In this third special lecture of the SolBridge Business Competition lecture series, Mr. Peter Shin, the Program Manager at 500 Korea – a venture capital firm that aims to seed Korea’s top startups and help them scale globally. Peter Shin is an active founder coach and an angel investor of consumer services, B2B SaaS, and self-development tools. In addition, he participated in YC W20 as a Co-Founder of QueryPie.

Y Combinator is an American technology startup accelerator launched in 2005 that has been used to launch over 3000 companies, including Airbnb, Reddit, Dropbox, Coinbase, and Twitch. Peter Shin shared his Silicon Valley experience when co-founding QueryPie – a centralized platform to manage scattered data sources and security policies in one place. Also, participants learned how to create startup YC companies that grow, making a compelling startup pitch, and the different types of investors they can consider when starting their business.