WI.Plat Donates 5 Million KRW to Chungnam National University for Startup Support
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On May, 13th, Sanghoon Cha, CEO of WI.Plat, visited Chungnam National University to deliver a 5 million KRW donation to Lee Seung-gu, Vice President of Research and Industry-Academia Collaboration, for the university’s Startup Support Fund.
On May 13th, Sanghoon Cha, CEO of WI.Plat, visited Lee Seung-gu, Vice President of Research and Industry-Academia Collaboration at Chungnam National University, to deliver a 5 million KRW donation to the university’s Startup Support Fund.
WI.Plat, a company specializing in the development of intelligent leak management systems, has donated a startup support fund to Chungnam National University.
Sanghoon Cha, CEO of WI.Plat and a 1991 graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, visited Vice President Lee Seung-gu on the 13th to deliver a 5 million KRW donation to the university’s Startup Support Fund.
CEO Sanghoon Cha stated, “As our company has rapidly grown with the help of Chungnam National University’s Startup Support Fund, I wanted to express my gratitude and set a positive example for future startup companies, which led me to make this donation.”
Originally launched as an in-house venture of Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water), WI.Plat is a venture company that provides the ‘Intelligent Leak Management System (NELOW)’ based on IoT, artificial intelligence, and cloud technologies.
WI.Plat offers a smart leak management solution optimized for water supply leaks using an AI-based model. Since its inception, the company has supplied its system to K-water and local governments in 23 regions across South Korea and is currently conducting leak reduction projects in eight countries worldwide.
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