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Investor(Acquisition)
May 2022
AirPlug, a privately held venture company backed by Silicon Valley venture capitals, focuses on addressing key pain points in today’s mobile networks, offering not only the best streaming experience for the end user but potential monetization opportunities for MNO and OTT as well.
AirPlug’s Multiple Access Optimization (MAO) technology tightly integrates Wi-Fi and Cellular to improve dynamic network utilization, efficiency and quality. Another feature, Blended Boosting, allows simultaneous blending of both Wi-Fi /Cellular Heterogeneous networks based on provider’s policy, resulting in the highest quality streaming media experience anywhere.
Investor
Jul 2021
Gatik is in the business of autonomous freight.
We run driverless delivery networks across North America for some of the world’s largest retailers and consumer brands.
Investor
Jun 2021
Sonatus is accelerating vehicle software innovation and the transition towards software-defined vehicles. Our platforms and products serve as the key building blocks that allow automotive companies and their ecosystem to innovate faster and deliver continuous improvements in costs, capabilities, reliability, and user experience over the vehicle lifespan. Sonatus’ award-winning software platform is in mass production vehicles from Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis today and will grow to millions of cars by 2024. The company has raised more than $110 million USD with world-class automotive, technology, and venture investors including Foxconn, Hyundai Motor Group’s Kia Corporation, LG Electronics, Marvell, SAIC Capital, Translink Capital, UMC Capital, and Wanxiang Group Company. Sonatus is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA (Silicon Valley), with offices in Paris, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. Sonatus is a trademark of Sonatus, Inc. For more information visit www.sonatus.com.
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Feb 2021
Ottopia offers the leading teleoperations platform, as twice selected by Frost & Sullivan.
Ottopia powers unmanned ground operations and driverless experiences by combining the best of artificial and human intelligence, setting the standard for teleoperation technology worldwide.
Select customers & partners: Hyundai, Magna International, Deutsche Telekom, EasyMile, Serve Robotics, NVIDIA and various defense clients.
Ottopias technology currently powers trucks, cars, buses, construction machines, and delivery robots.
Learn more at https://ottopia.tech or contact us at info@ottopia.tech.
Investor
Feb 2021
UVeye is transforming vehicle inspections with AI-powered computer vision and proprietary hardware. Our systems deliver fast, automated scans that detect damage, mechanical issues, or safety threats in seconds—above, below, and around the vehicle.
Founded in 2016 by Amir and Ohad Hever, UVeye operates at 700+ locations globally, including OEM plants, dealership service lanes, auctions, rental fleets, logistics centers, and security sites. We’re trusted by General Motors, Volvo Cars, Toyota Tsusho, CarMax, Hyundai Motors, Hertz, Amazon, and more.
Backed by $380M in funding from top investors like Toyota Tsusho, CarMax, Hyundai Motors, Hanaco VC, and W.R. Berkley, UVeye is automating inspections across the vehicle lifecycle, improving accuracy, transparency, and road safety.
Investor
Jan 2021
LEVL is a CUJO AI company, offering a patented solution that leverages both physical and digital layer device intelligence to effectively balance the tradeoff between network privacy and user experience.
Utilizing a passive, out-of-band approach, LEVL discovers, identifies, and verifies all devices attempting to access the network. This process capitalizes on identifiers already present on every wireless device, ensuring that LEVL’s device intelligence is not only convenient and strong but also maintains user privacy without requiring any action from the user.
As a CUJO AI company, we work internationally with over 200 colleagues dispersed in countries around the world.
Investor
Dec 2020
MakinaRocks brings intelligent, real-world AI to life for enterprises across industries, including automotive, semiconductors, batteries, chemicals, defense, public sector, and retail. By leveraging our compound AI technology—combining an AI platform with industry-specific AI—we accelerate productivity in core business processes, driving innovation across diverse industries.
Investor
Mar 2020
Voice is the interface of the future. That’s why we developed Voice AI that hears and understands like people do. It makes voice UI work as it should, providing frustration-free voice experiences anywhere, anytime for AI products that people love to use.
Kardome gives your voice-integrated products the ability to hear and localize sound sources, identify who’s speaking, and understand what they mean in context, for natural, intuitive voice interactions that perform reliably in the most complex environments: Powered by our Spatial Hearing AI and Cognition AI.
Investor
Dec 2019
Upstream delivers a cloud-based, AI-powered data management platform purpose-built for connected vehicles, smart mobility, and IoT ecosystem. The Upstream Platform transforms fragmented, distributed mobility data into centralized, structured, and contextualized data lakes, unlocking its full potential. By leveraging this data, Upstream empowers customers with advanced, AI-driven applications across various use cases, including proactive vehicle quality management, cybersecurity detection and response (XDR), fraud prevention, observability, usage-based insurance, and more.
The Upstream Platform unlocks the value of vehicle data, empowering customers to build connected vehicle applications by transforming highly distributed vehicle data into centralized, structured, contextualized data lakes. Coupled with AutoThreat® Intelligence, the first automotive cybersecurity threat intelligence solution, Upstream provides industry-leading cyber threat protection and actionable insights, seamlessly integrated into the customer’s environment and vehicle security operations centers (VSOC).
Upstream’s customers include some of the world’s leading automotive OEMs, suppliers, and others, protecting millions of vehicles.
