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Primer

Founders Douglas Guen

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Total investments 116
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$641K
Portfolio companies 86
Rounds per year 8.29
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 4
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Apps
  • Health Care
Summary

Primer appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Primer works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

The current fund was established by Douglas Guen.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Primer, startups are often financed by Strong Ventures, Sazze, Douglas Guen. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Strong Ventures, Sazze Partners, Sazze. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Strong Ventures, Y Combinator, Sazze.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WASHSWAT, Miso, Cupix. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Apps. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coffeeting

19 Mar 2024 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

SalesMap

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$870K25 Jan 2024 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Granter

Information Services
Management Information Systems
Software
10 Jan 2024 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

DOR

Gaming
Online Games
Social Media
07 Dec 2023 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Wonders Lab

Information Technology
Training
03 Nov 2023 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Crimit

SaaS
Software
15 Sep 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

cafe nono

$5M12 Sep 2023 -

Pillyze

Health Care
$13M22 Aug 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Robros

Industrial Automation
Robotics
$1M21 Jul 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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Total investments 116
Average round size 641K
Rounds per year 8.29
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.56

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coffeeting

19 Mar 2024 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

SalesMap

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$870K25 Jan 2024 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Granter

Information Services
Management Information Systems
Software
10 Jan 2024 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

DOR

Gaming
Online Games
Social Media
07 Dec 2023 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Wonders Lab

Information Technology
Training
03 Nov 2023 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Crimit

SaaS
Software
15 Sep 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

cafe nono

$5M12 Sep 2023 -

Pillyze

Health Care
$13M22 Aug 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Robros

Industrial Automation
Robotics
$1M21 Jul 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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