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Innopolis Foundation, Successfully hosted US Silicon Valley Demo-day

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  • Date 2016-10-27
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Innopolis Foundation, Successfully hosted US Silicon Valley Demo-day

- Ediket Co, ltd successfully attracted 300 thousand dollar investment from Silicon Valley -

 

 

Innopolis Foundation (hereafter "foundation, chair Kim Cha Dong)  hosted "Demo-day" in San Francisco, USA on October 25(local time) in order to attract local investment and support business expansion of Innopolis companies in USA.

 


11 companies participating in Demo-day event are companies supported by local "accelerator" in IUSA for 2 years through Global AIM(Accelerate, Incubate, Mentor) program, a Innopolis business overseas expansion program, and successfully made debut to American market through the Demo-day.

 


Especially, Ediket Co.,Ltd had its monthly sales increase up to 15~20% through Global AIM program in short term, and succeeded in attracting 300 thousand dollar investment from local investor.


 

CEO Kim Min Gyu of Ediket Co.,Ltd said "Mentoring from local major VC and companies such as Bootstrap Labs, Andreessen Horowitz, IBM through acceleration program and building networks was the core driving force of successful market expansion to America". 

 


Chair of Innopolis Foundation, Mr. Kim Cha Dong said "Innopolis promotion business enabled systematic support for companies planning overseas expansion and attracted interests from local market in America" and added "the foundation will keep on supporting Innopolis companies to grow as global businesses in the future".




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