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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. What makes America great, as I told the president of South Korea, is our willingness to accept failure. Leadership over backbenchers?

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Why We Invested in Toya

VC Cafe

At Remagine Ventures we like to say that “we invest in technologies that change how people spend their time and money”. Advancements in technology and changing cultural behaviour are big drivers of this trend and Covid-19 was like pouring gasoline on fire. . *by Kevin Baxpehler. Toya – more than a studio.

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Korea – Asia’s Startup Powerhouse

YoungUpstarts

by Jun Byongnam, Regional Director of the Korea IT Cooperation Center in Singapore. In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea has been lauded in the speed and clarity of their response. We will take a look at what those steps have done for South Korea and the possible projections.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

But even more important than personal lessons of failure, I believe acceptance of failure at a societal level is one of the key ingredients that allows the technology startup industry in the US to flourish. I say this as somebody who has lived in 6 countries and worked in 9 — having lived abroad for 11 years of my work life.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform. To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link.

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

How do you find somebody that is exceptionally bright, driven and accomplished and yet still be humble enough to understand that the founders we back are the ones who have invented technologies and have to live with the day-to-day decision-making and hard choices. I mean this seriously.

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Dog Days of Summer

thebarefootvc

As the United States celebrated its Independence Day on July 4th, several jurisdictions around the world, including South Korea, Bermuda and Malta, passed legislation to support crypto assets and virtual currencies. Of these, South Korea’s appears the most detailed by providing a classification scheme as a framework for regulation.