Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation Holds K-Climate Tech Global Pitching Session... "Expanding Investment Network"

[Financial News] Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation said on the 30th that it held the Green Society-RMI/D3 Climate Tech Pitching Session at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the 29th, supporting the entry of K-climate tech into the Asian market.
The session was organized as part of Energy Tech Summit Asia 2026. Five CMK Green Society research teams and five ITAP startups presented their climate tech solutions, followed by one-on-one business matching with local venture capital (VC) firms and accelerator (AC) representatives.
ETS Asia is a global energy and climate tech event held in Kuala Lumpur over two days, from the 29th to the 30th. It is also the first Asian event of the Energy Tech Summit, which has been held in Europe for seven years.
The pitching session was a follow-up cooperation program under the Asia Climate Technology Startup Global Partnership, launched last August with Global Industry Hub, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), and Third Derivative (D3). Its purpose is to introduce the Green Society research teams' technologies to Asian markets and global investment networks while exploring opportunities for investment, demonstration, and business cooperation.
Five teams took part in the pitching session: Blue Carbon, with marine carbon capture technology using artificial coral polymers; Code of Nature, with moss-based soil restoration technology; Korea Grid Forming, with a series-type grid-forming solar inverter; the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), with a hollow-fiber membrane for producing high-purity hydrogen; and HUJECT, with its Energy Tree technology for converting wasted kinetic energy. The research teams focused their presentations on the problems they aim to solve in local markets, business models, technological differentiation, demonstration plans, and future expansion strategies.
Before the event, the teams received consulting from RMI/D3 on pitching to global investors. After their presentations, they met with representatives of Malaysian VC firms and accelerators, companies, and climate tech support organizations to discuss ways to apply each technology locally, identify demonstration partners, attract investment, and enter the Asian market.
Musung Jung, chairman of the foundation, said, "This pitching session connected the Green Society research teams' technologies with global markets and investment networks based on the global partnership launched last year. We will continue expanding our links with global partners so that climate technologies can be validated in overseas markets and lead to investment and business cooperation."
The foundation plans to support the research teams' understanding of local markets and network expansion through joint workshops with Malaysian government officials and visits to local technology commercialization organizations. It also plans to support follow-up meetings with investors, companies, and local institutions identified at ETS Asia, while using RMI's global network to develop opportunities for overseas demonstrations, identify potential customers, and connect the teams with investors.
Meanwhile, CMK Green Society is a program that identifies entrepreneurial researchers under the slogan "From Lab to Society" and supports the entire process from research to commercialization. The program is being carried out under an agreement with the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), in cooperation with the National Institute of Green Technology (NIGT) and Korea University's Department of Advanced Technology Business. By 2030, it plans to invest 18 billion won in 18 projects and foster more than 15 innovative K-climate tech companies.

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