[Korean Startup Weekly News #116] AI is no longer just a sector in Korea

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Korea’s Twelve New Industry Sectors Drew 76% of Total Venture Investment in 2025

Korea’s 12 new industry sectors captured 76% of the country’s total venture investment in 2025, pulling in $3.52B. AI led the way, while life sciences and defense posted the fastest growth.

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GenosisAI Healthcare Secures $3.6M Strategic Investment

GenosisAI Healthcare raised strategic funding from JG Group to build a Human Digital Twin AI health platform and expand GenoBioFit supplements globally.

Tynapse Raises $3.17M Seed Round

Tynapse is building runtime security infrastructure for AI agents, with the seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment.

Searchdoc Secures $2.1M

Searchdoc raised seed and government funding to scale its AI platform for large-document and industrial drawing analysis.

Bridge Works Secures Pre-Series A Funding

Bridge Works, operator of the receipt-based instant cashback app Cashmore, secured funding from Laguna Investment for its offline retail data model.

Superturbine Raises Seed Funding and Joins TIPS

Superturbine is building a next-generation music distribution model by combining rhythm game IP with music fintech.

Celon Raises Seed Funding

Celon is developing an AI memory layer that connects fragmented data to sharpen AI response quality and context continuity.

What We’re Seeing

• AI infrastructure startups are accelerating
• AI agent security is emerging as a new category
• Memory layers are becoming part of the AI stack
• Korean startups are moving deeper into vertical AI applications