venture funds

South Korea's Alteogen Inc., Enchem Co., and HD Hyundai Electric Co. will be added to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Korea Index.MS...

South Korea’s household lending growth hit a five-month high in April as mortgage loans increased amid signs of a recovery in the property mar...

MedInTech Inc., South Korea's medical smart endoscopes startup, announced on Monday that it attracted a series B investment of 20 billion won ($14.6...

South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc. and banking conglomerate Shinhan Financial Group have invested a combined US$20 million in Australian g...

South Korea will launch the country’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade Co. in the first half of next year to enable stock trading for...

South Korean asset manager DSC Investment has formed the country’s largest-ever fund for venture capital secondaries to explore opportunities ...

The United Arab Emirates is set to invest a maximum of $1 billion in South Korean startups via a joint venture, as a part of its mid- to long-term p...

Samsung Life Science Fund, managed by Samsung Group’s venture investment arm, has invested in US biotechnology firm Latus Bio Inc. during the ...

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund, is introducing a new simplified asset allocation guideline under whi...

South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. and Japan’s SoftBank Corp. will kick off talks this week, during which they are expected to ...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing platform, is set to make inroads into the electric vehicle charging market by setting...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will select domestic general partners (GPs) to manage about 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) worth...

In the past 10 years, Kim Ki-jun has been on the hunt for deep technology startups that will have a significant societal impact, and he will continu...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, lost 1.66 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in domestic stock ...

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that its thin chocolate-coated cookie sticks Pepero and no-sugar ice cream Zero entered King Po...

Daesung Private Equity Inc. in South Korea has become the top local venture capital manager in terms of realized capital gain between 2018 and 2023,...

Upstage, South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup, raised about 100 billion won ($72 million) in its latest funding round, which the comp...

South Korean light detection and ranging (lidar) startup SOSLab aims to debut on the junior bourse Kosdaq in May, according to banking sources on Su...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is seeing more and more of its former senior managers moving to top-tier domestic law firms. Ther...

South Korea’s casual multiplayer game developer Sandy Floor Games announced on Wednesday that it got a seed round investment from Kakao Ventur...

Linkshops, once touted as a future unicorn candidate in South Korea, declared bankruptcy last month even after garnering 15.4 billion won ($11.4 mil...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.7 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, said on ...

AhnLab Inc., South Korea's information security solutions company, announced on Monday that it signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV)...

LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday it is spinning off five promising in-house venture firms as separate entities to strengthen South Korea’s...

The number of South Korean firms targeted by activist funds has risen by nearly nine times over the past five years, the largest increase among majo...

K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co.'s founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man is expected to invest up to 10 billion won ($7.5 million) in Mind...

Global proxy advisors International Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. have expressed their opinion that there is no need for...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is slated to vote in favor of the KT&G Corp. b...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is slated to receive about 5.64 trillion won ($4.3 billion) worth of dividends ...

LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, injected $97 million into a fund run by Vista Equity Partners Management LLC for investme...