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Draper Athena

Founders Henry Chung

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.31
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Gaming
  • Service Industry
  • Mobile
  • Telecommunications
  • Clean Energy
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MoBeam

Mobile
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$6M27 Oct 2015 United States, Palo Alto

Essess, Inc

Analytics
Big Data
Clean Energy
SaaS
Software
$6M16 Apr 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

MoBeam

Mobile
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$1M06 Feb 2012 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 0.31
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.25
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MoBeam

Mobile
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$6M27 Oct 2015 United States, Palo Alto

Essess, Inc

Analytics
Big Data
Clean Energy
SaaS
Software
$6M16 Apr 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

MoBeam

Mobile
Service Industry
Telecommunications
$1M06 Feb 2012 Palo Alto, California, United States
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