Investor
Aug 2019
Arbe is building the future car’s eyes and brain using a High-Resolution Radar, enabling cars to “see” the environment in any weather and any lighting condition, to long, mid and short ranges, in any azimuth, elevation, range and Doppler. Our radar detects cars, motorcycles, bikes, and most importantly humans.
Arbe’s radar, based on our proprietary chipsets, is a next generation of safety products for ADAS and autonomous driving, offering superior performance at a low cost, size and power consumption.
Join Us - we are hiring!
https://arberobotics.com/career/
Board Member(Investor)
Nov 2018
Founded in 2017, we are a security solution company specializing in PUF (Physical Unclonable Function) technology. Since the company began mass-producing PUF chips shortly after its establishment, it has been building and delivering various security platforms to leading domestic and foreign companies.
ICTK is the only company in Korea that has met all the RoT (Root of Trust) requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT) Security Division of the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA), and our unique technology, VIA PUF, is now officially registered with GSA. In particular, in December 2020, PUF technology was officially established as an international standard (ISO/IEC 20897), and we are looking forward to the accompanying growth of the related domestic industry. In July 2021, we were also certified as a CMVP by the Korea National Intelligence Service.
As a result of 10 years of R&D, we have registered a total of 109 domestic and foreign patents as of the end of 2022. 55 patents have been filed and are currently undergoing the registration process. In addition to design assets (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC), we are continuously enhancing our RoT technology, which is the root of security, including RoT chips, security modules, security networks, firmware security updates (FOTA), device firmware protection, and PUF embedded USIMs and eSIMs. Recently, we have been introducing world-class security products, such as next-generation VPN equipment that combines our unique Via PUF technology with quantum-resistant encryption (PQC).
ICTK would like to do our best to provide a safer foundation for smart life by providing powerful security solutions based on hardware (HW), from security chips to services. Thank you.
Investor
Sep 2018
D-ID is redefining enterprise communication with AI Visual Agents and the simpleshow video platform—bringing avatars and explainer storytelling together to make communication clearer, more human, and scalable.
Our platform combines photorealistic, real-time avatars with AI-powered video storytelling to help organizations explain, train, and engage at scale. From interactive digital humans to explainer videos that simplify complex topics, we empower enterprises to communicate in ways that are clear, human, and impactful.
With our industry-leading streaming API, self-service Creative Reality™ Studio, and simpleshow’s trusted video platform, businesses can create interactive avatars, build explainer content, and deliver personalized communication across training, onboarding, sales, and beyond.
D-ID makes communication more human, more scalable, and now, with simpleshow, simpler than ever.
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2022
Senior Investment Manager
Nov 2022
Hyundai CRADLE is the global arm of open innovation within Hyundai Motor Group. As an open innovation platform, we are essentially the bridge between HMG and anyone with new ideas, products, or technologies that can help build a world with better mobility experiences for all.
The mission of HYUNDAI CRADLE is to facilitate and assist in all aspects of HMGs strategic transformation to be a "MaaS" company.
Investor(Acquisition)
May 2022
AirPlug, a privately held venture company backed by Silicon Valley venture capitals, focuses on addressing key pain points in today’s mobile networks, offering not only the best streaming experience for the end user but potential monetization opportunities for MNO and OTT as well.
AirPlug’s Multiple Access Optimization (MAO) technology tightly integrates Wi-Fi and Cellular to improve dynamic network utilization, efficiency and quality. Another feature, Blended Boosting, allows simultaneous blending of both Wi-Fi /Cellular Heterogeneous networks based on provider’s policy, resulting in the highest quality streaming media experience anywhere.
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
Gatik is in the business of autonomous freight.
We run driverless delivery networks across North America for some of the world’s largest retailers and consumer brands.
Investor
Jun 2021
Sonatus is accelerating vehicle software innovation and the transition towards software-defined vehicles. Our platforms and products serve as the key building blocks that allow automotive companies and their ecosystem to innovate faster and deliver continuous improvements in costs, capabilities, reliability, and user experience over the vehicle lifespan. Sonatus’ award-winning software platform is in mass production vehicles from Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis today and will grow to millions of cars by 2024. The company has raised more than $110 million USD with world-class automotive, technology, and venture investors including Foxconn, Hyundai Motor Group’s Kia Corporation, LG Electronics, Marvell, SAIC Capital, Translink Capital, UMC Capital, and Wanxiang Group Company. Sonatus is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA (Silicon Valley), with offices in Paris, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. Sonatus is a trademark of Sonatus, Inc. For more information visit www.sonatus.com.
Investor
Mar 2021
Sama is the global leader in ethical data annotation and model evaluation solutions for computer vision, generative AI and other major applications of artificial intelligence. Our solutions minimize the risk of model failure and lower the total cost of ownership through an enterprise ready ML-powered platform, actionable data insights uncovered by proprietary algorithms, and a highly skilled on-staff team of over 5,000 data experts.
25% of Fortune 50 companies, including GM, Ford, Microsoft and Google, trust Sama to help deliver industry-leading ML models.
Ethical AI is responsible AI, and as a Certified B-Corp, we’ve pioneered an impact model that harnesses the power of markets for social good, and has been proven to meaningfully improve employment and income outcomes for those with the greatest barriers to formal work. So far, helping more than 65,000 people lift themselves out of poverty.
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