Solive Ventures (CEO Joo-ho Seo) announced that it was selected as an innovation award winner at CES 2024, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA from Tuesday, January 9 to January 12, 2020 (local time) next year.
According to the results of the CES 2024 Innovation Award announced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), Solive Ventures won a total of 2 in the Accessibility & Aging Tech category and the Digital Health category for ‘Peel & Play’, an educational sensory aid for children’s brain development. Received four innovation awards.
Solive Ventures, a company developing smart solutions for children’s developmental home care, started as a start-up team of students at Seoul National University. It is a startup created by three student entrepreneurs (Seo Joo-ho, Kwon Ik-hyun, and Choi Seong-hyeon) who participated in the Seoul National University Creative Design Festival in the Seoul National University Engineering Club. It was selected in the social venture category of the 2023 preliminary startup package and received seed funding from Seoul National University Technology Holdings in November of the same year. Investment has been attracted.
Peel & Play is a teaching tool that imitates the tangerine peeling game. Using the shell pieces from the teaching aid, you can play games with various educational purposes, such as adventure imitation play and mole play. The company said, “These features have high creative and educational value as they can improve concentration, memory, and problem-solving skills,” adding, “It is a sensory device that improves cognitive function by providing visual, tactile, and auditory feedback every time a piece is attached or detached.” “We provide value,” he emphasized.
Peel & Play, which received high praise at CES 2024 for providing consumers with creative, educational and sensory values, will be available through domestic online malls early next year. In relation to this, Solive Ventures said, “To become a leader in the field of home developmental care solutions, we are developing the development monitoring application ‘Kiwoo Me’ for parents, and we are raising high expectations from consumers about what kind of synergy the app content and Peel & Play will create. “I’m collecting it,” he said.
Joo-ho Seo, CEO of Solive Ventures, said, “We are happy that our efforts have been recognized by winning the CES 2024 Innovation Award.” He added, “We will continue to develop home development home care solutions to provide parents with the opportunity to directly contribute to their children’s development in the home environment.” “I will work hard to bring innovation to the development industry,” he said.
Meanwhile, ‘CES’, the world’s largest IT exhibition hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is an exhibition that provides insight into the trends of the global home appliance industry at a glance and is held every January in Las Vegas, USA. AVING News, which has covered CES for 18 consecutive years, has reported CES news around the world every year since 2006, and has been selected through ‘BEST OF CES’ and ‘BEST OF MADE IN KOREA’, which select the best innovative products, companies and technologies. has been in progress. In addition, CES on-site issues are vividly conveyed through ‘AVING LIVE’.
The CES 2024 Seoul Unified Hall will be operated at the largest scale in terms of exhibition area, number of participating companies, and number of participating supporters since Seoul City’s first participation in CES in 2020. The Seoul Integration Center, in which 13 organizations collaborate and participate, is an important step in Seoul’s efforts to make Seoul a mecca for startups, and 17 of the companies participating in the Seoul Integration Center proved this by receiving innovation awards. The participating institutions in the Seoul Unification Center are ▲SBA ▲Seoul Bio Hub ▲Campus Town ▲AI Yangjae Hub ▲Gwanak-gu ▲Yonsei University ▲Korea University ▲Chung-Ang University ▲Sogang University ▲Kookmin University ▲Hanyang University ▲Konkuk University ▲Kyunghee University. Not only the Seoul Metropolitan Government, institutions, and companies, but also supporters through industry-academia cooperation are matched 1:1 with companies, and 85 supporters, the largest number, will participate.
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