Hyung Kyu Lim (hklim@nipa.kr)!Director, Global Startup Team!National IT Industry Promotion Agency!

Managed G2G cooperation projects on e-Government !in Vietnam, Pakistan, Mongolia, Cambodia and Latin America

Managed some programs for SMEs!localization projects to go global market !

Worked at the regional branch office in Silicon Valley, US!to help Korean SW companies to go to US market!

Directing 4 programs for “born global” Korean startups!

Gateway to the !Korean IT Industry!!Basis on the ICT Promotion Act !!Affiliated to MSIP !(Ministry of Science, ICT and !Future Planning)!!450 Personnel ,!$ 400 Million budget!

Overview of Startup Programs

Strengthening Startup Infra/ “Fostering Global Accelerators”

Seed Level Pre-Series A

Growth

Startup Investment Stage!

Accelerating Pre-accelerating

Business Innovation

& Re-designing

Series A~C

ICT Entreprene-urship Training in Developing Countries

Startup Korea “Miracle in Se

oul”

Accelerator Leaders Forum (

ALF)

Seed Funding

Born Global !Startup!

20 CEOs from Matured Ventures!Re-think à Re-design!à Re-engineer à Go global!

Future Play

The Ventures

Opportunity for global mingling

Invention Of the Year: The iPhone!(Time Magazine 2007.10)! Google introduced android OS !

into the market(2009)!

$26M (2011)

$200M (2013)

O Influx of talents to Startups from elite schools and consulting industry. O Investments from overseas VCs O Korean Startups are getting acquired.

Promising signs

Just Do It!

Thank you !

Hyung Kyu Lim

Email : hklim@nipa.kr

Silicon Valley Korea

Ecosystem 101: The Six Necessary Categoies to Build The Next Silicon Valley!Benjamin Joffe(Plus Eight Star) Tech Crunch website, September 2012

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