AI Agent Reliability Verification Startup "Tinaps" Selected for TIPS Program

Selected Through Recommendation by Early-Stage Investor Mashup Ventures
Secured 4.5 Billion Won in Seed Funding and Additional 800 Million Won in Grants

Tinaps, a startup specializing in verifying the reliability of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, announced on May 7, 2026, that it has been selected as a final participant in the TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startup) program organized by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, upon the recommendation of early-stage investor Mashup Ventures.

Following Mashup Ventures' pre-seed investment, Tinaps secured an additional seed investment of 4.5 billion won. With its selection for the TIPS program, the company has now obtained up to 800 million won in research and development (R&D) grants.

Tinaps is developing an "AI Trust Layer" that conducts real-time verification of AI agent responses and system executions, particularly in work environments with strict trust requirements such as finance and the public sector. The core of the solution is proactive intervention at the execution stage, blocking issues before they can be exposed externally. This includes preventing incorrect answers based on faulty evidence, numerical or logical errors, internal information leaks, and jailbreak attempts.

All decision-making processes are automatically recorded as audit logs with legal validity, enabling clear identification of responsibility in the event of an incident. During the TIPS selection process, the technical excellence of Tinaps' real-time verification and accountability tracking system was highly regarded.

Tinaps has previously ranked among the top Asian teams in startup competitions hosted by global big tech companies such as NVIDIA and Snowflake. The company is currently conducting technology verification projects with major commercial banks in Korea.

Minseung Kang, CEO of Tinaps, stated, "Through the technology verification process in the financial sector, we plan to continuously accumulate data on actual work error types and further advance our AI verification model specialized for finance. Based on this, we intend to gradually expand into industries with high reliability and regulatory requirements, such as healthcare and the public sector."

Seungkuk Lee, Partner at Mashup Ventures and lead recommender for TIPS, commented, "The bottleneck in AI adoption is shifting from model performance to reliability in real-world operational environments. We highly value Tinaps as a team capturing this opportunity and building a stable AI infrastructure that can be immediately deployed in the field, seeing strong potential for long-term growth."

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