Games & Commerce

Wadiz supports CES innovation firms in expanding global sales channels

Funding platform Wadiz said on Jan. 23 it joined KOTRA-hosted follow-up event the CES AI Innovation Plaza on Jan. 21. The event brought together about 40 South Korean innovation companies that attended 2026 CES to share results and discuss the K-AI industry’s global competitiveness and expansion strategy. Wadiz provided strategy consulting for firms recognised at CES and discussed using its platform to test global demand and connect that to commercialisation.

AI & Enterprise

Inference startup Inferact raises $150 million seed to accelerate vLLM commercialisation

The team behind the open-source AI inference optimisation project vLLM has become a startup called Inferact with venture capital backing. Inferact recently raised $150 million in seed funding and was valued at $800 million, TechCrunch reported. Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners co-led the round. Inferact’s move was compared to the recently commercialised SGLang project, which received funding at a $400 million valuation.