Hyundai Motor hires Startups globally for 2024 ZER01NE Accelerator Program


Hyundai Motor hires Startups globally for 2024 ZER01NE Accelerator Program

An international venture that has generated a value chain based on mobility, steel & construction, logistics with over 250,000 employees worldwide, Hyundai Motor Group publicized its 2024 first-half ZER01NE Accelerator program – a inventive platform to assist the collaborations & partnerships between the startups & the company through diverse projects. This innovative program endeavors to determine & spot the valuable startups & explore the possibilities of deliberated use of their pioneering technologies.

Interested Startups can apply to one of the seven international projects obtained by the Hyundai Motor Group’ s internal teams under the major themes including 2 SDV (Software-Defined Vehicle) projects, 2 Smart Factory projects and 3 ESG (Environmental Social Governance) projects. Especially Each startup is bounded to one detailed project.

The organizations of the Group are accountable for technological advancements which are directly involved in evaluating & employing the candidates for each project. Merely listed corporations will be qualified for consideration & can present their proposal on the official application website of the company from February 19 to March 10. And the results for the qualified startups will be announced in the month of April.

The listed startups will be offered with a project development budget and could be estimated for equity investments. As the company pioneered the ZER01NE Accelerator in 2018, 150 teams from 11 affiliates of the Group and 177 startups have jointly worked on 128 collaborative projects. This has led to 96 startups successfully receiving equity investments from the Group.

In previous year, three startups were selected worldwide and are presently occupied in collaborative projects focused on lithium metal battery, teleoperation, and cold-spray metal 3D printing solutions.