Silicon Valley
Startup school in South Korea.

A four-week startup program for founders in Korea.
Build your product. Learn from global founders.

deadline october 12th 11:59pm KST.

Our partners & sponsors

Lovable
Notion
Dedalus Labs
Doe
URSA
Founders, Inc.
Nozomio Labs
Imagine AI
Pally
Clad Labs
Jarmin AI
Clicky

The program

build for 4 weeks.

Work on your product. Get unstuck. Make your next move.

4 weeks of building
in seoul

Turn what you’re working on into something people can use. Build, launch, get feedback, and do it again.

  • Four weeks of focused building
  • A practical startup playbook
  • Other founders moving with you
Founders working on their startups around a table at Zerobase

1 week
in silicon valley

Build relationships with global founders. Explore investor introductions and referrals. Take your next step beyond Korea.

  • A global founder network
  • VC introduction opportunities
  • A separate SF Camp in San Francisco
Founders gathered for a startup office-hours session during Silicon Valley Camp

why zerobase?

zerobase has the best silicon valley resources for our founders.

Get Advice From
Experienced YC, a16z Speedrun Founders.

Talk to founders who have built, launched, and raised from YC and a16z. Bring the problem in front of you. Leave with a clearer next step.

  • YC Founder and mentor office hours
  • Sessions with top silicon valley founders.
  • Feedback on product and growth

Highest YC
acceptance rate in Korea.

Korea’s highest acceptance rate into YC, a16z Speedrun, and Founders, Inc.

  • Highest YC, Speedrun & Founders Inc. acceptance rate
  • Highest rate of raising capital in the US
  • Fastest way to go global
Zerobase founders posing together at the Y Combinator sign

The people

Learn from people
who do.

Meet the founders and operators in our network.

Sam Kim

Sam Kim

Zerobase

Farza

Farza

Clicky (YCP26)

Haz Hubble

Haz Hubble

Pally (YCS25)

Cathy Di

Cathy Di

Dedalus Labs (YCS25)

Taeyong Kim

Taeyong Kim

EO

Wyatt Lansford

Wyatt Lansford

Pally (YCS25)

Johann Dias

Johann Dias

URSA (SR005)

Richard Ou

Richard Ou

Doe (YCS25)

Arlan Rakhmetzhanov

Arlan Rakhmetzhanov

Nozomio Labs (YCS25)

Jason Zhou

Jason Zhou

Space (SR007)

Sky Yang

Sky Yang

Imagine AI (YCF25)

Richard Wang

Richard Wang

Clad Labs (YCS25)

Jun Park

Jun Park

Hillclimb (YCS25)

Joseph Stein

Joseph Stein

Veritus (YCS25)

Harpriya Bagri

Harpriya Bagri

Hotbox (SR006)

Mike Shin

Mike Shin

Founders. Inc

Ethan Cho

Ethan Cho

TheVentures

Samuel Samhan

Samuel Samhan

BluGlass

Mark Pavlyyukovskyy

Mark Pavlyyukovskyy

NZVC

Hendrik Remigereau

Hendrik Remigereau

NZVC

Peter Shin

Peter Shin

Outsome

Rachel Chung

Rachel Chung

Plug & Play

Raaj Rayat

Raaj Rayat

Airtree

Meet our companies.

Alygned
Assist
Chiyou
Clone
DailyFit
Koddy
LTBL
Lubinpla Co., Ltd.
Miraflow AI
NODOS
Operon Technologies
PingAura AI

Meet our founders.

Michael Suh

Seunghun Lee

Yunseo Kim

Jewan Youn

Jiwoon Won

Chowon Lee

Akimasa Hayashi

Alisher Kabduakhitov

Arthaud Mesnard

Benjamin Geyre

Dante Cuales

Ishika Mittal

Jero Pay

Jae Shin

Joy Park

Samuel Kim

Yashwant Tendulkar

What our founders
are building.

Jewan is building Plugspace, an AI command center that helps solo founders see what changed and decide what to do next.

Akimasa is building Unicorns Media, which connects young Japanese builders with global startups.

Arthaud is building Mio, an AI chief of staff in Slack that tracks commitments, writes recaps, and updates your CRM.

Benjamin is building Lissen, a music streaming platform that connects fans with exclusive artist content and experiences.

Ishika is building Ordo, camera-equipped AI earbuds that see, hear, and talk back without a screen.

Joy is building Viva Interactive, a mobile app that turns everyday moments into mini vlogs with fewer editing decisions.

Yashwant is building Oxcorp AI, a platform that connects brands with creators and checks content quality and fraud using AI.

Alvin is building Aurova, software that helps independent vehicle fleet owners run and scale professional rental operations.

Seungju is building Usedesktop, a personal AI agent that learns how you work and acts on your own desktop.

Soneesh is building Capsule Space Labs, which compares experiments in orbit and on Earth to study how spaceflight affects mRNA vaccine stability.

Tomas is building The Company Brain, an AI knowledge base created by interviewing employees and connecting their existing tools.

Viraj is building CogniaHQ, a shared memory layer that turns team knowledge into usable context for people and AI.

Zade is building Further Health, AI that combines medical history, blood tests, and wearable data for a fuller picture of your health.

Punk is building a multiplayer focus app where studying and productive work earn coins and in-game rewards.

Caleb is building Catch, an AI assistant that handles calls, follows up on missed leads, and helps small businesses find customers.

Cengizhan is building Eper Technologies, autonomous drones and AI software that turn field data into operational decisions.

Chayanont is building Nossy, an AI agent that manages Google Sheets through Telegram and adapts to each small business.

Sai is building Sova Health, an AI writing environment for drafting and editing the regulatory documents clinical trial sites need.

Cengizhan is building Collate, AI that models customer personas and improves businesses’ web presence to attract the right leads.

