Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in October 2023

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• enhans — Viralpick provides IT services for organizations including data analysis, automation, acquisition, and advertising services.
• Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
• Gwanak Analog — Gwanak Analog is a supplier of high performance Power/Analog SoC and Sensor products

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• Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
• ONES Global — ONES Global provides global healthcare solutions and databases for the healthcare market.
• MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.

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• Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
• Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
• City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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• Pillyze — mobile health care startup
• InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
• Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.

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• 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
• Gbike — Gbike is a mobility sharing startup in Korea, innovating green urban mobility in Korea where currently car-centric environment. Our service includes bike and scooter sharing with IT services specialized for Korean market with 50MM population.
• BOS Semiconductors — BOS Semiconductors develops semiconductor technology for the automotive industry.

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• Doodlin — Doodlin creates and operates Greeting and also manages Application registration, resume verification, applicant management, interview schedule adjustments, and recruitment evaluations
• POSTYPE — POSTYPE is a content open market where anyone can sell and buy digital content.
• Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.

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• ANGELSWING — ANGELSWING provides web-based platform which turns drone captured images into actionable business and social insights.
• Korea Zinc — Korea Zinc operates as a general non-ferrous metal smelting company primarily in South Korea. It offers zinc slab ingots, alloy jumbo blocks, anode ingots, and die cast ingots for use in galvanized steel plates, steel pipes and wires, color steel plates, automobile parts, machine/electronic parts, anti-corrosion paints, etc. Korea Zinc alsoprovides lead and lead alloy ingots used in automobile and industrial batteries, electric wire coatings, radiation shielders for batteries, anti-corrosion paints, etc.; and copper for use in copper plates, pipes, wires, as well as bronze, etc. Moreover, it offers gold used in semiconductors, PCBs, electrically conducting materials, jewelries, coins, etc.; and silver for use in electronic products, cameras, X-ray films, jewelries, etc. Further, Korea Zinc provides other rare metals, including indium, bismuth, antimony, antimony trioxide, cadmium, tellurium, cobalt, cadmium sticks, gallium, selenium, etc.; sulfuric acid used in inorganic chemicals, metal refining, steel making, and spinning and weaving, as well as in chemical and fertilizer, fiber, and paper manufacturing industries; electronic grade sulfuric acid used for cleaning and etching in semiconductor manufacturing process; and oleum used in nitro compounds, dye stuffs, chloro sulfonic acid, blasting powder, and oxidation. It began operation in 1974, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.
• Tenstorrent — At Tenstorrent, we build AI processors for machine learning workloads of today and tomorrow.

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• Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
• Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
• Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.

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• Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
• Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
• Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.

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• Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
• Best Graphene — Graphene specialized company_BESTGRAPHENE
• Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

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• SOS LAB — SOSLAB, the leading LiDAR expert team for upcoming era of Smart Mobility and Infrastructure. As a LiDAR supplier, we focus our effort on cooperation with market partners from Automotive, Robotics, Surveillance fields.
• bitsensing — bitsensing designs and develops cutting-edge imaging radar technology solutions for the ultimate smart cities and connected experience

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• Fxip — FXIP has the capacity to quickly complete a number of processes, including product planning, design, and manufacturing. Through the introduction of various IP brands in the food & life sector, it has already demonstrated the potential of the business.
• Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
• Simply Care Bio — Simply Care Bio is a care food company that manufactures functional foods based on ingredient composition and amplification technology through water-solubilization of fatty acids and immunity-building technology through cell activation.

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• Tiki — Tiki.vn is the an e-commerce company that specializes in the end-to-end supply chain and partnering with brands. Tiki.vn is the fastest-growing retail company in Vietnam and is well-positioned to be an industry winner. It is also the Vietnam’s most favorite B2C e-commerce company.Tiki.vn features more than 300,000 products in 12 categories ofelectronics, lifestyle, and books. The company achieves the highest customer satisfaction rate and the lowest return rate among all e-commerce players in Vietnam due to its capability to control the end-to-end supply chain, from partnering with brands to deliver high-quality merchandise to managing warehouse and logistics to processing payments and providing superior customer service.Tiki.vn has a fun, dynamic, and innovative work culture and is currently 500+ team members strong. Investors in the company include Seedcom, CyberAgents Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation, and VNG Corporation.
• BlockOdyssey — Best Enterprise Blockchain Enabler, Block Odyssey
• ABLY Corporation — ABLY Corporation is a fashion platform and application.

