K-Startup Grand Challenge

Total investments

17

Average round size

98K

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

4.25

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.18

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
Supply Chain ManagementSoftwareInformation TechnologyB2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCryptocurrencyPredictive AnalyticsEthereum

Summary

The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Pangyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Transformify. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Ethereum, SaaS.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the K-Startup Grand Challenge, startups are often financed by Lilia Stoyanov, National IT Industry Promotion Agency - NIPA. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are National IT Industry Promotion Agency - NIPA. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by National IT Industry Promotion Agency - NIPA, Axilor Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of less than 50 thousands dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from K-Startup Grand Challenge is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
6
Rounds per year
4.25
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • SaaS (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Artificial Intelligence (4)
  • Predictive Analytics (2)
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Investments by region
  • China (1)
  • Germany (1)
  • United States (4)
  • South Korea (4)
  • Singapore (2)
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Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SoundRex 25 Aug 2016 Music, Media and Entertainment Seed 50K United States, California, San Francisco

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