It was a privilege to serve on the finalist selection jury of this year’s K-Startup Grand Challenge with my friends Sam Ameen from Hong Kong’s Betatron Accelerator and Greg Appelhof from Hardware Massive. Thank you again for the kindness and hospitality of the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups, National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), and the YSKMedia team.
Over three days we listened to and grilled the 80+ finalists in order to choose a top ten that would continue on with the Korean startup business development program.
Hailing from all over the world, the startups and SMEs spent 3-6 months immersed in the Korean market with curated introductions and business development with Korea’s largest corporations. We saw some inspiring projects and I was surprised by the level of business development traction that many of the companies achieved in so little time.
I also was able to meet a bit of the local blockchain/crypto ecosystem and present a condensed version of my Tokenized Securities and the Future of Investment keynote.
🏆 I love serving on startup juries, and consider it a privilege and a tremendous responsibility. Want to invite me to participate in your event? Feel free to reach out.
Below is a list of the K-Startup Grand Challenge finalists we had the pleasure of meeting.
Founder, Borderless Ventures. Director, The CryptoAssets Institute. Co-Founder, NFT Factory Paris. A sought-after MC and moderator as well as a prolific keynote speaker at leading tech conferences including Web Summit, Collision, Vivatech, SXSW, Non-Fungible, Rise Hong Kong, Ethan currently educates and inspires audiences on web3 and the blockchain economy’s opportunities for brands and the creator economy. Through Borderless Ventures, Ethan runs the European Emerging Tech Investment Syndicate focused on web3, AI, and sustainable development.
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