NationA raises 8.5 billion won for AI video platform

NationA, a South Korean AI video company founded in 2022, said it completed a Series A funding round of 8.5 billion won, taking its cumulative funding to 11.7 billion won, to build one platform that links its AI video production tool and its interactive drama service.

MoneyToday reported the announcement on October 21, 2026, and Seoul Economic Daily reported it on October 22. Hana Securities, an existing shareholder, joined as a follow-on investor. Korea Development Bank, Hyundai Investment Partners and Ilshin Venture Investment came in as new investors, both outlets reported.

The dollar figures do not agree. Seoul Economic Daily puts the 8.5 billion won round at about $5.9 million. Dealroom records the same round as US$7.13 million and total funding of US$9.81 million, and its own headline carries a third figure, $6.41 million. At the roughly 1,325 won-per-dollar rate the Seoul Economic Daily page was displaying on its live currency ticker, 8.5 billion won is about $6.4 million, so none of the figures reconciles with the others.

With the new funding, NationA plans to merge the two services. The platform will connect image, sound and voice generation with video creation and editing into a single workflow, cutting the need to switch between separate tools and lowering production costs, according to both outlets.

The company's stated approach rests on its own hardware. NationA is optimizing inference for its AI video models and developing production workflows on GPU infrastructure it operates directly, which it says reduces reliance on external APIs. The proceeds also go toward product development and winning global customers, both outlets reported.

Yoo Su-yeon, NationA's chief executive, tied the plan to cost. "If cost is the first concern, there are limits to the popularization of AI video production," she said, in MoneyToday's AI-assisted English translation of her Korean remarks. She said the company would lower the technical and economic barriers to video production for creators and companies worldwide.

NationA has been selected for TIPS, the Super Gap Startup 1000+ Project and Scale-up TIPS, and is listed in the AI First programs of NVIDIA Inception and Google for Startups Accelerator, per MoneyToday.

Dealroom places the raise in roughly the 27th percentile by size among comparable rounds and notes that global rivals Runway and Synthesia have raised far larger sums.

For creators weighing platform costs, the wager is that bundling generation and editing behind one platform is cheaper than paying several vendors per clip. Whether NationA's own GPUs deliver that depends on inference speed and output quality the company has not yet published benchmarks for.

NationA has not given a launch date for the merged platform; it says it is targeting an early break-even point by expanding its paid customer base.