Ultra-Competitive Startup Taps into 'Silicon Valley'... Hosts IR Event

A MeetUp to Be Held in 'Cerebral Valley' on the 13th
Twenty Deep-Tech Startups Including Robotics to Participate

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on the 12th that it held the ‘Super-gap Startup Investor Relations (IR) Presentation’ event in Silicon Valley, USA. The event aimed to support the global expansion of super-gap deep-tech startups possessing outstanding technologies in new industry fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) and system semiconductors.

Oh Young-joo, Minister of SMEs and Startups, is delivering a greeting at the '2024 Super Gap Global Tech Conference' held on November 26 last year at Conrad Seoul in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. Photo by Yonhap News

The event, held on the 10th (local time), consisted of the ‘Silicon Valley IR Demo Day,’ where super-gap startups conducted IR pitching and networking targeting global major companies like NVIDIA, venture capital (VC), corporate venture capital (CVC), and U.S. state government agencies, and the ‘Cerebral AI MeetUp’ on the 13th, where excellent AI startups from ‘Cerebral Valley,’ a hub of AI developers in the U.S., met with super-gap startups to discuss technology exchange and collaboration. Twenty deep-tech startups from eight new industry sectors, including system semiconductors, future mobility, and robotics, hoping to enter the global market, participated.

Among them, nine companies in the AI and big data fields, including ‘Clika,’ participated in CES 2025, the world’s largest electronics and IT exhibition held in Las Vegas, USA. ‘The Wave Talk’ and ‘Medicos Biotech’ received the highest honor, the Innovation Award, at CES 2025.

The Silicon Valley IR Demo Day began with a congratulatory speech by Kim Seong-seop, Vice Minister of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, followed by global CVC reverse pitching, super-gap startup IR pitching, U.S. state government reverse pitching, and networking. About 100 people attended, including executives and employees from global major companies such as NVIDIA, Google, HP, Boeing, investors like SOSV, and technology agents.

The Cerebral AI MeetUp event on the 13th will start with a keynote speech by the Chief Product Officer of the AI unicorn company ‘Sendbird,’ followed by pitching and networking sessions involving excellent U.S. AI startups such as ‘Databricks’ and ‘Zendesk’ and 10 super-gap startups.

Vice Minister Kim said, “The Korean government is focusing on various policies to nurture deep-tech startups with high technology and innovation and help them enter the global market. Since super-gap startups are the highest-level deep-tech startups supported and guaranteed by the Korean government, I hope global investment institutions attending today’s event will actively invest.”