InZiv recently participated in NextRise 2026, Asia’s largest startup fair, held at COEX in Seoul on June 18–19 and co-organized by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) and Korea Development Bank (KDB). NextRise drew over 25,000 attendees, 540+ exhibiting startups and enterprises, more than 3,700 one-on-one business meetups, and 270 global corporations and investment firms, including Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor, NVIDIA, and Airbus.
This year’s edition also featured the largest-ever participation from global technology leaders, with AI, semiconductor, biotech, defense, and deep tech companies from 30 countries represented across the exhibition floor and conference stages.
Proud Members of the TradeIL Korea Israeli Delegation
InZiv participated in NextRise as part of the Israeli delegation organized by TradeIL Korea, the Economic and Trade Mission at the Embassy of Israel in Korea. On June 18, as an official partner event of NextRise 2026, TradeIL Korea hosted a seminar at COEX titled “Decoding AI: Insights from Israel,” bringing together Israeli deep tech companies, Korean industry representatives, investors, and ecosystem partners.
The event opened with welcoming remarks by H.E. Rafael Harpaz, Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of Korea, and featured presentations by five Israeli companies including InZiv covering technology, business direction, and opportunities for Israel-Korea collaboration. A panel discussion followed, focusing on AI-driven innovation and Korean market entry.
For InZiv, the session was an opportunity to introduce our electro-optical testing platform to a targeted audience at the intersection of deep tech and Korean industry, exactly the room where those conversations need to happen.
The Award
InZiv received the International Innovator Award at the NextRise Awards ceremony. This NextRise Award recognize companies for outstanding achievements and capabilities, selected from among the hundreds of startups and enterprises participating in the fair. For InZiv, the recognition connects directly to what we’re building: specialized electro-optical testing systems for silicon photonics wafer production, which is a space that is moving rapidly from R&D infrastructure to a manufacturing-critical bottleneck as the industry scales toward high-volume deployment.
InZiv in Korea
InZiv has had a presence in Korea for some time, working with tier-1 customers in the display and consumer tech sectors. Korea is also an increasingly important part of the silicon photonics ecosystem, both as a manufacturing hub and as a center of strategic capital for semiconductor infrastructure investment.
At NextRise, we held many meetings over a packed two days with financial investors, corporate strategics, and potential technology partners. The conversations spanned our silicon photonics product roadmap, our ongoing customer evaluations, and strategic outlook. Korea’s National Growth Fund semiconductor mandate, active VC interest in the SiPh supply chain, and the number of globally connected investors at the event made this a productive conference trip.
Looking Ahead
We are at an exciting moment here at InZiv. Our Glide-SiPh PIC, a wafer-scale passive alignment electro-optical functional testing system, and our Omni-SiPh LightView, a failure analysis tool for silicon photonics, are changing the ways that industry insiders think about testing in silicon photonics. This Seoul visit, and the recognition from NextRise, lands at a moment when SiPh testing has never been more critical for the long term growth of the industry.
We’re grateful to the NextRise organizing committee for the award, to TradeIL Korea for the partnership that brought us to Seoul, and to everyone who took the time to meet with us.
To learn more about our silicon photonics testing solutions, visit https://inziv.com/applications/silicon-photonics-testing/ or schedule a technical discussion with our team.
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