Top 50 Software Angel Investors in South Korea in May 2026

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• FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
• SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
• Adversa AI — Autonomous AI red teaming platform that continuously tests AI agents, LLMs, and GenAI apps. 300+ attack techniques. OWASP & NIST mapped. Trusted by Fortune 500

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• Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
• Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
• Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea.KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end ofhis business life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.

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• Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
• KRG Group — KRG Group is a rental guarantee company that offers rental management and rent deposit management services.
• Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology

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• Merit — A software platform for verified digital credentials for government, organizations, people, and communities.
• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
• Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea.KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end ofhis business life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.

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• Ozarka — Why Just Eat When You Can Inspire? Beautiful Reusables for Caterers Who Lead. Save money, time, and storage space with reusables services. Ozarka reusables are not just a sustainable choice
• Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
• Snibbe Studio — Snibbe Studio is pioneering a new interactive music platform for people to socially engage with visual music. Based in the lessons learned from making bestselling bespoke music apps, we are currently in stealth mode, building a mass-market mobile product to release this Fall.

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• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
• Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
• Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

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• Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
• Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.

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• Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
• 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
• DRAMA & COMPANY — Draman Company is a Mobile-based startup offering a cloud-based business card management application. The company was established in June 2013.

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• Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.

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• OpenTrade — OpenTrade (오픈트레이드) is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Having identified lack of communication as the biggest stumbling block in attracting investments, the company has developed the platform to enable transparent communication between entrepreneurs, startups, andinvestors.OpenTrade’s crowdfunding platform enables startups to have ongoing communication with investors and thereby build a long-term relationship based on trust. OpenTrade also provides mentoring facilities in the areas of management, marketing, and finance.

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• Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Story Protocol — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
• The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.

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• XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
• Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
• SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.

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• DALPHA — Dalpha develops artificial intelligence technology for the creation of AI models. The company provides data security and ownership through a secure cloud environment and differential privacy technology.
• MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI

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• AWAIR — Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea.
• Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
• Typecast (aka Neosapience) — The online AI voice generator that can turn your text into life-like speech. Our extensive selection of hyper-realistic voices. Create your content just the way you want it!

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• CLIKA — Tiny AI, Everywhere

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• Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
• Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
• Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat

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• Bolt Labs — Bolt Labs provides instant private payments for everyday purchases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Story Protocol — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
• The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.

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• Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
• Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• Wanelo — Wanelo (“wah-nee-loh,” from Want, Need, Love) is a mall on your phone, curated by people. It helps you find the most amazing products in the universe. A regular mall has 150 stores, but on Wanelo you’ll find over 350,000 stores which include all the big brands you know, as well as tiny independent boutiques and sellers you’ve never heard of.Wanelo is also a way to search and follow all of your favorite stores in one place. It's used by millions of people who post tens of thousands of new products to Wanelo every day.Wanelo was launched in 2012 by Deena Varshavskaya, who was frustrated with shopping in traditional malls. Her personal style didn’t fit a simple category and she wanted to shop in more unique places. She decided to create a social network that would make it easy to discover amazing stores and products from anywhere online.Deena worked on Wanelo for more than two years using her own savings before attracting Wanelo’s first users. In 2011, she moved to San Francisco and raised funding after 40 investor rejections. Today, Wanelo is a team of 35, and millions of people are using it to find and buy products they love.
• Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
• MicroFactory — General purpose robot to automate repetitive manual work

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• Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.

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• AnchorUSD — Unlike competing stablecoins, AnchorUSD holds all deposits in US-domiciled bank accounts. Because USDX can always be created for $1 or redeemed for $1, investors can trade with confidence and avoid the volatility of unbacked cryptocurrencies. We undergo regular audits to ensure that the number of USDX in circulation is exactly equal to the numberof dollars in our bank account.
• Tenant Turner — Tenant Turner helps property managers eliminate vacancy.
• Rescue Forensics — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.

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• Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

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• Ban Life — Ban Life is a mobile application that provides real-time information related to pet accommodations nationwide.
• Vendys — Vendys offers mobile meal management solution for office workers.

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• Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.

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• Yoom — TetaVi Ltd. is an Israeli-based start-up developing a method and system to generate high quality Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) content for sports, broadcast and virtual reality applications to be viewed on all available screens – TVs, mobile phones/tablets, laptops, VR/AR headsets.

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• Neara — Beyond visualization. A geometrically precise, 3D model that reveals how assets behave and react in the real world
• Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
• Quota Lab — Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.

