Shinhan Financial Group recruits startups to participate in the 2nd Shinhan Open Innovation

Shinhan Financial Group (Chairman Yong-Byeong Cho), a startup fostering platform, “S² Bridge: Seoul” (Shinhan Square Bridge), runs from February 15 (Mon) to March 8 (Mon). Innovation)> announced that it is recruiting technology startups to participate in the 2nd program.

<Shinhan Open Innovation> matches’large companies and mid-sized companies’ that need 4th industry-based technology that will drive corporate growth in accordance with the rapidly changing era after Corona 19 and’technology startups’ that need a foothold for business expansion. It is a program that helps develop markets and expand business in various forms such as linking and collaborating with the company’s business, and jointly expanding overseas. In general, open innovation programs have a single company that requires technology, whereas <Shinhan Open Innovation> is designed so that various technology-demanding companies can participate and seek collaboration.

<Shinhan Open Innovation 2nd Stage> Participating companies are ▲ Kyowon Group, ▲ Good Neighbors Global Impact, ▲ Doosan Bobcat, ▲ KT CS, ▲ Hite Jinro, a total of 5 companies. The fields are ▲ artificial intelligence (AI), ▲ virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR), ▲ big data, ▲ autonomous driving, and ▲ eco-friendly technologies.

▲Kyowon Group is an educational life culture company that encompasses education and culture business, life culture, and hotel leisure business, and is looking for a startup that will create synergy and achieve win-win growth by collaborating in the fields of edutech, travel industry, and healthcare. Participating in the 2nd period following the 1st

▲ Good Neighbors Global Impact is a public interest corporation that plans and executes economic development projects in developing countries, and has the advantage of allowing 25 countries to enter the global market through cooperation. Recruitment fields include agriculture and farming, distribution, education, energy production, and biotechnology, and are looking for startups with innovative technologies such as IT, big data, and robotic autonomous driving.

▲ Doosan Bobcat is a company that leads the global small equipment market by rapidly introducing various innovative technologies, and is a startup that will develop unmanned solutions by applying 4th industrial technologies such as big data and autonomous driving to small construction machinery and landscape equipment. Look for Along with Good Neighbors Global Impact,

▲ KT CS will expand into various fields such as CS, distribution, service, and marketing based on AI and big data in order to flexibly respond to rapidly changing market conditions and create a reliable communication and distribution culture, and discover new markets. Find a startup.

▲HITEJINRO is a mainstream company with a 100-year history and is actively participating in sustainable natural environment conservation activities. By discovering and investing in startups with innovative water treatment, industrial waste, and eco-friendly packaging technology/service-related technologies, we intend to think about environmental issues together and find future resources.

Shinhan Financial Group does not participate as a demand company, but a total of 17 affiliates, including Shinhan Bank, Shinhan Card, Shinhan Investment, Shinhan Life Insurance, Orange Life, and Shinhan AI, participate as collaboration proposals, and there is a possibility of cooperation after reviewing the application form of the final selected team. The team will be contacted separately.

Startups selected for this recruitment will be held for 9 weeks to sign collaborations with demanding companies ▲assigned professional coaches for technology and business advancement consulting, ▲B2B project proposal lectures, and ▲workbooks with technical managers in the field. Time is provided to understand the market status of the company’s own technology and to check the possibility of commercialization. Afterwards, a total of 100 million won (20 million won per team) will be awarded to a total of 5 excellent teams selected through fair evaluation and evaluation, and a total of 20 million won (10 million won per team) will be added when selected as an excellent technology team. Provided as

For this <Shinhan Open Innovation 2nd Term> program, anyone can apply for startups within 7 years of completion of business registration at the time of application, regardless of the presence or absence of existing investments, and the application will be accepted from February 15 to March 8. The final result is expected to be announced at the end of March after a document-to-face examination. In addition, a pre-company briefing session where you can directly hear business explanations and collaboration plans of demand companies for startups considering program support will be held for two days from February 25 to 26. Pre-company briefing sessions can be applied from February 15th to 24th through On-Off Mix.

The person in charge of Shinhan Open Innovation said, “For smooth collaboration between demand companies and start-ups, we have prepared a preliminary corporate briefing session to guide specific collaboration objectives, requirements, and future plans.” I hope.”

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