KT to proceed with business projects with 5 startups in disaster safety and logistics
Published2016.10.21 11:01Plans to continue expanding business cooperation with startups by investing 2 billion won in resources across 20 companies
KT received business cooperation proposals from startups nurtured by the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as Gyeonggi Center) and held the "3rd Speed Dating" on the 19th at KT Gwanghwamun Building, where executives made immediate decisions on business cooperation on-site. The company announced that it will proceed with projects in cooperation with 5 startups.
At the event, ▲S-Winners (logistics tracking security device), ▲Metis Make (high-performance unmanned aircraft), ▲OIGSoft (facial recognition solution), ▲SafeWare (IoT airbag safety belt), and ▲PowerVoice (voice authentication solution) – 5 startups – proposed cooperation with KT in the fields of logistics distribution, intelligent safety drones, and IoT safety equipment, and business cooperation was decided for all of them.
In particular, during the evaluation process, these companies received recognition for the compatibility and validity of cooperation with KT's new businesses in disaster safety and logistics currently under preparation. This is because IoT and biometric technologies are essential to KT's future business initiatives, and each startup possessed original business models and technologies related to these areas. Based on this decision, it is expected that business concretization with enhanced customer value will be achieved through cooperation.
Meanwhile, "Speed Dating" is a rapid decision-making system in which startups propose ideas and technologies, KT executives review them, and immediately decide on resource allocation and marketing support on-site to promote commercialization. Since its first implementation in April, this marks the third occasion, and it is now emerging as a platform for KT's future new business discovery and mutual growth.
"PowerVoice," which received support from KT at the previous "2nd Speed Dating," has taken on R&D responsibilities for remote speaker authentication technology in addition to supplying voice recognition solutions, establishing itself as a major partner in KT's next-generation voice recognition-based new business.
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