Hanwha Corporation manufactures and sells explosives worldwide. The company offers industrial explosives; cladding and demolition materials; fireworks; explosive inflators; nitric acid, liquid ammonium nitrate, and ammonia; and blasting products. It also provides ballistic and cruise-type guided weapon systems; precision smart ammunitions; underwater sonar sensors, navigation devices, seekers, and laser target designators; small- and medium-sized unmanned systems; and more. In addition, the company trades oil products, plastic processed products, and inorganic chemicals; steel, nonferrous metals, and other raw materials; components for the machinery industry, welding facilities for shipbuilders, heavy equipment for construction sites, and vehicles; and paper products. Hanwha Corporation provides engineering and construction services for building, plant, and environment facilities, and others; operates athletic facilities, hotels, sports clubs, and department stores; develops, manages, and leases real estate properties; manages golf courses and resorts; manages deposits and installment savings; and offers shipping, leasing, asset management, and insurance agency and brokerage services. It also manufactures and trades machinery, petrochemicals, and synthetic resins; processes and distributes agricultural, livestock, and forest products; manufactures compounds, silicon ingots, bearings, and car parts; and generates solar energy. It is also involved in water treatment, pharmaceutical, environmental pollution, aquarium operation, incinerator, institutional foodservice and restaurant, packaging, forest development, reforestation, resources development, tourism, and catering businesses. Hanwha Corporation was formerly known as Korea Explosives Corp. and changed its name to Hanwha Corporation in March 1993. It was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Hanwha

Kingsley Ventures invests in game changers who solve societal problems and disrupt the industry.

Kingsley Ventures

Alchemist is a venture-backed accelerator focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). CB Insights rated Alchemist the top accelerator in 2016 based on the median funding rates of its grads (YC was #2). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, prioritizing having distinctive technical co-founders. The organization provides seed investment into companies it admits (typically $36K), and provides founders a structured path to traction, fundraising, mentorship, and community throughout a 6-month program. The company's backers include many of the top corporate and VC funds in the Valley -- including Khosla Ventures, DFJ, Cisco, GE, next47(Siemens), and Salesforce, among others—the accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures/year. Notable alumni include LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Quantum Computing, mPharma, Matternet, and Mightyhive.

Alchemist Accelerator

ES Investor invests in venture companies that have entered a full-fledged growth stage from the initial stage. It is dedicated to contributing to the development of Korean SMEs and ventures companies through various investments and activities The firm aims to maximize the value of their portfolio companies by providing operation and strategy consulting, marketing and promotion support, professional support, and more.

ES Investor

Ascendo Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund based in Seoul, South Korea. Through its strong relationships with Korean R&D hubs and the startup ecosystem, Ascendo has early access to source and engage top tier startups, with the primary objective of accelerating growth via cross-border business development.

Ascendo Ventures

KB Securities is a Financial Services company.

KB Securities

Atinum Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the growth stage startups in the IT, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

Atinum Partners

Zoom Venture is a venture capital fund. Zoom Ventures seeks to invest with established financial and strategic leads in order to deliver its potential impact. The company focused on providing capital to startups in mobile technology, computer software, health tech, e-business, and e-commerce.

Zoom Ventures

As a responsible and long-term partner, they aim to make various constructive contributions to portfolio companies.

Partners Investment

Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies.  Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companies with promising growth potential.

Smilegate Investment

ALLO

ALLO is designed to adapt to and enhance your specific workflow whether you're brainstorming ideas, managing complex projects, or aligning your team towards common goals.

Allo’s digital whiteboard enables collaboration in real-time to bring visual context to online meetings, brainstorming sessions, knowledge sharing, project management, and documentation, supporting remote and hybrid teams. Allo also includes customizable templates for project planning, voice memos, and supports video and document embedding. As of December 2021, Allo was used by over 400,000 active users across more than 20,000 teams.

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Allo

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Allo’s digital whiteboard enables collaboration in real-time to bring visual context to online meetings, brainstorming sessions, knowledge sharing, project management, and documentation, supporting remote and hybrid teams. Allo also includes customizable templates for project planning, voice memos, and supports video and document embedding. As of December 2021, Allo was used by over 400,000 active users across more than 20,000 teams.In December 2021, Allo raised USD 5 million in a pre-Series A funding round backed by Atinum Investment, Partners Investment, and Zoom Video Communications Inc., to expand its collaborative whiteboard solutions. Further, the company plans to invest in growing its go-to-market capabilities and expects to double its global product development teams by the end of 2022.

