Artificial Pancreas Technology Developer CureStream Wins Grand Prize at Daegu Startup Awards

The building where CureStream, the grand prize winner at the Daegu Startup Awards, is located.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Koo Dae-sun] On the 22nd at 4 p.m., Daegu City held the ‘2022 Daegu Startup Awards’ at the Daegu Creative Economy Innovation Center to share startup achievements and award innovative startups with excellent technology and capabilities. CureStream, which developed artificial pancreas system technology, was selected as this year’s Startup Grand Prize winner.

The awards ceremony was attended by Lee Jong-hwa, Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs of Daegu City, Joo Eun-gi, Vice President of Samsung Electronics, and Lee Jae-kyung, Chairman of the Daegu Creative Economy Innovation Center.

CureStream is a company developing future-type artificial pancreas system technology that restores functions lost due to chronic diseases represented by diabetes.

The Excellence Awards were given to Tobos, which distributes surplus building materials, and Lily Cover, which produces portable skin diagnostic devices, respectively, while the Rookie Award was given to TCMS, a next-generation separator developer for secondary batteries.

The grand prize winner receives a prize of 10 million KRW, and the Excellence and Rookie Award winners receive 5 million KRW each.

Additionally, startup support contributors who have faithfully played a solid stepping stone role for the success of startup companies were selected as Park Moon-soo, CEO of Inlight Ventures, and Choi Ji-hyun, a responsible manager at Keimyung University.

Since the event began in 2017, the ‘Daegu Startup Awards’ have discovered and awarded 24 innovative startups and 12 startup contributors.

Lee Jong-hwa, Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs of Daegu City, said, “I support the continued challenges of local entrepreneurs who are not afraid of risk and actively seek to pioneer the future,” adding, “We will broadly promote startup support and cooperation so that various local talents can take on the challenge of entrepreneurship.”

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