[아시아경제 김효진 기자] DGB Financial Group announced on the 21st that it is recruiting the 3rd’DGB Finance FIUM Lab’ to create a creative startup ecosystem through shared growth with startups and prospective entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and technologies.
‘DGB X Strat-up: Collaboration’ is the core operating direction for Pium Lab’s 3rd phase, and will focus more on strengthening collaboration following the 2nd phase. Anyone can apply for innovative start-ups that can create synergy with all fields of fintech and DGB Finance, and start-ups that wish to apply can download and fill out the documents announced on the DGB Financial Group’s website and submit by February 7th. .
DGB Financial’s financial affiliates and start-ups in a specific field that can strengthen digital innovation together are classified and selected as intensive recruitment fields, and recruitment is divided into’Incubator Track’ and collaboration’Open Innovation Track’. The received documents will go through an in-depth screening process, and the finalists will be announced at the end of February, and the program will begin in March.
Selected startups are provided with a variety of support and fostering programs such as free office space support, specialized consulting programs, various investment linkage support, and utilization of the financial regulation sandbox system. After operating for about six months, the operating results will be disclosed through a demo day at the end of the year.
Pium Lab’s’FIUM’ is a combination of Fintech’s’F’ and Innovation’s’I’, meaning’Fium,’ leading digital finance in the 4th industrial era. In order to do so, a total of 11 companies were selected and nurtured until the 2nd term as Fintech Lab, which was first established in the local financial sector in June 19th.
In the 2nd Pium Lab program, we focused on ways to resolve the grievances of affiliated startups who are having difficulty securing investment and operating funds due to the environmental change in the local startup ecosystem that has frozen rapidly since Corona 19. As a result of intensive support of IR consulting support that can highlight the business direction and strengths of affiliated companies, Pium Lab’s second-tier companies, such as local social venture company Mom’s Lab, attracted investment funds from various government support projects and venture capital. Achieved.
Active cooperation with DGB Finance is also a remarkable achievement. DID (Decentralized Identifier, decentralized identification)-based mobile employee ID issuance project was successfully carried out through Dive Co., Ltd. and DGB Daegu Bank’s IT R&D center program. · It is strengthening collaboration with startups, such as conducting a 3D characterization pilot project for’Dock D · Woody’.
Chairman Tae-Oh Kim said, “As Pium Lab, which was first launched in the local financial sector, has established itself as a regional startup development program last year, a local fintech ecosystem is being created around Pium Lab. We will continue to create new growth engines in the region by continuously linking with businesses related to the creation of the same startup ecosystem, while offering new services to customers through collaboration with startups belonging to Pium Lab.”
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