Lotte Ventures, Lotte Group's startup incubation and investment company, said on the 21st it will run the "2025 L-CAMP Japan 3rd cohort" program with Lotte Ventures Japan to support overseas expansion by startups in Korea and Japan.
L-CAMP Japan is a program launched in 2023 to help startups expand overseas by carrying on the global pioneering spirit of Lotte founder Shin Gyeok-ho. Lotte CVC (Corporate Venture Capital) in Korea and Japan helps promising domestic startups enter Japan. Since last year, it has also been selecting Japanese startups hoping to enter Korea.
The camp, held in Tokyo for three days from the 20th of this month, will feature 11 startups in artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare, content, and food tech (nine from Korea and two from Japan). In addition to startup investor relations (IR) pitches and one-on-one business meetings with investors, there will be a panel talk session on strategies for attracting investment from Japanese VCs, and a lecture on growth know-how by Ogawa Ryo, the head of Japanese unicorn startup Timee.
The event is co-hosted by the Busan Center for Creative Economy and Innovation and supported by the K-Startup Center Tokyo and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Kim Seung-uk, head of Lotte Ventures, said, "Lotte Ventures in Korea and Japan joined hands to help startups that struggle to go global due to a lack of local networks, language barriers, and insufficient understanding of local laws," and noted, "Based on our accumulated know-how operating overseas expansion programs and our overseas hub infrastructure, we will support startups with strong business capabilities and technology in pioneering global markets."