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Global startup festival ComeUp to be held in December
The South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on Monday that it will host the global startup festival ComeUp 2024 at COEX, Seoul on December 11 and 12.In its sixth year, ComeUp is a platform to showcase South Korea's outstanding startup e
Nov 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Everyone deserves a good night’s sleep: Munice CEO
Insomnia is a common clinical phenomenon in modern societies profoundly affecting many people’s health and well-being, and South Korean startup...
Nov 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Bering Lab eyes 7-fold jump in revenue in 5 years
Bering Lab Inc., a South Korea-based artificial intelligence technology-powered translation startup with specialties in legal, financial and intellec...
Nov 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Panmnesia raises $57 mn in Series A funding
Panmnesia, a South Korean fabless startup specializing in compute express link (CXL) technology, said on Tuesday it raised 80 billion won ($57 millio...
Nov 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Big Mobility, Hummingbirds win Chung Ju-yung Startup Competition
The Asan Nanum Foundation selected Big Mobility and Hummingbirds as the top winners of the 13th Chung Ju-yung Startup Competition demo day on Novembe...
Nov 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
GS Retail selects six startups to innovate retail biz
South Korea's GS Retail said on Friday it selected six startups—Studio Lab, Tilda, Oasis Business, YesPlzAI, Vessl AI, and Raondata—thro...
Nov 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Korean choreography copyrights to be protected by Naver Z deal
South Korean dance choreography copyrights will be protected through an agreement between Naver Z Corp., the operator of Asia’s largest metaver...
Nov 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to invest $5 mn in S.Korea’s Musicow
US entertainment tycoon Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is expected to invest about $5 million in Musicow Inc., South Korea’s music copyright trading ...
Nov 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Perigee, Quantum Aero to cooperate on military UAV
South Korea's small space launch vehicle startup Perigee Aerospace Inc. said on Friday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Quantum Aer...
Nov 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Mediaiplus aims to be the Amazon of clinical trials
Mediaiplus Inc., South Korea’s only provider of data analytics and contract research organization (CRO) matching services for clinical trials, ...
Nov 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Self-driving tech startup RideFlux raises $1.9 mn in Series B
RideFlux Inc., a South Korean autonomous driving technology startup, raised 26 billion won ($1.9 million) in a Series B funding round about four mont...
Oct 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
PEN Ventures: A skilled startup accelerator for entrepreneurs going global
For startup accelerators that nurture promising young entrepreneurs, identifying a soon-to-be-unicorn, or a company valued at over $1 billion, in it...
Oct 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
South Korea’s Viva Republica drops Korean IPO plan, seeks US debut
Viva Republica Inc., a leading South Korean fintech unicorn and operator of mobile financial super app Toss, has dropped its plan to go public in the...
Oct 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Naver D2SF accelerates investments in Silicon Valley startups
South Korea's online giant Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) said on Friday it started to discover and invest in...
Oct 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
South Korean VCs in search of better returns abroad
South Korean venture capitalists’ appetite for foreign entrepreneurs shows no sign of waning as they continue to look for better returns overse...
Oct 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Superb AI, Cisco to strengthen AI network cooperation
South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Superb AI said on Tuesday it was awarded Select Developer from the global network giant Cisco Syste...
Oct 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics, Baropharm to cooperate on pharmaceutical logistics
South Korea's CJ Logistics said on Monday it signed a strategic partnership and exclusive pharmaceutical logistics contract with Baropharm, an integr...
Oct 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users
South Korean generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scatter Lab said on Monday its interactive AI content platform Zeta has surpassed 1 mill...
Oct 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
South Korea’s next AI unicorns stand out at KPAS 2024
South Korea’s major telecom company KT Corp. and the country’s leading financial newspaper The Korea Economic Daily have teamed up to sco...
Oct 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG Uplus to support AI startup creation
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday that it launched the startup support program Shift, which aims to discover and nurture startups, inclu...
Oct 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Liner raises $20 mn in Series B funding
South Korean AI search startup Liner said on Friday it raised 270 billion won ($200 million) in a Series B funding round led by Atinum Investment and...
Oct 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hyundai Motor Group, D.Camp to host startup demo day
Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation platform ZER01NE said on Tuesday it partnered with startup accelerator D.Camp in collaboration with 19 financi...
Oct 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A round
MarqVision Inc., a startup developing an artificial intelligence-powered intellectual property (IP) protection platform, raised 22 billion won ($16.5...
Oct 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Two out of 5 CEOs hold negative views on Korean startup scene
Nearly half of South Korean startups hold negative views on the country’s startup ecosystem, citing the prolonged startup funding winter and th...
Oct 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Near Brain gives hope to millions of stroke patients worldwide
Strokes are the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disabilities globally, according to the World Health Organization.To fig...
Sep 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
CJ Logistics, Aidin Robotics to co-develop logistics robots
South Korea’s CJ Logistics and Aidin Robotics recently signed a memorandum of understanding to co-develop and commercialize logistics robots.Un...
Sep 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Chabot Mobility raises $900,000 in Series C round
South Korea's automotive management platform startup Chabot Mobility said on Wednesday that it raised 1.2 billion won ($900,000) in a Series C inves...
Sep 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asan Nanum Foundation to hold startup competition in November
The Asan Nanum Foundation announced on Wednesday that it will hold a demo day for “The Chung Ju-yung Startup Competition” on Nov. 7 at CO...
Sep 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s MeatBox to go public despite other failed grocery platform IPOs
MeatBox Global Inc., South Korea’s online livestock product sales platform operator, aims for an initial public offering valued at up to 28.5 b...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
42Maru builds defense-specialized GenAI platform
42Maru, South Korea's generative AI and language AI startup said on Friday that it was selected as the lead organization for the Defense Technology ...
Sep 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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