Keiretsu Forum Seoul Chapter Q2’25 Pitch Event

The Seoul Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (Seoul Center) announced on the 24th that it held the ‘Keiretsu Forum Seoul Startup Investment Attraction Event’ in collaboration with Keiretsu Forum and completed the IR (corporate explanation) presentations of five promising startups.

Keiretsu Forum is the world’s largest membership-based angel investor network, established in 2000 in San Francisco, USA. It provides investment and follow-up support among members for startups from early to growth stages. The Korea branch was established in 2016, with Chung Nam-ho serving as the branch head.

The corporations presenting at this forum were ▲ Uptempo Global (AI-based multilingual translation solutions) ▲ mAy-I (AI visitor analysis service) ▲ Searslab (Vision AI solutions and devices) ▲ Rabbiteye (specialized corporation in AI PR solutions) ▲ NEFS LAB (digital workplace innovation corporation), totaling five corporations. After their presentations, the corporations held meetings with investors to explore the potential for international investment.

This year, SCCEI is accelerating the internationalization of Korea’s startup ecosystem. Since last year, SCCEI has been operating MENA (Middle East and North Africa region) Open Innovation and Global Biohealth Open Innovation programs.

It is also working to attract overseas startups such as those from the United States, Japan, and India to the Gwanghwamun ‘S Village (Startup Incubating Center)’.

Lee Yeong-keun, CEO of the Seoul Center, noted, “Over the past 10 years, we have fostered technology-based startups that can generate tangible results based on cooperation with large corporations, and now we are stepping into an active ‘global open innovation system.’”

He added, “I hope that this event, like today, will become a platform for the leap of startups, created by the collaboration of private and public sectors, as well as domestic and international organizations,” and said, “We will continue to do our best to build public and private international partnerships so that startups can achieve sustainable growth in domestic and international markets.”