Daytium (CEO Yoo Ga-on), an AI technology-based automotive maintenance solution company, announced on the 21st that it had completed attracting Pre-A round investment. Korea Investment Accelerator and Seoul National University Technology Holdings participated in this investment.
Through this investment, Daytium plans to advance the AI image recognition technology and maintenance automation process of its automobile maintenance platform, AutoHOS, and expand the customer base of its maintenance shops.
Dateum is one of the only companies in Korea that collects and accumulates automobile parts data from the beginning, and is developing an advanced AI technology platform based on this data. In particular, since the application of general AI models is limited in certain vertical fields related to vehicle maintenance, model optimization based on precise original data is essential. Dateum is evaluated to be solving this with its own collected data and technology.
The company is using the data to provide various services necessary for operating a repair shop. It includes functions to digitalize repair shop operations, such as automatic creation of blog content, parts ordering, and inventory management via mobile phones and PCs, and is competitive in that it provides a user experience that is differentiated from existing repair programs.
Co-founders of Dateum, CEO Yoo Ga-on, Director Hwang In-seong, and Director Lee Seung-cheol, all have experience operating AI-based services in the global education app 'QANDA', and the key members, including CEO Yoo, are graduates of Seoul National University's Department of Computer Engineering and are focusing on strengthening technological capabilities.
CEO Yoo Ga-on said, “Despite its high level of technology and skill, the maintenance industry is a field where expertise is not yet sufficiently conveyed to general consumers,” and added, “Dateum will provide technology-based, practical solutions so that maintenance shops working in the field can operate more efficiently and grow.” He added, “Our goal is to establish ourselves as a tool that is used on a daily basis in the automobile maintenance industry.”
Sanghoon Byun, an appraiser at Korea Investment Accelerator, which led this Pre-A round, said, “Dateum has developed an irreplaceable service that can dramatically improve the work productivity of mechanics by utilizing AI technology within the automobile maintenance industry, which has not changed much for decades.” He added, “Based on its rapidly growing service indicators, we hope that the company will go beyond the domestic market and establish itself as a leading global player.”
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