D.CAMP: “Startup-Financial Sector Collaboration Project… Tinaps and KB Kookmin Bank Win ‘Collaboration of the Year’ Award” – The Asia Business Daily

D.CAMP, a startup growth partner, and the Korea Fintech Support Center jointly hosted the ‘Startup OI #Financial Sector’ event, where the collaboration case between Tinaps and KB Kookmin Bank was selected for the ‘Collaboration of the Year’ award.

On the 25th, a D.CAMP representative stated, “Yesterday, we held ‘Startup OI #Financial Sector’ at D.CAMP Mapo, highlighting outstanding collaboration cases with the financial sector.”

This event was designed to invigorate startup cooperation by discovering new partners for D.CAMP, and was held with support from the Financial Services Commission and Korea Growth Investment Corporation, among others.

On stage, five teams selected through a preliminary review—▲Tinaps and KB Kookmin Bank ▲Terafy and Woori Bank ▲Wello and KakaoBank ▲Whatsub and Shinhan Card ▲Goi Funeral Research Institute and OK Savings Bank—presented their cases in turn. They shared their experiences resolving issues in the course of real collaborations, concrete business outcomes, and the potential for future expansion.

Over 100 representatives from domestic and international financial institutions and investment firms attended the event, and 21 business cooperation and investment managers from these organizations served as judges. The evaluation focused on each team’s problem-solving experiences, results achieved, and scalability of their collaborative projects. Afterwards, a one-on-one office hour program was held to discuss additional opportunities for cooperation between startups and financial institutions.

The ‘Collaboration of the Year’ award went to AI agent reliability verification startup Tinaps and KB Kookmin Bank. Tinaps and KB Kookmin Bank jointly designed standards for verifying the reliability of financial AI responses. Kang Minseung, CEO of Tinaps, said, “I am delighted that we have been able to prove the business viability of our service through substantive collaboration with a financial institution, beyond simple technology verification. Using this award as a stepping stone, we will continue to develop safe and reliable AI services.”

The ‘Outstanding Collaboration Award’ was presented to proptech company Terafy (CEO Jeong Donghoon) and Woori Bank. Terafy structured risk elements involved in complex jeonse (long-term lease) contracts into data that can be immediately utilized by the financial sector, based on its real estate contract risk-checking platform ‘SafeHomes.’ This data was integrated into Woori Bank’s mobile app ‘WON Banking’ as the ‘Jeonse Keeper’ service, enabling preemptive risk management from the initial customer contact stage.

Wello (CEO Kim Yuriana), a Gov-Tech company that received high marks for public interest and inclusive finance, was awarded the ‘Mutual Growth Collaboration Award’ for its partnership with KakaoBank. Wello introduced a ‘policy linking service’ that matches government welfare and support fund information within the finance app to users in a customized manner, achieving over one million subscribers.

Other notable collaborations included Whatsub, which established AI infrastructure capable of automatically classifying and structuring over 600,000 payment transactions per day generated by Shinhan Card in real time, and Goi Funeral Research Institute, which partnered with OK Savings Bank to jointly launch the ‘OK Interest-Earning Funeral Installment Savings’ product by linking savings products with funeral service customer acquisition channels.

The award-winning teams will receive a total of 20 million won in prize money, distributed jointly to the startup founders and financial institution staff involved. Additional benefits will follow, including consideration for selection in D.CAMP’s signature acceleration program, business cooperation with financial institutions, connections to follow-up investments, and technical proof-of-concept (PoC) support from the Korea Fintech Support Center, all aimed at supporting rapid growth.

Lim Saerom, Head of the Resource Team at D.CAMP, said, “This event was significant in that we were able to engage in in-depth discussions on real business cooperation through the process of case presentations followed by the office hour program. We look forward to seeing these collaborations evolve into tangible business results.”

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