# FriendliAI

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/friendliai

- Industry: Internet
- Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea
- Website: www.friendli.ai
- Total disclosed funding: $27M
- Latest round: Seed (Aug 28, 2025)
- Investors on record: 6

## About

Founded in 2021 and based in Seoul, South Korea, FriendliAI is an AI development company that develops and utilizes super-giant AI models at reasonable costs by implementing super-giant AI platform technology in the cloud. The company's platform PeriFlow, incorporates AI model learning and inference technology, allowing customers to reduce cloud costs incurred when developing super-giant AI and secure AI models. In August 2025, FriendliAI raised USD 20 million in seed funding led by returning investor Capstone Partners, with participation from another returning investor KB Securities. New investors Alumni Ventures Group, KDB Capital, and Sierra Ventures. The company will use the funding to grow its sales and marketing teams, improve its artificial intelligence platform, and help businesses run large language models more efficiently and at lower cost.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Aug 28, 2025, $20M — Sierra Ventures, KDB Capital, Capstone Partners, Alumni Ventures Group, KB Securities
- Series A, Dec 15, 2021, $6.7M — KB Investment, Capstone Partners, KB Securities

## Investors

- KB Investment (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/kb-investment) — Series A
- Capstone Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/capstone-partners) — Series A, Seed
- KB Securities (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/kb-securities) — Series A, Seed
- Sierra Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sierra-ventures) — Seed
- KDB Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/kdb-capital) — Seed
- Alumni Ventures Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/alumni-ventures-group) — Seed