NCSOFT

Total investments

17

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.63

Lead investments

5

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileGamingRoboticsAerospaceDronesOnline GamesDigital EntertainmentMedia and Entertainment

Summary

In 1997 was created NCSOFT, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Asia in South Korea. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Seoul.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This NCSOFT works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lezhin Entertainment, Sensible Object, Uvify For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Comics, Software.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the NCSOFT, startups are often financed by Techstars, Hardware Club, iGlobe Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are LVP, iGlobe Partners, Qualcomm Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upscale, SBIC Partners II, IMM Private Equity.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
5
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.63
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Gaming (4)
  • Robotics (2)
  • Digital Entertainment (2)
  • Online Games (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (4)
  • South Korea (8)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
106M
Group Appearance index
0.47
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mysten Labs 08 Sep 2022 Infrastructure Early Stage Venture 300M United States, California, San Francisco
Uvify 07 Feb 2016 Robotics, 3D Technology, Aerospace, Drones Early Stage Venture 4M United States, California, San Francisco
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