VC ecosystem

South Korea’s venture capitalists put record high investments into startups last year. Thanks to positive returns on investments, a number o...

Jobis & Villains, the operator of artificial intelligence-powered accounting platform 3.3, announced that it recently acquired video messenger s...

Heads of South Korea’s leading venture capital firms say domestic startups have entered a phase of overvaluation. The Korea Economic Dail...

Blockchain-focused venture capital firm Hashed says it is determined to show how pervasive the digital ledger technology is in our society – t...

"We believe we're in one of the biggest technology boom cycles,” said Jeff Herbst, co-founding managing partner of Palo Alto-based GFT Venture...

Biopharmaceutical companies of South Korea are having a tough time fundraising of late. Bio ventures without specific public offering plans are pa...

LG Electronics Inc. recently signed an MoU with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) for the second phase of their joint...

Online shopping platform Queenit recently received 36 billion won ($30 million) from Kakao Ventures Corp., SoftBank Ventures Korea Corp. and more,...

South Korea’s game developers are in a tight race to create their own digital tokens and to build viable ecosystems that utilize these cryptoc...

GS announced the establishment of a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm Sunday, the first of its kind for a holding company in Korea. The announcem...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) aims to increase alternative investment to 25% of its total investment by 2025 as well as rank among the world's ...

Telecommunications giant KT Corp. announced concrete plans to launch its artificial intelligence infrastructure business by joining forces with indu...

Samsung Electronics Co. has officially launched its new set division, which combines its mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single un...

The growing popularity of fractional investment in celebrated artworks, music copyrights and luxury items has spurred a flurry of venture capital in...

South Korea’s state-run bank Korea Development Bank (KDB) launched its venture capital (VC) operations in California's Silicon Valley on Nov...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has achieved an average 9.65% return on investments as of the end of August, driven by overseas equity divestment...

South Korean venture capital firms are expanding their investment in Southeast Asia,  where startups grow rapidly based on a large population.K...

The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will step up venture capital investments in North America to lift its long-term returns, the sovereign wealth...

When KNet Investment Partners LLC, a South Korean venture capital company, invested 9.9 billion won ($8.6 million) in Krafton Inc. in 2009, the game...

South Korean startups' blockbuster initial public offerings over the past year, including Krafton Inc. and HYBE Co., have left the National Pension ...

South Korea-based startup Real Packing is on a mission to build a trust-based society via its fact-checking video system.Launched in 2016, Real Pack...

The National Pension Service (NPS) is planning to create a new investment team dedicated to private debt and secondaries deals and equity purchases ...

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are poised to emerge as promising investments in the era of digital transformation once the global pandemic settles down, ...

Samsung Electronics Co. has onboarded South Korea’s government-led metaverse alliance in a move to strengthen partnership in virtual reality (...

South Korea's startup ecosystem has been booming with companies raising over 1 trillion won ($870 million) in the first half of this year -- an all-...

Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest strategic focus is setting up its own ecosystem of devices ranging from mobile phones, home appliances to TVs...

Queenit, a South Korea-based fashion mobile platform targeting women in their 40s and 50s, has raised 10 billion won ($9 million) from venture capit...

LG Technology Ventures, a venture capital arm of South Korea's LG Group, has diversified its portfolio into the industrial cybersecurity market with...

South Korea-based venture capital firms are likely to see rankings shift once the glory days of lucrative exits in a liquidity-driven market are gon...

The Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC), a quasi-government agency established to support South Korean startups and venture capital industry, has ...