Top 50 Medical Device VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in October 2023

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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.
• Jente — Jente provides a B2B service that connects boutiques with domestic companies. The company's online platform offers distinct products that become trendsetters as a result of rapidly discovering and sourcing new brands, allowing clients to quickly bring new products from boutiques.
• Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.

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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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• Wig Hill — Wig Hill is a seller of pet products.
• ONES Global — ONES Global provides global healthcare solutions and databases for the healthcare market.
• MyBrain — MyBrain's brain-only MRI can lower equipment costs through component miniaturization, lower maintenance costs and enhance maintenance through the use of conduction cooling technology, and improve diagnosis ease and accuracy through the development of AI diagnosis software. It is unique in that it can be improved.

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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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• Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
• Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
• Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.

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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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• 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.
• RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
• Caring — Caring is a visiting medical treatment facility that offers medical consultation.

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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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• 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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• 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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• USIMSA — USIMSA is a mobile sim company that offers eSIM-based overseas roaming service.
• Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
• Velymonkeys — Blimonkids has created and run its own retail platform to aid the expansion of Korean cosmetics in India. In particular, it offers a one-stop service for the introduction of Korean beauty products into India, distribution, and sales, as well as marketing and sales, through its own mall, Maccaron.

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• ExoStemTech — ExoStemTech is a biotechnology company that develops stem cell exosome therapeutics, plant exosomes, and anti-cancer drugs.
• Super Kitchen — Super Kitchen is a seller of beef soups, tomato meatballs, and altari pickles.
• H Robotics — H Robotics develops, manufactures, and distributes state-of-the-art rehabilitation solutions, including medical robots and data-driven, telemedicine offerings for people who suffer from stroke complications and other neurological or musculoskeletal diseases.

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• S-Alpha Therapeutics — Digital approach for unmet medical needs. We embody technology that understands and cares for humans.
• Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.

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• Goodoc — Goodoc (굿닥) is a Korean smartphone application that helps users with a variety of medical services. The app allows users to access reliable information on doctors, hospitals, and other medical services. It also provides users with information on doctors' fees, hospital fees, contact numbers, and more.
• Brain Gear — The idea behind using an infrared wavelength (700 to 980nm) for SleePYA in insomnia treatment is to target specific areas of the brain or body associated with sleep regulation.

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• Rootrix — Rootrix is a tree data platform that provides tree-quality maintenance data using 3D scanning and lidar technology.
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• Medi&B Tech Company — Medi&B Tech Company is a medical device manufacturing company that researches and develops urinal disposal machines and skin care devices.

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• Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
• Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
• Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.

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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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• Travelio — Temukan akomodasi yang cocok untuk liburan bersama keluarga, sahabat maupun urusan bisnis di www.travelio.com. Lebih luas, lebih nyaman dan lebih seru. Cek www.travelio.com
• Nuanwa Technology — Nuanwa Technology is a health insurance technology platform. The company is positioned in the field of health insurance technology, mainly serving insurance companies and Internet platforms, providing products customization services, risk control, claims services, system services and other solutions for its health insurance business. Medicalecology and health insurance, open up barriers to medical data information.
• blinkit — Grofers is a low-price online supermarket that gets products across categories like grocery, beauty, and wellness, household care, baby care, pet care delivered to your doorstep. Grofers provides over 3,000 products at prices lower than supermarkets every day.Grofers currently operates in a total of 26 cities across India: Agra, Ahmedabad,Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Mysuru, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, and Visakhapatnam.

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• Next&Bio — Next&Bio is a company that provides researchers and consumers with a new concept of medicine and pharmacy based on original technology.
• Biome ATS — BioM ATS intends to provide the fundamental infrastructure required to progress the complex strain design platform and foster technical collaboration with microbiome firms through proof-of-concept (POC) of the complex strain design technology. It is a strategy to begin the platform business in earnest by the end of the year, with an emphasis onplatform advancement and collaboration with industry, academia, research institutes, and the military.

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• Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
• 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.
• Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.

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• GXC — The Company that aims to change the global gaming ecosystem for the better
• Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
• Content Technologies — Content Technologies is a content IP-based company builder.

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• RSN — RSN provides solutions that analyze changes in social awareness and trends in the flow of digital information and suggest their meaning.
• Letsur — Letsur developing automated solutions for AI development and data cleaning services.
• 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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• Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.
• Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
• Doctor Cha — Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.

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• Huinno Aim — Huinno Aim is a clinical decision support system platform that designs wearable device based on AI technology for the medical industry.

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• Quriously — Quriously is an integrated platform for video lectures in Korea.
• Slid — Slid is a tool that helps online learners capture, record, and take notes while watching online lectures.
• Onconic Therapeutics — Onconic Therapeutics specialises in the research and development of cancer treatments.

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• Kigle — KIGLE, KIDS' FIRST PLAYGROUND
• Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
• Fassker — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.

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• Huinno Aim — Huinno Aim is a clinical decision support system platform that designs wearable device based on AI technology for the medical industry.

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• Nuvilab — We lead innovation of the Food-tech through AI technology that is helpful for both human and the environment.
• Right Route — Right Route is an e-commerce company for clothes.
• Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.

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• Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
• onepredict — We offer a digital brain solution that diagnoses and predicts the status of key industrial assets based on industrial AI and IoT technologies.
• OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• 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.
• EOS Studio — Media and Information platform provides news and other articles on the start-up in Korea

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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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• Next&Bio — Next&Bio is a company that provides researchers and consumers with a new concept of medicine and pharmacy based on original technology.
• AIO Foods — AIO Foods is a food-tech startup that designs and manufactures personalized food.

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• Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
• NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
• Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.

