AIM Intelligence, a South Korean startup specializing in AI security, has closed a $7M (KRW 10B) Series A funding round. The round was led by Samsung Venture Investment, with participation from existing investor Mirae Asset Capital alongside new backers Smilegate Investment and Forest Ventures. The latest round brings the company’s total funding to approximately $8.4M (KRW 12B).

AIM Intelligence provides integrated security solutions covering large language models (LLMs), AI agents, and physical AI systems. The company’s core offering revolves around what it calls a “spear and shield” cycle — a red team solution that probes AI models and their underlying services for vulnerabilities, paired with a guardrail solution that prevents AI systems from engaging in harmful or unsafe behavior. Its technology spans LLMs, vision-language models (VLMs), voice, and multimodal systems, validated against real-world service environments. The company has published research in globally recognized AI academic journals and has built a track record delivering security solutions to major players in the financial and telecommunications sectors. It has also collaborated with global tech giants including OpenAI and Meta on AI red teaming and safety evaluation.

The round reflects growing demand for AI safety infrastructure as generative AI adoption accelerates across industries. Threats unique to AI systems — hallucinations, jailbreaks, and prompt injection attacks — have moved to the center of enterprise risk management, and AIM Intelligence has positioned itself as a specialist in detecting and neutralizing these risks at scale.

The company plans to use the proceeds to recruit white-hat hackers and LLM engineers to sharpen its offensive and defensive capabilities, while also expanding its backend, cloud, and frontend development teams to support a scalable SaaS architecture for global enterprise customers. The roadmap includes an expanded automated AI red-teaming platform and a B2B SaaS guardrail solution designed for seamless enterprise deployment without complex security configuration.”As generative AI adoption accelerates, AI security has shifted from a nice-to-have to a core survival strategy,” said Sangyun Yoo, CEO of AIM Intelligence. “AIM Intelligence will go beyond simple security diagnostics to become the global standard for AI safety — managing every risk that arises throughout an enterprise’s AI transformation journey.”