Turing raises 7B KRW Series B for its student AI agent GPAI
What's the deal? Turing, a South Korean developer of reasoning AI agents, has raised 7 billion KRW (about $5.1 million) in a Series B round. Korea Development BankDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Kingo Investment Partners, and Company K PartnersDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → joined as new backers, while existing investor Kolon InvestmentDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → followed on.
What's the endgame? The company runs GPAIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a workflow AI agent for university students built on roughly eight years of reasoning technology. It covers lecture study, assignments, exam prep, and team projects using reasoning, visualisation from its own image engine, and AI-native document processing.
Why now? GPAI passed 1.5 million subscribers within a year of launch and is used at 415 US universities, including MIT, StanfordDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and HarvardDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. To mark the new semester, Turing has made its previously paid features free, moving beyond its STEM focus to serve students in any major worldwide.
Investors cited the app's growth and global expansion potential. Turing has also validated its technology in academia, with a paper accepted to the industry track of the natural-language-processing conference EMNLP 2025.
The company plans to use the funding for aggressive growth, expanding its user base and pursuing B2B and B2G partnerships with universities and research institutions.
"This investment is recognition of the reasoning AI technology Turing has built and GPAI's global growth potential," a company representative said (translated from Korean).
The signal: The round is a modest one — it sits in roughly the bottom fifth of comparable deals by size. But it reflects momentum around generative AI as a fixture in campus study, with tools tailored to student workflows rather than general-purpose assistants.
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