Three Hi Seoul companies will be attending the Eureka Park K-STARTUP Integrated Hall, the startup zone of ‘CES 2023’, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA for a total of 4 days from January 5 (Thursday) to January 8 (Sunday, local time), 2023. participate in
Hi Seoul Enterprise is a promising small and medium-sized enterprise in Seoul that has been certified by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Industry Promotion Agency since 2004. As of 2022, 1,059 companies have been certified, and they are selected each year through an expert review process for growth potential, technology, and overseas expansion capabilities. In addition, it is evaluated as leading the Seoul economy based on achievements such as listing on KOSDAQ, winning government projects, and increasing sales.
In fact, the average sales are 13.6 billion won and the average number of employees is 51.3, which is 2.5 times the average sales and number of employees of venture companies. Half of Hi Seoul companies are export companies and the average company operation period is 17 years. As of October last year, 41 Hi Seoul companies achieved success in being listed on KOSDAQ. In order of industry, information and communications (IT) companies account for the largest share at 23.8%, followed by business service companies (22.5%).
At this CES, a total of three companies, △Nubi Lab (AI food scanning solution), △Xynapse (AI virtual voice service), and △Agen Global (AI financial solution), will participate in the K-Startup integration pavilion at Eureka Park.
Nubi Lab (CEO Kim Dae-hoon) is a startup developing artificial intelligence (AI) food scanning solutions, and will unveil a healthcare concept based on eating habits data at CES 2023. At the Nubi Lab booth at this CES, digital healthcare concepts such as △infant growth management solution △eating habits management solution for chronic disease patients △mobile food diary △food scan API will be displayed for the first time, focusing on the core solution ‘AI Food Scanner’.
Nubi Lab has received attention at home and abroad by developing a solution that innovates the group feeding environment with technology that can determine the type and amount of food with just one scanning. It has been reported that more than 70 companies and organizations have adopted the solution so far, reducing a cumulative total of more than 1 million kg of food waste. In October of this year, it attracted Series A investment worth 5 billion won from Smilegate Investment and others.
In addition, the success story of the Zero Waste campaign conducted by SK Telecom and Nubi Lab to achieve Net Zero will also be displayed. SKT is known to have achieved a carbon reduction effect by implementing a six-month campaign to reduce food waste by introducing the Nubilab solution to the employee cafeteria to practice ESG in daily life.
Xynapse (CEO Dong-won Joo), a generative AI startup based on AI voice technology, has a variety of AI voice variation technologies and is flexible scalable. The company explains that with AI voice variation technology, it is leading the commercialization of high-quality AI voice for corporate services in various fields such as metaverse, audiobooks, TV commercials, news, and navigation.
‘HyperReal Voice’, which will be introduced at this exhibition, is software for experts that can easily and quickly create customized AI virtual voice content. Customers can easily create a natural AI voice that resembles a human by simply entering text, and can adjust the emotion, pitch, and speed with just a few clicks and drags. You can create content by duplicating a celebrity’s voice or combining several people’s voices into one to create a company’s unique voice. It is also possible to reproduce the voice of a deceased person.
A Xynapse official said, “Even if you have an idea, there are many cases where you can’t focus on the content and make it a reality because you don’t have capital. Accordingly, we have researched technology that can create content at less cost and in less time to enable more people to focus on ideas and content rather than capital.”
In addition, Agen Global (CEO Kang Jeong-seok) contributes to the global transition to a low-carbon future and greener financing through the ‘CreditConnect’ (hereinafter referred to as CreditConnect) AI Banking-as-a-Service platform. there is. We are creating new financial opportunities in the electric vehicle (EV) industry by predicting the residual value of electric batteries, which was previously ‘impossible to measure’, and transparently measuring related financial risks. With the goal of achieving green finance, we cooperate with domestic and foreign banks to provide reliable and sustainable financial services.
We decided to participate in this CES to share challenges and opportunities facing the United States in the transition to EVs and to discover potential partners who can create a global EV ecosystem.
CreditConnect, which will be introduced at the exhibition, accurately and transparently predicts the residual value of batteries, which account for 40-50% of the cost in the BEV industry, based on AI, and based on this, it provides various services from BEV loan product design to portfolio management and battery risk management (i.e. We provide key lending functions, including SoH (SoH) and RV risk monitoring, as a service. Through this service, we present a standardized risk management framework for BEVs and are expected to contribute to global zero-emission policies and green finance in the future.
As such, the three companies plan to promote excellent artificial intelligence technology in each field and create global business through participation in CES 2023.
An official said, “The three Hi Seoul companies participating in this CES are expected to have a high possibility of attracting global investment, with a lot of interest from domestic and foreign investment institutions at the K-Startup integrated hall. In addition, the latest trending technologies and products from companies will be on display at all times through various on-site programs such as promotional videos, live broadcasts, and investment pitching for participating companies. “The Hi Seoul Corporate Team plans to support companies’ field operations and promotions in various ways,” he said.
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