Korea-based accelerator program and investment company_SparkLabs is widening its stable further after revealing plans to run its first program dedicated to hardware startups. SparkLabs, which last year launched a $30 million fund to support seed stage companies worldwide, says its new program — dubbed Internet of ‘Things’ — will open its doors in Seoul in Winter 2014. The initiative will target a companies across a range of different sectors that are “improving how we live and work everywhere” — including the_energy, education, transport, health, food verticals. “SparkLabs is creating the first dedicated Internet of Things accelerator in Korea to offer...

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