Collaboration tool startup ‘collabee’ announces that it has received pre-Series A investment led by Mega Investment and joined by Venture Square.  The undisclosed investment was finalised in November, 2015.  This is their second investment after their initial seed investment from Mashup Angels in May. Collabee aims to disrupt the current market that’s come to be so largely populated by messenger (eg., Slack) and task (eg., Asana) based collaboration tools. Collabee utilises the…

  On the 21st September, global satellite communication company DiGiFi Korea was successful with securing an investment worth US$170 million (KRW 200 billion) from UAE’s largest venture investment company, MENA Apps. Founded in 2014, DiGiFi Korea is a global company that developed an antenna for satellite communication that enables worldwide internet access. Their technology is able to create a wi-fi hotspot through their antenna that broadcasts the internet through low earth orbit satellite….

  As announced in Sparklabs Bi-Monthly Review, Korean startup Jandi confirmed that it has raised an angel round of nearly US$2 million, co-led by Softbank Ventures and Cherubic Ventures. Jandi is a business communication platform for PC, iOS, and Android devices that allows teams to securely and instantly communicate while also easily being able to share files, search through past messages, and more. There are, of course, other apps that address these concerns,…

“Touch Your Customers… Appropriately” Does the English in the above picture seem awkward to you? Let’s take a moment to look at it. There are no misspellings. The grammar is correct. But there is something definitely strange about telling a potential customer that your company “can touch anywhere”. Touch what exactly, and for what purpose? I guess we will have to use our imagination, but in this case first impressions will certainly…

나는 항상 communication의 중요성을 강조한다. 물론, 나도 잘 하는편은 아니라 매일 스스로 훈련하고 있는 부분이기도 하다. 최근 들어 내 주위에 있는 분들한테 몇 가지 해프닝들이 발생하였고 나도 간적접으로 엮이게 되면서 다시 한번 이 원칙의 중요성을 느끼게 되었다. 힘들고 곤란한 문제가 발생하면 우리는 본능적으로 이 문제로부터 도망을 가려고 한다. 그냥 도망가서 몇 일 숨다보면 문제가 해결되겠지, 직장 동료나 가족이 어떻게든 알아서 해결해 주겠지, 또는 시간이 지나면 자연스럽게 해결되겠지라는 근거없는 희망을 하면서 문제의 근원으로부터…