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Korea’s leading accelerator program, K-Startup Grand Challenge’s alumni startups thriving in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. KSGC 2021 edition saw an overwhelming response with 2,568 applications from 129 countries, with 54 startup teams finally selected to participate. ” Srun said.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

In July 2021, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) upgraded Korea’s status to a developed economy. K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

In 2021 BankTech was formed by general partners from The Venture Center, the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), Hovde Group and leading community banks including, Coastal and Sunwest Bank. It touts that over 1,000 companies are in its pipeline, accelerating the growth of the 17 funded fintech portfolio companies.

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

TechCrunch

“Everstream has grown revenue 30x from the initial investment made by Columbia Capital three years ago and was successful in doubling the business in both 2021 and 2022.” Inflation accelerated. ” Everstream’s growth isn’t happening in isolation. The Ukrainian-Russian war continued unabated.

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Tanso banks a seed for its CO2 footprint software for industrial manufacturers

TechCrunch

it took in last month via an EU innovation grant under the bloc’s EIC Accelerator program. We first talked to Tanso back in fall 2021 when its trio of founders had just nabbed pre-seed funding. pre-seed to help industrial manufacturers do sustainability reporting Investors want best-of-the-best ESG data. Tanso nabs $1.9M

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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022: The world’s most tech-savvy country South Korea invites startups to grow their businesses

AsiaTechDaily

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 In 2021, KSGC got 2,568 applications from 129 countries, with 54 startup teams finally selected to participate.

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Decipad wants to help everyone do data modelling

TechCrunch

The startup, which was founded in January 2021, is offering a beta version of the product currently but says it expects to launch more fully in a few months. It is crucial that more people and teams become data active to accelerate better decisions.”. 10 investors discuss the no-code and low-code landscape in Q1 2022.