KT investment Inc.

Total investments

66

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

50

Rounds per year

7.33

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSBig DataComputer Vision

Summary

KT investment Inc. is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul. The company was established in Asia in South Korea.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BinaryVR, bepro11, Lunit. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the KT investment Inc., startups are often financed by Kakao Ventures, Softbank Ventures Asia, Green D Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Softbank Ventures Asia, Kakao Ventures, Y Combinator.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
7.33
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (20)
  • Software (16)
  • Machine Learning (15)
  • Information Technology (15)
  • SaaS (7)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (54)
  • United States (8)
  • Singapore (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
251M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
9
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Pion 04 Apr 2023 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Digital Marketing, Video, Advertising, Advertising Platforms Early Stage Venture 9M Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Yeoksamdong, South Korea
Rebellions.ai 30 Jan 2024 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Semiconductor Early Stage Venture 143M Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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