MOVIN raises ₩10 billion to turn suit-free motion capture into robot training data

MOVIN, a Korean startup that turns human movement into 3D data with LiDAR and its own AI, has raised a ₩10 billion Series A led by IMM Investment, The Elec and The Asia Business Daily reported on Nov. 3. IBK Industrial Bank and Voyager Ventures joined, and earlier backers Atinum Investment, Naver D2SF and Schmidt followed on. MOVIN raised ₩4 billion in a pre-Series A in March 2025.

The round prices MOVIN as a robot-data company while the business it built is in entertainment. Its MOVIN TRACIN tracker needs no suit, markers or camera rig, and it earned ₩1 billion in global sales in its first year, about 70% of it abroad, from a customer base MOVIN built in games, film and virtual creators, VentureSquare reported. The robot side is smaller but well placed: Boston Dynamics and the RAI Institute have used its technology for robot teleoperation and training, and a robot-learning product, MOVIN TRACIN R1, runs at partner sites.

A day earlier, two Chinese robot-data startups announced rounds built on other methods: GenRobot records people through wearables, and RoboScience leans on simulation and video. MOVIN asks the person to wear nothing. Its new money will build an R&D center of about 100 pyeong, roughly 330 square meters, to record people together with the space around them, multimodal data meant for world models.