NVIDIA Announces New Planned Investments in Korean Startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum
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What happened
NVIDIA and Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT held an AI startup partnership forum at COEX in Seoul on November 9, 2026. At the event, NVIDIA announced an investment in Korean startup Point2 and plans to invest in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD, and Upstage. These investments target companies working on AI infrastructure, language models, robotics, and enterprise document software. The forum included meetings with more than 20 Korean startups focused on various AI technologies.
Key details
- Point2 develops radio-frequency interconnects for data transfer in AI data centers.
- Motif Technologies offers the open-weight Motif 3 language model under an MIT license, with a 314 billion parameter mixture-of-experts design.
- RLWRLD creates robotics foundation models for dexterous humanoid and industrial robots.
- Upstage provides enterprise document-AI products, including tools for parsing and extracting data from documents.
- NVIDIA's Inception program in Korea includes over 1,000 startup members, offering technical support and cloud credits without requiring equity.
Why it matters
Korean AI startups now have access to new funding and technical resources from NVIDIA, which can accelerate their product development and market reach. Companies in data-center hardware, language models, robotics, and enterprise software may benefit from both capital and broader support programs. For the Korean startup ecosystem, this means more opportunities for growth and collaboration with a major global technology company.