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Find XO: Over 100 Intellectual Properties Changing Coastal Tourism (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe marine leisure startup WABADA, based in Gangneung, has accumulated over 100 intellectual properties over the past 15 years. They are promoting a semi-fishing, semi-tourism model where traditional…
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Find XO: Target the Old Bottlenecks: A New Survival Formula for PropTech (venturesquare.net)
SummaryUK PropTech startups have drawn attention by focusing on reducing the inheritance property sale process from 20 weeks to 7 weeks. Conversely, Zillow, Redfin, and Opendoor's iBuying, which sought to c…
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Find XO: Security Market in the LLM Era Led by ZTNA and Agents (venturesquare.net)
SummaryG3Soft has launched an integrated security platform combining AI and zero trust network access as a subscription product for small and medium-sized businesses. It boasts a 99.76% detection rate for e…
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Find XO: AI Commerce Builder Promises 0% Commission (venturesquare.net)
SummaryAI commerce builder Runmoa has launched an AI agent that creates online shops in one minute with 0% sales commission. They also highlight a seller case reaching monthly sales of 160 million KRW. Whil…
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Find XO: Xenon Grows from 38 to 150 Employees (venturesquare.net)
SummaryGenerative AI company Xenon is expanding from 38 to 150 employees and preparing for a KOSDAQ listing. They have completed over 200 AI projects and achieved sales of 93.4 billion KRW. Their success wa…
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Find XO: Miridi Increased Revenue 6.4 Times in 6 Years (venturesquare.net)
SummaryMiridi recorded sales of 94.2 billion KRW in 2025. It grew 6.4 times from 14.7 billion KRW in 2020, and Miricanvas has over 20 million cumulative users. Despite operating losses, they are investing h…
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Find XO: Resol Enters US and Japan Simultaneously with Brainwave Device (venturesquare.net)
SummarySleep tech startup Resol is launching a wearable device using brainwave synchronization technology simultaneously in the US and Japan. In the US, they are first testing consumer response through crow…
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Find XO: Bio Deeptech Innovation: Combining Infrastructure and Capital (venturesquare.net)
SummarySNS Lab and MYSC have signed an agreement linking an 850-pyeong shared laboratory with a 100 billion KRW impact fund. For bio deeptech teams that spend hundreds of millions of won solely on equipment…
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Find XO: How Wadiz's AI Agent is Changing the Funding Ecosystem (venturesquare.net)
SummaryWadiz launched an AI agent WAi trained on over 90,000 project data entries and reduced the initial funding fee by 30%. They also disclosed that payment amounts from makers using data insights increas…
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Find XO: A 'One-Stop' Era Integrating US Expansion, Strategy, Legal, and Investment Opens (venturesquare.net)
SummaryTheMilk and the law firm DLJG have created a model that assists Korean startups entering the US market in one go. It combines AI-based entry diagnostics, on-site support in Silicon Valley, and connec…
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Find XO: The Focus of Startup Policy Shifts from Central to Local Governments (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe Korea Startup Forum directly handed a 2026 startup policy proposal to local election candidates in Pangyo, with founders such as Alice CEO Jaewon Kim attending. Major agenda items included AI dat…
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Find XO: SNU and FuturePlay Open Applications for Scale-up Cohort 2 (venturesquare.net)
SummaryFuturePlay and Seoul National University jointly operate the SNU BIG Scale-up program, currently accepting participating companies until April 15. The program divides tracks by stages from technology…
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Find XO: Document AI's SaaS Transition: Breaking Down B2B Barriers (venturesquare.net)
SummaryKorea Deep Learning has also launched its document AI platform DeepAgent as a SaaS. On-premise and API models previously involved high initial infrastructure costs, causing many companies to hesitate…
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Find XO: Implications for Founders from DeepX-Lotte NPU Mass Production (venturesquare.net)
SummaryAI semiconductor startup DeepX is partnering with Lotte Innovate to mass-produce and embed its NPU in devices across Lotte's business sites. This is an on-device flow running inference directly on de…
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Find XO: The Paradox of the Real Estate Market Where Billion-Won Houses Are Found by AI but Contracts Are Signed with Seals (venturesquare.net)
SummaryKorea's real estate electronic contracts exceeded 500,000 cases in 2025, surpassing a 12% adoption rate for the first time. The contradiction of finding listings through AI apps while still using pap…
