Rebellions officially announces entry into the AI market, leveraging a $400 million investment.

Rebellions raised $400 million (about 5.76 trillion won) to strengthen its AI inference chip technology. This round of funding, known as “pre-IPO financing,” is led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and Korea Growth Finance. Headquartered in Seoul, Rebellions will use this additional several-hundred-million-dollar funding to formally kick off an expansion into the U.S. market.

Rebellions is one of the many active startups in South Korea’s AI semiconductor space, competing with both domestic and international rivals such as Furiosa AI and DeepX. To date, the company has raised about $850 million, with a corporate valuation of roughly $2 billion (about 2.88 trillion won). Rebellions’ goal is to provide solutions that deliver more cost-effective and more powerful performance for AI inference.

The funds from this round will be used to accelerate its push into the U.S. market. To that end, Rebellions hired Marshall Choi as its new business lead. Choi said that Rebellions’ differentiating advantage lies in its software-centric approach, and it plans to use this to build competitiveness in the AI hardware space.

In addition, Rebellions has rolled out new inference infrastructure called RebelRack and RebelPOD. These systems are equipped with Rebel100 NPU, which can deliver high efficiency and performance. This strategy is intended to improve the cost-effectiveness of AI applications and help customers get the most out of their infrastructure.

Although Rebellions recognizes that expanding into the U.S. market is not easy, it believes data center operators have ample reason to embrace its unique technology. The company plans to use this opportunity to broaden the range of applications it can serve, as AI computing becomes increasingly diverse, by leveraging solutions involving various accelerators and GPU architectures.