KB Financial Group Signs Strategic 'AI' Business Partnership Agreement with Rebellion

Utilizing Rebellion's Domestic NPU

Joint Development of Next-Generation Inference Infrastructure and Financial Services by KB Financial Group

Collaborative Growth Since the Early Days of 'KB Starters'

On May 27, KB Financial Group announced that it had signed a 'strategic business partnership agreement' with Rebellion, a leading domestic AI semiconductor company, at the new headquarters of KB Kookmin Bank in Yeouido.

KB Financial Group Chairman Jonghee Yang (left) and Rebellion CEO Sunghyun Park are posing for a commemorative photo.

The signing ceremony was attended by key officials from both companies, including Rebellion CEO Sunghyun Park and KB Financial Group Chairman Jonghee Yang, who reaffirmed their commitment to cooperating in building a next-generation AI and financial ecosystem.

This business agreement was established to accelerate KB Financial Group’s AI transformation amid intensifying global competition for AI leadership, and to secure competitiveness in Korea’s AI financial infrastructure in the era of sovereign AI. The two companies plan to establish a collaborative foundation that combines AI semiconductor technology and finance.

Rebellion will provide KB Financial Group with the technologies and products necessary to build a cutting-edge, domestically produced AI semiconductor inference infrastructure and financial services. In turn, KB Financial Group will give Rebellion priority access to financial services and infrastructure related to business operations, fundraising and management, and employees.

The relationship between the two companies dates back to 2022. KB Financial Group established a partnership with Rebellion through a Series A investment by KB Investment in 2022, and in 2023, selected Rebellion for its startup incubation program, ‘KB Starters.’

KB Investment made the initial investment in Rebellion during its early Series A round, and from Series B onward, KB Securities joined to provide group-level funding. From Series C through the pre-IPO stage, both KB Securities and KB Investment have participated in every round of investment without exception.

Rebellion CEO Sunghyun Park stated, “KB Financial Group has been a partner that believed in our potential even before we could prove our technology. This agreement marks the beginning of a virtuous cycle in which technology nurtured by finance reshapes financial infrastructure, and serves as the first step for domestically produced AI semiconductors to take root in the financial sector.”

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