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Pettech startup Peter Petter (CEO Park Joon-ho), which operates a pet genetic testing service, said it has attracted investment in the free A round. Peter Petter, founded in June 2020, attracted Free A investment from Pet Friends and Findus last year after attracting Seed investment, and this investment is about 900 million won. MY Social Company and Hi Investment Partners participated in this investment. Peter Petter operates genetic testing services "Cattering" and "Dogma" for the health care of pets. It is a non-face-to-face home care service developed by researchers and veterinarians from Seoul National University, and guardians can easily collect and test the genes of pets at home by purchasing kits online. Through the test, you can receive a result report including the risk of developing genetic diseases in naturally born pets and a health care guide. Peter Petter's service can be tested for multiple genetic diseases at once, and can enjoy up to 94% cost savings compared to other testing institutions. Peter Petter's core competitiveness is that it develops its own pet healthcare solution and operates and manages it all one-stop within the company. Peter Petter's strength is that its co-founders, including CEO Park Joon-ho, are specialists in life science and veterinary research and development, and they directly identify the needs of their guardians to create and improve services. Genetic testing items will be continuously updated at the request of the guardians and released in August. Peter Petter, which marks its third year this year, is achieving sales growth of more than 300% every year. Starting with the selection of Seoul National University Campus Town, Jeju Creative Economy Innovation Center childcare company, and Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC) Route 330, it has been selected as a representative healthcare company. Peter Petter CEO Park Joon-ho said, "Through the Peter Petter application launched this month, the service has been improved so that guardians can easily use it, and we will continue to provide various services and contents to help pet health care." The Peter Petter application was developed with Semicolons, a web software company selected as Busan's leading start-up company in 2023, and features such as health diaries and member communities were added to record pets' daily lives in addition to applications for return and report results. "Based on this investment, we aim to focus on research and development and commercialization of new services, connecting with large companies through open innovation, and expanding our business through cooperation with animal hospitals," CEO Park said.  

  Seoul National University Campus Town Project Center announced that it will hold the 2023 Seoul National University Campus Town Demo Day at 30th to help attract investment and connect businesses. The demo day will feature IR announcements from a total of 10 companies, including Metafarmers, Ntherapeutics, MOEZ, Nanum Vitamin, NUSEUM, Wecommit, NOI Lab, AI.V.nautics corp., Concorn and Killington Materials Inc. 2023 Seoul National University Campus Town Demo Day will be held at the auditorium hall on the 5th floor of the Seoul National University Global Engineering Education Center, and will be exclusively released through online transmission through the startup and professional investor connection platforms Next Unicorn, Unicorn LIVE. Investment institutions, professional investors, and public judges will be invited to conduct screening and voting offline and online. After offline events, networking programs for companies and investors will be conducted to support follow-up investments. Seoul National University Campus Town Project is jointly operated by Gwanak-gu and Seoul National University with the aim of fostering 100 competitive startups in the global market by 2023. Currently, 37 startups move into the "Start-up HERE-RO" center and receive benefits such as free start-up space, connecting Seoul National University professors and researchers, consulting and networking support, and supporting investment through demo day.

Seoul Campus Town is a project that the city, university, and autonomous district have been working together since 2017 to provide young people with start-up opportunities, jobs and revitalize the university area. Currently, 39 universities are participating, and 2,000 start-up companies have been produced over seven years. ① New technology, start-up education for students and local residents Various educational programs are being operated in Campus Town to enhance understanding of professional and difficult future technologies such as artificial intelligence, robots, and drones, and to help students develop their dreams in related fields. ▲ Seoul National University's Robot·AI Competition Seoul National University Campus Town operates special lectures on future technology for middle and high school students living in Gwanak-gu. In order to increase teenagers' interest in future technologies and develop their dreams, they experience theoretical education as well as how actual technologies can be applied in reality through "Special Lecture on Robot·AI" and "Robot·AI Competition." In November this year, the Gwanak-S Valley Startup Fair will also be held, where innovative technology-oriented start-ups will gather in one place. ▲ Special Lecture on Robot·AI Experts at Seoul National University SNU Campus Town hold a special lecture of experts in the field of Robot·AI for middle and high school students, and they have the opportunity to think about how technology is applied in reality, such as setting artificial intelligence codes and matching sensor values. Immediate code After the game, considering the tactics of the next game, they can check how artificial intelligence is actually implemented and experience technologies through immediate modifications of code and sensors. Source: http://www.thesegye.com/news/view/1065585119457563

  Robot kitchen startup Aniai (CEO Hwang Gun-pil) won the "Kitchen Innovation Awards" at the NRA (National Restaurant Association) show, the world's largest restaurant fair. The NRA show is an annual restaurant fair held in Chicago in May, and is the largest event in the industry with more than 50,000 restaurant officials. The "Kitchen Innovation Awards" will be awarded to products that have received high reviews from restaurant experts such as technology and innovation. Aniai is the first Korean food tech cooking robot company to win the Kitchen Innovation Awards. Aniai's hamburger cooking robot "Alpha Grill" was well received for providing a solution to the manpower shortage and operating profit reduction faced by the restaurant industry and presenting a vision for a next-generation kitchen where artificial intelligence robots and people work together. In other words, the "Made in Korea" cooking robot developed purely by Aniai with its own technology has been verified for its potential in the U.S., the home of hamburgers. Through this event, Aniai met with officials from major hamburger franchises in the United States and presented a cooking demonstration at the booth. Alpha Grill cooked more than 3,000 hamburgers in a space implemented in the same way as the kitchen environment, attracting great response from local buyers who have strict standards for commercial kitchen products. "It is meaningful that Alpha Grill is the first cooking robot in Korea to win the Kitchen Innovation Awards and be recognized for its innovation," said Hwang Geon-pil, CEO of Aniai. "We will deliver the differentiated values that Aniai pursues to U.S. restaurant officials and accelerate market dominance."   source: https://mirakle.mk.co.kr/view.php?year=2023&no=408990

Seoul National University Campus Town Project Center announced on April 13 that it signed an agreement with Mirim Girls' Information Science High School. The agreement, signed at the Mirim Women's Information Science High School Conference Hall, aims to develop and provide a continuous robot and AI manpower training program using the excellent human and material resources of the SNU Campustown. With the agreement, the two organizations plan to jointly promote ▲ artificial intelligence, maker, IOT, and coding-related education programs to foster local technology entrepreneurs ▲ sharing educational facilities and infrastructure for high school customized education programs ▲ sharing educational achievements and community spread ▲ other projects. Kim Tae-wan, head of Seoul National University's Campus Town Business Division, said, "We hope that the program organized by the business group will help local students experience robot and AI technology and grow into competitive talents for the fourth industrial revolution."