19+ hour, 30+ min ago   (309+ words) by WOW TALE · Sep 8 – Sep 13, 2026 Notable investments and deals shaping Korea’s startup ecosystem. Aidin Robotics raised $12.1 million from HD Hyundai Robotics and Samsung Venture Investment to expand its surface finishing robotic systems, bringing real time vision guided polishing and grinding…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (588+ words) Wowtale Cylake Raises $245M for Sovereign Security Platform “Sovereign AI” is a hot topic in Korea too, as public agencies and financial institutions push to run AI on their own infrastructure rather than hand data to outside clouds. The same problem…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (582+ words) Wowtale Superluminal Medicines Raises $60M Series B for AI-Driven GPCR Drug Discovery Think of a drug as a key and the protein it binds to as a lock. Roughly a third of approved drugs are aimed at one particular kind of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (610+ words) Wowtale AI Data Center Builder Crusoe Reportedly Raises $3B at a $30B Valuation Serving the inference demand pouring out of models like ChatGPT and Claude takes more than GPUs. It takes power to run them and the speed to stand up a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (598+ words) Figure Bets on Data, Then Compute: Index Launch and Nscale’s 100K-GPU Deal Wowtale Figure Bets on Data, Then Compute: Index Launch and Nscale’s 100K-GPU Deal The next bottleneck for building a general-purpose humanoid robot isn’t the model — it’s data and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (227+ words) Accorde Entertainment, operator of virtual boy group IP MY:RAKL, has secured approximately $1.4 million (KRW 2 billion) in pre-Series A funding, the company announced on September 1. Smilegate Investment, CNTTech, and SM Culture Partners participated in the round. Investors cited Accorde Entertainment’s…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (203+ words) An AI model can now design a new protein sequence in an afternoon. The harder part comes next: proving that design actually folds correctly and binds its target still runs through slow, fragmented wet labs. It’s the reason AI drug…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (237+ words) Atommer, a South Korean startup developing functional materials through a fabless business model, has raised a seed round from LG Electronics and Bluepoint Partners, the company announced on August 24. The investment was made through STUDIO341, a corporate venturing program jointly operated…...