SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the many startups founded and operating in South Korea, TagHive, an education technology company launched in 2017, is distinguished for its founder and CEO Pankaj Agarwal. Pankaj was born in a small town in northern India and studied at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based pet health management platform developed by a South Korean startup will be used for non-face-to-face diagnosis in the U.S. AI FOR PET, the operator of the pet health management application TTcare, said Wednesday it will provide an AI-based pet medical environment in collaboration with American [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Many women might dream of someone taking full care of their period every month, ordering quality sanitary pads in a timely manner and answering embarrassing questions about menstruation and related symptoms. Happy Moonday Inc. — a Korean startup for femtech, which refers to products and services that support women’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — When people want to open a new online store from scratch, they need to learn coding languages, such as HTML, CSS and Javascript, and professional photo editing skills to design website elements, connect electronic payment tools and optimize the page for mobile. But learning how to begin coding a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sleep deprivation is prevalent in the modern world. Smartphone lights confuse the natural sleep-and-wake cycle of ordinary people, and the remote working culture makes it harder for them to switch off, even at night. There is also an acceptance — or even a glorification — of forgoing sleep, fueled [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Having majored in business administration in university and with eight years of previous work experience at the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, Cheon Yeong-seok, co-CEO of robot startup Twinny Co., had always dreamed of one day starting his own business. Looking back though, Cheon said it had never crossed [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Borrowing money online from total strangers was an unfamiliar concept in South Korea in 2014, when Lee Hyo-jin founded 8percent, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending service targeting people with low-to-mid credit ratings. A former banker of 8 years, Lee was confident there was huge demand in the loan market that [...]
BUSAN, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean startup DECANT said Sunday it has succeeded in turning tens of millions of tons of wine-making by-products that were being wasted annually into high value-added beauty products through bio-recycling. The company, located within the Busan Center for Creative Economy & Innovation’s startup incubation space B.Cube, has developed a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — TOADS, a local tech startup that participated in the region’s software service commercialization support project, received a Ministerial Award in the competition hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency said Wednesday. The company has developed and is preparing to commercialize a virtual [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean bio venture firm Aprogen Pharmaceuticals Inc. was listed as the country’s 11th unicorn, according to an industry tracker on Tuesday. Aprogen was registered as a unicorn company with a valuation of more than US$1 billion by CB Insights, a tech market intelligence platform. In May, Aprgoen attracted [...]