Return Zero

Return Zero team members are AI practitioners' who develops actual value-adding service based on AI technology. Beyond lab, and beyond just algorithm - we aim serving life-changing product experience. Founded in year 2018, founders who experienced investment from a SoftBank and M&A by KAKAO corp. in their first startup. Current team members are top tier talents from KAIST, Seoul national university, KAKAO, Naver, Goldman Sachs, BCG, and etc. First AI flywheel target that Return Zero team tackled was "voice". We have launched a service name "VITO" that transcribes a call into text message content with AI powered software. It reached over half a million downloads and enabled collecting tremendous amount of speech data (+secured privacy issue) Return Zero team is now tackling second and third service to add up more AI flywheel. With the grounds of AI powered ASR technology, our target market got larger than any time before. We aim 2X growth this year as well. Talents who are willing to contribute to, and win the success are welcomed at any time. Check out our latest hiring information and key milestone] 2019: KAKAO ventures pre-A investment, selected in TIPS program 2020: Secured $2M size series A investment round from Base investment, KAKAO ventures. launched a first product VITO.(http://vitoapp.io) 2021: Secured $130M size series B investment round from Company K partners, Atheneum investment, KTB Networks, Hana ventures 2022: VITO downloads reached 0.5 million, accumulated size of voice data reached over 8 million hours, expanding its product to B2B sector and more