AI & Machine Learning Startups

Laight AI builds an AI agent called Lighthouse that specializes in performance marketing, helping companies manage multi-brand digital marketing operations across complex media environments. The company targets e-commerce brands and agencies seeking data-driven marketing optimization.

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LiOps builds a Large Spatial Model platform that combines 3D vision AI with robotics for automated logistics and manufacturing operations, including picking, forklift driving, welding, and shipyard tasks. The company serves major automotive manufacturers, shipyards, and heavy industry enterprises with ready-to-deploy robot solutions requiring minimal custom integration.

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Returneeds (리터니즈) operates a dedicated reverse-logistics center that handles product returns for e-commerce brands, including automated pickup, vision-AI-based inspection with high-resolution photos, and restocking or disposal. It integrates with commerce platforms to process returns, recover an average of 88%+ of returned items as sellable inventory, and support claim handling and consignment sale, donation, or disposal.

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Macarong operates My Michael (마이클), a car maintenance booking app that lets drivers schedule repair appointments online without calling, and uses AI to diagnose symptoms and provide the likely cause, estimated cost, and repair method. It offers same-day and weekend bookings at repair shops across Korea.

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Manyfast is an AI-assisted product planning tool that turns rough ideas into planning documents such as PRDs, feature specifications, user flows, and wireframes. Its AI agent "Mani" reviews plans from six perspectives (business, development, QA, UX, design, security) and converts abstract ideas into concrete development requirements, with all AI-suggested edits requiring user approval.

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SNOW is an augmented-reality camera app that applies AR effects and filters to photos and videos for consumer use.

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Byaht (Glow.B) runs an AI-based creator marketing service for brands, using its own AI agents to recruit creators, produce content, automate Meta ad campaigns, and handle AEO/GEO exposure. It serves brands seeking performance-driven influencer marketing, with campaigns run across countries including South Korea, the US, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

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truloop is a mobile app that consolidates the scattered parts of organizing a get-together — planning, scheduling, and photo sharing — into a single thread, letting users create one invite and share a link. It offers a private space for friend groups to make plans and keep the memories and photos from time spent together.

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VESSL AI offers an MLOps cloud platform that provides on-demand GPU compute and preconfigured environments for training, scaling, and running inference on AI models. It serves AI research and development teams building LLMs, search, conversational AI, and multimodal foundation models.

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BrekkyLab develops open-source tools and frameworks for building and deploying AI agents, serving individual developers and enterprises. The company's main product is Ailoy, a framework for creating conversational AI, task automation, and multi-agent systems.

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Vdream operates Vwork, an HR platform for remote-work employment of people with disabilities, using AI-based job matching to handle recruiting, attendance, payroll, and labor-compliance documentation. It helps South Korean companies directly hire disabled workers to meet employment-quota obligations and reduce the associated levy (고용부담금).

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ExclozetShop is an online marketplace for authenticated pre-owned luxury goods, bringing the traditionally offline luxury resale market to digital platforms. The company uses expert authentication, data-driven valuation, and transparent practices to serve buyers and sellers seeking reliable secondary luxury goods transactions.

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SureSoftTech is a Korean software safety company that provides automated software verification tools and services for mission-critical, high-reliability industries such as automotive, defense, nuclear, aerospace, medical, and railway. It also develops AI model verification tools (such as VERIFAI-M) and intelligent technologies for software safety.

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Attention:D operates an advertising network across shared-office digital signage, combining out-of-home displays with an in-house AI vision solution that measures ad exposure and attention. It charges advertisers on a CPM basis using actual measured reach metrics, bringing online-style performance measurement to out-of-home advertising.

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Speclipse is an optics company that develops and manufactures laser systems combined with laser spectroscopy and AI analysis for diagnosing and treating skin conditions, covering both lesion and cosmetic dermatology applications. It handles the full process from laser development through production in-house.

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CNAPS.AI is a no-code visual AI platform that lets users build multimodal automated workflows by combining specialized open-source AI models instead of relying on a single large model. Its focus is on image, video, text, and speech processing for businesses and teams.

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Sizl provides an AI-powered Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that monitors industrial processes using IIoT sensors, controllers, and vision sensors to improve production efficiency and workplace safety for discrete manufacturers. The platform uses voice recognition for automatic data input and provides equipment monitoring, production tracking, and carbon emission monitoring capabilities.

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Adler provides an AI-native marketing platform combined with embedded operators that handle strategy, creative, media buying, and measurement from a single system of record for growth companies. It also offers influencer management services and works on an outcome-based model, with clients in the US and Korea.

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Arion Flight develops long-range wireless power transmission technology based on millimeter-wave beamforming and RF ranging, enabling efficient energy transfer to small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and other applications. The company provides end-to-end solutions including custom ASICs, transmitter/receiver modules, and command-control-communication systems for sustained ISR operations.

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Autocrypt provides automotive and mobility security solutions, including vehicle network protection, autonomous driving security, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure safeguards for vehicle manufacturers and mobility service providers.

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RX is a small modular reactor (SMR) startup founded by KAERI engineers, providing full-cycle nuclear engineering across reactor core component design, analysis, testing, and licensing under a fabless model. It also develops nuclear-specialized agentic AI to automate design and regulatory licensing document preparation, serving markets such as AI data center power demand and national SMR programs.

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EnergyX is a deep-tech company offering an integrated platform for building energy performance, using AI-driven simulation and optimization across HVAC, airflow, lighting, insulation, and PV-to-grid from design validation through real-time operations. It also provides Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) envelope systems, sustainability and compliance analysis (ZEB, ESG, RE100), and architectural design services for building projects.

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Atogen (에이투젠) researches the interactions between the human body and its microbiome and develops microbiome-based therapeutics that treat disease by restoring an imbalanced microbial flora. The company operates in the biotech and therapeutics space.

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OMNIFIT (Omni C&S) develops AI technology that analyzes EEG brainwave and PPG pulse-wave biosignals to measure stress, focus, and brain activity, and provides neurofeedback-based brain training and mental health management. Its integrated platform combines measurement devices (such as OMNIFIT Brain), AI analysis software, training content, and admin dashboards for medical institutions, corporations, public agencies, and the military in South Korea.

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