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• WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
• H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.

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• OPENSURVEY Incorporated — • Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
• MoxieJam — Discover, organize, and share your favorite music, movies, shows, and podcasts with MoxieJam.
• Kurvv — Know when and why the mission critical equipment or asset will fail or have issues in the future so that it can be prevented from ever happening.

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• Reve — Tipser is the global leader in embedded commerce, turning any digital surface into a point of sale. Discover a better way to monetize traffic.
• Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.
• Covr Security AB — Covr protects digital banking users from account takeover and man-in-the-middle attacks using true out-of-band, passwordless authentication.

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• ATTN: — ATTN: is a content network that helps young people understand and impact the world around them. It was launched in June 2014.
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• Fenway Sports Group — Fenway Sports Group (FSG) is a global sports, marketing, media, entertainment, and real estate platform anchored by two iconic clubs, the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club (LFC).

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• WaHome — WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform. It connects cleaners to clients across Seoul. Moreover, WaHome provides safe and trustworthy helpers who have completed cleaning training. The company was founded in 2015.
• LTAI — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
• H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.

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• Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
• Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
• Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.

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• SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.
• Precursor Energetics — Precursor Energetics utilizes state-of-the-art inorganic and organometallic chemistry, coupled with advanced process engineering and materials science, to satisfy the need for high value advanced materials within the electronics and energy markets. Our technology can fundamentally change the way that many of these materials are produced.Precursor Energetics’ proprietary molecular precursor ink technology provides atomic-level control over material structure and composition. It thereby improves material uniformity, performance, and yield while enabling high-throughput manufacturing processes using low-cost printing and coating methods.Our technology platform is applicable to a wide range of markets, including thin film solar, Li-ion batteries, transparent conductors, LED lighting, and others.
• Zeuss Technologies — Zeuss Technologies develops next generation blockchain-based Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) technology for cash intensive industries. Zeuss’ software non-intrusively monitors and verifies all financial activity across industries and efficiently fulfills federal regulatory compliance obligations.

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• Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
• DNK — Dongnae provides an online real estate platform that digitizes the rental and home-buying market. The company's platform assists users to find the right house based on their needs and purpose, even find easy transport to work from the resident with the assistance of the brokers, enabling users to save time and energy on finding the right placeto stay in.It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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• Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.
• Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

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• BacAlt — Sustainable Bacterial Alernatives
• PickMyWork — Have a product for Indian Users or merchants? - Leave the headache of scaling up your product to PickMyWork.
• SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

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• GREENDA — GREENDA is a bio-aviation oil and gas raw material manufacturing company.
• Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
• LNPsolution — LNPsolution is a cutting-edge biotechnology company specializing in AI-based new drug development, utilizing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to accelerate drug discovery, optimize compound screening, and reduce the time and cost traditionally associated with pharmaceutical research and development.

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• Toss Lab — Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tools. The company's platform JANDI, a group-oriented messaging platform with an integrated suite of collaboration tools that is tailor-made for workplaces in Asia. It also offers messaging and group chats. The platform serves companies rangingfrom small to mid-sized businesses to large enterprises with thousands of employees.Toss Lab was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with offices in Taiwan, Dubai, Malaysia, and Japan.
• LogiBrothers — Logibrothers provides a smart platform for kids to learn how to code and enhance their computaional thinking abilities.

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• Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
• CHAI — CHAI is a mobile payments dApp that allows consumers to pay for items online by simply adding their bank account.
• Sequin — Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit.

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• Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
• TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
• Mancano And Associates — Domain name Mancano.com exudes a sense of mystery and intrigue, with a versatile appeal that can cater to a wide range of startups. The names brevity, with only 7 letters, makes it easy to remember and type, ideal for establishing a strong

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• KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
• Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
• Treehouse — Treehouse is the decentralized fixed income layer, building yield solutions and unifying on-chain interest rates through its products, tAssets and DOR.

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• Idesign Lab — Idesign Lab is an artificial intelligence-based mobile app that provides web-site education services.

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• Risorious — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.

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• Sionic AI — We provide cutting-edge Generative AI technology seamlessly to your current service. Prepare future with Sionic AI and make your business great again!

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• Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.

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• RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
• Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
• SWING — SWING is a micro-mobility service provider.

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• StormX — Earn crypto shopping at your favorite stores. Get up to 87.5% Crypto Cashback with each purchase. Download the StormX App & Extension today.
• Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.

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• Awake Corporation — Awake Corporation is a creator tech startup.