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• InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
• CloudHospital — Founded in Seoul, South Korea, CloudHospital is a robust online platform helping patients around the world find the best providers for their needs regardless of where they are located. We are an experienced team from around the globe with ample experience in the fields of web technology, medical practice, and finance. Our mission is simple: to makeit easier for everyone to find the best medical solutions anywhere in the world.By investing in technology that takes the complexities out of world-wide medical services, icloudhospital.com can seamlessly connect millions of patients around the world to excellent medical services, both from the most demanding surgeries to the most accurate health checkups as well as the world’s most advanced cosmetic procedures. As one of the world’s most well integrated medical concierge services firm, icloudhospital.com enables hospitals and clinics around the world reach their global audience efficiently.Our services, which are accessible through icloudhospital.com is available in English, Chinese and Russian and offers the best medical hospitals and clinics, including the best respected doctors in their field of expertise. For all your medical care needs, icloudhospital.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support.
• Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.

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• Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
• Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
• Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.

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• Cardoc — Cardoc is a location-based mobile automotive repair estimate service. By uploading photos of their car's exterior damage, users can get free repair estimates and text-consultation from selected car body shops.During the 15 month of service period, Cardoc processed $3.5M worth of transactions and registered stores of Cardoc experienced agrowth rate of 30-100% per month. Each user can get their first estimate within an average of 7 minutes and compare at least 3 estimates without having to register personal information. The founding team consists of five automative enthusiasts. They received the support of Daum NIS (Next Incubation Studio), a startup incubation organization proposed by Daum Communications and spun off in January 2014.
• Mykoon co.,ltd. — Plugger solves the dead phone problem.Plugger offers battery swapping & portable chargers at local convenience stores. For only $3, costumers can have their dead battery swapped for a newly charged one. For Apple devices (non-removable batteries), we provide a portable-battery sharing membership. Costumers join our service by purchasing ourbranded portable batteries, which can be swapped out for $3.Plugger currently has over 100 service locations in Seoul, Korea. By the end of 2015, Plugger will be in over 600 locations in Korea. Our partner stores continue to request the expansion of our service to their storefronts.Our goal for 2016 is to expand into new Asian markets, which will help us reach $10M in sales. We will continue to develop and roll-out new services, including Plugger branded smartphone accessories. We will use our established partner-store relationships as our distribution channel for new product launches.We're fundraising! Please contact us to meet.

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• BRLab — BRLab is a healthcare company in the sleep tech area. We serve sleep tracking and enhancing platform but also ai-based life coaching services. BRLab's platform allows you to use top notching sleep technologies to any type of related applications.
• Solum — Stay on track with the newest technology with a digital price tag for your merchandise. SOLUM ESL is the leading company in electronic shelf labels.
• Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.

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• Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
• Inertia — Developer of natural sanitary napkins designed to solve women's problems with empathy and technology.
• Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

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• Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
• Pillyze — mobile health care startup
• Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.

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• Baree — Baree is an automobile company that offers domestic motorcycle maintenance and second-hand trading of bikes.
• BRLab — BRLab is a healthcare company in the sleep tech area. We serve sleep tracking and enhancing platform but also ai-based life coaching services. BRLab's platform allows you to use top notching sleep technologies to any type of related applications.
• SeaVantage — Ocean Freight Tracking - Transform your ocean shipping with a real-time ocean freight visibility platform, end-to-end cargo tracking, document management, collaboration and more. SeaVantage provides ocean shipping visibility solutions helping supply chain professionals proactively manage disruptions

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• N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
• Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
• Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.

