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KB Financial Group Digital Platform Director Cho Young-suh, front row left, poses with participants of HUB Day at the KB Innovation HUB Center in Seoul, Tuesday. Courtesy of KB Financial Group
By Lee Kyung-minKB Financial Group held its 2023 HUB Day event to foster strong local startups and provide them with growth opportunities backed by stable financing and business development guidance, the group said Wednesday.
Ideas pitched by startups, including business models, were discussed by investment organizations, startup support providers, venture capitals and business accelerators.
State-run investment agencies participated in in-depth discussions about further collaborations.
During the “Building the Future” session, event attendees shared the successful experiences of startups that were able to apply their high-tech financial services on the operation of the group's major digital platforms including KB Kookmin Bank's KB Star Banking, KB Securities' M-able and KB Kookmin Card's KB Pay.
Government officials, investment organizer groups, venture capital funds, accelerators, KB Financial's digital platform managers and startups exchanged their opinions on financial consulting, corporate financials management, government-supported business programs and technology collaboration.
“This event enabled us to have in-depth discussions and helped us realize collaboration is possible with KB Financial Group,” a participant of the event said.
“Also helpful were shared case studies of how to apply technologies through collaboration. We were able to fortify collaboration and partnerships.”
KB Financial will continue supporting startups to turn them into next-generation unicorn companies, a KB Financial Group official said.
“We pursue cooperation with strong local startups in various fields to help change the world and bring a better future,” the official said.