kakao ai startup fund

"It's not a matter of numbers, but a matter of do or die for us."This is the first public remark from Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman and de f...

Venture capital firms at home and abroad are tightening their belts, following growing concerns over inflation and continued interest hikes by maj...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, posted a 9.13% annualized return on total assets and $205 billion on a...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, and private equity firm White Whale Group (WWG) are slated to jointly in...

KKR & Co. on Wednesday announced the final close of its first Asia credit fund at $1.1 billion, the largest such fund focused on Asia.The privat...

Childcare app operator Piloto won first place at the May startup demo event hosted by D.Camp.  The startup accelerator’s parent company,...

Hanwha Group, South Korea’s chemical-to-financial conglomerate, is set to invest 37.6 trillion won ($29.8 billion) in future growth sectors su...

Kim Dong-su, CEO of Silicon Valley-based LG Technology Ventures said that the failures he experienced while working at a boutique investment firm ha...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) of South Korea will focus on portfolio diversification this year while increasing investment in growth se...

Since its inception in 2012, the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs has generated more than $28 trillion won ($22 billion.)The goal of the fou...

Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) of South Korea will keep its conservative stance in both private equity and private debt investment, whi...

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, unveiled plans to spend $10.5 billion on the auto industry in the US through 2025 as it aims...

Just a few years back, fashion startups in South Korea rarely saw the need for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The same was true for the so-c...

South Korea’s top waste management company SK Ecoplant Co. is set to expand its business in Southeast Asia with an $80 million investment in M...

“We had the overseas market in mind from the get-go,” global fabric sale platform SwatchOn’s CEO Lee Woo-seok told The Korea Econo...

Some major South Korean institutional investors, including National Pension Service (NPS) and Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), are set ...

The growing trend toward personalized hiring and the rising demand for technology developers are encouraging South Korea’s human resources tec...

South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment Co. is set to merge Tapas Media Inc. and Radish Fiction Inc., its webtoon and mobile novel platforms in Nort...

Teachers’ Pension (TP) of South Korea will increase exposure to its overseas alternative assets, its Chief Investment Officer Lee Kyu-hong sai...

For the first time, South Korea’s startup accelerator D.Camp has opened an office in the port city of Busan. The joint effort between D...

South Korea’s leading patient monitoring device maker Mediana Co. is targeting the pet medical industry while seeking an artificial intelligen...

South Korea's new president Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office on Tuesday, is set to push the expansion of sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corpor...

South Korea’s investment firm SK Square Co. announced on Thursday that it has chosen Harvey Hakjin Bae, a former alternative investment expert...

LG Group’s telecommunication unit joined the race for South Korea’s urban air mobility (UAM) to secure a future growth engine in coopera...

CJ Group, one of South Korea’s largest family run conglomerates, or chaebol, is venturing into the fandom platform business with a 22.4 billio...

Rebellions Inc., a South Korean AI-powered fabless startup, is in the final stage of the Series A Funding Round with 70 billion won ($54.9 million) ...

Singapore-based private equity firm Affirma Capital has founded an affiliate for private credit management and tapped Kim Seong-mok, a former execut...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and its spin-off SK Square Co. have together invested 50 billion won ($40 million) into a loca...

FADU Technology, a fabless startup that develops architecture for solid-state drive (SSD) controllers and storage products, is seeking to raise 200 ...

IonQ Inc., a US-listed quantum computing firm, has become a new target of short selling-focused Scorpion Capital, taking a hit from the US hedge fun...