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NCSOFT

Founders Kim Taek-Jin

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.63
Lead investments 5
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Gaming
  • Robotics
  • Digital Entertainment
  • Online Games
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Light Field Lab

Digital Entertainment
Film
Hardware
Industrial Design
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$50M08 Feb 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Mysten Labs

Infrastructure
$300M08 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

NEOALI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Text Analytics
$870K21 Jun 2021 Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea

MUNPIA

Events
Media and Entertainment
News
$21M18 Oct 2018 Kangwon-do, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Scatterlab

$4M03 Apr 2018 -

Reach Robotics

Consumer Electronics
Robotics
Software
$7M17 Jul 2017 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Highbrow

Gaming
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$5M10 Oct 2016 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Uvify

3D Technology
Aerospace
Drones
Robotics
$4M07 Feb 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Buff Studio

Casual Games
Developer Platform
$420K15 Sep 2015 Anyang, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

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Total investments 17
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 0.63
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 5
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.47

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Light Field Lab

Digital Entertainment
Film
Hardware
Industrial Design
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$50M08 Feb 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Mysten Labs

Infrastructure
$300M08 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

NEOALI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Text Analytics
$870K21 Jun 2021 Daegu, Taegu-jikhalsi, South Korea

MUNPIA

Events
Media and Entertainment
News
$21M18 Oct 2018 Kangwon-do, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Scatterlab

$4M03 Apr 2018 -

Reach Robotics

Consumer Electronics
Robotics
Software
$7M17 Jul 2017 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Highbrow

Gaming
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$5M10 Oct 2016 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Uvify

3D Technology
Aerospace
Drones
Robotics
$4M07 Feb 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Buff Studio

Casual Games
Developer Platform
$420K15 Sep 2015 Anyang, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
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