
Hyundai Venture Investment
566 Samseong-ro, Gangnam-gu 5F, Seoul, 06163, South Korea
Overview
Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation is an investment firm with a mission of helping new entrepreneurs and venture companies. HVIC is always ready to partner with companies that have technologies but unsteady financial and management bases. HVIC has a broad range of services for its portfolio companies including management control, technology consulting, and financial assistance.
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Financial Services
- Impact Investing
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Coxwave
Participated · Series A · Jan 2026
Founded in 2021 in Seoul, Coxwave specializes in AI product analytics and reliability solutions for conversational AI. Its flagship platform, Coxwave Align, delivers user analytics and feedback-driven evaluations, allowing operators to track metrics such as conversation satisfaction and interaction patterns. The company is expanding the platform to include real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated intervention, effectively serving as guardrails for AI agents in production. Beyond software, Coxwave offers AX consulting services that have supported e-commerce, public sector, and professional-services projects for global clients including PwC India, Meta, Microsoft, and Economic Times. Partnerships with Anthropic, OpenAI, and NVIDIA underscore its technical depth; the firm co-hosted Builder Summits and Hackathons with these partners in 2025 and was accepted into the government-backed Scale-Up TIPS R&D program in December. Coxwave claims the first successful exit of a generative AI product in Korea in 2023, further validating its expertise. Following the latest capital infusion, the company’s total funding stands at $8.6 million, which it plans to channel into strengthening AI reliability technology and scaling its consulting arm.
- Polaris3D
Led · Series B · Jun 2024
Polaris3D develops an AI autonomous robot platform centered on its proprietary KEPLER autonomous driving solution, applied to serving robots, delivery robots, and AMRs for logistics. The company holds 21 related patents and says KEPLER was developed without relying on open‑source software. It has introduced safe LFP batteries in its serving robot 'ereon' and implemented an AI vibration control suspension to improve ride smoothness. Polaris3D's R&D team is about 30 people, led by seven engineers with master’s and doctoral degrees from POSTECH who are directly involved in product development. The company plans broad exports this year to markets including the USA, Canada, Brazil, India, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam), and European markets such as Hungary and Uzbekistan. With total capital now exceeding ₩21 billion, Polaris3D positions itself as a domestic alternative to Chinese service robots that occupy a large share of the local market.
- enhans
Led · Series A · Sep 2023
Enhans builds an industry-specialized AI OS grounded in ontology technology and positions its systems as enterprise 'AI colleagues' rather than simple tools. Its AI OS has been adopted by more than 30 global enterprise clients, including Samsung Electronics, and is deployed in field operations across over 50 countries. The company began with technology developed for commerce and retail and has expanded into manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and defense. Enhans showcased multi-agent real-time collaboration at an "AI Collaboration Era" event with Go master Lee Sedol, highlighting its multi-agent capabilities. Following the strategic investment from Naver Ventures, Enhans plans to advance its industry-specific agent models and further develop its ontology, multi-agent, and CUA technologies to support wider automation at industrial sites. Financial details and prior funding rounds were not disclosed in the announcement.
- AUTOCRYPT
Participated · Series B · May 2022
Autocrypt develops automotive and smart mobility technologies focused on secure V2X communications, C-ITS and autonomous driving. Its in-vehicle security offerings include Security Analyzer, an SBOM-based software vulnerability analysis platform, and Security Fuzzer, a smart fuzzing tool to detect software flaws. The company manages security and PKI for all C-ITS projects on the Korean peninsula and is in talks with several public agencies worldwide to implement its V2X security and SCMS for C-ITS projects. Autocrypt is expanding internationally, having established subsidiaries in Toronto and Munich and planning to open an office in Singapore later in the year. Financially, it completed a $25.5M Series B at a $120M post-money valuation. Led by CEO and co-founder Daniel ES Kim, the company intends to use the funds to expand operations and grow its business reach. Autocrypt provides end-to-end vehicle security for connected and autonomous vehicles and surrounding infrastructure. Led by CEO and co‑founder Daniel ES Kim, the company currently secures over 5,000 kilometers of smart roadways and highways in South Korea. It offers V2X and Plug&Charge security solutions and has opened a North American office in Toronto to better serve testbeds, OEMs, Tier‑1 suppliers, and automotive software/service providers. Autocrypt plans to use the new funding to enhance its V2X security technology and expand security operations into additional Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects. The company has offices in South Korea, China, Japan and Canada and plans to expand into the United States and Europe in 2021.
- DEXLEVO
Participated · Equity · Dec 2021
DEXLEVO's core product is GOURI, a liquid polymer filler that the company says regenerates collagen in addition to providing cosmetic anti‑aging effects. The company secured CE certification for GOURI in May and launched the brand at the Aesthetic and Anti‑aging Medicine World Congress, where it also signed a $30 million supply contract with overseas buyers. DEXLEVO completed KRW 26 billion in pre‑IPO funding, which set a pre‑investment valuation at KRW 250 billion, reflecting strong commercialization momentum. The proceeds will be used to build a new cGMP‑grade production facility in Songdo and to fund aggressive marketing of its flagship product. DEXLEVO was founded in 2013 by CEO Jaewon Yoo and plans to pursue a KOSDAQ listing around 2023 with Hana Financial Investment as lead underwriter.
Team
Daniel ES Kim,
Founder