Hive is a productivity platform for project management and collaboration. The platform provides automated workflows, project planning layouts, and action templates to assign and keep track of project tasks. Hive focuses on improving task execution with instant feedback cycles for editing and approvals. Additional features include note taking (Hive Note), instant messaging, online meetings, and file sharing.Hive offers a variety of ways for teams to organize their projects, including Gantt charts, Kanban boards, tables, and calendars, with updates made in one view automatically reflected in all others. The platform allows team members to create action cards with files, sub-actions, dependencies, and comments to stay on top of their objectives, and have access to a personal to-do list that compiles all assigned tasks from all projects. Managers can use Hive to assign approvals, share proofs, provide feedback, and collect project forms from clients and customers. Hive also uses AI and machine learning to provide insights on team productivity and identify potential risks, and to optimize resource allocation and client billing.Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s customer base includes Google, Toyota, Comcast, and Starbucks. Hive offers integrations with over 1,000 SaaS platforms, including Asana, Trello, Basecamp, and Smartsheet, allowing users to import tasks from these platforms.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/5208">August 2021</a>, Hive raised USD 10 million in a funding round led by Rembrandt Venture Partners with participation from Zoom, and existing investors Tribeca Venture Partners and Angelpad. Hive is one of the first startups to receive an investment from Zoom’s “Zoom Apps Fund” (a USD 100 million global venture fund). The fresh funds were allocated toward platform development.&nbsp;

Hive

Grain’s software allows users to record, highlight, transcribe, and share online meeting content from tools such as Zoom in an effective manner. It automatically records and transcribes meetings, allowing users to create shareable video clips from highlighted transcript sections. Grain leverages AI to generate customizable meeting notes and answer questions about the transcript. It supports coaching and collaboration through comments and training content creation. The platform offers deal analytics and insights, tracking key account activities and integrating with tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, and Slack. &nbsp;The company’s products focus on distributed teams, sales, product and user research, and hiring teams.In April 2022, the company acquired Ping Pong, a video messaging platform.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9759">April 2022</a>, Grain raised USD 16 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. The funds were raised to expand operations and develop its ​​video meeting system of record for content, which allows employees to collaborate around insights, topics, relationships, or teams.

Grain

Air is a creative operations platform designed for creative teams to streamline their workflows and collaborate more effectively. It offers a comprehensive solution that goes beyond basic cloud storage systems, catering specifically to the needs of the creative process. Air allows users to collect content, approve assets, share versions for feedback, and organize their work seamlessly, eliminating the need for additional organizational efforts.Air provides a centralized hub for content collaboration, approval, and versioning. Air's technology streamlines various aspects of the creative workflow, including content collection, asset approval, version control, and feedback sharing. Unlike traditional cloud storage solutions, Air's platform is tailored to the specific requirements of creative teams, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively.Key customers and PartnershipsThe company’s customer base includes notable firms such as Native, Together, Spindrift, and Univision.&nbsp;Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8139">January 2022</a>, Air raised USD 10 million in an “Operator Round” led by Headline with participation from Tiger Global, Lere Hippeau, and 50+ strategic founders and marketing executives including Peter Rahal (Co-Founder, RXBAR), Kipp Bodnar (CMO, HubSpot), and Joe Thomas (CEO, Loom), valuing the company at USD 110 million. The funds were used to accelerate Air’s go-to-market activities and growth.

Acapela was co-founded by Roland Grenke, founder of Dubsmash, a video sharing social media app. Acapela facilitates online meetings without real-time interaction between participants; instead, members contribute to meetings over time.Acapela provides voice and video messages integrated with popular productivity tools such as Asana, Google Workspace, Notion, and Atlassian. Additionally, meetings will generate tasks and meeting summaries automatically. The company identified distributed tech teams as its initial target segment and plans to shift focus toward small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger enterprises eventually. The product is currently in invite-only beta.In October 2020, the company exited stealth mode with a USD 3 million seed funding round led by Visionaries Club. The round included Entrepreneur First and other notable individual investors, such as Christian Reber (founder of presentation software Pitch) and Taavet Hinrikus (founder of online money transfer service TransferWise).

Acapela

iObeya is a cloud-based enterprise visual management platform that enables organizations to digitize their Lean, Agile, and Industry 4.0 practices. The platform provides virtual "Oobeyas" (Japanese for "big room"), which are digital collaborative workspaces where teams can align, synchronize, and visualize their work using digital boards, sticky notes, and other visual tools. iObeya's platform allows teams to recreate the in-person experience of paper-based visual management practices with real-time collaboration, enhancing team efficiency, creativity, and problem-solving.iObeya's technology supports a wide range of enterprise use cases, including industrial product lifecycle management, manufacturing operational excellence, product development, and continuous improvement for business performance and agility. It integrates with various systems like ERP, MES, BI, and Application lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Azure DevOps Server.Key customers and partnershipsiObeya's customer base includes global enterprises such as Airbus, Thales, Volvo, Philips, Cartier, Axa, Eli Lilly and Company, Western Digital, General Electric, Kimberly-Clark, Danaher, and Sanofi.Funding and FinancialsIn July 2020, iObeya raised USD 17 million in a series A funding round led by Red River West with participation from Atlantic Bridge Capital and Fortino Capital Partners. The funds were allocated to develop its platform further and accelerate the company’s expansion in the US.

iObeya

Platforms that provide virtual workspaces using spatial technology to combine a variety of productivity and collaboration tools in a single space.

Platforms that provide standalone presentation software, prototyping and web development software, templates, and design workspaces.

Platforms that facilitate task delegation and tracking with board, timeline, and kanban style views.

Platforms that provide standalone video communication tools and complementary products such as interactive interfaces, presentation features, and transcription software.

Platforms that offer chat and email-based collaborative tools.

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Some solutions in the virtual office and video conferencing segments are based on AR/VR

Facilitates hybrid workforces by offering tools for employees to collaborate regardless of location

Meeting transcription and note-taking apps, design, and project management tools use AI/ML for product development

Allo

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