On March 23rd, Beginmate, a team building platform for startups, announced the official launch of its service. With its launch, Beginmate will be adding onto its existing team building...
Tag - Korean Tech
Luxi, a Ride-Sharing App of 4 Million Uses, Prides Being Accident and Crime Free
On January 3, Korea Startup Forum held an info session on shared economy-based traffic service users at the Press Center. The purpose of the session was to investigate the advantages and...
Entcrowd Receives 186K USD In Investments
Entcrowd, a service that notifies users of performances tailored to their individual preferences through Kakaotalk, has attracted investment from public institutions and investment...
HomeSaeng Attracts an Additional 1.85 Million Dollars In Investments… Reaches 5.08 Million Dollars
HomeSaeng of home service app Daeri Jubu has attracted an additional investment of 1.85 million dollars, and investing companies include Korea Investment Partners, KDB Capital, and 2...
CashFi Sucessfully Attracts Domestic and Foreign Pre-Seed Investment
CashFi, a reward-based global Wi-Fi sharing platform, has attracted (an undisclosed amount of) pre-seed investment from domestic and foreign investors. Investors included Korea’s BigBang...
Korea’s Largest Handcrafted Marketplace App ‘Idus’ Launches ‘VIP Club’ Rewards Program
On August 7th, Backpackr Inc. announced the launch of a new loyalty program ‘VIP Club’ for ‘Idus,’ Korea’s largest marketplace app for handmade items. The VIP Club offers free...
THATZIT, No More Papers for Festival Stamp Tours
THATZIT (CEO: SungHa Park) announced the release of the Festival Stamp Tour App. It is common for festivals in Korea to hold “stamp tour events”, where people visit multiple booths...
Aftergrowth Launches Its Beta Version of Disco, A Real Estate Information Provider
Aftergrowth has released its beta version of Disco, a service that provides detailed real estate information and transaction data. The beta version, supported both on the web and mobile...
2017 Jeju Business Promotion Seminar Seeks to Attract Companies to Jeju
On July 6th, Jeju Province will be holding its 2017 Jeju Business Promotion Seminar at the Gvalley Convention in Guro-gu, Seoul. Succeeding the Pangyo Techno Valley Summit held in April...
Salted Venture Officially Launches IOFIT Smart Golf Shoes
Salted Venture announced the release of IOFIT, which will be available to the public on July 3rd. IOFIT is a solution that combines a coaching app and smart wearable shoes using pressure...
KakaoPay Launches Mobile Authentication Service, ‘KakaoPay Authentication’
On June 27th, KakaoPay (CEO: Youngjoon Ryu) launched ‘KakaoPay Authentication’, a mobile messenger-based digital signature and authentication service. ‘KakaoPay Authentication’...
The Launch of MAEMI, An SNS App for Neighborhood Fact-based Story Sharing
On June 20th, start-up MAEMI announced the launch of its social networking service app that allows users to easily share fact-focused stories of their neighborhoods. Whereas Twitter...
P2P Financial Platform Popfunding Awarded Best Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform in South Korea
On June 8th, P2P Financial Platform Popfunding (CEO Hyun-wook Shin) was awarded the Best Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform in South Korea at The Asian Banker Peer-to-Peer Audits Awards 2017...
ZIGZAG, Female Fashion Compilation Service, Reaches 7 Million Downloads
On June 13th, ZIGZAG’s parent company Croquis Inc. (CEO: Jung-hoon Seo) announced that it had reached 7 million cases of app downloads. Having recorded 3 million downloads within one year...
Neofect Donates RAPAEL Smart Glove to Welfare Institute for Disabled in Busan
On June 2nd, Neofect, a smart rehabilitation solution startup, announced that it had donated ‘RAPAEL Smart Glove,’ one of its rehabilitation training medical device for stroke patients...
Young Innovators Talk at Jeju National University!
The Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPI) will be hosting its fourth Young Innovators Talk series on June 2nd at Jeju National University’s Ara Campus. This event will...
Neofect releases RAPAEL Smart Board, a Device to Assist Upper Extremity Rehabilitation for Stroke...
Neofect, a smart rehabilitation solution startup, announced on May 30th that it has released RAPAEL Smart Board, an upper extremity rehabilitation training medical device for stroke...
Another Step by Tutoring to Become a Global Language Education Company
On May 16th, Tutoring, a mobile on-demand education platform, successfully attracted 715 thousand USD worth of strategic investment from Big Basin Capital, a venture capital firm based in...
Allb Represents South Korea in Hardware Cup 2017 International Finals
On April 19th, twelve early-stage hardware startups from across the globe came to Pittsburgh to compete for the $50,000 Starbot Grand Prize Investment at the AlphaLab Gear National Hardware...
JobPlanet Launches ‘Company Analysis’ For More Insights Into Companies
On the 18th, JobPlanet, a social media planet on information of companies, added a new functionality, “Company Analysis.” This new feature gives detailed analysis on company cultures...