# ZER01NE

> ZER01NE is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seochon, South Korea
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://zer01ne.zone
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zer01ne.zone

ZER01NE is a VC fund in Seochon focused on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. ZER01NE is creating an ecosystem for creative talents to collaborate with start-ups and developing ground of participation.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $629k–$6.6M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$102M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 23% |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| Automotive | 5 | 16% |
| Robotics | 3 | 10% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 55% |
| Series A | 9 | 29% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 23 | 74% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noh Gyu-seung | Team Leader | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noh-gyu-seung |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frefins | Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers. | $3.4M | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Design and Practice | Design and Practice is a mobility technology company that develops Chazm, a platform for comparing automobile lease and rental services. The company provides transparent pricing, vehicle comparison tools, and mobility-related information that help users evaluate leasing and rental options more efficiently. Its platform focuses on simplifyingvehicle selection and contract comparison for consumers. | $10.3M | Series A | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Coxwave | Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows. | $4.7M | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Holiday Robotics | Holiday Robotics is a robotics company that specializes in the development and commercialization of humanoid robots with sophisticated robotic hands. | $102.1M | Series A | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Omelet | Omelet provides support for building and utilizing an AI-powered decision-making system through OaaSIS. |  | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Solarstic | Solarstic is an innovative, eco-friendly energy technology startup specializing in the development of lightweight, high-efficiency solar modules designed to make clean energy more accessible, scalable, and sustainable for residential, commercial, and off-grid applications. | $546K | Seed | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Narnia Labs | Narnia Labs is the developer of artificial intelligence-based design software designed to provide domain-based three-dimensional synthetic data. The company's software provides design creation, evaluation, optimization, and recommendation services, enabling clients from engineering and industrial design fields to develop performance bycollaborating with AI, from manufacturing to architecture, medicine, and the metaverse. | $2.1M | Seed | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Capture6 | Capture6 develops and commercializes highly scalable approaches to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The company is pioneering an approach that can be deployed today by repurposing existing industrial scale technologies. | $27.5M | Series A | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| H Charging Research Institute | H Charging Research Institute is an electric vehicle company. Aside from fire prevention and PNC (Plug & Charge) charging services, the company plans to build a V2G power business using electric vehicles by using advanced charging technology. The company distributes PLC-embedded charger H chargers to the market and diversifies futurebusinesses, including V2G, in order to create the future of electric vehicle charging. | $722.8K | Seed | Nov 07, 2024 |  |
| Holiday Robotics | Holiday Robotics is a robotics company that specializes in the development and commercialization of humanoid robots with sophisticated robotic hands. | $13.2M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Industrial Bank of Korea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industrial-bank-of-korea) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Honest Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/honest-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hyundai Motor Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyundai-motor-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HYUNDAI Motor Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyundai-motor-securities) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Korea Development Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korean-development-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Springcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spring-camp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does ZER01NE invest in?

ZER01NE invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is ZER01NE's check size?

ZER01NE typically joins rounds of $629k–$6.6M at Seed and $1.6M–$102M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ZER01NE participates in.

### How do I contact ZER01NE?

Public channels for ZER01NE include the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at ZER01NE?

The team at ZER01NE includes Noh Gyu-seung (Team Leader). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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