size, and work type. Free basic postings are available with premium promoted postings for enhanced visibility.
• Rocketpunch Events & Conferences

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Amazon Web Services, Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS provides cloud infrastructure and system development/operation environments for Rocketpunch's service provision. Data is stored in Seoul and Tokyo regions for service reliability and performance.
• Sendbird Korea Co., Ltd.coreTechnology or IntegrationSendbird provides chat services enabling real-time messaging functionality within the Rocketpunch platform for user communication and networking.
• Toss Payments Co., Ltd.coreTechnology or IntegrationToss Payments handles payment processing and related tasks for Rocketpunch's paid services including enterprise memberships and promoted job postings.
• Google LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle provides service usage analytics and advertising performance measurement for Rocketpunch's marketing and user experience optimization.
• NICE Information Service Co., Ltd.coreTechnology or IntegrationNICE Information Service provides identity verification services for Rocketpunch's user authentication and account verification processes.
• Rocketpunch TravelminorGTM or Marketing PartnerTravel booking service integrated into the Rocketpunch platform offering lowest price booking worldwide with up to 4% cashback, providing additional value to platform users.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional networking and recruitment platform operating in Korea. Overlaps directly with Rocketpunch on job postings, employer branding, and professional profiles, but serves a far broader geography and audience with Microsoft-backed resources.
• Indeed: Global job search and recruitment platform with significant Korean presence. Competes on the same job-posting and candidate-sourcing value proposition as Rocketpunch, but at much larger scale and with broad cross-industry reach.
• ZipRecruiter: AI-driven job marketplace serving employers and job seekers across many markets. Similar employer-self-serve posting model and subscription monetization to Rocketpunch's Enterprise tier.

Direct peers

• Wanted: Korea-focused tech talent marketplace targeting developers and engineers. Closest direct competitor to Rocketpunch in the Korean tech/startup recruitment niche with similar talent-screening and company-profiling features.
• Saramin: One of Korea's largest general job boards, operating a recruitment platform with employer postings, job seeker profiles, and event promotion. Direct competitor on the job-posting and corporate-recruitment surface that sits at the core of Rocketpunch.
• JobKorea: Major Korean job board competing for both employers and job seekers with similar posting, resume-database, and employer-branding products. Directly comparable in product scope and Korean-market focus.

Emerging players

• Blind: Anonymous professional community popular with Korean tech workers for company reviews and job-market intel. Comparable community-driven engagement model and overlapping user base, though differentiated by anonymity and discussion focus.
• Snack (formerly Remember): Korean professional talent marketplace focused on developer hiring and employer branding with company profile pages. Comparable Korean-focused recruitment platform with overlapping employer-customer base in the tech/startup ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rocketpunch_kr

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors10 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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