Korea Deep Learning (CEO Jihyun Kim), a company providing integrated visual intelligence AI solutions for the public and corporate sectors, announced on the 8th that it has finalized its Series A investment round with a total of 12 billion won, with the Industrial Bank of Korea participating as the final investor.
Translink Investment participated as the lead investor in this round, with SV Investment joining as a key co-investor. Following IBK Industrial Bank, the Korea Development Bank (KDB) invested 5 billion won, closing the round. KDB's investment accounted for over 40% of the total investment.
Korea Deep Learning has grown based on its own revenue, without receiving any external investment, except for a KRW 100 million investment from the Gyeonggi Support Center for the TIPS project. With this Series A round, the company secured KRW 12 billion, its first large-scale funding since its founding, laying the foundation for business expansion.
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) evaluated Korea Deep Learning's commercialization and business capabilities as key investment factors. Korea Deep Learning has secured over 80 clients across public institutions, finance, and healthcare, and has achieved cumulative revenue of KRW 10 billion. Its document comprehension AI model, which simultaneously understands the visual structure and linguistic meaning of documents, has been recognized for its uniqueness. Furthermore, its product strategy, which allows for implementation within two weeks without separate data collection or additional training, has demonstrated its potential for expansion in the corporate market.
With this investment, Korea Deep Learning plans to expand its business beyond document automation into workflow automation by 2026. Based on data extracted from documents, AI agents will automatically design and execute follow-up tasks. Furthermore, a rule-based verification system will be applied to ensure reliable operation in real-world business environments.
The investment will focus on advancing document understanding AI technology, building a system to automate follow-up tasks, and strengthening execution rules and verification systems. Additionally, it will be used to optimize AI processing speed and costs, enhance model development and operation systems, strengthen security and authorization management, develop customized products for each industry, expand localization and partnerships for global market entry, and secure key talent.
A Translink Investment official stated, “Korea Deep Learning is a company that has already proven its technology commercialization capabilities through actual sales and customer base,” and added, “We led the investment because we believed that document AI has high potential to grow into a core infrastructure across both the public and private sectors.”
Kim Ji-hyun, CEO of Korea Deep Learning, said, “This Series A closing is an opportunity to transition from AI that understands documents to AI that completes document-based tasks,” and added, “We will expand to workflow automation to implement a trustworthy AI agent in the corporate environment.”
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