Shinhan Square Bridge Partners with Google Startup Campus

Collaboration in Startup Support Including Joint Operation of Smart City Specialized Accelerating Program

At the event, attendees are participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. (From left in the photo: Kyunghoon Kim, President of Google Korea; Namchun Park, Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City; Junsik Ahn, Vice President of Shinhan Financial Group; Wonjae Lee, Commissioner of Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority)

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwangho Lee] Shinhan Financial Group's startup nurturing platform, 'Shinhan Square Bridge Incheon (S² Bridge: Incheon)', announced on the 22nd that it has signed a partnership agreement with Google's startup support organization, Google for Startups Campus (GFS), to jointly operate an accelerating program.

Google for Startups Campus is a startup support program created by Google in 2011, operating more than 50 coworking spaces worldwide to foster startups, and acting as an accelerator in 125 countries. In 2015, it opened the first 'Google for Startups Campus' in Asia in Seoul, carrying out various domestic startup support projects.

Shinhan Square Bridge Incheon plans to nurture startups representing Incheon, which has proactively built smart city infrastructure, by creating a 'Smart City Accelerating Program' with GFS. To this end, both parties will select startups with innovative technologies and provide various nurturing programs to actively support their growth into global startups.

GFS will establish a 'Google Startup Space' within the Shinhan Square Bridge Incheon facility and lead the expansion of the startup ecosystem, previously centered in Seoul, to a nationwide scale through educational programs such as the 'Smart City Accelerating Program' and 'Google Startup School'.

The day before, the two parties held a commemorative ceremony at Shinhan Square Bridge Incheon in Songdo Startup Park, Incheon, attended by related officials including Namchun Park, Mayor of Incheon, Kyunghoon Kim, President of Google Korea, and Junsik Ahn, Vice President of Shinhan Financial Group, where they announced future cooperation areas.

At the event, Vice President Ahn said, “To nurture startups with global competitiveness, we will expand partnerships with various companies such as Google based on the operational know-how of Shinhan Square Bridge: Incheon to create a richer startup nurturing infrastructure.”

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