KAIST adtech startup AdOasis raises $2.9M led by Kyobo Securities
What's the deal? AdOasisDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, the brand of South Korea's Impact AIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, has closed a US$3.35M early-stage round. Kyobo SecuritiesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Sunbo Angel PartnersDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and JSG InvestmentDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → took part, with Kyobo Securities joining as a strategic investor.
Who's behind it? AdOasis is a faculty startup spun out of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). It builds agentic AI marketing tools in which software plans, generates, and edits ad creative, then optimizes media buying.
What's the endgame? The money will fund upgrades to its Trove creative solution and agentic AI that automates ad execution. AdOasis plans to launch the related tools in the US in the first quarter of 2027.
Why Kyobo matters. AdOasis had already supplied Trove to Kyobo Lifeplanet before the round. The two now plan to explore wider use of AI advertising in financial-sector marketing — a potential route into a new vertical that outweighs the modest cheque size.
On the product side, AdOasis this month relaunched its Creative Canvas as Trove 2.0, moving generation and editing onto a single canvas screen. It merged its guide and professional modes into one prompt mode and added a URL mode that builds images from a product webpage link alone.
Chief executive Park Sung-hyuk said the company aims to "become a leading force in exporting Korean advertising to global markets."
The signal: Independent adtech vendors face rising pressure as Meta and Google push generative-AI features deeper into their own ad products. AdOasis is betting a connected workflow — creative, targeting, and optimization in one agent — plus a strategic backer can carve out room. Whether it holds will depend on repeatable results and customers beyond its existing partnership.
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