SearchDoc lands Korea's TIPS grant, bringing total funding to 4B KRW
What's the deal? South Korean industrial-data AI startup SearchDocDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has been selected for TIPSDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, the Ministry of SMEs and StartupsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →' flagship support program, it said on August 28. The award adds 1 billion KRW (about $723,751) and lifts the company's cumulative funding to 4 billion KRW.
What does it do? SearchDoc analyses oversized text documents — contracts, specifications, and bid papers — across the EPC and AEC industries. It has recently extended its AI to 2D drawings and 3D BIM (Building Information Modeling), linking shape and property data with contract and regulatory documents into a single searchable network.
What's the endgame? The technology automatically checks whether designs meet national building codes and client requirements, flagging conflicts, omissions, and violations. SearchDoc plans to expand into industries that rely on document- and drawing-based decisions, and to push into the US and Singapore.
The backstory: SearchDoc raised a $750,000 seed round from Asia2GDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Futureplay in January, then secured an additional 2 billion KRW through a Korea Credit Guarantee FundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → program, reaching 3 billion KRW. In August, it was also named an NVIDIA Inception member.
Traction: The company already supplies its service to a major domestic construction firm and is extending its technology into manufacturing and semiconductors, where design data, simulation results, and pricing are scattered across documents and drawings. It is running a technical collaboration with a major Korean semiconductor company.
In their words: "This TIPS selection is recognition of SearchDoc's AI search technology, which understands documents and drawings in an integrated way," said chief executive officer Baek Jun-seon (translated from Korean).
The signal: The TIPS award ranks among the largest such support-program rounds recorded for enterprise software in South Korea, sitting in the 99th percentile across 310 comparable deals. That underscores how state-backed grants remain a core funding channel for the country's early-stage AI startups chasing global markets.
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