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Total investments 187
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 165
Rounds per year 9.84
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 11
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
Summary

Premier Partners is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2005. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Seoul.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Premier Partners, startups are often financed by Daesung Private Equity, ARCH Venture Partners, WONIK Investment Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are POSCO Venture Capital, DSC Investment, Korea Kolmar Co.. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shinhan Bank, ST Telemedia, LB Investment.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Socar, BlackThorn Therapeutics, Bespin Global Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AIGEN Sciences

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
16 Oct 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Lucas

Medical Device
Software
02 Oct 2024 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Superb AI

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
$10M26 Sep 2024 California, United States

Upstage AI

Artificial Intelligence
Communications Infrastructure
$87M16 Apr 2024 Yongin, Ch'ungch'ong-namdo, South Korea

AITRICS

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
$23M21 Mar 2024 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Medipixel

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Other Devices and Supplies
Other Healthcare Services
Robotics
Surgical Devices
$14M26 Oct 2023 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

MangoBoost

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Center
Developer Platform
Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
Software
$55M01 Jun 2023 Bellevue, Washington, United States

VCAT.AI

Advertising
Artificial Intelligence
Creative Agency
SaaS
Video Editing
$8M04 Apr 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Yipscell

Biotechnology
Consumer Research
Therapeutics
$11M28 Dec 2022 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
News
Aardvark Therapeutics Closes $29M Series B Funding

– Aardvark Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel small molecule therapeutics to activate innate homeostatic pathways for the treatment of metabolic diseases.
– The company completed a $29m Series B financing.
– The round was led by Sorrento Therapeutics with participation from existing investors including Vickers Venture Partners, Premier Partners, BNH Investment, and Korea Omega.
– The funds raised will be deployed to advance the company’s pipeline of programs for metabolic diseases.

Iksuda Therapeutics Closes $47 Million Financing Round

– Iksuda Therapeutics (Iksuda) has completed a US $47m financing round.
– The round was co-led by Mirae Asset Capital and its subsidiaries, Celltrion and Premier Partners.
– Iksuda’s lead pre-clinical candidate, IKS03, is a best-in-class CD19-targeted ADC candidate for B-cell cancers.
– The investment will enable progression of IKS03 to first-in-human phase 1 clinical trials.
– It will also be used to accelerate the Company’s earlier-stage programmes including IKS04 and IKS012 to IND filing.
– Iksuda’s ADC programmes target tumours that currently have limited treatment options and high relapse rates.

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Total investments 187
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 9.84
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.44

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AIGEN Sciences

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
16 Oct 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Lucas

Medical Device
Software
02 Oct 2024 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Superb AI

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
$10M26 Sep 2024 California, United States

Upstage AI

Artificial Intelligence
Communications Infrastructure
$87M16 Apr 2024 Yongin, Ch'ungch'ong-namdo, South Korea

AITRICS

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
$23M21 Mar 2024 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Medipixel

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Other Devices and Supplies
Other Healthcare Services
Robotics
Surgical Devices
$14M26 Oct 2023 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

MangoBoost

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Center
Developer Platform
Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
Software
$55M01 Jun 2023 Bellevue, Washington, United States

VCAT.AI

Advertising
Artificial Intelligence
Creative Agency
SaaS
Video Editing
$8M04 Apr 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Yipscell

Biotechnology
Consumer Research
Therapeutics
$11M28 Dec 2022 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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