Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in South Korea in October 2023

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• VPP — Providing clean energy to wherever it is needed
• JeCLEAN — Jacqueline, an ESG startup, draws attention to the vast amounts of abandoned and burnt hotel bedding waste on Jeju Island and provides industrial solutions through upcycling solutions that recycle it into cotton-based raw materials, yarns, and fabrics.
• City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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• Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
• RTBP ALLIANCE — RTBP ALLIANCE focuses on creating co-working spaces and modernize old places for local communities.
• Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.

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• Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
• Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.
• Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.

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• Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
• Uniqconn — Uniqconn is a telecommunication company that offers wireless and mechanical interference services.
• Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.

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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
• Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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• Fxip — FXIP has the capacity to quickly complete a number of processes, including product planning, design, and manufacturing. Through the introduction of various IP brands in the food & life sector, it has already demonstrated the potential of the business.
• Bean Blur — Beanblr Corporation began offering smart logistics services. Businesses using the service can address logistics issues in Dongdaemun, such as challenges in employing logistics workers, challenges with order picking, ambiguous inventory status, and a lack of real-time response.
• Simply Care Bio — Simply Care Bio is a care food company that manufactures functional foods based on ingredient composition and amplification technology through water-solubilization of fatty acids and immunity-building technology through cell activation.

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• 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
• Gbike — Gbike is a mobility sharing startup in Korea, innovating green urban mobility in Korea where currently car-centric environment. Our service includes bike and scooter sharing with IT services specialized for Korean market with 50MM population.
• BOS Semiconductors — BOS Semiconductors develops semiconductor technology for the automotive industry.

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• slowave — Slowwave discovered that the current sleep test is performed in a foreign hospital setting with numerous sensors attached to the head, making it impossible to test and identify sensitive insomnia patients effectively. As a result, a microprocessor and low-power measuring algorithm were integrated into an ultra-light patch, allowing patients withinsomnia to easily perform sleep EEG at home while eliminating factors that interfere with the examination and boosting measurement precision.
• Amo Travel — Amo Travel likewise swiftly established a market fit in Korea with minimal blog promotion.
• Apollon Inc. — Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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• CLOP — CLOP is an ophthalmology medical company that provides services to prevent blindness in patients through AI-based eye disease management.
• Cashwalk — Cashwalk is an app that motivates to walk by providing financial incentives.
• GTL — GTL manufactures hydraulic equipment, mechanical parts, industrial robots and automation equipment or aircraft and spacecraft parts.

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• Autoel — Autoel is a lidar sensing technology for self-driving cars.
• H2 — H2 is a Korea-based advanced energy storage company specialized in vanadium redox flow battery which is an optimal solution especially for large-scale and long-duration energy storage. H2 has developed cutting-edge EnerFLOW series energy storage using its own vanadium redox flow batteries, which is commercially available at the moment. H2 isexpected to grow fast and big due to H2's unique design and manufacturing capabilities, and a promising market of large-scale energy storage.
• Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.

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• arcreal — Arcreal, Software Redefines Digital Dentistry
• Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
• Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.

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• Pillyze — mobile health care startup
• InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
• Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.

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• Dremo — Dreamo is a leading game developer making great games for friends, family, and people around the world.
• Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
• Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.

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• Ionblox — High energy density lithium ion batteries for ground and aerial electric vehicles
• Scintil Photonics — SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic IC with wafer-level lasers integration.
• Lightspeed Photonics — Lightspeed Photonics is a building of modular optoelectronic processors and interconnects for data centers and near-edge computing.

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• Bionsight — We are pioneering a new era of AI to facilitate the long journey from a laboratory to the patients in drug discovery
• Superblock — Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core.
• Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.

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• N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
• Pilleye — Pilleye, the world's No. 1 counting app. Count up to 1,000 pills through a picture. Medility provides digitalized solution for pharmacies.
• Everon — Everon is an electric vehicle charging platform that provides maintenance, repair, and control services for electric vehicles and chargers.

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• Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
• Order Hero — Order Hero is an application for food service management.
• DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.

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• LOWE — Lowe is a shared beauty salon platform service that provides a variety of beauty infrastructure such as beauty spaces, facilities and materials, and creates an optimal environment for designers to focus on the essence.
• Trash Busters — Trash Busters manufactures reusable cups and dishes.
• Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.

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• Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
• Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
• sendy Korea — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.

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• Levit — Mobile commerce app that allows customers to have an enjoyable and affordable shopping experience
• Eight Tech — Eight Tech is a resource circulation platform that solves the waste problem with science and technology.
• Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.

