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Nexon

Founders Alex Garden Jake Song Jungju Kim

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$71M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.86
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 4
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Areas of investment

  • Gaming
  • Online Games
  • Advertising
  • Advertising Platforms
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Nexon is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2002. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Nexon is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Nexon works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Nexon, startups are often financed by XG Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TriplePoint Capital, SV Angel, Lerer Hippeau. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iDreamsky Technology, Partners Investment, Miraeen.

The fund was created by Alex Garden, Jake Song, Jungju Kim.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Video Games, Mobile. 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. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline 6Waves, Wemakeprice, SMATOOS

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Socialspiel

Casual Games
Gamification
Mobile
Mobile Apps
01 Jul 2014 Vienna, Austria

Rumble

Gaming
Social Media
Video Games
$17M29 Oct 2013 California, United States

A Bit Lucky

Entertainment Software
Gaming
Real Time
Social
Social/Platform Software
$7M25 Mar 2011 California, United States

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Total investments 18
Average round size 71M
Rounds per year 0.86
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.39

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Socialspiel

Casual Games
Gamification
Mobile
Mobile Apps
01 Jul 2014 Vienna, Austria

Rumble

Gaming
Social Media
Video Games
$17M29 Oct 2013 California, United States

A Bit Lucky

Entertainment Software
Gaming
Real Time
Social
Social/Platform Software
$7M25 Mar 2011 California, United States
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