We are Korea’s AI ecosystem.
Startups founded by our fellows are backed by A16Z, Arielle Zuckerberg, Y Combinator, Samsung Ventures, and SoftBank.
Fellowship
We are an AI researchers & founders fellowship based in Seoul from academia and industry. We work on research, open-source projects, and real-world applications to build the next leading AI startups.
Raised by our fellows
Our fellows have raised over $70M in funding from leading venture funds and institutional investors.
Milestones
We’re the launchpad for
- Korean founders going global.
- Global AI companies entering Korea.
Dentronic secures $1M, joins 
SPC fellowship to scale dental AI robots
Google DeepMind Gemini 3 Hackathon Seoul
leads 
AIM Intelligence’s Series‑A to scale AI security in Korea
OpenAI Startup Meetup Seoul- Korea Launch for
Manus AI, 
Genspark, 
Replit, and 
Claude Code - Google DeepMind Gemini 4 Hackathon Seoul
AttentionX Fellow
“If you’re building AI in Korea, you’ll end up at AttentionX eventually. Might as well go early.”
Aleph Lab
YC F25
raises Seed
Led by Long Journey Ventures
raises ₩10B
Series‑A led by Samsung Ventures
AttentionX Fellow
“Sukone and AttentionX were instrumental in helping AIM Intelligence recruit top AI researchers from the AttentionX builder community. They truly bring together the best AI talent in Korea and beyond.”
AIM Intelligence
Events
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Replit x OpenAI x AWS x GHV Founders Hackathon
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Google DeepMind Gemini 4 Argon Hackathon
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OpenAI Startup Meetup Seoul
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Google DeepMind Gemini 3 Hackathon Seoul
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Anthropic Claude Code Meetup Seoul
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Manus Meetup Seoul
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Genspark Meetup Seoul
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Google DeepMind Gemini 3 Hackathon Singapore
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Google Cloud Hackathon
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Anthropic Claude Code Meetup Pangyo
The first maritime startup to join a16z speedrun.
News (03)
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Alumni News: Adam Lee publishes “Beckmann World Models: Direct Terminal-Map Learning for One-Step Action-Conditioned Prediction”.
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Alumni News: Sukone Hong, featured in Frontier List’s “Great SF event hosts”, alongside Dave Fontenot (HF0), Ben Lang (Cursor), and Vivian Shen (Y Combinator).
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Alumni News: Aristo raises Pre-Seed funding from Kakao Ventures, building synced memory layer for AI agents.
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