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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 1.10
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
  • Advertising
  • Apps
Summary

GS Shop is the famous VC, which was founded in 1994. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea. GS Shop appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this GS Shop works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the GS Shop, startups are often financed by StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Y1 Ventures, XSeed Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are You & Mr Jones Brandtech Ventures, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Samsung Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Altos Ventures, LB Investment, Stonebridge Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Marketing. 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 country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight HomeShop18, ROOY Inc., ZeroWeb. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guhada

Consumer Goods
Online Portals
Service Industry
$3M05 Mar 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Pet Friends

Apps
Commercial
Pet
$8M18 Oct 2019 Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Cookat

Information Services
Media and Entertainment
Publishing
$9M17 Oct 2019 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Leferi

Beauty
E-Commerce
Marketing
$8M15 Oct 2019 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Luxstay

Hospitality
Sharing Economy
Travel Accommodations
Vacation Rental
$4M22 May 2019 -

Eyewa

E-Commerce
Eyewear
Marketing
Retail
Sales
$7M14 Apr 2019 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Yam table

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Seafood
$6M10 Apr 2019 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Fresh Easy

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$27M28 Feb 2019 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Dano

Apps
Fitness
Health Care
$3M25 Feb 2019 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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Total investments 33
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 1.10
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guhada

Consumer Goods
Online Portals
Service Industry
$3M05 Mar 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Pet Friends

Apps
Commercial
Pet
$8M18 Oct 2019 Yongdungpo, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Cookat

Information Services
Media and Entertainment
Publishing
$9M17 Oct 2019 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Leferi

Beauty
E-Commerce
Marketing
$8M15 Oct 2019 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Luxstay

Hospitality
Sharing Economy
Travel Accommodations
Vacation Rental
$4M22 May 2019 -

Eyewa

E-Commerce
Eyewear
Marketing
Retail
Sales
$7M14 Apr 2019 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Yam table

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Seafood
$6M10 Apr 2019 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Fresh Easy

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$27M28 Feb 2019 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Dano

Apps
Fitness
Health Care
$3M25 Feb 2019 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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