Dunamu & Partners Invests USD 5 Million in UK AI Inference Company "Kaloseom"

Dunamu & Partners, the investment subsidiary of Dunamu, announced on the 25th that it has made a seed investment of USD 5 million (approximately KRW 7 billion) in Kaloseom, a UK-based AI inference optimization company.

Kaloseom has attracted a total of USD 100 million (about KRW 139.3 billion) in seed funding. The round was led by European venture capital firm Atomico and also included Plural, DCVC, and the UK government's Sovereign AI Fund, which selected Kaloseom as its first equity investment target.

Kaloseom is a startup founded in 2024 by Danial Akaraka and Yasha Achterberg, both former neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge. Inspired by the principle that the brain generates intelligence by combining circuits with different functions rather than simply increasing the number of a single neuron type, they predicted that AI, too, will evolve by combining different models and semiconductors rather than relying on a single type.

Currently, AI inference typically runs a single large model on one type of semiconductor. In contrast, Kaloseom breaks down tasks into finer units, then distributes them across different models and semiconductors according to requirements for cost, power consumption, and speed. In fact, in the financial sector's AI agent workloads, this approach achieved four times faster processing speeds, reduced operational costs by 70%, and improved task success rates by 10% compared to the conventional single-model GPU infrastructure.

Yasha Achterberg (left) and Danial Akaraka, Co-founders of Kaloseom / Photo by Dunamu & Partners

Kaloseom collaborates with global semiconductor and AI infrastructure companies such as Cerebras, Rebellions, Axelera AI, TendrilS, and Supermicro. Rebellions, a portfolio company initially backed by Dunamu & Partners, began its partnership with Kaloseom through an introduction facilitated by Dunamu & Partners.

Danial Akaraka, CEO of Kaloseom, commented, "When multiple models and semiconductors operate as a single system, AI can deliver faster and more accurate performance at reasonable costs. South Korea, with its world-class AI semiconductor ecosystem, offers significant potential, and beginning with our partnership with Rebellions - initiated by Dunamu & Partners - we intend to expand opportunities throughout Asia."

Kangjun Lee, CEO of Dunamu & Partners, stated, "We determined that, as AI continues to develop, orchestration layers that identify the most effective and efficient combinations for specific work will be a critical area for value creation. This is a matter of systems rather than simple software, and the founders' outstanding research achievements and initial commercialization results are the reason global service, semiconductor, and hyperscaler companies are paying close attention to Kaloseom."

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