Daily Brief TMT/Internet: SK Inc, E Ink Holdings, TypeSafe AI, Firmus Technologies, DataCanvas, Amicro Technology, Chatwork Co Ltd, Japan PropTech, Logizard, Meridian Holdings and more

• SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won plans to sell 1,653,924 shares (2.3% of outstanding shares) of SK Inc (034730 KS) to pay for divorce payment.
• After this stake sales, Chairman Chey’s stake in SK Inc will decline from 17.8% to 15.5%.
• This is a bit surprising since the overall market expectation has been that Chairman Chey would not likely to sell any stake in SK Inc to pay for divorce payment.

• E Ink is fundamentally a materials science business, not a display panel manufacturer. By focusing on high-margin proprietary frontplane film sales and outsourcing low-margin module assembly to partners like BOE and Seekink, the company maintains robust gross margins of 55% to 59%, insulating itself from the aggressive price wars occurring among downstream retail system integrators.
• The competitive threat from Chinese display makers is real but delayed. Shenzhen Laibao Hi-Tech’s 9 billion RMB investment in Micro Electric-Chamber Display (MED) technology represents the first true non-electrophoretic competitor to E Ink’s monopoly. However, E Ink’s defensive moat relies on proprietary driving waveforms and scale rather than expired foundational patents.
• Color EPD adoption is a tale of two different architectures. While Kaleido 3 (color filter array over monochrome) has matured to high-80s yield rates, Gallery 3 (four-pigment microcup) continues to struggle with yield rates of 65% to 70%, keeping true color price parity with monochrome a distant target.

• Sequoia partner Pat Grady reported that TypeSafe reached a $100M annualized revenue run rate within seven days of launching Jev in September 2026.
• Within ten days of launch, media reported that investors were discussing financing the company at a valuation around $10B, but the talks were not confirmed as a completed round.
• Within a day of launching on Vercel’s AI Gateway, Jev became the gateway’s fastest-adopted model launch, reaching nearly 13% of paid teams—more than twice the adoption of any previous model launch.

• Blackstone’s dual exposure as both the primary creditor (via a US$10 billion debt facility) and a lead equity holder creates a highly structured safety net for the sponsor, but introduces massive structural risks for public equity investors who sit subordinate to restrictive debt covenants and complex cross-entity licensing agreements.
• The physical execution of Project Southgate in Tasmania faces severe grid connectivity, transmission pricing, and local regulatory bottlenecks; with TasNetworks upgrades estimated to cost up to $370 million and Hydro Tasmania yet to commit to the requested 444MW power allocation, the timeline and capex guidance provided for the IPO are highly aggressive.
• The operational capability of Firmus to deliver a 1.6GW pipeline is critically constrained by an extremely thin bench—historically having only 124 employees—and co-founders whose expertise lies in structured deal-making rather than large-scale industrial infrastructure engineering, making the recent Benmax acquisition a reactive integration risk rather than a turn-key solution.

• Sovereign cloud demand and IT localization (“Xinchuang”) mandates are driving a rapid transition toward domestic GPUs like Huawei’s Ascend 910B and 910C, but significant hardware bottlenecks and software optimization hurdles persist as workloads shift from experimental training to scaled inference.
• DataCanvas faces substantial customer concentration risk, with its top five customers driving over 80% of revenue. This concentration is compounded by rapid customer rotation and customer-supplier overlap, indicating project-based transactional business rather than high-margin, sticky software subscription streams.
• The company’s capital intensive “sell-and-leaseback” or asset-heavy AIDC hosting model has resulted in soaring lease liabilities (reaching RMB 3.09 billion by July 2026) and total debt of RMB 6.55 billion, which puts intense pressure on its utilization rates to maintain positive cash flows.

• Amicro Technology Co., Ltd. is a robotics technology platform provider offering intelligent mobile robotics solutions, including inertial, single-modal, and multi-modal robotic solutions.
• Amicro Technology ranked third in China’s intelligent mobile robotic solutions market by revenue in 2025 and held 1,363 intellectual property rights.
• Amicro Technology reported losses for 2025 and the four months ended April 30, 2026, with gross profit margin decreasing to 23.9%.

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• kubell Co., Ltd. is a key player in Japan’s digital transformation, known for its Chatwork business chat service.
• The company addresses labor market challenges by enhancing productivity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
• With over 1 million users of Chatwork, kubell is expanding its Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) offerings to improve operational efficiency.

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• Japan Information Create is a real estate technology firm focused on digital transformation solutions for brokerage and rental management in Japan.
• The company expects a profit decline for the fiscal year ending June 2027 but anticipates recovery in the following year.
• Recent service launches include ‘Reapro BB+ (Plus)’ for integrated operations and ‘AI Kamigakari’ for AI-enhanced real estate processes.

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• Logizard reported a significant revenue increase and all-time high net profit for the fiscal year ending June 2026.
• The company’s growth is driven by its core cloud services, particularly targeting retail, distribution, manufacturing, and logistics sectors.
• Cloud services constitute 78.1% of sales, providing a stable revenue base and high profitability through subscription models.

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• The ban is not expected to have material impact on MRDN’s results.
• Operations in Brazil are still ramping up and, reflecting costs to launch and grow, we believe margins likely are not at the level of those in more mature markets where MRDN operates, as the Brazilian market is still in extremely early stages.
• Separately, as a long-term opportunity, reflecting billions of taxes & thousands of jobs lost, as well as illegal gaming sites since the ban & opposition from football clubs, there is a possibility, we believe, that the ban could be overturned.