Venture Studio
We work alongside a deliberately small number of founders on company building, market strategy, and cross-border execution.
- Deep operating involvement
- Climate-focused company building
- Korea–U.S. market pathways
Witness Creative Partners
We build, invest in, and convene climate companies across the Korea–U.S. corridor.
Company building, capital, and market access work together across Korea and the United States.
We work alongside a deliberately small number of founders on company building, market strategy, and cross-border execution.
We invest behind a focused climate thesis and connect select opportunities with aligned, long-term capital.
The Korea Climate Tech Summit brings founders, investors, corporate partners, and technical experts together in New York.
Technical companies spanning energy storage, biomanufacturing, cultivated food, building electrification, ocean response, EV infrastructure, and the built environment.
September 25, 2026 · 8:30 AM–8:00 PM · Penn 2
The full agenda and presenting lineup are now live, with four sector tracks, investor and corporate panels, one-to-one meetings, and a September 28 accelerator day at BATWorks.
Selected company milestones and market developments from across the platform.
The award supports scalable manufacturing for MIMiC’s refrigerant-free, solid-state heating and cooling systems.
The field demonstration tested unmanned oil-spill response and remote marine cleanup operations.
The installation at MK Taxi supports two ultra-fast EV chargers and begins a year-long demonstration in Japan.
The partnership will advance bioidentical collagen for next-generation medical aesthetics.
Work with Witness as a founder, investor, or strategic partner.
Witness works with a concentrated group of climate companies, pairing founder-side execution with investor context, corporate access, and Korea-U.S. commercialization pathways.
Fewer companies.
More operating depth.A smaller portfolio creates room for sustained work on strategy, introductions, materials, and founder priorities.
We focus on climate technologies where Korea-U.S. expansion can materially strengthen the opportunity.
Customer, pilot, corporate, and investor assumptions are shaped before a team enters a new market.
Portfolio updates, founder stories, and Climate Week help the market understand each company’s progress.
Business model, milestones, product-market assumptions, pitch narrative, and founder-side execution priorities.
Customer targets, pilot partners, corporate use cases, regulatory context, and Korea-U.S. entry sequencing.
Materials, diligence preparation, investor mapping, strategic capital narrative, and fundraising pathways.
Corporate introductions, ecosystem relationships, company updates, and platforms that strengthen market presence.
Vanadium-ion battery energy storage designed for high safety, fast response, and future grid reliability.
Company profileCellular agriculture producing functional, animal-free collagen for food, material, and life science uses.
Company profileA patented cell-manufacturing platform designed to make cultivated pork practical at commercial scale.
Company profileSolid-state heating and cooling that eliminates refrigerants and reduces mechanical complexity in buildings.
Company profileRobotic oil-skimming systems developed to make marine pollution response faster and easier to deploy.
Company profileSmart power-sharing infrastructure that turns existing public parking grids into EV-ready charging zones.
Company profileBIM-integrated design technology that improves collaboration and complex building assembly workflows.
Company profileClimate Bridge Korea New York gives founders access to climate-tech directories, expert webinars, newsletters, and practical context for navigating the U.S. ecosystem.
For founders and partners working on climate companies with a practical path across Korea and the United States.
Energy storage
Vanadium-ion battery systems engineered for rapid response, long service life, and demanding stationary storage applications.
Visit Standard Energy“Set the Standard”
Standard Energy develops vanadium-ion battery energy storage systems for a power grid carrying more renewable generation and more intensive loads. Its chemistry is designed around safety, fast response, and stable performance without the extensive cooling infrastructure required by many conventional systems.
The company is building for applications where reliability matters: grid balancing, renewable integration, and the rising energy demands of AI and data-center infrastructure.
Standard Energy's vanadium-ion battery system is supporting two ultra-fast EV chargers in a year-long demonstration in Japan.
The company is moving its high-safety energy storage technology into commercial delivery.
Biomanufacturing
Bioidentical collagen produced without livestock, opening a more transparent and sustainable supply for food, beauty, and life-science applications.
Visit JellaTech“High-value proteins without live-animal supply chains”
JellaTech uses cellular agriculture to produce functional, animal-free collagen. Its process is designed to deliver the performance of native collagen without relying on the conventional animal supply chain.
