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PYLER

Category: AI in Cybersecurity

An AI video understanding platform that uses multimodal AI to provide brand safety, content moderation, and contextual targeting for digital advertising and media industries. PYLER was founded in 2021. The company is led by Oh Jae-ho (JaeHo Oh). Based in Seoul, South Korea. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $7.86M. Latest round: Series A ($7.86M, Jan 2024). Key investors include ["Hyundai Investment Partners","QUAD Ventures","HANSAE YES24 PARTNERS","Helio Investment","Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center"].

Founded
2021
Headquarters
Seoul, South Korea
Team size
11-50
Total funding
$7.86M

Value proposition

Automates real-time video content analysis to protect brand reputation, prevent harmful ad placements, detect AI-generated misinformation/deepfakes, and enable contextually relevant advertising—processing 3 million videos daily with multimodal AI.

Products and solutions

["AiD (Ad Intelligence Defense) - Brand safety and harmful content detection","AiM (Ad Intelligence Match) - Contextual targeting and ad placement optimization","Measure - Video-based market intelligence platform","Antares - Multimodal video understanding AI engine (visual, audio, text analysis)"]

Unique value

Develops proprietary multimodal video understanding AI (Antares) that simultaneously analyzes visual, audio, and text content to detect harmful material, deepfakes, hate speech, misinformation, and unsafe content at enterprise scale (3M+ videos/day). First South Korean company to adopt NVIDIA DGX B200 AI system and first Korean member of IAB Tech Lab global standards organization.

Target customer

Enterprise brands, digital advertisers, advertising agencies, media platforms, and content publishers requiring brand safety and content moderation at scale

Industries served

["Digital Advertising & Marketing","Media & Entertainment","Brand Safety & Trust & Safety","Content Moderation","AI Safety & Governance","Digital Publishing"]

Technology advantage

Combines multimodal deep learning with NVIDIA's AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization to deliver real-time brand safety verification, deepfake detection, and contextual ad targeting—deployed on cutting-edge NVIDIA DGX B200 infrastructure. Published research at CVPR 2023 and received awards at ICCV, demonstrating academic rigor alongside commercial application.

How they differentiate

Video-first brand safety platform with proprietary multimodal AI (Antares) that simultaneously analyzes visual, audio, and text content in real-time. First South Korean company to adopt NVIDIA DGX B200 system, providing superior processing power for handling 3 million videos daily. Specializes in Asian market content with Korean language expertise, deepfake detection capabilities, and contextual targeting specifically designed for video advertising ecosystems.

Main competitors

["DoubleVerify (DV)","Integral Ad Science (IAS)","Twelve Labs"]

Key partnerships

["NVIDIA","SingleStore","IAB Tech Lab","Samsung Electronics","KT","Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance","Nongshim","Kenvue","Lotte Wellfood"]

Notable customers

["Samsung Electronics","Hyundai Motors","Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance","KT","Nongshim","Kenvue","Lotte Wellfood","Cheil Worldwide","Innocean","BYD"]

Major milestones

["Founded in 2021 by Oh Jae-ho at age 19","Series A funding of KRW 10.5 billion ($7.86M) raised in January 2024","Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 recognition for CEO Oh Jae-ho (2024)","Won NVIDIA Inception Startup Grand Challenge 2025 - First place among 80+ global competitors","First South Korean company to adopt NVIDIA DGX B200 AI system","First Korean member of IAB Tech Lab global standards organization","CVPR 2023 research paper publication","ICCV award recipient for video understanding research","Minister's Award from Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups"]

Growth metrics

Winner of NVIDIA Inception Startup Grand Challenge 2025 (first place among 80+ global competitors), processing 3 million videos daily, secured major enterprise clients including Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motors

Market positioning

Korean market leader in AI-based video brand safety and content moderation, positioned as a specialized challenger to global ad verification giants by focusing exclusively on video content analysis. Expanding from regional dominance to global markets with enterprise-grade solutions.

Geographic focus

Primarily South Korea and Asia-Pacific region, with strategic expansion into North America and global markets

Patents and IP

No registered patents publicly disclosed as of latest update (January 2025)

About Oh Jae-ho (JaeHo Oh)

Founded PYLER in 2021 at age 19 while a freshman at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). Named to Forbes Asia's '30 Under 30' list in Marketing & Advertising category (May 2024). Led company to win NVIDIA Inception Startup Grand Challenge 2025, beating 80+ global competitors. Published video search technology research at CVPR 2023.

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