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Find XO: From a 6 Billion Won Loss to a 1.8 Billion Won Operating Profit: Enrise's Turnaround (venturesquare.net)
SummaryEnrise, which operates the home training app Quat and dating app Wiffy, posted an operating profit of 1.82 billion won in 2025. After a 6 billion won loss in 2022, it achieved two consecutive years o…
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Find XO: Eclipse's $1.3 Billion Fund Marks the Dawn of the Physical AI Era (techcrunch.com)
SummaryVenture capital firm Eclipse has created a new $1.3 billion fund dedicated to Physical AI. They plan not just to invest in existing startups but to incubate by building and growing companies directly…
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Find XO: Weeplo, a Drone Predictive Maintenance AI, Raises 5.5 Billion KRW and Enters Defense Sector (venturesquare.net)
SummaryWeeplo, which develops AI for drone diagnostics, raised 5.5 billion KRW in its Series A funding, bringing total investments to 11.8 billion KRW. Its technology uses non-contact fusion sensors to diag…
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Find XO: Startups Move into iM Bank's Second Main Branch (platum.kr)
SummaryDaegu Center for Creative Economy and Innovation gathered occupant companies of Unicorn Lab Daegu 2nd batch inside iM Bank's second main branch until April 12. The target companies are startups withi…
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Find XO: OnePoint's Formula for Success: Improving Freelancer Matching by 150% with AI (venturesquare.net)
SummaryFreelancer matching platform OnePoint integrated AI from drafting work requirements to contracts, increasing matching success rate by 150% and reducing time taken by 40%. Simple outsourcing is quickl…
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Find XO: The Evolution of AI Earth Observation: Xoople Raises $130 Million (techcrunch.com)
SummarySpanish Earth observation startup Xoople became a unicorn by raising $130 million in Series B. Interestingly, they completed software integrations with companies like Microsoft before launching satel…
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Find XO: Battlefield 200 Is Accepting Applicants (techcrunch.com)
SummaryTechCrunch is accepting applications for the Startup Battlefield 200, offering a $100,000 prize without equity dilution. This is a welcome opportunity for pre-Series A teams, especially as seed inves…
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Find XO: Up to 3.4 Billion Won Non-Dilutive Funding: How Deep Tech Founders Can Utilize Kibo BIRD (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe BIRD program, operated by the Korea Technology Finance Corporation together with Seoul, Chungnam, and Daejeon, provides up to 3.4 billion won in three stages from R&D planning to commercializatio…
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Find XO: UiPath moves beyond RPA to autonomous agents (venturesquare.net)
SummaryUiPath has launched agentic AI targeting distribution and manufacturing sectors. It is a declaration that the RPA company, which previously handled repetitive tasks based on fixed rules, is shifting…
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Find XO: The Era of 1.16 Million One-Person Creative Enterprises: Evolution of Survival-Oriented Startups (venturesquare.net)
SummaryAs of 2023, South Korea has over 1.16 million one-person creative enterprises, accounting for 23.7% of all startups. It took an average of 2.6 months to achieve the first sales, and the average sales…
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Find XO: 2% Defect Rate in Manufacturing Led to 2,000% Export Growth (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe automotive shock absorber startup TF lowered its defect rate from 5% to below 2%, breaking into the Japanese tuning market. Exports soared from $30,000 in 2022 to $1.16 million in 2024. Contrary…
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Find XO: Cutting Class Preparation Time by 90%: The New Standard for EdTech B2B (venturesquare.net)
SummaryAvoLabs has partnered with 50 domestic educational institutions through its AI language learning platform AvoRingo. The key message is that their proprietary agent technology reduces teachers' class…
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Find XO: The Order of Selling to Public Sector First and Then Moving to SaaS (venturesquare.net)
SummaryAviation maintenance data platform Cyberi Solutions shortened its release lead time by half with support from the Startup Leap Package. It is currently acquiring more than five public and defense ins…
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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: Polymarket Opened and Then Shut Down Betting on Military Operation (techcrunch.com)
SummaryPolymarket opened a betting market on whether to rescue a U.S. military pilot shot down over Iranian airspace but closed it following fierce criticism from Democratic lawmakers. This is a case where…
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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: Why Peter Thiel Bet $200 Million on a Cow Necklace Startup (techcrunch.com)
SummaryPeter Thiel's Founders Fund led a $220 million Series E round for New Zealand agricultural startup Halter, bringing its valuation to $2 billion. Halter provides virtual fencing and health management…
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Find XO: YC Expulsion Incident: Open Source IP Theft and the Crisis of Trust (techcrunch.com)
SummaryAI compliance startup Delve was expelled from Y Combinator amid allegations of unauthorized use of open source tools. The company had received a Series A round at a valuation of $300 million just one…
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Find XO: Anthropic's Additional Charges: Startup Founders' AI Cost Warning (techcrunch.com)
SummaryAnthropic has started charging extra fees for the use of external tools like OpenClaw by Claude Code subscribers. This is news for teams that based their development costs on subscription fees to rec…
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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: Anthropic Bought an 8-Month-Old Bio Company for $400 Million (techcrunch.com)
SummaryAnthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, an 8-month-old company, for $400 million through a full stock exchange. The team consists of fewer than 10 Genentech alumni, emphasizing expertise over size. For t…
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Find XO: The End of Human Moderation: What Moonbounce's $12 Million Investment Means (techcrunch.com)
SummaryMoonbounce secured $12 million in Series A funding for its content moderation AI. The company highlights the problem that human moderators, who must judge 40-page guidelines within 30 seconds, barely…
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Find XO: 1 Billion Won Funding with Just an Idea: Everyone's Guide to Startups (platum.kr)
SummaryThe Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Startup Promotion Agency's "Everyone's Startup" program accepts applicants based on just an idea. You can apply at 17 Creative Economy Innovation Centers nat…
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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: $500,000 Leveraged from K-Startup Grand Challenge (platum.kr)
SummaryThe U.S. health tech startup Patientory received $500,000 from Isom Venture Partners, leveraging the K-Startup Grand Challenge as a stepping stone. This year's KSGC competition ratio was 32.8 to 1, b…
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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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