500 Global 2025

&Volume is the AI driven risk-management infrastructure for digital assets — one layer to monitor risk, spot opportunity, and move capital.

Developer of Electronic Records Management (ERM) solution tailored specifically for dermatology and plastic surgery clinics in South Korea.

Aino helps businesses from construction, retail, commercial real estate and other industries with physical presence to select and analyze locations for further expansion, without the need for GIS engineers.

AI-driven influencer marketing platform purpose-built for beauty brands leveraging the explosive growth of TikTok Shop in the U.S. The company addresses the increasing demand for automated, data-driven influencer campaigns that prioritize measurable ROI.

Developer of modular nickel refining platform delivering ESG-compliant, IRA-aligned battery-grade nickel from laterite ores using low-temperature, low-pressure green hydrometallurgy, designed to replace HPAL at a fraction of the cost and carbon footprint.

Beauty brand incubator enabling celebrities and creators to monetize their IP by launching and distributing authentic beauty brands. The platform streamlines brand development, product creation, and distribution, reducing barriers such as high upfront costs and long time to market while ensuring scalability.

Testing Agent for busy developers

CarbonSifr is Shopify for decarbonization

Global freight-forwarding and supply-chain financing solution

Chime Labs is building the AI operating system for the trades, starting with an AI voice receptionist that books jobs, captures revenue and wipes out admin.

Developer of a digital banking platform that aims to make payments intelligent, effortless and credit empowering for consumers in emerging Southeast Asia.

Craon is the AI video editor that turns raw ideas into finished videos using simple prompts.

Operator of a premium K-beauty brand focusing on color cosmetics. The brand views makeup as a medium for self-expression rather than transformation, blending “Chérie” (affection) with “XX” (intimacy) for a culturally aspirational identity. Its mission is to differentiate through emotional storytelling and design-led branding, following the playbook of indie successes like Glossier, Rare Beauty, and Fenty.

Developer of edible, bio-based nanocoating solutions designed to extend the shelf life of fresh produce without synthetic chemicals or plastics. The company uses high-pressure water extraction and nanoemulsion technology to convert natural food byproducts into ultra-thin, invisible coatings that act as moisture and oxidation barriers, enabling growers, cooperatives, and distributors to reduce food waste, maintain flavor and appearance, and support sustainable supply chains across domestic and export markets.

Developer of a cloud-native engineering simulation platform designed to enable browser-based design, testing, and optimization of UAV airframes. The company integrates CFD, FEA, and AI-driven optimization into a single SaaS workflow that replaces fragmented toolchains and costly hardware, enabling both expert and non-expert engineers to run high-fidelity simulations easily and affordably.

AI-based course builder that transforms content into engaging trainings, reducing onboarding time by 40% and training costs by up to 50%.

Developer in Stealth Mode.

Provider of water infrastructure technology, offering building-wide purification and predictive analytics through proprietary pipeline coating and monitoring solutions.

GraaS is AI-powered analytics for e-commerce businesses.

Operator of a science-driven consumer health platform designed to transform the U.S. dietary supplements market. The company combines Korean CPG innovation with advanced ingredient intelligence to deliver clinically proven, multi-pathway formulations that support metabolic health.

AI-native estate planning

Operator of a beauty platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region delivering personalized, prescription-grade skincare through an asynchronous telehealth model. It addresses the significant gap in a rapidly growing GCC skincare market.

Operator of an acoustic detection and safety intelligence platform intended to serve industrial, mobility, and security markets. The company’s platform, branded as Carang, combines defense-grade meta-structure sound amplification, 360° sonar-style detection, and selective beamforming to deliver real-time positioning and threat alerts in environments where cameras, LiDAR, and RF sensors fail. By translating over a decade of military-hardened R&D from its founders at Hanwha Aerospace, LinSol enables operators of industrial vehicles, mobility platforms, and smart-city infrastructure to safeguard assets and people more effectively.

Operator of a B2B foodtech startup offering affordable, high-quality, and highly scalable corporate lunchbox subscription services tailored for small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company operates a hybrid model of direct manufacturing and delivery, with an ambition to evolve into a full-stack B2B food logistics and technology platform.

