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Aju IB Investment

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Total investments 127
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 104
Rounds per year 2.54
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 13
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Therapeutics
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical
Summary

Aju IB Investment is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1974. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Yeoksamdong.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Synlogic, Tibit Communications, Kymera Therapeutics We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Pharmaceutical, Biopharma. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Aju IB Investment performs on 18 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Aju IB Investment, startups are often financed by Hatteras Venture Partners, Excel Venture Management, Lilly Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cormorant Asset Management, Hatteras Venture Partners, Rock Springs Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cormorant Asset Management, venBio Partners, Morningside Group.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KRISTIN

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Shoes
$6M10 Nov 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

itgreen

29 Jun 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Live Anywhere

Guides
Tourism
Travel Accommodations
$4M23 May 2023 Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea

M3SEN

3D Technology
AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Electronics
Information Technology
$6M16 Jan 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Wavebridge

Asset Management
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$8M21 Dec 2022 Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

LBox Co., Ltd.

$15M20 Dec 2022 -

Onconic Therapeutics

Pharmaceutical
Product Research
Therapeutics
$22M09 Dec 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

JNPMEDI

Health Care
Medical
$12M22 Nov 2022 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Laundrygo

Laundry and Dry-cleaning
$43M21 Nov 2022 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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Total investments 127
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 2.54
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

KRISTIN

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Shoes
$6M10 Nov 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

itgreen

29 Jun 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Live Anywhere

Guides
Tourism
Travel Accommodations
$4M23 May 2023 Jeju, Cheju-do, South Korea

M3SEN

3D Technology
AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Electronics
Information Technology
$6M16 Jan 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Wavebridge

Asset Management
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$8M21 Dec 2022 Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

LBox Co., Ltd.

$15M20 Dec 2022 -

Onconic Therapeutics

Pharmaceutical
Product Research
Therapeutics
$22M09 Dec 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

JNPMEDI

Health Care
Medical
$12M22 Nov 2022 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Laundrygo

Laundry and Dry-cleaning
$43M21 Nov 2022 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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