INTELLIZ Selected for Three KICXUP Programs, Runs PoC with NAVER Cloud
The open innovation platform for industrial complexes has supported a cumulative 377 companies since its 2022 launch. This year's call planned to recruit…
The open innovation platform for industrial complexes has supported a cumulative 377 companies since its 2022 launch. This year's call planned to recruit about 70 companies for the Challenge track.
INTELLIZ, a Korean AI machine vision company led by CEO Hyunsik Na, was selected for all three of Global, Bridge and Challenge at KICXUP, an open innovation platform for industrial complexes, and is running a PoC with NAVER Cloud. It is a collaboration between a manufacturing inspection AI company and a cloud company. KICXUP is run by Korea Industrial Complex Corporation together with Korea Credit Guarantee Fund and CNTTECH. According to Energy Daily, the program as a whole supported a cumulative 377 companies from its 2022 launch through August 2026, with a cumulative 78 billion won in investment raised, 8.7 billion won in exports and 16 business agreements. The 2026 call listed two tracks, Challenge and Local. The Challenge track planned to recruit about 70 companies, narrowing the field to 140 in a document review before final selection through presentation evaluations. That was larger than the roughly 55 companies in the 2025 call. According to the call, NAVER Cloud was one of six demand-side companies in the Challenge track, and one of its two stated collaboration topics was an industry-specific vision AI quality inspection solution that optimizes manufacturing quality on a cloud basis. INTELLIZ officially launched IntCloud, a cloud-based AI machine vision platform, this year. According to Dailian, KICXUP GLOBAL 2026, held September 14 to 16 at EXCO in Daegu, drew about 200 companies overall, including 45 demand-side companies, VCs and buyers and about 150 startups, and…