Daniel is building Coglix Labs, gamified stroke rehabilitation with movement feedback and progress reports for therapists.

Daniel is building Ouroboros, an AI platform for game and level design that combines memory systems with world models.

Dipendra is building Promptanim, a tool that turns text prompts into narrated animations that explain concepts visually.

Felix is building Teleo, a platform that learns how a business works and deploys custom AI agents with governance controls.

Guanyi is building 0x01 World, a platform for running AI agents on phones with tools intended to help them cover their own costs.

Hailey is building Coglix Labs, a home rehabilitation tool with game-like exercises, movement tracking, and clinical reports.

Heejae is building Reeca AI, an AI recruiter that finds, screens, and contacts candidates in the tools you already use.

Jaclyn is building Trove, a persistent memory system for AI agents that filters information before storing it.

Jaemin is building Spark AI, an agent that prioritizes tasks, plans your day, and carries out work across apps.

Jixin is building Homeward, a voice-based AI care agent that helps seniors manage medications and follow-ups after leaving hospital.

Jongwon is building Delphik, a tool that verifies and fixes coding tasks used to train AI agents through automated audits and human review.

Joshua is building Krosai, a platform that connects AI voice agents to local phone numbers for sales, support, and collections.

Jungwoo is building Permissionlabs, an AI meeting agent that creates drafts, slides, and research to help teams make decisions.

Kushal is building Rappr, a music trading platform that turns fan predictions into artist discovery signals for record labels.

Lukas is building Workaholic, a suite that brings browsing, work management, files, and email together with voice AI.

Mingyu is building Digital Native, a focus timer that lets keyboard enthusiasts try different mechanical keyboard sounds.

Mingyu is building Epiclog, a curated map that turns scattered online tips into local places worth exploring.

Pavel is building Monolit, infrastructure for on-chain finance that is moving from beta testing toward launch.

Life at Zerobase

welcome to zerobase.

A look inside the sessions, the work, and the community.

Built together.

Zerobase completely changed how I think about building a startup. I used to spend months trying to make everything perfect. Zerobase pushed me to launch quickly, talk to users, and learn from the market. I made more progress in a few weeks than I had in the previous six months.

Minjun Kim

Seoul, South Korea

It feels less like an accelerator and more like being surrounded by founders who actually build. Everyone is shipping, testing ideas, and helping each other. That energy makes you move much faster.

Jiwon Park

Seoul, South Korea

The biggest value for me was realizing that Korea doesn’t have to be my only market. I always wanted to build globally but didn’t really know where to start. Zerobase made Silicon Valley and the global startup ecosystem feel much more accessible.

Daniel Lee

Busan, South Korea

I came in with an idea and left with an actual company. We launched our MVP, spoke to users, changed our product several times, and eventually found something people actually wanted.

Yuna Choi

Seoul, South Korea

The mentors don’t give you generic startup advice. You can bring a very specific problem you’re dealing with that week and talk directly with founders who have already gone through it.

Ethan Chen

Taipei, Taiwan

Zerobase helped me become much more aggressive as a founder. I used to hesitate before launching, emailing investors, or reaching out to people. Now I just do it.

Kevin Lin

Taipei, Taiwan

I joined because of the program, but the founder community ended up being the best part. I met founders from all over Asia who I still talk to every week.

Wei Zhang

Shanghai, China

This was the first startup program where I actually built something every week. There weren’t endless lectures or theory. Every week there was something concrete to ship, test, or improve.

Jason Liu

Shenzhen, China

The Silicon Valley exposure was completely different from watching startup content online. Meeting founders and investors in person made everything feel much more real and reachable.

Alice Wang

Beijing, China

Zerobase gave me the confidence to think bigger. Before the program, I was thinking about building a small business in Japan. After meeting global founders, I started thinking about building something for the world.

Hiro Tanaka

Tokyo, Japan

If you’re expecting someone to build your startup for you, this probably isn’t the right program. But if you’re willing to move fast, experiment, and ask for help, you can make an incredible amount of progress.

Aiko Nakamura

Tokyo, Japan

I learned more about startups here than I did from years of watching YouTube and reading startup books. The difference is that you’re learning while actually building your own company.

Kenji Sato

Osaka, Japan

The best thing Zerobase did was shorten my feedback loop. Instead of spending three months wondering whether an idea was good, I learned to test it in a few days.

Arjun Mehta

Bengaluru, India

I joined without knowing anyone in the global startup ecosystem. By the end, I had spoken with founders, investors, and builders I never thought I would have access to.

Priya Sharma

Mumbai, India

Zerobase feels unusually founder-first. There’s much less emphasis on looking impressive and much more emphasis on actually making progress. Nobody cares about a fancy deck if nobody wants your product.

Rohan Patel

Bengaluru, India

As an Asian founder, one of the hardest things is figuring out how to enter the US startup ecosystem. Zerobase helped bridge that gap and gave me much more confidence about building globally.

Aisha Rahman

Dhaka, Bangladesh

The program made me realize how slow I was moving. Watching other founders launch, get customers, and change direction so quickly completely reset my standard for speed.

Aditya Rao

Hyderabad, India

What I liked most was how international the community felt. You’re building alongside people with completely different backgrounds, markets, and ideas. It forces you to think beyond your own country.

Mei Wong

Hong Kong

I thought I needed more funding. What I actually needed was more users. Zerobase kept pushing us back toward customers, feedback, and distribution. That completely changed how we prioritized the company.

Ryan Lim

Singapore

Zerobase is most valuable for founders who are ambitious but don’t know how to enter the global startup ecosystem yet. It gives you a place to start, people to build alongside, and access to a network that otherwise feels very far away.

Nisha Perera

Colombo, Sri Lanka

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