Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in South Korea (September 2026)

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• Locuskorea — Locuskorea is an early-stage firm that focuses on local distribution and logistics businesses.
• Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
• DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
• Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
• Raion Robotics — Raion Robotics manufactures walking robots for industrial applications and offers prospects in potential industries such as defense, construction, and logistics.

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• WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
• Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
• READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.

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• IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
• MID — MID specializes in the development, testing, and production of space-related components.
• CarbonSix — CarbonSix delivers cutting-edge robotics automation for manufacturing, combining Six-Sigma robot dexterity and intelligence to transform industrial operations worldwide.

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• Kids Note — KidsNote (키즈노트) is a Korean childcare-based web and mobile application that connects teachers with parents. Established in 2012, KidsNote enables parents to get notified of announcements made by teachers.
• A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
• Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.

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• Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
• Plantner — PLANTNER develops environmentally friendly polymers that utilizes the controlled-release characteristics of alginate, a polymer derived from seaweed, along with natural controlled-release fertilizers to substitute current chemical products. Concurrently, the company is engaged in research and development as well as local field trials in Korea andVietnam. These innovations are directly aimed at promoting low-input sustainable agriculture. The organization is committed to tackling the unsustainable practices prevalent in conventional agriculture through the use of slow-release fertilizers, aspiring to foster eco-friendly advancements rooted in natural materials, beginning with agriculture, which is the cornerstone of the industry. In traditional agricultural settings, the significant loss of chemical fertilizers has resulted in nutrient depletion, leading to soil degradation issues such as acidification. This reduction in soil productivity compels farmers to resort to even greater quantities of chemicals to enhance yields, thereby perpetuating a detrimental cycle of increasing overuse. As a response, coated slow-release fertilizers have been introduced; however, their synthetic polymer coatings have contributed to the buildup of microplastics in the soil, harming the habitats of beneficial microorganisms and generating additional environmental challenges. To mitigate these concerns, ongoing research and development efforts are focused on substituting the conventional coating materials of slow-release fertilizers which are responsible for environmental issues like residual microplastics with alginate, a biodegradable polymer sourced from seaweed.
• Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops an automotive data platform that enables real-time data transfer, sharing, and structured data management. The platform offers end-to-end capabilities, including data collection, storage, and deployment pipelines for processing vehicle big data through web-based visualization tools. It allows users to access streamingdata without local downloads and supports seamless collaboration among engineers worldwide.

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• Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
• Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
• KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.

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• Qnovo — Trusted worldwide to power the products that power your life.
• Upstage — Upstage AI develops artificial intelligence technologies focused on large language models and document processing systems designed to support enterprise workflows. Its platform includes tools that convert unstructured data such as PDFs, scans, and emails into structured, machine-readable formats, enabling downstream analysis and automation. Thecompany also provides models like its Solar LLM, which are optimized for tasks such as text generation, information extraction, and question answering within business environments. Its solutions are applied across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing to handle tasks like document parsing, data extraction, and workflow automation. Additionally, its services can be deployed through APIs, cloud environments, or on-premise systems to integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure.
• Video Rebirth — Video Rebirth Limited is a private limited company that is established with shares.

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• Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
• SpaceVision — Space Vision is an artificial intelligence-powered digital advertising platform.
• City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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• Nexeon — Nexeon is a world leader in engineered silicon materials for battery applications. Its Li-ion battery anode technology uses silicon instead of graphite.
• Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology
• Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry

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• Zamface — Zamface is an app that makes beauty video.
• Wakebunny — Wakebunny is a company that specializes in IP-based commerce, leveraging intellectual property to create, market, and monetize unique products and experiences. By focusing on the strategic use of copyrights, trademarks, and brand assets, Wakebunny transforms original ideas, characters, and stories into commercially viable offerings across variousplatforms such as e-commerce, digital media, merchandising, and licensing.
• Inovio Pharmaceuticals — INOVIO is advancing novel immunotherapy technologies to reshape the future of treating and preventing infectious diseases and cancer.

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• Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
• Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
• Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
• ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
• Daedong Robotics — Daedong Robotics, a Daedong Group affiliate, offers AI robot solutions that understand agricultural sites, reducing time-consuming and hazardous tasks.

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• 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.
• Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
• 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.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
• Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
• Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.

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• TESOLLO — TESOLLO develops multi-joint robotic grippers and robotic hands for precise grasping and manipulation in industrial automation, humanoid robotics, and research.
• H&B Asia — H&B Asia specializes in sourcing, importing, and distributing fresh fruits and agricultural products. The company works closely with global growers and suppliers to bring high-quality produce into the Korean market. It focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring consistent supply, and supporting efficient logistics across the fooddistribution value chain.
• ACT-ion Battery Technologies — ACT-ion is pioneering a transformative approach to battery material manufacturing, specializing in advanced lithium battery cathode active materials (CAMs). Our innovative, clean, and efficient continuous process revolutionizes production, driving cost savings and enhanced performance for the energy

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• ABLE Labs — ABLE Labs provide liquid handling robots and protocols so that all researchers can focus on constructing assay, leaving the execution to robots.​ If you want would contact them please contact them via phone call or email.
• Intellicia — AI-powered Synthetic Consumers platform for market research. 91.2% Spearman Correlation, 93.6% accuracy validated across 120+ PoC projects.
• Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People

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• Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
• Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
• BioNexus — BioNexus is an artificial intelligence (AI) biotechnology startup that specializes in automating the early stages of biomedical research and drug discovery.

