KDB Capital
75
10M
65
1.44
1
0.13
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
KDB Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1972. The company was established in Asia in South Korea. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seoul.
The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Canesta, Mesh Korea, Urbanbase For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - South Korea. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Broadcasting. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the KDB Capital, startups are often financed by TechFund Capital, Solborn Investment, FuturePlay. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, The Carlyle Group, Shrem, Fudim, Kelner Technologies. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, The Carlyle Group, Korea Investment Partners.
The overall number of key employees were 2.
Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. This KDB Capital works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from KDB Capital is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 75
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 1.44
- Follow on index
- 0.13
- Investments by industry
- Software (16)
- Information Technology (14)
- Artificial Intelligence (11)
- Biotechnology (10)
- Sensor (7) Show 113 more
- Investments by region
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- South Korea (64)
- Australia (1)
- United States (5)
- Mexico (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 166M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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GC COMPANY | 28 Apr 2022 | Search Engine, Service Industry, Travel Accommodations | Late Stage Venture | 43M | Gangwon-do, Kangwon-do, South Korea |
Pion Electric | 18 Jan 2024 | Early Stage Venture | 10M | Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea |
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