K-Ground Ventures Launches Full-Stack Energy-AI AX Ecosystem
K-Ground Ventures (KGV, CEO Nam-Hoon Cho), a Korean venture capital firm specializing in deep-tech commercialization and IP monetization, announced on December 18 that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NX (CEO Ju-Hyun Nam), a leading AI-based Energy Management System (EMS) company for energy savings, and HyperVisual AI (CEO Sam-Yun Jung), an AI semiconductor fabless company, to collaborate on the commercialization of AX (AI Transformation) in the energy sector. Under the agreement, the three companies will jointly develop and standardize dedicated AI semiconductors (GPNPU) and related technologies to further advance AI EMS solutions, while actively pursuing global market expansion. NX is drawing significant attention as the only Korean company selected by Global Market Insights as one of the 22 key global EMS companies for 2025. HyperVisual AI is recognized as an innovative company in the GPNPU field optimized for on-device AI environments. EMS experts anticipate that this AX partnership will deliver optimized solutions to power consumption and noise challenges associated with data center construction. Meanwhile, NX has established an "Energy Neural Network" comprising approximately 300,000 devices installed at customer sites, securing world-class building-level internal energy data. As the company’s business continues to grow rapidly, the scale of its data acquisition is expanding accordingly. Leveraging this data, NX has achieved outstanding results across multiple energy efficiency projects and has positioned itself as a leading unicorn candidate in the rapidly growing EMS sector. Recently, NX received an "AA" rating for IP value and business feasibility from K-Ground Ventures, an operator of the Scale-Up TIPS program, and successfully attracted investment for its IP project. Ju-Hyun Nam, CEO of NX, commented: “Through this joint development, NX will enable customers across all environments—including buildings, factories, and homes—to not only reduce energy costs but also eliminate safety concerns such as fire risks, through our advanced energy AI agent, enbrix." K-Ground Ventures, which spearheaded the MOU, is actively building a new AX investment ecosystem in collaboration with KST (Korea Science & Technology Holdings, CEO Chi-Ho Choi), as well as accelerators (ACs), venture capital firms (VCs), and private equity firms (PEs), particularly in the AI sector. Nam-Hoon Cho, CEO of K-Ground Ventures, stated: “In the AX era, the shortage of industry-specific AI experts makes it difficult for investors acting alone to identify capable AI companies and connect them with demand-side enterprises to generate meaningful AX outcomes.” He added: “In the era of the KRW 150 trillion National Growth Fund, it is essential to support AI startups with core technologies and global IP so they can collaborate within a full-stack AX investment ecosystem spanning data, semiconductors and services. Depending on the AX project, we pursue a growth-focused Scale-Up strategy alongside a Scale-Out strategy centered on expansion and standardization, enabling bold and timely investments at each stage of growth." Cho further explained: “The AX-dedicated fund currently under development will provide both public and private support—including programs such as TIPS and Scale-Up TIPS—as well as investment opportunities for domestic and global startups proposing innovative full-stack AX projects aligned with global demand. Once predefined milestones are achieved, follow-on investment through the AX-dedicated fund and the investment consortium will enable early realization of collaborative outcomes, ultimately evolving into a Korean-style global AX investment ecosystem model." -End- 정현식 기자ecosystem ventures ground ventures energy sector energy management
2025.12.18. 21:13
