Samsung Electronics will invest about 800 billion won in startups with promising technologies in semiconductors and the device experience (DX) institutional sector to secure future growth engines. With the arrival of the artificial intelligence (AI) era, the move strengthens its open innovation strategy to expand cooperation with promising startups and secure next-generation technologies early.
According to a Samsung Electronics filing on the 30th, the DS (semiconductor) institutional sector will contribute 495 billion won to "SVIC No. 82," a new technology business investment fund formed by Samsung Venture Investment, to expand technology and business cooperation with domestic and overseas semiconductor startups. Samsung Venture Investment will also contribute 5 billion won to create the fund.
The fund will begin operations next month and will have a duration of 13 years. It will be managed by partitioning the investment into installments each time an investment target is finalized.
The DX institutional sector will also move to invest to strengthen future business competitiveness. Samsung Electronics decided to contribute 297 billion won to "SVIC No. 83," which Samsung Venture Investment is creating. Samsung Venture Investment will contribute 3 billion won alongside it, and the fund will be operated by paying in capital each time an investment case arises for 10 years starting next month.
The industry sees this contribution as a signal that Samsung Electronics is further strengthening open innovation. The analysis is that, through strategic investments in promising startups, it aims to preempt next-generation semiconductor technologies while boosting competitiveness in future new business areas such as the smartphone and home appliance ecosystem—rapidly reshaped around AI—and robots.