[This Month's Tip] Elice Group, Kindof, Leviosa AI: Key Updates

Recently, TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startup), a private investment-led tech startup support program organized by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, has continuously discovered startups with high growth potential, officially verifying their technological capabilities and business viability. **Elice Group Targets Global Market with Advanced Manufacturing-Specific AI** Elice Group, an AI full-stack company, was selected for 'Scale-up TIPS R&D,' securing a total of 1.2 billion KRW in R&D funds over three years. Elice Group's technological capabilities, including AI infrastructure design optimized for industrial sites, stable private cloud operation, and the specialized AI model 'Helpy Struct' that precisely processes complex table, drawing, and document data, were highly praised. Through this support, the company will focus on developing high-reliability Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) technology for manufacturing, integrating VLM (Vision-Language Model) and multi-agent models. Controlling AI hallucinations with over 99% reliability and zero-shot technology, and specifically strengthening document processing performance for Japanese and Southeast Asian languages, it plans to lead the AI transformation market in Asian manufacturing and leap forward as a global standard AI solutions company. **Kindof Accelerates Global Leap with K-POP-Based Fashion Tech** Kindof, a K-POP-based fashion brand house, was selected for 'Global TIPS,' completing a total of 3.8 billion KRW in funding, including seed investment. Utilizing AI agent builders, workflow engines, etc., it operates K-POP artist stage costume production (2000 Ateliers) and B2C fashion brands (2000 Archives), leading innovation in planning, production, and operation within the fashion industry. With the secured funds, Kindof plans to advance its AI agent platform technology, expand its fashion and 3D modeling-based automation solutions, and accelerate the establishment of overseas partnerships and entry into global markets. Through this selection, it is expected to leap forward as a competitive company in the global fashion tech sector. **Leviosa AI Leads 'Sales Strategy Automation' for Sellers** Leviosa AI, a SaaS company for e-commerce operation automation for online sellers, was also selected for TIPS and will receive approximately 500 million KRW in R&D funds over the next two years. Leviosa AI, recognized for its technological prowess through recommendation from SNU R&D Holding and seed investment, provides services that efficiently automate sellers' repetitive tasks such as product registration, price changes, and inventory management. Taking advantage of this TIPS selection, it plans to advance its self-learning AI automation engine, expand its technology beyond existing operational automation to 'sales strategy automation' by including multi-market sales data analysis, real-time price adjustment, and automatic sales strategy recommendations, dedicating itself to R&D with the goal of completing a seller operating OS.