CNTTech continued to invest in early-stage startups in 2025 despite ongoing uncertainty in the investment market, recording the most investments in Korea's accelerator industry for the sixth straight year.
According to CNTTech on the 1st, the company executed 125 investments in a total of 104 startups over the past year, worth about 23.4 billion won. The figures were calculated based only on new investments actually executed in 2025, excluding cumulative effects from past investment performance. Even as investor sentiment weakened, both the number of portfolio companies and the investment amount remained among the industry's highest, it said.
The company said its 2025 investments focused not on any single sector but on corporations whose business sustainability and scalability were validated in the market environment. It built a portfolio across technology-based industries, including software as a service (SaaS), deep-tech manufacturing and components and materials, medtech and health care, Foodtech, sports deep tech, and energy and Climate Tech, while expanding into lifestyle, consumer, and content.
In SaaS, B2B-focused corporations such as operations-efficiency tools, industry-specific software, and data-driven automation solutions accounted for the majority. In deep-tech manufacturing and components and materials, investments centered on technology corporations tied to Korea's manufacturing competitiveness.
In medtech, health care, and biotech, areas with clear structural demand—such as digital therapeutics, the use of bio data, and personalized health care—became main investment targets. In Foodtech, investments continued in everyday life–oriented technology corporations, including improvements in agri-food productivity, alternative foods, and smart cooking and distribution technologies.
In addition, investments were made across a wide range of industries, including services that combine sports and technology, energy efficiency and eco-friendly technologies, space, tourism, and arts and culture, commerce, digital twin, games, and the Metaverse, Edtech, pet tech, proptech and logistics, and Fintech.
Jeon Hwa-seong, CEO of CNTTech, said, "The record of most investments for six consecutive years is the result of steadily investing from the early stage regardless of market conditions," and added, "We plan to continue early-stage investments that consider both technology and the market rather than short-term performance."