NAVER D2SF

Investment Thesis

NAVER D2SF focuses on early-stage teams building core technologies in AI, developer tools, cloud services, and digital platforms that can complement or extend NAVER’s ecosystem. The program provides seed capital, office space, technical mentorship, and go-to-market support. In AI, D2SF targets startups working on computer vision, NLP for Korean and Asian languages, recommendation engines, AR/VR, and vertical SaaS enhanced by machine learning. It seeks founders with strong engineering backgrounds and products that can integrate into NAVER’s search, commerce, content, and fintech properties. By investing early and leveraging NAVER’s distribution, D2SF helps startups reach scale while generating strategic options for NAVER’s future growth.

Notable AI Portfolio

• Korean AR/3D modeling startups like Recon Labs
• Digital health and AI-driven diagnostics startups
• Developer tooling and data infrastructure companies in Korea
• AI-enhanced logistics and e-commerce solutions

Tags

• tech company