POSCO
IDEA MARKET PLACE

"POSCO Idea Market Place" is an external startup discovery and support program, which was created for the initial discovery and growth support of promising startups, as well as for the discovery of new future businesses for the POSCO Group, the first such program by a large corporation.


We aim to utilize all of POSCO's capabilities to support the birth of venture companies that are even bigger than POSCO and to help them leap into global business leaders.

POSCO IMP
Benefits

POSCO IDEA MARKET PLACE offers comprehensive and systematic startup support to help our selected teams unlock their full potential.

Investment of Up To 2B (KRW)


Investment of up to 2 billion KRW 

per company for selected startups

Recommendation for Government Support Programs


Recommendation for government projects (up to 1,500 million KRW in matching funds)

Global Expansion


Support for participation such as Startup World Cup, and Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Collaboration with POSCO Group companies


The opportunity to partner with POSCO Biz and POSCO Venture Fund

Collaboration with
Seoul Business Agency (SBA)


Support for business commercialization resource & Proof of Concept (PoC) funding of up to 10M (KRW) 

Specialty consulting


Consultation in legal, accounting/tax, labor, patent, and other specialized fields

Support for connecting with
partners


Connecting your business with our partner companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Notion, Naver Cloud, Kmong, and others

POSCO
IDEA MARKET PLACE

"POSCO Idea Market Place" is an external startup discovery and support program, 

which was created for the initial discovery and growth support of promising startups, 

as well as for the discovery of new future businesses for the POSCO Group.


We aim to utilize all of POSCO's capabilities to support the birth of venture companies 

that are even bigger than POSCO and to help them leap into global business leaders.

POSCO IMP
BENEFITS

POSCO IDEA MARKET PLACE offers

comprehensive and systematic startup

support to help our selected teams

unlock their full potential.

Investment of

Up To 2B (KRW)


Investment of up to 2 billion KRW 

per company for selected startups

Global Expansion


Support for participation such as Startup World Cup, Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Collaboration with Seoul Business Agency (SBA)


Support for business commercialization resource & Proof of Concept (PoC) funding of up to 10M (KRW) 

Recommendation for Government Support Programs


Recommendation for government projects (up to 1,500 million KRW in matching funds)

Collaboration with POSCO Group companies 


The opportunity to partner with POSCO Biz and POSCO Venture Fund

Accelerating program 


Connecting your business with our partner companies such as Notion, Naver Cloud, and others

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Join the

POSCO IDEA MARKET PLACE

and turn your innovative ideas into reality!

The POSCO IDEA MARKET PLACE offers comprehensive startup support,

including investment, TIPS program recommendations for funding,

POSCO Group collaboration, and global expansion.

POSCO IMP Operator  E-mail poscoimp@gmail.com


ⓒ Idea Market Place 2025