KB Kookmin Card, Startup Discovery 'Future Nine' 5th Demo Day

Lee Chang-kwon CEO "Sustainable Growth as an Open Innovation Platform Enabling Both Startup Growth and Financial Support"

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Je-hoon] KB Kookmin Card announced on the 23rd that it held a demo day for companies participating in the 5th FUTURE9 program, which discovers and nurtures new startup companies, at Seoul Square in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 22nd.

The demo day is an event that introduces the performance briefing (IR) of companies participating in the FUTURE9 program, as well as the results and strategic directions of joint commercialization. The event, held both online and offline, was attended by nine companies including Paymint, Ddukkeobi Sesang, Freshcode, Mesacure Company, VM Korea, Lion Rocket, Energy X, Yokus, and Cheka.

At the demo day, each company presented its individual business model and collaborations or joint projects currently underway or planned with KB Kookmin Card. Additionally, Tripvitoz, AB180, and Lomin, companies that participated in FUTURE9 from the 1st to 4th cohorts, shared ongoing collaboration cases with KB Kookmin Card even after the program ended.

Among the FUTURE9 selected companies, Paymint presented a collaboration case with Payment Teacher, an offline merchant contactless payment service, integrated into KB Kookmin Card’s simple payment service, KB Pay. Following this, Ddukkeobi Sesang, a proptech company providing 'Peter Pan’s Good Room Finding,' the largest real estate direct transaction platform in Korea, introduced collaboration plans in the payment market such as co-branded card development and rent payment by card with KB Kookmin Card. Freshcode, a healthy home meal delivery platform targeting the MZ generation, introduced ongoing marketing collaboration plans with KB Kookmin Card.

Lee Chang-kwon, CEO of KB Kookmin Card, who attended the event, said, "This event was a meaningful occasion to take a comprehensive look at the co-growth and future innovation efforts between Kookmin Card and startups over the past five years, as well as the program’s achievements." He added, "We will continue to show interest and support so that FUTURE9 firmly establishes itself as an open innovation platform capable of simultaneous organic growth and financial support for startups."

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