Invited 12 events, and organized 3 events in a MONTH! My summer trip to Korea was hot! 🤩
Here’s a glimpse of the events I participated in:
📌 Daejeon Startup Foreign Startup Training Program: Provided training and mentoring to early-stage foreign startup founders.
📌 SIW: International conference brings together, investors and Korean startups ranging from seed to series B stages. I participated in giving a lecture on partnerships, collaborations, and sales, and provided mentoring, and judging pitches. A fun fact is that I was recently recognized as an international advisor for Daejeon City. YOUNG SANG (LUKE) KIM, Sam Sung, Antonius Malem Barus,
📌 K-Next Reality: PEN Ventures brings together around 20 amazing startups from the XR/VR/AR industries, I contributed by judging pitches, mentoring, and so on. Met, Young Youn, MYOUNG SOO SONG, sunstar PARK
📌 Corporate Innovation Summit: Attended this insightful comparative discussion on CVCs of Korea and Japan, and provided mentoring to the startups. Met, Omar Amrani, Stefan Nilsson, William B. Choi, Gerald Ko, Imran Rahman
📌 SparkLabs Group judging pitches: Invited as a judge to pitching companies, Spark Labs is a Korea-born international accelerator in 5 countries. Met, Hojun Park
📌 STARTUP:CON: Judge pitches, one-on-one mentoring. It’s the only content industry-focused Start-up conference in the world and has brought together creative entrepreneurs, investors, and creatives from all around the world with 125,000 attendees since 2015. Met, 이병호李丙鎬, Laurent Rains, Blake B. Kuhre, Yorgos Papadopoulos, Naofumi Makino
📌 VCs/GPs/LPs get together Seoul Investment Week: Last minute invitation to attend, while I’m in town, I was able to mingle with over 100 Venture Capitalists and Limited Partners from all around the world. Carl R. Härtlein, Chie Kubota, Solomon Moos, Doohyun Lee,
📌 Fly Asia / BOUNCE Conference: Attended as a mentor, and judge to the startups who are comparing for the grand prize. Meet-ups with 191 global investors. Keita Ito
⭐ Organized the Founder Institute's 15th Anniversary with 150 entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors. It was inspiring to celebrate FI's legacy and discuss the future of startups. Colla with Rancho Lee, Jungwook Lim, Michael Lee, CJ Yoon, Han Sung Kang, Doer Youngil Ahn, Jay Hyunjung Kim, Josh Choi, Eugene Kim, Beamy Shin, Laura Valls Alvarez (김라우라), Hassam Mughal, Chelsea Han. Met with, Victor Garcia Montero, Alexandra Choi 최사샤, Tin Hang Liu, Soufiane el Khinifri
🙌 Also had many key meetings on partnerships, business opportunities, investments, and so on. Excited for the collaborations and ideas this trip sparked. 🚀 Here are some of the highlighted events with photos: