1415T2g1 South Korea/Project Teams/Team 8/Companies

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Progress Updates


SPIKA (SHAREON) Progress
Date Action
21st Jan 2015 Sent first email and received reply , expressed interest in meeting us, however C-level execs not around.
23rd Jan 2015 Replied to CEO
30th Jan 2015 Introduced to Nextrans CEO, facilitate arrangement of meeting
06 Feb 2015 Received email from Eddy Hong, Nextrans CEO.
11th Feb 2015 Replied to Eddy, stating issues with location. Status is likely to be Rejected



beSUCCESS Progress
Date Action
23rd Feb 2015 Introduced by Willis Wee of TechInAsia, sent email to reply to James Jung
9th Mar 2015 Sent 2nd reminder email, received a reply stating size office is too small
10th Mar 2015 Send reply asking for alternative location, status set to Pending


Companies

beSUCCESS


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SPIKA

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About SPIKA

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Introduction

  • Started in 2009
  • Located at the outskirts of Seoul
  • focused on cloud and sharing services using its proprietary direct sharing technology
  • Has been featured in TechInAsia , beSuccess
  • 17 employees
  • Created middle ware products for Samsung, pantech etc

Categories

    • Service Providers, Services, Cloud Computing

Funding Received

    • $840000 in 1 Round from 2 Investors
    • From GREE Ventures and B Dash Ventures



The Team




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Nicole Hosun Kim CEO
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Evan Heungju Kim CTO
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Hongmin Park CMO
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Kevin Cho CDO



About ShareON


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ShareON is an easy and powerful application that is great for sharing photos and videos with friends or family. No slow uploads to the cloud, only direct connections with friends. Use ShareON to access your media files on different devices, without any complicated settings. Use ShareON on-the-go to stream media files to a Smart TV or Wi-Fi speakers, or access all media no matter which device it is kept on!




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  • Personal cloud file sharing app
  • Works with mobile, PCs and smart TVs
  • Share pictures, movies , music and files
  • Does not require a 3rd party cloud server
  • Free
  • Available in iOS, Android, Windows





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Learning Points & Thoughts


Some learning points include:

  • How growth of a startup happens from inception stage to seed and finally exit
  • The speed and agility needed to get the product ready for the market
  • How startups leverage on media to promote its products and branding
  • Challenges in prioritizing resources for different problems/opportunities
  • How technology startups are much easier to scale and globalise.

Other Materials

Introduction Video on beLaunch
Introduction Video on beGlobal

References

beGLobal Conference
beSuccess Company Page
Information on beSuccess
Team Members of beSuccess
Other information on beSuccess Spika website
ShareOn Website
Crunchbase - Spika
Crunchbase - ShareOn
TechInAsia - ShareOn