TIP members include operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators, and other technology companies joining together to innovate new technologies and approaches to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure across emerging and more mature markets.

Telecom Infra Project

Kakao is a mobile lifestyle platform company with services spanning messaging, mail, search, news, advertising, gaming, e-commerce, music, maps and more.  Its content platform offers a diverse array of content that can be enjoyed by users of all interest range. Daum News offers tens of thousands of news articles from top news outlets every day, and Story Funding, the country’s first crowdfunding service, is building a healthy platform for new information in hand with users. Kakao Music, Kakao Page, Daum Webtoon and more, enrich user's daily lives enabling users to easily share and enjoy music, cartoons, novels and more.  Kakao Game is a mobile gaming platform that allows users to compete with friends on their social graph. Its popularity has resulted in explosive growths for the Korean mobile gaming industry while establishing mobile games as a mainstream phenomenon.  The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Jeju, South Korea.

Kakao Corp

Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients. It provides financial services, lease, corporate loans, investment financing, housing loans, installment financing, etc. Shinhan Capital was established in 1991. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Shinhan Capital

FuturePlay is an accelerator and early-stage investor specialized in deep tech startups. Founded in 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, FuturePlay have invested in 55 deep tech, mainly South Korea's startups and about one third of them are US-based startups.  FuturePlay is expanding target regions to Southeast Asia like Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It also plays a role of LP of some tech-focused funds like 500 Kimchi (500Startups' Korean Fund) and Zeroth.ai (http://zeroth.ai/). FuturePlay is venture-backed mainly from global enterprises such as CISCO, DeNA, LG, NHN, SK Planet.  FuturePlay has two acceleration program, TechUP and TechUP+. TechUP is annual batch program which is a kind of company-building with deep tech engineers. TechUP+ is a co-acceleration program with large enterprise specialized in a particular industry like food, beauty, energy, etc. The first TechUP+ is sponsored by AmorePacific, the number one cosmetic company in Asia, and is running now with 5 beauty tech startups.

FuturePlay

Capstone Partners is a placement agent providing global fundraising and advisory services to private equity, credit, real assets and infrastructure firms around the world. Capstone’s network of relationships reaches out to active investors worldwide, enabling our fund manager clients to raise more quality capital, at a faster pace while minimizing the impact on their own professional staff. The prior experience of our senior management team as seasoned marketers for and investors in private equity funds allows Capstone to anticipate issues that are important to prospective investors. We will look to identify and draw upon the specific strengths of each client to differentiate and best position them for a successful fundraising outcome. The powerful combination of proven success, global reach, expertise, commitment and independence provide our clients a decisive advantage when competing for limited institutional investor allocations.

Capstone Partners

Mando Corporation

SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseas telecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.

SK Telecom

IMM Investment is an independent venture capital firm focused on investments in venture capital, mezzanine, and infrastructure. With the longstanding trust of institutional investors, partners and investment professionals continue to create significant values for Portfolio companies, which consist of information technology, healthcare/biotech, and manufacturing.

IMM Investment

Lotte is a multinational food and shopping corporation that consists of over 60 business units in a variety of industries such as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment.  Lotte Group produces, distributes, and sells confectioneries, ice creams, oil, carbonated drinks and liquor, hamburgers, and bakery products and pastries. It operates department, discount, convenience, apparel, and home appliances stores as well as a supermarket and a multiplex movie theater; and hotels and a resort.  It manufactures synthetic resins and fibers, and by-products; TFT LCD products; digital equipment, copiers, printers, and other office machines; digital cameras and printers, and photographic materials; and aluminum products. Its financing business activities include credit, travel agency, insurance agency, and telemarketing; and lease, personal and corporate loans, and installment financing. The company also engages in software development and computer equipment; public institutions systems and IT; golf course; advertising agency; development, financial consulting, and management of shopping centers; baseball team; logistics management consulting; electronic financial services; integrated e-payment; future food, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering; educational training and consulting; economy and industry strategic analysis; and scholarship and social welfare foundation businesses.  Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea. It was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Shin Kyuk-Ho. From Tokyo, Lotte expanded into South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionary Co., Ltd in Seoul on April 3, 1967.

Lotte Group

DSIM is one of the most reputable investment group in Korea

DS Investment Management Co.,Ltd

Samsung C&T Corp, formerly Cheil Industries Inc., is a Korea-based company mainly engaged in the operation of meal supply and food distribution business, and fashion business. The Company operates its business through construction business segment: which involves in the building construction, civil engineering, firefighting and landscaping engineering, and provision of energy services; meal supply and food materials distribution segment, which involves in the distribution of meals and food materials; leisure segment, which operates theme parks and golf courses, and fashion business segment, which involves in the manufacture and distribution of garments, and processing and distribution of textile products.

Samsung C&T Corporation

Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widest network of service branches in Korea. KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance

KB Investment

Shinsegae I&C is the IT service management company.

Shinsegae I&C

Signite Partners is a venture capital arm of Shinsegae Group.

Signite Partners

Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

Samsung Venture Investment

Neubility

Neubility innovates delivery industry with self-driving delivery robots and redefines how things are delivered within cities. Starting from one of the most densely populated cities in Asia, Neubility provides reliable and affordable robot delivery service with vision-based localization and self-driving technology. Founded in 2017, the company is based on Seoul, where thousands of deliveries are completed every second.

Neubility

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