Cutib, a South Korean startup developing tacu — an AI-powered video project management and production platform — has closed a seed bridge round from KIMGISA LAB, an early-stage investment firm focused on seed-stage startups.

The company has previously been selected for both the TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startup) program and a deep tech-focused early-stage startup package, validating its technological credentials. Cutib plans to use the fresh capital to enhance its core product and accelerate its push into the enterprise (B2B) market.

Investors pointed to Cutib’s organizational model and growth strategy as key factors behind the decision. Rather than following the conventional path of building large SaaS teams or banking on solo AI-developer setups, Cutib has deliberately chosen a middle ground: a lean team of around ten people with deep domain expertise. The company identified a gap in the market — legacy SaaS players with hundreds of employees have struggled to pivot quickly enough to capitalize on the AI agent trend, while solo developers often lack the capacity to handle the real-world complexity of infrastructure, security, and edge-case management at scale.

Cutib draws inspiration from the growth model of Cursor, the AI coding editor that achieved a valuation of trillions of Korean won starting from a small team. By leveraging the latest AI development tools to maximize individual productivity and execution speed, Cutib has managed to replicate, in just over a year, functionality that took established video editing solutions years to build — rapidly carving out a presence in the market.

“In the AI era, a product’s competitive edge isn’t determined by the size of the organization, but by deep domain expertise and the speed at which that expertise can be translated into a working product,” said Donghyuk Choi, CEO of Cutib. “We’re building an execution engine that’s more agile than a large organization and more robust than a one-person shop — and we intend to move fast in reshaping the AI video production and management market.”