From 'resignation' and money shortage… Cold wind blows' k

As the global economic downturn continues due to the prolonged Russian and Ukrainian wars and interest rate hikes, the cold wave is also blowing in the domestic startup market. As the investment is shrinking and the business expansion, the multi-startups are struggling to operate due to the continuation of manpower.

Today's ship delivery service, 'Today', has not been paid a total of 4 billion won in 300 suppliers, and has not been able to pay for all employees' resignation. mesh korea 'burung' and the online and offline class platform 'Taling' are also in the atmosphere of the crisis as the core personnel are resigned.

■ Today, 'Emergency'

According to the related industry on the 5th, today's today's operator, today, informed employees at the end of last month. Today, most of the app products are temporarily sold out or sold out, and are being serviced mainly on some products on the afternoon of the afternoon.

Today's Tak Tak, which succeeded in attracting 12 billion won in Series B. The cumulative number of members also exceeded 750,000. However, the company faced financial difficulties in the process of focusing on the expansion of appearance by advancing the distribution center and expanding the service area.

Today, today, in the announcement on the 5th, The reason for inevitably suspending the service on September 1 is because there is a goal to reorganize the service today. did. However, Kim Jae-hyun, representative of today's today's employee, did not have a separate position to ask for the resignation of all employees and whether or not to operate the service.

VROONG operator Mesh Korea is also a resignation of core personnel. In July, Kim Myung-hwan, chief technology officer (CTO), an artificial intelligence (AI) expert from Stanford, left the company, followed by SM Entertainment's chief digital officer (CDO) last month.

Mesh Korea has accelerated its business to a comprehensive logistics platform company by establishing a full-filling center in Konjiam, following Gimpo and Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do. However, while the rapidly increased size, it is observed that the company is suffering from financing due to slow profits. Inside and outside the industry, it is believed to be the same as this.

Similar airflows flows even in talling. Tak Ying has been raising a portfolio in February last year after finishing the Series B investment worth 15 billion won in Megastudy, Envestor, Shinhan Alternative Investment Management, DSC Investment, and Shinhan Venture Investment.

Recently, however, Dinging is said to be suffering from manpower shortages, leaving both the C-level executives. An official who is familiar with the industry's situation said, As the venture investment market has fallen as a whole, anxiety such as opaque business prospects and growth delays could not prevent internal employees from leaving.

** ■ Domestic mother fund and investment market ↓... Rising the startup crisis

This crisis seems to have influenced the fierce market competition and unreasonable funding when compared to the 'funding' boom. An official who served as a Venture Capital (VC) representative said, The market situation has been good enough to say that the VC is not destroyed. I saw it.

According to the report released by Startup Alliance, the total number of startups in July was 135 and the investment was 836.8 billion won. It increased 16.37% from 116 cases in the same period last year, but decreased by 22.4% from the previous month (174 cases). In the case of the investment, it decreased by 72.7% compared to the same period last year (3.65 trillion won). Compared to June (1.3 trillion won), it fell nearly 40%.

An official in the VC industry said, Startups, which have been expected to be expected only in liquidity, are facing a crisis in the industry. I could do it, but now it's a sustainability.

In addition to the recent fluid in the low interest rate, the government has decided to reduce the budget for the fund, which is a resource for revitalizing private investment. The Small and Medium Venture Business Department said last month that the budget for the next year's fund was organized at W33.5bn. Compared to this year (520 billion won), it decreased by more than 70% from the previous year's 1.7 trillion won last year.

Kim Do-hyun, a professor of business administration at Kookmin University, said, It is not necessary to reduce the total amount of fund investments for venture investment associations. Evalued.

Considering the recovery resources, we must judge the expected amount of the total funds. Professor Kim said, It is a natural market phenomenon that the investment environment is changed by the external environment of the labyrinth, he said..

There is also an opinion that the government needs to encourage the government. An official of the industry said, In the case of technology companies with absolute capital construction, we must accompany R & D using investment. It is also necessary to show support measures such as incentives.

There is also a view that the government should expand its mother's funds to support startup survival. An official of the Korea Startup Forum said, In the global economic crisis, investment reduction signals are appearing in earnest.

As the private investment is shrinking, it is necessary to expand the mother's fund to support startup survival and growth, he said. We need to be able to spread through.