The Korea Exchange has launched its Korea Start-up Market, where equity shares of start-ups can be traded on the open market. Blocko, a Korean start-up, provided its blockchain technology to the project for document and identity authentication via its development platform called Coinstack. In addition, the government is also looking at ways to encourage more startups in South Korea. The start-up raised $1.3m in series A round funding from Samsung Venture Investment in July of this year.
The Korea Exchange has launched its Korea Start-up Market, where equity shares of start-ups can be traded on the open market. Blocko, a Korean start-up, provided its blockchain technology to the project for document and identity authentication via its development platform called Coinstack. Coinstack has been used by Korea’s JB Bank, Lottecard, KISA, Paygate and others. The start-up raised $1.3m in series A round funding from Samsung Venture Investment in July of this year.