Kia Motors
24
116M
20
0.36
4
0.17
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1957 was created Kia Motors, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Seoul.
The typical startup value when the investment from Kia Motors is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Kia Motors, startups are often financed by Tiger Global Management, SoftBank, Sachin Bansal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hyundai Motor Company, Timewise Investment, SK Telecom.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Olacabs, Ola Electric, Rimac Automobili. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Ride Sharing, Mobile.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 24
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.36
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Automotive (10)
- Transportation (7)
- Information Technology (5)
- Electronics (5)
- Electric Vehicle (4) Show 35 more
- Investments by region
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- India (2)
- United States (4)
- South Korea (12)
- Canada (2)
- United Kingdom (2) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 4
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
- Number of Minotaurs
- 4
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 942M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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| BOS Semiconductors | 27 Jun 2023 | Automotive, Semiconductor, Electronics | Seed | 1M | Kyonggi-do, Seongnam, South Korea |
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