- CEO
- Young-Gyu Hwang
- Full Time Employees
- 203
- Sector
- Commercial services
- Industry
- Miscellaneous commercial services
- Address
- Seongnam-si South Korea
- IPO Date
- Dec 21, 2020
- Business
- Alchera Inc. is a South Korea-based technology company that develops and provides artificial intelligence, computer vision, and visual anomaly detection solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seongnam-si, South Korea, the company operates domestically and internationally through overseas subsidiaries, including Alchera X Inc. in the United States and Alchera VN in Vietnam.
The company operates across three primary business segments: Vision AI Biometrics, Visual Anomaly Detection, and AI Data Services. Its product and service portfolio comprises: facial recognition and biometric security solutions, including the FACE TRUST access control system, non-face-to-face identity verification platforms, electronic Know Your Customer and electronic Know Your Business software, anti-spoofing modules, and optical character recognition engines; visual anomaly detection and public safety platforms, including the FireScout AI-powered software-as-a-service wildfire and smoke detection system, indoor fire hazard monitoring, and SMART VIEWING automated video analysis solutions; and AI data engineering services, encompassing multimodal AI training data collection, data labeling and annotation voucher programs, edge computing integration, and customized machine learning algorithm development.
Alchera Inc. provides its technologies to commercial banks, insurance companies, fintech enterprises, government and public security agencies, electric utilities, and enterprise facilities across Asia-Pacific and North American markets. The company maintains a strategic relationship with institutional shareholder NAVER Corporation and collaborates with international utility and emergency management entities, including Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
In recent corporate developments, Alchera Inc. has executed several strategic financing and commercial expansion initiatives. In May 2026, the company completed a KRW 4.5 billion financing transaction comprising the private placement of convertible preferred shares, common shares, and unsecured convertible bonds. This followed an April 2025 private placement of KRW 6.0 billion in Series 3 unsecured convertible bonds and a November 2024 common share issuance totaling approximately KRW 2.0 billion to support continuous research and global market expansion. Operationally, the company secured major commercial supply contracts, including contract awards valued at KRW 2.7 billion in July 2026 and KRW 2.2 billion in November 2025. Additionally, Alchera Inc. partnered with Thales to integrate the Sentinel software monetization platform for automated facial recognition software development kit licensing, expanded the commercial footprint of its financial eKYC authentication systems, and broadened deployments of its FireScout wildfire monitoring network across North America.