The Korea Youth Entrepreneurship Foundation (Chairman Han Jeong-hwa) announced that it will hold a joint business briefing session for the '2025 Global Acceleration Support Project (hereinafter referred to as GMEP)' with four hosting organizations at Tipstown S2 on the 23rd.
This briefing session was prepared to help startups understand GMEP and provide guidance on program composition and specialized directions for each hosting organization to respond to various overseas expansion demands, targeting companies with overseas expansion capabilities.
This event is for domestic startups that wish to enter the global market, and the participating organizations are the Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation, the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement, the Korea Edutech Industry Association, and the Korea Intellectual Property Office. The event will provide ▲business introduction and guidance on selection procedures, ▲program introduction by each hosting organization, ▲startup on-site consultation and networking, etc.
This business briefing is the first of its kind to be held in collaboration between the hosting organizations, and is very meaningful in that it allows for comparison and understanding of global accelerating programs from various regions, including the Americas and Europe, in one place.
GMEP is a representative global expansion support program overseen by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and managed by the Korea Institute of Startups and Entrepreneurship Development. It is operated in a way that provides close support to promising domestic startups so that they can carry out the entire process, including PoC (product/service verification), investment attraction, and commercialization cooperation, in cooperation with local accelerators overseas.
This year, we plan to operate programs for successful global scale-up of startups in various regions including the US, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa, and the four hosting organizations participating in this briefing session plan to support participating companies by operating differentiated programs based on industry characteristics and global networks.
By organization, ▲The Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation plans to focus on creating tangible results of advancement through customized acceleration by growth stage, commercialization verification and technology demonstration (PoC), and global partnership linkage to help service platform, big data, and intelligent robot startups advance into the US (Sunnyvale and San Francisco). ▲The Korea EdTech Industry Association supports EdTech startups advance into the US (San Francisco and San Jose) and promotes global expansion based on evidence through activities such as visits to Google and Stanford University and demo days linked to TechCrunch in cooperation with local accelerators in Silicon Valley.
▲The Korea Intellectual Property Office will support the entry of IP-based deep-tech startups into the US (Sunnyvale and Mountain View) and, in cooperation with global accelerators in Silicon Valley, will operate programs optimized for technology-centered startups, such as PoC, technology commercialization, and IR for VCs. ▲The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to support the entry of land, infrastructure and transport startups into Germany and Finland and operate an integrated program encompassing PoC to IR through technology collaboration with global companies such as Deutsche Bahn, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, and exchanges with the European startup ecosystem such as SLUSH.
A GMEP project official from the Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation said, “This project is a comprehensive program that goes beyond simple overseas expansion to help startups understand local markets, go through commercialization verification and technology verification, and then move on to market development and potential partner matching. It focuses on fostering startups with global competitiveness through close collaboration with local accelerators.”
Meanwhile, through this briefing session, domestic startups can compare programs by institution and choose a program that suits their company, and business applications are available until Thursday, May 8.
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