NYC Korean
startup center

2024 Cohort - Coming Soon!

Think Creative USA will be running the next edition of the NYC Korean Startup Center accelerator in the fall 2024. The program consists of 4 weeks of online mentoring to help you formulate a winning “go-to-market” strategy and 8 weeks of in person acceleration in NYC participating in seminars, one on one expert sessions, fireside chats with local entrepreneurs and, of course, meetings with clients, vendors, partners, etc. We are putting together a great program and we are now looking for the best startups. Korean based startups less than 7 years old (10 y.o. if in an emergent industry) with previous history of sales or fundraising in the US or Canada can apply in the link below.

2023 COHORT

  • 15 startups
  • 1 month online program: ASPIRE online training platform on sales and business development + One on One mentoring. 
  • 2 months on site (September-October 2023): mentoring + seminars + One on One expert work sessions +  client/partner matching + networking events.
  • Highly customized based on industry and life cycle stage.

MENTORS

CONNECT

With experts, investors, distribution channels, clients, partners, and other industry stakeholders. Our Startup Success Mentors do their best to get the startups to meet people the startups what to speak with tapping into our and their personal network.

LEARN

We run as many workshops as we think would be helpful for our startups. Everyone is invited but they are organized in 3 different tracks depending on the lifecycle stage of the startups: customer discovery, business development and investment.

  • SALES WORKSHOP
  • CUSTOMER DISCOVERY
  • BRANDING
  • MARKET EXPERIMENTATION
  • BUSINESS CONVERSATION
  • CHANNEL PARTNERS
  • CONSULTATIVE SALES
  • OUTBOUND SALES
  • GENERAL TRENDS IN IoT
  • ELEVATOR PITCH
  • WORKSHOP
  • BUILD A PREDICTABLE BUSINESS WITH KPI AND METRICS
  • FUNDRAISING
  • PITCH
  • CASE STUDY
  • COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
  • FUTURE OF RETAIL
  • US INCORPORATION AND COMPANY STRUCTURE 

GET INSPIRED

Fire side chats are a favorite among our startups; an intimate conversation over snacks and drinks with an entrepreneur or an investor with a good story to share! We also organize one on one meetings with lawyers, bankers and branding experts so the startups have all the support they need in their US market development journey. 

APPLY FOR THE
2024 COHORT

We are bringing 15 new amazing startups to NYC in the fall.
Apply before March 27 at 15:00 KST and tell us why yours should be one of them!