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Korean metaverse Creative Platform startup "Red Brick" attracts $13.74 million worth of Series B investment


South Korean Metaverse Redbrick and talent tech startup Glorang succeeded in attracting investment, respectively.



According to the venture capital (VC) industry on the 24th, Metaverse creative platform 'Redbrick' recently attracted 18 billion won worth of Series B (investment received in the stage of business expansion).NH Investment & Securities led the investment, and F&F Partners, Ion Asset Management, and YG Investment participated.

Founded in 2018, Redbrick is a startup that trains metaverse creators by providing creation tools. It has a block coding technology that anyone can easily create a metaverse world even if they are not familiar with coding. Currently, the number of creators working at Redbrick has surpassed  a number of contents they have developed has reached 500,000.

Redbrick plans to accelerate the creation of a Web 3.0-based creator economy ecosystem through this investment attraction. In addition, in strategic cooperation with IPX (formerly Line Friends), a digital intellectual property (IP) entertainment company, it will make Redbrick's creations work on IPX's digital character IP generation platform FRENZ.

Talent tech startup Glorang also recently attracted 12 billion won worth of Series A (investment before entering the market). The investment was jointly led by Korea Investment Partners and Murex Partners, and the existing investment company, Japanese Parksha Capital (PKSHA), has made follow-up investments. DSC Investment and Kolon Investment participated in the new investment companies.

Glorang is a startup that operates "Kug," a non-face-to-face kids class platform. Through optimizing the operation of real-time class schedules, Kug achieved an average of 40% growth in monthly sales and the No. 1 market share of non-face-to-face kids platforms. Currently, Kug has secured 1,000 professional teachers, and 2,600 classes have been accumulated.

Glorang plans to focus on upgrading children's growth and development feedback capabilities and popularizing the Kug platform through this investment attraction.

Hwang Tae-il, CEO of Glorang, said, "It will be a platform that allows children to lead learning growth on their own, not from the perspective of parents."