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Early-stage investment accelerator Blue Point Partners announced on the 1st that it has hired former LightHouse Combine CEO Jang Eun-youngIn Be-seu-teu (CEO) as Executive Vice President and Head of the newly established Technology Commercialization Center to strengthen its technology commercialization capabilities.
Through the establishment of this new center, Blue Point plans to provide systematic investment and support to ensure that excellent technologies scattered across various universities and research institutions can lead to successful commercialization. The newly appointed Director Jang will play a key role in achieving this goal.
Director Jang is an expert with over 15 years of experience in technology commercialization and venture investment, having worked at venture capital firm LightHouse Combine Invest, Korea Science & Technology Holdings (KST), Atrium Holdings, and other organizations.
As a founding member of Atrium Holdings, she laid the foundation for a specialized institutional investor in technology commercialization. During her tenure at KST, as head of the department, she led market linkages and performance expansion for excellent technologies from government-funded research institutions. She later served as CEO of a venture capital firm, contributing to fund formation and policy development across various ministries, earning recognition as an expert well-versed in both public and private sectors.
At Blue Point, Director Jang will lead the Technology Commercialization Center to build a support system connecting deep-tech ventures from diverse institutional investors with the market. Moving beyond the traditional supply-driven technology transfer model, she will drive quality growth centered on demand by focusing on business model (BM) transformation, team building, intellectual property (IP) strategy, and connection with end-users.
Specifically, Blue Point plans to support technology commercialization through various forms, including company-building that directly assists entrepreneurship using technologies from universities and government-funded research institutions, matching services connecting demand-side companies with needed technologies, and open innovation initiatives with large corporations.
Director Jang stated, "For technology to evolve into a business that functions effectively in the real market, capabilities in connection and execution are just as important as the technology itself." She added, "Based on my experience spanning both public and private sectors, I will contribute to establishing Blue Point as a core platform for technology commercialization."
Lee Yong-kwan, CEO of Blue Point, emphasized, "Director Jang is one of the few experts who has directly experienced the entire process of technology commercialization in both public and private sectors. Through this appointment, Blue Point will grow into a platform that supports the entire journey from early-stage investment to turning technology into a business."
Meanwhile, since its establishment in 2014, Blue Point has established itself as a leading deep-tech accelerator in Korea. As of last year, it had executed cumulative investments totaling 392 companies, successfully creating IPO cases for various deep-tech firms such as TomoCube, Inventive Lab, and QuadMedison.
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