POSCO CHANGeUP

Building on POSCO's entrepreneurial spirit and
venture mindset to sustain global leadership

POSCO CHANGeUP opens the future together with startups. Embodying the values of Change and Upward growth, POSCO CHANGeUP goes beyond simple support to encompass the entire journey—from Discovery ^(Start) to Investment ^(Boost) to Infrastructure ^(Ground) pursuing a mutual growth model where startups and POSCO grow together.

Carrying forward POSCO's founding spirit and unwavering commitment to challenge, we continue our global leadership rooted in the same “venture spirit” that built the Pohang Steel Works. CHANGeUP has established itself as a platform leading sustainable growth and future industries by building a robust innovation ecosystem through close collaboration with group companies, local governments, the national government, and external networks.

POSCO Open Innovation Platform Structure

STARTIdea Market Place

The starting point for nurturing startups driven by challenge and innovation through IMP (Investment & Business Collaboration), Planned Startups (R&D commercialization), and the discovery of outstanding internal and external companies.
BOOSTVenture Fund

Accelerating startup growth through investment in domestic and international AC, VC, and CVC venture funds, while expanding opportunities for investment and support based on challenge and creativity.
GROUNDPohangㆍGwangyangㆍSeoul

Building infrastructure that supports the entire process from basic research to commercialization and scale-up, enabling industrial realization of ideas and global expansion.

With POSCO Holdings at the center, we build a regional venture ecosystem based on industry-academia-research collaboration through cooperation with group companies, including POSCO, POSCO WIDE, POSCO Investment, RIST, and local governments, driving strategic innovation growth

Public-Private Partnership Network

We actively promote research and development, process innovation, and business scale-up by strengthening Open Innovation. We also expand the regional innovation ecosystem established in Pohang to Gwangyang and Seoul, creating nationwide ripple effects. Through this, we ease capital-region concentration, address regional decline, and secure global competitiveness.