Plan.H Ventures

Sourcing runs through two structured programs rather than open-market cold outreach. The TIPS tech-innovation partnership surfaces companies eligible for government R&D matching, while the Korea Inno-Build Association (KIBA) — a cross-industry consortium Plan.H convened — funnels in startups that large construction partners have nominated for testbed integration. The annual Hoban Innovation Technology Competition adds a public-facing scouting channel.

Plan.H Ventures is not a third-party manager; it operates as the in-house venture capital and accelerator function of Hoban Group, a construction conglomerate pursuing sustainability-oriented growth. The firm was founded on Hoban’s management philosophy and draws its startup testbed access directly from Hoban’s active project sites, giving it the posture of corporate venture capital embedded within a single industrial parent.

No publicly available information confirms a traditional commingled fund structure. The firm’s public materials describe partnerships and competition-based selection rounds — most notably TIPS and KIBA — that point toward balance-sheet and consortium-supported investing rather than a disclosed multi-LP blind pool.

KIBA functions as an open-innovation consortium that bridges construction majors and technology startups. For a startup admitted into the KIBA pipeline, Plan.H facilitates live testbed placement on active construction sites, procurement introductions, and global market-entry support, effectively converting Hoban’s operations into a validation environment.

The firm’s stated themes map to construction-tech convergence zones: construction-site robotics and automation, smart-city sensor and platform layers, shared-economy models for urban density, fourth-industrial-revolution technologies applicable to infrastructure, and social-venture businesses addressing housing affordability. Public materials do not flag healthcare or consumer internet as active targets.