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- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1995 was created Kakao, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Jeju. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea.
The current fund was established by Brian Kim, JB Lee, Saehoon Choi, Sirgoo Lee.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Credit Bureau, Publishing. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Korea Credit Data, Tapas Media Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Kakao, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Strong Ventures, SK Planet. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Matt Humphrey, Louis Beryl. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Strong Ventures, Shinhan Card, SBI Investment Korea.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 1.08
- Follow on index
- 0.07
- Investments by industry
- Software (4)
- Financial Services (4)
- Blockchain (4)
- Information Technology (3)
- Apps (3) Show 36 more
- Investments by region
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- South Korea (10)
- Japan (1)
- United States (3)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 676M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.71
- Avg. company exit year
- 9
- Avg. multiplicator
- 29.65
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coactus | 20 Dec 2021 | Automotive, Venture Capital, Taxi Service | Seed | Gyeonggi-do, Kyonggi-do, South Korea |
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