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ZER01NE

Seochon, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Overview

ZER01NE is creating an ecosystem for creative talents to collaborate with start-ups and developing ground of participation.

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
5
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Collaboration
  • Innovation Management
  • Service Industry
  • Software
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Investment portfolio

  • Config

    Participated · Seed · May 2026

    Config records humans performing physical tasks in controlled studio environments and in the field, then converts that data to better suit robotic motion and interaction. The company operates data production out of Seoul and Hanoi with a workforce of nearly 300 and has accumulated over 100,000 hours of human motion data. Config’s approach emphasizes transforming data before training so models work more effectively for robots rather than retraining models on mismatched data. The startup counts large manufacturers, system integrators, and customers in agriculture and defense as current customers and is already generating revenue. Founded in January 2025 by CEO Minjoon Seo and three co-founders with backgrounds at Meta, Waymo, Google and Naver, Config plans to scale to one million hours of data, grow enterprise ARR to $10 million by end of 2027, and launch a cloud-based Robot-as-a-Service offering.

  • Video Rebirth

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    Video Rebirth develops an industrial-grade AI video generation engine and the Bach series, emphasizing controllability, coherence and commercial readiness. The company highlights proprietary techniques including Dual DiT for prompt adherence, Physics Native Attention (PNA) for consistency, and a native 30fps capability. Founding leadership includes Dr. Wei Liu (ex-Tencent Distinguished Scientist), with Dan Kong as co-founder and COO and Difu Li as co-founder and CSO. Video Rebirth aims to replace physical filming and traditional rendering workflows by enabling persistent, high-fidelity video 'realities' for pan-entertainment and simulation use cases. The startup has secured strategic partnerships and investor support from AMD Ventures, Hyundai, Feedback Ventures and entertainment groups like HIVEN/CJ Group. Following its $80 million fundraise, the company is focused on commercializing Bach and expanding globally.

  • 3DC

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

    3DC develops and manufactures Graphene MesoSponge® (GMS), a three-dimensional graphene material with porosity, conductivity, flexibility, and corrosion resistance intended to address trade-offs in battery performance. The company was founded in February 2022 and is headquartered at Tohoku University in Sendai, with a Kawasaki office and a pilot factory in Toki, Gifu where construction of the world’s first GMS mass-production facility has begun. Following a Series A 1st-close in August 2025 and ongoing validation work, 3DC is supplying functional conductive additive GMS to numerous domestic and international battery makers for evaluation. 3DC plans to use recent and prior funding to expand its pilot factory into a mass-production plant, establish ton-scale production processes, strengthen global supply for customer evaluations and commercialization, and expand R&D talent and overseas partnerships. The company positions partnerships with established industry players and strategic investors as key to accelerating production, supply-chain stabilization, and market adoption of GMS.

  • 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.

  • Align AI

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

    Founded in 2021, Coxwave’s core product, Align, is a data-driven platform that tracks real-time user behavior and quantitatively evaluates conversational AI services, helping companies improve satisfaction and reliability. The company complements this with AI transformation (AX) consulting across sectors such as ed-tech, AICC, and finance. Align’s roadmap includes an “AI Guardrail” feature that will monitor agent actions and enable instant mitigation of issues. Coxwave has already collaborated with global tech leaders Anthropic, OpenAI, and NVIDIA, and it was selected for the Korean government’s Scale-up TIPS R&D program in December 2023. Its AX arm has executed projects for PwC India, Meta, Microsoft, and more than ten other clients. Additionally, the firm released EduTap, a B2B AI education solution now used by FastCampus, Hackers, and other ed-tech companies. To date, Coxwave has raised a cumulative ₩12.5 billion to fuel product development and market expansion.

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