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• Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
• Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
• Epic Corporation — The Epic One platform services will be improved, and Epic Corporation will broaden its business sectors. First, the global bidding system in four significant Asian nations will be improved overall, coupled with an update to the AI function that determines the anticipated contract price, in order to maximize the transaction completion rate for thesale of luxury assets. Additionally, there is a plan to considerably broaden its brands and product categories, which currently include luxury watches, luggage, hypercars, and artwork.

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• DoubleMe — DoubleMe is a leading volumetric capture company focused on bringing the physical and virtual worlds together. The company pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with 3D technology and create simple solutions that improve the lives of real people, in real time.Operating in Sunnyvale, London, and Seoul and partnering with 15 telcos worldwide,DoubleMe is constantly developing new ways to democratize 3D technology and bring the physical and virtual worlds together.DoubleMe's technology provides an end-to-end platform for social holographic reality experiences. The company has received more than $17M in funding to date.
• KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.
• Selecxine — Selecxine is a biopharmaceutical development company specialized in the field of immunotherapeutics. Selecxine strives to develop immunotherapeutics a new paradigm of pharmaceuticals– through a specialized antibody development process, using an innovative platform technology of functional antibody screening and development.

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• Hanvit — Hanvit provides bespoke solutions.
• Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
• RichAlien — Rich Alien was founded with the intention of creating immersive mobile games ranging from worldwide casual social games to mid-core games based on well-known foreign animations and webtoon IPs.

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• FADU — FADU is a fabless start up focusing on memory and storage architecture. Explosively increasing data requires next generation storage and FADU would like to preempt the opportunity. Though they are very new comer in this industry, they believe that new and innovative idea is the most required in this fast changing enviornment. Built based on 3groups of talented people, - brilliant architects including 5 Ph.Ds, high caliber ASIC experts, and seasoned SSD engineers from leading memory and storage companies - their team has comprehensive capabilities to innovate this industry. they introduce true next generation products and will raise the bar for the entire industry.
• TagHive — Class Saathi empowers schools, teachers, and students through student engagement, performance tracking, and adaptive learning solutions.
• Oilnow Korea — Oilnow Korea provides real-time gas station price comparison information.

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• DeepHow — DeepHow uses machine learning to capture real-time technical expertise in the form of smart how-to videos generated in record time.
• ConnectDER — ConnectDER develops small elegant solutions for big complex problems in the power and water sectors.
• Venti Technologies — Venti Technologies is a safe-speed autonomous vehicles developer company.

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• Vogo — Vogo provides vivid live shopping.
• Eight Tech — Eight Tech is a resource circulation platform that solves the waste problem with science and technology.
• Wayne Hills Bryant AI — Wayne Hills is developing an algorithm that extracts dictionary meanings from text and voice data with AI technology and automatically converts them into digital content by combining images, animations, and sound effects that match them.

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• Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
• Switchwon — Switchwon provides currency exchange services.
• Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.

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• Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
• EquipmentShare — Get the newest equipment, track your entire fleet and put your assets to work when you aren't using them, all with EquipmentShare.
• Monochrome Technology — Monochrome Technology focuses on extraordinarily lightning-fast laser processing equipment in the area of advanced manufacturing.

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• Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
• Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
• Crossbow Therapeutics — Crossbow Therapeutics is a seed-stage, stealth-mode oncology startup company. The company develops antibody engineering for intracellular cancer targets.

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• sTraffic — sTraffic provides fast and safe transportation system solutions.
• Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
• Source.ag — Our AI supports both experienced and new growers to produce more fruit and vegetables anywhere in the world, increasing business results while reducing risks

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• Hardt Hyperloop — Hardt develops a transport system in traveling huge distances completely emission-free, safe, and accessible to everyone. Hardt Hyperloop has emerged from the winning team at the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition, dedicated to realizing the hyperloop.
• Gomi Corporation — Gomi Corporation is a Overseas market.
• Elk Valley Resources — Elk Valley Resources operates as a steelmaking coal producer. Teck Resources Limited announced the reorganization of its business to separate Teck into two independent, publicly-listed companies: Teck Metals Corp. (“Teck Metals”) and Elk Valley Resources Ltd. (“EVR”).

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• Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
• Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
• Campus Ground — Campus Ground is a camping platform that provides camping site search, camping content, and camping supplies.

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• KevinLAB — KevinLAB is a company specializing in platforms of energy management systems.

