Global Brain has invested in Allganize, Inc. (Allganize), Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Conversational AI startup through its KDDI Open Innovation Fund III（“KOIF III”）. This is the third investment from KOIF since its first investment at the seed round in 2017 and second investment at the Series A round in 2019. With its deep learning-based, high-performance NLU technology, Allganize enables companies of all sizes to apply AI technology to develop their own AI systems and services. Alli.ai, their conversational AI and chatbot service, offers highly personalized customer experiences by recognizing the complex named entities and user intents of text from the data collected and analyzed from customers’ chat and voice messages using their proprietary NLU technology. Global Brain confidently invested in Allganize because of its strong technological foundation in deep-learning, outstanding founders, and proven track-record of the management team. ## About Allganize

Name: Allganize, Inc.

Location: Oakland, CA

Representative: Changsu Lee

Founded: July, 2017

Business: AI Solution Business based on deep learning and high-performance NLU* technology

*Note) NLU: subtopic of natural-language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension

URL: https://www.allganize.ai/

## About KOIF III

Name: KDDI Open Innovation Fund III

General Partner: Global Brain Corporation

Fund Size: 20 Billion JPY

## About Global Brain

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Representative: Yasuhiko Yurimoto

Founded: January, 1998

URL: https://globalbrains.com/

Global Brain has invested in Allganize, Inc., Natural Language Understanding and Conversational AI startup, through its KDDI Open Innovation Fund III