KB Financial Group (Chairman Yang Jong-hee) announced on the 15th that it held the ‘2025 HUB Day’ on the 12th at the new building of KB Kookmin Bank in Yeouido to help activate the domestic startup ecosystem and support promising startups to leap forward as leaders in future industries.
The 2025 HUB Day is a startup demo day organized to strengthen collaboration and support with companies participating in ‘KB Starters’. KB Financial is supporting startups to engage in investment attraction activities targeting government nurturing and investment institutions, startup support organizations, venture capital (VC), and accelerators (AC).
About 200 participants, including Yang Jong-hee, Chairman of KB Financial Group, Lee Chang-kwon, Head of Digital and IT Division, Lee Jae-geun, Head of Global Business Division, Yoon Beop-ryeol, CEO of KB Investment, and representatives from related organizations participating in ‘KB Starters’, discussed ways to achieve co-growth with innovative technology companies.
During the event, awards were presented to a total of five startups that achieved meaningful results in collaboration with KB Financial. ‘Rebellion’ and ‘Furiosa AI’, which achieved a corporate value of over 1 trillion won with their unique technology, received the ‘New Unicorn Company Award’. ‘Elbox’ and ‘Select Star’, which successfully expanded their business through large-scale investment attraction, received the ‘Outstanding Scale-up Company Award’. Additionally, ‘Tobicon’, which created innovative results through PoC (Proof of Concept) with KB Financial affiliates, was selected as the ‘Outstanding Open Innovation Company’.
In the subsequent performance presentation session, specific innovation cases created together by KB Financial’s major affiliates and ‘KB Starters’ were introduced.
Chairman Yang Jong-hee of KB Financial emphasized, “We will strengthen customized financial support optimized for the growth stage so that startups with excellent technology do not stop their challenges due to lack of funds by enhancing the role of productive finance,” and added, “We will continue to expand financial support at the group level to supply the necessary funds in a timely manner at each growth stage of the company, creating an environment where startups can fully focus on their core business and technology development.”
