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Investment, acceleration, global & capital market scaleup, tech advisory, management support, and more — founders supported across every dimension.

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MENTOR BOARD

Empowering startups to scale up technology commercialization

A technology commercialization scale-up mentorship program.

TargetGV funded companies with HW-focused businesses

Led by Changhan Kim — former Samsung Electronics Vice President and now Gravity Ventures Vice President — the program delivers hands-on mentoring for technology-commercialization scale-up. The Mentor Board is a technical advisory group of former and current executives from Samsung, Hyundai, and Hanwha that helps startups minimize scale-up trial and error and accelerate end-to-end innovation.

Through personalized mentoring from a team of technical advisors — former and current executives at major corporations such as Samsung, Hyundai, and Hanwha

Technology scale-up mentor board

reduce startups' scale-up trial and error and accelerate end-to-end innovation

Lead · Vice President
(Technology management professional)
41 yrs

Global Corporate CEO

Global R&D open innovation · global strategy · M&A

35 yrs

Semi Front-End Equipment

Equipment localization · supply chain

28 yrs

Logistics Systems

Logistics automation · operations

35 yrs

Smart Factory

Manufacturing automation · digital transformation

31 yrs

Process Automation

Process optimization

28 yrs

Robotics / Inspection Master

Vision · inspection · robotics

20 yrs

Materials / Analysis

Materials R&D

30 yrs

Talent Development Specialist

Leadership · organization

We provide regular, hands-on mentoring — not just one-offs — to address the practical challenges deep-tech startups face on the road to scale-up: productivity, cost reduction, quality control, and in-house productization.
On-site mentoring visit to portfolio company R
On-site mentoring visit to portfolio company R
Production facility and process review for portfolio company E
Production facility and process review for portfolio company E
Gravity Scaleup Advisors — 12 veterans
Gravity Scaleup Advisors — 12 veterans

Scale-up mentoring process

1

On-site KICK-OFF mentoring

  1. Is the R&D process and partnership structure effective?
  2. Is CMF (Color, Material, Finishing) design applied appropriately?
  3. Are insourcing and outsourcing in manufacturing well balanced?
  4. Are there waste factors in manufacturing productivity and cost?
  5. Can SCM optimization meet demand-aligned delivery?
  6. Any management factors or risks to optimize as the company grows?
2

Dedicated mentor improvement diagnosis

Scale-up mentoring report published

  1. Define priorities from per-company diagnosis results.
  2. Set up regular coaching cadence and execution KPIs.
  3. Align executives via the published mentoring report.
3

On-site improvement & feedback

Process improvement, cost innovation, and process anchoring

123Observe manufacturing lineIdentify improvement leversAdjust and re-test the process
Leveraging the advisory board's corporate and institutional network, we go beyond on-site improvement — sourcing new business opportunities and connecting them through PoC and commercialization proposals.
MENTORING HISTORY

Portfolio mentoring engagements

Mithril
Semi-equipment intelligenceJapan PoCRobotics expansion
Scaleup advisors directly connected Mithril to a major semiconductor equipment maker — concept to completed PoC in about six months, securing a first paid contract. Successful defect-prediction PoC with a global Japanese automation firm. Expanding collaboration into robotics and display sectors.
Ecopeace
ProductionizationJV discussion
Vietnam healing boat 200-unit export prep → welding → bracket/bolt assembly transition. On-site mentoring for production readiness review.
Overseas expansionMarket strategy
US X-Prize Water Scarcity competition entry and expansion strategy. Middle East deployment first (UAE Abu Dhabi robot installation), then tech maturation.
Carbon creditsOn-site mentoring
Eco-tech-based carbon credit acquisition and ESG/green certification linkage. Government R&D (Beyond-Tier 1000, Leap Package) participation and global sales recruitment guidance.