corporate venture capital investment

MG Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) will allocate a total of 7 trillion won ($6 billion) to alternative investment blind-pool...

SK Group will set up a 1 trillion won ($850 million) fund with China’s private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group to invest in Chinese start-up...

Twenty-four South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union and the Public Offic...

Back in 2017, the idea of launching a startup to make artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors prompted many blank stares. It was a fight that coul...

South Korean institutional investors will continue to increase their allocations to overseas infrastructure next year, and transport facilities such a...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has acquired five US student housing for $250 million, in the first direct investment by a South Korean fir...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has picked three global private equity firms as follows to commit $50 million to their blind-pool fund...

South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, have put on hold new alternative investments in Japan due to soured rela...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. have teamed up to buy an office tower in Manhattan from JPMorgan&...

Korea Post’s savings arm plans to select two global real estate managers to invest $200 million, or 200 million euros, in the housing market in the US...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint fund with South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. Ltd. to make cross-border investme...

South Korean financial institutions, including Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and KDB Life Insurance Co. Ltd., have invested $96.4 million in ...

Medit Corp., a South Korean 3D scanner maker, has drawn preliminary bids from nine private equity firms, including KKR & Co., the Carlyle Group, A...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have provided a combined $434 million debt on the construction of Heathrow ...

South Korea-based Unison Capital Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell milk tea brand Gong Cha to US private equity firm TA Associates for ar...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has appointed as chief investment officer ex-CIO of the Teachers’ Pension Dae-yang Park, the sovereign wealth fund ...

Unison Capital Inc. is in the final stages of negotiations to sell Taiwan-style milk tea brand Gong Cha to US private equity firm TA Associates for ar...

KB Investment Co. Ltd., the venture capital arm of KB Financial Group, has invested $10 million in a Swiss biotech start-up firm which recently raised...

South Korean venture capital firms have invested a combined $26 million in Internet-based start-up companies in India and Vietnam, betting on the rapi...

A distressed allocation can complement private equity and private debt strategies in the later stage of credit growth cycles as a record-high percenta...

The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) and the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) have reached a preliminary agreement to ...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has committed $40 million to Oaktree Capital Management’s Asia-focused special situations fund which report...

Hanwha Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have acquired a combined 2.85% stake in London’s Gatwick Airpo...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have provided $182 million loans on a luxury hotel and condominium development...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have participated in a 120-million-euro ($134 million) acquisition of an Amazo...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has agreed to sell an office building in Frankfurt for 400 million euro ($448 million) which will translate in...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has chosen Dae-yang Park, chief investment officer of the country’s Teachers’ Pension, as new CIO among a dozen app...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has invested 40 billion won ($34 million) to buy a minority stake in Welcome Break, the UK’s second biggest...

Korea Investment Management Co. will acquire a 99-year ownership of an office building in Brussels for 146 million euros ($165 million) in its second ...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) and Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. have invested $100 million in a mezzanine loan secured by 92 ...