Meissa, a South Korean spatial AI startup building full-stack digital twin infrastructure, has secured a new investment from TIMEFOLIO Asset Management, one of South Korea’s largest hedge fund managers with approximately $6.6 billion (KRW 10 trillion) in AUM.

Meissa specializes in fusing multi-layered spatial data — drawn from satellites, drones, and ground-based sensors — to construct what it calls a “World Model”: a spatial intelligence infrastructure that enables AI systems and operational platforms to understand and act within the physical world. While conventional digital twins are largely visual representations of reality, Meissa goes a step further by providing the spatial infrastructure that AI and operational systems can actually work with. The company counts Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) as a strategic shareholder and has been actively expanding its technology into the space and defense AI sectors as it pursues global market opportunities.

TIMEFOLIO Asset Management, which traces its roots to hedge fund management in the early 2000s, has built over two decades of research expertise and capital market networks, and has become an increasingly active investor in unlisted venture companies alongside its public market strategies.

“TIMEFOLIO’s investment is an institutional validation of Meissa’s technological direction as a spatial infrastructure company for the Physical AI era,” said Seokwon Choi, CEO of Meissa. “We will use this investment to advance our Full-Spatial Digital Twin platform and establish ourselves in the global market as the most trusted partner connecting AI and the real world.”

With this latest round, Meissa has now raised a cumulative total of approximately $24.6 million (KRW 37 billion) in funding. The company is targeting an IPO in the second half of 2026 and is actively preparing for its public listing.