Kona Venture Partners

North Asia-focused MBK Partners has closed a $1.18 billion deal to sell its 12.5% stake to New York-based Dyal Capital at an equity valuation of nea...

South Korea’s three major battery makers are showcasing their latest rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles while unveiling their roadma...

Private equity firm Actis LLP has promoted its Seoul office Chief Executive Scott Choi as a partner, the company said on March 7. Choi is the first ...

"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...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will arrange senior and mezzanine loans for Paris-based PAI Partners to fund its acquisition of Tropicana an...

Some major institutional investors of South Korea have committed a combined $620 million to Partners Group’s third direct infrastructure progr...

Preparing fried chicken requires a simple, but laborious process: Placing pieces of chicken on dough and frying powder; putting them into an iron ba...

LS-Nikko Copper Co., the world’s second-largest electrolytic copper maker, is set to sell an 800 billion won ($670 million) stake in a joint v...

South Korea’s secondary battery makers face a risk from heavy reliance on Chinese raw materials, while the industry has sought measures to ens...

In the era of space privatization, satellites are the driving forces.South Korea’s main defense systems makers are turning away from arms expo...

South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. is in talks with a global automaker to launch a battery production joint venture following its partnership last ...

SK Hynix Inc., South Korea’s major chipmaker, decided to make an additional investment in a US chip design startup SiFive in order to secure s...

Megazone Cloud Corp., a leading cloud service provider and the first Korean business partner of Amazon Web Service (AWS), plans to attract 300 billi...

Stonebridge Ventures Inc., South Korea’s most profitable venture capital firm, plans to establish a fresh fund of $168 million, the largest in...

North Asia-focused MBK Partners has agreed to sell a roughly 13% stake to Dyal Capital Partners for about $1 billion, according to a Bloomberg repor...

US-based autonomous vehicle company Motional Inc. announced its plans for the commercialization of driverless cars based on the all-electric Hyundai...

EONE-DIAGNOMICS Genome Center Co. ( EDGC ) announced this week it would participate in AI Human Metaverse Project consortium – along with seven ...

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group joined forces with US data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. to set up a big data platfor...

SEOUL—When BTS unveiled plans last month to break into the NFT business, the South Korean boy band’s supporters revolted online, threate...

NAVER Corp.’s startup accelerator D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) has made an additional investment into data pipeline solutions provider Cloa, the ...

Mobile point-of-sale (POS) system maker Payhere Inc. announced Tuesday it received 10 billion won ($8.4 million) in Series A funding from Softbank V...

South Korea's largest supermarket chain E-Mart Inc. has spent nearly $4 billion on acquisition deals so far this year, including the $3 billion purc...

South Korea’s KB Investment Co. and US venture capitalist Strong Ventures LLC have invested in Stan World, a K-pop metaverse platform operator...

An activist fund has again urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell part of its stake in SK Bioscience or buy back treasury shares and cancel ...

Some major South Korean institutional investors have committed to Switzerland-headquartered global asset manager Partners Group's Secondary 2020 Fun...

Korea’s government-backed fund of funds (FOF) management institution announced its latest selection of funds late last month, which would bene...

KTB Network Co., South Korea's first-generation venture capital firm, priced its public offering price at the bottom of the guidance range as the re...

Korea Venture Investment Corp. plans to invest $58.2 million or about 69 billion won in 10 funds around the globe. The government-backed fund o...

South Korea’s builder Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C). is set to join the small modular reactor (SMR) business in...