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Based on the weekly news released by the Korean launch media "Startup Recipe", this paper reviews the trend of the start-up scene and the trend of fund-raising in South Korea.

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Among the procurement launched in South Korea from December 6 to December 10, 15 cases disclosed the purchase amount, with a total amount of 65.9 billion won (about 6.3 billion yen).

Novel coronavirus's spread of infection paralyzed the world, but it also took this as an opportunity to promote the emergence of new services and the growth of backward industries. Parent-child-related startup, which has not received much attention from investors, is also a good opportunity. Focus on services that address the care gap caused by the closure of conservation facilities due to the expansion of infection.

This year, there have been several large-scale investment cases led by well-known VC, including Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Softbank Corp. and Andreessen Horowitz. The "Greenlight" of the children's Fintek service is $260 million, the ride-sharing service "Zum" is $130 million, the homework platform "Themomproject" for working mothers has raised $80 million, and "Otter", which provides child care services, has raised $23 million.

This trend can also be seen in South Korea. Child-related platforms emerged around 2016, but they did not attract much attention from investment companies. This year, the platform for providing care and education services for children, represented by South Korea, has raised nearly 10 billion won (about 960 million yen) of large funds, such as "Jaranda", "Dongguan, meaning of growth", "Tictoc Croc", "eel, meaning of clattering crocodile", "Mom Sitter" and so on.

Mom Sitter raised 10 billion won (about 960 million yen), while Jaranda and Tictoc Croc secured 9.7 billion won (about 930 million yen) and 7 billion won (670 million yen) this year alone. These companies have purchased nearly half of their cumulative purchases this year. This shows that investors are very interested in parenting care this year. In addition, the children's Fintec "Lemontree (production Exchange)", which is based on Greenlight, also made its debut with a seed investment of only 5 billion won (about 480 million yen). Online children's school platform "Gugge" and school application development Athena's Lab (Yinghui) also raised funds.

Because it is about parenting and child care, female entrepreneurs start the majority of businesses. It is understood that more than 60 per cent of successful fund-raising companies such as Mom Sitter, Jaranda, Tictoc Croc and Lemontrree were initiated by female founders. In particular, it seems that only a lot of money has been invested in child care services. Ensuring diversity is an issue that needs to be addressed by providing services in multiple areas such as child health care, finance and recruitment for both children and parents. In addition, in the global market, funds that focus only on family services have emerged, and although the market is expanding, there is no such trend in South Korea.

However, investments in home technology covering children, the activity of female risk partners with parenting experience and the increase in millennials who are willing to pay for parenting solutions will accelerate further.

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