The Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development (President Kim Yong-moon) held the ‘Post Tips Global IR’ event to attract overseas investment and seize opportunities for advancement, with domestic and foreign investors participating at CES 1 held in Las Vegas, USA from January 5th to 8th (local time). announced that it was held.
In this IR event, several domestic and foreign investment institutions, including M Accelerator, NEMIC, and Big Bang Angels, participated as investors, expressing interest in K-startups and highly evaluating Korea’s innovative technology.
The Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development selected 2020 companies among Post Tips participating companies from 2022 to 10 through a comprehensive global competency evaluation, including global growth potential, readiness for overseas expansion, and marketability, and provided prior mentoring by experts to improve understanding of overseas markets before participation. We have developed global IR capabilities.
The 10 selected companies are as follows. △Biote Korea (RAPIDS: non-face-to-face sample collection robot, Magnectio: customized drug delivery system) △Maysa (drone control app, drone image analysis engine, smart construction integrated solution based on construction drone data) △WiPowerOne (wireless charging solution for electric vehicles) (Large-capacity wireless charging system)) △EXOPUT (early in vitro diagnosis through artificial intelligence analysis of spectroscopic signals of exosomes in the blood) △MediHub (i-JECT: Relieves patient pain by controlling the dose, speed, and pressure of the drug △Seedronics (ship navigation assistance around view and port management monitoring system based on marine environment-specific AI recognition and sensor fusion technology) △Fit Together (OHCOACH: sports team’s equipment based on ICT (wearable EPTS) technology) Data analysis solution to help decision-making) △Habit Factory (loaning AI: real-time US mortgage interest rate comparison, a platform to compare interest rates and connect to the cheapest loan) △Muse Live (Kit Album: a new concept smart album using short-range wireless communication technology) ) △YOLO (Crockett: cross-border market platform that deals with 89 local sellers in 2 countries)
In particular, Fit Together (CEO Jinseong Yoon), which developed an ICT technology-based sports data analysis solution, received a lot of attention from the global market after IR pitching, including partnership proposals from local companies and requests for follow-up meetings from local VCs, proving the excellence of K-startups. did.
Yongmoon Kim, Director of the Korea Institute for Startup and Entrepreneurship Development, said, “It is essential for domestic startups that have difficulty in growth due to the narrow domestic market and frozen investment market despite having excellent technology to expand overseas,” and added, “We are actively working to help competitive startups realize global scale-up.” “We will support it,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development plans to select and provide intensive support to 2023 startups for the TIPS program and 756 startups for Post TIPS in 72.