The platform creates a path toward consistent, traceable collagen ingredients for food, beauty, biomaterials, and life-science applications.
The partnership advances bioidentical collagen for next-generation medical aesthetics and selected global applications.
A new 9,000-square-foot facility increases the company's capacity to develop and produce animal-free collagen.
Cultivated food
A patented cell-manufacturing platform designed to produce real pork with a more resilient, resource-efficient supply chain.
Visit Fork & Good“Pork without compromise”
Fork & Good is developing cultivated pork for food manufacturers and consumers who want the experience and nutrition of meat with a lower-impact production model. The company grows real animal cells through an integrated process spanning cell lines, media, bioprocessing, and continuous harvesting.
Its platform is built around practical scale: designed-for-purpose bioreactors, compact production facilities, and a B2B pathway that can strengthen conventional and alternative meat products while reducing pressure on livestock supply chains.
The cultivated-meat company discusses commercial partnerships, its integrated manufacturing platform, and the path toward affordable cultivated pork.
The company profile outlines Fork & Good's patented process and its mission to build a more sustainable, resilient protein supply chain.
Building electrification
Refrigerant-free heat-pump technology with virtually no moving parts, designed for quieter, lower-maintenance building systems.
Visit MIMiC Systems“Heating and cooling for the post-refrigerant era”
MIMiC Systems designs solid-state heating and cooling systems at building scale. Its thermoelectric platform replaces conventional compressor-based HVAC with modular technology that eliminates refrigerants and significantly reduces mechanical complexity.
The system combines solid-state heat pumps, power electronics, and digital controls to support easier installation, quiet operation, and lower maintenance across buildings and other thermal-management applications.
The award supports manufacturing processes for MIMiC's refrigerant-free heating and cooling systems using high-performance thermoelectric materials.
MIMiC's solid-state approach is highlighted as a path toward quieter cooling without conventional compressors or climate-damaging refrigerants.
The program profile highlights a modular heating-and-cooling platform designed for buildings, appliances, data centers, and industrial processes.
Ocean technology
Compact, remotely operated oil-skimming systems that bring automation and real-time control to environmental cleanup.
Visit Sheco“Going Green with Robotics”
Sheco builds maritime environmental robots for faster, safer responses to oil spills and surface pollution. The Sheco Ark combines collection, separation, and storage in one remotely operated system that can be deployed where conventional cleanup is slow or labor-intensive.
Pollution-recognition software and a ground-control dashboard give response teams greater visibility while reducing direct human exposure in difficult marine environments.
The field demonstration tested unmanned oil-spill response and remote marine cleanup operations off Incheon.
Sheco joined a national robotics demonstration program deploying water-quality management robots through November 2027.
EV infrastructure
Smart power-sharing technology that expands charging access across public and multifamily parking environments.
Visit Pyloneer“Modern technology made accessible”
Pyloneer develops EV charging infrastructure that works with the electrical capacity already available in public and multifamily parking. Its ZEEING platform coordinates charging demand and distributes power across groups of connected vehicles.
By converting existing parking grids into managed EV Ready Zones, the company helps property operators expand charging access while limiting costly electrical upgrades.
Built environment
BIM-integrated tools that help architecture, engineering, and construction teams make complex design decisions together.
Visit D.TO“A better way to Design Together”
D.TO develops human-centered design technology for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Its BIM-integrated platform translates complex building assemblies into visual guidance and interactive decision-making tools.
A patented recommendation algorithm helps teams compare assembly options, coordinate expertise, and move from design intent to buildable outcomes with greater clarity.
The platform brings visual recommendations and shared decision-making into complex construction design workflows.
The collaboration joins structural engineering expertise with D.TO's technology-led approach to building design.
Witness Creative Partners
Tell us what you are building, investing in, or hoping to advance across the Korea–U.S. climate ecosystem.
Share your company, stage, technology, and the market priorities you are working through.
Connect around climate investment opportunities and long-term capital partnerships.
Start a conversation about pilots, corporate collaboration, programs, or ecosystem partnerships.