Naver Corporation
106
26M
79
4.24
28
0.24
13
- Areas of investment
Summary
Naver Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1999. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Seongnam. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea.
Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Naver Corporation performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Naver Corporation is 100-500 millions dollars.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Naver Corporation, startups are often financed by Vertex Ventures, Asia Venture Group, Venturra Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Line Corporation, Vertex Ventures, SMDV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DSC Investment, BA Partners, Altos Ventures.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 Advertising Platforms, E-Commerce. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Woowa Brothers, Soundhound, NimbleRx The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.
The fund was created by Lee Hae-Jin. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 106
- Lead investments
- 28
- Exits
- 13
- Rounds per year
- 4.24
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (24)
- Software (14)
- Apps (14)
- Artificial Intelligence (13)
- Mobile (13) Show 135 more
- Investments by region
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- South Korea (69)
- Indonesia (6)
- Spain (2)
- Singapore (2)
- United States (10) Show 8 more
- Peak activity year
- 2017
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
- Number of Minotaurs
- 4
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 175M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.60
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.92
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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