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• GenKOre — GenKOre operates as a biotech company, specializing in genetic scissors.
• Artiwells — Artiwells is a real estate tax calculation company for asset management and tax reduction.
• Activity Exchange — Activity Exchange is a startup that develops travel product publishing and reservation management solutions for local travel agencies.

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• JeCLEAN — JeCLEAN is a washing company that provides bedding, laundry and delivery service.
• MiNER — We change lifestyles with data.
• shared fishery — Shared fishery is a fishery firm that specializes in collecting, storing and selling fresh sea fishes.

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• MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.
• Mr. Dad — Mr. Dad is a seller of food products.
• AffyXell Therapeutics — AffyXell was established in January 2020 by Avacta and Daewoong as a joint venture to develop novel mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapies.

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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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• MEZOO — Mezoo Co., Ltd.

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• Geekble — Geekble is a media startup that produces new media content on science and technology to bridge the gap between geeks and the world. With revenue from workshops and branded content, Geekble is building its own "maker space" for geeks to experiment. Teachers and professors are using Geekble's content for educational purposes, andGeekble videos have been used for public TV.
• New Vessel — New Vessel is to navigate the sea of e-commerce. We utilize our e-commerce and consumer branding experience and partner with world-class e-commerce experts.
• Stockeeper — Stockeeper creates and operates a Korean beef asset platform, Bankau, that connects consumers and producers.

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• AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
• EGNIS — EGNIS is a supplier of food products.
• Daejin Advanced Materials Co. — Daejin Advanced Materials Co. is a research institute that manufactures fullerene, electric, and thermally conductive polymer materials.

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• Munto — Munto is a community platform that enables individuals to connect better online and offline depending on their interests.
• N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
• d'strict — d'strict is a design agency that provides content and digital media technology.

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• DNC Biotechnology — DNC Biotechnology is an R&D centre that researches and improves technology for medical devices.

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• Vinssen — Vinssen is a manufacturer of electric and hydrogen ships.
• Brandi — Brandi sells clothes, cosmetics, and home interior products.
• Blue Farm Korea — Blue Farm Korea supplies medical consumables, medical devices, and quasi-drugs for domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies.

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• GSF System — GSF System is an artificial intelligence factory that specializes in factory construction and government support projects.
• Mr. Dad — Mr. Dad is a seller of food products.
• Bell Abel Bio — Bell Abel Bio develops usable biomaterials and provides production.

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• Bredis — Bredis Healthcare provides a variety of solutions for early diagnosis and prognosis monitoring of dementia based on ultrasensitive detection of biomarkers in bodily fluid. We also offer various digital solutions for personalized cognitive training to prevent and treat the disease.
• Cheongse-Lab — Cheongse-Lab is an e-commerce and retail company.
• Code blossom — Code blossom is a medical code used when an emergency or announcement occurs in a hospital.

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• Bredis — Bredis Healthcare provides a variety of solutions for early diagnosis and prognosis monitoring of dementia based on ultrasensitive detection of biomarkers in bodily fluid. We also offer various digital solutions for personalized cognitive training to prevent and treat the disease.
• Lynx Biosciences — LynxBio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company combining physiologically relevant suspension cell co-culture assays, automated microfluidics, and deep learning analytics with the goal of rapidly advancing drug candidates in oncology and bringing personalized cancer treatments to patients.
• MAIA Biotechnology — MAIA Biotechnology is an immuno-oncology company that focuses on developing first-in-class drugs with novel mechanisms.

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• Key Proteo — Key Proteo is a developer of a novel peptide screening for newborn babies. The company aims to improve and expand the current newborn screening programs and subsequently provide early intervention for genetic diseases before they are clinically manifested.It specializes in multiplex analysis for any extremely low-abundance proteins from a fewdrops of blood (DBS) using surrogate peptide markers by mass spectrometry. With this new technology, Key Proteo targets new or existing genetic conditions to change their clinical course and ensure a better quality of life for its patients.
• Sonic Incytes — Sonic Incytes Provides Portable, Point Of Care Solution To Assess Liver Stiffness & Liver Attenuation. Learn About Our Handheld 3D Ultrasound Solution.
• Charco Neurotech — Device CUE1 by Charco Neurotech offers a novel, non-invasive approach to increasing quality of life for people with Parkinson's.

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• BRLab — BRLab is a healthcare company in the sleep tech area. We serve sleep tracking and enhancing platform but also ai-based life coaching services. BRLab's platform allows you to use top notching sleep technologies to any type of related applications.
• M3SEN — M3SEN is an artificial intelligence company that provides 3d image reconstruction and lidar technology services.
• Live Anywhere — Live Anywhere is a tour guide that recommends houses suitable for monthly living.

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• Quinncia — Quinncia is an AI-based career development platform that helps students improve interview skills, polish resumes and find jobs. With the mission to make career development a part of academic curriculum, Quinncia allows career service to scale their offerings allowing each student to get personalized feedback on their resume and interviewing skills.Quinncia then connects students to potential employers who use Quinncia's AI to conduct first-round interviews. Quinncia was founded in 2015 by Himal Ahuja and Steve Farthing.
• Medi Whale — We believe that early detection is the best prevention. Our innovative diagnostic technology helps you take action before symptoms appear.
• AstrumU — AstrumU was created to translate educational experiences into economic opportunity. We are on a mission to quantify the return on education investment for learners, education providers, and employers.

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• Spiceware — Spiceware is an easy-to-install automative PII protection service for the cloud in the category of Privacy Preserving in Analytics.
• Medi Whale — We believe that early detection is the best prevention. Our innovative diagnostic technology helps you take action before symptoms appear.
• The Grim Entertainment — The Grim Entertainment publishes webtoons.