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나니아랩스

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Narnia Labs builds AslanX, a generative and agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates the repeated design, simulation, and evaluation steps of product development. It generates novel component geometries and predicts their engineering performance in seconds, targeting use cases such as automotive brake parts, wheels, and jet engine brackets.

Also known as Narnia Labs · 나니아랩스

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

나니아랩스 (Narnia Labs) is a Korean company developing generative AI software for manufacturing product development. Its platform, AslanX, is presented as an agentic AI system that streamlines the repeated design, engineering, simulation (해석) and evaluation cycle: a generative AI component produces new design candidates and a predictive AI component estimates the engineering performance of a design in seconds, with an optimization layer on top. The product is offered in modules described as AslanX Flow and AslanX Studio, which convert a customer's existing CAD/CAE and test data into data usable for AI models.

The company's earlier product generation was marketed as 'Aslan GD', a solution that automatically generated, evaluated and recommended 3D synthetic data for AI training in manufacturing, adding the physical information relevant to a target product family, together with a no-code AI SaaS layer in which the AI itself performs the design work. Company positioning materials frame the offering around two application areas: engineering design (generating, exploring, evaluating and optimizing engineering system designs) and industrial design (generating new designs and learning customer preferences for recommendation), with stated ambitions to extend from manufacturing into architecture, medical and metaverse applications.

Reported technical results include reducing automotive brake component design time from about one month to one minute, generating more than 30,000 automotive wheel design candidates with assured engineering performance, and validating 99% accuracy for its predictive AI model on jet engine bracket data.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Automotive brake component design timeJan 2026Reduced from about one month to one minute
Automotive wheel design candidates generatedJan 202630,000 designs
Average salaryAug 202653,060,000 KRW
Cumulative funding raisedJan 2024$3.5B
Employees (employment insurance enrollment)Aug 202624 people
Employees (national pension enrollment)Aug 202628 people
Open job postingsAug 20265 postings
Predictive AI model accuracy (jet engine bracket data)Jan 202699%
RevenueAug 20261,055,820,000 KRW

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 11

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2024
Exhibited at CES 2024 in the KAIST booth

Participated in CES 2024 in Las Vegas as one of 24 startups and pre-startup teams in KAIST's booth at Eureka Park, in the 'expanding human intelligence, mobility and reality' category, presenting manufacturing AI design solution technology.

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Jan 2024
Planned official launch of solution in first half of the following year

The CEO stated the company would focus on advancing the solution in 2023 and officially launch it in the first half of the following year, with US market entry planned for 2025.

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Aug 2023
Selected for LG SuperStart Day 2023

Named among 40 startups participating in LG's SuperStart Day 2023 open-innovation event held at LG Science Park in Magok, September 7-9, in the AI category.

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Apr 2023
Pre-A round of 3.5 billion KRW from five investors

Narnia Labs announced it had agreed to a Pre-A round of about 3.5 billion KRW with five investment firms, exceeding its original 2 billion KRW target.

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Jan 2023
Reported use of Narnia Labs technology by Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Mobis and LG Electronics

Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Mobis and LG Electronics were reported to be using Narnia Labs' technology in development.

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Jan 2023
Selected for global corporate collaboration program with Ansys

Referenced as selected for a global company collaboration program involving cooperation with Ansys.

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Jan 2023
Ship engine development project with HD Hyundai using AI

Referenced as beginning ship engine development work with HD Hyundai using AI.

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Oct 2022
Grand prize (faculty category) at K-Tech Startup competition

Won the grand prize in the faculty-founded company category at the 'K-Tech Startup 왕중왕전' final held at COEX in Seoul during Green Business Week 2022, organized by Unicorn Factory with support from the Ministry of Science and ICT, receiving a 3 million KRW prize and support programs.

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Apr 2022
Selected for TIPS program at founding, receiving 500 million KRW

The company was selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' TIPS program at the same time as its April 2022 founding, and raised 500 million KRW through TIPS.

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Apr 2022
Spun off from KAIST Smart Design Lab

Founded in April 2022 as a faculty startup spun off from the KAIST Smart Design Lab, established by Professor Kang Nam-woo of the KAIST Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility through the KAIST Entrepreneurial Partnership (KEP) program.

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Jan 2022
Seed investment from Hyundai Motor (ZER01NE)

Received a 200 million KRW seed investment from Hyundai Motor; the company received investment from Hyundai Motor Group's ZER01NE about four months after founding.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does 나니아랩스 do?
Korean startup building AslanX, a generative and agentic AI platform that automates design, simulation and evaluation for manufacturers.
Who are 나니아랩스's investors?
나니아랩스's investors include Laguna Investment.