SBI Investment Eyes AI Validation Era... Portfolio Company 'Selectstar' Files for KOSDAQ Listing Review
SBI Investment, a venture capital firm (VC), has continued investing in anticipation of an era of AI validation. Selectstar has drawn attention as a notable investment case.
According to industry sources on October 14, Selectstar filed for a preliminary review for a KOSDAQ listing on September 22. The company started out designing and building AI training data, and has recently expanded its business into the precise verification and evaluation of the performance and reliability of enterprise AI models.
As AI use grows, confirming not only its performance but also how reliably it operates in real-world service environments has become increasingly important. The question of whether companies can actually use AI with confidence is emerging as a new challenge for the AI industry.
When financial institutions and large companies adopt generative AI, their biggest concerns include hallucinations, in which AI presents incorrect information as fact, and security issues such as leaks of internal corporate data. Selectstar has an automated verification system that precisely measures whether AI models comply with preset ethical and security guidelines.
SBI Investment participated in Selectstar's Series B funding round in 2025. At the time, it expected that while the emergence of low-cost models and the spread of open source would lower barriers to AI development, infrastructure for verifying reliability would become essential in the commercialization phase. SBI Investment said that Selectstar's unique competitive edge in covering everything from AI training data development to reliability verification was a key factor in its investment decision.
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An SBI Investment representative said, "Selectstar's filing for a preliminary review for a KOSDAQ listing shows that our investment strategy, which has focused on the industrial application and commercialization potential of AI, is delivering results." The representative added, "We will continue to identify and foster next-generation tech companies that can solve problems arising in the AI commercialization process."
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