Cockswave, the operator of the AI product analytics platform Align, said on Tuesday it raised 7 billion won in Pre-Series A funding. The funding brings Cockswave's cumulative investment to 12.5 billion won.

L&S Venture Capital participated as the lead investor in the round. Existing investor KB Investment joined, along with new investors Hyundai Technology Investment, Hyundai Motor Zero1 Ventures and KDB Capital.

Since its founding in 2021, Cockswave has developed technology for real-time performance analysis of conversational AI and user experience optimisation, as well as reliability verification.

Cockswave plans to contribute to building corporate AI governance as an "AI guardrail" that enables safe operation of AI services in production environments.

It will also step up expansion of its AX business. The company plans to broaden the business based on results from AX projects carried out with about 10 customers in and outside South Korea, including global companies such as PwC India, Meta and Microsoft. It will also accelerate support for AX at domestic and overseas education companies with its B2B AI education solution, "EduTab", launched in September last year.

Cockswave CEO Juwon Kim said the goal was to strengthen both AI reliability technology and AX consulting to help partner companies secure leadership in their industries through AI. He said the investment would help advance its technology and support more companies in successful AI transformation with proven capabilities.