Korea Deep Learning (CEO Jihyun Kim), a company providing integrated visual intelligence AI solutions for public and corporate use, announced on the 1st that it is in the process of attracting Series A investment of approximately 10 billion won.
Translink Investment participated as the lead investor in this round, with SV Investment and IBK Industrial Bank of Korea also participating as co-investors. This marks the first venture capital investment for Korea Deep Learning in just five years since its founding. Aside from TIPS grants, the company has grown primarily through its own revenue, with no external investment. The company has achieved an average annual growth rate of over 400%, reaching KRW 10 billion in cumulative revenue and securing over 80 clients.
Korea Deep Learning has developed a document processing automation solution based on its own Vision-LLM (Vision-Language Model), which trains on large-scale text and image documents. This has been proven in diverse fields, including public institutions, healthcare, and finance. Launched in March of this year, the document-based AI agent "Deep Agent" overcomes the limitations of existing OCR technology, simultaneously interpreting both the visual structure and linguistic meaning of documents and performing business actions. It can be implemented within two weeks without separate data collection and reduces document processing time by more than 80% with an accuracy rate of 97-99%. Its marketability was proven by securing contracts worth approximately 1.1 billion won within two months of its launch.
Recently, the company has strengthened its technological competitiveness by being selected as a member of the NVIDIA Inception program and recruiting AI researchers from KAIST. This investment will be used to advance document-specific VLM technology, secure key talent, optimize OCR pipelines and MLOps, and establish localization and overseas partnerships for global market entry.
Korea Deep Learning is currently recruiting large-scale AI technology development personnel and creating an environment where even new developers can participate in key projects.
A Translink Investment official stated, “Korea Deep Learning possesses unrivaled Vision-LLM technology and execution capabilities, and has significant potential for global expansion based on its proven competitiveness in the public and corporate markets.”
Kim Ji-hyun, CEO of Korea Deep Learning, said, “We have proven our technological prowess and business viability by securing 10 billion won in cumulative sales and 80 customers without external investment,” and added, “With this investment, we plan to expand our AI talent and advance ‘Deep Agent’ into a global-level document AI platform.”
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