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• Yoitang — Yoitang is a brokerage platform that combines online and offline real estate transactions by utilizing big data and artificial intelligence from public institutions. CEO Heo Ji-soo acquired the 26th certified real estate agent license in 2015 and experienced 20 real estate brokerage businesses.
• Semos — Semos app offers water sports with certified trainers to enable users to learn anywhere anytime.
• Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.

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• Unastella — Unastella is an aerospace company developing human spaceflight technologies, including launch vehicles and suborbital tourism systems. The company focuses on advancing reusable rocket technology and future space travel infrastructure for civilian space exploration missions. Unastella aims to support the growth of private human spaceflight andnext-generation aerospace innovation.
• Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
• 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.

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• ROBOS — Robos is a hybrid robot system built by evaluating biological object vision data using Lidar Vision and Open CV-based Object Detection. By combining self-developed biomaterial machine vision technology and robot technology, it intends to expand into a company that delivers core services to diverse industrial sites such as manufacturing, food, andmedical.
• With Doctors — With Doctors growth care solution precisely evaluates and analyzes physical, nutritional, psychological, and environmental factors affecting growth to derive the child's key management factors, and design and provide safe, scientifically proven, customized growth care programs for children through collaboration between exercise, nutrition, andpsychology experts and medical staff.
• Golden Brain Care — Golden Brain Care develops "Brain Friends," an AI-powered platform designed for speech and cognitive rehabilitation targeting patients with neurological communication disorders. The platform digitizes the speech therapy lifecycle by integrating self-assessments, tailored vocal training, real-time performance data analysis, and guardianreporting mechanisms into a single workflow. Its core value proposition focuses on extending rehabilitation from clinical environments to daily life, bypassing limitations in face-to-face medical expert capacity through personalized home care systems.

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• Willog — As a fast-growing startup, Willog provides a “item-level condition monitoring” that innovates the supply chain of sensitive, perishable or valuable goods where condition monitoring is required, and its efforts are to create a transparent and connected logistics flow. Based on its patented sensor technology and its cloud-based software, Willog helpscompanies gain seamless visibility down to the item-level and control over their shipments across their supply chain so they can have condition foresights and insights to improve their bottom line.Willog acquired 25 enterprise customers including MNCs like Hyundai Motor Group and DHL Express since its establishment. Willog is rapidly expanding its presence in various industries including bio-pharmaceutical, fresh food, and special logistics, where condition monitoring is key to business continuity. Going forward, while strengthening its leadership position in Korea, Willog will accelerate global expansion with partnerships in America, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia.
• Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
• 276 Holdings — 276 Holdings is a finance company that offers corporate financial service flow and a new flow of trade receivables value to companies.

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• ObliView — Oblivieu oversees the entire production process and plans running and gym attire immediately.
• Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
• Libra Health — Libra Health develops menstrual-cycle-focused sports nutrition products for female athletes.

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• Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
• Intergravity — Intergravity is a company that is developing orbital transportation technologies to support the future of in-space activity. Intergravity is to enable a space environment in which mobility, service, and logistics are seamlessly integrated, creating the framework for long-term operations beyond Earth.
• Unmanned Exploration Laboratory — Unmanned Exploration Laboratory manufactures multirotor drones, fixed-wing aircraft, and unmanned vehicles for space exploration.

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• Semonyeo — Semonyeo is a senior lifestyle brand dedicated to enhancing the dining experience of older adults. The company designs, develops, and sells specialized tableware tailored to the unique needs of seniors, focusing on comfort, safety, and ease of use.
• Plancklab — Plancklab is a professional stereolithography company. We Provide customized 3D printing system, DLP printer, and Micro Projection Stereolithography Technology based machines.
• Namdo Market — Namdo Market is a mobile application for wholesale and retail trading services. It is a online wholesale marketplace that connects buyers with products from major Korean shopping districts. It allows users to browse and order items directly from multiple vendors in one place.

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• Cosmos Lab — Cosmos Lab is a battery manufacturer.
• Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.
• Accorde Entertainment — Accorde Entertainment operates as a South Korean virtual entertainment agency.

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• ClariPi — Claripi provides innovative solutions for the unmet needs in medical imaging fields by integrating smart big data computing & medical imaging technologies.
• Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
• FNCT Biotech — FNCT Biotech develops antibody therapeutics for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). To create antibodies that target the underlying cause of IPF, the company's platform uses genetic engineering, providing patients with this medical need with a new treatment option.

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• Lee Eum-Gil — Lee Eum-Gil is a consulting firm specializing in career transition support services.
• DAIM Research — DAIM Research is an AI-based automation system solution company that provides logistics automation solutions.
• Autonomous a2z — Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.

