Challenge With POSCO

A company you want to grow with

By creating a ‘POSCO venture platform’ composed of a venture valley and venture fund investment,
POSCO seeks to set the stage for discovering new growth businesses to last beyond 100 years.
The venture platforms will discover, nurture, and invest in promising venture businesses
to become the driving force for innovation and the continued growth of the POSCO Group.
In addition, we will create a better society by contributing to job creation
and economic vitality by supporting the growth of venture businesses.

  • Venture Valley
  • Venture Fund
  • Idea Market Place
  • Corporate Citizenship Social Challenge
  • Creation of an information portal

Venture Valley

Venture Valley

Venture Valley POSCO Newsroom https://bit.ly/2QpBTeS

Venture Valley

To provide spaces for entrepreneurship, POSCO has created an incubating space for venture businesses in addition to a private/public (Ministry of SMEs and Startups) collaboration incubation center (Seoul CHANGE UP GROUND). In addition, practical support programs such as market support and connected investment are used to nurture venture businesses and enhance their capacity.

Venture Valley
implementation
performance (2020)

  • POSCO's venture platform is
    nurturing 58 companies

Venture Valley news

Venture Fund

Venture Fund POSCO Newsroom http://bit.ly/36ulhZb

Venture Fund

The POSCO Venture Fund applies the "life cycle-global-virtuous cycle" principle to invest in excellent corporations fostered in the Venture Valley and others in the market. Together with the best fund managers at home and abroad, POSCO has created optimal funds for each level of growth for venture businesses, supporting the value enhancement of the companies invested in. The 2020 Venture Fund consists of both a seed/growth fund that invests in promising areas and a strategic/CVC fund that focuses on new growth domains, completing the basic foundation for life cycle investment.

Number of companies invested
in by the Venture Fund (2020)

  • 186

Venture Fund news

Idea Market Place

Idea Market Place POSCO Newsroom http://bit.ly/36ulhZb

Idea Market Place

POSCO holds the IMP twice each year (in the first and second half of the year) to discover and increase the value of promising venture businesses. Total support is provided for the entire process, including the idea stage, creation of a business model, investment, and follow-up management; our mission is to ultimately create a venture platform for a virtuous cycle that helps excellent venture businesses grow and foster other new enterprises.

Idea Market Place
implementation
results (2020)

  • 15 excellent venture businesses discovered

Idea Market Place news

Corporate Citizenship Social Challenge

Corporate Citizenship Social Challenge

Corporate Citizenship Social Challenge

The Corporate Citizenship Social Challenge makes POSCO Group's business capacity and resources available for utilization. Also, it connects with the sustainable goals of the UN following eco-friendly and low-carbon trends. The goal is "environmental, sustainable cities · production · consumption" as various social impacts are produced with partners that have new ideas.

Projects selected for the Corporate Citizenship Social Challenge (2020)

  • Development of a cooperative-type
    social housing model
  • Manufacturing “slastic”
    using slag and plastic
  • Marine afforestation
    using oyster shells

Corporate Citizenship Social Challenge news

Creation of an information portal for collaboration between industries, universities, and institutes

Creation of an information portal for collaboration between industries, universities, and institutes

Creation of an information portal for collaboration between industries, universities, and institutes

POSCO has created an "industry-university-institute information portal" EP app that allows sharing of excellent industry-university-institute research results in addition to information regarding the Venture Fund and Venture Valley corporations. It comprises two apps, "Industry-University-Institute Platform" and "Venture Platform," that help the relevant staff of various groups frequently share and utilize excellent research results and venture information.

Number of venture businesses
sharing information through
the venture platform app (April 2021)

  • 603

Creation of an information portal for collaboration between industries, universities, and institutes news