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Kia Motors

Founders Kim Cheol-ho

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$116M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 0.36
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 1
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Areas of investment

  • Automotive
  • Transportation
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics
  • Electric Vehicle
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BOS Semiconductors

Automotive
Electronics
Semiconductor
$1M27 Jun 2023 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Factorial Energy

28 Oct 2021 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

J'CAR

Automotive
Car Sharing
Service Industry
$5M25 Oct 2021 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Awto

Car Sharing
Information Technology
Transportation
$6M15 Oct 2021 Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile

Sonatus

Apps
Automotive
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Software
$35M21 Jul 2021 Sunnyvale, California, United States

DATAMOND

Data Center
Data Storage
Database
Information Technology
30 Jun 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Finda

Banking
Crowdfunding
E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
$10M18 Jan 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Coconut Silo

Information Technology
Internet
Logistics
Software
$470K30 Jun 2020 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Arrival

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
$118M16 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 24
Average round size 116M
Rounds per year 0.36
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BOS Semiconductors

Automotive
Electronics
Semiconductor
$1M27 Jun 2023 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Factorial Energy

28 Oct 2021 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

J'CAR

Automotive
Car Sharing
Service Industry
$5M25 Oct 2021 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Awto

Car Sharing
Information Technology
Transportation
$6M15 Oct 2021 Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile

Sonatus

Apps
Automotive
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Software
$35M21 Jul 2021 Sunnyvale, California, United States

DATAMOND

Data Center
Data Storage
Database
Information Technology
30 Jun 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Finda

Banking
Crowdfunding
E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
$10M18 Jan 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Coconut Silo

Information Technology
Internet
Logistics
Software
$470K30 Jun 2020 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Arrival

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
$118M16 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom
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