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Clean, congestion-free air travel gets liftoff

Passenger eVTOL Aircraft

London-based Urban-Air Port develops global networks of specialist ground, air, and digital infrastructure to support Urban Logistics across the globe. The company provides ground infrastructure as a service for future air mobility and focuses on designing, developing, manufacturing, selling, and operating ground, air, and digital infrastructure to support sustainable urban air transport, including air taxis and autonomous delivery drones. The company aims to overcome the significant obstacle to sustainable air mobility—which is the lack of suitable ground infrastructure—and create a zero-emission mobility ecosystem that can effectively reduce congestion and air pollution in passenger and cargo transport.In <a href="https://www.urbanairport.com/airone">April 2022 </a>, Urban-Air Port successfully launched Air One, a demonstration of its vertiport technology located in Coventry City Centre, UK. With ambitions to expand globally, the company plans to establish over 200 vertiports within the following five years. These ultra-compact and rapidly deployable operations hubs will serve as command-and-control centers for manned and unmanned aircraft, offering essential services such as drone flights, aircraft command-and-control, eVTOL charging, and cargo loading.Key customers and partnershipsIn <a href="https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles/press-releases/world-first-electric-urban-air-portr-secures-uk-government-backing.html">January 2021 </a>, Hyundai Motor Group, Coventry City Council and the UK Government partnered with the company to launch the first fully operational urban-air port, Air-One, to demonstrate the potential of urban air mobility. In <a href="https://www.urbanairport.com/uap-blog/urban-air-port-and-skyroads-to-collaborate-on-urban-air-traffic-management-uatm-for-advanced-air-mobility">July 2022 </a>, the company collaborated with Skyroads to develop a ConOps (Concept of Operations) for vertiport and UATM interaction with drones and eVTOL aircraft. Urban-Air Port also collaborated with <a href="https://www.urbanairport.com/uap-blog/urban-air-port-gkn-aerospace-collaboration">GKN Aerospace </a>to develop a tailored Air One vertiport concept for mass transit eVTOLs. In <a href="https://yqqqphhcg2hvaaua-test001.pj-initial.net/updates/19751">June 2023 </a>, Urban-Air Port collaborated with Egis on vertiport engineering and operationsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32438">August 2024</a>, Urban-Air Port partnered with BAI Energy to redevelop and advance aviation infrastructure across Italy, starting with Venice, Piedmont, and Trieste.

The toolkit to build machine learning applications at scale

Machine Learning Infrastructure

Superb AI offers an end-to-end MLOps platform. It allows ML developers to curate and label data with AI assistance and automatically train custom AI models using no-code deep learning model training. The platform also facilitates one-click live deployment and monitoring of ML models to the cloud and access via API endpoints, without the need for extensive coding.In addition, Superb AI offers fully managed services with AI/ML models built on open-source datasets and provides training data including images and videos to developers. The company also provides access to productivity apps that allow developers to automate workflows, migrate data, and convert data formats, which was in beta as of April 2024.Superb AI provides its platform and services through flexible packages based on customer requirements.Key customers and partnershipsIts notable customers include Hyundai, Toyota, Samsung, Rowbot, and LG.Funding and financialsIn September 2022, the company raised USD 16 million in a Series B funding round led by Korea Development Bank. It had planned to use the funds to expand its team and improve its technology.

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Next-gen Semiconductors

Tenstorrent is a company that develops AI processors, licenses AI and RISC-V IP, and builds computers for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 in Toronto, Canada, Tenstorrent has expanded its operations with offices in the US, Japan, and other global locations. The company offers a range of products including AI processors, RISC-V CPU cores, and chiplets designed for various applications from edge devices to data centers.
Tenstorrent's product line includes the Grayskull processor, announced in 2020, which was designed to accelerate AI model training in data centers and edge servers. The company has since shifted its focus to licensing and services, launching DevCloud in 2021, a cloud-based service allowing developers to run AI models without purchasing hardware. Tenstorrent's latest offering, the Wormhole processor, was unveiled in July 2024. The Wormhole n300 board, featuring dual chips, delivers up to 466 FP8 TFLOPS at 300W, positioning it as a competitive option in the AI hardware market.
The company's technology strategy involves developing both AI accelerators and RISC-V CPU designs, setting it apart from many competitors in the field. Tenstorrent's approach includes creating flexible and scalable solutions, with processors capable of merging to function as a single unit in various configurations. This scalability operates natively without the need for virtualization, allowing for efficient deployment in both workstation and data center environments.
Tenstorrent has also focused on developing its own RISC-V cores, aiming to create a second revenue stream through licensing. The company's Ascalon RISC-V CPU core technology is being leveraged in collaborations with partners to develop RISC-V CPU chiplets for edge AI accelerators. In February 2024, Tenstorrent announced a partnership with Japan's Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center (LSTC) to co-design a 2nm edge AI accelerator using Tenstorrent's RISC-V and chiplet IP.