Developer of proprietary middleware enables Korean military and defense firms to integrate seamlessly with Palantir platforms without compromising technological sovereignty or domestic system control.

Helping pentesters do 10x more security testing with autonomous offensive AI agents

Opslyft automates FinOps with context-led, AI-powered insights, and actionable fixes for engineering teams so you can start cutting cloud waste in days, not months.

Developer of ultrasound-adjustable sutures, allowing surgeons to modify soft tissue postoperatively in a non-invasive manner.

TikTok for User-generated Games

Developer of a personalized style consulting platform designed to help individuals discover and refine their unique fashion, hair and makeup identity. The company offers AI-assisted and expert-led style consulting services across hair, makeup and fashion, using biometric analysis and over a million categorized style profiles, enabling customers to gain tailored recommendations that enhance their appearance, boost confidence and align with their personal aesthetic

Autonomous Runtime Security

Rebookify helps travel agencies boost profits by rebooking hotel reservations at lower prices.

Operator of a K-Food franchise platform focused on scaling Korean cuisine across Southeast Asia through brand localization and operational excellence. The company operates DoDoKorea, a fast-growing Korean lunchbox quick-service restaurant that has gained viral popularity in Kuala Lumpur.

An AI and quantum platform empowering financial institutions to make faster, and more insightful risk decisions where traditional models fall short.

ShipTag helps e-commerce brands sell globally by handling cross-border operations end-to-end—localization, duties/taxes, payments, and shipping integrations.

Developer of next-generation lithium-ion battery materials designed to address core challenges in the EV market. Current batteries face limitations in cost, driving range, charging time, and safety, which hinder broader adoption of electric vehicles. To overcome these barriers, the company is advancing innovation across silicon-based anodes, lithium-based cathodes, and solid-state battery materials, with the goal of unlocking safer, longer-lasting, and more cost-effective energy storage. By reimagining the core materials of lithium-ion batteries, the company aims to deliver breakthrough performance improvements and provide new value to automakers, energy providers, and consumers worldwide.

Developer of ultra-lightweight, design-flexible solar modules for vehicles and industrial rooftops, spun out from Hyundai Motor's internal solar system team. The company operates a proprietary plastic encapsulation and injection molding process that replaces conventional glass solar panels, enabling scalability and carbon-credit alignment across mobility and RE100 manufacturing use cases.

Streamlining Product Security & Compliance

Cybersecurity for smaller businesses, made simple, affordable, and comprehensive. We protect companies who don't have the budget, time, or technical know-how.

Talk Labs is a platform that helps companies train customer-facing and frontline employees through realistic AI voice trainers: businesses can either use ready-to-deploy coaches or upload their own scripts, service standards, sales methodologies, rare edge cases, and internal materials, which the system then turns into interactive voice simulations where employees speak with AI as if they were talking to a real customer, guest, or buyer, practice in a safe environment, and receive instant personalized feedback on mistakes, argumentation, tone, and service quality, while managers and L&D teams get analytics on skills, gaps, progress, training quality, and its impact on the business; Talk Labs replaces one-off training sessions and poorly scalable manual practice with an always-available, highly scalable, measurable, and quickly adaptable AI infrastructure for improving sales and service in industries such as hospitality, retail, banking, and telecom.

Operator of WhatTime, a global B2B luxury watch re-commerce platform designed to deliver instant liquidity at competitive prices. Unlike traditional resale channels—where peer-to-peer transactions are slow and dealer buybacks undervalue assets—WhatTime combines speed with high-value outcomes. The platform sources pre-owned watches from domestic sellers through a real-time appraisal and pricing engine, then connects listings to a vetted global buyer network spanning Japan, Germany, Hong Kong, and China, with more than 20 secondary resellers across four countries. By doing so, WhatTime enables sellers to capture 90–105% of typical C2C listing prices with a transaction success rate above 70%, while completing the entire resale process in as little as one hour.

Smart, real-time financial controller.