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• Field AI — FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.
• SSenStone — SSenStone, founded in November 2015, has started from password-less user authentication to prevent privacy information leakage and provide safe and convenient user login process. The integrated authentication platform, called ‘StonePASS’, has been certified by FIDO (Fast Identity Online). Now, we expand our inventive idea to the card industry andlaunch VOTC, which will completely change the card transaction landscape for secured payments.
• Whale — Whale provides an omnichannel marketing platform that transforms marketing operations, digitalizes store operations and unifies offline & online brand experiences leveraging AI + IoT + Big Data to “Connect Brands with Customer”.Founded in 2017, Whale has since empowered 400+ global FMCG, F&B, Fashion and Automotive brands includingP&G, Unilever, Starbucks, UNIQLO, ARMANI, Watsons, Xiaomi, Midea, Lotus, POP MART etc. with over 150,000 stores across APAC, enabling brands to embrace the full potential of digital transformation.Equipped with AI capabilities, patented ReID technology and enterprise-grade security, Whale platforms comprising of Space Data Platform (SDP), Whale Marketing Cloud (WMC), Whale Open Platform (WOP) and Whale Analytics, serve as the end-to-end digitalization engine that enables brands to seamlessly engage with each customer.Whale is backed by Temasek Holding, NIO Capital, Source Code Capital, Linear Capital, Alpha Commune, BAI Capital and The Jiangmen, with 6 offices across Singapore, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.

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• KUVE Works — Korea Used Vehicle Export - KUVEAUTO exports Korean used cars. We have a branch in SKv1, where is the largest used car sales complex in Korea. We provide customers with a safe, convenient, and satisfactory used car purchasing service.
• Black Circle — Black Circle is an online store that sells tires, batteries, tools, and equipment.
• Simple Brand Tainment — Simple Brand Tainment aspires to be a restaurant industry entertainment firm that discovers and educates poor youngsters and transforms them into idols, similar to an entertainment agency that discovers and educates underprivileged restaurants and grows them into restaurant brands.

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• IPIN LABS — iPin Labs is a AI-based, high-precision, low-cost indoor positioning solution provider.
• bitsensing — bitsensing is reimagining radar technology to create a safer, smarter, and more connected world.
• Multiple Eye — The Ultimate All-In-One DroneShow Solution

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• UVify — UVify is designer and manufacturer of swarm drones and autonomous drones for research, industrial, and drone light shows.
• PROMEDIUS — We are on a mission to redefine the way we age.
• Panthalassa — We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.

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• Awexome Ray — Awexome Ray is a company that manufactures next-generation X-ray generator.
• Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
• Inserasolution — Inserasolution produces high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors for laser-based space optical communications and sophisticated defense systems.

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• Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
• Intellicia — AI-powered Synthetic Consumers platform for market research. 91.2% Spearman Correlation, 93.6% accuracy validated across 120+ PoC projects.
• Metal Link — Rio MNC is a company that has grown by focusing on steel wire for submarine cable sheathing.

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• Nexedge — Nexedge is a wealth management firm that offers investment management, estate planning, and business advisory services.
• IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
• Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.

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• Rosherin — Rosherin is a healthcare startup that researches, develops and manufactures various medical supplies and medical devices.
• Addit & Ark — Adit & Ark operates an AI-powered advertising platform that connects brands with Instagram-based digital magazines and content creators, enabling targeted collaborations and more effective marketing campaigns.
• Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.

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• BEYLESS — BEYLESS is an embedded platform for autonomous driving.
• IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
• Kitronyx — Tactile Pressure Distribution System

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• Diquest — diquest is a Korean enterprise search engine.
• Leecell — Leecell is a solar cell manufacturing company that produces organic and perovskite thin‑film photovoltaic cells.
• Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.

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• Dumion — Dumion develops transdermal drug-delivery and dermatological ingredient technologies.
• Plantner — PLANTNER develops environmentally friendly polymers that utilizes the controlled-release characteristics of alginate, a polymer derived from seaweed, along with natural controlled-release fertilizers to substitute current chemical products. Concurrently, the company is engaged in research and development as well as local field trials in Korea andVietnam. These innovations are directly aimed at promoting low-input sustainable agriculture. The organization is committed to tackling the unsustainable practices prevalent in conventional agriculture through the use of slow-release fertilizers, aspiring to foster eco-friendly advancements rooted in natural materials, beginning with agriculture, which is the cornerstone of the industry. In traditional agricultural settings, the significant loss of chemical fertilizers has resulted in nutrient depletion, leading to soil degradation issues such as acidification. This reduction in soil productivity compels farmers to resort to even greater quantities of chemicals to enhance yields, thereby perpetuating a detrimental cycle of increasing overuse. As a response, coated slow-release fertilizers have been introduced; however, their synthetic polymer coatings have contributed to the buildup of microplastics in the soil, harming the habitats of beneficial microorganisms and generating additional environmental challenges. To mitigate these concerns, ongoing research and development efforts are focused on substituting the conventional coating materials of slow-release fertilizers which are responsible for environmental issues like residual microplastics with alginate, a biodegradable polymer sourced from seaweed.
• DentalCall — DentalCall is a dental technology company that offers an AI voice receptionist and CRM platform for dental clinics.

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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.
• Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.