KB Investment
326
11M
246
9.59
30
0.24
4
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Broadcasting, Mobile. 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Socar, BIOMx, Noom For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea.
Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from KB Investment is 10-50 millions dollars.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the KB Investment, startups are often financed by Yellow Financial Group, Translink Capital, Shinhan Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bass Investment, Murex Partners, HB Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Murex Partners, Bass Investment, Dunamu & Partners.
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Analytics
- Total investments
- 326
- Lead investments
- 30
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 9.59
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (46)
- Software (45)
- Biotechnology (33)
- Artificial Intelligence (30)
- Health Care (25) Show 222 more
- Investments by region
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- South Korea (247)
- United States (23)
- China (2)
- Switzerland (2)
- India (4) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 29M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.93
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 3.68
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