Audio artificial intelligence (AI) solution corporations Deeply said on the 15th that it secured a total of 2.5 billion won from Devsisters Ventures, Suminvestment Capital, and Nautilus Investment.
Deeply secured additional funds to strengthen research and development capabilities and expand its business as industrial AI demand grows. Its flagship product is the industrial audio AI solution "Listen AI," which analyzes subtle differences in sounds that are hard for people to distinguish and is used for parts quality inspection and fastening status checks, as well as equipment anomaly detection and predictive maintenance. It is expanding its scope of application, centered on the physical AI field such as robots.
The solution is being applied to the Korea and Mexico production facilities of an affiliated company of a domestic finished car manufacturing corporations and to the production lines of a major domestic automobile motor manufacturer. In addition to manufacturing, it is also increasing use cases in the public safety sector.
Since fully launching its industrial audio AI business, it has maintained annual growth of more than threefold over the past three years. It is now pushing to expand its business targeting bearing manufacturers and finished car production lines in North America, moving to capture the global market.
Lee Seung-woo, managing director at Devsisters Ventures, which led this investment, said, "Deeply is playing a role in turning 'sound,' which had seen limited use, into a core data asset for industry," and added, "We expect it to create a new market by standardizing sound data so it can be used across industries."
Lee Su-ji, Deeply's CEO, said, "As we move across many industrial sites, we can feel that Listen AI can be applied to a wide range of fields," and noted, "Buoyed by this new investment, we will broadly prove the effectiveness of Listen AI."