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• Neuro Pack — Neuro Pack is a packaging development company that extracts packaging materials from natural products.
• Teamwork — Global contech company timwork

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• Cool Sign — Coolsign is an EV specialist that offers a complete set of hardware and platforms based on its own technology for the reliable operation of electric car charging stations.
• Selecxine — Selecxine is a biopharmaceutical development company specialized in the field of immunotherapeutics. Selecxine strives to develop immunotherapeutics a new paradigm of pharmaceuticals– through a specialized antibody development process, using an innovative platform technology of functional antibody screening and development.
• Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.

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• Kinava — Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
• Geek Planner —
• Somsidang Company — Somsidang Company is an online learning platform that offers baking and pottery painting training services.

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• Byhayan — Byhayan is an eco-friendly lifestyle business that strives for a more sustainable future by repurposing everyday consumer goods with environmentally friendly materials. It can be challenging.
• Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
• Sixty Hertz — Sixty Hertz is a social venture that provides climate crisis with IT technology and services.

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• Energy X — Energy X is an AI-driven online energy platform company based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Energy X connects various energy market participants from individual households to EPC contractors and investors via its online and mobile Social Energy Platform. Backed by socially responsible venture capital investors, Energy X strives to become the globalstandard for clean energy development and energy securitization.
• GeneCast — GeneCast provides cancer screening, monitoring, precision care and accompanying diagnosis through source technology that amplifies only mutated genes.

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• Sendtime — Sendtimes is an automated B2B tool that offers a software platform for schedule management.
• NODA Labs — NODA Labs is a data analytics company that provides actionable market intelligence and direct sales engagement services.
• Career Day — Career Day is a business networking comapany that offers information to companies and experienced talents to facilitate connection.

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• Returnit — RETURNIT is a service that replaces single-use containers with reusable containers used for food delivery.
• Sugarblade — Sugarblade is a non-destructive test-based used golf goods certification and trading platform.
• City Storage — City Storage is a side dish platform that produces and sells salads, soups, and pickles.

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• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• Siffron — siffron provides retail merchandising and custom display solutions.With more than 60 years of retail expertise, siffron has more than 6,000 retail fixtures, store shelving, shelf management systems, and stock displays.
• Europa Eyewear — Europa is an eyewear company which is proud to craft products and policies focused on supporting likeminded, independent eye care professionals

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• Dot Inc — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
• Kokoji — Kokoji is a kids' audio tech platform. Kokoji redesigns childrens content consumption journeys based on audio content. Kokoji provides services for children, such as language, brain, and emotional development, through auditory stimulation.
• FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.

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• Douzone — Douzone provides information and communications technology solutions and services for companies.
• onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
• Lotte Group — Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sellsconfectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.

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• Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
• Volta Charging — Volta delivers EV charging solutions to property owners, power to the electric vehicle community and impactful brand stories to everyone.
• Blue Park Smart Energy Technology — BPSE operates battery swap stations for electric taxis in Beijing, which saves time for drivers by allowing them to quickly change their battery rather than plugging it into recharge.

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• Absology — Developer of in-vitro-diagnostic systems designed to help save more lives. The company's platform offers various diagnostic kits such as testosterone, vitamin - D, PSA, TSH, FreeT4, PCT and also helps in anti-cancer therapy monitoring, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer's diseases monitoring, enabling doctors to easily diagnosedifferent types of medical conditions and treat them suitably.
• PMX Inc. — PMX is a digital health company that delivers personalized physical examination through the democratization of medical imaging with AI to providers and patients all around the world. We at PMX have developed a multi-modality imaging platform to measure the major vital organs and tissues of the body for universal care and wellness.
• Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.

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• Rubit — Rubit is an online mobile application with the provisions for individuals to take care of their pets.
• Cre Planet — Cre Planet creates technologies for analyzing advertising performance and provides staffing services.
• Wise Convey — Wise Convey is innovating smart logistics, starting with task automation.

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• Inabooth — Inabooth is a character licensing platform that connects character IP owners and character IP users.
• Revation — Revation is an eco-friendly product development company that focuses on environmental issues through design and technology.
• Junction Med — Junction Med develops and operates CareBom, a child-based senior healthcare communication service.

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• Aeonus — Aeonus is a carbon neutral startup company that offers eco-friendly power source to replace diesel generators.

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• Intosky — Intosky is an unmanned aircraft vehicle company that develops airline products and designs.
• Tredy Team — Tredy Team online platform provides athleisure fashion.
• Futurism Labs — Futurims Labs is a consignment management service that specializes in blockchain technology.

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• Pillyze — mobile health care startup
• sendy Korea — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
• Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.