SB Partners

SB Partners is a South Korean investment firm established in 2017 with funding from its parent company, Hwaseung Group, and operates under the country's Specialized Credit Financial Business Act as a new-technology investment company. The firm says it executes a range of strategies including venture capital, growth equity and buy-outs, investing in businesses at stages from early start-up through to the acquisition of mid-sized enterprises. SB Partners states that it invests both in South Korea and, through what it describes as overseas infrastructure, across the wider Asia-Pacific region, without limiting itself to particular sectors; it names consumer goods, traditional manufacturing, Korean cultural content, biotechnology and autonomous driving among the areas in which it has invested. The firm is based in Seoul.