Asteromorph, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based scientific research startup, announced on the 22nd that it has attracted 5 billion won in seed investment with the goal of developing scientific superintelligence.
FuturePlay, which has strengths in early-stage deep-tech investments, participated as the lead investor in this investment round, and major domestic venture capitals such as Korea Investment Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment also participated jointly. FuturePlay invested 3 billion won, drawing attention as the largest seed investment by its standards.
Founded in February 2025, Asteromorph is developing an AI foundation model called SPACER that can autonomously generate research ideas in the fields of biology and chemistry and expand them into scientific hypotheses. The company explains that the model is differentiated from existing AI-Scientist models by mathematically implementing creative scientific idea generation.
Futureplay Managing Director Jae-woong Choi said, “Asteromorph is the first domestic startup with the potential to realize super intelligence, and it possesses high technological prowess and execution capabilities,” and added, “We plan to actively support its subsequent growth through additional capital investment.”
“If scientific superintelligence is realized, it will be able to dramatically accelerate the speed of existing scientific research,” said CEO Lee Min-hyung. “We expect that Spacer will be able to generate hundreds of scientific hypotheses per day as early as the second half of this year.”
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