DK Tech Inc. (CEO Won-joo Lee), a subsidiary of Kakao IT solutions development company, announced on the 4th that it is recruiting startups to participate as cooperative partners in the '2025 Public-Private Cooperation Open Innovation Support Project' hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.
The public-private cooperation open innovation support project hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups is a project that encourages cooperation between large companies, mid-sized companies, public institutions, and startups, and supports the development of innovative technologies and commercialization of services. DK Techin will operate the Jeju Creative Economy Innovation Center and the bottom-up '2025 AI Techin Open Ground Program', and plans to promote the advancement of AI knowledge search solutions and verification of the quality of corporate AI services with selected startups.
In particular, we plan to jointly develop AI text search and RAG (Augmented Search Generation)-based answer generation technology that can be applied to Kakao Work, thereby expanding the scope of application of work automation using AI agents in actual work environments. Kakao Work is a comprehensive groupware solution that provides various functions such as messenger, mail, video conferencing, surveys, workboard, and electronic approval.
The selected startups will be supported with ▲up to 100 million won in commercialization funds ▲AI expert mentoring ▲Jeju office space ▲Jeju workation linkage programs, etc. In addition, after the project ends, additional support benefits such as ▲IR pitching and demo day participation ▲signing of a formal business contract will be provided. Applications for participation are available until the 21st on the official websites of Kakao Work and Jeju Creative Economy Innovation Center.
Lee Won-joo, CEO of DK Tech, said, “Through this support project, we hope to provide startups with innovative ideas with opportunities for growth and commercialization,” and added, “We will continue to expand the model of win-win cooperation between large corporations and startups and focus on providing differentiated services to customers.”
Meanwhile, DK Techin has been providing IT services to Kakao affiliates since 2015, and has been conducting B2B business targeting the government, local governments, and corporations since 2020. DK Techin's main business areas are ▲comprehensive groupware 'Kakao Work' ▲conversation B2B platform 'Kakao i' ▲AI communication platform 'Kakao i Connect' ▲DX and information system construction, etc.
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