| Mobile Web

Search results for venture capital

Finance

IBK Industrial Bank of Korea to help 5 startups enter Silicon Valley with 8-week U.S. programme

IBK Industrial Bank of Korea selected five startups to provide a 12-week incubation programme in South Korea and the United States and support their entry into the U.S. market. Its startup platform, IBK Changgong, launched the fourth Silicon Valley accelerating programme at the COEX Startup Branch in Seoul on Wednesday. The programme is run jointly with global venture capital firm 500 Global.

AI & Enterprise

SKT launches AI for Everyone consortium to link AI services across eight sectors

SK Telecom will step up development of “AI for Everyone” by working with specialist companies and institutions across eight sectors including finance, education, healthcare, small businesses and mobility. The company said it held the consortium’s launch event on Sept. 9 at its T Tower in central Seoul. The project aims to build an end-to-end execution agent that analyses user requests and situations, connects suitable AI models and specialist services, and carries out follow-up work.

AI & Enterprise

Tech Insight: Software is consuming the world faster

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen (마크 앤드리슨) shared a post on X after saying he would make an additional investment in coding agent company Cognition. He said AI is accelerating the pace at which software is “consuming” the world, arguing software is moving from a human-speed process to a computing-speed one. He cited rising tech dominance among top global companies and examples of Cognition’s agent Devin boosting output and automation.