Coxwave, a Korean startup operating the AI product analytics platform Align, has secured $4.8 million (KRW 7 billion) in Pre-Series A funding. This brings the company’s total funding to $8.5 million (KRW 12.5 billion).

The funding round was led by LnS Venture Capital, with participation from existing investor KB Investment and new investors including Hyundai Technology Investment, Hyundai Motor Company Zero1ne Ventures, and Korea Development Bank Capital. Investors recognized Coxwave’s accumulated data and technical capabilities in AI product analytics, as well as the growth potential of the AI agent verification market the company is now entering. The investment reflects comprehensive consideration of Coxwave’s AI trust technology, achievements in Korea’s generative AI industry, and global market growth potential.

Founded in 2021, Coxwave has developed real-time performance analysis, user experience optimization, and reliability verification technologies for conversational AI. In 2023, the company achieved the milestone of becoming the first in Korea to sell a generative AI product. Building on this foundation, the company now supports AI transformation across various industries including edtech, AICC, and finance through its AI product analytics platform Align and AI service implementation consulting.

The company maintains active collaborations with global big tech firms. In 2025, Coxwave co-hosted events contributing to Korea’s AI ecosystem development, including builder summits and hackathons with global AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI, while continuing technical cooperation with NVIDIA. Last December, the company was selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ Scale-up TIPS R&D program, having its technological innovation validated by the government following private investment and global big tech partnerships.

Coxwave’s core solution Align provides user behavior analysis and feedback-based quantitative evaluation for efficient improvement of conversational AI products. By analyzing actual user behavior patterns including conversation satisfaction, it enables AI service operators to make data-driven product improvements. In AI trust technology, the company is expanding beyond Align’s monitoring capabilities to functions that track AI agent behavior in real time and enable immediate detection and response when issues occur. The company plans to contribute to enterprise AI governance as an “AI guardrail” for safely operating AI services in production environments.

The company is also expanding its AX (AI Transformation) business. The AX division has successfully led AI transformation for companies across various industries including e-commerce, public institutions, consulting, and MICE. Building on successful AX projects with over 10 domestic and international clients including PwC India, Meta, Microsoft, and Economic Times, the company plans to further expand this business. The company will also actively contribute to AX for domestic and international education companies through EduTab, its B2B AI education solution launched in September last year. Major edtech companies including Fastcampus and Hackers are already secured as clients, with AI operations expanding.

Doohyun Jang, Director at LnS Venture Capital, stated, “As AI agents expand into sensitive work areas such as financial transactions, medical consultations, and legal reviews, market demand for reliability verification is surging. Coxwave possesses data and technical capabilities accumulated from AI product analytics and has proven its technological competitiveness through collaborations with global companies like Anthropic and NVIDIA, so we determined it has sufficient growth potential.”

Joowon Kim, CEO of Coxwave, stated, “Our goal is to strengthen both AI trust technology and AX consulting to help partner companies secure leadership in their respective industries through AI. With this investment, we will advance our technical capabilities and support more companies’ successful AI transformation with proven expertise.”