AI Startup AiderX Secures First Seed Investment from Altos Ventures
Former Kakao Brain CTO Kim Kwangseop and Engineer Co-founder Yoon Jisang
A Service That Enables Anyone to Use AI to Streamline Daily Life
AI technology startup AiderX (CEO Kim Kwangseop) announced on the 16th that it has secured seed investment from Altos Ventures. The investment was led by Altos Ventures, and the amount was not disclosed.
AiderX is an AI service company co-founded by CEO Kim Kwangseop, former CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Kakao Brain, a subsidiary leading Kakao's AI business, and Director Yoon Jisang, an engineer with experience at Kakao and Google.
Founder Kim Kwangseop served as the team leader of Kakao's recommendation team and was CTO of Kakao Brain for about two years. During his tenure at Kakao, he led the research and development of recommendation systems used across the Kakao ecosystem, and at Kakao Brain, he led AI research and product development organizations. Co-founder Director Yoon Jisang started his career in 2016 as an engineer in Kakao's recommendation team, later worked as an algorithm trader at Presto Labs, Asia's largest quant trading firm, and gained experience in Google's TensorFlow model optimization team.
Altos Ventures analyst Jung Haemin said, "Although AiderX is an early-stage startup team, they already have rich practical experience in technology application, such as leading real-time personalization and recommendation system development within Kakao," adding, "Both CEO Kim Kwangseop and Director Yoon Jisang have advanced product development experience, and we expect them to develop powerful services reflecting a customer-centric mindset, which led us to decide on this investment."
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AiderX aims to improve customers' quality of life through technology. They plan to unveil a prototype within the year that maximizes everyday convenience in the form of a so-called 'virtual assistant.' CEO Kim said, "I want to leverage machine learning capabilities and global-scale engineering skills to create services that anyone can easily access and use," adding, "We plan to accelerate talent recruitment through this investment."
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