DGIST Startup Companies 'ItsSensor' and 'Clebrain' Selected for 'TIPS', Receive 700 Million KRW Support

DGIST (President Yang Guk) announced that the employee startup company ‘It’s Sensor’ (CEO Kang Daecheon, Senior Researcher at DGIST, and Principal Researcher Lee Hyunki) and the student startup company ‘Clebrain’ (CEO Park Woongchan, 3rd-year student in the School of Basic Sciences) have been selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ private investment-led technology startup support program TIPS, receiving R&D funding of 700 million KRW each for two years.

The TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startup) program is a private investment-led initiative that selects startup teams with technology items capable of leading the global market and focuses on nurturing promising future startups. Selected startup teams receive comprehensive support including investment, mentoring, and R&D funding.

Among the companies selected for this program, It’s Sensor develops visual sensors that function like the human eye in robots. While currently used sensors have an error margin of about 50㎜, the startup team’s sensor has an error margin of only 0.5㎜. This is a 100-fold improvement compared to existing technology and is expected to play a decisive role in enabling robots to replace and automate many tasks previously performed by humans in industrial sites and daily life.

(From left) Kang Daecheon, CEO of It's Sensor; Lee Hyunki; Park Woongchan, CEO of Clebrain.

In particular, It’s Sensor was established in January 2023 based on research achievements at DGIST and was selected as a startup team supported by the Laboratory Specialized Startup Leading University project. It is a representative example of a new startup culture company where laboratory research leads to actual industry applications.

Also, Clebrain, founded by a DGIST undergraduate student, provides the sound recognition-based sheet music learning platform service ‘PianoKeyWiz.’ Through PianoKeyWiz, users can access sheet music viewing services for free and use a simple sheet music turning solution. This core function automatically turns the sheet music according to the performance by recognizing the played sound source in real time and tracking the performance position.

Kang Daecheon, CEO of It’s Sensor, said, “Although It’s Sensor has only been in operation for eight months, it possesses excellent technology that has been verified in industrial sites,” adding, “Based on technology internalized through sufficient commercialization preparation processes in the industrial field, we will supply solutions that surprise the world.”

Park Woongchan, CEO of Clebrain, said, “We aim to advance the performance position tracking technology and develop it into an AI tutor for lessons similar to offline classes,” adding, “We will utilize the funds supported through TIPS to enhance technology and enter domestic and international markets, ultimately transforming into a sheet music platform that improves all processes from learning to practice performance.”

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