Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center (Director Shin Hyun- sam, hereinafter referred to as ‘Gyeonggi Innovation Center ‘) announced on the 19th that seven promising French startups visited the Pangyo Startup Zone located in the corporate support hub of Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do .
The Pangyo Startup Zone is the largest startup support space in Korea, established by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to intensively foster domestic promising startups, and jointly operated by the Startup Promotion Agency and the Gyeonggi Innovation Center .
This visit was carried out by promising French startups invited to Korea as part of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ global startup festival ‘ComeUp 2021’ to directly check Korea’s startup ecosystem and strengthen global cooperation .
Seven French startups that visited the startup zone on this day , including Alagma and Wynd , are emerging startup companies in various fields such as bio and AI .
They toured startup zone facilities such as ▲ 3D production incubation room ▲ global test bed ▲ interpretation and translation support center , and learned about the possibility of collaborating with Korean companies through networking time with startup zone tenant companies and K-Startup Grand Challenge companies. Confirmed . Six start-up zone companies participated, including ABC Labs , a smart farm LED control solution company, and EncoWithers, a residential service platform company for foreigners. Promising foreign startups from France, China, etc. entered Korea through the K-Startup Grand Challenge. Eight apostles also participated .
The K-Startup Grand Challenge program is an inbound global accelerator support project that selects overseas entrepreneurs with excellent startup items and technologies locally and provides support for domestic startup activities and investment opportunities .
Shin Hyun-sam, head of the Gyeonggi Innovation Center, said , “The Gyeonggi Innovation Center will continue to create global collaboration spaces such as startup zones with the goal of becoming a global top-level public accelerator . ”
Meanwhile, the Pangyo Startup Zone is a ‘startup hub where people, information , ideas , and investments gather ‘ and is carrying out the duties of the largest startup support cluster in Korea, including business advancement (investment, attraction support, and connection with large corporations ) and market development (global advancement ) .
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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