Dfinite Secures Pre-Series A Bridge Funding to Accelerate Expansion into Manufacturing AI Market

- Listed on NAVER Cloud’s AI Portal, Dfinite Expands Smart Factory Client Reach at ‘AI+ Smart Factory Show’

[SWTV 이지한 기자] Dfinite, based at Seoul Startup Hub Gongdeok, announced that it has successfully secured Pre-Series A Bridge funding from The Innovators. With this capital, the company aims to enhance its new products and expand its reach to large enterprises in the manufacturing sector.

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Dfinite develops and operates an AI platform that supports on-site operations by integrating ERP, MES, SCM, documents, manuals, and Excel data within the manufacturing sector. Despite a sea of data, fragmented systems and scattered documents have required extensive experience and countless meetings for identifying causes, inventory and lead-time assessment, and quality risk mitigation. It addresses the issue by building an AI decision-making layer on the manufacturing floor, connecting disparate data and documents into a unified operational system.

The core product lineup consists of factory diagnosis AI ▲’Darvio’, system data-driven operational AI ▲ ‘Darvis DB’, and documented knowledge-based AI ▲ ‘Darvis Docs’.

‘Darvio’ is a specialized AI agent that analyzes multiple causes and reaches a consensus to propose diagnosis results and action plans, while ‘Darvis DB’ supports natural language queries, analysis, forecasting and action recommendation by connecting manufacturing system data such as ERP, MES, PLC and SCADA. Meanwhile, ‘Darivs Docs’ retrieves unstructured documents including manuals, SOPs, regulations and quality manuals, and offers evidence-based answers and comparative document analysis.

Dfinite’s successful market expansion and the securing of investment funding are both driven by the tangible business results achieved domestically and internationally.

Following its selection as a resident company at Seoul Startup Hub Gongdeok last July, the company has been leveraging stable workspace and growth grants to accelerate product enhancement and business development. It is building a solid foundation for growth by achieving key milestones essential for business expansion, including conducting PoCs and contract negotiations with large enterprises, securing funding, hiring key talent, and securing government-backed R&D projects.

Domestically, the company has gained recognition for its technological expertise by participating in the Manufacturing AI Demand-Supply Matching Project as a provider, an initiative co-hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and NAVER Cloud. Listed in the solution catalogue of the NAVER Cloud Manufacturing AI matching portal, the company is actively expanding opportunities to conduct PoCs and deploy its Darvis-based manufacturing AI solutions for smart factory operators.

Additionally, Dfinite is collaborating with the company A, an automotive electronic components manufacturer, to execute a project for the Manufacturing AI-Specialized Smart Factory Support Program. It aims to support a wide range of capabilities, including supply chain risk detection, outbound logistics optimization, integrated visibility across production, procurement and materials, quality and defect analysis, and intelligent search for design and quality documentation by implementing Darvis-based AI analysis layer on top of a traditional manufacturing system.

The company has also established a foundation for global expansion. As a selected participant in the ‘GOIS Glocal Open Innovation Program Season 2’, Dfinite will be attending the Open Innovation and Global PoC matching Program in Bilbao, Spain, from the 22nd to the 27th of this month. Prior to this event, it will be showcasing its manufacturing AI lineups by participating in the ‘AI+ Smart Factory Show’ at COEX, held from the 10th to 12th of this month.

The company has also secured a solid foundation for growth, building upon its achievements in technology commercialization. It not only conducts a project supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ Tips program and selected for the Deep-Tech Youth Startup Academy, but also securing its intellectual property rights, including patent applications for manufacturing, logistics, and multi-agent collaboration technologies, as well as the registration of the ‘Dfinite’ trademark. The organization also experienced rapid growth, hiring five new employees across five roles, including AI research and solution engineering since January of last year, with further recruitment currently underway.

Kim Do-hwan, the CEO of Dfinite, noted, “The AI transition in manufacturing is not merely about adopting chatbots, but optimizing decision-making process by connecting fragmented data across the field. Leveraging our ontology-based data connectivity and AI agent technology, Dfinite will evolve into a platform that enhances operational efficiency and decision making.”

The CEO also added, “Since moving into Seoul Startup Hub Gongdeok, we have been able to lay a solid foundation for growth by business development, investment attraction, and talent recruitment. We will continue to grow as a leading AI startup that effectively supports the AI transition in the domestic manufacturing industry.”

Meanwhile, Dfinite plans to roll out its Darvis service to mid-to-large scale manufacturing enterprises that utilizes ERP, MES, and documentation systems. Additionally, the company aims to expand business scope to include manufacturing data analytics, factory diagnostics, corporate knowledge search, and process automation by leveraging new product lineups, such as Darvio, Darvis DB and Darvis Docs.