Editor’s Note
Lehosah Inc., an AI-driven jewelry technology company, has secured 12 billion won in R&D funding after being selected for the government’s Global TIPS program, which supports high-potential startups for international growth.
AI-based jewelry tech company Lehosah Inc. (CEO Kim Mi-jin) has been finally selected for the ‘Global TIPS’ program organized by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, securing a total of 12 billion won in research and development (R&D) funding. Global TIPS is a program that selects promising companies with outstanding technological capabilities and overseas expansion potential to support large-scale growth linked to private investment. This selection is evaluated as official recognition of the innovativeness and global competitiveness of Lehosah’s AI jewelry design and manufacturing automation technology, ‘ChromaKey’.
Through this project, Lehosah plans to focus on advancing its ‘Auto-Pricing Engine,’ which combines multimodal AI and Graph Neural Network (GNN) technology. Specifically, the company plans to apply an algorithm that analyzes the complex correlations between a jewelry piece’s materials, weight, setting methods, and manufacturing processes in a graph format to learn production difficulty. This strategy aims to build a full-cycle system that refines the ±20~30% level of unit cost prediction error, which previously occurred in manual-based quotations, to within ±5%. The system will predict the optimal cost structure and manufacturability from the product design stage and automatically connect to suitable manufacturers.
The core solution, ChromaKey, is an end-to-end AI platform that generates 2D designs based on jewelry images or sketches, and performs 3D rendering, automatic CAD file conversion, material quantity calculation, and process difficulty analysis. Based on this technology, Lehosah plans to transform the existing mass-production-centric jewelry industry into a data-driven, small-batch, multi-variety, and customized production system, and to fully launch its entry into global OEM/ODM markets such as the US, Japan, and the Middle East (GCC).
Specific partnership strategies for global market expansion have also been detailed. In the US market, the focus will be on strengthening customized design and AI-based demand forecasting capabilities. In Japan, the company will expand manufacturing collaboration through precision CAD technology. In the Middle East region, the focus will be on developing automated manufacturing facilities utilizing robotics AI.
Through this R&D, Lehosah aims to achieve a reduction in production lead time by over 30%, manufacturing cost prediction accuracy within ±5%, and secure a B2B customer satisfaction score (MOS) of 4.0 or higher. Furthermore, the company plans to simultaneously drive the digital transformation (DX) of the domestic manufacturing ecosystem and expand global market share by increasing the real-time detection accuracy for security and misinformation to over 98%. Meanwhile, Lehosah is combining over 40 years of manufacturing know-how with the latest artificial intelligence technology to provide integrated solutions covering everything from design to distribution, and is continuously expanding cooperation with global brands and manufacturers.
