Intellicia, a startup developing AI synthetic consumer technology, said on Tuesday it raised 3.4 billion won in a pre-Series A round led by Kakao Ventures, with Murex Partners and Capstone Partners participating. The company provides TheSurvey.ai, an AI research platform that generates virtual consumers trained on real consumer data to answer surveys and interviews. It plans to invest the funds in a global SaaS platform due in the fourth quarter and expand to the United States and Japan next year.

Bunker Kids, the operator of AI character chat service Whif, said on Monday it raised 15 billion won in a Series A round. Investors included Kolon Investment, Kakao Ventures and Mirae Asset Capital, among others. The company said Whif users spend an average of 217 minutes a day. It said about 40 percent of revenue comes from overseas and it aims to lift that share to more than 60 percent by year-end.