HiteJinro Hosts Demo Day for Startups in Agriculture and Fisheries Sector

Providing Various Opportunities to Revitalize the Startup Ecosystem

HiteJinro announced on the 3rd that it held a demo day by inviting 10 startups in the agriculture and fisheries sectors selected through a nature-based investment-linked program, along with investors, in collaboration with the Korea Agricultural Technology Promotion Agency and the Marine and Fisheries Science and Technology Promotion Agency.

Kim In-gyu, CEO of HiteJinro, is delivering a greeting at the Demo Day event.

A total of 163 companies applied for the nature-based program, which was open for applications from December last year to January this year. Among them, 6 companies in the agri-food sector and 4 companies in the fisheries sector were finally selected through document evaluation, presentation evaluation, and on-site inspection, and the event was held targeting these companies.

The demo day also included meetings with investment institutions holding agri-food and fisheries funds, providing opportunities for investment attraction. Suitable companies for investment will undergo verification and proceed to final investment and linkage with Tips.

Huh Jae-gyun, Executive Director of HiteJinro, said, “We hope the nature-based program will help create beneficial synergy through public-private collaboration,” and added, “We will continue to fulfill our social responsibility to contribute to revitalizing the startup ecosystem and provide various entrepreneurial opportunities.”

The nature-based program is a public-private collaborative open innovation program that discovers and nurtures promising startups with innovative technologies and development strategies for the agriculture and fisheries value chain, leading up to final investment.

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