Draper Athena

Total investments

8

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.31

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.25

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
MobileGamingElectronicsTelecommunicationsOnline GamesService IndustryVideo GamesAdvanced MaterialsClean EnergyLighting

Summary

In 1997 was created Draper Athena, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Draper Athena, startups are often financed by Silicon Badia, yet2Ventures, Zaid Ayoub. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Samsung Ventures, yet2Ventures, yet2.com. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vocap Ventures, Tamarisc Ventures, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

The current fund was established by Henry Chung.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mixed Dimensions, Precursor Energetics, Moloco. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Clean Energy, Printing.

The top activity for fund was in 2012. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.31
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Gaming (3)
  • Service Industry (2)
  • Mobile (2)
  • Telecommunications (2)
  • Clean Energy (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • South Korea (1)
Peak activity year
2012

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Group Appearance index
0.75

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Essess, Inc 16 Apr 2012 Software, Analytics, SaaS, Big Data, Clean Energy Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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