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KB Investment — 2023 Investments

4 investments dated 2023 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

AB180ab180.coAug 2023

AB180 provides full-stack AI solutions for marketing and advertising technology, including deep linking, attribution, product analytics, customer engagement, and intelligent monetization capabilities.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSeoul, KR

Roi Nam(Co-Chief Executive Officer (Co-founder))inHunjae Jung(Co-Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Storm VenturesZ Venture CapitalIndustrial Bank of KoreaKorea Development Bank

Essentialessential.aiin𝕏Dec 2023 · $56.5Macquired by NVIDIA · Jun 2026

Essential AI builds an open platform for AI research and development, providing open models, tooling, and evaluation frameworks designed for global collaboration.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Ashish Vaswani(Founder)inNiki Parmar(Founder)inJames Montgomery(Director)

Co-investorsBlue Ivy VenturesConvictionMarch Capital PartnersAMD VenturesNVIDIAThrive Capital

Xl8xl8.aiinSep 2023

XL8 offers MediaCAT, a cloud-based AI machine translation and localization platform for media and entertainment content, providing transcription, translation, subtitling, and quality checks.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSan Jose, US

Young Hoon Jung(Executive Officer)Jinhyung Park(Founder)inTim(Founder & CEO)Jay(Co-Founder & CTO)

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.

올거나이즈allganize.aiin𝕏Nov 2023

Allganize builds AI Coworkers and an enterprise AI platform called Alli, offering vertically integrated tools spanning LLM selection, RAG 2.0 document handling, agent execution, deployment, and security compliance.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPleasanton, US

Changsu Lee(Founder & CEO)in

BoardYoon Kang(Director)Yasuhiko Yurimoto(Director)

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.KDDI Open Innovation FundLaguna InvestmentLG Technology VenturesSk Telecom Venture Capital, LlcSpark Labs Korea Accelerator Fund 4+5 more

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.