Linkbricks Horizon AI Achieves Remarkable Success: Secures 2 Billion Won Investment and Acquires Patents Just 4 Months After Establishment
Summary
Linkbricks Horizon AI raised 20억원 (2 billion won) in seed funding from Betterground, Linkbricks Ventures, and IXV just four months after its January founding. The startup was founded by industry veterans including Linkbricks chairman Ji Yoon-sung, Cyworld founder Hyung Yong-jun, and Linkbricks CEO Kim Sang-gyu, with former Hancom, Naver, and Kakao executives as co-founders. The company obtained venture certification within two months and secured three patents on AI inference and search through expedited review, while its full-stack AI platform integrates LLM development, business workflows, and multimodal text/voice/video interaction. Its lightweight multilingual LLM ranked in the global Open LLM Leaderboard season 2 top 10 overall and second among models under 32B, and the company plans a global launch of a multimodal AI-augmented search service this year while running projects in defense, healthcare, and retail.