Korea’s Mobiltech raises ₩13B pre‑IPO to scale spatial‑AI mapping

Mobiltech sits in a quietly critical part of the autonomy stack: spatial data and high‑fidelity digital twins of the real world. Its 3D mapping infrastructure feeds both autonomous vehicles and robots, and it already supplies data into Nvidia’s Omniverse and Cosmos platforms. That makes this pre‑IPO round more strategically important than its roughly $10 million size suggests, because whoever controls high‑quality, continuously updated spatial data controls a key bottleneck for embodied AI. ([koreatechdesk.com](https://koreatechdesk.com/korea-venture-market-trends-early-february-2026))

For the AGI race, capital is increasingly flowing into “boring” but essential data infrastructure—high‑resolution maps, sensor fusion, and environment simulators—rather than just headline models. Mobiltech’s investors are effectively betting that physical‑world intelligence will require the same kind of vertically integrated stack that internet search did: crawlers, indices, ranking, and now, for robots, live digital twins. If Korea can grow a champion in this segment, it diversifies a landscape currently dominated by US and Chinese mapping players, and gives regional OEMs an alternative to relying entirely on Big Tech for spatial AI.