Toss, a mobile money transfer app developed by fintech startup Viva Republica, has won the top prize at this year’s Google Play Korea App Awards. It’s the first time that only one app has been selected for the top prize at the annual awards. Toss gained…
The Gyeonggi Content Agency is seeing out 2016 with a VR and AR Demoday for its end of year party in Gwanggyo. Six companies, including three that are already part of Gyanggyo’s hub, will present their pitches and carry out investment workshops with industry experts.…
Yesterday healthcare accelerator Digital Healthcare Partners announced that it would be providing seed funding for 3billion, a Korean startup specializing in rare disease screening through human genome sequencing. 3billion is a spin-off of Macrogen, an international leader in DNA sequencing, and is developing a rare disease…
Agritech and Foodtech startups are invited to take part in the “Future Food Asia Awards” (FFAA) in January 2017. The competition, led by Singaporean investment and consulting firm ID Capital, is offering a grand prize of USD $100,000. Supported by the Economic Development Board of…
Healthcare startup Databank Systems launched its smartphone service ‘M-Care’ at Hanyang University Guri Hospital today, making it easier for patients to deal with bookings and payments during hospital visits. M-Care was developed as a solution to the complicated and cumbersome process patients go through when…
On 10th of this month, the Fintech business incubator center Wibee Fintech laboratory, a one-man start-up company business center (Hereinafter referred to as Wibee fintech laboratory), started operations on the second floor of Woori Bank yeongdeungpo branch. Li Guangqiu from Woori Bank, director of Small…
The intelligent tape “bagel” of Bagel-labs successfully obtained financing about $135 million (Korean won about 1.5 billion won) on American crowd-funding platform Kick Starter. The amount of money Bagel-labs actually raised is 4500 percentage higher than the original target amount. The crowd funding starts from…
On Aug 9th, Multi channel network start-up company “Sand Box Network” said it obtained 4 billion Korean won investment from Company-K and K-Run ventures. Before this investment, Sand box had bring 1 billion Korean won investment in September last year. Sand box network plans to…
Beauty start-up company Meme box said it had attracted $65 million 950 thousand (about 73 billion won) investment (Series C round) from the global professional VC firm Formation, Goodwater and other companies. Due to this investment, Meme box cumulatively received $100 million (about 110 billion…
Genie Works is mainly engaged in advertising / e-commerce and automotive O2O field related business. It is reported that it obtains Samsung venture investment and NAU IB Capital investment for 2 billion Korean won. Genie Works provides game based AD / E – commerce services…
O2O e-commerce Share@ said on the 9th that the NUVENT operating O2O e-commerce platform Share@ NUVENT get ventures investment from Samsung and follow-up investment from SBA (Seoul Industry Promotion Center), the small and medium-sized enterprise support agencies (amount undisclosed) . NUVENT had obtained investment from…
Gyeonggi create economic innovation center and South Korea lab of Gyeonggi Information now is recruiting start-up companies for the second phase of the recruitment of IoT free accelerating project IoT Biz Factory, recruitment deadline to August 24th. The project is sponsored by the hardware accelerate…
SNS entertainment will work with Wei Korea to help companies and entertainers enter the Chinese market. It is reported that SNS entertainment signed a business cooperation agreement with Korea Wei on Aug 8th. Wei Korea is a professional advertising company in China. These two parties…
Google Korea held a public forum titled as ‘Open-News Ecosystem’ at Google Campus Seoul on the 14th. This forum included a lecture by Google News Director, Richard Gingras. He has experience in broadcasting field while working at US broadcaster PBS and launched the Apple News…
