The document describes the Korea Gateway Program, a closed networking event organized by Keisuke Kajitani to connect startups and venture capitalists from Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The 2-day program in Seoul will feature presentations from 15 Korean startups in various fields like social media and dating sites. It will also include sessions with Korean incubators like Seoul Space. The goal is to deepen understanding of startup trends, opportunities for Asian startups to succeed globally, and fundraising in the global entrepreneurship landscape.

1. Korea Gateway Program
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Contact Information
Keisuke (Kay) Kajitani / Venture capitalist based in Tokyo
Organizer of Youth Venture Summit
URL: http://youthventuresummit.com/
Email: teriyakong@gmail.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/keisuke.kajitani

2. Preface
Dear all the people who had kindly gave me a great opportunity
Hello, this is Keisuke (Kay) Kajitani, Japanese VC who've organized this closed
networking program.
First of all, thank you very much for sparing your precious time. From last year, I've been
trying to connect Asian startup ecosystem by conducting event called Youth Venture
Summit (http://youthventuresummit.com/).
Thanks to the great connection and friendship among Korean entrepreneurs and VC, last
year was a great success for both of us. Some attended company started market
expansion to Japanese market and we hope our event was one of the kickstarter for
such movement.
- Keisuke Kajitani

3. What we did last year (Youth Venture Summit 2011)
-YVS is designed to connect the world venture ecosystem to
enhance the global expansion of startups.
-Inviting 15 famous startups & incubator from Korea,YVS organized
networking conference at mixi(Japanese social network service)
with Korean startups and 100 Japanese entrepreneurs and venture
capitalists ,November 28 2011.
-Attended TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo and visited major players in
this industry (FujiTV, NHN, Samurai Incubate). http://youthventuresummit.com
http://bit.ly/NEC8vq (youtube)
Key Speakers
Masahiko Honma Richard Min Takahito Iguchi HeeEun Park
Incubate Fund Seoul Space Tonchidot Corp. I-UM Socius
General Partner Co-Founder,CEO Founder CEO

4. What's about to happen This year: Korea Gateway Program(KGP)
Concept
2 days of closed networking with fast growing Korean startups and
incubators with global mindset. Through our program, we aim to
deepen our understanding of following 3 key topics for creating global
startup ecosystem.
Trend : Startup trend in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.
Market : How can Asian startups win in global market.
Funding : How should entrepreneur raise investment and how should
venture capitalists act in global entrepreneurship era.
Time
From August 27th(Monday) and 28th(Tuesday).
Place
Korea, Seoul.

5. Who is coming
Kiyo Kobayashi/CEO of Nobot
Smartphone Adnetwork company, exited to KDDI by 1,500M Yen
(http://www.ad-maker.net/company/)
Naoki Yamada/CEO of Anydoor
Social translation service. Partnership with Tripadviser.
http://any-door.com/
Yenwen Feng/Founder of Cubie messenger
Taiwanese drawing messenger service. Reached 2M download in 2
month. They will be participate in 500startups.
http://cubie.com/

6. Schedule
August 27th (Monday)
9:00 Vingle
12:00 I-UM
17:00 Moglue
19:00 VCNC
August 28th (Tuesday)
9:00 beSUCCESS
12:00 K-Cube Ventures
14:00 Seoul Space
17:00 Go venture Forum
19:00 Primer

7. Who will we see: Startups
Vingle is a interest based social media run by founder of VIKI,
global TV site with more than translating program to 150+
languages and bring to its 1 million users. Vingle recently raised
$450,000 from K-cube ventures. (http://www.vingle.net/)
ium is a dating site where you get matched with one person
per day. Once you see your matches profile, you can make a
decision whether you are interested. If both parties say yes,
contact information is exchanged. (http://i-um.com/)
Moglue is developing a desktop platform that allows publishers,
amateur authors and artists a way to create interactive stories and
release them as apps for iOS and Android operating systems with
one-click publishing. (http://www.moglue.com/)
Between is closed SNS for couples with more than 1million users.
Their app is becoming very popular worldwide with speedy global
expansion strategy. (http://appbetween.us/en/)
Spoqa is a smart phone app, and it’s what we call social loyalty
card. It has partnership with more than 150 stores in Korea. Won
special award in last year's Techcrunch Disrupt Tokyo.
(http://startdodo.com/)

8. Who will we see: Incubators and media
Seoul Space is a leading start-up incubator that gives ambitious
young start-ups a co-working space, help with seed investment and
mentorship. Founded by David Lee, an early Director of Google and
now co-founder of XG Ventures and also a limited partner of Y-
Combinator and Richard Min, founded the first pay per click search
engine in Korea. (http://seoulspace.co.kr/)
Primer is a VC started by Douglas Guen who experienced several
successful exit of payment related services. Its sophisticated
incubator program “Enternship” had incubated several game
changing companies.
(http://www.primer.kr/)
K Cube Ventures is a VC started by Kakao Talk founder Beomsu
Kim. The fund was formed with initial capital of 5 billion won and K
Cube’s founders plan on increasing it to a total of 10 billion. The
fund plans on making investments of 100 million to 1 billion won in
early-stage mobile, internet, and gaming companies.
(http://kcubeventures.co.kr/)
beSUCCESS is a South Korean media platform about startups,
technology and entrepreneurship with English and Korean language
versions. beSUCCESS introduces Korean start-ups and companies to
global audiences through our English version and through our
media partners. (http://www.besuccess.com/eng/)

9. Go Global!
Any question?
Please contact teriyakong@gmail.com
or my FB http://www.facebook.com/keisuke.kajitani