Online Event

From Connections to Capital: Using LinkedIn for Startup Growth

Learn the best growth tactics from leading experts

Date
Oct 20, 2025
Time
05:00 am - 06:30 am
Address
Online Event
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Do you ever wonder how some startup founders attract global investors and get media attention, all through LinkedIn? Join Brian (유준영) JY Yoo, one of Korea's top LinkedIn creators and a global startup advisor, as he shares how founders can use LinkedIn strategically to turn online connections into real business growth. Learn how to position your profile for investor attention, create meaningful engagement, and build a personal brand that stands out in global markets.
This interactive session will offer practical insights, proven strategies, and real-world examples to help you master LinkedIn as a growth engine for your startup.

Whether you’re a founder raising capital, an ecosystem builder helping startups scale, or a professional looking to grow your influence globally, this session will help you connect smarter, grow faster, and turn visibility into opportunity

Venue: Online via Zoom.

Agenda:
  • Welcome and FI introduction.
  • Speaker introduction.
  • Panel Discussion.
  • Q&A Session.

Speaker:
  • Brian JY Yoo - Founder at CareerLab - a global career coach with 11 years of coaching experience and 15 years supporting startups and innovators in global expansion. With a LinkedIn following of 33K+, he is recognized as a B2B LinkedIn branding and global networking expert, advising social ventures, international organizations, and professionals worldwide.

Moderator:
  • Erdinc Ekinci - Co-Founder & CEO of Openfor.co - Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan

📌 Who Should Attend?
  • Startup founders looking to attract investors and build a stronger online presence
  • Entrepreneurs aiming to grow their network and brand globally
  • Marketing and growth professionals managing the company or founder's LinkedIn pages
  • Ecosystem builders, accelerators, and mentors helping startups scale
  • Anyone curious about how LinkedIn can be used strategically for business and fundraising

📌 What You Will Learn
  • How to use LinkedIn to attract investors, partners, and media attention
  • Proven strategies to build visibility and credibility as a founder
  • How to turn your LinkedIn content into meaningful business opportunities
  • Ways to connect with global investors and startup ecosystems
  • Practical tips for founders to grow their personal and company brand authentically

About Founder Institute:
Founder Institute: Founder institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with it’s Founder Capital, backing best performing FI alumni as early as angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.

FI’s sister program called VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.

Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.

Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focused with hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with GTM experts network and venture partners network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC network who are willing to co-back our founders!

Speakers

Brian

Brian Yoo

Startup Advisor, LinkedIn Branding Expert @ CareerLab

Erdinç

Erdinç Ekinci

Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital, Co-Founder & CEO of Openfor.co & Co-capital.co @ Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan

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