On February 23rd, Boss Semiconductor announced that it had secured approximately KRW 87 billion in Series A funding. This funding amount is considered unusual among early-stage investment rounds for domestic startups.
This round of funding included existing investors Atinum Investment, Partners Investment, Stick Ventures, IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, and K&T Investment Partners. New investors included the Korea Development Bank, KB Investment, Smilegate Investment, Yuamco-PI Partners, Shinyoung Securities-BSK Investment, Woori Venture Partners, HB Investment, and E&Venture Partners.
Founded in May 2022, Bose Semiconductor is a fabless company designing AI semiconductors for mobility. As of February 2026, its total workforce, including its subsidiaries, exceeded 300.
The company is developing AI semiconductor solutions for autonomous driving and IVI. Key products include the high-performance AI accelerator "Eagle-N," scheduled for mass production sample tape-out in the first half of the year, and the AI system semiconductor "Eagle-A" for ADAS. Eagle-N is designed to handle various AI workloads within vehicles, and has previously demonstrated VLM, LLM, and object recognition model operation.
The majority of the executive team consists of individuals with over 20 years of semiconductor development and design experience at Samsung Electronics. The company operates a structure that combines fabless and ASIC operations.
Recently, we received a 24 billion won ASIC development contract from a semiconductor partner of a major Japanese automobile group. We are currently conducting joint development with a European automaker for the Eagle-N, and after completing the technology verification and RFI stages, we are currently in discussions for mass production.
This investment will be focused on mass production of the Eagle-N and establishing a global sales network. The company plans to initially target the Chinese electric vehicle and autonomous driving markets, and then expand its business to include semiconductors for robots and drones, thereby advancing into the physical AI market.
CEO Park Jae-hong stated that based on this investment and collaboration with global customers, he would accelerate the commercialization of autonomous driving semiconductors.
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