CJ Investment fosters Korean startups to discover new growth engines

CJ Investment, the corporate venture capital arm of CJ Corp., announced on Tuesday its plans to foster promising South Korean startups in order to discover new growth engines.

In partnership with D.Camp, a bank-sponsored youth entrepreneurship foundation, CJ Investment is seeking early-stage startups with innovative technologies and entrepreneurial minds for its "D Day x CJ Lifestyle" program.

This is CJ Investment's first accelerator program since it was relaunched as a group corporate venture capital.

The program is open to startups in various areas, including food and biotech, logistics and new distribution, entertainment and media, as well as other new business areas chosen by the applicant. Startups that can create a future convergence business model in the lifestyle field are eligible to apply.

Write to Jong-Woo Kim at jongwoo@hankyung.com