TIPS Partners with Five Operators to Provide Education and Mentoring Simultaneously… Discussions on Actual Investments Take Place on-Site

△Kim Jong-cheol, Deputy CEO of Infobank, is leading the “TIPS Business Plan Writing Training” session as part of the “TIPS Incubation Program.” Photo courtesy of Kookmin University Campus Town

Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul) announced that its Campus Town Project Team concluded the “2026 TIPS Incubation Program” training on the 25th, which was jointly planned with five leading domestic TIPS operators with the goal of attracting investment from promising companies and securing selection for the TIPS program.

TIPS is a leading technology startup support program run in collaboration between the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and private investment firms; selected companies are provided with up to 500 million won in R&D funding and opportunities for investment.

In Part 1, the “TIPS Business Plan Writing Training” session, active TIPS evaluators served as speakers to share key strategies and practical know-how for securing TIPS selection. Lee Seong-mun, Team Leader at Korea Investment Accelerator; Hwang Jin-soo, Senior Manager at Kingo Spring; and Kim Jong-cheol, Deputy CEO at Infobank, took the stage as presenters. They enhanced the participating companies’ understanding by sharing systematic methods for drafting TIPS business plans and success stories from companies that had actually been selected.

In the subsequent Part 2 mentoring session, Kookmin University Technology Holding and Prodigy Investment joined the three aforementioned institutions to lend their support. Investment reviewers from a total of five firms provided in-depth solutions to the challenges startups face in securing investment and drafting TIPS business plans through one-on-one, customized consulting.

In particular, the startup “Infinite Monkeys,” which participated in this program, attracted attention by achieving tangible results that went beyond mere training—such as discussing specific conditions and processes for actual investment review and TIPS recommendation with a TIPS operator matched on-site.

Based on this training, the Kookmin University Campus Town Project Team plans to carefully select promising companies from among the participants and designate them as “Provisional TIPS Participating Companies.” Subsequently, the team intends to continue providing follow-up mentoring programs to support the refinement of business plans and investment connections until the companies are officially selected for the TIPS program.

Song Hyo-jin, Special Professor for Campus Town at Kookmin University, stated, “This program went beyond mere training; it served as an opportunity to forge close ties with investment firms so that startups could achieve tangible results, such as TIPS selection.” She added, “We will continue to further strengthen our support for the scaling up of promising companies and the cultivation of ‘baby unicorns.’”