CarbonSix, Inc. (CEO Taeyeon Moon and Jehyeok Kim), a manufacturing-specialized robot artificial intelligence developer, announced that it has successfully attracted seed investment of approximately 6 billion won from four investment firms, including Foothill Ventures and Storm Ventures in the United States.
This investment was participated by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms Foothill Ventures and Storm Ventures, as well as New York-based Zeitgeist Capital and domestic investment firm Xquared.
Carbon Six is a startup founded in July 2024 by CEO Taeyeon Moon, who was an early member and Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of SUALAB, which was acquired by Cognex in the US for KRW 230 billion in 2019. Other key talents, including Dr. Jehyeok Kim (Co-CEO) and Dr. Hyeongju Seo (CEO), who graduated from prestigious domestic and international engineering schools such as MIT, Yale University, Seoul National University, and KAIST, and have extensive experience in robot design and artificial intelligence research, joined as early members.
Additionally, Professor Russ Tedrake of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Professor Clement Gosselin, a leading expert in industrial robotic hand design at Université Laval, participated as official advisors.
Carbon Six, which focuses on robot intelligence and hand development, aims to automate detailed manipulation tasks in the manufacturing industry, and pursues innovation in the manufacturing industry through technology that can flexibly respond to delicate tasks in actual manufacturing sites, frequent production model changes, and unexpected variables that were difficult to solve with existing automation solutions.
Eric Rosenblum, Partner at Foothill Ventures, said, “CarbonSix is an outstanding founding team with global exit experience and a deep understanding of AI technology and market needs. Their differentiated customer approach and technological potential through their existing collaborations with leading electronics manufacturers were key reasons for our investment decision.”
“Our top priority is to automate assembly tasks that are currently difficult for humanoid robots to accomplish with a robot intelligence solution that has sufficient economic feasibility and technological performance,” said Taeyeon Moon, CEO of Carbon Six. “We plan to successfully complete the proof-of-concept (PoC) that we started early this year and fully launch robot intelligence products into the market within the third quarter of 2025.”
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