FuturePlay

FuturePlay is an accelerator and early-stage investor specialized in deep tech startups. Founded in 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, FuturePlay have invested in 55 deep tech, mainly South Korea's startups and about one third of them are US-based startups. FuturePlay is expanding target regions to Southeast Asia like Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It also plays a role of LP of some tech-focused funds like 500 Kimchi (500Startups' Korean Fund) and Zeroth.ai (http://zeroth.ai/). FuturePlay is venture-backed mainly from global enterprises such as CISCO, DeNA, LG, NHN, SK Planet. FuturePlay has two acceleration program, TechUP and TechUP+. TechUP is annual batch program which is a kind of company-building with deep tech engineers. TechUP+ is a co-acceleration program with large enterprise specialized in a particular industry like food, beauty, energy, etc. The first TechUP+ is sponsored by AmorePacific, the number one cosmetic company in Asia, and is running now with 5 beauty tech startups.

Choi Jae-woong

Director

Yongsuk ku

Senior Associate

Kwon Oh-hyung

Partner

Past deals in Language Processing

XL8

Convertible Note in 2022
Developer of an artificial intelligence-powered machine translation engine designed to remove the language barrier from the media industry ecosystem. The company's platform provides an important foundation for the Korean media industry to advance overseas and helps communicate without language barriers by using cloud technologies even when communicating in real-time with the Internet, enabling localization companies to provide their customers with translation and localization results.

XL8

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an artificial intelligence-powered machine translation engine designed to remove the language barrier from the media industry ecosystem. The company's platform provides an important foundation for the Korean media industry to advance overseas and helps communicate without language barriers by using cloud technologies even when communicating in real-time with the Internet, enabling localization companies to provide their customers with translation and localization results.

Keukey

Seed Round in 2013
Keukey is a South Korean software company that specializes in creating an innovative keyboard input system designed to eliminate typing errors on smartphones. The Keukey method enhances the typing experience by automatically detecting and correcting typos, allowing users to make adjustments without needing to use the backspace key. By recognizing similarities in letter positions, the system can seamlessly replace words within the intended context, facilitating the correction of typos, word order shifts, and substitutions of contextually similar words. The Keukey solution is versatile and customizable, making it compatible with any device and input system, as well as suitable for various language models.
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