Tynapse
Category: AI in Cybersecurity
Tynapse provides runtime AI trust infrastructure that validates and controls AI agent outputs in real-time, with legal-grade audit trails for regulated industries. Tynapse was founded in 2025. The company is led by Kang Min-seung. Based in Seoul, South Korea. Team size: 2-10. Total funding raised: $3.45M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Capital, Murex Partners, Kakao Ventures, Mashup Ventures.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Seoul, South Korea
- Team size
- 2-10
- Total funding
- $3.45M
Value proposition
Tynapse delivers the fastest intervention and legal-grade evidence for high-stakes AI decisions, enabling safe enterprise AI deployment in regulated sectors.
Target customer
Financial institutions (commercial banks) in South Korea and other highly regulated industries
Industries served
Financial Services / Banking, Healthcare, Enterprise AI
Technology advantage
Two-stage detection system that identifies hallucinations, data leaks, and jailbreaks; all decisions logged in an auditable trail; 3-Tier Trust Architecture (Detect → Judge → Audit) sitting between user input and AI output.
How they differentiate
Focus on runtime security with legal-grade evidence and audit trails explicitly designed for regulated sectors like finance, combining financial CTO domain expertise with a vertical beachhead strategy.
Key partnerships
Snowflake, NVIDIA (GTC), AWS, Everspin, KB Kookmin Bank
Notable customers
KB Kookmin Bank (named; answer-verification system deployed across 5 business areas, ~7,000 employees; won FSC Chairman's Award for Partnership of the Year, Jun 2026), Major domestic commercial banks in South Korea (PoC projects)
Major milestones
Raised $3.17M seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment (Apr 2026), bringing total funding to $3.45M, Deployed answer-verification system with KB Kookmin Bank across 5 business areas (~7,000 employees) and won FSC Chairman's Award for 'Partnership of the Year' at Startup OI #Finance (Jun 24 2026), Selected as top-10 semi-finalist in the 2026 Snowflake Startup Challenge (only Asian company), Top 6 Finalist, NVIDIA GTC 2026 AWS Startup Pitch, Partnered with Everspin to expand AI trust security into Japan and Southeast Asia (Jul 6 2026), Won top prize at Maeil Business Fintech Awards 2026 (Aug 11 2026), Exhibited at eGiSEC 2026, Asia's largest security expo, Acquired first NVIDIA supercomputer
Market positioning
Tynapse raised $3.17M seed for AI agent runtime security infrastructure, targeting financial sector with audit trail capabilities.
About Kang Min-seung
Former CTO in the financial sector with a decade of experience building and scaling AI-driven products across fintech; research and execution experience in AI trust and safety
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Official website: https://tynapse.com