Superb AI, a vision AI all-in-one solution provider, has completed a $9.5 million (14 billion KRW) Pre-IPO funding round. The round was led by Hanwha Asset Management‘s venture fund, with participation from POSCO Investment. This brings the company’s total funding to $42.8 million (63 billion KRW), as it targets a public listing in 2026.

Superb AI has consistently attracted investment from major Korean conglomerates including Doosan, Hyundai Motor Company, Samsung Electronics, KT, Kakao, KT&G, and HL Group, validating its technology through their active deployment in manufacturing and logistics operations. Partnerships with Hyundai Motor Company and Doosan have intensified post-investment, delivering tangible results across industrial applications.

The company specializes in analyzing and identifying visual data from photos, videos, and 3D LiDAR. Founded on the principle that data quality is fundamental to AI development, Superb AI has built data-centric AI development technologies that enable efficient construction and utilization of high-quality training data.

Through the Superb Platform, which automates everything from data construction to AI model training, the company makes AI development accessible to anyone. Its ZERO, Korea’s first industrial vision foundation model, has won global benchmarks and competitions. ZERO is a general-purpose AI model that can be applied to various visual tasks without additional training, dramatically lowering barriers to AI adoption in industrial settings by achieving high performance with minimal data.

Selected as a “National AI Champion,” Superb AI participates in the Ministry of Science and ICT’s “AI Foundation Model” initiative as part of the LG AI Research consortium. As the only non-LG affiliate developing a foundation AI model, the company leads multimodal data construction for physical AI implementation using its ZERO technology.

Operating in Korea, the United States, and Japan, Superb AI provides vision AI solutions to over 100 companies including Samsung, LG, Hyundai Motor Company, and KT. Its Japan subsidiary, established last year, has rapidly grown by securing major Japanese manufacturers like Toyota and Nippon Steel as clients. The company recently renewed its contract with Toyota and continues its partnership with Nippon Steel, while expanding its client base to include Japanese national research institutions and major electronics manufacturers.

The company’s global technology leadership has been recognized through key partnerships. Superb AI received AWS (Amazon Web Services) “Rising Star Partner of the Year” award and strengthened technical collaboration with NVIDIA in the Video Surveillance System (VSS) field, jointly executing AI projects at global industrial sites.

The new funding will be invested in advancing AI technology and recruiting top talent, while pursuing aggressive sales expansion among major Korean conglomerates and industries requiring AI adoption. The company also plans to accelerate global market expansion to secure growth momentum.

Superb AI and its major investors plan to pursue joint growth by selling and distributing solutions through technology-business co-development and commercialization partnerships beyond technology adoption. A Hanwha Asset Management venture fund representative noted that Superb AI’s vision AI technology is applicable across diverse industrial sectors including manufacturing, aerospace, foodtech, shipbuilding, and defense. Superb AI demonstrated its capabilities by winning the Hanwha Systems AI Challenge two consecutive years.

POSCO Investment, a major investor, explained: “We started as a customer of Superb AI and confirmed the solution’s effectiveness. We decided to invest based on evaluating its technology and growth potential. The company has the execution capability to create results by deploying solutions across various settings including manufacturing, logistics, and safety control.”

Hyunsoo Kim, CEO of Superb AI, stated: “We’ve proven our technology by attracting investment from major Korean conglomerates since early funding rounds. These investors have transitioned to key customers – an exceptional case where actual or potential customers invested beyond financial purposes, expecting AI solution adoption synergies.” He added: “Through partnerships, we’ll accelerate AI adoption across industries and leap forward as a global leader in the industrial AI market through next year’s planned IPO.”