Kona Venture Partners

Teton Capital Partners, a US-based activist fund, has taken legal action to block IMM Private Equity from exercising its management rights over Hans...

HealthQuest Capital, a major US healthcare-focused venture growth fund, made its first investment in Asia along with other venture capitalists by pu...

The Carlyle Group has bought South Korea's No. 2 coffeehouse chain A Twosome Place from Anchor Equity Partners, saying it would "capture the signifi...

The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said on Nov. 9 it has selected the venture capital firms that will entrust the pension fund&rsqu...

MBK Partners' first female partner Lee In-kyung has made it to the list of Forbes Asia's 20 power businesswomen published in its November issue. For...

When South Korean menswear brand Wooyoungmi had the highest sales in the men’s fashion hall of Paris-based luxury department store Le Bon Marc...

LCS Group Korea, a South Korean corporate set up by the Philippines' LCS Group of Companies, signed a joint venture establishment contract on Oct. 2...

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

Stonebridge Ventures, South Korea's most profitable venture capital firm, will submit its application for an initial public offering this month to l...

South Korea’s leading semiconductor design house Gaonchips Co. has officially kicked off preparations to go public in the first half of 2022. ...

In 2018, a South Korean food startup GoPizza Co. was on the brink of shutting down. Lim Jae-won, GoPizza's founder, had launched the business with a...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) and Hines have jointly acquired the headquarters complex of Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&...

SK Materials Co., the industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of SK Group, said on Tuesday it is jointly investing 850 billion won ($726 million) wit...

A Singaporean activist fund has urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell some of its shares in SK Bioscience Co., saying its corporate value h...

South Korea’s first contactless laundry service startup Laundrygo has raised 50 billion won ($43 million) in a follow-on investment from inves...

POSCO and GS Group have teamed up to expand their battery recycling and hydrogen businesses. The move came as South Korea’s top steelmaker POS...

Affinity Equity Partners is putting Burger King's operations in South Korea and Japan up for sale, after the US hamburger franchise overtook its big...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its US mobility joint venture Motional Inc. on Tuesday unveiled their first autonomous robot...

South Korea’s No. 1 online flea market operator Danggeun Market Inc. has increased its valuation to $2.6 billion as it raised $153 million fro...

MBK Partners, a North Asia-focused private equity firm, agreed to sell South Korean Doosan Machine Tools at $2.1 billion to the country’s DTR ...

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

South Korea's largest laundry service provider Cleantopia Co. was sold on Tuesday for about 190 billion won ($165 million) to Seoul-based JKL Partne...

Michael ByungJu Kim, founder and chairman of Korea’s largest private equity firm MBK Partners, will donate 30 billion won ($26 million) to the...

South Korean conglomerates have been reaching out to D.CAMP, the country's largest non-profit foundation for startups, to get in touch with domestic...

South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO and Australia’s major iron ore supplier Roy Hill have strengthened their existing partnership to cond...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has ventured into the real estate secondaries market, committing $150 million to Brookfiel...

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

Shares of SK Materials Co., the industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Group, are hovering around all-time high levels ami...

Samsung Electronics Co. is betting big on non-fungible token (NFT) companies through its venture capital unit Samsung Next, headquartered in Mountai...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has decided to invest around €100 million ($120 million) in Kadans Science Partner, a...