SBVA announced it held the "SBVA x OpenAI Workshop" for its portfolio companies in partnership with OpenAI.
The workshop, held at SBVA headquarters, was divided into strategy and technology sessions. Key decision-makers including CEOs and CTOs from 22 portfolio companies attended, including Karrot, Law & Company, Telepix, Nota, Modusign, and Team Blind. Participants engaged in substantive discussions on integrating OpenAI's latest technologies and future collaboration opportunities.
During the technology session, OpenAI's solution architects and Go-To-Market leadership team shared technical insights. They presented the latest product updates along with specific applications of multimodal AI, including document processing and image and video generation. The session also covered practical implementation strategies such as efficient prompting techniques, architecture design considerations, and multi-agent workflow integration.
The session was conducted in a mini-hackathon format to maximize engagement. Participating companies directly applied OpenAI's latest technologies to their services and received real-time feedback. This provided opportunities to explore practical solutions for technical challenges faced by companies handling various data formats as well as those focused on content and asset generation.
In the strategy session, Thomas Chung, OpenAI's head of startup and VC partnerships for Asia-Pacific, introduced AI adoption and scaling strategies. He discussed various product application cases and global collaboration possibilities.
SBVA designed this workshop not as a simple networking event but as part of its "value-up program" aimed at enhancing portfolio companies' core competitiveness and helping them rapidly internalize cutting-edge technologies into their products. The firm plans to continue providing direct collaboration opportunities with global big tech companies to help portfolio companies gain technological advantages.
"We wanted to create opportunities for our portfolio companies to access the latest AI infrastructure and strategic insights as quickly as possible through collaboration with global IT companies," said Lee Se-young, principal at SBVA. "Going forward, we plan to expand strategy sessions and proof-of-concept partnerships with top-tier IT companies to simultaneously strengthen our portfolio companies' technological competitiveness and global expansion potential."
SBVA was established in Korea in 2000 as SoftBank Ventures, a venture capital firm under SoftBank Group. It has invested early in promising companies including Lunit, Karrot, Upstage, and Semifive. In June 2023, the firm was acquired by The Edgeof, a Singapore-based investment company co-founded by Mistletoe Chairman Taizo Son, SBVA CEO JP Lee, and Mistletoe CEO Atsushi Taira, becoming independent.