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K-Startup Grand Challenge

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$98K
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 4.25
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Predictive Analytics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Symphony

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Machine Learning
SaaS
$1M15 Jun 2020 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

SoundRex

Media and Entertainment
Music
$50K25 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 17
Average round size 98K
Rounds per year 4.25
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.18
Group Appearance index 0.12

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Symphony

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Machine Learning
SaaS
$1M15 Jun 2020 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

SoundRex

Media and Entertainment
Music
$50K25 Aug 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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