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Canada-based Tenstorrent develops AI processors, licenses AI and RISC-V intellectual property (IP), and creates computing systems for AI applications. Its products, built around its Tensix cores, are designed to challenge NVIDIA’s dominance in the AI hardware market by offering cost-effective solutions that avoid pricey components like high-bandwidth memory.Tenstorrent uses the open-standard RISC-V architecture for hardware interoperability, enabling easy integration into data centers and servers. It also licenses its AI and RISC-V IP, allowing clients to customize processors for specific needs. The adaptable RISC-V design simplifies optimization for performance and efficiency.Its hardware portfolio includes 1) Grayskull, an entry-level AI inference processor; 2) Wormhole, a chip combining compute units, network-on-chip, and local cache; 3) TT-LoudBox, an air-cooled desktop workstation for AI model development; and 4) TT-QuietBox, a liquid-cooled alternative. For enterprise-scale needs, Tenstorrent provides the 5) Tenstorrent Galaxy, a pre-configured, rack-mounted AI compute system featuring 32 Wormhole processors, and 6) Tenstorrent Cloud, offering cloud-based AI and compute solutions.On the software front, Tenstorrent delivers 1) TT-Metalium, an open-source, low-level AI hardware SDK enabling direct kernel customization, and 2) TT-Buda, a high-level SDK that streamlines AI framework integration and generates executable programs for Tenstorrent hardware.The company’s intellectual property includes 1) TT-Ascalon, a high-performance, scalable RISC-V processor design ranging from two-wide to eight-wide implementations, and 2) Tensix Neo, a silicon-validated AI processor core suite leveraging the open RISC-V architecture for versatile AI training and inference capabilities.In&nbsp;<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/jeff-bezos-backs-ai-chipmaker-tenstorrent/">December 2024</a>, Tenstorrent disclosed that it planned to release a new AI processor every two years and had signed customer contracts totaling nearly USD 150 million. Further, as of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/27/tenstorrent_ai_blackhole/">August 2024</a>, the company was working on launching its Blackhole AI accelerators,&nbsp;claimed to outperform an NVIDIA A100 in raw compute and scalability.Key customers and partnershipsNotable customers leveraging Tenstorrent’s AI chips included LG Electronics, Hyundai, and Samsung Electronics.In November 2024, the company partnered with 1)&nbsp;<a href="https://tenstorrent.com/en/vision/ai-software-startup-moreh-partners-with-ai-semiconductor-company-tenstorrent-to-challenge-nvidia-in-">Moreh</a> to integrate its software with Tenstorrent’s AI semiconductors (NPUs) to target the AI data center market, with its solution expected to be commercialized by the first half of 2025, and 2) the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-taps-us-chip-startup-tenstorrent-help-train-new-wave-engineers-2024-11-05/">Japanese Government</a> in a contract worth USD 50 million to train 200 Japanese chip designers in US offices over the next five years.

Tenstorrent designs and manufactures AI hardware and software for data processing and machine learning tasks. It provides solutions for computational performance. Its products are used in various applications within the technology sector. Tenstorrent serves developers and researchers in the field of artificial intelligence.

Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers.​ It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company develops solutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices. Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.

Superb AI is an end-to-end training data platform that automates data preparation at scale and makes building and iterating on datasets quick, systematic, and repeatable. Launched in 2018 by data scientists, academics, and ML engineers, Superb AI is reinventing how teams of all sizes label, manage, curate, and deliver training data. Fueled by decades of experience and academic research in computer vision and deep learning, including 25+ publications, 7,300+ citations, and 100+ patents, Superb AI empowers companies at all stages to build and deploy computer vision applications faster than ever before. For more information or to get started for free, go to superb-ai.com.

Clodot is an information technology company.

MobilTech is an AI-based 3D GIS startup company that supplies 3D spatial information, hardware, and software solutions for smart cities.

Korea Zinc operates as a general non-ferrous metal smelting company primarily in South Korea. It offers zinc slab ingots, alloy jumbo blocks, anode ingots, and die cast ingots for use in galvanized steel plates, steel pipes and wires, color steel plates, automobile parts, machine/electronic parts, anti-corrosion paints, etc.  Korea Zinc also provides lead and lead alloy ingots used in automobile and industrial batteries, electric wire coatings, radiation shielders for batteries, anti-corrosion paints, etc.; and copper for use in copper plates, pipes, wires, as well as bronze, etc. Moreover, it offers gold used in semiconductors, PCBs, electrically conducting materials, jewelries, coins, etc.; and silver for use in electronic products, cameras, X-ray films, jewelries, etc.  Further, Korea Zinc provides other rare metals, including indium, bismuth, antimony, antimony trioxide, cadmium, tellurium, cobalt, cadmium sticks, gallium, selenium, etc.; sulfuric acid used in inorganic chemicals, metal refining, steel making, and spinning and weaving, as well as in chemical and fertilizer, fiber, and paper manufacturing industries; electronic grade sulfuric acid used for cleaning and etching in semiconductor manufacturing process; and oleum used in nitro compounds, dye stuffs, chloro sulfonic acid, blasting powder, and oxidation. It began operation in 1974, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea.

MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.

ANGELSWING, powered by AI and computer vision, provides a drone data platform for construction and city management.

XYZ, Inc. is a service robot startup established based on the vision of “ROBOTS INTO OUR DAILYLIFE”, through artificial intelligence-based robot technology. We research and try various unmanned technologies from retail space to our daily life. We are developing various service robots for retail space automation, such as the barista robot <Baris>, the ice cream robot <Aris>, and the food and beverage delivery robot <Storagy> are reflecting. Recently, we are making achievements in collaboration with various major brands such as Porsche Korea, Hyundai Motor Company, and Grand Walkerhill Hotel.

Algorigo is a sensor data analytics company.

Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.

BOS Semiconductors develops semiconductor technology for the automotive industry.

Bobidi helps AI companies test and validate their models in the real world very fast and improve them 10x more efficiently. The underlying magic is that they run a global gamified community that is incentivized to test and find the edge cases that the model missed. The whole process would be up to 10x more efficient than the industry norm that takes as long as a couple of months.

Unique Good Company develops entertaining mobile apps.

BlablaENM connects random people through voice.

Ultra-wide 3D vision sensor for robots and mobility applications

ViewMagine is a lunatic image-processing AI company developer of an AI drone inspection system. They were designed to inspect pipelines for the oil and gas and infrastructure industries. They also deliver using an autonomous drone. Their objective is to influence the future of industry through image processing and AI for businesses that contribute to a better society.

Sixty Hertz is a social venture that provides climate crisis with IT technology and services.

DATAMOND is an AI-based data platform that collects, analyzes, and sells zero-party data services to B2C industries.

SMARTSCORE Global is an innovative IT company in the golf industry. We currently lead the way in digitalizing the golfing experience in Korea. We aim to achieve further and reach out to the world. We deploy innovative technology that connects golfers with more than 400 golf courses globally. There are currently about 40,000 golf courses and 61 million golfers worldwide. As of March 2023, we have established subsidiaries in Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, and are planning to expand across SEA region and Greater China first.

OPENEDGES Technology researches AI acceleration technology to contribute to democratizing AI innovation. The company provides IP technology for smart computing, enabling Internet of Smart Things. The company provides IPs in two technology sectors of smart computing highly efficient AI acceleration and high-performance memory subsystem including DDR memory controller and on-chip interconnect IP. The company offers the needed boost to performance, efficiency, and reliability. OPENEDGES Technology was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Urban-Air Port designs, develops, manufactures, sells and operates ground, air and digital infrastructure for new forms of sustainable urban air transport such as air taxis and autonomous delivery drones. Its mission is to remove the single constraint to sustainable air mobility – ground infrastructure – In order to create a zero-emission-mobility ecosystem that will significantly cut congestion and air pollution from passenger and cargo transport.

Macaron M is a mobile application that offers taxi services.

The Trive is a car subscription service platform through which users can pay a monthly subscription fee to drive the car they most desire.

MakinaRocks is a global AI software startup specializing in analytics and performance management with machine intelligence. MakinaRocks offers enterprise MLOps (Runway) for the development and operation of AI models, as well as AI solutions such as anomaly detection and operational optimization to improve industrial productivity. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Hyundai Motor Group is an automotive company that also affiliates in other industries such as construction, steel, and finance. They have developed a value chain focused on vehicles, steel, and construction, as well as logistics, finance, information technology, and service.

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Shared Mobility

Short-term car rental platforms, often in the form of a marketplace, that allow users to rent a car by the hour, on-demand.

Platforms that facilitate carpooling on-demand, allowing drivers and passengers to organize shared rides with one another. Also includes those that offer pre-arranged car pooling services but excludes van and bus sharing services.

Platforms that connect passengers with personal drivers on-demand, for dedicated rides.

Platforms that gives commuters access to transportation options such as bikes, scooters, segways, etc. that are designed for short distances, typically under 5 miles. The segment includes bike and scooter sharing services excluding hailing services.

Platforms that offer multi-passenger/pooled shuttle buses or vans on-demand or a fixed schedule, including van and bus sharing

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 Leading esports organization Cloud9 has teamed up with KIA, the American branch of the Korean car manufacturer. The collaboration focuses on Cloud9's League of Legends team, aiming to create new content and fan experiences.
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 The partnership comes as Cloud9 gears up for the 2023 LoL World Championship. Fans will have access to exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpses into Cloud9’s preparations for the League of Legends competition and opportunities to meet players.
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