Utilization of Rebellion’s domestic NPU
Joint development of next-generation inference infrastructure and financial services by KB Financial Group
Collaborative growth from the beginning of “KB Starters”
On May 27, KB Financial Group announced at the new head office of KB Kookmin Bank in Yeouido that it has signed a “strategic business partnership agreement” with Rebellion, a major domestic AI semiconductor company.
KB Financial Group Chairman Yang Jeong-hee (left) and Rebellion CEO Park Sung-hyun pose for a commemorative photo.
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The signing ceremony was attended by key stakeholders from both companies, including Rebellion CEO Sunghyun Park and KB Financial Group Chairman Jonghee Yang, who reaffirmed their commitment to working together to build the next generation AI and financial ecosystem.
This business agreement was established to accelerate KB Financial Group’s AI transformation and ensure the competitiveness of Korea’s AI financial infrastructure in the era of sovereign AI, as global competition for AI leadership intensifies. The two companies plan to establish a collaborative platform that combines AI semiconductor technology and finance.
Rebellion will provide KB Financial Group with the technology and products necessary to build the most advanced domestic AI semiconductor inference infrastructure and financial services. KB Financial Group will then give Rebellion preferential access to financial services and infrastructure related to business operations, financing and management, and employees.
The relationship between the two companies dates back to 2022. KB Financial Group partnered with Rebellion in 2022 through a Series A investment by KB Investment, and selected Rebellion for the startup incubation program “KB Starters” in 2023.
KB Investment made an initial investment in Rebellion during the initial Series A round, with KB Securities participating in group-level funding from Series B onwards. From Series C to the pre-IPO stage, both KB Securities and KB Investment have participated in all investment rounds without exception.
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Park Sung-hyun, CEO of Rebellion, said, “KB Financial Group is a partner that believed in our potential even before we demonstrated our technology.This agreement is the beginning of a virtuous cycle in which technology developed in finance rebuilds financial infrastructure, and is the first step for domestically produced AI semiconductors to take root in the financial field.”
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