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February 04, 2020
H2O raises US$7M in Series B Round led by Samsung Ventures

H2O Hospitality, a vacation rental management company in Japan announced on Feb. 4 it has raised US$7 million in Series B funding from Korea’s venture capitals. Led by Samsung Ventures, Stonebridge Ventures, IMM Investment, and Shinhan Capital also joined the funding round that came as the two-y...
January 31, 2020
Refusing to be the fad local creators discuss sustainability, social impact

In the past two years, The Investor team has covered news from inside and outside South Korea and one big question we always kept in mind was how Korean startups go beyond the country that is isolated by oceans and the borderline with North Korea. But when we turned around once, there was a growing...
January 28, 2020
[INTERVIEW] A charity that works like a startup

There is a nonprofit organization that might be harder to get into than the prestigious Harvard University. While the Ivy League university had an acceptance rate of 4.5 percent in 2019, more than 6,240 people applied for 40 job openings at Charity: Water, according to founder and CEO Scott Harris...
January 27, 2020
Asia Film Lab invites Francesca Jaynes to Masterclass Film Workshop in Seoul

Asia Film Lab announced on Jan. 27 that it is inviting Korean applicants for a Masterclass Film Workshop by Hollywood choreography and movement director Francesca Jaynes, scheduled to be held in Seoul over Feb. 5-9. This is to be AFL’s first Masterclass Film Workshop in Asia. Since 2014, AFL has ...
January 20, 2020
Student-led venture vibe livens up Seoul basement

In a dark basement club in Seoul on Friday, scores of 20-somethings got themselves into the spirit, cracking up with laughter and hollering at one another. Soon, people filling up the basement broke up into eight teams. They were given 15 minutes to come up with business ideas. Each team took turn...
January 14, 2020
Self-driving cars with lidar tech likely to hit Seoul roads soon

Global carmakers are paying closer attention to lidar-based sensing technology for better detection of objects on the road. Lidar, which involves sending out light pulses and detecting objects by analyzing the light reflected off targets, will likely be applied to fully autonomous vehicles in the ...
January 14, 2020
Alien Robot shows glimpse of future with robotic arm

When Pepper, the semi-humanoid robot created by Japan’s telecom company SoftBank, was first introduced to the world in the summer of 2014, it was called revolutionary. The robots were quickly snapped up. However, after the initial three-year contract expired, only 15 percent of the users were wil...
January 09, 2020
Tada now available for foreign phone numbers, credit card holders

South Korean mobility platform Tada on Jan. 9 announced that foreigners with overseas phone numbers and credit cards can now use the app. Tada, operated by VCNC, said its recent updates allow foreigners to download and register with non-Korean phone numbers and credit cards. It also has improved ...
January 09, 2020
[New Analysis] Can Delivery Hero-Woowa deal reshape Korea’s food delivery market?

For decades, free door-to-door food delivery service has been a common option for all kinds of South Korean restaurants. Not just pizzas, fried chicken and Chinese food, but also soups and meat dishes are just a phone call away – for delivery to homes, offices and even parks and other public spac...
January 07, 2020
SuperBin aims to raise W20B in Series B

SuperBin, a clean tech startup in South Korea, said Jan. 7 it is raising Series B funding. The five-year old company is planning to raise 20 billion won ($17 million) in the latest funding round. The two existing investors -- Consumer electronics company Humax and TBT, a venture capital backed by...
December 23, 2019
Korea’s venture investment up 22% through Oct.

Investment in startups increased 22 percent on-year in the first 10 months of the year, driven by hopes of lucrative returns and policy backup, data showed Dec. 23. A total of 3.82 trillion won ($3.29 billion) was invested in promising startups in the January-October period, compared with 2.89 ...
December 20, 2019
[INTERVIEW] Romania-based DOOH startup seeks Asian command post in Seoul

Launched in January 2018, Romania-based startup TPS Engage is dedicated to a technology that allows outdoor digital signage to show the right advertisements at the right time to the right target group. The company’s capability to exercise ad-tech, dubbed digital-out-of-home, led to its fast expan...
December 19, 2019
[INTERVIEW] In-vehicle personal audio zone startup to expand to vibrating OLED tech

In the next-generation car, a driver can stay focused without interruption even if each passenger plays music or a movie of his or her taste without earbuds and partitions between the front and rear seats, because there will be a noiseless ambience at the driver's seat. The promising world of “in...
December 18, 2019
CJ ENM signs partnership deal with Seoul Startup Hub

CJ ENM’s home shopping division announced on Dec. 18 that it has signed a partnership deal with government-led startup coworking and support program operator Seoul Startup Hub. As their first project together, they agreed to start operating a program “Challenge! Startup” to support local startu...
December 17, 2019
Portfolio of early-stage tech investor FuturePlay tops W1tr in value

Seoul-based early-stage technology investor FuturePlay announced on Dec. 17 that the combined value of its portfolio startups exceeded the 1 trillion won ($858.2 million) milestone. The value of the 100 portfolio startups, which received a combined 18.1 billion won in investment from FuturePlay, s...

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