Spotlight (스포트라이트) operates a professional model and creative-talent sourcing platform that simplifies booking for commercial shoots by letting users search and hire talent by date, budget, and other conditions. The product consolidates a fragmented commercial-shoots talent market into a single marketplace, described as like Airbnb for brands seeking creative talent. The company was founded via Antler's startup program and is led by CSO Benjamin Alexander Hori and CEO Choi Hanna, with team members who previously worked at Samsung, Google Korea, and Hyperconnect. Spotlight recently raised a ₩600 million seed round and had earlier secured a ₩200 million pre-seed through Antler eight months prior. The startup plans to use the capital to expand into Thailand and broader Southeast Asia, strengthen AI-driven search and recommendation features including image-recognition-based similar-look model recommendations, and introduce advance-payment (선정산) systems to address talent payment defaults. Spotlight is the first model-sourcing platform registered as a member of the Korea Fashion Industry Association.

Total raised

$0M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Feb 2024