Rebellion Establishes Overseas Corporation in Tokyo, Japan

AI semiconductor unicorn Rebellion has completed the establishment of its first overseas corporation in Tokyo, Japan, and is accelerating its advance into the Japanese data center market.

With the establishment of this corporation, Rebellion plans to strengthen communication with local companies, provide closer technical support, and actively seek out new customers. The Japanese business will be led by Kim Hye-jin, a strategy lead from Dongguk University who worked at Bain & Company and was in charge of Musinsa’s early Japanese business. In addition, the company is also seeking to appoint a corporate director with expertise to lead the business in Japan. It also plans to hire technology-dedicated personnel to boost the local business momentum and enhance customer response capabilities.

Rebellion plans to speed up business cooperation with Japanese cloud service providers (CSPs), telecommunications companies, etc., including the ongoing AI semiconductor introduction PoC (Proof of Concept), and expand its presence in Japan.

Rebellion, which had been paying attention to the growth of the Japanese AI infrastructure market early on, attracted investment from Japanese venture capital (VC) DG Daiwa Ventures (DGDV). Based on this, it has been expanding its local network, securing potential customers, and increasing its presence in the Japanese market, and last year, it achieved the result of securing its first sales in Japan.

In particular, Rebellion predicted that as the scale of Japan's AI data center industry grows rapidly, the demand for AI semiconductors will also increase. In fact, global big tech companies such as OpenAI and Microsoft have recently been expanding their investment in Japan's AI infrastructure, and the Japanese government is also working to strengthen industrial competitiveness by promoting subsidy support policies related to AI supercomputing. As the strategic importance of the Japanese market increases, the plan is to preempt the Japanese market based on proven technological prowess as Asia's representative AI semiconductor unicorn.

Rebellion CEO Park Sung-hyun said, “The Japanese AI data center market is growing rapidly. However, there are only a handful of companies in Japan that can develop AI semiconductors and conduct PoCs to operate them in actual data centers.” He continued, “Rebellion has already made significant progress in technological cooperation through business collaboration with local companies, so we plan to now establish a corporation to enter the local market deeply and expand our business in earnest. Starting with Japan, we will also complete the establishment of a corporation in Saudi Arabia within the year to clearly demonstrate Rebellion’s presence in the global AI infrastructure market.”

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