Impact Square Launches AI Accelerator 'ISQ AXCEL'

Impact Square Launches 'ISQ AXCEL', an AI-Powered Impact Accelerating Program Impact Square, an expert in impact investment and accelerating, unveiled 'ISQ AXCEL' (ISQ Excel), an innovative acceleration program incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technology, opening new horizons for the growth of impact startups. The ambition is to move beyond the limitations of existing acceleration by providing data-driven precise support to help impact startups achieve a leap forward, pursuing both social value and financial performance simultaneously. The core driving force of 'ISQ AXCEL' is Impact Square's independently developed AI system, 'AGMS (Acceleration & Growth Management System)'. As implied by the name 'AXCEL', it embodies the will to advance accelerating through an AI (AX)-based transformation. AGMS enhances the entire startup growth process with AI, from business diagnosis and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) setting to mentoring and report automation. It provides a 'win-win' effect for all by offering entrepreneurs necessary information and feedback anytime, much like a customized secretary, thereby increasing business operational efficiency, and by allowing accelerators to reduce the burden of data analysis and focus on in-depth collaboration and strategy formulation with startups. In particular, the biggest differentiator of 'ISQ AXCEL' is its application of a unique framework capable of multidimensionally measuring and managing the social value and financial performance generated by impact startups. Through this, clients hosting the acceleration program can also experience a significant leap in efficiency throughout the overall operational process, including understanding business status, corporate management, and performance reporting. This aims for a transformation of the entire impact ecosystem, beyond mere technology adoption. Do Hyun-myung, CEO of Impact Square, emphasized, "'ISQ AXCEL will become an innovative case that integrates AI technology into the impact accelerating field,' adding that 'it will establish itself as a core infrastructure that helps more impact startups achieve sustainability and successful investment attraction simultaneously.'" Ko Da-yeon, Lead Manager of the AX TF involved in the development, added that they are actively seeking various collaborative partners, including investors, operating agencies, and innovative startups, to join the 'ISQ AXCEL' experiment and drive this change. Starting in May, Impact Square will officially operate programs applying this AI-based system, becoming a reliable partner for startups that dream of simultaneously achieving social value and business success.