EdTech startup CLASSUM has raised a $6M Series A funding round led by Pearl Abyss Capital and Storm Ventures along with existing investors Big Basin Capital and Smilegate Investment. “CLASSUM understands the core of communication, essential for education, that is missing from today’s LMS’s” say...
Read moreBorn2Global Centre has joined forces with tech affiliates Naver Cloud, Korea Software Industry Association (KOSA), GS Global, and Yozma Group Korea to foster global software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. The five-party business agreement (MOU) was signed on May 7th at Naver Cloud’s Gangnam off...
Read moreTHE.WAVE.TALK specializes in developing household water quality measuring devices and diagnostic bacteria infection devices, and this investment sums the cumulative amount to 9 billion won, or approximately 8 million USD. This last investment was made through Deep Impact Day, an impact investme...
Read moreThe 'social distancing' times brought forth by COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the way our society functions, and the emergence of contact-free industries poses high expected value for future growth, as do technology-driven fields in this age of digital transformation. In other words, compa...
Read moreSky Labs, a global healthcare startup, has closed a 22.5 billion KRW (~$20 million USD) Series B round, which brings its total investments raised to about 34.3 billion KRW (~$30 million USD). New investors, such as KB Investment, Korea Investment Partners, and LB Investment participated in this...
Read moreOn May 17th, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced the final selection of 15 startups with high growth potential to become the next unicorns through the 2021 Global Information and Communication Technology Future Unicorn Promotion Project (ICT Growth Project), with “Unicorns” referring to...
Read moreRiiid Inc ("Riiid"), a leading AI education company and a member of Born2Global Centre, has raised $175 million investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2*. To accelerate the pace of capturing opportunities in the global education market, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round as the sole investor,...
Read moreKorean content startup Dable becomes a top-ranking company in the media category on the Financial Times Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies for 2021. The online content platform has ranked 46th place out of the top 500 companies listed on the Financial Times Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies for 202...
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