LG

Total investments

36

Average round size

37M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

0.55

Lead investments

5

Exits

6

Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsManufacturingComputer VisionAutonomous VehiclesInternet of Things

Summary

LG appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1958. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Seoul. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This LG works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the LG, startups are often financed by El Dorado Ventures, DCM Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden Riverwood Ventures, Viola Ventures, Verizon Wireless. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Wecken & Cie., Stic Investment.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cynora, Bossa Nova Robotics, Ecast We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, Cloud Computing. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
36
Lead investments
5
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.55
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (8)
  • Software (7)
  • Machine Learning (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (6)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (14)
  • United States (15)
  • Canada (1)
  • Germany (2)
  • Israel (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
77M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
9
Strategy success index
0.40

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