NAVER D2SF, NAVER’s corporate venture arm, has made a strategic investment in AIM Intelligence. The investment fits with the company’s mission to build security infrastructure for AI as businesses increasingly adopt artificial intelligence. The declaration was made by Seongnam, South Korea, June 9, 2026.
The firm’s investment in AIM Intelligence comes as demand for AI safety, validation and operational controls in enterprise environments increases. As AI adoption rises, companies face increasing risks such as AI defects, data leakage, privilege abuse, and prompt injection attacks. Enterprises now seek security frameworks that cover the whole AI lifecycle, from deployment through to live operations. This is where AIM Intelligence comes in, providing specialized AI security technologies.
The company provides end-to-end AI security solutions, including attack simulation, validation and control. Stinger, its automated red teaming platform, creates and tests millions of attack scenarios to uncover vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, the Starfort guardrail system monitors and controls dangerous AI behavior in real-world operations.
AIM Intelligence is building its technology from experience with AI safety projects with leading research institutions. It has been involved in projects with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta and has developed security frameworks for production AI environments.
The startup has also developed a strong research presence in AI safety. Its team has published around 20 papers on AI guardrails and related security technologies. Researchers from the company who have presented their work at major academic conferences have validated its technical foundation.
AIM Intelligence is also working on Physical AI safety technologies, alongside large language models and AI agent security. These systems aim to enhance safety controls for robotics and other AI-powered physical environments.
The company has enterprise customers in a number of industries at present. Its commercial deployments include enterprise organizations, financial services firms and public-sector institutions. AIM Intelligence continues to enhance its products through real-world customer implementations and compliance-driven use cases.
NAVER D2SF first discovered AIM Intelligence at its 2024 Campus Startup Competition. The venture arm invested later after a period of incubation. The investment is part of NAVER D2SF’s mission to nurture emerging AI-native founders and security innovators.
The founding team and co-founder and CEO Sangyoon Yu have a background in AI safety research and entrepreneurship. NAVER D2SF said the team was able to see changes in the AI market and turn the insights into commercial products.
“AIM Intelligence has rapidly commercialized a practical AI security solution covering the full AI lifecycle, and we are also exploring collaboration opportunities with NAVER’s security organization around safe AI initiatives,” said Sanghwan Yang, Head of NAVER D2SF. “It is particularly impressive that a student-founded team has achieved this level of execution in the security sector, where experience and references are especially important. We will continue expanding opportunities to connect with AI-native founders in their teens and twenties who bring strong instincts and energy.”
“As AI moves beyond productivity tools and into payment platforms, vehicles, and robotics, AI security is becoming part of critical industrial infrastructure,” said Sangyoon Yu, CEO of AIM Intelligence. “This strategic investment reflects how AI security is increasingly being recognized as a real business priority across industries. AIM Intelligence aims to grow into an AI security infrastructure company that enables the safe development, validation, and operation of generative AI, agentic AI, and physical AI.”
The investment comes as NAVER D2SF expands its support for next-generation AI startups. The firm’s 2026 Campus Startup Competition attracted more than 320 applicants, including solo founders and high-school startup teams. NAVER D2SF reported higher product maturity and stronger commercial traction among participants compared with previous years.
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Source: PRNewswire