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• Ourbox — Ourbox is a logistics agency that provides total logistics solutions and fulfillment services for online sellers.
• Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
• Gomi Corporation — Gomi Corporation is a Overseas market.

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• Dremo — Dreamo is a leading game developer making great games for friends, family, and people around the world.
• Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
• Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.

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• ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
• Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
• Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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• RCE — RCE specializes in the sales of construction machines.
• Getcha — Getcha is a car purchase, long-term rental, lease, test ride, and car consulting company.
• MVL Chain — MVL is a new incentive-based blockchain mobility ecosystem.MVL records key data such as transactions, movements, accidents, and maintenance of people and vehicles in many fields, connecting them together in a single.

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• NO Search — NO Search is an online marketplace for home and kitchen appliances.
• Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
• Medi Whale — We believe that early detection is the best prevention. Our innovative diagnostic technology helps you take action before symptoms appear.

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• Baree — Baree is an automobile company that offers domestic motorcycle maintenance and second-hand trading of bikes.

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• Intosky — Intosky is an unmanned aircraft vehicle company that develops airline products and designs.
• Tredy Team — Tredy Team online platform provides athleisure fashion.
• Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.

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• Botash — Botash manufactures and sells carbon packaging boxes.
• GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
• Power Player — Natural Clean Beauty

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• Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.

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• S.LAB Asia — S.LAB is a platform for supply chain logistics for an efficient and cost-saving end to end transportation service. Through its cold chain technology, the company significantly reduces the cost during the first mile and middle mile delivery. Real-time tracking service will collect all the data to actively respond to the incident and keep thecustomer satisfied. With the data, S.LAB optimizes the temperature, packaging, and routing to increase the efficiency in cold chain delivery per country.
• Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
• earlysloth — Earlysloth is an AI based survey on the messenger for the enterprise.

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• Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
• Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
• Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.

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• Ionblox — High energy density lithium ion batteries for ground and aerial electric vehicles
• Scintil Photonics — SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic IC with wafer-level lasers integration.
• Infinitum Electric — Infinitum Electric is a motor technology company delivering lightweight and IoT-enabled electric motors. It is at the forefront of making electric motors more efficient, more durable, lighter weight, and less expensive. Their disruptive motor and control products utilize their patent-pending Printed Circuit Board (PCB) stator technology and providebroad application across multiple industries. They work with global manufacturers and industrial OEMs to customize their technology for specific applications and market segments.

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.
• Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

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• GINT — GINT is a company specializing in a system for tractors / construction equipment manufacturers, established mainly by experts in automotive and ICT. The global market requires electronic control and unattended automation technology for manufacturers. Therefore, GINT is researching and producing the three core systems: Transmission /Hydraulic Control Unit, Telematics and Driverless System. These systems innovatively help latecomers (Long Tail) overcome the technological gap with globally advanced manufacturers such as John Deere, Case IH and others. Based on GINT’s technology and reliability, they are co-working with leading domestic companies such as Tongyang Moolsan, Daedong Industrial and SK Telecom.
• sendy Korea — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
• mangrove — mangrove is a real estate and rental services provider.

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• SpringCloud — SpringCloud provides solutions and services for autonomous driving mobility as well as big data. It is made up of experts from Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Autron, Image Next, Automobile Convergence Technology Institute, Korea Railroad Research Institute, and other organizations, and it has excellent teamwork in terms of technology and sales.

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• 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
• Qureator (Formerly known as Curiochips) — Curiochips are organ on a chip designed to recapitulate the complexity of tissue microenvironments for biomedical research.

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• iPin Labs — iPin Labs is a AI-based, high-precision, low-cost indoor positioning solution provider.
• Multiple Eye — Multiple Eye provides image-based omnidirectional distance measurement and environment recognition technology services for mobile robots.
• SpringCloud — SpringCloud provides solutions and services for autonomous driving mobility as well as big data. It is made up of experts from Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Autron, Image Next, Automobile Convergence Technology Institute, Korea Railroad Research Institute, and other organizations, and it has excellent teamwork in terms of technology and sales.

