AJU IB INVESTMENT Company Description

AJU IB INVESTMENT Co., Ltd. is a venture capital and private equity arm of AJU Corporation Co., Ltd. It specializes in mezzanine, buyouts, corporate restructuring, and all stages of venture investments in small to medium sized start-up companies in South Korea.

The firm considers investments in information technology including mobile service platforms, software, semiconductor, contents, biotechnology, life science, and environment sectors.

For venture capital investments, it focuses on high technology sector and for private equity investments, the firm focuses on manufacturing sector.

The firm also considers investments in companies with main business in immune system platform technology, oncology drugs, and ophthalmic drugs.

It also invests in information communication technology including Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, smart car, and advanced materials.

For the investments by the office in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm primarily invests in therapeutics serving large unmet medical need; enabling platform technologies with maturing lead candidate; potential for partnership or alliance with Korean pharmaceutical companies; other areas of interest are medical devices & diagnostics.

The firm typically exits through IPO and mergers and acquisitions. AJU IB INVESTMENT Co., Ltd., formerly known as Kibo Technology Advancing Capital Co., was founded in 1974 and is based in Seoul, South Korea with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.

AJU IB INVESTMENT Co., Ltd.

Country	South Korea
Founded	1974
Industry	Investors, not elsewhere classified
Employees	54
CEO	Ji-Won Kim

Contact Details

Address: 3rd to 5th Floors, AJU Building Seoul, 06141 South Korea
Phone	82 2 3451 9200
Website	ajuib.co.kr

Stock Details

Ticker Symbol	027360
Exchange	KOSDAQ
Fiscal Year	January - December
Reporting Currency	KRW
SIC Code	6799

Key Executives

Name	Position
Ji-Won Kim	Chief Executive Officer