Senior Care Startup WDTNT Raises Seed Investment from Mashup Ventures, Others

WDTT, the operator of 'Modu-ui Care', an AI-based Japanese senior care service, has attracted seed investment from Mashup Ventures and Digital Healthcare Partners (DHP), signaling full-fledged growth. The investment amount is undisclosed. 'Modu-ui Care' is an AI-based integrated senior care solution that facilitates efficient communication and work management among families, caregivers, and care centers. It is expected to bring innovation to the care industry, which has been stuck in analog methods, through features such as interview data analysis, automatic generation of care plans reflecting complex long-term care insurance systems, optimal caregiver matching, and digitization of care records. In particular, the capabilities of the founding team stand out. CEO Lim Seok-jun, who successfully led digital services targeting the Japanese market at global IT companies such as LINE and Salesforce, decided to found the company after directly experiencing the difficulties of family caregiving. He possesses a deep understanding and sincerity towards senior care, even obtaining a caregiver certification himself. Co-founder and Director Son Ji-young is also an expert in the Japanese market, having worked closely with CEO Lim for a long time at LINE Japan headquarters, and is further enhancing the service's chances of success based on a high understanding of local characteristics. WDTT has set the Japanese market, where super-aging is progressing even faster despite having a long-term care insurance system similar to Korea, as its core target. They plan to conduct a PoC (Proof of Concept) at a local facility in Japan this April, and expand their network of partner facilities, focusing on the Shinjuku and Setagaya areas this year. CEO Lim Seok-jun stated his aspiration: "Our ultimate goal is to solve the structural problems of senior care through technology and create a systematic environment where everyone can lead a happy caregiving life." In Sang-hyuk, a partner at Mashup Ventures who led this investment, explained the background of the investment, saying, "The current situation where analog methods dominate in the rapidly growing Japanese care market presents a huge opportunity, and we highly valued the founding team's local market entry capabilities and sincerity towards the business."