Leading the Age of Hyper Innovation
SKTA is the strategic investment and corporate development arm of SK Telecom. Based in Silicon Valley, we actively pursue collaborative opportunities with global leaders and innovators in ICT.
Experience the New Normal
SK Telecom seeks to strengthen its competitiveness through differentiated, immersive hyper-experience in commerce, next-generation media, cloud gaming, eSports and much more.
Transform Mobility
Advancement in Mobility & AI will create opportunities for new service offerings by SK Telecom - from navigation, ride sharing, infotainment, security, to vehicle-to-x (V2X) and autonomous driving.
Improve Quality of Life
5G, Edge Computing & AI open doors to new possibilities in education, commerce, and smarter healthcare in the New Normal. SK Telecom is committed to creating economic and social values through its ICT capabilities and collaboration with the most innovative startups globally.
SK Telecom Americas (SKTA) is the North American based venture investment and corporate development arm of SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecommunications company. SK Telecom and its affiliates operate diverse ICT businesses from telecommunications business to new ICT businesses including media, security, IoT and mobility. Equipped with the world’s top-class technological capabilities in 5G, AI, big data analysis, IoT, and quantum cryptography communications, SK Telecom is solidifying its position as a global ICT leader. SKTA’s core activities focus around advancing growth opportunities for SK Telecom via acquisition, investment, and partnerships:
Corporate Ventures
SK Telecom Ventures is a strategic investor focusing on technologies and solutions that are global in scale and are highly synergistic to SK Telecom’s businesses. From early stage incubation to strategic growth capital, we maximize our portfolio value by offering access to SKT’s domain expertise in 5G, AI, IoT, Big Data, Media, as well as one of the most dynamic and digitally advanced ICT market in the world.
Corporate Development
The Corporate Development team supports SK Telecom’s long term strategy for growth and value creation to our customers and stakeholders by developing strategic relationships and collaboration opportunities with global category leaders, and identifying and expanding into new strategic growth areas through direct strategic investment or acquisition.
Portfolio
SK telecom Americas portfolio comprises of leading-edge companies that are developing innovative, highly differentiated and defensible technologies across a wide variety of markets, and that are aligned with SK telecom’s strategic vision. We work strategically with the portfolio companies to ensure they leverage SK telecom’s resources, network and expertise.
CelLink is developing high-conductance, large-area flexible circuits for LED lighting, automotive and solar applications.
www.cellinkcircuits.com
The largest mobile games-only ad platform to increase revenue and discover new players.
www.chartboost.com
Eta Compute is developing ultra low power processor for Internet of Things (IoT).
etacompute.com
etherWhere is developing the next generation low power GPS solution.
www.etherwhere.com
eTopus Technology is a fabless semiconductor startup that develops advanced ultra-high speed optical/copper interconnect for data center networking.
www.etopus.com
InSense is developing a high performance 3D motion sensor solution for navigation and tracking applications in consumer electronics, AR/VR, robotics and other markets.
MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud helps telco operators build their own edge clouds and enables developers to run their apps on telco edge infrastructure.
www.mobiledgex.com
Moloco empowers mobile apps to run their own advertising business by providing all of the required components as a cloud service.
www.molocoads.com
Pavilion Data Systems is building the next generation high performance storage system for big data applications.
www.pavilion.io
Point2 is developing the next generation data connectivity technologies that will replace copper & optical solutions.
www.point2tech.com
SambaNova Systems is a software-defined analytics platform that enables optimal performance for ML training, inference and analytics models.
www.sambanova.ai
Shakr is a proprietary video rendering platform that enables easy and fast DIY video ads creation and campaigns for SMBs.
www.shakr.com
The leading provider of market-ready processor core IP based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
www.sifive.com
