LanguageTESSA CORPORATION
We turn real-world assets into tokenized securities, and supply the infrastructure their issuance requires.
01 — Mission
We began in 2019 with TESSA, a fractional art investment service, designing each product ourselves and running it through subscription, operation and liquidation. The issuance framework built along the way now extends to infrastructure assets such as solar power, and is supplied to issuers, brokerages and beneficiary securities investment brokers as IXO, IXTO and IXO-NET.
What
Real-world assets
Artworks and infrastructure assets such as solar plants, BESS and EV charging stations
How
As tokenized securities
Divided into small units of ownership, recorded on a distributed ledger, and protected as securities
For whom
Investors and issuers
Investment products for individual and corporate investors; issuance infrastructure for issuers, brokerages and beneficiary securities investment brokers
Companies that could not start for lack of an issuance process or the technology can now issue tokenized securities. The more issuers there are, the larger the market becomes — and TESSA intends to be the company that builds the foundation of that ecosystem.
Assets that are too expensive to buy alone — buildings, solar plants, artworks — divided into small pieces, so they can be bought and sold in modest amounts as a digital security.
01
Fractional ownership
Expensive assets divided into small, affordable units
Even an asset worth hundreds of millions of won is open to anyone once it is divided.
02
Blockchain record
Tamper-proof, and traded on a regulated marketplace
Ownership and transaction records live on a distributed ledger and cannot be altered at will.
03
Legal protection
An investment protected as a security under the Capital Markets Act
Issued after a registration statement is filed and accepted, and subject to ongoing disclosure.
02 — Business areas
We turned the experience of issuing for ourselves into infrastructure, so other companies can issue tokenized securities too.
STO product issuance
We acquire real-world assets ourselves, turn them into securities, and offer them to investors.
Issuance infrastructure
We build the systems issuance requires, so other companies can issue.
The more companies issue, the larger the tokenized securities market grows — and that market in turn grows our own issuance business.
03 — The path so far
Funding rounds, financial-institution partnerships, patents and regulated-market integrations have verified the business at each step. In 2026 it expands into TESSA Invest, covering energy assets alongside artworks.
2019
Founded
TESSA Corporation founded (formerly Artblock Korea) · First fractional offering launched with two David Hockney works
Accelerator investment, Small and Medium Business Administration
2020
Service launch
TESSA fractional art investment app launched · Two patents registered for asset securitisation and transaction-history management
5 offerings · KRW 0.6B · 4,700 members
2021
Capital verification
KRW 1.6B pre-Series A, KRW 4.0B cumulative Series A raised · TESSA MUSEUM opened
32 offerings · KRW 14.6B · 44,000 members
2022
Entering finance
Strategic investment from Kiwoom Securities (KRW 2.0B) and Kyobo Securities (KRW 4.5B) · MOUs with NH NongHyup Bank and Hana Bank
50 offerings · KRW 33.0B · 134,000 members
2023
Regulated-market links
Kiwoom Securities real-name account integration · Kyobo Securities MOU · STO platform patent registered · Joined the tokenized securities valuation council
2024
Technology commercialised
IXO, an alternative-asset securitisation solution, launched · Additional KRW 2.3B Series A-2 raised · MOUs with Busan Digital Asset Exchange and Kyobo Book Centre
2025
Infrastructure verification
Participated in the Korea Securities Depository distributed-ledger network testbed
2 domestic and 4 overseas patents held
2026
Platform expansion
TESSA expanded into TESSA Invest — energy assets including solar added, first offering issued · IXO, IXTO and IXO-NET completed
04 — Partners
We work with brokerages, banks, trust companies, valuation agencies, exchanges and asset partners across issuance, distribution, valuation and custody.