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Find XO: $9 Billion eCall Market Cracked with Satellite and On-Device AI (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe vehicle emergency eCall market is dominated by large parts companies like Bosch and Continental, but Korean startup PUEIT is penetrating communication shadow areas using satellite communication a…
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Find XO: EdTech AI Transition: Combining Existing Infrastructure with Startups (venturesquare.net)
SummaryTechville Education, which has built a foundation in public education for 25 years, signed an MOU with D-Lab, a startup-style educational content creator. The domestic AI education market is expected…
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Find XO: No Copyright for AI-Only Creations (venturesquare.net)
SummaryA U.S. court in Thaler v. The Perlmutter ruling established the principle that works created solely by AI are not granted copyright. The issue has now shifted to how much human involvement took place…
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Find XO: Why the ZENAXIS Program is an Opportunity for Deep Tech Startups Outside the Capital (venturesquare.net)
SummaryZENAXIS has been selected as the operator of the 'Everyone's Startup Project' along with Kibo Venture Camp and has begun recruiting prospective founders and early teams. The condition that over 70% o…
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Find XO: Silicon Valley Takes Two Days, Korea Takes Weeks (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThis article compares investment contracts between Korea and Silicon Valley, noting that Silicon Valley can complete contracts as quickly as within 1 to 2 days using standard agreements. When funds a…
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Find XO: Mediwhale Raises 20 Billion Won and Heads to FDA (venturesquare.net)
SummaryMediwhale has secured 20 billion won in Series C funding. The investment will be used to pursue U.S. FDA approval for the cardiovascular diagnostic device Dr. NUN CVD and to expand domestic and inter…
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Find XO: Evertreasure Advances to OKTA Pitch Finals (venturesquare.net)
SummaryEvertreasure has advanced to the finals of the 2026 OKTA Global AI Startup Pitch Competition with a business that combines AI and cultural finance. Their approach, where a small team deeply explores…
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Find XO: Naver Reinvests in Two Healthcare Companies Verified in the US (venturesquare.net)
SummaryNaver D2SF made follow-up investments in Soundable Health and NubiLab. The sequence of receiving additional investments after verifying product-market fit in the US draws attention. Healthcare teams…
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Find XO: Law Firm and Accelerator Form a Team (venturesquare.net)
SummaryLaw firm DLG and Next Elevation have signed a business agreement to support startups. For teams whose product launches or investment schedules are delayed due to contracts and regulations, receiving…
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Find XO: Company Tackling Healthcare Workforce Shortages with Hiring AI (venturesquare.net)
SummaryDearExpert has launched MedInsight, an AI hiring platform targeting workforce shortages and early resignations in the healthcare sector. The approach of evaluating hiring success through post-employm…
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Find XO: The Real Reason Merck Established a Hub at KAIST (venturesquare.net)
SummaryMerck Life Science has established a chemistry hub at KAIST that supports everything from material design to synthesis and analysis. For bio startup teams burdened by equipment costs, this is an oppo…
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Find XO: How to Find Opportunities in the Electronic Market Dominated by Bosch (venturesquare.net)
SummaryGLINS has developed an integrated T-ECU that combines driving, operational, and safety functions for industrial mobility. Their choice to compete with large corporations by adapting to the varying eq…
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Find XO: L&F and DGIST Plant AI in Local Industry (venturesquare.net)
SummaryL&F and DGIST have embarked on joint research to enable artificial intelligence transformation. If manufacturing sites can serve as testbeds, it is a welcome opportunity for industrial AI teams, but…
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Find XO: Up to 500 Million KRW Equity-Free Support, How to Utilize SparkLabs' 'Startup for All' (venturesquare.net)
SummarySparkLabs has been selected as the Seoul regional operator for 'Startup for All.' The phrase "up to 500 million KRW equity-free support" sounds appealing, but that amount is a prize awarded to the wi…
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Find XO: The Era of Physical AI: Insights for Founders from the Megazone-AVITA Collaboration (venturesquare.net)
SummaryMegazone Cloud and Japan's AVITA are jointly developing a service that combines autonomous robots with AI avatars. They are targeting customer service and educational settings, but from the perspecti…
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