Naver D2SF
95, Jeongjail-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13561, Republic of Korea
Overview
NAVER D2 Startup Factory is a technology startup accelerator made by Naver. By investing in startups with outstanding technologies and supporting growth, we want to open the way for technology startups and Naver to collaborate.
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 1
Investment portfolio
- NdotLight
Participated · Equity · Aug 2026
NdotLight develops TRINIX, an automated pipeline that generates simulation-ready 3D data with physical properties (mass, friction), joint structures, and collision boundary information for use in physical AI training simulations. TRINIX integrates with NVIDIA Omniverse to supply large-scale, high-quality 3D simulation datasets. NdotLight currently provides AI training data to humanoid robotics and robotics foundation model companies including Holiday Robotics, AeiRobot, ROBROS, and RLWRLD, and participates as a data supplier in projects led by Hyundai Motor Company and LG Electronics. The leadership team includes CEO Jinyoung Park (previously on 3D launcher development at Samsung Electronics) and CTO Suntae Kim (who led AI and 3D engine development at NAVER and Samsung Electronics). The company has been named by CB Insights as one of the world's notable 3D engine companies and is actively hiring to support growth.
- QMIT
Participated · Series B · Jun 2026
PLCO, operated by QMIT, is a sports intelligence platform that aggregates match data, physical measurements, training load, and condition data to support data-driven player development and team performance management. The platform has been used cumulatively by about 1,500 coaches and 12,000 players and is deployed at major Korean professional clubs including Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Suwon FC, and SSG Landers. PLCO has expanded beyond soccer into baseball, basketball, volleyball, and athletics, and has extended its offerings into solutions such as PLCO Coach, an offline performance center called PLCO Gym, and a sports nutrition business, PLCO Nutrition. The company cites on-field impact after adoption by Jeonbuk Hyundai, which subsequently won K League 1 and reached the Korea Cup final. PLCO is pursuing international expansion, advancing collaborations with leagues in Japan and Vietnam and preparing to enter the Japan and Southeast Asia markets. Within the year it plans to launch an IDP solution that uses DNA and measurement data to analyze nutrition, performance capacity, injury risk, and mental factors to deliver individualized growth roadmaps.
- RebuilderAI
Participated · Series A · Nov 2025
RebuilderAI is a Seoul-based startup specializing in 3D-modeling artificial intelligence that automatically transforms 2D images into high-fidelity, parametric 3D data. Its first product, VRIN 3D, lets users create high-quality 3D content simply by scanning items with a smartphone. In 2025 the company launched VRING:ON, an integrated platform that generates everything from 3D models to manufacturing patterns and CAD files from simple sketches; the product won CES 2026 Innovation Awards in both Fashion Tech and AI. RebuilderAI has also built an agent-based AI design system for footwear that delivers material-specific parametric data and sole-structure simulations, securing both investment and a software-licensing agreement with ASICS. International expansion includes an AI partnership for furniture design and manufacturing in Saudi Arabia and a US$1 million customization and licensing deal with a Hong Kong ODM factory. The firm was named a TOP 100 Global Startup at the Entrepreneurship World Cup 2025 and collaborates with KAIST, Dankook University, and Jeonbuk National University on linking AI-generated 3D data to real-world manufacturing. Management plans to extend its automated design-to-manufacturing workflow beyond footwear and furniture into additional industries that rely on 3D design.
- Podonos
Participated · Seed · Sep 2025
Podonos builds the infrastructure layer for evaluating voice AI, offering a human-in-the-loop platform that analyzes models across naturalness, similarity, emotion, recognition accuracy, and more. Its evaluation service returns results in under 12 hours, even across thousands of audio samples and multiple languages. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Los Gatos, CA, Podonos targets ASR, TTS, voice cloning, and multilingual assistant use cases across verticals like finance, medical, legal, in-car, and gaming. The company emphasizes AI-accelerated human feedback rather than synthetic benchmarks to provide reliable, scalable performance measurement and continuous improvement. Podonos raised $2.4M in pre-seed funding and plans to use the capital to grow its engineering team, expand post-analysis tooling, and launch in the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia.
- RECON Labs
Participated · Series A · May 2022
RECON Labs is a South Korean AR startup whose PlicAR platform enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models by taking a short video of products. PlicAR automatically turns 2D images into 3D views without requiring special 3D modeling skills, allowing retailers to visualize products at life-size in AR and reduce time and cost. The company works with furniture companies and other retailers and currently serves more than 22 small- and medium-sized businesses in South Korea, claiming over 10,000 products converted into 3D content. RECON Labs plans to let users download, upload, view, sell and buy 3D assets through a web-based service and to roll out a 3D creator app next year. It has partnered with The Sandbox to build a tool for creating 3D characters and items and intends to open a Silicon Valley office for U.S. expansion in Q4 2022. Financially, the company raised $4.4M in a Series A and has raised $4.8M in total since its 2019 founding.
Team
Sanghwan Yang
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