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KAIST Holdings

University holding company commercializing KAIST research into startups, Daejeon, South Korea.

🇰🇷 Daejeon · Founded 2022

VC / FundDeep tech
www.kaistholdings.com ↗
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KAIST Holdings is a subsidiary of KAIST and the KAIST Development Foundation, established in January 2022 to commercialize research from KAIST faculty and students into startups. It supports the university's '1 Lab 1 Startup' initiative and plans US offices in New York and Silicon Valley to help its startups expand. By 2031 it targets an accumulated corporate value of 10 trillion won (about $8.4 billion) across its portfolio.

What they invest in

Sectors
  • Deep tech
Regions
  • South Korea
  • North America
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Backs only startups founded by KAIST researchers, faculty or students, not outside founders generally.

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Track record

Updated Oct 2026
65New KAIST startups formed (2021)