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• Seawith — home english version
• Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.
• Seoul Robotics — Welcome to Seoul Robotics! We build advanced Lidar perception software powered by deep learning.

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• Cardoc — Cardoc is a location-based mobile automotive repair estimate service. By uploading photos of their car's exterior damage, users can get free repair estimates and text-consultation from selected car body shops.During the 15 month of service period, Cardoc processed $3.5M worth of transactions and registered stores of Cardoc experienced agrowth rate of 30-100% per month. Each user can get their first estimate within an average of 7 minutes and compare at least 3 estimates without having to register personal information. The founding team consists of five automative enthusiasts. They received the support of Daum NIS (Next Incubation Studio), a startup incubation organization proposed by Daum Communications and spun off in January 2014.
• Tapas Media — Tapas is the “Youtube for story tellers” -- a platform and community for over 50,000 creators, who publish original stories in the form of serialized webcomics and novels. Tapas has over 2 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend 70 million minutes per month on the platform with stories on Tapas having been read over 5 billion timesto date. We co-produce original IPs with our top creators that can be shopped and brokered into the next hit TV series/movies/games/physical books. About 70% of Tapas’s audience are female millennials primarily located in the US. The Tapas app has been downloaded over 2 million times and is one of the top grossing comics apps on iOS and Android. Check out some of the latest news articles about Tapas here: https://tapas.io/site/about

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• Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
• Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.

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• Carmerce — Carmerce is a used vehicle reselling platform. They offer an e-commerce mobile application for buying used vehicles.
• INTELLIZ — INTELLIZ specializes in research and development for manufacturing innovation technologies. It’s not a company made in a day.The founder dreamed of starting a business 15 years ago from a manufacturing and production employee. We have more than 10 years of experience in manufacturing and inspection processes. And as an engineer, the goal is to makethis technology a good use by passion and effort. Making a virtuous circle with the technology and good influence of these companies was a dream of a founder when he was young.
• Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.

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• ABL Bio — ABL Bio is one of the world's leading biotech research companies focusing on the development of therapeutic drugs for immuno-oncology & neurodegenerative diseases. Their core values are life-improvement, collaboration, innovation and novel therapy.
• Xingxing Mobility — Xingxing Mobility is an app that offers an electric kickboard sharing service.

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• Ziovision — Ziovision is a data analysis firm that uses artificial intelligence. advancement of social safety AI solution solutions, as well as licensing AI software and medical devices.
• Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.
• Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.

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• Fairy — Capture the perfect moment to persuade users outside of your app. Accompany your customers outside of your app and engage at an intent-rich moment in real time.
• Oasis Business — Oasis Business is an information services company that provides AI solutions to the finance, construction, and distribution industries.
• Securenet — SecureNet offers a platform service that unifies and manages the complete process, including KC certification, various product tests, certification curation, and certificate and report management.

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• Matchuda — Matchuda is a service that digitizes existing learning methods and applies AI technology to help students pass exams quickly
• Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.
• Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.

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• ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
• Cloud Stone — Cloud Stone provides delivery services for college students.
• Growing Sales — Growing Sales is a mobile application that handles payment methods of customers.

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• Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
• Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
• Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.

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• Splab — Splab creates and operates a calendar-based scheduling automation tool. Splab is located in Seoul, South Korea.
• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Tella — Service

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• Novauto — Novauto develops an intelligent computing platform for smart driving.
• Phase Genomics — Phase Genomics: Fueling Genomic Discovery with Hi-C Kits & Services. Proximo: Genome Phasing & Scaffolding. ProxiMeta: Complete Genomes from the Microbiome.
• Ravel Biotechnology — Ravel Biotechnology markets an analytic technology platform capable of early detection of disease from cell-free DNA.The technology platform enables the accelerated development and validation of screening tests for a wide range of diseases from a single analyte, cell-free DNA. Thus providing the opportunity to screen for a multitude of diseasesfrom a single blood draw.The company was co-founded by Erik Gafni and Nathan Boley in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.