CEO & Founder at Allganize
Changsu Lee is the CEO and founder of Allganize. Before founding Allganize, he successfully founded the game data analytics company 5Rocks, which was acquired by the world's largest mobile advertising company, Tapjoy, in 2014.
In 2017, Changsu Lee founded Allganize as his second venture after 5Rocks. Allganize is an all-in-one solution company that innovates corporate productivity using Large Language Models (LLMs). Initially, the company provided a core service called "Ali," an AI cognitive search solution for enterprises. Ali was designed to learn from various forms of documents, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, etc., and provide answers to employees' questions. Recently, Allganize expanded into a platform for LLMs for businesses.
The Ali LLM App Store, launched by Allganize in September 2023, was developed to enhance the competitiveness and productivity of companies. Similar to using various apps on smartphones, it allows users to choose AI apps in their desired fields and apply them directly to their work. Corporate customers can select from six categories in the app store: General, Legal, HR, Customer Support, Productivity, and Others. They can choose and use registered LLM apps for their job roles or create apps themselves using a no-code approach.
Allganize currently operates in the markets of the United States, Korea, and Japan, serving over 200 global clients. In March 2021, the company secured a total investment of $10 million from investors including Atinum Investment, Stonebridge Ventures, SBI Financial Group (Japan), and existing investors in Korea, the United States, and Japan. In 2017, Allganize attracted $1 million in investment from Global Brain (Japan), $3.4 million in 2019 from SparkLabs Ventures, Base Investment, Laguna Investment, and Fast Investment, among others.
Chief Managing Director at Atinum Investment
Che Uk Kim joined Atinum Investment in 2010 and is leading investments in mobile services/platforms, software/SaaS. He focuses on startups that innovate the market through IT technology. Before joining the Atinum Investment, he worked on SW development and technology strategy at Samsung Electronics. He won the excellent venture capitalist award from KVIC in 2016 and the best venture capitalist award from KVCA in 2021.
Portfolio
Dunamu, Ridi, CLO Virtual Fashion, Zigbang, Echo Marketing, IGA Works, Watcha, Channel Corporation, Fast Five, Adena Software, Brandi, Styleshare, Bungaejangter, Jobis & Villains, Cupix, Catenoid, Fabrictime, Postype, Tosslab, Allganize, Law&Company, Classting, Trenbe, Howser, Rapportlabs, Jaranda, Chequer, PRND Company(hey dealer), MarqVision, Codit, Lemonbase
Academic Background
M.S. in Computer Engineering, B.S. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Seoul National University
Ollganize is a leading B2B AI company in Korea. It was founded by Changsu Lee, who sold 5Rocks, a game data analysis company, to the world's largest mobile advertising company, Tapjoy, in 2014. As an AI-powered all-in-one productivity solution, OllyLm was launched in September and has been making waves in the industry by allowing customers to select AI apps they need and apply them directly to automate their work, just like smartphone apps.
Currently, Ollganize has over 200 customers in the US, Korea, and Japan, and has raised a total of $10 million in funding led by Atinum Investment in March 2021. Changsu Lee, CEO of Ollganize, and Jea Uk Kim, Managing Director of Atinum Investment, will share their insights on Ollganize' investment story and the outlook for the AI industry, providing deep insights that have never been shared anywhere else.
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CEO & Founder at GINT
After graduating from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, Yonghyun Kim joined Hyundai Kepco (a joint venture between Hyundai Motor and Robert Bosch) where he conducted research on powertrain SW platforms for numerous mass production projects of Hyundai/Kia vehicles.
Later, he decided to combine automotive and IT technologies and apply them to the agricultural field. In October 2015, he founded GINT and currently serves as the CEO.
GINT has not only established business partnerships with agricultural machinery manufacturers and government agencies but also launched the B2C brand 'PLUVA' in 2021. GINT has received positive reviews from the market by introducing advanced products and services necessary for Asian farmers, including autonomous farming and robots, online/offline agricultural machinery markets, and data-based agricultural machinery financial services.
The Executive Director of the Investment Division at LB Investment
Mr. Jung-Hoe Goo, graduated from the Department of Materials Engineering at Korea University with a bachelor's and master's degree, and obtained a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Korea University's Graduate School of Technology Management. He gained experience in new business planning at a comprehensive trading company and worked as an MEMS process engineer at a large corporation before entering the venture capital industry in 1999.
After working at Korea Venture Finance and Korea Investment Partners (formerly Dongwon Entrepreneurship Investment), he joined LB Investment in 2006. Currently, he focuses on investing in advanced manufacturing industries, including materials, components, and equipment, as well as in the field of convergence technology combining manufacturing and AI data platforms, deep tech, and high-tech sectors.
Some of the key investment companies include Bridge Bio, Aurora Therapeutics, GPCR, as well as Enchem, BitSensing, TheWaveTalk, PmGrow, Alum Materials, Jipilos, and Gint.
Gint is a rapidly growing precision agriculture startup in the agricultural field. It is composed of top Automotive and ICT experts in Korea. With products like the autonomous driving kit for farm machinery, "Fluba Auto," Gint has received enthusiastic responses from domestic and international industries. In the first half of 2023, they successfully completed a Series B round of funding worth 16.5 billion KRW, bringing their total cumulative investment to 25 billion KRW.
Gint's founder, Yonghyun Kim, and Gu Joong-hoe, Managing Director of LB Investment, who led the Series B investment in Gint, will take the stage together to share rich insights and information for both VCs and entrepreneurs, focusing on this investment.
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