GDIN has officially selected 13 technology enterprises for its flagship 'K-Global Overseas Expansion Program.' Designed to accelerate cross-border scaling and global market integration, this new cohort features high-growth innovators operating across critical technological frontiers, including AI semiconductors, physical AI, digital healthcare, financial intelligence, and spatial computing.

🚀 The Next-Gen Tech Cohort: 13 Innovators Targeting Global Markets

The selected cohort represents a diverse spectrum of high-demand technology sectors, each equipped with proprietary capabilities engineered for global commercial deployment:

• CuraPulse: Ultra-high frequency technology powering skin cell regeneration and beauty-tech solutions.

• Wellysis: Wearable ECG diagnostic solutions ('S-Patch') accelerating digital cardiovascular healthcare.

• HyperAccel: LPDDR-based ultra-efficient LLM inference AI chips (LPUs) engineered to resolve AI compute bottlenecks.

• NeuroFusion: Financial data and AI-driven corporate analysis and investment research platform ('Valley AI').

• SKAI Intelligence: Digital twin and synthetic data infrastructure for physical AI and robotics training.

• VESSL AI: Multi-datacenter GPU orchestration and enterprise AI cloud infrastructure.

• ManData: Alternative data analytics processing payment transactions for global investment signals.

• Willog: AIoT-driven real-time cold chain and global supply chain data intelligence.

• AirDeep: AIoT sensor-driven indoor air quality diagnostics and environmental management.

• Canopy: Real-time Earned Wage Access (EWA) platform providing on-demand payroll and financial wellness infrastructure.

• Sakak: Spatial computing, XR, and spatial audio media solutions.

• Cosmo-M: AIoT-driven ultra-precision fermentation DX/AX and digital brewing infrastructure.

• Omelet: Combinatorial optimization AI automating complex operational decisions in logistics and manufacturing.

To guarantee seamless international market entry and long-term commercial traction, GDIN will equip the 13 new member companies with a comprehensive suite of customized scale-up services:

• Target Market PMF & PoC: Specialized cross-border consulting across legal, IP, accounting, and PR domains, paired with local Proof-of-Concept (PoC) execution.

• Global VC & Commercial Matching: Direct access to global venture capital networks, institutional IR sessions, international tech expos, and targeted B2B/B2G matchmaking.

• Incubation & Global Hub Access: Soft-landing infrastructure at GDIN’s Pangyo incubation campus alongside seamless integration into GDIN's international hub networks.  

🚀 VestellaLab: Indoor parking navigation provider VestellaLab signed a strategic MOU with Chinese autonomous driving firm Shanghai Space Tech to expand its regional market footprint. By integrating VestellaLab’s spatial recognition and indoor positioning technology into Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and delivery robots, the partnership aims to co-develop commercial automation applications across major landmark infrastructure in China.

🚀 Twinny: Autonomous mobile robot innovator Twinny successfully closed a 14.4 billion KRW Pre-IPO funding round. The investment highlights Twinny’s proprietary infrastructure-free navigation technology, which enables robots to autonomously navigate complex industrial environments without physical markers. The capital will drive its global expansion for logistics automation.

🚀 Buzz&Beyond: AI-driven marketing platform Buzz&Beyond was selected for 'Startup Battlefield 200' at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco. Powered by its proprietary video-understanding AI engine that extracts consumer behavior analytics from video media, Buzz&Bee will leverage its U.S. corporate entity and creator network to accelerate North American market expansion.

• Modular Smart Infrastructure: Replacing rigid, legacy factory control systems, COSMO-M deploys a decentralized hardware architecture that attaches smart sensors directly to each fermentation tank. This allows breweries to easily expand production capacity through simple plug-and-play installation without operational downtime, while capturing second-by-second telemetry data across key variables like temperature, pH, and tank weight.
• Digital Recipe & Autonomous Execution: The M-BTS software stack standardizes master brewers' complex fermentation profiles into dynamic digital recipes. The platform autonomously executes 24-hour temperature and agitation schedules while supporting real-time remote monitoring, manual overrides, and zero-downtime Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware updates.
• AI-Ready Fermentation Datasets: Moving beyond simple sensor logging, COSMO-M constructs a fully connected production dataset. By linking raw material inputs, environmental sensor streams, operational intervention logs, sensory evaluations (aroma, acidity, texture), and final quality outcomes, the system builds the foundation for predictive anomaly detection, digital twin simulations, and flavor optimization.

• Validation via High-Difficulty Fermentation: COSMO-M validated its M-BTS 1.0 platform at its flagship Seoul testbed by digitizing 'multiple parallel fermentation'—one of the most chemically complex grain-brewing processes. The system's commercial viability was subsequently proven through high-tier market traction, securing top national consumer benchmark rankings and distribution across Michelin-tier gastronomy channels and international duty-free networks.
• Software & Infrastructure Export Model: Rather than relying strictly on direct beverage exports, COSMO-M’s primary global business model scales through the supply of turnkey brewing infrastructure, proprietary hardware panels, software operating licenses, and AI subscription services.
• Cross-Border Scalability: Building on over 30,000 foreign customer touchpoints in Korea, COSMO-M is deploying M-BTS 2.0 to scale localized production in Vietnam, executing technology package proposals in India (Assam), and targeting the digital transformation (DX) of aging sake breweries across Japan.

• Record Public LP Anchor Capital: Government allocation for the Fund of Funds (모태펀드) surges 58.5% year-over-year to a record 1.3 trillion KRW, providing robust anchor liquidity to catalyze private VC fundraising across early and growth stages.
• Expansion of Co-Investment Frameworks: Public matching for private-led R&D expands to 1.34 trillion KRW through TIPS programs, alongside newly introduced equity-based R&D models where public funds directly co-invest in startup equity alongside VCs.
• Corporate & Institutional Matchmaking: Over 114 billion KRW is dedicated to corporate open innovation and global enterprise collaboration programs, creating structured co-investment avenues alongside industry conglomerates.

• Democratized Compute & GPU Access: The government allocated 3.85 trillion KRW to expand AI compute infrastructure—securing over 10,000 frontier-class GPUs—effectively eliminating the primary CapEx bottleneck for AI software and algorithm developers.
• Real-World Physical AI & AIDC Testbeds: Dedicated funding includes Physical AI training centers and a 10MW AIDC testbed, enabling robotics, sensor, and hardware startups to execute large-scale Proof-of-Concept (PoC) deployments across national infrastructure like Korea Post’s logistics networks.
• Full-Stack Commercial Adoption for AI Hardware: A 90 billion KRW initiative will directly integrate domestic AI chips into enterprise products and services, accelerating early commercial reference acquisition and market entry.