GS Shop
33
4M
27
1.10
5
0.18
1
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 33
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 1.10
- Follow on index
- 0.18
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (9)
- Mobile (9)
- Information Technology (7)
- Advertising (6)
- Apps (6) Show 52 more
- Investments by region
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- South Korea (22)
- Vietnam (3)
- United States (6)
- India (1)
- United Arab Emirates (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookat | 17 Oct 2019 | Publishing, Information Services, Media and Entertainment | Late Stage Venture | 9M | Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Yeoksamdong, South Korea |
| Pet Friends | 28 Feb 2018 | Commercial, Apps, Pet | Seed | Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Yongdungpo, South Korea |
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