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"]
Notable customers
["Korea's Largest Commercial Bank (case study, unnamed)","Major domestic commercial banks in South Korea (PoC projects)"]
Major milestones
["Tynapse raises $3.9M seed for AI agent runtime security infrastructure, targeting financial sector with audit trail capabilities.","Raised $3.9M seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment","Running proof-of-concept projects with major domestic commercial banks in South Korea","Selected as top-10 semi-finalist in the 2026 Snowflake Startup Challenge (only Asian company)","Exhibited at eGiSEC 2026, Asia's largest security expo","Acquired first NVIDIA supercomputer"]
Market positioning
Tynapse raises $3.9M 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
Official website: https://tynapse.com