There was already plenty of good educational content. What was missing was a connection that let it be used legitimately where it was needed.
BookIPs started with rights, built the platform for trade and use, and now extends educational content into data that can be used again.
01Rightsholders02Rights · structure · operations03Classrooms · platforms04Data · AI use
Content moves to its next use while keeping rights and context.
BOOKIPS / STORY
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Lowering the rights barrier
For good educational content to reach the places that need it, the terms of legitimate use must be clear. BookIPs began by verifying publisher and rightsholder content and designing the scope in which it can be used.
We turned the scenes of content trade and use into products so rights-cleared materials could reach real classrooms and learners. Solvook connects rightsholders and educators while building operating standards.
We now structure textbooks and questions as learning objects that can be found and recombined. By keeping rights, provenance, editions, and quality together, we prepare the next unit for digital services and AI workflows.
Products, partnerships, and research have moved in the same direction.
BookIPs founded+
BookIPs began on December 23, 2020 to connect the IP of educational content.
First investment and field validation+
Raised KRW 350M in Seed funding from Primer and Primer Sazze. Won the Space Salim Demo Day and the Seoul Metropolitan Mayor’s Award.
Solvook Marketplace launched+
Raised KRW 1.3B in Pre-A funding and was selected for TIPS. Started content-use agreements with major publishers.
From distribution to data+
Raised KRW 5.8B in Series A funding. Signed a Goodnotes digital textbook distribution agreement and began the UCI support program.
Expanded public education operations+
Supplied platform content and questions for the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education. Completed TIPS with distinction and signed MOUs with Goodnotes and the Korean Association of University Presses.
AI learning data supply+
Supplied educational content data for AI learning with Crowdworks and Selectstar. Raised a Series A bridge round; was selected as an outstanding Post-TIPS project and an AI Voucher supplier; continued the UCI program for a third year.
The next chapter in research and public education+
Supplied platform content and questions for the Jeonnam Office of Education. The paper ‘Retrieval-Augmented Instruction Tuning for Low-Resource Language Model Training’ was published by IEEE.
RESEARCH & IP
Where experience becomes technology
We turn problems found in real operations into research and protected IP.
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Trademark No. 40-1976385 SOLVOOK
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Patent No. 10-2670480 Licensing-based e-book distribution method for activating textbook adoption