"Startup Investment Opportunity" Shinbo Hosts 'YouConnect Special Series'

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Sun-mi] The Korea Credit Guarantee Fund announced on the 10th that it will hold the ‘YouConnect Special Series’ online to provide investment opportunities for innovative startups.

The event, held on the 11th of this month under the theme ‘Tech Trends and Startups in the New Normal Era,’ consists of insightful lectures introducing technology trends in the new normal era and investor relations (IR) presentations by startups leading the market with innovative technologies. Additionally, a marketing event will be held where excellent products from Shinbo startups can be purchased at discounted prices.

In this event, nine innovative startups from three fields?artificial intelligence (AI), renewable energy, and robotics/autonomous driving?will showcase their innovative business items to investors including venture capitalists (VCs) and accelerators (ACs). Notably, the entire event will be streamed live online via YouTube and Eventus to enable participation from more startup stakeholders.

This year, Shinbo has been hosting YouConnect demo days online to revitalize the investment ecosystem, which has been weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March, a total of 23 YouConnect online demo day events have introduced 172 promising startups to investors.

Yoon Dae-hee, Chairman of the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund, said, “I hope that the innovative startups participating in this event will grow into companies leading the future through investment attraction,” and added, “We will further expand the online hosting of YouConnect to actively support startups’ investment attraction even amid the COVID-19 situation.”

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