NS Investment

Total investments

21

Average round size

93M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

2.62

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

6

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareWellnessGeneticsMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsBiopharmaEmergency Medicine

Summary

NS Investment is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 9-10 participants. Despite the NS Investment, startups are often financed by The Column Group, Topspin Partners, Third Rock Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Column Group, Sofinnova Investments, OrbiMed. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Topspin Partners, The Column Group, Taiho Ventures.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Emergency Medicine. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Antiva Biosciences, Surrozen, Fulcrum Therapeutics. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this NS Investment performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
0
Exits
6
Rounds per year
2.62
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (21)
  • Therapeutics (12)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Medical (10)
  • Pharmaceutical (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • South Korea (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
94M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
2.36

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
3GOLDEN12 Jun 2007Information Services, Finance, Big DataSeed463KChina, Beijing, Dongcheng District
Accent Therapeutics23 Jan 2024Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical, TherapeuticsLate Stage Venture75MUnited States, Kentucky, Lexington
Aforeserve18 Nov 2021Information Technology, Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure, Information and Communications Technology (ICT)SeedUttar Pradesh, Noida, India
Silverback Therapeutics11 Mar 2020Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics, BiopharmaEarly Stage Venture78MUnited States, Washington, Seattle
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