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ICLO

Category: AI in Healthcare

A dental-tech startup providing 'Homeden,' an AI-powered oral healthcare solution that enables users to perform remote dental checkups and monitor oral diseases using specialized hardware and deep learning algorithms. ICLO was founded in 2020. The company is led by Jun-bae Kim (김준배). Based in Jeju-si, South Korea. Team size: 5-15. Total funding raised: $740.0K+. Latest round: Strategic Impact Investment (Mar 2025). Key investors include MYSC (엠와이소셜컴퍼니), Impact Square (임팩트스퀘어), Next Challenge (넥스트챌린지), Commax Venturus (코맥스벤처러스), Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS).

Founded
2020
Headquarters
Jeju-si, South Korea
Team size
5-15
Total funding
$740.0K+

Value proposition

Reduces the economic and physical burden of dental treatment through early AI-driven detection of oral diseases at home, bridging the gap between daily care and clinical visits.

Products and solutions

Homeden (B2C AI oral diagnostic mobile app), Homeden Connect (B2B integrated CRM platform for dental clinics), Smart Intraoral Camera (High-resolution home-use diagnostic device), AI-based Oral Disease Analysis Algorithm, Sonic Vibration All-in-one Care Device (Healthcare & Beauty hardware)

Unique value

Democratizes professional-grade oral diagnostics by combining affordable, easy-to-use intraoral cameras with proprietary deep learning models trained on large-scale dental big data.

Target customer

Health-conscious individual consumers (B2C), dental clinics seeking CRM/referral tools (B2B), and municipal public health departments (B2G)

Industries served

Dental Technology, Digital Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Electronics

Technology advantage

Leverages the CEO's 34 years of experience in consumer healthcare (LG Household & Health Care) to create consumer-friendly medical tech; holds a competitive edge in 'pre-hospital' oral monitoring.

How they differentiate

ICLO differentiates by focusing on 'Pre-hospital' consumer-led monitoring. Unlike clinical competitors using expensive fluorescence imaging (Q-ray), ICLO provides an affordable, high-resolution intraoral camera paired with a consumer-centric AI app (Homeden) for early at-home detection of cavities and periodontal disease.

Main competitors

AIOBIO (아이오바이오), Smylist (스마일리스트), DentalMonitoring, Pixium (픽시움)

Key partnerships

MYSC (Impact investment partner), Impact Square (Impact investment partner), Gwangju Metropolitan City (MOU for AI healthcare ecosystem development), Ministry of SMEs and Startups (TIPS program participant), Major Korean dental supply distributor (covering approx. 60% of the domestic market network)

Notable customers

Major South Korean dental supply distributors, Gwangju Metropolitan City (PoC partner), Confidential Implant Manufacturers

Major milestones

Secured Strategic Impact Investment from MYSC in March 2025, Won the Grand Prize at the 2024 Social Impact Demo Day, Official MOU with Gwangju Metropolitan City for AI healthcare ecosystem (2024), Selected for the South Korean Government TIPS Program in 2022, Exhibited at CES 2022 and CES 2024 in the Eureka Park pavilion, Received the Patent Office Commissioner's Award at the 2022 Korea Invention Patent Exhibition

Growth metrics

Secured purchase intentions for 3,000 units from implant manufacturers and signed distribution agreements covering approximately 60% of the South Korean dental network.

Market positioning

Early-stage Dental-Tech pioneer bridging the gap between daily oral hygiene and clinical dental visits via AI-driven remote monitoring.

Geographic focus

South Korea, United States, Japan

Patents and IP

Holds 3 registered technical patents related to AI-based oral disease detection and 2 design patents; awarded the Silver Prize at the 2022 Korea Invention Patent Exhibition.

About Jun-bae Kim (김준배)

Jun-bae Kim is a seasoned business leader with over 34 years of experience at LG Household & Health Care (LG H&H), a major South Korean consumer goods company. He joined LG in 1987 and rose through the ranks in the consumer and cosmetic divisions before retiring to found ICLO in 2020. His expertise lies in consumer behavior, product development, and scaling household healthcare solutions. Under his leadership, ICLO has specialized in 'Dental-Tech,' bridging the gap between hardware devices and AI-driven diagnostic software. He led the company to secure TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startups) in 2022 and recent impact investment from MYSC in March 2025.

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