KDDI Open Innovation Fund III Makes Additional Investment in Allganize Holdings, a Provider of AI Solutions for Natural Language Understanding

December 4, 2023

KDDI CORPORATION

On December 4, 2023, KDDI invested in Allganize Holdings, Inc., a provider of AI solutions for natural language understanding to corporate customers (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Changsu Lee; hereinafter "Allganize") through KDDI Open Innovation Fund III (operated by Global Brain Corporation; hereinafter "KOIF III"), which aims to incubate new business co-creations with promising venture startups. Furthermore, this represents the fourth investment by KDDI in Allganize after the seed round (investment by KOIF II) and the Series A round (investment by KOIF III).

Allganize utilizes advanced AI technologies to support the optimization of many services, automation of business workflows, and digital transformation (DX), etc. Using their proprietary natural language understanding AI, the company provides AI models which accurately understand the meaning and intent of everything from daily conversation to named entities while also specializing in various industries.
Moreover, to enable more companies to utilize LLMs (Large Language Models), Allganize is expanding its LLM related service offerings which include no-code LLM app creation with the "Alli LLM App Builder," the "Alli LLM App Market" which allows users to select the applications they need and rapidly apply them to their own businesses, and the industry-specific "sLLMs (lightweight LLM models)."

Through this investment, KDDI will actively utilize Allganize's AI technologies and LLMs in its AI related businesses and projects. In addition, KDDI will utilize its support system to vigorously expand AI application in the market.

As "the company that customers feel closest to," KDDI will continue to promote business co-creation through investment in promising startup companies, and create new business models together with customers and partners.

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Support for generation AI and LLM utilization essential for future business management through all-in-one LLM solutions - Allganize Holdings (in Japanese only)

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• ■Overview of Allganize

  • (1)

    • Company name

      : Allganize Holdings, Inc.

  • (2)

    • Headquarters

      : Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

  • (3)

    • Date founded

      : July 2017

  • (4)

    • Business activities

      : provides the "Alli" series of all-in-one LLM solutions in Japan, US, and South Korea

  • (5)

    • CEO

      : Changsu Lee

  • (6)

    • URL

      : https://www.allganize.ai/

• ■About KDDI Open Innovation Fund

  KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture fund that supports a broad range of venture companies. The currently active KDDI Open Innovation Fund III focuses on the areas of AI, IoT, data marketing, fintech, B2B SaaS, and entertainment with a total operating fund of 20 billion yen.