42Maru

company

About

42Maru builds a Question Answering platform that finds a Single, Specific, Correct Answer based on Deep Learning

  • 51 - 100

Details

Last Funding Type
Debt Financing
Last Funding Money Raised
$1.20M
Industries
Artificial Intelligence,Internet of Things,Knowledge Management,Machine Learning,Mobile Devices,Robotics,Smart Home
Founded date
Oct 29, 2015
Number Of Employee
51 - 100
Operating Status
Active

1) What we do

• We develop a deep learning based QA(Question Answer) system that understands the true intention of the question and provide a Unique Correct Answer

2) Why

• AI based Smart machines are penetrating into our everyday lives, there are signals of paradigm shift from the traditional web search system to QA system.

3) Market Size

• Globally expecting a $50bn market size by year 2025 (+50% YoY).
• 50% of all searches will be done by voice searches by year 2020.

4) Technology

• We have core technologies in IR(Information Retrieval), Triple, MRC(Machine Reading Comprehension), Paraphrasing, NLU/NLP(Natural Language Understanding/Processing) etc.

5) Core Competency

• Our system is different to the existing system because we have a high accuracy, self expansion of KB(knowledge base), low GPU cost, quick response.
• This is the reason why we have the globally the first deep learning based QA commercial version in Korean.
• We have experience in a commercial version of sematic search which has similar logics with QA system and also have multi-language web-search experience as well.
• Strong team with CEO having +20yrs of related work experience.

6) Target Markets

• Connected Cars, Smart Speakers, Home IoT, Home Robots, Smart Toys, Personal Assistants, Chatbot Apps, Intranet, KMS.

7) Business Model

• Planning B2C penetration through B2B2C Alliance and set for global expansion with multi-language support.

8) References

• B2B projects with some major TELCOs in Korea, such as LG and Korea Telecom, and also with big ship building industries and financial institutions.

9) Competitors

• Competitors have QA systems based on either Rule-based or Inference based which has limitations on commercialization.

10) Team

• CEO: Pioneer in the search engine industry with +20 years of experiences, deep learning expert
• Total member of 27 (22 QA specialists) (hiring currently more)

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
1
$1.20M
42Maru has raised a total of $1.20M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 27, 2017 from a Debt Financing round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Dec 27, 2017 Debt Financing $1.20M 1 Detail

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
1
0
42Maru has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on May 6, 2019, when Josef raised $1M.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
May 6, 2019 Josef
Seed $1M Artificial Intelligence

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
1
42Maru is funded by 1 investors. Spring Camp are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Spring Camp Debt Financing