Investor Type | Firm |
Industries | Investment Management |
Stages | Seed |
KOISRA Seed Partners (KSP) is a Korean-Israeli mentorship-driven startup accelerator founded with the aim to foster innovation within the Korean startup ecosystem. It facilitates this by providing long-term global mentoring and resources from seasoned startup founders and executives based in Israel and Silicon Valley. Their specialty lies in the seed stage investments, predominantly focused on sectors like Mobile, Cyber Security, Internet, IoT, Robotics, Medical, E-commerce, and Telecom. KSP offers an expansive network and office space in Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Silicon Valley to support the selected Korean startups in achieving their global potential. They focus on setting and maintaining the right goals to ensure the success of these startups, emphasizing the need for Korean innovations to reach the global market and instilling leadership qualities in entrepreneurs to help them emerge as market leaders. Their support system includes providing up to 30 million KRW in initial seed funding, other perks, and extended assistance post acceleration, all designed to back innovative ideas in their early stages. KSP's managing partners Yeongjae Kang and David Park are actively involved in bringing these startups to the forefront of the global tech industry. The program encourages applications from those believing they can build phenomenal global startups, highlighting the belief that a good idea constitutes only ten percent of success, while implementation, hard work, and luck form the remaining ninety percent, in line with Guy Kawasaki's view.