startup investment

Hit by shrinking liquidity around the globe, startups in South Korea are coming up with different ways to cut costs, most notably in human resources...

Shiftup Co., a South Korean mobile game developer, has joined the ranks of unicorns, or private companies worth $1 billion or more.The studio behind...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea sees as many as 14 professionals of its investment management arm resign by end-June of this year, acc...

IMM Investment Co. and STIC Investments Co., the two most active South Korean private equity firms in 2021 fundraising, made bets on a dividend-focu...

Planetarium Labs raised $32 million in a Series A funding round, led by Animoca Brands, and joined by Samsung Next, WeMade, and Krust Universe.The s...

Some major retirement funds in South Korea are raising interest rates on their members’ savings accounts in line with global central banks&rsq...

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. said on Wednesday it will invest 1.4 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in expanding facilities for semiconductor substr...

South Korean fabless startup Rebellions Inc. received a 30 billion won ($23 million) extension to its Series A funding from telecom giant KT Corp.KT...

South Korea’s POSCO Holdings Inc. expects sales of its rechargeable battery materials to more than double to 41 trillion won ($31 billion) by ...

Unison Capital Inc., a middle-market focused private equity firm, put the world’s third-largest 3D dental scanner maker on the market. The dea...

Danble, operated by Tailor Town, is an online fashion platform serving the often-overlooked market of men’s fashion for those in their 30s and...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group will establish an investment company in the US state of Delaware to expand its presence in the North America...

Samsung Engineering Co. agreed to spend $41 million on Vietnam’s largest private water treatment company for the eco-friendly business in Sout...

South Korea’s mobility unicorn Socar Inc. faces controversy over its valuation after the car-sharing startup set the price guidance for its in...

Thanks to what some economists dub a borderless economy, more South Korean startups than ever before are looking beyond the peninsula. Seoul-ba...

Riding a crescent moon-shaped boat that changes colors is a must-do experience in the small South Korean city of Andong, 190 km southeast of Seoul.T...

Aptiv PLC, one of the world’s big three autonomous driving technology companies, has agreed to invest 50 billion won ($39 million) in StradVis...

The South Korean government has decided to invest 1.02 trillion won ($794 million) in the artificial intelligence semiconductor sector and foster ov...

Venture capital, or the business of investing in innovative private companies with growth potential, is a local endeavor most of the time.While this...

South Korea plans to rebuild the nuclear power plant industry hard hit by the previous government’s nuclear energy phasing-out policy by placi...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. will expand its manufacturing facilities for high-performance package substrates in both South Korea and Vietnam, afte...

Despite a number of global market uncertainties, there is value in real assets where rental income grows faster than inflation, Mahdi Mokrane, head ...

A number of financial experts who built their careers at Samsung Life Insurance Co. are in the spotlight as more South Korean pension funds and mutu...

SPC Group’s bakery franchise Paris Baguette has chosen Malaysia as its eighth overseas market. The decision aligns with the food and beverage ...

Digital Pharm, jointly invested in by KT Corp. and Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co., held an official inauguration ceremony last week, the company announced...

Vertex Venture Holdings, a venture capital unit of Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, expects the recent global downturn to offer investment...

TagHive Inc. is an education technology startup building a bridge between South Korea and India. The company’s founder and CEO Pankaj Aga...

Doosan Group has added semiconductor post-processing services to its core businesses and plans to invest 1 trillion won ($774 million) in its microc...

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. have invested a combined $115 million in Series B funding for Overair Inc., a Califo...

South Korea’s leading webtoon production startup Kenaz was taken over by a domestic hedge fund as it aims to reduce dependence on major platfo...