The Special Zone Foundation Hosts 'Mobility Funding Day' for Ultra-Wide Area Special Zone Collaboration

The Research and Development Special Zone Promotion Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the Special Zone Foundation) announced on the 30th that it held the ‘2024 Special Zone Ultra-Wide Area Linked Future Mobility Funding Day’ at the D.CAMP Seolleung Center.

Participants of the '2024 Special Zone Ultra-Wide Area Connected Future Mobility Funding Day' are taking a commemorative photo after the event. Photo by Research and Development Special Zone Promotion Foundation

The event was attended by the Chungnam Cheonan·Asan Small Giant Special Zone, Daegu Special Zone, Busan Special Zone, and Jeonbuk Special Zone. The purpose of the event was to build an investment network focusing on the next-generation mobility sector, which is a specialized field of each special zone, and to support global expansion and follow-up research and development.

Before the event, the Special Zone Foundation pre-selected promising companies in the future mobility sector (with a corporate value of around 5 billion KRW) and invited 20 investment institutions (VCs) including Inlight Ventures, POSCO Technology Investment, Hyundai Motor Securities, Daishin Securities, and BNK Investment & Securities to hold a company presentation (IR) on the day of the event.

The company presentation was mainly attended by investment institutions that actually operate or are interested in future mobility funds, providing various feedback to the presenting companies, thereby helping to strengthen the companies’ practical investment attraction capabilities.

During the networking time, detailed investment attraction discussions and joint research and development consulting with the Korea Automotive Technology Institute were conducted, along with various feedback from investment institutions.

Jung Hee-kwon, Chairman of the Special Zone Foundation, said, "The event was organized as a place where Small Giant Special Zones and Metropolitan Special Zones break down regional boundaries to jointly discover and support promising companies in the next-generation technology field of future mobility." He added, "The Special Zone Foundation will continue to spare no support to enable regional and Small Giant Special Zones to create synergy with promising deep-tech companies through ultra-wide area cooperation."