Name

Connect Co., Ltd.

Legal name

Connect Zero Co., Ltd. (커넥트_ZERO)

Website

https://connectzero.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Haeundae

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Tournament prize and sponsorship economics: Online fishing tournaments with cash prizes, goods, and recognition for winners — implying tournament-related monetization, sponsorship, or partner-funded prize pools.
2. Planned fishing-related E-Commerce: Stated 2023 expansion plan into fishing-related E-Commerce businesses, which would introduce transactional commerce revenue.
3. Planned content creation: Stated 2023 expansion plan into fishing-related content creation, which could be monetized via advertising, partnerships, or premium content.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Connect Co., Ltd. (operating as Connect Zero / "Taste of Fishing" / 낚맛) runs a Korea-focused, mobile-first integrated fishing platform that bundles a 24/7 online fishing tournament system, a structured trip-logging module, and a hashtag-driven angler community into a single consumer Android application (Bass Finder) and the nakmat.com web front-end. The company also plans adjacent fishing-related e-commerce and content offerings as future monetization lines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Nakmat (낚맛): Short-form commercial brand used for the integrated fishing platform ('낚시 전문 통합 플랫폼'); appears as the abbreviated brand mark in the site navigation and on the linked Instagram handle @nakmat_fishing.
• Bass Finder (배스파인더)

Products and services

• Taste of Fishing (낚시의맛 / 낚맛) Fishing-specialized integrated mobile platform that combines a community feed, online fishing tournaments, and trip-logging functionality into one experience for Korean recreational anglers.
• Bass Finder (배스파인더) Newly launched companion Android app for the 낚맛 fishing platform, distributed via Google Play as the consumer-facing mobile front-end.

Quantifiable outcome

• Online tournaments accessible 24/7, 365 days a year, from any location — removing time/location constraints of physical fishing contests
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Google Play Storecore distribution platformOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerDistribution channel for the Bass Finder Android app (package: com.connectzero.fishingtaste.android). Google Play serves as the consumer-facing marketplace through which Korean anglers discover and download the platform; no deeper co-development relationship is described.

Scale indicators3 records

Direct peers

• Fishbrain: Global fishing community and trip-logging mobile app with social features, catch maps, and tackle recommendations. Most directly comparable peer — same core offering (community + trip logging) for recreational anglers, just at global scale rather than Korea-only.
• ANGLR (ANGLR App): Fishing trip-logging and analytics app that records catches with conditions data, similar to Connect Zero's 출조일지 module. Closely comparable on the trip-logging + analytics vertical, though smaller in community/tournament features.

Broad incumbents

• Navionics / Garmin Fishing: Garmin's fishing product line (including the Navionics-derived sonar/mapping apps) integrates fishing data, waypoints, and community layers for serious anglers. Comparable as a broad incumbent in fishing-data technology with overlapping trip-logging functionality.
• Naver Café (Naver fishing communities): Naver's Café platform hosts large, active Korean hobbyist communities including many fishing-focused groups. Comparable as the dominant incumbent community infrastructure for Korean fishing enthusiasts and the primary substitute for Connect Zero's community feed.
• Kakao (KakaoTalk channels / Kakao Makers): Kakao's messaging and commerce ecosystem (KakaoTalk open chat, Kakao Makers) provides community and commerce rails for Korean hobbyists. Comparable as a broad incumbent that Connect Zero already uses for distribution and that could expand into tournament/-commerce hosting.

Others

• Strava: Community-driven fitness app with trip logging, segments (analogous to tournaments/challenges), and a strong engagement/retention model. Comparable as a structural analog — same community + activity-log + gamified-challenge formula applied to a different hobby vertical.
• Eventbrite: Online event ticketing and tournament management platform. Comparable as the B2B infrastructure analog for Connect Zero's tournament-hosting/IR business-development motion with tournament organizers.
• Meetup: Community-led event/tournament organizing platform with hobbyist group focus. Comparable as an analog on the community-led tournament/events organizing motion, though oriented around in-person meetups rather than remote 24/7 competition.

Emerging players

• Deeper (smart sonar): Smart fishfinder hardware paired with a mobile app that logs catches and fishing conditions. Comparable as a fishing-vertical mobile platform with data capture, though anchored in hardware rather than community/tournaments.

Regional players

• Fishing Note (Japanese fishing log apps): Japanese fishing trip-logging app popular with recreational anglers. Comparable as a regional fishing-data app in a neighboring market, illustrating the cross-border pattern of fishing vertical apps and a potential future expansion target for Connect Zero.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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