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[THE INVESTOR] SoftBank Ventures Korea, venture capital arm of the Japanese tech giant, on Sept. 20 said it has established a new US$300 million fund in partnership with TPG Growth to invest in prom...
[THE INVESTOR] Seoul-based coworking space operator SparkPlus on September 18 said it has raised 20 billion (US$17.73 million) in Series A round from local investors. Venture capital firms InterV...
[THE INVESTOR] Korea’s largest couples-only app Between has recently started a marketing scheme with local “coin noraebang” franchise RockQ, according the messenger firm on Sept. 13. Coin noraebang...
[THE INVESTOR] Buzzvil, the world’s largest lockscreen advertising platform, said on Aug. 30 that it has acquired leading lockscreen content curator SlideApp in India and Pakistan as part of its glo...
[THE INVESTOR] Bon Angels, Korea’s leading venture capital focusing on early-stage startups, has invested in technology education platform Inflearn, the companies said on Aug. 27. “Inflearn is a pl...
[THE INVESTOR] Malaysia-based e-commerce aggregation service provider iPrice Group on Aug.22 said it has secured additional funding from Korean internet giant Naver. While the firm declined to co...
[THE INVESTOR] Korean weight-loss solutions provider Dano -- short for Diet Note -- is hoping to step outside the country with high-end diet products that have international appeal. Dano is strictl...
[THE INVESTOR] Joonggonara, Korea’s biggest marketplace for secondhand goods, on Aug.21 said it has received 5 billion won (US$4.47 million) in investment from JB Woori Capital and Kiwoom Securities...
[THE INVESTOR] Smart hearing aid startup Olive Union said on Aug. 20 that it has raised 500 million won (US$445,590) funding from Japanese social enterprise LitaLico. The investment comes after a p...
[THE INVESTOR] Samsung Group acquired K-Twin Tower, 22-story twin buildings in central Seoul, for a whopping 720 billion won (US$620 million) in February. It was a rare purchase for the nation’s lar...
[THE INVESTOR] With widespread internet connectivity, high receptiveness to new technologies and a trend-conscious public, South Korea is arguably the optimal market for startups to introduce and te...
[THE INVESTOR] SoftBank Ventures Korea on Aug. 16 said it has led 10.3 billion won (US$9.07 million) funding in Bepro11, a Seoul-based startup that provides video and data analysis for soccer teams....
[THE INVESTOR] “To Google” has become a generic term that describes searching something on the internet. Seoul-based startup Studio XID hopes, one day, people will say “just ProtoPie it,” when de...
[THE INVESTOR] Seoul-based Mirae Financial Group and Naver have invested US$150 million in Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing giant Grab, according to the firms on August 2. In its first investment thro...
[THE INVESTOR] Korean gamemaker Neptune and Dunamu & Partners, the investment arm of cryptocurrency exchange Upbeat operator Dunamu, announced on July 19 an investment in blockchain-based game devel...
Two Samsung Group affiliates sell stake in Samsung C&T
KT ties up with firm behind Apple’s Siri for car infotainment systems
Samsung unveils triple-lens smartphone Galaxy A7
Parliament passes bill easing regulations on internet-only banks
Hanon Systems to acquire Magna’s fluid pressure and controls biz
SKINFOOD CEO to sell stake amid suffering biz
Samsung to sell diagnostic device unit to Japanese firm
Macquarie Korea wins battle with Platform over infrastructure fund
September 22, 2018
